LOCAL DEMOCRACY CONVENTION: The Community Power Road to Democracy

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From Julie Andersen" via the Comm-Org e-list:

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September 28-October 1, 2006
Campus of University of Wisconsin, Madison

The Local Democracy Convention will feature some of the most cutting-edge local democracy organizing going on in the US and around the world. Learn, share, network, and strategize together about how to build the democracy movement in this country from the grassroots up!

Convention participants will have opportunity to attend plenaries, panels, skills-building workshops, strategy sessions, and a party or two.

Keynote speaker for the convention will be Juan Barreto, Mayor of Caracas, Venezuela, recently featured in the New York Times and BBC. Other international presenters will come from Brazil, Uruguay, the Philippines, the UK, and Hungary.

The convention also features American presenters including Reverend Lennox Yearwood, who appeared in Spike Lee's recent documentary on New Orleans, Karen Dolan of Cities for Progress, and Reverend Ed Pinkney of Benton Harbor, Michigan. Local presenters will include Marsha Rummel of the Marquette Neighborhood Association, Alfonso Zepeda Capistran of LUChA, John Nichols of the Capital Times, and many more.

Workshops will address topics such as Participatory Budgeting, Racial & Community Justice, Community Cable & Wireless, and Municipal Health & Food. On Saturday evening, David Rovics will provide musical entertainment.

Registration cost: $10-$50 on a sliding scale; free for students.

Log on to *Local Democracy Convention for more details, to register, and for a Convention schedule. Questions and requests for sponsorships may also be directed to (608) 257-1606 or LocalDemocracy@LibertyTreeFDR.org.

The Local Democracy Convention is a project of the Liberty Tree Foundation for the Democratic Revolution, a Madison-based national non-profit organization. Major sponsors include the Transnational Institute, Havens Center, Cities for Progress, and UW-Madison International Studies Program; sponsors include the Student Labor Action Coalition, Green Institute, Progressive Dane, Four Lakes Green Party, UW-Madison Green Progressive Alliance, New England Alliance for Democracy, Progressive Populist Journal, and others.

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