Events

• Community Organizing for Deep Democracy Retreat (August 8, 2008 - August 10, 2008)
  This retreat will offer tangible strategies for participants to effectively organize in their own communities to reclaim the constitutional promise of a sovereign citizenry.
• People's State of the City Summit and March on the Mayors Day of Action (June 19, 2008 - June 24, 2008)

  March on the Mayors!
  40th convening of the United States Conference of Mayors
  June 19th-24th, Miami, FL

  People's State of the City Summit
  Discuss a people's platform for the U.S. urban agenda in 2008
  June 19th (location to be announced)

  March on the Mayors: Day of Action
  Join us in bringing the people's urban agenda to the U.S. mayors and U.S. presidential candidates
  June 20th (location to be announced)

• Frances Moore Lappe (November 5, 2007)
  A public talk by FRANCES MOORE LAPPÉ on her new book, "Getting a Grip." Followed by a fundraising reception for Liberty Tree.
• Venezuelan Ambassador Visits Midwest This Week as Liberty Tree's Guest (September 13, 2007 - September 14, 2007)
• Democracy Track at the U.S. Social Forum (June 27, 2007 - July 1, 2007)
  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.
• Business Alliance for Local Living Economies Conference (May 31, 2007 - June 2, 2007)
  Join entrepreneurs, innovators, community organizers, government officials, investors, and green business pioneers to explore cutting-edge social and environmental innovations, learn practical business skills, share best practices for network development, and connect with others in this flourishing network!
• Summit for Community Wireless Networks (May 18, 2007 - May 20, 2007)
  The summit is the largest gathering of wireless network developers, technology and policy experts, and community organizers working to build universal, low-cost broadband networks around the world.
• Local Democracy Convention: The Community Power Road to Democracy (September 28, 2006 - October 1, 2006)
  The Local Democracy Convention will feature some of the most cutting-edge local democracy organizing going on in the US and around the world. Convention participants will have opportunity to attend plenaries, panels, skills-building workshops, strategy sessions, and a party or two. Whether you have been doing local democracy work for years, or are just discovering that your concerns are directly related to local power and democracy, join us this fall for what is sure to be a defining moment in the development of a new democracy movement in the United States!
• Midwest Social Forum
• Green Policy Conference
• National Summit for Community Wireless Networks
• National Worker Co-op & Workplace Democracy Conference
  Second Conference for Worker Ownership and Workplace Democracy

Initiatives

• Local Democracy Resources: Associations and Organizations
  A collection of groups and organizations working on issues related to local governance and local democracy that we hope you'll find useful. Check back frequently for updates.
• Local Democracy Resources: News Sources
  News sources for updates on participatory democracy efforts around the world.
• Local Democracy Resources: Analyses of Participatory Democracy Elsewhere
  Articles by country, analyzing participatory democracy initiatives.
• Direct Legislation Resources
  Articles, links to organizations, and resources on citizen efforts to directly make policy decisions.
• Participatory Budgeting Resources
  Toolkits, useful websites and other resources for communities interested in participatory budgeting.
• Community Wireless Resources
  Resources for communities pursuing municipal wireless.

Publications/Talks

• Foreign Policy Goes Local (January 31, 2008)
• Participatory Budgeting: From Porto Alegre, Brazil to the U.S. (January 29, 2008)
• Measure T Bans Corporate Campaign Financing (September 3, 2007)
  The Fall 2007 issue of Yes Magazine features an article by Liberty Tree Fellow Kaitlin Sopoci-Belknap. Kaitlin writes about Measure T, the groundbreaking campaign passed in Humboldt County, California that bans outside corporate money in elections and challenges the doctrine of corporate constitutional rights.
• Video from the Local Democracy Convention (May 25, 2007)
  Edited video footage from the 2006 Local Democracy Convention is now online, and also available for order!
• Prospects for Participatory Democracy in the U.S.
  "The task . . . is to facilitate the growth of an aggressive democracy movement in the United States."
• Wisconsin votes for immediate withdrawal!
  Ballot resolutions put a state on the map as opposed to the occupation of Iraq
• Local Democracy interview on public radio with Juscha Robinson and Gar Alperovitz
  Renew democracy when Joy Cardin’s guests discuss how to encourage more participation in government in your own hometown.
• Discussion of Democracy with Juscha Robinson, Ben Manski, and Amy Mondloch
• Z Magazine interviews Kaitlin Sopoci-Belknap about Measure T
  Democracy Unlimited: Daniel McLeod interviews Kaitlin Sopoci-Belknap