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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
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Democratizing Defense
If every preparation for war can be made the excuse for destroying free speech and a free press and the right of the people to assemble together for peaceful discussion, then we may well despair of ever again finding ourselves for a long period in a state of peace.
~ Fighting Bob La Follette

Although tyranny may successfully rule over foreign peoples, it can stay in power only if it first destroys the national institutions of its own people.
~ Hannah Arendt

Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame, with conquering limbs astride from land to land. Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand a mighty woman with a torch, whose flame is the imprisoned lightning, and her name, Mother of Exiles.
~ Emma Lazarus
Liberty Tree's Democratizing Defense Program works with military service members, veterans, military families, and concerned citizens to democratize the American system of defense. Specific policy objectives of this program include defederalization of the National Guard, a national war referendum amendment, and the withdrawal of U.S. military bases from foreign soil.

Initiatives

Events

  • 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.
  • Midwest NLG Conference (February 29, 2008 - March 1, 2008)
    Liberty Tree convenes two panels at the regional Midwest meeting of the National Lawyers Guild.
  • 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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