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Law of Democracy The will of the people shall be the law of the land. Constitutions, statutes, and ... government are but instruments to carry out the will of the people, and when they fail ... they must be changed to carry out and express the ... will of the people. For over all and above all, and greater than all, and expressing the supreme sovereignty of all, are the people. ~ Fighting Bob La Follette
No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law? The law is stationary. The law is fixed. The law is a chariot wheel which binds us all regardless of conditions or place or time. ~ Emma Goldman
Liberty Tree is committed to raising up and renewing a crucial area of the law: the law of democracy. Read here for resources on new approaches to making the law more accessible, transparent, and above all, directly accountable to the people. Organizing ResourcesSTUDY GUIDE: Benson Scotch on war powers, defense policy, and the National GuardThis study guide was prepared by Benson Scotch, senior legal counsel for the campaign to "Bring the Guard Home! It's the Law," in advance of his April 2, 2009 lecture at the University of Wisconsin Law School. Direct Legislation ResourcesArticles, links to organizations, and resources on citizen efforts to directly make policy decisions. NewsGRAVES AND MANSKI: Corporations are People TooDate: March 2, 2010SWANSON: Your Town Can Demand Justice More Powerfully Than You CanDate: October 21, 2009A Call for Congress to Take Action on TortureDate: October 28, 2009Take ActionStop Domestic Terror!source: Velvet RevolutionMove to Amend: Overrule the Supreme Courtsource: Campaign to Legalize DemocracyDemand the prosecution of Bush, Cheneysource: The Robert Jackson Steering CommitteeEventsWisconsin: 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 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. 5 Events to Launch Wisconsin's Guard Home Campaign!(April 2, 2009 - April 4, 2009)Wisconsin is launching its campaign to "Bring the Guard Home! It's the Law.," and you are invited! For this special three-day series of events, we are bringing Benson Scotch to Wisconsin from his home state of Vermont.
Benson Scotch is senior legal counsel to the national Bring the Guard Home! campaign, and this will be your best opportunity to learn more about the legal, political, and moral issues involved in this exciting effort. Please join him, Rep. Black, John Nichols, and us, April 2nd to April 4th, in Madison and Milwaukee. Publications & TalksSWANSON: Who SHOULD Decide About War?(October 3, 2009)Who should decide: we the people of the world, through democratically created and enforced international and national and state laws. SWANSON: A Second Bill of Rights(October 11, 2009)FIRST VIDEO: Who Decides About War?(October 2, 2009 - October 3, 2009)You don't have to wait any longer: The initial video is in from Who Decides About War?, the National Conference on War Powers, Law, and Democracy. This exciting conference took place on October 2nd and 3rd at the Georgetown School of Law, and featured over one hundred participants from 18 states Participants included veterans, military family members, journalists, lawyers, law students, professors, and other advocates of a more democratic, peaceful system of national defense. |
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