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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. InitiativesEvents- 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.
Publications/TalksDemocracy News- New York launches its state Bring the Guard Home! campaign (August 17th, 2008)
- Video: Pennsylvania launches state Bring the Guard Home! effort (August 9, 2008)
- News coverage of PA Bring the Guard Home! campaign launch (August 10, 2008)
- Benson Scotch: War powers should remain shared (August 11, 2008)
- Pennsylvania advance coverage of Guard Home! rally (August 7, 2008)
- Guard's Overseas Deployment Challenged (August 5th, 2008)
- Obama Wants to Shrink One War, But Expand Two Others (July 16th, 2008)
- Municipal ballot measure to ban military recruitment of children (6/12/08)
- Chicago May Oppose Iran Invasion (May 15, 2008)
- Embedding Military Propagandists into the News Media (May 1, 2008)
- Winter Soldier: Iraq & Afghanistan (Thursday March 13 - 16)
- Do You Want the Military Industrial Complex Counting Your Votes? (March 4, 2008)
- Your Time Is Up, Mr. President -- the National Guard Is Coming Home (February 5, 2008)
- U.S. Military Escalation in Pakistan Gets Underway (January 7, 2008)
- CIA Operation (November 29, 2007)
- Activists in Olympia, WA Shut Down Port to Protest Use By the Military (November 16, 2007)
- Iraq War: The Heartland Speaks (November 8, 2007)
- Rev. Lennox Yearwood victorious in suit against US Air Force over discharge (September 11, 2007)
- Prominent Americans Ask Military to Refuse to Attack Iran (October 3, 2007)
- John Stauber: Democratic Spin Won't End the War in Iraq (May 22, 2007)
- Cindy Sheehan: The Democratic Congress has betrayed American Voters (Sunday, 25 March 2007)
- 139 Massachusetts Communities to vote on immediate withdrawal from Iraq (Wed Oct 11, 2006 2:25 pm (PST))
- Troop withdrawal initiatives going national (April 27, 2006)
- Wisconsin voters give a mandate for peace! (April 5, 2006)
- Three-dozen WI cities to vote on immediate Iraq withdrawal (3/25/2006)
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