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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.
NewsADDISON INDEPENDENT:Vermont House overrides marriage veto by one-vote marginDate: April 9, 2009Frances Moore Lappe Speaking in Madison, WIDate: November 5, 2007EventsU.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 & TalksProspects 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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This struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, and it may be both moral and physical, but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
~ Frederick Douglass
~ Frederick Douglass