Welcome to DEMOCRACY CONVENTION 2013

The first Democracy Convention took place two years ago in the convulsive time of the Wisconsin uprising and in the weeks leading up to Occupy Wall Street and Freedom Plaza. This second national gathering of the U.S. democracy movement convenes at a time greater clarity. Events have matured since 2011. Austerity, poverty and the climate crisis have worsened, and impacted us all. Meanwhile, we have moved forward in building the new society and in uniting our movement. You will see evidence of the maturation of the democracy movement in the pages of this program and everywhere around you this week in Madison. At Liberty Tree, we have been laying the foundations for these national Democracy Conventions since our origins in 2004. But a gathering such as this and the movement it represents requires the participation of many more people and resources than any single organization, large or small, may muster. We thank especially our partner conveners and the many organizations, unions, businesses, and individuals that stepped forward to sponsor and support this second Democracy Convention. Please read about them on pages 57-61. Our continuing crisis gives urgency to this gathering, but it also has been traumatic for many, and is a reminder that our common purpose here is to celebrate each others work and to find inspiration for our efforts in the coming months and years. You will find much of what you need to know about the Democracy Convention in the pages of this program. The overall agenda is on page 3. The full program begins on page 4. Biographies of our artists and presenters are to be found beginning at page 34. A list of local food options and services is on page 62. But please also be sure to look to the website at DemocracyConvention.org for the most accurate information, and to see specific schedules for each of the nine separate conferences taking place. Thank you to Adam Porton, National Director at Liberty Tree, for his incredible work under pressure, and to Jolie Lizotte and Laura Brickman for their hard labors. Thank you to Gregory Bradley for stepping forward to execute the documentation of this gathering. And thank you for bringing the radical promise of American democracy this much closer to reality.

In Solidarity,
Ben Manski

Liberty Tree Foundation

for the Democratic Revolution

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9:00am-4:00pm 4:30 pm 7:00 pm 9:00pm-11:00pm

Wednesday, August 7

Sessions Opening Ceremony in Capitol Rotunda

with Head-Roc and Call for Peace Drum Dance Company

Opening Keynote: Gar Alperovitz

with Medea Benjamin and Bryan Kennedy

Evening Social

Thursday, August 8
9:00am-5:30 pm 5:30 pm 7:00 pm

Sessions WILPF Peace & Freedom Dinner Plenary Roundtable

with Jill Stein, Victoria Collier, Rich Monje, George Friday, Margaret Flowers, Roshan Bliss, Leah Bolger, Norman Stockwell, and Leland Pan with moderator Ben Manski

9:00pm-11:00pm

Evening Social

FRIday, August 9
9:00am-8:00 pm 9:00pm-11:00pm Sessions Evening Social

SATURday, August 10
9:00am-5:30 pm 1:00 pm 4:30 pm 9:00pm-11:00pm Sessions Rally to Stop the TPP! on Capitol Steps Local Food Democracy Reception Evening Social

SUNDay, August 11
9:00am-12:30 pm 2:00pm-4:00pm

Followed by a facilitated discussion to give each conference a chance to share the big ideas that came out of their gathering as well as the next steps we all can take to further the democracy movement in the times ahead.

Sessions Call to Action Keynote: Debra White Plume

4:00pm-6:00 pm

Open Space for Meetings

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DEMOCRACY CONVENTION | FULL PROGRAM

Due to the wide variety of sessions offered at the Democracy Convention, session locations, content, and timing may change. The convention website is always the best place to get the latest information. The specific program for each conference is available on the website; just click on the conference of your choice at www.DemocracyConvention.org

9:00 am - 10:30 am

Wednesday, August 7

Education for Democracy Conference Opening Plenary Flashpoints in the Year Ahead in Public Education Madison College Downtown, D229 Speaker(s): Maxwell Love, Julie Woestehoff, Kimberly King, Bryan Kennedy What do you need to be on the lookout for in the coming 2013-14 academic year? We all need to see the whole picture, as well as the parts we each play in it. This opening plenary sets the stage for the Education for Democracy Conference by raising up key emerging struggles across the U.S. in the coming year for our public schools, colleges, and universities. Conference: EDUCATION FOR DEMOCRACY 11:00 am - 12:30 pm

Wednesday, August 7

Planning to Respond to School Closings in a Time of Austerity and Mayoral Control Madison College Downtown, D227 Speaker(s): Todd Price, Justin Wedes with Alliance for Educational Justice members This roundtable will include stories from the frontlines where mayoral takeover and an austerity agenda have devastated school and communities leading to the current phase of massive, sweeping restructuring, takeovers, outsourcing and often literal closing of neighborhood schools. Participants will offer their insights and solicit feedback in how to make sense of this phenomena, the recent attacks on public education, and how to move our struggles forward in the interests of parents, students, teachers and the broader community. Conferences: EDUCATION FOR DEMOCRACY One Big Union, One Big Strike: Student, Labor and Education Unionism in the Struggle for Control of the Knowledge Economy Madison College Downtown, D229 Speaker(s): Ben Manski, Leland Pan, Jolie Lizotte, Katie Zaman, Jackson Potter Education unions are in struggle all across this country. They are rising and they are getting busted, sometimes at the same time. And the stakes for education keep getting more serious. What will it take to organize unions of students, faculty, staff, and community members that can, when needed, take total control of production in our schools and colleges? Conference: EDUCATION FOR DEMOCRACY
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2:00 pm - 3:30 pm

Wednesday, August 7

Attacks on Tenure, Shared Governance, and Academic Freedom in Higher Education: Adjuncts and the Academic Labor Force Madison College Downtown, D227 Speaker(s): Todd Price, Ana Maria Flores This session will consider the key vital legs upon which the university stands (or falls): promotion and tenure, shared governance, academic freedom. The session presenters will discuss lessons learned in struggles around these issues and include a discussion on the role of full time faculty, adjunct faculty and organizing for the future. Conference: EDUCATION FOR DEMOCRACY Youth Organizing and the National Student Bill of Rights Madison College Downtown, D229 Speaker(s): Alliance for Educational Justice members When it comes to educational justice, young people are the group most heavily affected. So why shouldnt youth be at the front and center of our campaigns? This workshop led by members of the Alliance for Educational Justice will explore the importance and practice of youth-led organizing. We will talk about how making space for youth to organize shapes policy as well as the membership on the ground and in the field. In this workshop, well discuss the growing campaign for the National Student Bill of Rights, that can empower youth in their schools and communities. Conference: EDUCATION FOR DEMOCRACY 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm

Wednesday, August 7

OPENING CEREMONY for the 2013 DEMOCRACY CONVENTION The Rotunda of the Wisconsin Capitol Building Performer(s): Head-Roc and the Call for Peace Drum Dance Company 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Wednesday, August 7

CONVENTION OPENING PLENARY Madison Masonic Center, 301 Wisconsin Ave KEYNOTE: Gar Alperovitz on The Next American Revolution with MC Medea Benjamin and Wisconsin Welcome by Bryan Kennedy 9:00 pm - 11:00 pm

Wednesday, August 7

Evening Social at the Brocach Irish Pub, 7 W Main St, hosted by the Green Shadow Cabinet
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THURsday, August 8

Democracy vs Drones Madison College Downtown, D331 Speaker(s): Medea Benjamin, Joe Scarry, Dave Mitchell Can a democracy use drones abroad or domestically? Do drone murders uphold the rule of law or destroy it? Do surveillance drones make us free or strip away our rights? Are false beliefs about drones leading us down a dangerous path? How can we bring drones under control? And is there any place for good or harmless uses of drones? Join a discussion of what is being done and what can be done to put the interests of humans ahead of those of killer flying robots. Conference: DEMOCRATIZING DEFENSE The Emerging Shape of the Next System Madison College Downtown, D333 Speaker(s): Gar Alperovitz Is there an America beyond capitalism? Something is brewing beneath the social and economic distress including thousands of worker-owned companies, co-ops with millions of members, states taking up public banking, and other new forms of single-payer health care. Throughout the U.S., we have already seen nationalizations, and likely future crises will produce more some in a much more democratized direction. This may be the prehistory of the next American revolution, one that could democratize the current system and make it both morally meaningful and ecologically sustainable. Conference: ECONOMIC DEMOCRACY Education for Democracy Conference Plenary Unity in Action - Making plans for collective action in the coming year Madison College Downtown, D306 Speaker(s): Isabel Nunez, Leland Pan, Jackson Potter, Kimberly King, Sangita Nayak How will we work together in the coming year to strengthen each others campaigns and to unite them further in a common push for democratic education? This plenary will task us with identifying specific actions and opportunities for solidarity in the coming year. Conference: EDUCATION FOR DEMOCRACY 11:00 am - 12:30 pm

THURsday, August 8

Home Rule: Using Local Government to Build a Stronger Democracy Movement Madison College Downtown, D433 Speaker(s): Ben Manski This session will explore the history and practice of using local governments to achieve social progress, strengthen local democracy, and to defeat corporate power, racism, and militarism. We will also learn more about how and why state, federal, and global legislatures and courts are being used to suppress and destroy local democracy. The struggle between local democracy and
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corporate capitalism is becoming more important every day. Get ready and get more engaged. Conferences: CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM, LOCAL DEMOCRACY Framing the Move To Amend Message: Speaking to Peoples Hearts and Minds Madison College Downtown, D429 Speaker(s): Kaja Rebane, Egberto Willies This training will focus on how our minds work, and the implications of this for communicating effectively with the public, elected officials and others. We will learn about how public issues are framed, as well as the roles that narrative, emotion, tone and statistics play in successful communication. Our main focus will be on improving how we talk about corporate personhood and other Move to Amend-related topics, but the tools well learn can be applied to any issue. So, all are welcome to attend. Conferences: CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM, MEDIA DEMOCRACY A Call to Action for a Nuclear-Free Future by 2020 Madison College Downtown, D331 Speaker(s): Carol Urner, Ellen Thomas Nuclear abolition is an urgent necessity. Lets find ways to work together, each in our own ways. 1) WILPFUS promotes HR 1650 and U.S. Conference of Mayors 2012 and 2013 Resolutions calling for abolition by 2020. 2) Acts to stop U.S. nuclear missile testing and nuclear industry expansion. 3) Urges U.S. participation in current creative international initiatives of 134 non-nuclear powers. 4) Believes whole nuclear chain is killing us and our planet. Acts locally to close nuclear power plants, end uranium mining, waste accumulation, DU and nuclear weapons production. Conferences: DEMOCRATIZING DEFENSE, EARTH DEMOCRACY Re-Imagining NOW: Taking The Next Steps Toward A New Society Madison College Downtown, D333 Speaker(s): Lilia and Herb Frantin Its clear things are not going well for any but the 1%, but what to do about it is the fundamental question we now need to face. While the present system is obviously failing us, a movement offering no coherent vision to replace it is no less doomed to failure. Presented by People For A New Society, this workshop will include a short powerpoint presentation and focus on how the changes already underway can create an effective strategy to transform and build a new vision of society based on a sustainable, grassroots democracy: post-capitalism, post-profit and post-wage. Imagination and creative thinking is invited; serious interest in building a new society is welcome. Conference: ECONOMIC DEMOCRACY Powering up with Renewable Energy and Green Jobs for People and the Planet Madison College (MATC-Downtown Campus), D229 Speaker(s): Don Ferber We know we need to get off fossil fuels, but progress is lagging well behind that awareness. Whats
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behind this resistance, and what are our opportunities to move away from fossil fuels to clean energy? This session will discuss our current dilemma, and look at where our best prospects are to reduce demand and find clean energy alternatives that will also create a green economy and good jobs. We can learn from the standards other countries are setting, and also examine our energy trends here, our best avenues for progress, and the opportunities for people to make a difference. Conference: EARTH DEMOCRACY, ECONOMIC DEMOCRACY Whose Schools? Our Schools!: The Radical Possibilities of Sharing the Curriculum with Students Madison College Downtown, D306 Speaker(s): Jolie Lizotte and Roshan Bliss This workshop will encourage participants to explore the ways in which students can and are beginning to make demands on the content of their educations, and thereby shifting the dynamic of how content is selected and learning is negotiated. Join us for a discussion of how students calling to be taught content that they truly need to be prepared to live in our society can be turned into a paradigm shifting power move that stands to change the face of our schools and our society, and leave with a new exciting strategy for how to change the conversation on the function of our schools and the role of the students they serve. Conference: EDUCATION FOR DEMOCRACY Multiracial Organizing in Our Segregated Education System Madison College Downtown, D303 Speaker(s): Alliance for Educational Justice members This workshop will be focused on discussing challenges and opportunities of multi-racial organizing. We will talk about the impact current school conditions have with our leaders and our campaigns. In this interactive workshops participants will get an opportunity to explore their own experiences and leave with strategies that work in their communities. Conference: EDUCATION FOR DEMOCRACY, RACE AND DEMOCRACY Shutting the Chamber: The national fight against the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Madison College Downtown, D406 Speaker(s): Carl Gibson, David Schwab, Omkar Sawardekar, Laura Brickman The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is the largest lobby group in the U.S. and spends hundreds of millions of dollars each year to advance a platform centered on cutting public services, dismantling workers rights, and denying climate science. Learn how you can get involved in Liberty Trees Shut the Chamber Campaign by taking part in days of action where you live and by encouraging your neighborhood small businesses and local chambers of commerce to divest from the U.S. Chamber (and its state affiliates) and instead join a business alliance that supports strong communities. Conference: LOCAL DEMOCRACY, ECONOMIC DEMOCRACY

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12:30 pm - 2:00 pm

THURsday, August 8

Pre-K to PostDoc: Bridging the Gaps between the Higher Ed and K-12 Public Education Movements Madison College Downtown, D229 Facilitators: Bryan Kennedy, Roshan Bliss, and Alliance for Educational Justice members In recent years, we have seen an increase in the number of teachers, students, parents, and others taking action to defend and improve the public education system in our country. But for many reasons, those working to grow the movement for educational justice have found themselves siloed into working in either the K-12 sphere or the higher education sphere, with surprisingly little collaboration. Join us for lunch and share your ideas during this roundtable discussion on how we can work to unify and strengthen the public education movement across the graduation line in ways that will develop robust youth leadership and empower teachers and parents at every level to achieve our common goals. Lunch provided for a $5 suggested donation Conference: EDUCATION FOR DEMOCRACY 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm

THURsday, August 8

The Rights Race: An Interactive Exercise Exposing What Happens When a Corporation is a Person with Constitutional Rights Madison College Downtown, D429 Speaker(s): Daniel Lee, Egberto Willies The Rights Race is a popular education exercise designed to get people literally moving (a kinetic exercise) while learning about human rights, corporate rights, and the U.S. Constitution. It is based on the work done by Brazilian activist scholar Augusto Boal, founder of Theater of the Oppressed. Conference: CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM Giving the People Constitutional Power Over War: Rediscovering the War Referendum Amendment Madison College Downtown, D425 Speaker(s): Ben Manski, David Swanson What can we learn from the history of the 1930s-era campaign for a War Referendum Amendment, together with the 1970s-era People Power Over War Amendment, both of which would have established a deliberative national referendum process on war? Conference: CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM, DEMOCRATIZING DEFENSE Community Action Toolkit for Earth Democracy Madison College Downtown, D229 Speaker(s): Randa Solick, Carolyn Raffensperger We cant wait for Federal and State action to protect our communities. We are not powerless and can take action now. Carolyn Raffensperger will discuss how Guardianship of Future Generations
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and the Precautionary Principle can be adopted as local policy to prevent passing on a toxic environment to our children and to ensure that the ecosystems essential for all life are protected and thrive. Randa Solick, using Santa Cruz, CA as a possible model, will open the discussion on how to use the Toolkit in workshop setting so that they can effectively advocate that their elected representatives adopt Guardianship and the Precautionary Principle as local policy. Conference: EARTH DEMOCRACY, LOCAL DEMOCRACY B Corporations: Bringing Public Benefit into the Corporate Structure Madison College Downtown, D333 Speaker(s): Jim Armstrong Corporations are legally responsible to create maximum profit for their investors without regard to impact on people or the planet. That is changing with a new kind of corporate charter, the B Corp or Beneficial Corporation requires that businesses meet higher standards for social and environmental performance and accountability. Nineteen states have passed laws to permit B Corps so far. Learn more about B Corps, and how to make them a reality for your state or business. Conference: ECONOMIC DEMOCRACY The Global Student Movement: Lessons and Perspectives from Student Movements Around the World Madison College Downtown, D306 Speaker(s): Mo Schmidt, Vukasin Grozdanovic, Frank Lvesque-Nicol, Roshan Bliss Since the Arab Spring and in years prior, students around the world have built powerful movements to demand quality, accessible, democratic educations - and won. These movements stand in stark contrast to the relative calm that has pervaded over U.S. schools and colleges, despite unprecedented escalations in costs, declines in student voice, and outright attacks on the rights of youth to an education. From Canada, to Chile, to Serbia, and beyond, there are many lessons to be learned from recent and ongoing movements of students and youth standing up for their futures and their place in society, and this panel features student and youth leaders from such movements who will share their reflections and perspectives on how these struggles became so successful and what we can take from them to build a more robust movement for education here in the USA. Conference: EDUCATION FOR DEMOCRACY The New Apartheid in Higher Education: Issues of Class and Race Madison College Downtown, D303 Speaker(s): Kimberly King The California State University (CSU) system was once a shining example of access to quality higher education for working class students. As part of the CA Master Plan, the CSU, along with the California Community Colleges and the University of California, originally offered higher education to all Californians for very low fees. However, in recent years, student fees have skyrocketed, admissions and course offerings have been gutted and new barriers have been constructed. This
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presentation will expose how cost-saving schemes such as overreliance on online education and restrictions on remediation, have resulted in a new system of academic apartheid in which Black, Latino/a and low-income students of all colors are being excluded from the opportunities that all people deserve. Well also look at efforts of education worker unions/faculty in coalition with students to resist the new apartheid and create an education system fair and accessible to all. Conference: EDUCATION FOR DEMOCRACY, RACE AND DEMOCRACY 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm

THURsday, August 8

How to Build a Movement to End War and Restore Liberty Wherever You Live Madison College Downtown, D331 Speaker(s): Shahid Buttar, Debra Sweet, George Friday Every day, the national security state degrades democracy in America, claiming that war justifies wantonly abusing constitutional rights. Every branch of government, including the courts and Congress, is complicit - as are each of the establishment parties. What can a freedom-loving American do in the face of this institutional consensus on authoritarianism? This workshop will go beyond policy criticism to share skills through which grassroots organizers can build diverse grassroots coalitions and force policy change at the local and state level. Drawing from recent examples including campaigns to stop local police from using surveillance drones, it will strengthen participants and identify a range of opportunities to anyone concerned about civil liberties. Conferences: DEMOCRATIZING DEFENSE, LOCAL DEMOCRACY National Election Integrity Coalition (NEIC) Strategy Session - Movement Building Madison College Downtown, D436 Facilitator: Victoria Collier How can Election Integrity activists consolidate our gains from many years of on-the-ground experience, and use our knowledge to envision and build an effective long-term movement for election reform? Using the MAP framework of movement building, we will brainstorm and strategize together on the future of election integrity. Conference: REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

THURsday, August 8

Planet Earth as an ATM: Fighting Commodification of the Commons Madison College Downtown, D229 Speaker(s): Rachel Smolker, Julie Byrnes Enslow, Chris Williams With distribution of wealth grossly unequal, corporations and the 1% gain unprecedented access to governments and policymakers to promote policies that assign dollar values to everything from carbon to biodiversity, water, seeds, and ecosystem services. Money is made by control, ownership and free trade in the commons, believing that through the miracle of the market, conservation of nature can simultaneously be guaranteed. In this context, climate geoengineering and further
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financialization of nature are disastrous. Panelists examine carbon and biodiversity markets, land grabs, and public-private partnerships in energy and agriculture, the need for analysis, resistance and a new mindset toward nature. Conferences: EARTH DEMOCRACY, ECONOMIC DEMOCRACY Why Are We in Debt? What Are Our True Debts to One Another? Madison College Downtown, D333 Speaker(s): Thomas Gokey The costs of our basic needs like healthcare, housing, and education are all rising rapidly, yet our means to meet these needs have flat-lined. This forces us in debt. Debt is a tool of oppression, and part of its power to oppress is that it isolates and atomizes us. We need to work collectively. What are our true debts to one another? We are defaulting on the real debts because we are forced to pay illegitimate debts to the 1%. Conferences: ECONOMIC DEMOCRACY In the Crosshairs: How Corporations and Austerity are Transforming Education and Work in America Madison College Downtown, D306 Speaker(s): William Watkins, Kimberly King, Todd Price, Ben Manski This panel discussion will examine the relationship between the changing conditions of the economy and our public education system, at all levels. Our panelists will discuss how the corporate assault attempts to dismantle the educational system, and to remake it under corporate designs in order to conform to conditions of austerity via: turn around schools, school closures, voucherization and charterization of neighborhood schools, cuts to electives and remedial programs, vocationalization of adult education, and corporatization of research universities driving the transformation of education which leads to the disenfranchisement of faculty and staff, and students, especially first generation college students of color. We will discuss effective ways to not only fight back against this assault, but to fight forward with critical ideas and actions. Conference: EDUCATION FOR DEMOCRACY, ECONOMIC DEMOCRACY Strategic Campaign Planning for Education Fights: A Case Study on this Years Higher Education Act Reauthorization Madison College Downtown, D303 Speaker(s): Jolie Lizotte In this skills building workshop, learn how to create a strategic direct action campaign plan on a college or high school campus using the Midwest Academy organizing model. Together we will use this years Higher Education Act Reauthorization as a case study for discussing what would need to be in a campaign plan to tackle national student issues on an individual campus. Conference: EDUCATION FOR DEMOCRACY

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Third Party Access, Grassroots Campaigns, and Proportional Representation Madison College Downtown, D436 Speaker(s): Jill Stein, Cindy Sheehan, Lori Grace, Bob Fitrakis Conference: REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY Lessons from Past Movements that Inform our Current Movement: Abolitionists, Seneca Falls, Populists, ERA struggle Madison College Downtown, D429 Speaker(s): Senay Goitom, Greg Coleridge Conferences: CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM, RACE AND DEMOCRACY 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm

THURsday, August 8

Dismantling the School-to-Prison Pipeline Madison College Downtown, D302 Speaker(s): Ananda Mirilli Since the introduction of zero tolerance policies in public schools, student suspensions have skyrocketed. The percent of students suspended each year has doubled from the early 1970s to now, and the presence of police officers in public schools has dramatically increased. Black, Latino/a and poor students of all colors are disproportionately suspended and arrested, with Black students being four times as likely as White students to be suspended in some school districts. Students who have been suspended are more likely to be arrested and incarcerated later. The workshop will present the historical impact on racial disparities in schools and discuss Restorative Justice as a strategy to derail the School-to-Prison Pipeline while building empathy and community in schools. Conference: EDUCATION FOR DEMOCRACY, RACE AND DEMOCRACY 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm

THURsday, August 8

WILPF Peace and Freedom Dinner at Bethel Lutheran Church, 312 Wisconsin Ave Fresh local food prepared with love by Madison WILPF (Womens International League for Peace and Freedom) in honor of Democracy and Veterans for Peace. 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

THURsday, August 8

CONVENTION ROUNDTABLE PLENARY One delegate from each of the nine Democracy Convention conferences join in an animated discussion of the years ahead in the U.S. democracy movement Inn on the Park, 22 S. Carroll, Wisconsin Hall Speaker(s): Jill Stein, Victoria Collier, Rich Monje, George Friday, Margaret Flowers, Roshan Bliss, Leah Bolger, Norm Stockwell, Leland Pan with Ben Manski
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9:00 pm - 11:00 pm

THURsday, August 8

Evening Social at The Brocach Irish Pub, 7 W Main St ~ Hosted by Move to Amend 9:00 am - 10:30 am

FRIday, August 9

Dangers of Corporate Personhood: Its Way Beyond Just $ in Elections Madison College Downtown, D429 Speaker(s): Daniel Lee, Sierra Pope, Shahid Buttar, Michael Greenman An examination of how the influence of corporate power extends well beyond the electoral realm and why the fixes which focus only on elections are inadequate steps towards ensuring that we have a functioning democracy. Conference: CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM Engaging Congress with Integrity & Authenticity: Learning to Coalesce and Exercise People Power to Hold Elected Officials Accountable to the Movement Madison College Downtown, D433 Speaker(s): Joan Stallard, Steve Spitz, Lee Ketelson Over 500 jurisdictions have now passed resolutions and initiatives to call for a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United. In this session we will discuss using resources to bring this issue to our members of Congress, including, but not limited to, using town hall meetings in August, appearances by the member in the district, and meetings with the member and using digital cameras, videos, and tweets to gain support for a constitutional amendment declaring that corporations are not people and money is not political speech. Conference: CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM Earth Democracy Plenary: Human, Civil, Labor, and Earth Rights Not Corporate Rights Madison College Downtown, D229 Speaker(s): Cheri Honkala, Lauren Regan, Sherri Mitchell, Jill Stein, Ruth Caplan, Richard Monje Todays misnamed free market economy dominated by multinational monopolies, corporatecontrolled trade, and Wall Street speculation - has pushed people and the planet to the breaking point. The Trans-Pacific Partnership is a poster child of this free market economy. It will send jobs overseas to exploit the cheapest labor, further depress wages; increase dirty fuels extraction and accelerate harm to eco-systems; and allows corporations to invalidate health, labor, and ecoprotections by declaring them barriers to trade. Panelists will lay out principles of an alternative economy founded on Human, Civil, Labor, and Earth Rights - that provides a true climate of justice. Conference: EARTH DEMOCRACY, RACE AND DEMOCRACY Democracy Within the Military: What Would it Look Like? Madison College Downtown, D331 Speaker(s): Robert Fantina, Michael Prysner
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How has the U.S. military, from its inception, deprived its soldiers of the basic human rights every living individual is entitled to, and the civil rights that the U.S. Constitution guarantees its citizens? Specific examples with be given, showing that this has been a constant throughout U.S. history. Evidence of the impact this has had on soldiers will be presented. Additionally, fundamental changes that would ensure the preservation of these rights to the members of the military will be discussed, and finally, the Our Lives, Our Rights campaign will be explained and discussed. Conference: DEMOCRATIZING DEFENSE Models for Permanently Affordable Housing: Community Land Trusts and Co-ops Madison College Downtown, D333 Speaker(s): Greg Rosenberg, Michael Carlson As the housing market has revealed itself to be subject to the arbitrary winds of Wall Street and fraud in the banking industry, people are creating alternative ways to provide permanently affordable housing. Greg Rosenberg, Executive Director of the National Community Land Trust Network, will describe how land trusts across the country are promoting sustainable development through permanently affordable housing and the protection of working lands. Michael Carlson of the Madison Community Cooperatives, a federation of housing cooperatives that formed in 1968, will describe how co-ops create affordable housing for people with low-incomes and gives them greater control over their living environment. Conference: ECONOMIC DEMOCRACY Using Local Governments to Advance Democracy Madison College Downtown, D406 Speaker(s): Leland Pan, Michael Johnson, Matt Kozlowski, Adam Porton Local governments are some of the most important yet often overlooked tools available to the democracy movement. In this workshop we will explore how campaigns for local living wage ordinances, municipal participatory budgeting processes, county-level immigrant safe harbor policies, among many other policy ideas, can take the fight for social justice to the local level. Conference: LOCAL DEMOCRACY Cartooning and Comix as a Form of Organizing Madison College Downtown, D401 Speaker(s): Mike Konopacki & Paul Buhle Conference: MEDIA DEMOCRACY So goes the South, So goes the Nation Madison College Downtown, D332 Speaker(s): George Friday This session will discuss the history of the South from Jim Crow Era to the Anti-fracking protests west of the Appalachian Mountains. Conference: RACE AND DEMOCRACY
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Citizen Election Integrity Activism: Citizen Oversight of Elections, Audits and Recounts Madison College Downtown, D436 Speaker(s): Karen McKim, Judy Alter, John Maa, Tom Courbat, Mimi Kennedy, Bob Fitrakis, Sally Castleman, Jonathan Simon Leading activists in the Election Integrity movement will discuss real-world scenarios and best practices for citizen oversight of vital electoral processes, before, during, and after Election Day. Conference: REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY 11:00 am - 12:30 pm

FRIday, August 9

Justice Stephens Dissent: A Theatrical Monologue Madison College Downtown, D429 Speaker(s): James Allison, Lois Sabo-Skelton Actor Lois Sabo-Skelton will perform James Allisons monologue, Justice John Paul Stevens Dissents! Based on Stevens 90-page dissent in Citizens United, Appellant v. Federal Election Commission (2010), the monologue will last about 40 minutes, present the basic legal and political issues raised by the ruling, and be followed by Q&A led by the author. Conference: CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM Engaging and Relating to the next United States Social Forum (USSF): Developing a Strategy to Move from Convergence to Coherence Madison College Downtown, D433 Speaker(s): George Friday, David Cobb The U.S. Social Forum is both an event and a process. As an event, it is one of the largest gathering of social change agents in one place - over 20,000 folks in Atlanta in 2007 and again in Detroit in 2010. And it will be reconvening in 2015! As a process, it is lead by groups traditionally marginalized in the U.S.-- people of color, women, indigenous peoples, queers, immigrants, lowincome white folks. Come learn how to get involved in the work leading up to U.S. Social Forum III. Conference: CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM How Waging Peace Training Can Save Our Democracy Madison College Downtown, D331 Speaker(s): Paul Chappell Paul K. Chappell, a West Point graduate, Iraq War veteran, and former Army Captain, will discuss the inspiring movements where American democracy was won through the art of waging peace. This art-form was pioneered by Susan B. Anthony, Martin Luther King Jr., and other patriotic Americans, and waging peace is simply another way of saying practicing democracy. Chappell will discuss why waging peace is more important than ever, and how we can take our understanding of waging peace to a higher level in order to solve our national and global problems. His latest book is The Art of Waging Peace. Conference: DEMOCRATIZING DEFENSE
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Energy Injustice and Environmental Racism: How Dirty Energy Impacts Communities Madison College Downtown, D229 Speaker(s): Mike Ewall Nuclear power, coal, oil, gas, hydroelectric, biomass and waste incineration, and biofuels production all damage the environment and tend to disproportionately affect low-income communities and communities of color. Learn about the realities of environmental racism and how its more than just classism. This workshop discusses the principles of environmental justice and what is means to be involved in the environmental justice movement. We will explore the differences between NIMBY not in my backyard and not in anyones backyard politics, the difference between environmental equity and justice, and how corporate propaganda systems undermine environmental justice through sophisticated divide and conquer tactics. Conference: EARTH DEMOCRACY, RACE AND DEMOCRACY, LOCAL DEMOCRACY When Inquiry & Collaboration Take On Earth Justice in Elementary & High School Classrooms Madison College Downtown, D227 Speaker(s): Erica Krug, Dan Walkner, and Susan Freiss Learn how a 3rd grade students and their teacher grew five months of rigorous reading and writing work out of their passionate interest in the health of our water and oceans. This work emerged from a shared reading of Life in the Ocean: The Story of Oceanographer Sylvia Earle by C. Nivola and expanded to organizing a community drive to ban plastic bags, writing and publishing a book of poetry and collaborating with a high school media class to make a movie on the topic. Explore the possibilities of bringing earth justice to classrooms in your community. Conference: EARTH DEMOCRACY Guardianship of Future Generations and Writing Earth Rights into Law Madison College Downtown, D406 Speaker(s): Carolyn Raffensperger, Linda Sheehan, Sherri Mitchell, Ruth Caplan The Earth is finite, not an infinite source of resources for endless commodities produced while we degrade the environment and withhold shelter, safe water, adequate sanitation and reliable food from hundreds of millions worldwide. Panelists will offer a new vision of our relationships with each other and the Earth, based on both Indigenous wisdom and Western law. Can we embrace our responsibilities today as guardians for each other and future generations, recognize that nature has an intrinsic right to exist and thrive, and act to protect the ecosystems essential for all life? Panelists will describe how communities in the U.S. and worldwide are implementing guardianship strategies and writing Earth rights into law. Conference: EARTH DEMOCRACY, CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM, LOCAL DEMOCRACY Ending Foreclosure and Creating a Sustainable Local Economy Madison College Downtown, D333 Speaker(s): Nancie Koerber
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After Sept 2008, small businesses boarded up their windows all over America. The primary vehicle Wall Street used to siphon health out of our communities was Real Estate Debt. To rebuild our local economies, we first stopped the rampant foreclosures. 80% of members losing their homes were also small business owners. We kept thousands of families in their homes by forcing banks to the table for sustainable solutions. In 2013 Project REconomy is launching many sustainable business solutions including Barter, Borrowing local money, education on best business practices, eliminating unsustainable debt, developing a state bank and a CDFI. Conference: ECONOMIC DEMOCRACY, LOCAL DEMOCRACY Labor Media - Building a Voice for Workers Madison College Downtown, 401 Speaker(s): Frank Emspak, Ellen LaLuzerne, Norm Stockwell Conference: MEDIA DEMOCRACY The End of Democracy-Emergency Managers in Michigan Madison College Downtown, D332 Speaker(s): Reverend Edward Pinkney This session will discuss the problems that the State of Michigan has been facing after it was taken over by emergency managers. Conference: RACE AND DEMOCRACY, LOCAL DEMOCRACY Citizen Election Integrity: Legal and Legislative Strategies for Ensuring Transparent Democratic Elections Madison College Downtown, D436 Speaker(s): Ben Ptashnik, Tom Courbat, Bob Fitrakis, John Washburn, John Maa, Mimi Kennedy, Harvey Brainscomb Leading activists in the Election Integrity movement will discuss the options for citizen-driven activism to reform election laws, protect the vote count, and challenge election results. Conference: REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm

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Know Your Rights Activist Training Madison College Downtown, D229 Speaker(s): Lauren Regan The Call: As the planet heats up on all fronts, now is the time for a Know Your Rights workshop to instill you with the confidence to make decisions about how you will engage your activism - where is the line drawn between legal and potentially illegal protesting? What magic words should you say to police to invoke your rights? Armed with knowledge, you and your fellow activists can make informed choices regarding interactions with government agents and can best protect your rights should you end up in handcuffs and in the legal system. Snacks will be provided. Conference: EARTH DEMOCRACY
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Engaging the Faith Community in Move To Amend: Unitarian Universalists as Case Study Madison College Downtown, D429 Speaker(s): Michael Greenman, Colin Sykes The June 2013 General Assembly of the Unitarian Universalist Denomination (UUS) voted in Plenary in Louisville, KY to officially support and encourage appropriate actions towards an amendment to the constitution specifically to eliminate corporate personhood and money as speech. They voted to work at both the grass roots and national organizational levels. Given the fact that endorsing a constitutional amendment to restore democracy is a trans-partisan issue and poses no threat to the non-profit status of supporting organizations, UUs felt it was timely to create such a coalition within the faith communities in the United States. Conference: CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM What if we spread Democracy to the United States? Madison College Downtown, D331 Speaker(s): David Swanson, George Martin, Coleen Rowley What would U.S. foreign policy look like in a government of, by, and for the people? How would the United States view other nations? How would people in the United States view nationalism? What is public opinion now on war and war preparation? What could public opinion be brought to be? How might a decision-making process function? What risks and dangers are there? What political alliances are possible among people and groups with divergent views on domestic policy? What keeps us from getting there? How can we counter forces of propaganda, corruption, poor education, economic pressures, racism, xenophobia, and fear? How does current U.S. foreign policy compare with a system that could generate sustainable and peaceful foreign relations? Conference: DEMOCRATIZING DEFENSE Idle No More and Community Fightbacks to Corporate Crimes: Building Bigger Resistance Regionally and Nationally Madison College Downtown, D229 Speaker(s): Patricia Popple, Peter Anderson, Sherri Mitchell, Carl Sack, Ruth Caplan, Alexandra Thebert Time to ramp up the movement to fight corporate crimes? Panelists will share stories of their community fightbacks against the XL and Enbridge pipelines for tar sands oil, fracking sand and other mining operations such as the Penokee open-pit iron and Rio Tinto Eagle Mines, and the East-West SuperCorridor in Maine. They will discuss lessons learned for organizing grassroots campaigns, media strategies, artful communication, and building collaborative, diverse networks so we can build bigger coordinated resistance. The strategy of passing rights-based ordinances to assert community rights over corporate rights will be discussed and examples provided. Conference: EARTH DEMOCRACY, LOCAL DEMOCRACY, RACE AND DEMOCRACY
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Investing Locally: Moving Your Money From Wall Street to Main Street Madison College Downtown, D333 Speaker(s): Rebecca Ryan Youve heard of Buy Local, now there is Invest Local. As people recognize that Wall Streets motives harm communities and the environment, they are turning to alternative ways to invest their money, ways that build and sustain their local businesses and economies. Rebecca Ryan will explain how the Local Investment Opportunities Network (LION Investing) connects local investors with local businesses that need capital. This keeps money circulating in the local economy. For businesses and investors, it creates a relationship based on a mutual interest in the success of businesses and the community. Learn how to create a LION in your area. Conference: ECONOMIC DEMOCRACY, LOCAL DEMOCRACY Public Banking: Making It Happen Madison College Downtown, D406 Speaker(s): Marc Armstrong, Ruth Caplan Are you tired of reading articles about how Wall Street is bankrupting us? Do you despair about financing the transition to a green economy? Are you ready to roll up your sleeves and start changing the system but you dont know where to begin? Public banks are a way for us to take back control and to finance the transition to a green, sustainable economy. You can organize to create a city, county or state public bank. This interactive workshop will give you a chance to ask questions and will suggest tools and resources to use in organizing. Lets begin! Conference: ECONOMIC DEMOCRACY, EARTH DEMOCRACY Social Media as a Tool for Change Madison College Downtown, D401 Speaker(s): Emily Mills, Kayla Blado, Kent Watson Conference: MEDIA DEMOCRACY Civil Rights Now What? The Plight of African American American Men today Madison College Downtown, D332 Speaker(s): Shamako Nobel, JR Fleming, Galen Tyler A panel of African American community organizers will talk about what the Trayvon Martin verdict means and the plight of African American men today in America. They will talk about the realities of their lives, their childrens and what is being done and what needs to be done. Conference: RACE AND DEMOCRACY Election Integrity Panel: Fighting the Hidden Threats to American Democracy Madison College Downtown, D436 Speaker(s): Bob Fitrakis, Mimi Kennedy, Victoria Collier, Ben Ptashnik, Jonathan Simon The Election Integrity (EI) movement is working non-stop behind the scenes against loss of citizen
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control over U.S. elections and therefore self-government. The right to vote and to oversee the ballot chain of custody, the ability to watch the vote-count, has disappeared inside the electronic processes of a privatized electronic elections whose accountability to elections officials, law enforcement, or citizens is negligible. What is the state of EI today? How threatened are American elections by insider/outsider fraud and hacking? Why did Karl Rove insist thered be a GOP victory int he 11th hour of Ohio in 2012? What does the plan for nationwide Internet Voting mean for America? Leading EI activists will discuss their recent work, immanent threats to democracy, and building the movement to demand transparency and citizen oversight of elections. Conference: REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

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Article V Constitutional Convention: A Blessing, a Curse, or Both? Madison College Downtown, D429 Speaker(s): Dan Marks, David Cobb There are two ways to propose amendments to the U.S. Constitution-- A) Two-thirds of both the Senate and the House of Representatives of the United States Congress can propose specific language, or B) Two-thirds (at least 34) of the states can call for a national constitutional convention There is a growing movement calling for a national constitutional convention. This session will explore the pros and cons of such a convention and mechanics of how it might happen. Conference: CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM Life Without War Madison College Downtown, D331 Speaker(s): Robert Koehler, David Swanson Is the next war inevitable? How do we begin organizing a world beyond it? What might a world without war look like? What should we do first? Conference: DEMOCRATIZING DEFENSE Water for People and Nature: Local Ordinances and the Right to Water Madison College Downtown, D229 Speaker(s): Linda Sheehan, Ruth Caplan The UN has declared that access to water and sanitation are fundamental human rights, but that doesnt stop corporations like Nestl, CocaCola, and Pepsi from bottling water and selling it at the highest price the market will bear. Nor does it stop the corporate privatization of municipal public water/sewer systems. How do we enforce the fundamental right to affordable, clean water for all people? And how about the rights of nature? This workshop will lay out approaches to answering these questions by reframing in terms of earth jurisprudence and by passing local laws. Conference: EARTH DEMOCRACY, LOCAL DEMOCRACY

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How to Stop the Worlds Largest Trade Agreement Madison College Downtown, D333 Speaker(s): Kevin Zeese, Margaret Flowers, Josh Wise, David Newby The Trans-Pacific Partnership will fundamentally change the global economy in a way that further entrenches global corporate power and gives multinational corporations the power to challenge national environmental, labor and consumer protection laws in a rigged court system. The TPP will affect every aspect of our lives from wages to the environment to access to medicine and internet freedom. Rather than a trade treaty, the TPP is a corporate property protection act. A global campaign is underway to stop the TPP. Learn more about what it is and how you can join the campaign to Flush the TPP. Conference: ECONOMIC DEMOCRACY Media Democracy, Media Access: Net Neutrality, Censorship, Access/Digital Divide Madison College Downtown, D401 Speaker(s): Bob McChesney, John Nichols, Amitabh Pal and Sandy Reid Conference: MEDIA DEMOCRACY Immigrant Rights: The Struggle for Equality and Human Rights Madison College Downtown, D332 Speaker(s): Cesar Chavez, Deeq Abdi, Herlinda Hernandez A panel of people will discuss their immigrant experiences in the U.S. and necessity of having laws that guarantee the human rights of immigrants. Conference: RACE AND DEMOCRACY 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

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Economic Democracy Plenary: The End of Big Finance, Creating the New Economy Inn on the Park, 22 S. Carroll, Wisconsin Hall Speaker(s): Ellen Brown, Rebecca Ryan, Jacqui Dunne, Kevin Zeese, Justin Wedes This plenary will examine the big picture of our financial system and why it results in a growing wealth divide, a race to the bottom in the wellbeing of most people and destruction of communities and the environment. A new system is growing within the current one that is based on values of shared prosperity, real democracy, cooperation and sustainability. Around the world, these new systems are designed to put the interests of people and the planet before profits. We will describe what is happening and what is ahead. Conference: ECONOMIC DEMOCRACY

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Money Out, Voters In: Campaign Finance Reforms Post-Citizens United Madison College Downtown, D429 Speaker(s): Ben Ptashnik, Mike McCabe, Lori Compas Learn about how shareholder activism, full disclosure of election spending and public financing of election campaigns can effectively mitigate the impact of the Citizens United decision before another election is bought by monied special interests and corporations. Conference: REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY 9:00 pm - 11:00 pm

FRIday, August 9

Evening Social at Osaka House, 505 State St ~ Hosted by the Economic Democracy Conference and the Representative Democracy Conference 9:00 am - 10:30 am

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Using the WILPF Corporate Personhood Timeline and Study Guide as Education Tool Madison College Downtown, D429 Speaker(s): Marybeth Gardham Building on this first step by UUs, participants will discuss how to approach the various faith communities represented among our national MTA coalition to form a powerful collaboration that will accelerate progress towards a meaningful and effective amendment. Conference: CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM A Constitutional Right to Vote Madison College Downtown, D436 Speaker(s): David Cobb, Bob Fitrakis Conferences: CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM, REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY Enacting an Ecologically Sound Economy: Beyond Dirty Fuels and False Solutions Madison College Downtown, D229 Speaker(s): Rachel Smolker, Chris Williams, Mike Ewall Dirty fuels, coal, oil, gas, and tar sands, primary drivers of global warming, are devastating public health and accelerating the collapse of eco-systems on which all life depends. Panelists will expose the corporate and government-backed false solutions of carbon trading, carbon taxes, bio-energy and other schemes that enrich the 1%, and dangerously delay implementing a national renewable energy policy. Recognizing current resource extraction, manufacturing, consumption and discard patterns must change and that technical, market-based and simple life-style changes can not fix the climate and ecological crises, its time we enact the new economy based on ecological principles these panelists describe. Conferences: EARTH DEMOCRACY, ECONOMIC DEMOCRACY
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Democratizing the Military Entitlement System Madison College Downtown, D331 Speaker(s): Ann Wright Military Retirees have extraordinary entitlements of a retirement pension after 20 years of service. Enlisted personnel can retire as young as 38 years old, officers as young as 42 and receive 50 % of their base pay for the rest of their lives. Working another 10 years will bring retirement to 75% of base pay. Additionally, veterans and their families have health insurance called Tri-Care that has benefits that in reality should be available to all Americans. Military also have special subsidized grocery and merchandise stores, subsidized gasoline and travel opportunities. Are these entitlements appropriate or should the military be asked to reduce its retirement benefits as other Americans have had to do? Conference: DEMOCRATIZING DEFENSE Rethinking Money: The Quiet Evolution to a Diverse, Resilient & Sustainable Monetary System Madison College Downtown, D333 Speaker(s): Jacqui Dunne For the first time in human history, it is possible to democratize the money creation process. We will see that its not the structure of the economy or the hue of the political solution, per se, that are the real problems but money and the monetary system itself, and not in the way one might first suspect. Since money is a human invention, it can be changed. Not only is there another way but a multiplicity of ways to rethink money. A quiet evolution already is underway, in which people and their communities are helping themselves and each other through a new understanding of money. Conference: ECONOMIC DEMOCRACY A Global Struggle Madison College Downtown, D332 Speaker(s): Herlinda Hernandez This session will discuss the impact of globalization around the world and how it has helped wealthy people at the expense of low-income, marginal communities. Conference: RACE AND DEMOCRACY Hand-counting paper ballots: hands-on demonstration (session 1) Madison College Downtown, D404 Speaker(s): Mimi Kennedy, Judy Alter, Sally Castleman, Karen McKim Learn how to count paper ballots by hand in a real-world election simulation. Help maintain the community culture of hand-counting, threatened with extinction by the use of electronic voting machines, which remove the vote count from public oversight. Conference: REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY

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Earth Democracy Plenary on Powering Up for People, Peace, and the Planet: Re-Envisioning the Climate Movement - Building Resistance and Transformation Madison College Downtown, D229 Speaker(s): Jill Stein, Sherri Mitchell, Victor Wallis, Lauren Regan, Stephanie Kimball, Daniel Lee, Richard Monje A movement for democracy and justice is sweeping the globe from democracy revolutions to anti-austerity uprisings, occupy protests, resistance to student debt and school-to-prison pipelines, walkouts for jobs and workers rights, and mass mobilizations against tar sands, fracking, nuclear power and GMOs. This movement responds to the growing crises of the corporate-political establishment from devastating economic insecurity, unprecedented inequality, accelerating climate collapse, expanding militarization, and violations of human rights and civil liberties. These converging crises call for transformative solutions. This plenary seeks to expand the climate movement to create a unifying vision, action agenda, and unstoppable force for emergency green economic mobilization for people, peace and the planet. Conference: EARTH DEMOCRACY 11:00 am - 12:30 pm

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Engaging State Legislators in Move To Amend Madison College Downtown, D429 Speaker(s): Bill Hilty, Kaja Rebane, Lee Ketelson So far 16 states have passed resolutions calling for a constitutional amendment in the wake of the Citizens United decision. Recently the Minnesota Senate passed the We the People Act, a Move to Amend sponsored resolution that calls for an end to both corporate personhood and the idea that political spending is speech under the First Amendment. Efforts are also underway in other states. Participants who want to launch their own state legislative resolutions campaigns will be off to a good start after this workshop! Conference: CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM Building a Multi-Racial Democracy Movement Madison College Downtown, D332 Speaker(s): George Friday, Cheri Honkala, David Cobb Amending the U.S. Constitution will require a broad, deep and educated social movement committed to social justice. This panel is designed to explore how to build that movement in an accountable, productive and positive manner. Conference: CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM, RACE AND DEMOCRACY

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Militarism and Environmental Destruction--Making the Connection Madison College Downtown, D331 Speaker(s): Helen Jaccard UXO, Chemical, Heavy Metal and Radioactive Contamination. Use of oil and other resources by the military. Scarcity of Resources as an Excuse for War. A campaign calling for cleanup of current and former military bases, prevention of further military contamination of the planet. Close the bases, stop the wars, stop mining uranium and (re)manufacturing radioactive weapons, stop testing weapons, stop bombing paradise to practice for war, stop the war games. Conference: DEMOCRATIZING DEFENSE, EARTH DEMOCRACY Monsanto Will Not Rule the World: Stop the Trans-Pacific Partnership and Corporate Control of Food and Agriculture Madison College Downtown, D229 Speaker(s): David Newby, Daniel Lee, Jim Goodman, George Naylor, Ruth Caplan The Trans-Pacific Partnership is a secret agreement being negotiated by over 600 corporate representatives behind the backs of Congress and the American People. Its not just about trade, but instead protects Big-Ag corporations so they can sue local, state and Federal governments claiming laws that protect family farmers, food safety, GMO-labelling and public health, and bees, butterflies and eco-systems - are all barriers to trade that harm their future profits. Panelists will expose whats at stake for the future of food and family farms and describe the campaign to defeat the TPP. Conference: EARTH DEMOCRACY Saving the Peoples Post Office Madison College Downtown, D333 Speaker(s): Jim Sauber A presentation on the campaign to prevent the dismantling of the Postal Service and to reinvent it for 21st century to promote democracy, financial inclusion and sustainable development. Conference: ECONOMIC DEMOCRACY Are Electronic Voting Systems Democratic? Madison College Downtown, D436 Speaker(s): John Washburn, Gerry Bello, Carl Carter Get the facts and decide for yourself what is appropriate technology for democratic elections. Do electronic voting machines support or subvert the democratic process? Technology experts discuss the pros, cons, and options for e-voting. Conference: REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY 11:00 am - 2:00 pm Awakening the Dreamer Symposium Madison College Downtown, D227
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Presented by The Pachamama Alliance The Pachamama Alliances Awakening the Dreamer Symposium is a transformational educational workshop that invites participants to explore where we are as a human family, how we got here and whats possible now. It was created in response to a call from the Achuar people in Ecuadors Amazon, urging us to change the dream of the modern world that threatens the wellbeing of the planet. The Symposium consists of a dynamic multimedia presentation, interactive group exercises and guided personal reflection, empowering, participants to investigate their unique role in transforming humanitys future. Conference: EARTH DEMOCRACY 1:00 pm

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Rally to Derail Fast Track and Stop the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) No More Secret Trade Deals for the 1%! Wisconsin State Capitol, Capitol Steps at the top of State St Well gather at the Madison College outdoor patio at 12:45pm and walk to Capitol at 12:55pm Speaker(s): David Newby, Jill Stein, Shamako Noble, Jim Goodman, Margaret Flowers, Ruth Caplan, Debra White Plume 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm

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The Role of Elders within Move To Amend Madison College Downtown, D429 Speaker(s): Margaret Koster Elders have a unique perspective and gifts to bring to the Move to Amend effort. This session is meant to open a discussion about defining a role for ourselves as elders and how to apply our gifts and perspective in strategic and helpful ways. The discussion will be in a fishbowl format with participation by all encouraged. The goal is to emerge with a beginning outline of the role of elders in Move to Amend and next steps. Conference: CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM The Role of Students/Youth within Move To Amend Madison College Downtown, D433 Speaker(s): Daniel Lee An open discussion to assess the role of youth in bringing about real systematic change. How does this role differ? What do the youth need from the elders in the movement? What steps can we take to make sure that our movement is intergenerational? Conference: CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM Declarations of War - Who decides? Madison College Downtown, D331
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Speaker(s): Leah Bolger, Ben Manski The U.S. has not formally issued a declaration of war since WWII. Are Authorizations for the Use of Military Force (AUMFs) in compliance with the War Powers Act? With the Constitution? Is the AUMF which was passed in 2001 still valid? Has the Congress abdicated their responsibilities, and has the President claimed them? What role does the peoples voice have in decisions about war? Conference: DEMOCRATIZING DEFENSE The Boulder Energy Future - Municipalization Project Madison College Downtown, D333 Speaker(s): Alison Burchell A coalition of groups in Boulder, Colorado are working together to make a publicly-owned green energy economy. Through rigorous research, community education, legislative and local government involvement, they are leading the way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, transition from coal to renewables as a primary fuel source, and maintain reliable and affordable energy for their city. Alison Burchell will review the history of the Boulder Energy Future (BEF) project, some of the obstacles regulated communities need to overcome and the lessons learned building a wellinformed coalition. She will also review the model developed by citizens and detailed by the city and consultants to assess the financial and technical feasibility of the City to form and manage a municipal renewable-electric utility. Conference: ECONOMIC DEMOCRACY, EARTH DEMOCRACY Race Under the Obama Administration Madison College Downtown, D332 Speaker(s): Richard Monje, Galen Tyler, Shamako Nobel, Kimberly King, John Gonzalez A multiracial panel of activists will be speaking about their independent political work. Conference: RACE AND DEMOCRACY Hand-counting paper ballots: hands-on demonstration (session 2) Madison College Downtown, D404 Speaker(s): Mimi Kennedy, Judy Alter, Sally Castleman, Karen McKim Learn how to count paper ballots by hand in a real-world election simulation. Help maintain the community culture of hand-counting, threatened with extinction by the use of electronic voting machines, which remove the vote count from public oversight. Conference: REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm

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Next Stage: Building the Movement for People, Peace and the Planet - From #Fearless Summer to #Fearless Year Madison College Downtown, D229 This facilitated group discussion builds on the content of the Earth Democracy Conference as a
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whole and, in particular, on the Saturday Plenary Roundtable - Powering up for People, Peace and the Planet. We seek to initiate a conversation about how we can expand the climate movement by creating a unifying vision, action agenda, and unstoppable force for emergency green economic mobilization - for people, peace and the planet. Conference: EARTH DEMOCRACY 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

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Representative Democracy Plenary: The Fight of Our Lives Madison College Downtown, D436 Speaker(s): Mike McCabe, Jill Stein, Cindy Sheehan, Greg Palast, Bob Fitrakis, Ben Ptashnik, Jonathan Simon We face an unprecedented crisis in American democracy; attacks against community selfgovernment, undermining of government accountability, the reign of Big Money over representative politics, total lack of transparency in how we process our own votes, and a chokehold on the electoral system by two major parties increasingly under the control of nefarious corporate interests. How did we get here, and how do we get out? Leading democracy activists discuss the need for a citizen-driven Democracy Movement to bring our society back from the brink. Conference: REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY Do We Need an Entirely New Constitution? Madison College Downtown, D429 Speaker(s): George Friday, Egberto Wylies, M Adams, Richard Hobbs This panel will posit that the United States needs a new guiding document with the weight of law that enshrines our responsibilities and rights as individuals and collectives within U.S. boundaries. Starting with with the premise that all human needs should be constitutionally enshrined into rights and responsibilities, the session will identify those human needs, rights and responsibilities; gain guidance from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights; integrate the international frames of political and civil vs. economic, social, and cultural rights; provide examples of revolutionary constitutional efforts; and show how the U.S. Supreme Court has so undermined our human needs that a 28th amendment and new U.S. Constitution are inevitable. Conference: CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM Why Corporations (Including Non-Profits) Dont Possess or Need Constitutional Rights Madison College Downtown, D433 Speaker(s): David Cobb, Ben Manski Some people want us to believe that non-profit corporations possess constitutional rights. Others mistakenly say that Citizens United gave labor unions new constitutional rights. Attend this workshop to understand why corporations (whether for-profit or not) and other artificial entities dont have, and dont need, constitutional rights. Conference: CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM
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Nuts and Bolts of Co-operative Businesses: How to Empower Workers and Keep Wealth in the Community Madison College Downtown, D333 Speaker(s): John Conowall The number of cooperative businesses is growing in the U.S. as workers discover the benefits and challenges of running their businesses in a democratic way. John Conowall will discuss how and why cooperatives work, how to get started creating a cooperative business and will share his experiences of building Madison Worker Cooperatives and the Dane Cooperative Alliance. He will talk about what some of the keys are to success and how to avoid common pitfalls, as well as ways that co-operatives can work together to create a thriving local economy. Conference: ECONOMIC DEMOCRACY 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm

SATURday, August 10

Local Food Democracy Reception Sample and purchase local produce from South Central Wisconsin Madison College Downtown Patio ~ Organized by Family Farm Defenders 9:00 pm - 11:00 pm

SATURday, August 10

Evening Social at Rigby Pub and Grill, 119 E Main St ~ Hosted by Earth Democracy Conference 9:00 am - 10:30 am

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Participatory Budgeting in the U.S. - Local Democracy in Action Madison College Downtown, D406 Speaker(s): Maria Hadden Participatory Budgeting is a democratic process through which community members directly decide how to spend part of a public budget. Most examples involve city governments that have opened up decisions around municipal budgets, such as overall priorities and choice of new investments, to citizen assemblies. This session will provide a brief overview of the basic principles and impacts. PB has been adopted by hundreds of cities across the world and is slowly gaining popularity in the U.S. with major projects in New York city, Chicago and Vallejo, CA. Conference: LOCAL DEMOCRACY Public Banking Around the World, Building Economic Democracy Madison College Downtown, D333 Speaker(s): Dr. Kurt Von Mettenheim We will review movements to create public banks in communities and states across the U.S. and explore paradigms of social banking and economic democracy from abroad for these efforts. Participants are encouraged to explore materials in the Public Bank Course wikispace http://
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publicbankcourse.wikispaces.com/home. Case studies from abroad emphasize 1) the competitive advantages of public banks over private banks 2) the policy capacities of public banks, especially in terms of providing counter-cyclical credit and as agents of social inclusion and 3) how savings banks in advanced and developing countries have sustained and accelerated social inclusion. Conference: ECONOMIC DEMOCRACY 9:00 am - 12:30 pm

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Awakening the Dreamer Symposium Madison College Downtown, D229 Presented by The Pachamama Alliance The Pachamama Alliances Awakening the Dreamer Symposium is a transformational educational workshop that invites participants to explore where we are as a human family, how we got here and whats possible now. It was created in response to a call from the Achuar people in Ecuadors Amazon, urging us to change the dream of the modern world that threatens the wellbeing of the planet. The Symposium consists of a dynamic multimedia presentation, interactive group exercises and guided personal reflection, empowering, participants to investigate their unique role in transforming humanitys future. Conference: EARTH DEMOCRACY 10:00 am - 1:00 pm

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Know Your Rights Activist Training Madison College Downtown, D315 Speaker(s): Lauren Regan The Call: As the planet heats up on all fronts, time for a Know Your Rights workshop to instill you with the confidence to make decisions about how you will engage your activism - where is the line drawn between legal and potentially illegal protesting? What magic words should you say to police to invoke your rights? Armed with knowledge, you and your fellow activists can make informed choices regarding interactions with government agents and can best protect your rights should you end up in handcuffs and in the legal system. Snacks will be provided Conference: EARTH DEMOCRACY 11:00 am - 12:30 pm

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Community Action Toolkit for Earth Democracy Madison College Downtown, D227 Speaker(s): Randa Solick, Carolyn Raffensperger We cant wait for Federal and State action to protect our communities. We are not powerless and can take action now. Carolyn Raffensperger will discuss how Guardianship of Future Generations and the Precautionary Principle can be adopted as local policy to prevent passing on a toxic
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environment to our children and to ensure that the ecosystems essential for all life are protected and thrive. Randa Solick, using Santa Cruz, CA as a possible model, will open the discussion on how to use the Toolkit in workshop setting so that they can effectively advocate that their elected representatives adopt Guardianship and the Precautionary Principle as local policy. Conference: EARTH DEMOCRACY, LOCAL DEMOCRACY Essential Information for Starting a Public Bank Madison College Downtown, D333 Speaker(s): Mark Armstrong There are three alternative ways that people are taking to form a public bank -- forming a coalition (grassroots), forcing the issue (surgical strike), and running candidates (throw the bums out!). A review of each of these alternatives will be provided, along with the pros/cons and identification of what makes the best sense in your community. Conference: ECONOMIC DEMOCRACY Shutting the Chamber in Wisconsin- The fight against WMC Madison College Downtown, D406 Speaker(s): Carl Gibson, David Schwab, Omkar Sawardekar, Laura Brickman Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce (WMC) is the largest lobby group in the Wisconsin and spends millions of dollars each year to advance a platform centered on cutting public services, dismantling workers rights, and weakening environmental protections. Learn how you can get involved in the Wisconsin Waves Shut the Chamber Campaign by taking part in days of action where you live and by encouraging your neighborhood small businesses and local chambers of commerce to divest from WMC (and the U.S. Chamber) and instead join a business alliance that supports strong communities. Please note that while this workshop will focus on Wisconsin, the Shut the Chamber Campaign is a national effort and all are welcome to attend! Conference: LOCAL DEMOCRACY, ECONOMIC DEMOCRACY Arts + Activism + Organization = Social Change Madison College Downtown, D401 Speaker(s): Head-Roc Conference: MEDIA DEMOCRACY 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm

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CONVENTION CLOSING PLENARY Inn on the Park, 22 S. Carroll, Wisconsin Hall KEYNOTE: Debra White Plume The keynote address will be followed by a facilitated discussion to give each conference a chance to share the big ideas that came out of their event as well as the next steps everyone can take to further the democracy movement in the months and years ahead.
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CALL FOR PEACE DRUM DANCE COMPANY: Art & Dawn Shegonee founding members of Call For Peace Drum & Dance Co. represent a multi ethnic internationally based Company in Madison WI, has for over two decades been serving and giving a new hope for humanity. with a Circle Dance of We The People Dancing the Dream of Peace for our childrens children, and sending a message that all things are interconnected, what effects one,effects all of us. Today in the present, in honoring the true meaning of our Democracy, Art Shegonee Menominee,Potawatomi, will bring to life, Call For Peace moving us forward,towards what many are calling The Great Turning, in a new dance of Osh-ki-bi-ma-di-zeeg A New People working together for the greater good for America and the Planet. www.anewpeople.net Call for Peace will be performing at the Opening Ceremony. HEAD-ROC: For over the past ten years Head-Roc has been regarded as the best that DC Hip Hop has to offer. Dubbed The Mayor of the DC Hip Hop, Head-Roc has come to embody the passions, hopes and dreams of a wonderfully talented and all too often overlooked DC music scene. His unparalleled ability to reach music lovers of all tastes puts him on par with established national recording artists in both music creation and live performance. In 2004 Head-Roc released his solo debut The Return of Black Broadway to rave reviews and top chart position on college and underground radio. In support of this album, Head-Roc toured Europe and the U.S. West Coast, doing interviews, appearing on radio stations and delivering life changing performances for thousands of fans. This grass roots movement helped to earn Head-Roc the 2005 Washington Area Music Association award for Hip Hop Album of the Year. Head-Roc will be performing throughout the Convention including at the Opening Ceremony. LOIS SABO-SKELTON is a violinist, writer, activist and founding member of the Democratic Womens Caucus of Bloomington, Indiana. Re-elected to a third term, she serves on the local school board and fights for a democratic public school education for all. As a performer she frequently combines the arts and politics as a means to express the rights of the individual artist and citizen. As an actor she was last seen in the Vagina Monologues by Eve Ensler in Bloomington this past April, and is currently writing a biography and researching the lives of artists who make a (political) difference. She is a member of Move to Amend-South Central Indiana. Lois will be performing Justice Stephens Dissent: A Theatrical Monologue

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DEEQ ABDI is a former student of the Lawing Nickel Alternative School in Saint Paul Minnesota. Deeq helped organize the March for Our Lives in Saint Paul Minnesota during the Republican Convention in 2008. Deeq is a member of the Minnesota Poor Peoples Economic Human Rights Campaign (PPEHRC). Deeq has been active in improving the lives of young people and homeless people. He has been active in the fight against foreclosure and a member of the Underground Railroad which helps homeless families obtain housing in Twin Cities, Minnesota. Deeq helped set up the first Healthcare as a Human Right Conference in Minneapolis. Because of this immigrant background Deeq has been at the forefront of the immigrant rights movement. M ADAMS is a Black Working-Poor- Gay-Gender Non-Conforming-Wimmin born and raised in Milwaukee, WI and now living in Madison, WI. She is a community organizer with Freedom, Inc and Take Back the Land-Madison and a core member of Take Back the Land-National Leadership. Her work is to organize low income communities of color for collective self-determination as well as gain community control over land and elevate housing and food a human rights. JAMES ALLISON is Professor Emeritus of Psychology, Indiana University. His present research concerns the alarming exaggeration of corporate power through questionable rulings by the Supreme Court of the United States. The research has provided the foundation for several dramatizations designed to acquaint the public with this often shady side of American jurisprudence. The best known piece, a one-act play performed at the Democracy Convention in 2011, The Prosecution of Judge Waite, has appeared live around the country and can be seen on YouTube. He and his wife co-founded Move to Amend-South Central Indiana in 2012. GAR ALPEROVITZ, the author most recently of What Then Must We Do? Straight Talk about the Next American Revolution, and America Beyond Capitalism, has had a distinguished career as a historian, political economist, activist, writer, and government official. He is currently the Lionel R. Bauman Professor of Political Economy at the University of Maryland and is a former Fellow of Kings College, Cambridge University; Harvards Institute of Politics; the Institute for Policy Studies; and a Guest Scholar at the Brookings Institution. He is also the author of critically acclaimed books on the atomic bomb and atomic diplomacy and his articles have appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, the New Republic, The Nation, and the Atlantic among other popular and academic publications. He has been profiled by the New York Times, the Associated Press, People, UPI and Mother Jones and has been a guest on numerous network TV and cable news programs. As a well known policy expert, he has testified before numerous Congressional committees and lectures widely around the country. Alperovitz received a bachelor of science degree from the University of Wisconsin; a masters degree from the University of California at Berkeley; and his Ph.D. in political economy as a Marshall Scholar at Cambridge University. After completing his studies he served as a legislative director in both houses of Congress and as a special assistant in the State Department. Among his many achievements is having been the architect of the first modern steel industry attempt at worker ownership in Youngstown, Ohio. In addition, he was nominated to be a member of the Council of Economic Advisers by leading national consumer, labor, and environmental organizations. He is also the president of the National Center for Economic and Security Alternatives and is co-founder of the University of Maryland-based Democracy Collaborative, a research institution developing practical, policy-focused, and systematic paths towards ecologically sustainable, community-oriented change and the democratization of wealth. Alperovitz will be the keynote speaker at the Opening Plenary. JUDY ALTER (Judith B. Alter Ed.D.), emeritus UCLA Professor, with years of research experience, has given over 120 talks about election justice issues. In 2004 Judy analyzed the thwarted Recount New Mexico effort, and found solid evidence of how the straight party option probably created big under-votes in 16 states. She started
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ProtectCaliforniaBallots.org and signed up volunteers in 16 CA counties to work on election justice actions such as citizens written exit polls and gathering signatures demanding the end of privatized, computerized secret voting counting. Judy analyzes the 1% manual tally, the audit of LA County election results, speaks at the LA County Supervisors meetings on election related issues, and lobbies CA legislators to correct serious problems with election laws. PETER ANDERSON is President of RecycleWorlds Consulting; Executive Director, Center for a Competitive Waste Industry; and Project Director for the multi-state Plastic Redesign Project. Hes been Senior Lecturer on recycling systems, Dept. of Applied Economics, Univ. of Wisconsin; Chairperson, National Recycling Coalition Policy Workgroup/Landfill Subcommittee; landfill consultant, Grassroots Recycling Network. For his granddaughter and future generations, he confronts the existential threat of global warming through peaceful, non-violent civil disobedience. Arrested protesting against the Tar Sands Pipeline at the White House, August 2011, he spent three days in the District of Columbia Central Cellblock with Bill McKibben and Gus Speth. MARC ARMSTRONG, a business development and communications consultant, is the Executive Director of the Public Banking Institute in California. With extensive experience in the software industry, he also has specific experience in providing technical consulting for nonprofits and small to medium-sized businesses. His educational background includes a MBA from the Anderson School of Business at UCLA in Information Systems and Organizational Behavior. Armstrongs professional work experience includes a series of sales, business development, and operations management positions, first with IBM Finance, and then with SAP Technical Development partners headquartered in Europe. Hometown: Sonoma, CA JIM ARMSTRONG is founder and creative director of Good for Business, a certified B-Corp communications company dedicated to helping businesses and organizations unearth, capture and communicate their noble purpose. Jim has developed nearly one hundred communication strategies based on the inside-out MAP:Message and Purpose messaging guide for clients around the world. He is the author of BEYOND THE MISSION STATEMENT: Why Cause-Based Communications Lead to True Success (MacMIllan India). GERRY BELLO is a journalist and researcher for the Columbus Free Press. He covers Human Rights, Technology, National Security and Election Issues. He is a Graduate of Antioch College with a degree in Computer Security. In industry he specialized in networked industrial control systems, malware detection and interception, user access control and data theft detection including work for Fortune 500 companies. He doesnt work for those people anymore. He has also been a street level anti-fascist activist for more than 20 years. MEDEA BENJAMIN is a co-founder of both CODEPINK and the international human rights organization Global Exchange. Benjamin is the author of eight books. Her latest book is Drone Warfare: Killing by Remote Control, and she has been campaigning to stop the use of killer drones. Her direct questioning of President Obama during his 2013 foreign policy address, as well as her recent trips to Pakistan and Yemen, helped shine a light on the innocent people killed by U.S. drone strikes. Benjamin has been an advocate for social justice for more than 30 years. Described as one of Americas most committed -- and most effective -- fighters for human rights by New York Newsday, and one of the high profile leaders of the peace movement by the Los Angeles Times, she was one of 1,000 exemplary women from 140 countries nominated to receive the Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of the millions of women who do the essential work of peace worldwide. In 2010 she received the Martin Luther King, Jr. Peace Prize from the Fellowship of Reconciliation and the 2012 Peace Prize by the U.S. Peace Memorial. Since the September 11, 2001 tragedy, Medea has been working to promote a U.S. foreign policy that would respect human rights and gain us allies instead of contributing to violence and undermining our international reputation. In 2000, she was a Green Party candidate for the California Senate. During the 1990s, Medea focused her efforts on tackling the problem of unfair trade as promoted by the World Trade Organization. Widely credited as the woman who brought Nike to its knees and helped place the issue of sweatshops on the national agenda, Medea was a key player in the campaign that won a $20 million settlement from 27 U.S. clothing retailers for the use of sweatshop
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labor in Saipan. She also pushed Starbucks and other companies to start carrying fair trade coffee. Her work for justice in Israel/Palestine includes taking numerous delegations to Gaza after the 2008 Israeli invasion, organizing the Gaza Freedom March in 2010, participating in the Freedom Flotillas and opposing the policies of the Israel lobby group AIPAC. In 2011 she was in Tahrir Square during the Egyptian uprising and In 2012 she was part of a human rights delegation to Bahrain in support of democracy activists; she was tear-gassed, arrested and deported by the Bahraini government. A former economist and nutritionist with the United Nations and World Health Organization, her articles appear regularly in many online media outlets. Benjamin will serve as honorary chair of the 2013 Democracy Convention. KAYLA BLADO is a co-producer at The Peoples Mic with Doug Cunningham and Media Coordinator & Affiliate Relations at Diversified Media Enterprises. ROSHAN BLISS is a student organizer with the Colorado Student Power Alliance, a student-run organization in the process of forming a statewide student union in CO. Having been pushed out of graduate school by excessive student debt, he has a passion for empowering young people to defend their futures and democratize their campuses. He was a central organizer for Occupy Denver, is an anti-oppression trainer, and serves as the Asst. Secretary of Education for Higher Education in the Green Shadow Cabinet. LEAH BOLGER served on active duty in the U.S. Navy from 1980 until 2000, retiring at the rank of commander. She received her masters degree in national security and strategic affairs from the Naval War College, and was selected as a Military Fellow at MIT in 1997. She served on the Board of Directors of Veterans For Peace for four years and was elected as that organizations first female president in 2012. She currently serves as the Secretary of Defense for the Green Shadow Cabinet. HARVEY BRAINSCOMB is an active board member of two Colorado election integrity groups, Coloradans For Voting Integrity and Colorado Voter Group. He participates regularly on monthly national audit-working group calls. He has been seeking more effective verification for elections in Eagle County as a Canvass Board Member and in Colorado as a frequent citizen lobbyist at the Capitol. He is known as a citizen election quality advocate to all Colorado county clerks and most legislators. Harvie works to obtain effective openness of election records adequate for full verification by citizens and to achieve effective election audits including single ballot risk limiting audits. Harvie has participated regularly whenever citizen input is made possible on the local, state and federal levels. LAURA BRICKMAN is a recent graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the outreach coordinator for the Liberty Tree Foundations Wisconsin Wave project. She will be moving to St. Louis next year to join the Coro Fellows Program, a public policy institute. ELLEN BROWN developed her research skills as an attorney practicing civil litigation in Los Angeles. She is the author of 11 books, and will be releasing another in 2011 focused on public banking. In Web of Debt, her most recent book, she traces the history and evolution of the current private banking system. She shows how it has usurped the power to create money from the people themselves, and how we the people can get it back. Ellen has written nearly 100 articles on this subject since Web of Debt was first published, and is the inspiration and thought leader behind the Public Banking Institute, where she serves as Chairman and President. She has degrees from UC Berkeley and UCLA School of Law. PAUL BUHLE is a retired professor of American Studies, left historian, and activist in the 1960s-era Students for a Democratic Society. Currently editor of numerous graphic novels and other contemporary comic works.

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ALISON BURCHELL is a professional geologist with a dual B.S. in Chemistry and Environmental Planning, an M.S. in Tectonics and Isotope Geochemistry and certifications in GIS and Remote Sensing. Following a Fellowship with the U.S. Dept. of Interior and U.S. Geological Survey, she established a private consulting practice on issues including: crustal processes, reef and wetland preservation, land-reclamation, siting analysis for renewable energy projects and stakeholder facilitation; and research includes quantifying the mechanisms and kinetics of terrestrial sequestration. In 2005, she received Plan Boulder Countys Award of Recognition for outstanding service, and cofounded both Clean Energy Action and Ratepayers United of Colorado. SHAHID BUTTAR is a civil rights lawyer, hip-hop & electronica MC, independent columnist, non-profit leader, grassroots community organizer, singer and poet. Professionally, he leads the Bill of Rights Defense Committee as Executive Director. He also serves as co-Director of the Rule of Law Institute, a U.S.-based organization supporting international efforts to defend or restore the rule of law. RUTH CAPLAN began her environmental career with a decade of organizing and litigation successfully preventing construction of three nuclear power units on Lake Ontario, followed by a decade as safe energy lobbyist and executive director of Environmental Action, a national grassroots organization. Later she coordinated the interdisciplinary Economic Working Group which developed a community centered system for full employment and local sustainability. She was awarded Sierra Clubs 2004 Special Service Award for her work on corporate accountability, international trade, water privatization, and energy policy. Currently, she is National Coordinator for the Alliance for Democracys Defending Water for Life Campaign. MICHAEL CARLSON is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin in Madison who started as a crew supervisor for Operation Fresh Start which worked with young people to make significant changes in their lives. He then served as Director of Community Development at the Habitat for Humanity of Dane County, the Executive Director of the Madison Area Community Land Trust and now as the Maintenance Coordinator at Madison Community Cooperative. CARL CARTER has been active in election issues for past 12 years. Based in Northern CA, past member of Citizens Advisory Board to Marin County Clerk/Registrar of Voters. Election poll worker. Participant in hand counting in local elections. Past representative on EqualiVote, a start up to promote better access for disabled voters. Citizen lobbyist in Sacramento on election issues. 30 years in finance, tax and non- profit work. Past President of Seeds of Learning, NGO building schools in Central America. Education: BSBA Boston University, MA CA Institute of Integral Studies. SALLY CASTLEMAN has a background in initiating, designing, implementing and managing programs in fields including high tech, transportation, fundraising and the political, working in both the public and private sectors. Sally has focused her last 9 years on restoring transparency to our elections consistent with what a democracy demands. As one of the co-founders of the national organization Election Defense Alliance and as its first National Chairperson, she has worked on education, forensics, analysis, strategy, recruiting and organizing volunteers, reaching out to media and political leaders, and several other aspects of this work. Sally has participated in ballot recounts in 3 states. PAUL CHAPPELL graduated from West Point in 2002, was deployed to Iraq, and left active duty in November 2009 as a Captain. He is the author of the Road to Peace series, a seven-book series about waging peace, ending war, the art of living, and what it means to be human. The first four published books in this series are Will War Ever End?, The End of War, Peaceful Revolution, and The Art of Waging Peace. Chappell serves as the Peace Leadership Director for the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation. Lecturing across the country and internationally, he also teaches college courses and workshops on Peace Leadership. His website is www.peacefulrevolution.com. CESAR CHAVEZ is a student from Wesleyan University. At the age of 11 he migrated to the United States with his parents and older sister. During the summer of 2012 his family lost their home and his father, the only source of
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income in his household, lost his job. Since Fall of 2011 Cesar has been working with the United Student Labor Action Coalition (USLAC) a campus organization that works with the custodial staff of Wesleyan University. His work involved setting up meetings, translating documents into Spanish, and organizing events in solidarity with the custodians. This summer Cesar has been working with the Poor Peoples Economic Human Rights Campaign. DAVID COBB is a peoples lawyer, and more importantly an engaged citizen. He has sued corporate polluters, lobbied elected officials, and run for political office himself. In 2002 he ran for Attorney General of Texas, pledging to use that office to revoke the charters of corporations that routinely violate laws designed to protect the environment, public health and safety, and workers. In 2004 he was the Green Party nominee for President of the United States. He initiated the Ohio Recount which helped to spark and nurture a growing election integrity movement against computerized black box voting machines.Today he serves on the national leadership team of the Move To Amend coalition and as a principal with the Program on Corporations, Law & Democracy (POCLAD). GREG COLERIDGE is Director of the Northeast Ohio American Friends Service Committee and Coordinator of Ohio Move to Amend. He is the author of Citizens over Corporations: A Brief History of Democracy in Ohio and Challenges to Freedom in the Future; contributed to the anthology Defying Corporations, Defining Democracy - A Book of History and Strategy, and writer of the documentary CorpOrNation - The Story of Citizens and Corporations in Ohio. Coleridge is a member of the Program on Corporations, Law & Democracy (POCLAD) collective. He was the 1998recipient of the national Common Causes Public Service Achievement Award. VICTORIA COLLIER is the National Coordinator for the National Election Integrity Coalition (NEIC), and editor of www.votescam.org. The daughter of pioneering election fraud investigator, James Collier, Victorias expose, How to Rig an Election was the cover story of Harpers Magazine, November, 2012. Her familys 25 year investigation is chronicled in the book, Votescam: The Stealing of America, which will be reissued in 2014 by Open Road Media as part of a new series of censored books, The Forbidden Bookshelf. Victoria was a contributor to Hacked: High Tech Election Theft in America. She writes for Truthout on democracy issues, and teaches sustainable agriculture and Permaculture practices at the community level. LORI COMPAS is a small business owner from Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin and the executive director of the Wisconsin Business Alliance, a group of business owners and independent professionals who want to improve Wisconsins business climate while protecting our quality of life. JOHN CONOWALL has been a Member/Owner of Union Cab of Madison Cooperative for almost 12 years. At Union Cab he has served as a Board Member, Committee Member, Steward, Mediator and Steering Team Member. John has worked with Madison Worker Cooperatives (MadWorC) for the past 5 years building the organization and doing Cooperative outreach, development and support work. He has been working since last years Cooperative Business Development Conference with a group to form Dane Cooperative Alliance, a cross-sector Cooperative network with a mission to create a sustainable, thriving Cooperative economy in Dane County through Cooperative marketing, branding and participation in city and county legislation. TOM COURBAT has 30 years of local government executive experience. In 2006 he assembled several hundred citizen election observers under the umbrella of the non-partisan group Save R Vote. He served as the only independent election integrity advocate on a special $350,000 study of the Registrar of Voters Office. He has testified before a joint Senate/Assembly committee, is an election recount observer, has held Board positions in national Election Integrity organizations. Mr. Courbat holds an MBA in Finance and a BS in Marketing Management and Research, both from the California State University System. He is a 100% service-connected disabled veteran with Multiple Myeloma (an incurable bone marrow/blood cancer) due to exposure to Agent Orange in 1968. JACQUI DUNNE is an award-winning journalist from Ireland, founder and CEO of Danu Resource, and an emerging leader in helping entrepreneurs develop technologies and initiatives that restore the earths equilibrium globally.
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Danus unique value is its ability to work from a future reference point that draws out the greatness, and builds upon the strengths, of both the donor and the recipient, thus creating a flourishing paradigm shift for a quadruple bottom line people, planet, profits and power within. Lately she has worked as a content editor for Money and Sustainability The Missing Link, A Report to the Club of Rome. Rethinking Money is her first book. She currently resides in Colorado and writes for the Huffington Posts Business section. FRANK EMSPAK is the Executive Producer of Workers Independent News (WIN). WIN is a provider of headline news, focusing on the issues and concerns of working people. Well over eighty commercial and one hundred noncommercial stations broadcast the material on a regular basis. WIN is a multi platform provider of news utilizing broadcast, cell phone, pod cast and a web based distribution system. JULIE BYRNES ENSLOW has her roots in activism from the civil rights and Vietnam war era. She is a founder of and former staff person with Peace Action Wisconsin, concentrating on nuclear disarmament and anti-war work. Her work on environmental issues includes organizing city-wide Earth Day events, the links between militarism and the environment and co-founding the Milwaukee chapter of 350.org. Julie now concentrates on global climate change and recently attended the World Social Forum in Tunisia with climate crisis activists from around the world. MIKE EWALL is founder and director of Energy Justice Network, www.EnergyJustice.net, a national support network for grassroots community groups fighting dirty energy and waste industry facilities, such as coal power plants, ethanol bio-refineries, natural gas facilities, trash and biomass incinerators. His work has stopped many large polluters and has brought together successful national networks of grassroots activists fighting off coal plants and biomass incinerators. In 2008, his extensive work against environmental racism in Chester, Pennsylvania earned him a tuition-free law school for activists scholarship to the social justice activist-run law school at the University of the District of Columbia. ROBERT FANTINA is an author and journalist whose main interest is in human rights. He also writes on the political situation in the United States. He is the author of Desertion and the American Soldier: 1776 2006, a detailed history of desertion from the U.S .military; Look Not Unto the Morrow, a Vietnam-era, anti-war novel, and his forthcoming book is entitled Empire, Racism and Genocide: A History of U.S. Foreign Policy. That book is scheduled for publication in November of 2013. Mr. Fantina is a U.S. citizen who moved to Canada in 2005. DON FERBER has volunteered for the Sierra Club for the last decade and has worn many hats during that time. Don is especially involved in energy advocacy with the Sierra Clubs Beyond Coal campaign and working to implement clean energy solutions. Don is a transit advocate who can often be found on his bicycle and is on the Wisconsin John Muir Chapters executive committee, and has taken a leadership role on outreach. He is also active with the Sierra Clubs local Four Lakes Group, and is part of the Madison 350.org steering committee. ROBERT FITRAKIS has been the Editor of the Columbus Free Press since 1992, gaining national attention with Senior Editor Harvey Wasserman by uncovering the details of Ohios stolen presidential election in 2004. They won a Project Censored award in 2005. Fitrakis co-wrote How the GOP Stole Americas 2004 Election & Is Rigging 2008, What Happened in Ohio? A Documentary Record of Theft and Fraud in the 2004 Election, and As Goes Ohio: Election Theft Since 2004. Bob has run for office as a Green Party endorsed candidate and serves as co-Chair of the Ohio Green Party with Anita Rios. He has a Ph.D in political science from Wayne State University and a J.D. from the Ohio State University Moritz College of Law. JR FLEMING is a member of the Chicago Anti-Eviction Campaign, which he founded in 2009. Fleming and grew up in Cabrini-Green, one of Chicagos once vibrant neighborhoods. Flemings work involves taking over houses in the Chicago area that are not inhabited. He has provided housing to homeless families who are homeless and are unable to find shelter. This past year the Anti-Eviction Campaign freed up 20 abandoned properties, fixing up the buildings and allowing homeless people to move in.
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ANA MARIA FLORES is a Ph.D. All But Dissertation in Comparative Literature from NYU. She did not complete her Ph.D. because motherhood got in the waytenure track jobs and motherhood dont mix. Thus she switched fields and worked in academic publishing for 20 years in English, Language Arts, Reading, and later Spanish language translations, both school and college divisions. However, she missed academia, and she decided to return, only to be shocked to find the academy inhospitable to most educators who only want the best for students. It did not take her long to take up the cause for contingent faculty. She began a petition for Adjunct Justice, now almost 5000 signatures strong, which grew into a Facebook forum for adjuncts to connect and organize. Fores Tamayo is in the Board of Directors for the New Faculty Majority, trying to raise awareness and dedicated to advancing professional equity for adjunct and contingent faculty. MARGARET FLOWERS is a Maryland pediatrician who for the past several years has devoted all of her energies to speaking out and organizing for a truly universal and comprehensive health care program, one that goes far beyond the law just enacted by Congress. Rebelling against the daily injustices inflicted upon children and their families by a profit-driven health industry especially the big insurance and drug companies she left active medical practice in 2006 and resolved to work full time for a health plan that guarantees everyone the quality care they need and deserve. Margaret has since become one of our nations most prominent advocates for a singlepayer health program, an improved and expanded Medicare for All. Unlike the health bill that was just passed, a single-payer plan would cover everyone without exception, allow free choice of doctor and hospital, and require no co-pays or deductibles. It would also cover the full range of womens reproductive health services. HERB EDWARDS and LILLIA FRANTIN are co-founding members of People For a New Society, a democratic economic project which began development of its current model for a cooperative society about 20 years ago. In 2004, Lillia and Herb began work on a website and graphic presentation of how a 21st c. democracy could use interactive media, group meetings and grassroots direct participation to coordinate needs from community as well as workplace, both necessary for informed decisions & workable plans. Lillia and Herb were teachers for over twenty years and in 2011 presented the People For A New Society (PFANS) model at Occupy DC/Freedom Plaza and again at N.O.W/DC in 2012. Most recently they developed Re-Imagining NOW: Towards A New Society, a free study course. SUSAN FREISS was inspired to teach while conducting gardening workshops with inner city Indianapolis children. She entered teaching through an alternative Masters certification program entitled Teach for Diversity. Susan, along with her teaching partner, has developed a four/fifth grade multiage program called The Learning Place. In The Learning Place students are engaged in reading and writing and conversing about literature on the themes of peace and justice. GEORGE FRIDAY holds degrees in Political Science, Economics, and African American Studies from the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill where she graduated in 1982. She began her career with National Peace Action in the 80s and the Piedmont Peace Project in North Carolina in 90s. George is the National Field Director for the Bill of Rights Defense Committee. She co-chairs the North Carolina Green Party. George has served on and chaired or cochaired many boards and Steering Committees including the Institute for Southern Studies, FairVote, the Grassroots Policy Project, the Catholic Campaign for Human Development, the New World Foundation, American Friends Service Committee, United for Peace and Justice, and the U.S. Social Forum National Planning Committee. George is also an Executive Team member of Move to Amend. MARYBETH GARDAM is Chair of the Corporations v Democracy Issue Committee for National WILPF-U.S. (Womens International League for Peace & Freedom). Marybeth found her way into the issue of corporate personhood through the backdoor of the peace & justice movement. She was a co-founder of Women For Peace Cedar Rapids, IA. She was Director of the Central Georgia Peace & Justice Center and the Co-Founder and Coordinator for People of the Road Coalition, a migrant farmworker advocacy group in Georgia. A native of New Jersey, she has lived in Georgia and Iowa, and is soon to be a Florida resident.
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JACK GERSON is an education and labor activist, writer, and recently retired high school teacher in the Oakland public schools. He was a co-founder of the Occupy Oakland Education Committee and an organizer and participant in the June-July 2012 three-week sit-at Lakeview Elementary (Oakland) to protest school closures. Gerson was one of the founders of the OEA campaign to bail out schools not banks, and was one of seven Oakland teachers arrested for sitting in at Wells Fargo Banks downtown Oakland branch in May 2011. His publications include several articles and book chapters on teacher unionism; neoliberalism; austerity; the student movement of the sixties; and other areas of labor, politics, and the economy. CARL GIBSON is lead organizer for Shut the Chamber, a new Liberty Tree campaign dedicated to resisting the influence of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in our nation, and a co-founder of the anti-austerity group U.S. Uncut. He was a featured activist in the documentary, Were Not Broke, and he is a contributing editor for Reader Supported News and Occupy.com SENAY GOITTAM is a Wisconsin native with a longstanding interest in its political history. A graduate of the La Follette School of Public Affairs, Senay works as an analyst in the energy industry. THOMAS GOKEY is a visual artist and an adjunct professor at Syracuse University. He is currently a PhD candidate at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee Switzerland. He has a Masters of Fine Arts in sculpture from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Recent projects include transforming his debt from art school into a work of art made out of the exact same amount of real money which he is selling for the price of his tuition debt; a collective farm on public land in upstate New York, Gutenbaaaaarg a pirate printing press, and the Rolling Jubilee, a collective project with Strike Debt. Visit StrikeDebt.org. JOHN GONZALEZ is originally from Connecticut and has been an active in the fight for social justice. He is currently a member of the City Committee of the Green Party of Philadelphia. John is also a treasurer and accountant of the Philadelphia Green Party. He is also an organizer for group Men in Motion which works which members of the Philadelphia community. John has been an active member of the Poor Peoples Economic Human Rights Campaign (PPEHRC). JIM GOODMAN and his wife Rebecca run a 45-cow organic dairy and direct market beef farm in southwest Wisconsin. His farming roots trace back to his great-grandfathers immigration from Ireland during the famine and the farms original purchase in 1848. A farm activist, Jim credits more than 150 years of failed farm and social policy as his motivation to advocate for a farmer-controlled consumer-oriented food system. Jim currently serves on the policy advisory boards for the Center for Food Safety and the Organic Consumers Association, and is a board member of Midwest Environmental Advocates and of the Family Farm Defenders. MICHAEL GREENMAN recently retired as the Executive Director of the Glass Manufacturing Industry Council (GMIC), located in Westerville, Ohio. Since 2000 he has focused on efforts to eliminate Corporate Personhood. As a member of the First Unitarian Universalist Church of Columbus, Michael is the lead-coordinator of the MTA affiliate: Move to Amend Central Ohio. He recently led a team of UUs who, during the denominations annual gathering, obtained the denominations approval to encourage congregations all around the country to focus on supporting the passage of a constitutional amendment to declare that corporations are not persons and money is not speech. Vukasin Grozdanovic was 16 years when he and his friends began organizing with an NGO focused on sexual, reproductive, health and rights in his home town of Subotica, Serbia and continued his organizing after he moved to Novi Sad to further his studies. During his student years, he became a member of a group that initiated the creation of a student parliament for his Faculty and later for the whole University. Vukasin and his peers became part of a sustained youth and student movement that began in 1990 that culminated in the 2011 creation the independent Serbian Youth Council, a network of youth organizations that is now the highest formal representative
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body for youth and student political interests in Serbia. Now 29 years old and at the end of his mandate as the president of Serbian Youth Council, Vukasin was part of a movement that paved the way for new young people to take the initiative and responsibility for their futures, and he joins us from Serbia to share the reflections and insights gained from the process. MARIA HADDEN coordinates the Participatory Budgeting Projects work in Chicago. She is a resident of Chicagos 49th Ward, and she first became involved in PB as a volunteer community representative during the wards first PB cycle in 2009. She has served as a member of the 49th Ward Participatory Budgeting Leadership Committee, and she now co-chairs the PB Chicago Steering Committee. She is an AmeriCorps*VISTA alum and completed her Masters degree at DePaul Universitys School of Public Service. HERLINDA LUCILA HERNANDEZ MATOS is a political is a political refugee from Barranquilla, on the Atlantic coast of Colombia. She was a university professor in Atlantic University who has a Masters in Educational Leadership. She was forced to move to Bogota after a series of threat and incidents on her life. In Bogota, she worked for the Colombian Teachers Federation in their Displaced Teachers Committee. Her union and federation are affiliated with the CUT. She holds an external and internal organizer position with SEIU Healthcare in Chicago and is a national leader of the Latino Caucus of SEIU, and is a member of the International World Union. She is devoted to the fight for justice and working class community. BILL HILTY served in the Minnesota House of Representatives from 1997 until he retired in 2013. As a legislator, one of his major focuses was social and economic justice. In 2003 he introduced a bill calling for a constitutional amendment to establish that in Minnesota only natural persons would have constitutional rights. Other legislation included a bill to prohibit the state from doing business with entities incorporated in tax haven nations, and an alternative form of incorporation for socially responsible corporations. In 2012 he was the House author of the precursor of the resolution which was introduced in both bodies this year and currently awaits floor action. RICHARD HOBBS is the Executive Director of Human Agenda, a 501c3 human rights organization centered in San Jose, California. His work Human Value provides a comprehensive human needs-based vision for productive, fair, and loving communities and individual lives. Richard was an elected community college trustee for 16 years in San Jose and the Director of the Office of Human Relations of Santa Clara County. A national board member of Take Back YourTime, he is the coordinator of MTA in Santa Clara County and currently co-leading a ballot initiative there for November 2014. He works full time plus as an immigration attorney. CHERI HONKALA is the national director of the Poor Peoples Economic Human Rights Campaign. She was born into poverty in Minneapolis, Minnesota. As a single mother raising her first son, Mark, Cheri experienced homelessness. Her experiences inspired her to be an activist for the welfare of poor and homeless people. For the past 25 year Cheri has been the leading advocate for the poor and homeless in America. She co-founded the Kensington Welfare Rights Union and the Poor Peoples Economic Human Rights Campaign. She has organized tens of thousands of people in marches, demonstrations and setting up tent cities. In 2012 Cheri ran as Vice-Presidential candidate for the Green Party alongside Jill Stein. HELEN JACCARD chairs the Environmental Cost of War and Militarism Working Group of Veterans For Peace, where she has been a member since 2006. Helen has written about the effects of military contamination of Sardinia, Italy and Vieques Island, Puerto Rico as well as the effects of and resistance to mining in Guatemala. She is learning and writing about Zapatista-inspired, anti-systemic, and autonomous movements in Latin America. She recently returned from a delegation to Nicaragua, focusing on Climate Change, Water, and Sustainability. MICHAEL MARTEZ JOHNSON is a native of Milwaukee, Wisconsin . Since 2007, Mike is an active figure in local politics in Madison, Wisconsin, working as an organizer for issues ranging from immigrant rights to affordable housing. He currently serves as Co-chair of Progressive Dane, the local independent progressive party in
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Dane County, Wisconsin and serves on the Executive Board of AFSCME Local 2412 representing UW-Madison administrative employees. BRYAN KENNEDY is President of both AFT-Wisconsin and The Association of University of Wisconsin Professionals (AFT Local 3535). Prior to assuming the AFT-W presidency, Bryan was full-time faculty at the University of WisconsinMilwaukee, specializing in Brazilian culture, history and literature. He holds a Ph.D. In Latin American Studies from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In 2006, Professor Kennedy was the Democratic nominee for U.S. Congress in Wisconsins 5th congressional district. Kennedy will serve give the Wisconsin Welcome at the Opening Plenary. MIMI KENNEDY has been an actress for 30 years. In 2003 Dennis Kucinich asked her to accompany him for much of his anti-war presidential primary campaign. When the party nominated John Kerry and refused to make the war a campaign issue, Progressive Democrats of American formed and Mimi became National Advisory Board Chair. Their first founding issue was ending the war, their second was ending election fraud; because it was election fraud that brought us the war. Mimi was the first organizer of PDAs Election Integrity Issue Organizing Task Force, addressing members of Congress about election protection. Mimi is on the Voting Systems Advisory Planning Committee in California. LEE KETELSEN has 35 years of organizing experience. She began as a community organizer in 1977 trained and placed by National Peoples Action in the African-American neighborhood of Austin in Chicago. In 1981, she moved to Boston and did multi-racial low-income organizing for Mass Fair Share becoming the statewide toxics campaign director in 1986-87. Hired by Clean Water Action (CWA) for a campaign on waste incineration, she remained at Clean Water Action (CWA) for a total of 25 years, becoming the New England director and coordinating statewide campaigns and coalitions in Massachusetts. She left CWA to direct her energies to combating corporate domination of democracy. STEPHANIE KIMBALL is Coordinator and co-founder of 350 Madison, the local group of the climate movementbuilding organization 350.org. 350 Madison has been active in the fight against the Keystone XL pipeline, as well as launching divestment campaigns targeting the University of Wisconsin Foundation and the State of Wisconsin Investment Board. Stephanie is a member of Citizens Climate Lobby and Sierra Club, and is developing the Madison Climate Coalition. She is also a dentist. KIMBERLY KING is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology and an associated faculty member in the Department of Pan-African Studies at California State University, Los Angeles, where she teaches courses related to community, multiculturalism, gender, and prejudice and discrimination. Her research focuses on the psychological and social effects of poverty, race, class and gender discrimination and African American and lowincome college student success and barriers. Kimberly is the Secretary of Education for the Green Shadow Cabinet, a chapter officer and activist in her union, the California Faculty Association (CFA), the Southern CA representative for CFA to the American Association of University Professors, a member of the statewide Academic of the California State University, the Educators of Color Liaison to the Steering Committee of the Campaign for the Future of Higher Education, a Delegate to the LA County Federation of Labor, a Delegate to the California Teachers Association CA State Council, and the Chair of the Southern CA Public Education Coalition. Dr. King is also a producer and co-host of Beautiful Struggle, a weekly public affairs radio program on Pacificas KPFK (90.7 FM Los Angeles). Kimberly was born and raised in Oakland, CA, by her single mother and grandmother. She obtained her B.A. in Psychology from Yale College and her Ph.D. in Psychology from UCLA. ROBERT KOEHLER is a nationally syndicated columnist and self-proclaimed peace journalist. He has been a Chicago-based reporter, editor and columnist for over 30 years. His work has appeared in dozens of newspapers, and he is a featured writer on such sites as Huffington Post and Common Dreams. His website is commonwonders.
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com. His book, Courage Grows Strong at the Wound, a collection of essays on grief, single-parenting and the quest for peace, was published in 2010 by Xenos Press. He teaches a class at DePaul University called Peace Journalism; and is co-host, of a radio show called Voices of Peace. NANCIE KOERBER is the Founder, Executive Director and Principal Broker of Project REconomy, an Oregon nonprofit. Nancie has 35 years of experience in Real Estate, is a professional public speaker and trainer, and published writer. She has trained extensively at conventions and customized in-house programs on sales, marketing, barter, strategic planning, telephone skills, customer service, market trends, economics and winning in a down market. MIKE KONOPACKI is a labor cartoonist who has created comics on topics including union organizing, welfare reform, the World Bank, and the World Trade Organization, Konopacki illustrated the section, Wobblies in the 60s in Wobblies!: A Graphic History of the Industrial Workers of the World.[5] In collaboration with Howard Zinn and historian Paul Buhle, he co-wrote and illustrated A Peoples History of American Empire, a graphic novel adaptation of Zinns A Peoples History of the United States. MARGARET KOSTER is a retired medical and psychiatric social worker and is devoting her elderhood to Move to Amend. Having been an off and on activist since college days, she is drawn to focus now on the issue of illegitimate corporate rights because she sees our wonderful experiment in democratic self governance being corrupted by the increasing power of corporations over our government and the basic conditions of our lives. Every problem or cause she cares about is affected by the out of balance power of corporations. She is a third generation Californian who now resides near the small northern California town of Willits. MATT KOZLOWSKI is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a major in Political Science. Matt got his start in politics organizing students at UW-Madison around the issues of hunger and homelessness, higher education affordability, and environmental protection. In addition to his work with the Jill Stein for President campaign, Matt serves as the Treasurer for Progressive Dane and works to elect Progressives to local office. ERICA KRUG graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with degrees in Journalism and Elementary Education and then pursued a career as a ski instructor in Jackson, WY, and kayak tour leader in Yellowstone. Eventually she returned to Madison to pursue a teaching career. She teaches third grade and believes that a main purpose of education is to encourage students to take action when they notice injustices in the world. She was a 2012 participant in the Greater Madison Writing Project and her class will publish a book of ocean poems in July 2013, with all proceeds donated to Mission Blue. ELLEN LALUZERNE is a former Union organizer and co-producer of Madison Labor Radio. President of Diversified media Enterprises, the organization that produces Workers Independent News and The Peoples Mic. and coproducer of WORTs Labor Radio. DANIEL LEE is a member of the Move to Amend National Leadership team. He is also a coordinator of Los Angeles Move to Amend, a voting member of the Culver City Martin Luther King jr. Celebration committee, has worked with various Occupy groups in Los Angeles, New York and DC, is a graduate of USC of Cinematic Arts Critical Studies program and is currently enrolled in the UCLA Masters of Social Welfare program. FRANK LEVESQUE-NICOL is a sociology graduate student from University of Qubec in Montreal and a member of the ASS student union, which organized last years 6 month student strike for free education. Involved in the student movement since 2005, he participated in the 2005 student strike in Qubec, the 2006 anti-precarity movement in Toulouse, France, and the 2010 movement against the retirement reform in Lyon, France. He was coordinator of the social science faculty student union during the 2012 student strike and is still involved in the social struggles committee of ASS. He is currently preparing for an international student movement convention for Spring 2014 in Montreal.
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JOLIE LIZOTTE is a community organizer from Oshkosh, WI who is passionate about empowering youth and oppressed peoples to advocate for change. As a student leader at UW Madison she organized students around issues of environmental justice, workers rights, student debt, shared governance, and social justice. During her term on the United Council of UW Students Board of Directors she oversaw the legislative priorities of the organization and organized several student walk-outs during the 2011 Wisconsin budget repair bill protests. MAXWELL JOHN LOVE is the vice president of the U.S. Student Association, the nations oldest, largest, and most inclusive student association. He was a student organizer from University of Wisconsin-Madison where he majored in Political Science, and minored in Afro-American studies and Chicana/Latina studies. He lives and works in Washington, D.C. on issues like college access and affordability, student loan debt, strengthening statewide student associations, affirmative action, and other issues that make this country better for students and their families. JOHN MAA is an Assistant Professor of Surgery and Associate Director of the Surgery Clerkship for the UCSF. He earned his degree at Harvard Medical School, and served as a captain in the medical corps of the U.S. Army for nine years. He spent a year on Capitol Hill advocating for healthcare reform, and several years working with the California Legislature. In 2012, he assisted in the passage of legislation related to emergency care signed by Governor Brown, testifying before State Senate committees and assembling a coalition of healthcare agencies. In 2012 Dr. Maa personally launched a recount of the vote on the Prop 29 tobacco tax bill. He was recognized by the American College of Surgeons in 2013 with the Arthur Ellenberger National Award for Excellence in State Advocacy. BEN MANSKI is a scholar, lawyer and pro-democracy advocate. He is the president of the Liberty Tree Foundation, a strategy center he founded in 2004, a co-founder of Move to Amend, and an Associate Fellow with the Institute for Policy Studies. In 2010, he co-founded the Wisconsin Wave, which played a leading role in the Wisconsin uprising of 2011 and which continues today. In 2012, Manski managed the Jill Stein for President campaign. He currently serves as chief of staff in the Green Shadow Cabinet. In September, Manski begins a PhD program in Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Manski is both a union member and co-owner of PosiPair.com DAN MARKS recently became the first and second person to request an official tabulation by Congress of Constitutional Convention applications by State legislatures. His research of known records found 42 states with legal standing applications, 8 more than the required 34 states. His findings are being reviewed by the U.S. House Judiciary committee now to establish rules to count these applications for the first time. If he is correct or close to correct, our nation will hold its first Article V convention to propose amendments in U.S. history. GEORGE MARTIN is the former Co-Chair of United for Peace & Justice and Program Director of Peace Action WI, currently serves on the Boards/Steering Committees of the Liberty Tree Foundation, Peace Action Education Fund, U.S. Peace Council, U.S. Social Forum and has been a delegate to the World Peace Council, World Social Forum and an NGO delegate to the United Nations. Martin, a former Fellow of the Marquette U. Center for Peacemaking, has been honored with the WI Network for Peace & Justices Life Time Activist Award, with the Peace & Justice Studies Associations Social Courage Award and by the tribe of his roots in Ghana as a chief with the name Nii Adjetey. MIKE MCCABE is executive director of the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign, a nonpartisan watchdog group that tracks money in politics and advocates for campaign finance reform. Mike has worked in or around government in Wisconsin since 1981. Before joining the Democracy Campaigns staff, he was the legislative liaison and communications director for the Madison Metropolitan School District for six years. He also is a former State Assembly candidate, legislative aide, newspaper reporter and Peace Corps volunteer, and previously ran a statewide civic education program for the nonprofit Wisconsin Taxpayers Alliance. BOB MCCHESNEY is a professor at the University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign. He is the Gutgsell Endowed Professor in the Department of Communication. His work concentrates on the history and political economy of communication, emphasizing the role media play in democratic and capitalist societies. McChesney has a particular
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interest in the state of journalism, and the relationship of media systems and structures to effective self-governance. He is the co-founder of Free Press, a national media reform organization. From 20022012 McChesney hosted the Media Matters[1] weekly radio program every Sunday afternoon on WILL-AM radio. KAREN MCKIM is the coordinator of the Wisconsin Grassroots Networks Election Integrity Action Team. She retired after a 30-year career in public service having worked for all three branches of state governmentas a management-audit supervisor for the legislatures audit bureau; a quality assurance manager for the Medicaid program; and as a courts administration analyst for the Supreme Court. She lives in Waunakee and blogs about political conversation skills:karenmckim.wordpress.com EMILY MILLS is a freelance writer, musician, photographer, actor, and event organizer living in Madison, Wisconsin. She is the new editor of Our Lives, Madisons LGBT&XYZ magazine, printed six times a year and available for free by mail subscription or around town. She is also the editor-at-large for Dane101.com an independent media outlet serving the state and plays with the band Little Red Wolf. ANANDA MIRILLI is the Restorative Justice Program Manager at the YWCA in Madison, WI. She is a graduate student at University of Wisconsin, Madison, department of Education Leadership and Policy Analysis. She worked both in college and community settings with middle and high school youth. She is a native from Brazil and worked in human resources and administration until 2006, when she went back to school to embrace her passion racial justice and social education. Her research is on strategies to increase student of color engagement, despite the systematic push out that is observed in our schools nationwide. She is a former board member of Nuestro Mundo bilingual school, Treasurer of the Latino Education Council, a board member of Unidos Against Domestic Violence, chair of the Latino Academy steering committee, and a dedicated mother of a ten-year old daughter. DAVE MITCHELL is interested in the power of local communities to fight back against unjust state and federal laws through local government and collective action. His experiences working to pass local resolutions refusing to enforce the PATRIOT Act led him to law school at Northeastern University in Boston. There, he got involved in coalition building around drones while on internship at the Bill of Rights Defense Committee, where he helped draft model city ordinances banning and regulating their use. As a member of Northeasterns chapter of the National Lawyers Guild, Dave has worked on ways to encourage fellow members to confront privilege and and oppressive intra- and inter-group dynamics. SHERRI MITCHELL was born and raised on the Penobscot Indian reservation. With a JD and Certificate in Indigenous Peoples Law and Policy, Univ. of Arizonas James E. Rogers School of Law, shes licensed to practice in Maine and several tribal courts. Shes advocated for Native American rights for over 20 years and international Indigenous rights for the past five years. She received the Mahoney Dunn International Human Rights and Humanitarian Award (2010) for research into nation state complicity with human rights violations against Indigenous peoples. Currently, shes Executive Director, Land Peace Foundation for protection of Indigenous lands and sacred sites. RICHARD MONJE, a Vice President of Workers United/SEIU, a union in the forefront of fighting the attack on workers in the Midwest, is known for organizing low-wage workers. His political awakening came when he was shot by sheriffs following the Chicano Moratorium. Richards organized with Texas Farm workers, I.B.E.W., Steelworkers and Workers United. He helped create the unions leadership school where rank and file members take part in creating the political roadmap for the union. Long active in the fight for immigrant rights, hes joinedMove to Amend s Leadership Team and is Secretary of Labor, Green Shadow Cabinet. SANGITA NAYAK is an experienced organizer, communicator, and teacher grounded in effective movement practice. Prior to teaching, she organized in community on issues such as paid sick days with 9to5 and refugee access to basic services at the Hmong American Womens Association. She has consulted for national and local
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agencies, such as Freedom Inc. As part of her social justice vision, she invests in the future of her community as elementary teacher at an MPS Montessori. GEORGE NAYLOR, National Family Farm Coalition past president. Graduating from the UC, Berkeley, he returned to the family farm in 1976 near Churdan, IA to grow corn and soybeans. During the1980s farm crisis, he was active in the American Agriculture Movement, Iowa Farm Unity Coalition and North American Farm Alliance and on Governor Tom Vilsacks Ag Task Force-Water Summit. Hes attended international trade talks in Cancun, Geneva, Miami, Sao Paolo, and Hong Kong. Naylor was a plaintiff in a class action lawsuit against biotech companies, including Monsanto, on the negative economic impacts on family farmers by genetically modified crops. DAVID NEWBY is past president of the WI AFL-CIO and serves as president of the WI Fair Trade Coalition. JOHN NICHOLS writes about politics for The Nation magazine as its Washington correspondent. He is a contributing writer for The Progressive and In These Times and the associate editor of the Capital Times, the daily newspaper in Madison, Wisconsin SHAMAKO NOBEL is an artist, organizer, and author that is based out of the Bay Area in California. As an artist, Shamako Noble has performed all over the United States and shared the stage with such acts as Talib Kwali, Zion-I, The Jacka, OneBeLo and many others. He has participated in numerous local and national events including Netroots Nation, the March for our Lives in 2008 in St. Paul Minnesota, The U.S. Social Forum, various National Truth Commissions and The U.S. Court of Women on Poverty in the U.S. In 2012, Shamako was the Racial and Social Justice Organizer for the Jill Stein/Cheri Honkala campaign. As an activist and organizer he is best known for his work with the Hip Hop Congress. Shamako helped co-found the Congress, along with Reali Robinson. Shamako also currently serves as the Director of Education for the Hip-Hop Congress, a grassroots organization whose mission is to inspire civic action and cultivate cultural creativity. ISABEL NUEZ is an associate professor in the Center for Policy Studies and Social Justice at Concordia University Chicago. She holds a Ph.D. in Curriculum Studies from the University of Illinois at Chicago, an M.Phil. in Cultural Studies from Birmingham University, England, and a J.D. from the UCLA School of Law. She has taught in state schools of the United States and the United Kingdom, and is a founding member of CReATE (Chicagoland Researchers and Advocates for Transformative Education), a group of volunteer faculty engaged in inquiry and dialogue around education policy. AMITABH PAL is managing Editor of The Progressive. He has interviewed the Dalai Lama, Mikhail Gorbachev, Jimmy Carter and John Kenneth Galbraith for the magazine. In addition to his role as the Managing Editor, Pal is the CoEditor of the Progressive Media Project. GREG PALAST Greg Palast is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Billionaires and Ballot Bandits, Armed Madhouse and The Best Democracy Money Can Buy and the highly acclaimed Vultures Picnic, named Book of the Year on BBC Newsnight Review. Palast is best known in his native USA as the journalist who, for the Observer (UK), broke the story of how Jeb Bush purged thousands of Black Florida citizens from voter rolls before the 2000 election, thereby handing the White House to his brother George. He has won a record six Project Censored awards for reporting the news American media doesnt want you to hear. LELAND PAN is a member of the Dane County Board of Supervisors, representing a largely student district in downtown Madison. He is a member of the Student Labor Action Coalition at the UW-Madison and grew up in the Madison area. JOHN PECK grew up on a 260 acre farm in central Minnesota, has a B.A. in Economics from Reed College and a PhD in Land Resources from UW-Madison. He has been the Executive Director of Family Farm Defenders for the
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last decade, and is also a part-time instructor of Economics and Environmental Studies at Madison College. He participated in the 2007 Nyeleni Food Sovereignty Conference in Mali, the Fifth Conference of La Via Campesina in Mozambique in 2008, as well as the 2009 U.N. Climate Change Conference in Denmark. REV EDWARD PINKNEY is the founder of the Black Autonomy Network Community Organization which works for economic and social justice in the Benton Harbor, MI. He has been one of the most outspoken critics of the NAACP. Over his years working with BANCO, Reverent has exposed the corruption of the justice system of the United States. His recent campaigns have involved challenging the power of corporate giants like Whirlpool who have profiting at the expense of the residents of Benton Harbor and Michigan. In 2008 Reverend Pinkney ran for Green Party candidate in the 6th District Congressional Race against U.S. Rep. Fred Upton, a political heir to the Whirlpool Corporation- Harbor Shores Community Redevelopment Inc. At the time the Reverend was in prison because he criticized Judge Butzbaugh. He was sentenced to 3 to 10 years in prison. This action was a violation of the Reverent Pinckneys 1st amendment rights. Currently Reverent Pinckney is serving his 4 year probation. SIERRA POPE serves as Co-Chair of South Central WI Move to Amend. PAT POPPLE is a retired elementary school administrator and teacher. For the past 5 years, she has actively been involved in the study of silica sand mining, processing and transload, heading up Concerned Chippewa Citizens and the transition to Save the Hills Alliance, Inc. She has been instrumental in making connections and assisting others at the grassroots level to organize groups throughout the state and region. She has also encouraged and developed educational events, freely shares materials developed, assists groups in grassroots organizing, and is editor of the FRAC-SAND SENTINEL and contributor to the website ccc-wis.com. ADAM PORTON has worked on numerous grassroots issue-based and electoral campaigns. During the 2011 Wisconsin Uprising he was the field organizer for the Wisconsin Wave Project, which created a politically independent space for social and political resistance during the uprising and beyond. He is currently National Director of the Liberty Tree Foundation. JACKSON POTTER is a Chicago Public Schools graduate who, as a high school activist, led a walk-out at Whitney Young in 1995 to push for equitable funding for schools in Illinois. After college he worked at Englewood High School and was the union delegate there when former CEO Arne Duncan called the school a culture of failure and started a phase-out in 2005. Potter then began to resist corporate school reform, joined a rank-and-file group of teachers, and formed the Renaissance 2010 committee within the Chicago Teachers Union. He fought to give teachers a right to sit at the table with the CUE (Chicagoans United for Education) coalition. He and Al Ramirez formed CORE in May of 2008 and the Grassroots Education Movement, with community organizations, shortly thereafter. In June of 2010, CORE won the general election for the leadership of the Chicago Teachers Union, the third largest teachers local in the country. Jackson currently serves the CTU as the staff coordinator NANCY PRICE is currently Co-chair of the Alliance for Democracy working to realize AfDs mission to build a populist movement to end corporate domination, establish true democracy and build a just society with a sustainable and equitable economy. She edits and writes for AfDs Justice Rising magazine. Shes also a member of MoveToAmends National Leadership Team, and on the Leadership Team of the Womens International League for Peace and Freedoms new Earth Democracy Issue Group and writes for WILPFs Peace & Freedom magazine. TODD PRICE is Director of Leadership and Specialized Roles at National Louis University. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in Curriculum and Instruction, specialization Education Communications Technology, where he wrote: Classrooms without Walls: An Exploration in the Management of Video Distance Learning (VDL) (2010). His recent books include Defending Public Education from Corporate Takeover (2013); The Myth and Reality of No Child Left Behind: Public Education and High Stakes Testing (2009); and several articles and chapters, including, Wiring the World in Campus Inc. Corporate Power in the Ivory Tower (2000).
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MICHAEL PRYSNER is the co-founder of March Forward!, an organization of active-duty members of the U.S. military and veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan conflict that encourages current active duty service personnel to resist deployment. He is a U.S. army veteran who served in Iraq. He serves on the Board of Directors of Veterans For Peace. BEN PTASHNIK is a former Vermont State Senator, and a life-long human rights and environmental activist. Born in Jaffa, Israel, Ben is the son of Holocaust survivors. He became the first executive director of the New England Natural Organic Farmers Association (NOFA), worked against nuclear energy as part of the Clamshell Alliance, founded the EarthRight Institute and the Vermont Businesses for Social Responsibility (VBSR). He was Chair of the Board of the VT Public Interest Research Group (VPIRG), for 8 years. In 1994 Ben initiated and organized the Vermont Campaign for Clean Elections, aimed at driving big money out of politics through campaign finance reform. KAJA RABANE is a founding member of South Central Wisconsin Move to Amend (SCWMTA). She helped lead the effort to place the first resolution on the ballot in the country calling for a constitutional amendment to undo Citizens United by making clear that corporations are not people and money is not speech. She is currently working with legislators and a coalition of groups to place a similar question on the ballot statewide. Outside of Move to Amend, Kaja has been involved in an array of campaigns focused on labor issues, public education and the environment, many of which have included communications work and citizen lobbying. CAROLYN RAFFENSPERGER, M.A., J.D. is executive director of the Science and Environmental Health Network, a national environmental and public health organization dedicated to justice and health in present and future generations. (www.sehn.org) Carolyn worked as an archaeologist in the desert southwest before joining the environmental movement in the 1980s. A lawyer, Carolyn has developed laws and policies on the precautionary principle, ecological medicine and future generations. She considers her clients to be the future generations of all beings. LAUREN REGAN is founder, Executive Director and Lead Attorney for the Civil Liberties Defense Center, a nonprofit organization that defends progressive and radical social change activists in criminal cases, civil rights actions, and SLAPP defense-corporations suing activists to try and stop or deter campaigns that threaten their profit. CLDC has defended over 800 activists in 10 years in cases ranging from civil disobedience, sabotage, grand jury resistance, police misconduct litigation, and much more. CLDC coordinates legal support and know your rights trainings for tar sands resistance and climate activists and monitors current governmental attempts to restrict civil liberties and dissent. SANDY REID is an Editorial Board member and Production Manager of the Peoples Tribune newspaper. She is also the founder and coordinator of Speakers for a New America, the speakers bureau of the Peoples Tribune and its bilingual sister publication, the Tribuno del Pueblo and a founder of Peoples Tribune Radio. GREG ROSENBERG is a principal with Rosenberg and Associates, with a consulting practice focusing in the areas of organizational development, affordable and sustainable housing, urban and rural agriculture, software development, research, web development, and all things relating to community land trusts. Greg is a former executive director of the Madison Area Community Land Trust and a founding board member of both the National Community Land Trust Network and the Community Land Trust Academy, and served as the first Academy Director through 2011. He has an undergraduate degree from the University of Michigan, a Masters in Social Work degree from Boston University, and a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Wisconsin law School. COLEEN ROWLEY, as an FBI Agent and Minneapolis Division Legal Counsel, brought some of the pre 9-11 lapses to light in May 2002. She subsequently testified to the Senate Judiciary Committee about some of the endemic problems facing the FBI and the intelligence community and was one of three whistleblowers chosen as persons of the year by TIME magazine in 2002. In April 2003, following an unsuccessful attempt to warn the Director and other
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administration officials about the dangers of launching the invasion of Iraq, Rowley stepped down from her (GS-14) legal position to go back to being a (GS-13) FBI Special Agent. She retired from the FBI at the end of 2004. REBECCA RYAN is a Madison, Wisconsin based entrepreneur, investor, and writer. She facilitates the Madison/Dane County LION group, and launched LionInvesting.com to help educate others about LION and Slow Money concepts. CARL SACK is an ecosocialist environmental and social justice activist. He is a member of Madison Action for Mining Alternatives, a local group standing in solidarity with those fighting new mining throughout the state. He has researched, written about, and organized protest around the proposed Penokee open-pit iron mine since 2004, and remains active in other struggles against metallic sulfide and frac sand mining. He is also a member of AFT Local 3220 (TAA) and staff member of the Wisconsin Network for Peace and Justice. JIM SAUBER is the Chief of Staff to the President of National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC), where he served many years as its Research Director. He joined the staff of the NALC as an economist in 1985 and has participated in seven rounds of collective bargaining with the United States Postal Service. He is responsible for coordinating the research, collective bargaining, public policy and legislative activities of the union. He serves as the Vice Chairman of the Employee Thrift Advisory Council and represents the NALC on as an executive committee member of Union Global Union (UNI). He has a bachelors degree from the University of Michigan and a masters degree from Johns Hopkins University. OMKAR SAWARDEKAR is a graduate student at the UW-Madison School of Social Work and a field manager for the Liberty Tree Foundations Wisconsin Wave project. JOE SCARRY is an IT consultant and anti-war activist based in Chicago. He is a member of St. Lukes Lutheran Church of Logan Square, and a participant in Chicago World Cant Wait, Anti-War Committee of Chicago, and local other activist groups. He is currently working to spur the development of a nationwide network of grassroots antidrones groups, the Network to Stop Drone Surveillance and Warfare (NSDSW). His blog is Scarry Thoughts. MO SCHMIDT is a University of Margburg student in Germany and one of the administrators of the International Student Movement (ISM) platform, one of the premier spaces for collaboration and news on the most current happenings in student movements around the world. On the local level he is part of the general students committee at the University of Marburg in charge of international networking, and has helped organize the Free Education Movement Marburg (FreEduMM). In the past, he has helped to organize tuition fee boycotts, as well as regional and national network called Bildungsstreik, or Education Strike. DAVID SCHWAB graduated from Williams College in 2008 with a degree in Political Science and Russian. He has worked as an online organizer for GreenChange.org and community network organizer for the Jill Stein for President campaign, and is currently the canvass director for the Wisconsin Wave. LINDA SHEEHAN is the Executive Director of the Earth Law Center, which works to develop new laws and governance models that acknowledge the natural worlds inherent rights to exist, thrive and evolve. For her efforts in fight[ing] pollution of the Pacific and the streams and rivers that flow into it, she received a California Coastal Hero award. She is a Summer Session Faculty member at Vermont Law School teaching Earth Law. She holds a B.S. in chemical engineering from the MIT, a M.P.P. from the UC, Berkeleys Goldman School of Public Policy, and a J.D. from UC Berkeley Boalt Hall School of Law. CINDY SHEEHAN is a prominent anti-war activist who began an encampment near President Bushs ranch in Crawford, Texas after her son Casey was killed while serving in Iraq. Between Camp Casey operations, Sheehan traveled extensively to join anti-war rallies and to meet with activists and leaders from around the world. She is credited with having revived the anti-war protest, and being the face for the peace and justice movement. Her
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published works include an account of her first year of activism called Not One More Mothers Child, a collection of her writing and speeches, Dear President Bush, and Peace Mom: A Mothers Journey through Heartache to Activism. JONATHAN SIMON is author of CODE RED: Computerized Elections And The New American Century and a co-founder and currently Executive Director of Election Defense Alliance (www.ElectionDefenseAlliance.org), a nonprofit organization founded in 2006 to restore observable vote counting and electoral integrity as the foundation of American democracy. A former political survey research analyst in Washington, DC. Dr. Simon has also authored numerous papers related to electoral polling and statistical analysis, appearing in several election integrity-related films, as several dozen live programs. Dr. Simon is a graduate of Harvard College (78), New York University School of Law (86), and New York Chiropractic College (90). He is admitted to the Bar of Massachusetts. COLEMAN SMITH is a Southern peace activist challenging the military norm throughout the region. He has experience as a community organizer with social, economic, and environmental justice issues. His skills include public outreach, facilitation, networking, fundraising and coalition building. He is a War Tax Refuser, and as a Nonviolent Direct Action Trainer and Legal Observer, he helps others prepare for creative mass actions and civil disobedience. As a field organizer for the New South Network of War Resisters, he works to expose the dominance of the Military Industrial Complex in our society and the interdependence of nuclear power, nuclear weapons, and uranium waste industries. RACHEL SMOLKER is Codirector of Biofuelwatch where she works to expose and oppose the impacts of large scale bioenergy on public health, biodiversity and climate. She participates in various networks, nationally and internationally to advance climate justice. Rachel has a Ph.D. in ecology/zoology and worked previously as a field biologist. RANDA SOLICK is a child of the activist 60s, having traveled through Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan to India before most people there had electricity or running water, with other travels in Peru, Bolivia, Thailand, Costa Rica, and Europe. She raised three terrific daughters who also love traveling. Randa finished her B.A. and a teaching credential working nights as a hospice nurse, taught middle school for 20 years, finished a M.A. and began work on corporations, water, and fracking. She divides time working with incredible Santa Cruz, CA WILPF women on environmental justice and human rights, loving up her grandkids and her garden. STEVE SPITZ is currently co-chair of the End Corporate Rule Issue Organizing Team of Progressive Democrats of America (PDA). He is also PDAs Co-Coordinator for the State of Virginia. He has talked with numerous members of Congress and their staff on issues ranging from constitutional amendments to civil rights laws to health care reform. Stephen spent 35 years as a civil rights and constitutional law attorney, project director, teacher, writer, and trainer with the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, among other places. JOAN STALLARD has coordinated MoveOn DC, co-coordinates CodePink in DC, and now is working with Move To Amend in DC, particularly in developing a countrywide team to push Congress to pass a Constitutional amendment to state that corporations are not people and money is not speech. She is often in congressional offices and in committee hearings, sometimes for appointments but more often for drop-in meetings or actions (some arrestable). She works towards tighter coordination with a wide range of activist organizations and issues. She is old, but lucid (and noisy). JILL STEIN is a mother, physician, pioneering environmental-health advocate, and longtime Massachusetts resident, who began advocating for the environment as a human health issue in 1998, realizing lawmakers were not protecting children from harm because of the influence of big money. She worked to pass the Clean Election Law, later repealed by the legislature. Recognized for leadership in successful campaigns for a healthy environment, she accepted the call in 2002 to run for governor under the Green-Rainbow Party banner. Dr. Stein was the 2012 Green Party presidential nominee. Today she leads the Green Shadow Cabinet.
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NORM STOCKWELL is a community radio journalist at WORT-FM and freelance reporter for national and international outlets. DAVID SWANSON is the author of 4 books including War is a Lie and is the host of Talk Nation Radio. He has been a journalist, activist, organizer, educator, and agitator. He currently serves as the Campaign Coordinator for the on-line activist organization Roots Action, is on the Communications Committee of Veterans For Peace, and is the Secretary of Peace for the Green Shadow Cabinet. He blogs at www.warisacrime.org and www.davidswanson.org. DEBRA SWEET helped begin World Cant Wait to drive out the Bush regime. She leads its mission to stop the crimes of our government, including the unjust occupations of Afghanistan; targeted killing and indefinite detention; and vast surveillance of whole populations. Since the age of 19, when she confronted Richard Nixon during a face-to-face meeting and told him to stop the war in Vietnam, she has been leading opposition to U.S. wars and invasions. Named Humanist Heroine of the Year in 2012 by the American Humanist Association, she says, Stop thinking like an American, and start thinking about humanity! COLIN SYKES is a retired chemical engineer and as an active member of the Corpus Christi (Texas) Progressive Populace Caucus, he works with them to reverse the Supreme Court ruling in the Citizens United versus the FEC. He is also a co-founder of the Move to Amend Corpus Christi branch and advocate through public speaking and by soliciting signatures to demand an amendment of the U.S. constitution. He is a Board Member of the Unitarian Universalists for a Just Economic Community and for ten years the Chairperson of the Social Action and Community Outreach of the Corpus Christi Unitarian Universalist Church. ALEXANDRA THEBERT is executive director of Save the Wild U.P., a grassroots group dedicated to the preservation of cultural and environmental resourced in Michigans Upper Peninsula. Thebert graduated from the University of Illinois at Chicago with a Bachelors in Urban Planning and Public Policy and worked for several years as national organizer for Physicians for a National Health Program before moving back home to the northwoods of Michigan. She has given talks, organized events, and raised money all across the nation to highlight working class issues and became active in preserving and improving the wild U.P. upon discovering her favorite childhood fishing holes were dangerously contaminated with mercury. ELLEN THOMAS has been an anti-nuclear, peace & justice activist since 1984. Maintained a vigil for global nuclear disarmament for 18 years outside the White House. In 1990 co-founded Proposition One Committee, a non-profit organization dedicated to helping citizens vote for (or against) global nuclear disarmament and conversion of the war machine to provide for human needs. The first major success was DC Initiative 37, which won on September 14, 1993. This has been introduced to the U.S. House of Representatives by DCs Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton each session since 1994, most recently as the Nuclear Abolition and Economic and Energy Conversion Act. Co-founded and managed the Peace House in Washington DC 2000-2009. Co-Chair of Womens International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) Disarm and End Wars Committee since 2010. GALEN TYLER is a formerly homeless father. He was an organizer for the Kensington Welfare Rights Union from 1997-2003. He is a founding member of the Poor PeoplesEconomic Human Rights Campaign and he is part of its leadership body. From 1999 to 2006 Galen sat as a board member on the Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights Network of which he is also a founding member. In 2003 he became the Executive Director of KWRU. He played leadership role in the Philadelphia Affordable Housing Coalition and the Campaign for Housing Justice. Galen still remains a low-income father working with all sections of the population to put an end to homelessness and poverty. CAROL URNER in the 1950s worked on nuclear issues as AFSC Chicago Peace staffer. Served as first ED of IllinoisWisconsin FCL. 1961-66 Fully engaged in Women for Peace working for first test ban treaty, Sent to Hiroshima by WISP. 1966-2000: Husband did development work with third world governments while she usually without
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pay - did human rights and anti-militarism work among the poorest and oppressed. She learned U.S. foreign policy negative impacts the hard way 2000-NOW: after her husbands death she returned to the U.S. determined to concentrate on demilitarization and human rights. Now she is a WILPF grassroots activist. KURT VON METTENHEIM is Professor of Political Sociology at the Social and Legal Sciences Department, and Faculty Member in the Doctoral Program in Public Administration and Government at the Getulio Vargas Foundation So Paulo Business School. Dr Mettenheim is author of numerous articles on public banking, democracy and sustainable development. Dr Mettenheim is currently conducting research on banking and microfinance in Brazil as fellow of the University of California, Irvine Institute for Money, Technolgy and Financial Inclusion and organizing an international conference on alternative banking and social inclusion. He was founding editor of the FGV Brazil Forecast - GVprev and currently senior consultant on Brazil and emerging markets at the Gerson Lehrman Group Councils. DAN WALKNER teaches English at Memorial High School in Madison. Dan believes that students need to learn about environmental ethics early because that makes them more likely to be cognizant of these issues throughout their lives. He has written, recorded and produced half a dozen music albums and has had some of his poetry and short fiction published in various publications. Originally from Two Rivers, Wisconsin, Dans writing is informed by a conservation ethic and small town Americana ideals. VICTOR WALLIS teaches in the Liberal Arts department at the Berklee College of Music and is managing editor of the journal Socialism and Democracy (http://sdonline.org). His articles on ecology and politics have also appeared in Monthly Review, Capitalism Nature Socialism, Organization & Environment, New Political Science, and the Historical-Critical Dictionary of Marxism, and have been translated into twelve languages. JOHN WASHBURN has been a software quality professional since 1994 and a software developer from 1985 to 1994. Mr. Washburn has extensive experience in most areas of software quality including test planning, test execution, test tracking, defect analysis, root cause analysis, software configuration management, tool integration and test automation. Mr. Washburn is fluent in 4 programming languages: Java, C/C++, PERL, and Visual Basic. He is also a competent programmer in nearly a dozen additional languages. WILLIAM Bill WATKINS was born in Harlem, New York and raised in South-central Los Angeles. He received his B.A. in Political Science from California State University at Los Angeles in 1970, hi Masters of Education from University of Illinois at Chicago in 1979, and his Ph. D. in Public Policy Analysis-Education from University of Illinois at Chicago in 1986. He currently serves as Professor and Coordinator of the Ph.D. Program in the College of Education, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, at University of Illinois at Chicago. Bill authored The White Architects of Black Education (2001), was an editor and contributor to The Assault on Public Education (2012), an editor and contributor to Black Protest Thought and Education (2005), and lead editor and contributor to Race and Education (2001). Additionally, Bill has authored over 75 book chapters, articles, and book reviews. Bills research interests explore the political sociology of knowledge. KENT WATSON is a producer of the 8 OClock Buzz and board member at WORT-FM. Former social media intern with WORT. Community Outreach and Event Coordinator with the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction at Emerson Elementary. Freelance musician and recording engineer. JUSTIN WEDES is an educator and activist living in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn. A graduate of the University of Michigan with degrees in Physics and Linguistics with High Honors, Justin has taught formerly truant and low-income youth in subjects ranging from science to media literacy and social justice activism. A founding member of the New York City General Assembly (NYCGA), the group that brought you Occupy Wall Street, Justin continues his education activism with the Grassroots Education Movement, Class Size Matters, and now serves as the Co-Principal of the Paul Robeson Freedom School.
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LOIS WEINER is a life-long teacher union activist and educator and has been an officer of three union locals. With Mary Compton she co-edited The Global Assault on Teaching, Teachers, and Their Unions. Internationally known for her work on urban teacher education, she received the American Educational Research Association (AERA) award for research on teacher education for her book, Preparing teachers for urban schools. DEBRA WHITE PLUME is an enrolled member of the Oglala Band of the Lakota Nation and has lived on the Pine Ridge, SD Indian Reservation all her life. She received a BS degree in Human Services in the 1980s and worked for her Tribe and College for many years in human service and administrative jobs, and served as adjunct faculty until retiring in 1996 to pursue her Treaty and Human Rights work full time. Debra conducted original research projects on a variety of topics, based on training from the Kennedy School of Government of Harvard University that she received early in her career at the Oglala Lakota College, including coordinating the development of the Colleges first accredited Graduate Program, and the first of its kind in Indian Country. Debra also provided technical assistance in the development of her Tribes first Lakota tradition-based childrens mental health program. In 1997, White Plume co-founded a grassroots non-governmental organization called Owe Aku, Bring Back the Way, to focus on social change work, cultural preservation, and Lakota Treaty Territory defense work. With her husband Alex and their extended families, the family engaged in the planting of industrial hemp as a method of environmentally friendly land use for economic development, hoping to impact not only the 85% unemployment on the Pine Ridge, but also to encourage a return to the land by Lakota families who have been subjected to policies of the Bureau of Indian Affairs which separate families from the land. Since 2005, Debra has been engaged in Sacred Water Protection Work through the Crying Earth Rise Up community education and action campaign of Owe Aku to challenge the worlds largest uranium producer, Cameco, Inc., as it attempts to open four uranium mines 30 minutes from the southern border of Debras homeland on the Pine Ridge. In 2008 Debra served as spokesperson to Tribal Council to exclude Rex Oil, a corporation attempting to mine gas and oil on the Pine Ridge, resulting in a vote that barred the corporation. White Plume will be the keynote speaker at the Closing Plenary. CHRIS WILLIAMS is a long-time environmental activist and author of Ecology and Socialism: Solutions to Capitalist Ecological Crisis . Hes Chair of the Science Dept, Packer Collegiate Institute and Adjunct Professor, Dept. of Chemistry/ Physical Science, Pace University. His writings have appeared in Z Magazine, Green Left Weekly, ClimateandCapitalism.com, Common Dreams, AlterNet, Counterpunch, The Indypendent, Dissident Voice, International Socialist Review, Truth Out, Socialist Worker, and ZNet. Dec/January 2102, he reported from Fukushima. Summer 2012, as Lannan writer-in-residence in Marfa, Texas, he began work on his book on the Commons and was recently awarded a Lannan Cultural Freedom Fellowship to continue this work. EGBERTO WILLIES is a member of the Move to Amend National Leadership team. He is a board member and Vice President of Coffee Party USA where he hosts the radio show Politics Done Right. He is a political activist, author, political blogger (http://egbertowillies.com), & radio cohost of Move To Amend Reports. In 2012 he won the 2nd Annual CNN iReport Spirit Award. In 2013 he became a DailyKOS featured writer. He worked with both Occupy Houston and co-organized Occupy Kingwood. He is currently active in the Stand With Texas Women movement that has reinvigorated the progressive movement in Texas. JOSH WISE is president of the MN Fair Trade Coalition. BARBARA WITH is an activist and author of STEAL THIS BOOK NOT MY VOTE and co founder of the Wisconsin Citizens Media Coop. She has been working as a citizen journalist since the Wisconsin Uprising broke up in February 2011. She currently lives on Madeline Island and is working to stop a 22-mile open pit mountaintop removal iron ore mine from being built in the Penokee Hills on the shores of Lake Superior.

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JULIE WOESTEHOFF is the executive director of Chicago-based Parents United for Responsible Education and a co-founder of Parents Across America. Julies work on key education issues like high-stakes testing and school governance has earned her a Ford Foundation leadership award and recognition as one of the 100 Most Powerful Women in Chicago. Shes a veteran local school council member and the proud parent of two Chicago Public Schools graduates. Her chapter, Just Parents Challenge Arne Duncan, Mayor Daley and Renaissance 2010, was recently published in the book, Educational Courage. ANN WRIGHT is a retired Army Reserve colonel and a 29-year veteran of the Army and Army Reserves. She was also a diplomat in Nicaragua, Grenada, Somalia, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Sierra Leone, Micronesia, Afghanistan and Mongolia. She resigned from the Department of State on March 19, 2003, in opposition to the Iraq war. She is the co-author of Dissent: Voices of Conscience (http://www.voicesofconscience.com), and currently serves as the Secretary of State for the Green Shadow Cabinet. KATIE ZAMAN is a PhD student in Sociology at UW-Madison and has been a member of the Teaching Assistants Association since 2006, and works on the organizing and publicity committees. She teaches and mentors undergraduate students at UW, and is active in community organizing against racism. She is also a proud single mother to the coolest 8th grader in Madison. KEVIN ZEESE co-directs Its Our Economy and is an attorney who has been a political activist since graduating from George Washington Law School in 1980. He works on peace, economic justice, criminal law reform and reviving American democracy. He advocates for democratizing the economy as co-director of Its Our Economy and works to oppose to war and shrink the military budget through Come Home America. He has been active in independent and third party political campaigns including for state legislative offices in Maryland, governor of California and U.S. President. Zeese serves as president of Common Sense for Drug Policy. He is a co-founder of the Drug Policy Foundation, now known as Drug Policy Alliance.

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DEMOCRACY CONVENTIOn | CONVENERS

LIBERTY TREE. The Democracy Convention is a project of the Liberty Tree Foundation for the Democratic Revolution. Liberty Tree is uniquely committed to building a new democracy movement for the U.S.A.. We provide vital support to grassroots campaigns for democratic reform in many areas of American life, and bring those campaigns together to form a united movement for democracy. The Democracy Convention is one of many initiatives Liberty Tree has undertaken since its founding in 2004; others include No More Stolen Elections!, Democratizing Education Network, Local Democracy Convention, Bring the Guard Home! Its the Law, U.S. Social Forum Democracy Track, Move to Amend, Shut the Chamber!, and the Wisconsin Wave. www.libertytreefoundation.org in partnership with . . . ALLIANCE FOR DEMOCRACY works to free all people from corporate domination of politics, economics, the environment, culture and information; to establish true democracy; and to create a just society with a sustainable, equitable economy. The Alliance is a chapter-based organization that brings people together to build a progressive populist movement to end the corporate domination of our economy, our government, our culture, our media and the environment. It is time to end corporate rule. www.thealliancefordemocracy.org CODEPINK: WOMEN FOR PEACE AND FREEDOM is a women-initiated grassroots peace and social justice movement working to end U.S. funded wars and occupations, to challenge militarism globally, and to redirect our resources into health care, education, green jobs and other life-affirming activities. Wont you join us? www.codepink4peace.org GREEN ACTION USA is a new civic organization dedicated to achieving an ecological, just, democratic, and peaceful society. Green Action USA supports a Green New Deal for America, a comprehensive program to end unemployment and debt in America by transitioning to a new green economy, a new financial system, and a new democracy. ITS OUR ECONOMY seeks to educate, organize and mobilize Americans to shift the power from concentrated capital to the people. We work to create an economy that is democratized, where people have greater control over their economic lives and greater influence over the direction of the economy. A critical ingredient for creating a real democracy where the peoples voices are heard requires creating a democratized economy in which people have more influence, crony capitalism that created the wealth divide is ended and the necessities of Americans are met. We seek to empower Americans to organize an uncompromising independent movement that takes power from the economic elites and redistributes it to the people. www.itsoureconomy.us
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MOVE TO AMEND is a coalition of hundreds of organizations and hundreds of thousands of individuals committed to social and economic justice, ending corporate rule, and building a vibrant democracy that is genuinely accountable to the people, not corporate interests. We are calling for an amendment to the U.S. Constitution to unequivocally state that inalienable rights belong to human beings only, and that money is not a form of protected free speech under the First Amendment and can be regulated in political campaigns. www.MovetoAmend.org NATIONAL ELECTION INTEGRITY COALITION (NEIC) is a non-partisan movement-building network for thousands of grassroots activists and organizations working to counter the privatization and concealment of our public democratic elections. The NEIC brings together our most experienced and knowledgeable activists to help educate, train, coordinate, and strategize with the growing Election Integrity community. We work to build networks and coalitions with the broader American and International movements for democracy, transparency, and government accountability. www.electionintegritycoalition.org PARTICIPATORY BUDGETING PROJECT (PBP) is a non-profit organization that helps communities decide how to spend public money, primarily in the U.S. and Canada. Our mission is to empower community members to make informed, democratic, and fair decisions about public spending and revenue. We pursue this goal by working with governments and organizations to develop participatory budgeting processes, in which local people directly decide how to spend part of a public budget. www.participatorybudgeting.org POOR PEOPLES ECONOMIC HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN is committed to uniting the poor across color lines as the leadership base for a broad movement to abolish poverty. We work to accomplish this through advancing economic human rights as named in the universal declaration of human rights- such as the rights to food, housing, health, education, communication and a living wage job. www.economichumanrights.org PUBLIC BANKING INSTITUTE (PBI) is a non-partisan think-tank, research and advisory organization dedicated to exploring and disseminating information on the potential utility of publicly-owned banks, and to facilitate their implementation. PBI was formed in 2011 as an educational non-profit organization by a group of citizens including past and present community and civic leaders, businesspeople, educators, political economists, writers, and banking and other professionals. The group shares a concern over the destabilizing actions of a private banking industry that, through its corporate business model, has precipitated the economic imbalances now witnessed across the U.S. economy. www.publicbankinginstitute.org VETERANS FOR PEACE is a global organization of Military Veterans and allies whose collective efforts are to build a culture of peace by using our experiences and lifting our voices. We inform the public of the true causes of war and the enormous costs of wars, with an obligation to heal the wounds of wars. Our network is comprised of over 140 chapters worldwide whose
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work includes: educating the public, advocating for a dismantling of the war economy, providing services that assist veterans and victims of war, and most significantly, working to end all wars. www.veteransforpeace.org WAR IS A CRIME has worked closely with the peace movement in the U.S. and abroad, organizing national days on which events have been held in hundreds of cities, lobbying in Congress for investigations, censure, and presidential impeachment, introducing and passing pro-impeachment resolutions at the local and state levels, and organizing the peace movement to address the issue of accountability for war. www.warisacrime.org WISCONSIN DEMOCRACY CAMPAIGN is a homegrown network of citizens fighting government corruption and working for fair elections, judicial integrity, media democracy, and open and transparent government. The Democracy Campaign pursues these objectives through research, citizen education, community outreach, coalition building and direct advocacy. WDC was founded in 1995 as a nonprofit, independent coalition of individuals and groups responding to the growing dominance of special interest money in the campaigns of state lawmakers. www.wisdc.org WORKERS INDEPENDENT NEWS (WIN) is focused on the issues and concerns of working people. As a news service, WIN is devoted to bringing the voices of workers, their families, communities and organizations to the widest public possible, using all means of electronic media. WIN packages news for distribution to radio stations, Internet radio, websites, for podcast and print publication. www.laborradio.org WORT 89.9FM is Listener-Sponsored, Volunteer Powered Community Radio! Noncommercial radio & webcast emanating from Madison to South Central Wisconsin via broadcast, & available worldwide through online streaming and archives. We provide an outlet for communication, education, free expression, entertainment, training and access for the purpose of sharing musical and cultural experiences. www.wort-fm.org

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Major sponsorS
AFT-Wisconsin is a labor organization representing 17,000 public employees in the state of Wisconsin. Formerly called the Wisconsin Federation of Teachers (WFT), AFT-Wisconsin is a Wisconsin chapter of the American Federation of Teachers. Started primarily as a teachers union with 1,400 members in 1931, AFT-Wisconsin has grown exponentially and today represents many diverse professionals with over 500 job classifications. www.aft-wisconsin.org Thank you also to three individual major donors and dozens of other individuals who contributed to the costs of organizing this convention. You know who you are.

national sponsors
GREEN SHADOW CABINET provides an ongoing opposition and alternative voice to the dysfunctional government in Washington D.C.. As with shadow cabinets in other countries, the Green Shadow Cabinet of the United States responds to actions of the government in office and demonstrates that another government is possible. www.greenshadowcabinet.us PEOPLES TRIBUNE understands that an economic system that doesnt feed, clothe and house its people must be and will be overturned and replaced with a system that meets the needs of the people. To that end, this paper is a tribune of those struggling to create such a new economic system. It is a vehicle to bring the movement together, to create a vision of a better world and a strategy to achieve it. www.peoplestribune.org ROOTS ACTION was founded because we need a fresh approach to defend the public interest. Our country faces a far-right Republican Party that is a wholly-owned subsidiary of corporate America, and a Democratic Party whose leadership is enmeshed with corporate power. RootsAction is an online initiative dedicated to galvanizing Americans who are committed to economic fairness, equal rights, civil liberties, environmental protection -- and defunding endless wars. www.rootsaction.org Wisconsin Wave is a force independent of political parties and partisan elected officials. It is an awakening of Wisconsinites independent of --but not exclusive of-- whatever other political, union, faith, or organizational affiliations we each might have.To the giant corporate interests that currently dominate our state, we say that we will not stand by and watch you destroy Wisconsins democracy, Wisconsins economy, Wisconsins schools, and Wisconsins communities. We will not pay for your crisis. To our fellow Wisconsinites we say simply, join us. Join the Wisconsin Wave of resistance against corporatization and austerity, and for democracy and shared prosperity for all. www.wisconsinwave.org
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Womens International League for Peace and Freedom was founded in 1915 during World War I, with Jane Addams as its first president. WILPF works to achieve through peaceful means world disarmament, full rights for women, racial and economic justice, an end to all forms of violence, and to establish those political, social, and psychological conditions which can assure peace, freedom, and justice for all. www.WILPF.org

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Alliance for Education Justice 350 Madison Democracy Unlimited of Humboldt County Family Farm Defenders International Socialist Organization Occupy.com Pachamama Alliance People for a New Society PC Foundation Progressive Dane Rainbow Bookstore Cooperative Shut the Chamber! campaign Wisconsin Green Party

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DEMOCRACY CONVENTION | FOOD & SERVICES

We offer you the following recommendations for food and services located within very short walking distance from the conference. Note: Please do not purchase Miller Products (owned by Coors), or other non-local corporate beers when you are here. Support our local businesses. Coffee, Tea, and Baked Goods
All of these have free WiFi Michaelangelos - 114 State St. - Supporters of progressive politics, and then some. Ancora - 112 King Street - Hobnob with the lobbyists. Graze - 1. S. Pinckney Street - Locally sourced premium foods; some of the best baked goods around. Barriques - 127 West Washington - Progressive owners, wine, open late. Bradburys - 127 N. Hamilton - Locally sourced, organic. Crepes, anyone?

Restaurants & Bars

Brocach - 7 W Main St. - Wholesome Irish food and drink. Maharani Indian Restaurant - 380 W Washington Ave - Vegetarian lunch buffet. Marigold - 118 S. Pinckney St. - Breakfast. Need we say more? Natt Spil - 211 King St. - International cuisine. Affordable. Youthful crowd. Plaka Taverna - 410 E Wilson St. - Greek. Breakfast, lunch, dinner. Great food.

Grocery Foods and Retail Shops

Rainbow Bookstore Cooperative - 476 W. Gilman Street - Madisons cooperatively owned and collectively managed bookstore that provides resources which challenge the status quo. Community Pharmacy - 341 State Street - Independent worker owned pharmacy. Lots of organic treats too. Fromagination - 12 S Carroll St. - Cheeses that will blow your mind. Willy St. Coop - 1221 Williamson St. - This is a bit of a walk (1.3 miles). But its the best grocery option. Capitol Centre Market - 111 N Broom St. - This is closer, and has some organic options.

Photocopies & Computers

Bobs Copy Shop - 616 University Ave - Locally owned. Something of a walk. Lakeside Press - 1334 Williamson St - Worker owned cooperative. Thirty minutes on foot. Wisconsin State Law Library - 120 Martin Luther King Jr Blvd - Right off the square. Madison Public Library - Central Branch - 201 West Mifflin Street - Two blocks away.

Transportation
Madison B-Cycle is an urban bike sharing program that is revolutionizing the way Madison moves! There are over 20 active stations throughout the downtown, with more stations being rolled out each week. Enjoy access to 350 bikes at 35 stations throughout the capital city this summer! www.madison.bcycle.com Union Cab of Madison is a worker owned and operated cooperative. Call 608 242 2000 if you need a lift! Madison Metro is the regional bus system. For fare and ride information: www.cityofmadison.com/metro/

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