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Economic Democracy If ye love wealth better than liberty... May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen. ~ Samuel Adams
Those who produce should have, but we know that those who produce the most - that is, those who work hardest, and at the most difficult and most menial tasks, have the least. ~ Eugene V. Debs The United States is home to a vibrant movement for economic democracy. Read our materials on cooperatives, participatory budgeting, and solidarity economies.
Organizing ResourcesCEPR: Dropping the Ax: Illegal Firings During Union Election CampaignsThis report, by John Schmitt and Ben Zipperer of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, updates an earlier report from January of 2007, which found a steep rise in illegal firings of pro-union workers in the 2000s relative to the last half of the 1990s. PROGRESSIVE STATES NETWORK: Trade and the StatesThis July, 2009 report by the Progressive States Network highlights many of the rising concerns by state leaders over recent federal trade deals, how states have been taking action to increase their roles in the trade negotiation process, and recent mobilization by those state leaders working with federal allies to institutionalize the role of states in the trade negotiation and implementation process. Participatory Budgeting ResourcesToolkits, useful websites and other resources for communities interested in participatory budgeting. NewsBROWN: Public bank concept gains ground at the state levelDate: February 19, 2010TRUMKA: Showdown in ChicagoDate: October 23, 2009YES! MAGAZINE: Spokane activists undeterred after defeat of Community Rights initiativeDate: November 4, 2009Take ActionAsk them to cosponsor the 2009 TRADE Actsource: Citizens Trade CampaignEmployee Free Choice Act and Arbitrationsource: Service Employes International Union (SEIU)Break Up the Banks!source: A New Way ForwardEventsDemocracy Track at the U.S. Social ForumThe 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. Extending Democracy w/The Progressive, Manski, Farsetta, Gray, Wellstone(May 1, 2009 - May 2, 2009)Major speakers include Robert Redford, Amy Goodman, Naomi Klein, Barbara Ehrenreich, Rev. Jesse Jackson, and the editorial staff of the Progressive Magazine. Liberty Tree's Ben Manski, together with various members of Liberty Tree's Board of Directors and Board of Advisors -- John Nichols and Robert McChesney, among them -- will also be speaking at this exciting event. Fair Trade Federation Conference(March 27, 2009 - March 29, 2009)As FTF celebrates its 15th birthday, we will bring together leaders in the field of fair trade to discuss key issues and offer practical training to improve operations. Publications & TalksLa FOLLETTE: July 4, 1897 on the Dangers Threatening Representative GovernmentConsidered among the several most significant speeches of the great radical reformer, Fighting Bob La Follette, we offer these excerpts to you 112 years later. |
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