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Events ASSEMBLY HEARING: Safeguard Wisconsin's Guard Bill(March 9, 2010)Assembly Bill 203, the bill to enact legal safeguards to protect Wisconsin's National Guard from unlawful overseas deployments, has been scheduled for a hearing before the Assembly's Veterans and Military Affairs Committee on March 9, 2010. Please join us, so that the hearing room is wall-to-wall with people who care about our Guard members and families and want to see them protected from misuse by the federal government.
Wisconsin: March to Overrule the Court(February 16, 2010)Make plans to join the March to Overrule the Court, Noon, on Tuesday, February 16th as we loudly protest the recent U.S. Supreme Court decision that corporations are persons entitled to constitutional rights to influence elections. Rally at the State Capitol, State Street steps, then march to the nearby federal courthouse. Bring a bell to ring, warm clothes, and friends. Click here to get a pdf poster to print out and distribute U.S. Social Forum II(June 22, 2009 - June 26, 2010)Another World is Possible! Another U.S.A. is necessary! Rethinking the University: Labor, Knowledge, Value(April 11, 2010 - April 12, 2010)Conference at University of Minnesota on questions of neoliberalization and corporatization of higher education and the casualization of academic labor. GLOBAL ACTION: Education is not for Sale! ~ November, 2009(November 5, 2009 - November 19, 2009)Students, teachers, workers and parents around the world ask themselves: Is the public education system still serving the interests of the public, or is the focus shifting to implement education systems that primarily serve private and business interests? Tuition fees are – once introduced – sky-rocketing, universities and schools are turned into businesses, student debt keeps increasing and education budgets cut. INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS: Deepening democracy as a way of life(May 13, 2010 - May 19, 2010)Challenges for participatory democracy and citizenship learning in the 21st Century
Organized by Facultad de Ciencia Política y Relaciones Internacionales, Universidad Nacional de Rosario.
FUTURE CITIES 2009: Local Democracy in Action for a Post-Carbon, Post-Nuclear, Greener World(November 5, 2009 - November 8, 2009)This national conference will stimulate municipal efforts to engage citizens in their local democracies to promote a shift from carbon and nuclear energy sources to renewables and conservation, greener transportation and development practices, global elimination of nuclear weapons, and a transition from war spending to a peace economy. WHO DECIDES ABOUT WAR? National Conference on War Powers, Law, and Democracy(October 2, 2009 - October 3, 2009)"Who Decides About War" will be a national conference confronting essential questions raised by the U.S. invasions and occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan. These questions are timely, as the political process that brought the United States into those wars is widely recognized today as having been flawed at best, dishonest at worst. Democratizing Education Convention IIIStay tuned . . . the Democratizing Education Convention is coming back! MICHAEL FRANTI: Concert to benefit democracy movement!(September 27, 2009)Welcomed to Wisconsin by True Endeavors . . . Ticket price includes $0.50 donation to Liberty Tree . . . NASCO Action Camp 2009: Racial Justice for Sustainable Communities(August 13, 2009 - August 16, 2009)NASCO Action Camp, held each August, provides an intensive training retreat for leaders and members of housing co-ops, worker collectives, and other democratically-run communities. NOVEMBER: Global Week of Action - Reloaded!(November 1, 2009)Public education systems, from kindergarten to university, must prioritize emancipating aspects, be free and accessible to all. A democracy only exists, if society consists of emancipated and self-determined individuals, that are able to critically reflect their society, developments and power structures. Any system that doesn’t fulfill these criteria is not a democracy. RETREAT: Community Organizing for Deep Democracy(August 7, 2009)Announcing our 2009 "Community Organizing |
