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Building a democracy movement for the U.S.A.

Liberty Tree is uniquely committed to building a new democracy movement for the U.S.A..

We provide vital support to grassroots campaigns for democratic reform in many areas of American life, and bring those campaigns together to form a united movement for democracy.

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Supreme Court Decision is an Outrage: Sign the Motion to Amend

On January 21, 2010, with its ruling in Citizens United v. FEC, the Supreme Court ruled that corporations are persons, entitled by the U.S. Constitution to buy elections and run our government.

Human beings are people; corporations are legal fictions. The Supreme Court is misguided in principle, and wrong on the law. In a democracy, the people rule.

Join Liberty Tree and our many partners in the Campaign to Legalize Democracy, as we move to overrule the Supreme Court. Go to www.MovetoAmend.org right now and sign the motion.

Events:

U.S. Social Forum II

(June 22, 2009 - June 26, 2010)

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

Rethinking the University: Labor, Knowledge, Value

(April 11, 2010 - April 12, 2010)

Conference at University of Minnesota on questions of neoliberalization and corporatization of higher education and the casualization of academic labor.

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Latest News:

GRANT: Voters of both parties object to Supreme Court activism

Date: January 26, 2010

2009 IN REVIEW: Education protests go global

Date: January 7, 2010

WASH POST: On pins and needles ahead of Citizens United

Date: January 14, 2010

NICHOLS: Feingold Fears Lawless Court Ruling

Date: January 12, 2010

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Take Action:

Move to Amend: Overrule the Supreme Court

source: Campaign to Legalize Democracy

It's NOT such a wonderful life!

source: BanksterUSA.org

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Publications & Talks:

NICHOLS & MCCHESNEY: The Media Revolution that Will Begin the World Again

(February 5, 2010)

Daily newspapers are closing across America. Washington bureaus are shuttering; whole areas of the federal government are now operating with no press coverage. International bureaus are going, going, gone. Journalism, the counterbalance to corporate and political power, the lifeblood of American democracy, is not just threatened. It is in meltdown.

MANSKI: The Essence of the Corporation

(January 11, 2010)

"It is hard to imagine a society absent corporations of any kind. Human beings will cooperate, and produce things together, and recognize the product of their collective labors as corporate work. Yet history shows that other key aspects of the modern corporation – namely corporate personhood and liability – are neither inevitable nor to be preferred. Indeed, those corporate qualities are correlated with the strong state and empire, hardly friends of democracy."

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