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The Port Huron Statement at 50

Date:

February 2, 2012 - 2:30pm - February 3, 2012 - 8:00pm

Location

University of California at Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA

The conveners "invite you to attend a conference which brings together historians, social theorists, contemporary student activists, and Port Huron veterans to discuss the origins, historical impact, and contemporary relevance of the New Left's founding manifesto."

January 20, 2012 – Move to Amend Occupies the Courts!

Date:

January 20, 2012 - 9:00am - 5:00pm

Location

Across the Country

See map: Google Maps

Call to Action

Inspired by our friends at Occupy Wall Street, and Dr. Cornel West, Move To Amend is planning bold action to mark the second anniversary of the infamous Citizens United v. FEC decision!

Iowa Democracy Doubleheader: Join Ben Manski to learn about Move to Amend -and- Home Rule

Date:

January 13, 2012 - 5:00pm - 9:30pm

Location

Matyk Building

1029 3rd St. SE

Cedar Rapids, IA

See map: Google Maps

5-7pm - FREE PARTICIPATORY DEMOCRACY TRAINING & POT LUCK DINNER

DES MOINES, IA: Participatory Democracy Training with Ben Manski

Date:

January 12, 2012 - 6:30pm - 8:30pm

Location

Des Moines's EAST VILLAGE

501 E. Locust St (corner of E. 5th and E. Locust, 3rd floor).

Des Moines, IA

See map: Google Maps

Learn how to engage the public and gather signatures for a campaign to demand a Constitutional Amendment to end Corporate Personhood, get the money out of our political system, and reverse Citizens United.

Right here, in Iowa… as the movement spreads across America.

Building the Progressive Movement Inside and Outside the Democratic Party

Date:

December 30, 2011 - 1:30am - 5:30am

Location

1st Unitarian Church

1800 Bell Ave.

Des Moines, IA

See map: Google Maps

On the Eve of the Iowa Caucus, Progressives Present a Forum:

Building the Progressive MovementInside and Outside the Democratic Party

Discussion and Reception 1:30 to 5:30 PM Friday, December 30th
1st Unitarian Church, 1800 Bell Ave., Des Moines Free & Open to the Public

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Iowa

MA: Revolution is in the air ~ A reception with the Liberty Tree

Date:

October 31, 2011 - 7:00pm - 9:00pm

Location

Friends Meetinghouse

5 Longfellow Park

Cambridge, MA

See map: Google Maps

Where do the movement to abolish corporate personhood, the Wisconsin protest wave, global resistance to austerity, and the voting rights, election integrity, anti-war, and campus democracy movements come together? Beneath the branches of Liberty Tree, committed to "building a democracy movement for the U.S.A." since 2004.

CLEVELAND, OH: Community Forum: Corporations are Not People and Money is Not Speech

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Ohio

Date:

October 23, 2011 - 1:00pm - 3:00pm

Location

St. Coleman's Catholic Church

2027 West 65th Street

Cleveland, OH

See map: Google Maps

You’re invited to a free community forum, Corporations Are Not Persons and Money Is Not Speech. The event includes a presentation by and discussion with David Cobb, the national spokesperson for Move to Amend.

Cobb will discuss the national Move to Amend campaign and what we can do to abolish never-intended corporate constitutional rights and reverse the legal doctrine that money is speech! Download flyer here.

Event Contact

First Name:

Greg

Last Name:

Coleridge

Email:

gcoleridge@afsc.org

Phone:

330-928-2301/216-255-2184

Address:

2101 Front St., #111, Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio 44221

All About ALEC

Date:

October 22, 2011 - 2:15pm

Location

ProMega BioTechnology Center

5445 E. Cheryl Parkway

Fitchburg, WI 53711

See map: Google Maps

Oregon Area Progressives is sponsoring All About ALEC, a forum on the American Legislative Exchange Council with an outstanding lineup of speakers, including Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D - IL) Sen. Mark Miller Rep. Mark Pocan Rep. Sondy Pope-Roberts Lisa Graves - Center for Media and Democracy Mike McCabe - Wisconsin Democracy Campaign Jack Norman -Institute for Wisconsin's Future Jim Cavanaugh - South Central Federation of Labor Dan Holub - WEAC Julie Underwood - UW Madison School of Education Joanne Ricca - Wisconsin AFL-CIO Robert Kraig - Citizen's Action of Wisconsin and Jay Heck - Common Cause Moderated by John Nichols Advance Registration $10 - includes lunch register now at www.allaboutalec.org

Event Contact

First Name:

Charles

Last Name:

Uphoff

Email:

cuphoff@hotmail.com

Phone:

608-213-6063 - cell phone

Address:

2475 Lalor Rd., Fitchburg, WI 53575

DOVER, DE: World Water Day & Banning Corporate Personhood Discussion Group

Date:

October 19, 2011 - 7:30am - 9:30am

Location

The Dover News Stand

25 Lockerman Street

Dover, DE 19904

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The Dover Delaware United Nations Association will be celebrating World Water Day!

We will be passing out statistics and requests for water advocacy as well as offering car pooling to events sponsored by the Greater Philadelphia UNA and the League of Women Voters luncheon to discuss Economic Disparity.

In the second half of the meeting we will read an article together and then and request support for "Move to Amend." Come join us!

Event Contact

First Name:

RuthAnn

Last Name:

Purchase

Email:

RuthAnnPurchase@gmail.com

Phone:

302-399-1235

Address:

PO Box 242 Cheswold, De 19936

March to End the Wars - Madison

Date:

October 15, 2011 - 11:30am - 1:30pm

Location

UW Library Mall

Park St. & Lake St.

Madison, WI

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March to End the Wars!
Ten Years in Afghanistan - Ten Billion Dollars a Month
March & Rally in Madison, Wisconsin
Saturday, Oct. 15

Join the Madison Area Peace Coalition (MAPC) for a March and Rally to mark 10 years of U.S.-led war in Afghanistan on Saturday, Oct. 15th. We will call for an end to this war and all wars. We want jobs, schools, and healthcare -- not war.

Please gather at UW Library Mall at 11:30 am. Bring your peace and labor signs. Come early for parking because it's a football Saturday and Farmer's Market Day. We'll begin marching after noon, and be up at the Capitol by quarter to 1:00 pm.

Sponsored by the Madison Area Peace Coalition. Endorsed by AFSCME 171 and the South Central Federation of Labor (SCFL).

Contact: 242-9232
www.madpeace.org

Event Contact

First Name:

Barbara

Last Name:

Smith

Email:

barbara@merr.com

Phone:

242-9232

Milwaukee: Speakout 10 Years of War Afghanistan

Date:

October 8, 2011 - 12:00pm - 3:00pm

Location

Milwaukee City Hall Rotunda

200 E. Wells Street

Milwaukee, WI

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Rally at noon Water & Wisconsin
12:45 pm March to City Hall
1pm - 2:30 pm Speak Out
Milwaukee City Hall Rotunda
200 E. Wells Street, Milwaukee WI

How has war effected you?
What is the impact on our community from the longest war in U.S. history?

Sponsored by Milwaukee Coalition for a Just Peace

More info here

EAU CLAIRE, WI: Chippewa Valley Move To Amend's October Meet-Up

Date:

Repeats every month until Mon Oct 10 2011 .

October 6, 2011 - 7:00pm - 8:00pm

Location

Infinitea Teahouse

112 East Grand Avenue

Eau Claire, WI 54701

See map: Google Maps

We're going public this month for the first time by holding our October meet-up at the Infinitea Teahouse! This month's notable attendees will be Eau Claire City Council member, Dana Wachs, as well as Eau Claire County Board member, John DeRosier, who are considering sponsoring a resolutions in support of reversing the Supreme Court's "Citizens United v. FEC" decision.

Come share how unlimited/undisclosed corporate influence of our elections has made an impact on the issues that you care about! We'll need your input as we propose, discuss, and vote on local resolutions to pass.

Event Contact

First Name:

Kyle

Last Name:

Butz

Email:

butzk@uwec.edu

Phone:

608-712-8891

Address:

427 Putnam Drive, Eau Claire, WI, 54701

DC: A People's Uprising: From Madison to DC

Date:

September 18, 2011 - 5:00pm - 8:00pm

Location

Busboys and Poets at 5th and K

1025 5th St NW

Washington, DC

See map: Google Maps

Bringing the inspiration of the Wisconsin protest wave -- from the occupation of the state's capitol to the recent national Democracy Convention in Madison -- to the planned October 2011 occupation of Freedom Plaza in D.C.:

Democracy Convention 2011

Date:

August 24, 2011 - 9:00am - August 28, 2011 - 5:00pm

Location

Madison, WI 53703

See map: Google Maps

From August 24th to August 28, 2011 over 1200 people from around the country covened in Madison for a Democracy Convention designed to further the growing nationwide Democracy Movmeent. This event, sponsored by the Liberty Tree Foundation (which also sponsors the Wisconsin Wave) gave participants and organizers alike the skills to return to their communities and fight for Democracy where it matters most -- in our schools, our workplaces and local economies, our military, our governm

MAY 14: ‘Don’t You Dare’ Rally: Wisconsin rejects this budget

Date:

May 14, 2011 - 2:30pm - 4:00pm

Location

Wisconsin State Capitol Madison, WI

See map: Google Maps

Walker and legislative allies plan to bypass courts, jam rights-stripping measures through with their budget proposal!

Counterprotest the Corporate Puppets: Dump Tea! Dump Palin!

Date:

April 16, 2011 - 12:00pm - 3:00pm

Location

Capitol Square, State Street Corner

State Street and North Caroll Street

Madison, WI

See map: Google Maps

Come one, come all, hear the call to . . .
DUMP TEA! DUMP PALIN!
Speakers and Music TBA…as confirmed.
MC's John "Sly" Sylvester and Sarah Manski.

NOON, SATURDAY, APRIL 16th
WI STATE CAPITOL
Change: STATE STREET CORNER

Please share widely. The puppets are coming, the puppets are coming! Corporate puppets Sarah Palin and "Americans" for "Prosperity" are rallying at our Wisconsin State Capitol on 4/16. For more information:http://www.danegop.org/latestnews.aspx

Wisconsin People's Assembly

Date:

April 9, 2011 - 12:00pm - April 10, 2011 - 6:30pm

Location

State Capitol, MATC Downtown, and O'Keefe Middle School Madison, WI 53703

See map: Google Maps

They have their house. It's time we built our own house. It's time for the . . .

WISCONSIN PEOPLE’S ASSEMBLY

Noon, Saturday, April 9th to 6:30pm, Sunday, April 10th

For the full schedule and locations, including speakers and workshop subjects, see: http://wisconsinwave.org/full-schedule-wisconsin-peoples-assembly

~ Saturday, April 9th ~

12:00pm-2:00pm RALLY AT STATE CAPITOL: Ride the Wave Back to the Capitol!

2:00pm-3:00pm MARCH TO WMC: Take Wisconsin Back from the Corporate Interests!

4:00pm Registration Opens at Georgia O'Keefe Middle School, 510 South Thornton Ave., Madison

5:00pm & 7:00pm MAJOR PANELS at Georgia O'Keefe Middle School:

5pm UNDERSTANDING AUSTERITY: Wisconsin in a global perspective

7pm BUILDING A POPULAR MOVEMENT: Overcoming inequality & uniting us all in common cause

~ Sunday, April 10th ~

8:30am Registration Reopens at Downtown Campus of Madison Area Technical College
9:30am-11:00am MAJOR PANEL: DIRECT ACTION CAMPAIGNING: Achieving the Will of the People when government closes its doors

11:30am-1:00pm WORKSHOPS

1:00-2:30pm Lunch Break

2:30pm-4:00pm WORKSHOPS

4:30pm-6:30pm MAJOR PANEL: DEMAND DEMOCRACY: Democratizing our elections, economy, budget process, and constitutions

For the full schedule and locations, including speakers and workshop subjects, see: http://wisconsinwave.org/full-schedule-wisconsin-peoples-assembly

Document:

WPA Wave postcard front and back.pdf

WPA Wave poster letter size2.pdf

Event Contact

First Name:

Adam

Last Name:

Porton

Email:

porton68@gmail.com

Phone:

6082571606

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Date:

April 27, 2010 - 6:00pm

Location

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News

DAILY KOS: Pulaski WI Marching Band Plays "Union Maid" in Rose Bowl Parade

January 3, 2012

By:

AnnieJo

Pulaski WI Marching Band 'Sticking to the Union' in Rose Bowl Parade

The Pulaski High Marching Band, of Pulaski Wisconsin, made an awesome statement in yesterday's Rose Bowl Parade.

It was quite an honor for the Red Raiders from this small town (pop. approx. 3000) northwest of Green Bay to be marching in 80-degree weather in Pasadena, while their proud community looked on from windy 18-degree Wisconsin.

The TV coverage started as they marched along playing "On Wisconsin," looking properly Badger-like in their red uniforms.

And then they got to the grandstand, at about 1:15 in the YouTube ... listen to what happened.

CAP TIMES: ACLU sues over Wisconsin voter ID law

December 13, 2011

By:

Jessica Vanegeren

ACLU sues over state's voter ID law

A federal lawsuit was filed Tuesday in Milwaukee alleging that Wisconsin's new voter ID law is unconstitutional and will deprive people of the right to vote.

The suit, filed by the American Civil Liberties Union of Wisconsin and the National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty, claims top state officials includng Gov. Scott Walker and Kevin Kennedy, executive director of the non-partisan state elections agency, as well as employees tasked with implementing the law at the state Department of Motor Vehicles and Social Security offices have created a poll tax and other obstacles that present a "severe and undue burden on the fundamental right to vote."

CAP TIMES: Gov. Walker's cuts to Wisconsin education decimating public education

December 4, 2011

By:

Kathleen Vinehout

Education budget cuts bring challenges, controversy

State officials recently announced this year’s final state aid sent to local school districts. All but 13 of Wisconsin’s 424 local school districts received cuts. The historic school aid reduction in Wisconsin is the second largest per pupil cut in the nation.

Local education leaders, parents and teachers are concerned about the long-term effects of such deep funding cuts.

At the same time, Gov. Walker’s recent radio address touted his commitment to education. “We kept education a priority,” he said. “We also passed reforms that will help protect taxpayers and improve government.”

Take Action

Aug. 10, Benton Harbor Michigan: March to protest corporate takeover of city

From:

Rev. Edward Pinkney, Benton Harbor, Michigan

What's happening:

Tuesday, August 10, 2010, 11:00 am

City Hall, 200 E. Wall Street (49022)

All will march to Jean Klock Park to
protest Harbor Shores and Whirlpool's
hostile takeover of the city.

Everyone is invited. For info contact
Rev. Edward Pinkney, 269-925-0001,
banco9342@sbcglobal.net

Background: Benton Harbor, Michigan, is the center of a fightback against corporate power and control as the people of the city organize to oppose a corporate takeover of public land, their much-beloved Jean Klock park, for conversion to a privately owned golf course and lakefront development called Harbor Shores. Executives of the Whirlpool corporation, which is based in the city, are behind the effort to redevelop the land over strong public opposition. The struggle has been led by the Rev. Edward Pinkney, who has continued to speak out despite efforts by city officials to silence him, including a local judge's sentence of 3-10 years in prison that was later overturned as a violation of Rev. Pinkney's free-speech rights.

March 4 National Day of Action to Defend Education

From:

California students, staff and faculty

What's happening:

As people throughout the country struggle under the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, public education from pre-K to higher and adult education is threatened by budget cuts, layoffs, privatization, tuition and fee increases, and other attacks. Budget cuts degrade the quality of public education by decreasing student services and increasing class size, while tuition hikes and layoffs force the cost of the recession onto students and teachers and off of the financial institutions that caused the recession in the first place. Non-unionized charter schools threaten to divide, weaken and privatize the public school system and damage teachers’ unions, which are needed now more than ever. More and more students are going deep into debt to finance their education, while high unemployment forces many students and youth to join the military to receive a higher education. And all of the attacks described above have hit working people and people of color the hardest.

In California, students, teachers, workers, parents, and faculty have taken action against these attacks. They took to the streets in a one-day strike on September 24th, organized strikes and actions across the state during the University of California Board of Regents meeting from November 18th to 20th, and have called for a state-wide day of action on March 4th. These actions have created a broad mass movement in California, drawing in students from all over the state to create a powerful struggle. As the effects of the economic crisis continue to spread into the education system nationally, it’s time to join our voices with students and workers in California and draw inspiration from their example.

We support each group or coalition organizing in the manner and for the duration of their choosing. In solidarity with those in California, we the below-signed individuals and organizations call on students, teachers, workers, parents, faculty, and staff across the country to join together on March 4th to Take A Stand For Education!

Sign the Declaration: UNITED FOR EDUCATION!

From:

International Student Movement

What's happening:

We, the undersigned students, faculty, staff, parents, and concerned citizens worldwide stand united across all divisions of nationality, race, religion and field of studies to declare our support for the aims and objectives of the "Education is NOT for - Global Week of Action" called for by the independent "International Student Movement".

We are united in working to ensure that:

Public education is accessible to all and recognized as a fundamental right; NO to tuition fees!

Public education is free from exploitative corporate practices and state interests which conflict with those of the individual and the public interest.

Public education primarily serves democratic and public interests, instead of private, business, state and/or labour market interests.

Public education empowers individuals to become emancipated and autonomous people, able to critically evaluate themselves and their environment, and thus be actively involved in a genuinely democratic society.

If we are to have such a society we need general public discussions on the role of public education systems: Whose interests do they - and should they - primarily serve?

Help defend higher education in Tennessee

From:

United Campus Workers/CWA Local 3865

What's happening:

Despite weeks of students, labor, and community protests, Middle State Tennessee University (MTSU) President Sidney McPhee continues to move ahead with plans for major program cuts, outsourcing and layoffs, and other cuts that will have drastic effects on the campus community.

The current cuts being considered include the dismantling of Physics, Philosophy, Geosciences, Criminal Justice, all of which constitutes an attack on the academic core of the University; the closing of a beloved community resource in WMOT Jazz 89 as well as the closing of the June Anderson Woman's Center; and the further outsourcing of more of our campus's hardest working employees.

These cuts have been hastily proposed with minimal justification and despite Governor Bredesen's acceptance of hundreds of millions of dollars in federal aid meant to offset deep and lasting cuts to the state's education systems, and are being considered prior to a state budget being introduced, let alone passed. Read more.

Publications & Talks

Teleconference on the Global Wave of Resistance

October 12, 2011

Liberty Tree

On Wednesday, October 12, 2011, the Liberty Tree Foundation convened a special briefing, the Teleconference on the Global Wave of Resistance. This global conference featured over 100 participants, and updates from leading organizers of the global wave of student and labor strikes, occupations, and revolutions. Panelists include core organizers from the UK, Germany, Israel, and Chile, as well as Wisconsin, Boston, Oakland, Washington D.C., and Wall Street, among others. This was the second such teleconference on corporatization and austerity org

Additional Information:

Panelists included Nicolas Valenzuela, Uri Gordon, Mo Gas, James Sevitt, Adam Porton, Sarah Manski, Nadeem Mazen, Elaine Brower, Matt Nelson, plus moderator Ben Manski.

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MANSKI: The Protest Wave: Why the Political Class Can’t Understand Our Demands

October 3, 2011

Ben Manski

Common Dreams

The protests that began in Wisconsin this year, and which now also fill the streets of Manhattan, Boston, Chicago, and this week, Washington D.C., have gotten the attention of the American political class. And how could they not? 2011 is becoming a remake of the 1999 Battle of Seattle, except this time the protests are ongoing, national and global, and the target is not just the World Trade Organization, but the entire edifice of corporate capitalism.

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BADER: Review of The Lost Soul of Higher Education

June 1, 2010

Eleanor J. Bader

Ellen Schrecker, a history professor at New York City's Yeshiva University, starts "The Lost Soul of Higher Education" with a blunt assessment: "In reacting to the economic insecurities of the past forty years, the nation's colleges and universities have adopted corporate practices that degrade undergraduate instruction, marginalize faculty members, and threaten the very mission of the academy as an institution devoted to the common good."

Additional Information:

Original article here... http://www.truth-out.org/the-lost-soul-higher-education-corporatization-...

EDUCATION FOR ALL COALITION: Resources for March 4 Day of Action to Defend Public Education

February 21, 2010

Resources provided by Education For All Coalition members and coordinating affiliates. We’ve also included flyers, and with each flyer you’ll find a BLANK TEMPLATE version for you to utilize for your own specific purposes.

Free Speech Organizing Toolkit – A helpful handbook on your Free Speech Rights with an emphasis on educational institutions, provided by The Center for Campus Free Speech.

Guide To Occupying Buildings – A help informational guidebook on how to make occupying a building a success.

Organizing Resources

CCFS: Free Speech Organizing Toolkit

June 19, 2009

The Free Speech Organizing Toolkit is designed to provide campus leaders and free speech supporters with the tools to work with higher education leaders to remove impediments to a marketplace of ideas on their campus.

This valuable toolkit was produced by the Center for Campus Free Speech. The Center acts as a clearinghouse of information, provides specialized support to campuses, and connects concerned educators, administrators, lawyers and students into a national network. The Center draws advice and guidance from a group of leaders in the higher education and legal communities.

Democratizing Education Charter

June 16, 2009

Adopted at the 2005 Democratizing Education Convention in Madison, Wisconsin:

Full Public Funding for Public Higher Education
Free Access to Higher Education and Abolition of Tuition
Affirmative Action to End Institutionalized Racism and Sexism
Full Recognition of the Right of Students and Workers to Organize
Democratic Self-Government of Higher Education
Service to the Public Welfare, Not Corporate Profits
Free Speech and Academic Freedom
Debt Forgiveness of Student Loans
Civic Education for a Democratic Society
Education, not war. Schools, Not Jails

CENTER for CAMPUS FREE SPEECH: Guide to Student Activity Fees

March 31, 2009

The Center for Campus Free Speech releases there Guide to Student Activity Fees - a primer on the legal issues involved in creating and managing a student activity fee system.

Student fee systems are used by students across the country to provide the resources for a wide variety of out-of-classroom activities.

Students fund everything from service organizations to advocacy to educational forums and guest speakers. They debate and learn about critical issues like multiculturalism, the environment, education policy, conflicts in the Middle East and religion. They learn new skills and create change on major problems the world faces.

Student activity fees give involved students the resources to create a vibrant marketplace of ideas on campus.

CEPR: Dropping the Ax: Illegal Firings During Union Election Campaigns

March 9, 2009

This report, by John Schmitt and Ben Zipperer of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, updates an earlier report from January of 2007, which found a steep rise in illegal firings of pro-union workers in the 2000s relative to the last half of the 1990s. It updates the index of the probability that a pro-union worker will be fired in the course of a union election campaign, using published data from the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). It also takes into consideration the increase in card-check organizing campaigns that began in the mid-1990s and adjusts the index for this factor.

Areas of Focus

Affirmative Action

Books not Bombs

Campus Democracy

Civic Education

Corporatization

Debt Forgiveness

Free Speech

Full Funding

Right to Organize

Tuition Abolition