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Gender and Democracy

We're half the people; we should be half the Congress.

~ Jeannette Rankin

A democratic home is the foundation of a democratic state.

~ Agnes E. Benedict

Did you ... suppose democracy was only for elections, for politics, and for a party name? I say democracy is only of use there that it may pass on and come to its flower and fruit in manners, in the highest forms of interaction ... in religion, literature, colleges and schools: Democracy in all public and private life.

~ Walt Whitman

Women are an American majority, yet are still treated as an exploited minority. Women's wages, work, and representation remain inequitable. And what of the liberty rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered Americans? Read here for resources on gender and democracy.

News

    Frances Moore Lappe Speaking in Madison, WI

Date: November 5, 2007

Events

    U.S. Social Forum II

(June 22, 2009 - June 26, 2010)

Another World is Possible! Another U.S.A. is necessary!

    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.

Publications & Talks

    Prospects for Participatory Democracy in the U.S.A

"The task . . . is to facilitate the growth of an aggressive democracy movement in the United States."


 
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Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both.
~ Frederick Douglass