Let's build democracy in every area of our daily lives! Check out these democracy movement organizing resources:
Program Areas
Corporations and Democracy
The corporation is the dominant economic institution of our time. Look here for resources regarding corporate chartering, corporate constitutional rights, and democratizing the corporation.
Democratic Culture
Democracy is not merely legal or structural, it is a matter of art, relationships, and values. Look here for resources on democratic organizing, practice, and ideals.
Democratizing Defense
Liberty Tree's Democratizing Defense Program works with military service members, veterans, military families, and concerned citizens to democratize the American system of defense.
Economic Democracy
The United States is home to a vibrant movement for economic democracy. Read our materials on cooperatives, the right to organize, participatory budgeting, and solidarity economies.
Democratizing Education
The Democratizing Education Program works to unite student associations, labor unions, faculty organizations, and grassroots student, parent, and community groups in a national movement against the corporatization of education, and for the democratization of schools, colleges, and universities.
Democratizing Elections
Liberty Tree's Democratizing Elections Program strives to fundamentally transform US elections by nurturing a powerful new voting rights movement that will implement the fundamental and systemic electoral reforms defined in the "Voter Bill of Rights".
Democratic Federalism
Americans have woken to a new political reality, a realignment in the U.S. such that today, federal power is championed by oligarchs, and local power by democrats.
Gender and Democracy
Women are an American majority yet are still treated as an exploited minority. Women's wages, work, and representation remain inequitable. Read her for resources on gender and democracy.
Global Democracy
The United States have long been an inspiration to democracy movements around the globe, from revolutions across the Americas to the Chinese democracy movement of 1989. Today, U.S. federal foreign policy has had a negative impact on global democracy. Instead, the new U.S. democracy movement looks abroad for friendship and inspiration.
Law of Democracy
Liberty Tree is committed to raising up and renewing a crucial area of the law: the law of democracy. Read here for resources on new approaches to making the law more accessible, transparent, and above all, directly accountable to the people.
Local Democracy
Liberty Tree's Local Democracy Program works with elected officials, political parties, and community organizations in the United States to democratize local governments and to unite them as agents of democratic change.
Media Democracy
"Who will tell the people?" Read here for news and ideas regarding the movement for media democracy in the United States.
Race and Democracy
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.
Democratizing Religion
The spirit of humanity is democracy, and yet most spiritual and religious institutions remain profoundly undemocratic. Read here for news and ideas about efforts to win greater democracy in America's religious communities.