This is the third Democracy Convention (the first two were in Madison, Wisconsin, and it is actually a series of interconnected conferences, designed to help build a strategic, and unified democracy movement. (Think about it as an interdisciplinary approach to social change.)
Here is how we describe it:
If you want to strengthen democracy where it matters most ... in our communities, our schools, our workplaces and local economies, our military, our government, our media, our constitution ... you will find something inspiring in Minneapolis this August. Join us at the third national Democracy Convention.
More than one conference, the Democracy Convention houses ten conferences under one roof. As the great progressive reformer Fighting Bob La Follette said, "democracy is a life," and "involves constant struggle" in all sectors of society. With the Democracy Convention, we recognize the importance of each of these separate democracy struggles, as well as the need to unite them all in a common, deeply rooted, broad based, movement for democracy.
A new movement -- a democracy movement -- was born in the streets of Seattle on November 30, 1999. [See www.democracyconvention.org] This movement's early years were not easy. Pro-democracy organizers faced crisis after crisis: the stolen presidential elections of 2000 and 2004; the militarization of America that followed September 11th; the destruction of the Gulf Coast in the aftermath of Katrina; the Supreme Court ruling that corporations wield constitutional rights to buy elections; and today, an economic crisis that is being used to impose fiscal austerity and corporatization schemes on our states and people.
Through these difficult struggles, the new democracy movement has taken form, expanded, and matured. The first Democracy Convention, held in August of 2011, was an incredible "coming of age" celebration for the U.S. democracy movement. The second Democracy Convention was held in Madison in the summer of 2013, and hosted some of the most brilliant minds and inspired organizers in the democracy movement. Join us at the third convention. It's time to take more risks and to begin to win the victories that make another world possible.
The Democracy Convention is a project of the Liberty Tree Foundation together with the conveners of each of this year's ten conferences. We thank our national partners whose support as Major Sponsors, National Sponsor, Co-Sponsors, Endorsers, and Conference Conveners, has been vital. To find out how your organization, union, business, or community can join us, click here: http://democracyconvention.org/sponsor-convention
Based on the past two, we expect 600-1,000 social change agents to converge together to conspire, to teach each other and to learn from each other.
JB: Lovely! Is there anything else you'd like to add before we wrap this up?
DC: I will just remind OpEdNews readers that the only reason they are even reading this is because OpEdNews is a source of non-corporately funded and filtered news, information and analysis. Six major corporations control over 80% of everything we read, watch or listen to. Not just news-- but art, culture and entertainment. We are sliding into outright fascism in this country, and corporate media is part of the problem.
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