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Race and Democracy

The whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions yet made to her august claims, have been born of earnest struggle.

~ Frederick Douglass

I swear to the Lord I still can't see Why Democracy means Everybody but me .... I say it plain, America never was America to me, And yet I swear this oath - America will be!
~ Langston Hughes

The history of the United States is a history of race relations. Racism is the lubricant for an economic machine geared towards profit, and it is the poison that sickens American progress. Democracy has always been the subversive antidote to racial injustice. Read here for resources on race and democracy.

Organizing Resources

News

    RELEASE: Green the Block campaign launched

Date: August 5, 2009

Take Action

    Support Benton Harbor leader now!

source: Rev. Pinkney Support Committee

    Stop Domestic Terror!

source: Velvet Revolution

Events

    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.

    Democracy Track at the U.S. Social Forum

The 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.

Publications & Talks

    MANSKI: Public Radio's Week in Review

(December 4, 2009)

Ben Manski is a regular guest in WPR's "Week in Review"

    VIDEO: Manski, Farsetta, Alexander Gray on Extending Democracy

(May 1, 2009)

Progressive Magazine's Panel Discussion: EXTENDING DEMOCRACY

Ben Manski, Liberty Tree Foundation for the Democratic Revolution
Diane Farsetta, The Center Media and Democracy
Kevin Alexander Gray, author and former Jesse Jackson campaign staff

    Video from the Local Democracy Convention

Edited video footage from the 2006 Local Democracy Convention is now online, and also available for order!



 
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