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I freed thousands of slaves; I could have freed more if they knew they were slaves.
~ Harriet Tubman
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Democratic Federalism
This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.
~ Abraham Lincoln

Whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
~ U.S. Declaration of Independence
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. This realignment represents a return to pre-Cold War political realities, in which capital owned federal power, and the labor-farm coalition championed the 10th Amendment, municipal home rule, the cooperative commonwealth, and local democracy.

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  • Monday's Message to Democrats in Denver: The States Will Bring the Guard Home (August 25, 2008)
    As the eyes of the world turn to Denver, soldiers, military families, veterans, and pro-democracy organizers released details today of a Denver press conference with a simple message: Democratic state legislators are prepared to act where Congress has so far failed to act, and to end National Guard deployments to Iraq.
  • 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.

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