Liberty Tree | RELEASE - 10,000s in Atlanta to heed President's call for Democratic Revolution

RELEASE - 10,000s in Atlanta to heed President's call for Democratic Revolution

June 21, 2007

(Atlanta) - Next week, in the most significant gathering of progressive Americans since the famous “Battle of Seattle,” an expected ten to twenty thousand will gather in Atlanta, Georgia for the first ever U.S. Social Forum. The Forum will serve as a catalyst for many domestic social movements, among them, the new U.S. democracy movement, which will meet for the first time in Atlanta.

Speaking of the need for Americans to support democratization abroad, in November of 2003 President Bush declared of the occupation of Iraq that, “This is a massive and difficult undertaking; it is worth our effort, it is worth our sacrifice, because we know the stakes. . . . [This] will be a watershed event in the global democratic revolution.”

Responds Ben Manski, Liberty Tree’s Executive Director, “What may be mere rhetoric to the President is serious business for millions of Americans. We respect the call for a global democratic revolution, and because we believe that democratic change must begin here at home, we have assembled the beginnings of a new U.S. democracy movement.”

The new U.S. democracy movement will gather in over 70 sessions at the U.S. Social Forum, organized under the umbrella of the “Democracy Track” and beneath the canvass of a massive “Democracy Tent.” Deeply rooted in communities across the United States, some 42 national organizations counting hundreds of thousands of members will meet to lay the groundwork for the new movement.

“The U.S. Social Forum is the ideal venue for this first meeting of the new democracy movement. Social Forums have been happening all over the world, from Pakistan to Venezuela to Kenya, and it’s about time this democratic assembly came together on the shores of Lady Liberty,” said Juscha Robinson, a Local Democracy Program Director at Liberty Tree.

More info:

Democracy Track http://www.DemocracyTrack.org
Liberty Tree http://www.LibertyTreeFDR.org
Daily audio, video, & print reports will appear online on both websites.

Areas of Focus:

Global Democracy

Tags:

Social ForumU.S. Democracy Movement

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