Upcoming Events

• Community Organizing for Deep Democracy Retreat (August 8, 2008 - August 10, 2008)
  This retreat will offer tangible strategies for participants to effectively organize in their own communities to reclaim the constitutional promise of a sovereign citizenry.
• Learning Democracy by Doing (October 16, 2008 - October 18, 2008)
  An international conference organized by the Transformative Learning Centre (TLC) addressing issues of participatory democracy and citizenship learning.

Previous Events

• Protect Wisconsin's Vote Education Summit (July 24, 2008 - July 24, 2008)
  This event features a panel discussion and short films organized to inform the media about important voter protection issues, educate community groups on what steps they can take to prevent voter suppression, dispel the myths of voter fraud, as well as collaborate to create an action plan to protect voting throughout the state. 
• People's State of the City Summit and March on the Mayors Day of Action (June 19, 2008 - June 24, 2008)

  March on the Mayors!
  40th convening of the United States Conference of Mayors
  June 19th-24th, Miami, FL

  People's State of the City Summit
  Discuss a people's platform for the U.S. urban agenda in 2008
  June 19th (location to be announced)

  March on the Mayors: Day of Action
  Join us in bringing the people's urban agenda to the U.S. mayors and U.S. presidential candidates
  June 20th (location to be announced)

• Democracy Day (June 5, 2008)
  Liberty Tree is playing a leading role in organizing Democracy Day. Scheduled the day before the National Conference on Media Reform, Democracy Day is a major conference designed to build support among voting rights advocates, electoral reformers and movement organizations for a broader vision of democracy
• Peer to Peer EXTRAVAGANZA for Youth Jobs (April 30, 2008)
  Students from youth organizations across the city are going on strike to demand city funding for youth jobs.
• Rethinking the University: Labor, Knowledge, Value (April 11, 2008 - April 13, 2008)
  This conference is about further developing both our intellectual and organizational capacities to effectively address the crisis facing higher education.
• Florida Rights Restoration Coalition Day of Action (April 1, 2008)

  Join hundreds of other Floridians in Tallahassee on April 1 for a rally and lobbying visits.

  Demand that the Florida Legislature and the Board of Executive Clemency make civil rights restoration automatic and remove employment barriers faced by people with past felony convictions.

  People with past felony convictions are especially encouraged to participate.

• Procession for the Future (March 2, 2008 - March 4, 2008)
  David Cobb to be a featured speaker at the Backbone campaign's Procession for the Future event.
• Midwest NLG Conference (February 29, 2008 - March 1, 2008)
  Liberty Tree convenes two panels at the regional Midwest meeting of the National Lawyers Guild.
• Claim Democracy 2007 Conference (November 9, 2007 - November 11, 2007)
• Frances Moore Lappe (November 5, 2007)
  A public talk by FRANCES MOORE LAPPÉ on her new book, "Getting a Grip." Followed by a fundraising reception for Liberty Tree.
• DEN Fall Retreat: Building a U.S. Student Unionism Movement (October 19, 2007 - October 22, 2007)
  Student organizers from across the country will be traveling to Montreal at the height of a provincial-wide student strike protesting skyrocketing tuition increases. Retreat attendees will participate in strike activities, learn about Canadian student unionism from the strike organizers and strategize ways to build a student unionism movement in the U.S.
• Venezuelan Ambassador Visits Midwest This Week as Liberty Tree's Guest (September 13, 2007 - September 14, 2007)
• National Convention: Students for a Democratic Society (July 27, 2007 - July 31, 2007)
  The second SDS National Convention will take place July 27-31 at Wayne State University in Detroit.
• 2007 Democratizing Education Convention (June 27, 2007 - July 1, 2007)
• Democracy Track at the U.S. Social Forum (June 27, 2007 - July 1, 2007)
  The Democracy Track is a series of sessions and community spaces at the U.S. Social Forum in Atlanta, Georgia, June 27-July 1, 2007. The purpose of these sessions is to centralize democracy in all of our everyday struggles.
• Business Alliance for Local Living Economies Conference (May 31, 2007 - June 2, 2007)
  Join entrepreneurs, innovators, community organizers, government officials, investors, and green business pioneers to explore cutting-edge social and environmental innovations, learn practical business skills, share best practices for network development, and connect with others in this flourishing network!
• Summit for Community Wireless Networks (May 18, 2007 - May 20, 2007)
  The summit is the largest gathering of wireless network developers, technology and policy experts, and community organizers working to build universal, low-cost broadband networks around the world.
• April Mobilization for Higher Education (April 1, 2007 - May 1, 2007)
  Join the April Mobilization. Demand full public funding for higher education; a rollback and eventual phaseout of tuition; the democratization of higher education in the USA.
• The New Generation Voting Rights Movement (March 5, 2007)
• National Election Reform Conference
• A Call to Protect and Democratize U.S. Elections
• March and Rally to Support Reauthorization of the Voting Rights Act
• RadFest 2005: Midwest Social Forum
• Judiciary Committee Hearings on Ohio Voting Irregularities
• Progressive Dialogue III
• Midwest Social Forum
• Local Democracy Convention: The Community Power Road to Democracy
  The Local Democracy Convention will feature some of the most cutting-edge local democracy organizing going on in the US and around the world. Convention participants will have opportunity to attend plenaries, panels, skills-building workshops, strategy sessions, and a party or two. Whether you have been doing local democracy work for years, or are just discovering that your concerns are directly related to local power and democracy, join us this fall for what is sure to be a defining moment in the development of a new democracy movement in the United States!
• Green Policy Conference
• Democratizing Education Convention
• Coalition of Graduate Employee Unions Conference
• Ottawa Retreat on Democratizing Education
• National Summit for Community Wireless Networks
• Corporate Roundtable
• Democracy & Education Conference
• Meeting for Campus Organizers
  Over the weekend of Sept 22-24, 2006, we will gather in Chicago some 40-60 campus organizers from a score colleges and universities, to compare experiences, recent advances and setbacks, and to plan coordinated action for the coming year. You, or people you work with on your campus, could be among those organizers. The idea is to bring the campus communities together, and get ready to fight for higher education, and a democratic society, in '06-'07.
• An Evening With Zinn
  America's greatest historian, Howard Zinn, speaks in Madison's historic Orpheum Theatre at 7pm, Thursday, October 5th. There's more: Join Zinn at 5pm, before his talk in a fundraising event for Liberty Tree, the Progressive, and the Havens Center in the Orpheum's Lobby Restaurant!
• National Worker Co-op & Workplace Democracy Conference
  Second Conference for Worker Ownership and Workplace Democracy