Liberty Tree

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.

Manski at WI Libertarian Convention

(April 18, 2009)

Ben Manski, coordinator of the national "Bring the Guard Home!" campaign, will be a featured speaker at the Wisconsin Libertarian Party state convention

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.

MARCH & RALLY: Wisconsinites say "Bring the Guard Home!"

(April 4, 2009)

Peace groups and organizations across the country and abroad have called for demonstrations on April 4, the anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr's famed 1967 Riverside Church address that openly declared his opposition to the Vietnam War. That day also is the 60th anniversary of the founding of NATO, the supposed defensive military alliance now currently waging the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan.

MILWAUKEE TEACH-IN: You are the Commander in Chief

(April 3, 2009)

With Benson Scotch and Ben Manski: A Teach-In on the National Guard, War Powers, and what Wisconsin can do to end illegal wars.

Democratizing Our Universities to Confront Climate Change

(March 1, 2009)

Join Liberty Tree's Ben Manski, together with the New School's Atlee McFellin and Meaghan Linick-Loughley in this Powershift2009.org workshop.

Midwest NLG Conference

(February 29, 2008 - March 1, 2008)

Liberty Tree convenes two panels at the regional Midwest meeting of the National Lawyers Guild.

Meeting for Campus Organizers

Over the weekend of Sept 22-24, 2006, we will gather in Chicago some 40-60 campus organizers from a score colleges and universities, to compare experiences, recent advances and setbacks, and to plan coordinated action for the coming year. You, or people you work with on your campus, could be among those organizers. The idea is to bring the campus communities together, and get ready to fight for higher education, and a democratic society, in '06-'07.

Democracy & Education Conference

RadFest 2005: Midwest Social Forum

Organized by the Havens Center, cosponsored by Liberty Tree, and organized by Liberty Tree Fellow Patrick Barrett. Keynote panel on "The Emerging New Voting Rights Movement" featuring Jerome Scott (Project South); Adrienne Maree-Brown (League of Pissed off Voters); Alyshia Fisher (Progressive Democrats of America); and David Cobb (Liberty Tree). Liberty Tree's Ben Manski presents on the history of university socially responsible investment campaigns.