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Race and Democracy
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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

    United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

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News

    DETECTIVE OLSON: Demand the Removal of Sheriff Arpaio from Duty

Date: January 12, 2010

    Michigan Court of Appeals hears case of preacher sentenced for criticizing judge

Date: June 11, 2009

    NICHOLS: Supreme Court Pulls Teeth From the Voting Rights Act

Date: June 22, 2009
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Take Action

    Support Benton Harbor leader now!

source: Rev. Pinkney Support Committee

    Stop Domestic Terror!

source: Velvet Revolution

    ACLU: Support the Wisconsin Democracy Restoration Act

source: ACLU
more take action >

Events

    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.

    U.S. Social Forum II

(June 22, 2009 - June 26, 2010)

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

    Confronting Racism: Building United Movements Ohio Conference

(May 16, 2009)


Its our goal that Confronting Racism: Building United Movements will be an organizing space for students and community members throughout Ohio, especially women, people of color, queer, and working-class people, to develop the skills and the vision they need to struggle for a collective liberation against corporate power and institutional oppression. To these ends, Confronting Racism: Building United Movements will provide both structured workshops and more open-space-style discussion spaces that will develop participants’ basic organizing skills and deepen their political analysis and visions toward fundamental social change.

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Publications & Talks

    Video from the Local Democracy Convention

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

    CHIEF COUPER: Seven seeds for policing

(May 5, 2009)

David Couper is the former police chief of Madison, Wisconsin (1972-1993). He is now an Episcopal priest. This presentation was given in 1994.

    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

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