[Corporations] Register Now! 2006 LOCAL DEMOCRACY CONVENTION

[Ben Manski]

Registration is open now for the . . . 
LOCAL DEMOCRACY CONVENTION: The Community Power Road to Democracy

REGISTER NOW: http://www.LocalDemocracy.org

   Where: Madison, Wisconsin

   When: September 28-October 1, 2006
 
   What:  What: Maybe you've heard the news: The 2006 Local Democracy Convention is the next stop on the road to democracy in the USA!

          The Local Democracy Convention will feature some of the most cutting-edge local democracy organizing going on in the US and around the world. Convention participants will have opportunity to attend plenaries, panels, skills-building workshops, strategy sessions, and a party or two.

          Featuring presenters from around the US and the world, including Uruguay, Brazil, UK, Philippines, and the mayor of Caracas, Venezuela, Juan Barreto.

   Why: The US President says he's the decider. Congress and the Federal courts seem generally to agree. US military forces occupy Iraq and Afghanistan, among other countries. A national police state keeps watch on tens of millions of Americans. As the Federal government consolidates power further and further away from the people of the United States, now is a moment that evermore, to borrow from Thomas Paine, tries our souls. 

         Across the United States, and around the world, the verdict is coming in: People are choosing local democracy over global oligarchy. The local alternative is becoming a movement:

         Did you know that . . .

           * Voters in 40 Vermont towns and 24 Wisconsin municipalities have put their communities on record for immediate withdrawal from Iraq? And that the war and presidential impeachment will be on the ballot nationwide come November?

           * The people of Humboldt County, California, as well as several Pennsylvania townships, have ruled corporate personhood unconstitutional?

           * The people of Venezuela have established direct economic aid programs for a growing number of major US cities?

           * The "Participatory Budgeting" process developed in Brazil is now on the agenda for community organizers across the US?

           * Voting rights advocates nationwide have succeeded in implementing Instant Runoff Voting, public financing of elections, and non-US-citizen voting rights in local elections?

           * US cities, large and small, have reinvested in public power, community cable, wireless, and cooperative development?

           * Local democracy initiatives have taken root across the globe, offering models for democratization here in the US?

--> REGISTER NOW:  http://www.LocalDemocracy.org


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