Liberty Tree Panel at Claim Democracy Conference

November 1, 2007

Brandon Lacy Campos, David Cobb, and Patrick Barrett

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2007 Claim Democracy Conference

General
Vote Suppression
Democratizing Elections
Voting Machines
District of Columbia

Publications & Talks

Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce Factsheet
MIT: Types of voting technologies can affect the likelihood that votes are counted correctly
Voter advocacy groups look at how prepared states are to ensure that our votes are counted
BRENNAN CENTER: 2012 voting laws will make it more difficult for 5 million racial minorities, students, renters, seniors, and low income citizens to vote
BRENNAN CENTER: The hurdles that 1 in 10 eligible voters will have to face to obtain a voter ID
BRENNAN CENTER: Electronic voting machines record higher rates of residual votes among poor and racial minority populations
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY: Security analysis reveals Diebold touch screen machine easy to hack
BRENNAN CENTER: States put more restrictions on community-based voter registration drives
Stealing America: Vote by Vote
ACLU: Know Your Voting Rights in Wisconsin
COLERIDGE: The Country is Broken Because the System is Fixed
MN STAR TRIBUNE: Corporations and People
COLERIDGE & HOUSER: Why ‘Occupiers’ Must Confront Fallacy of Corporate ‘Personhood’
HIGHTOWER LOWDOWN: Citizens United Against Citizens United: A Grassroots Campaign to Restore Democracy
Teleconference on the Global Wave of Resistance
REBECCA MANSKI: What Liberty Square Means
SILVER: Wall Street Protests: A Right-Left Movement Must Emerge
MANSKI: The Protest Wave: Why the Political Class Can’t Understand Our Demands
BRINTON & SCHULTZ: Big Sky Populists Fight Back Against Big Corporate Money
TRUTHOUT: Local Resistance to Corporate Personhood Wages Crucial Battle
ROTHSCHILD: Citizens Rise Up Against "Citizens United"
HARTMANN: Humans v. Corporations: Unequal Privacy
The October 2011 Movement Call to Action
SCHALLER: We, the corporations of the United States, in order to form a more profitable union…
BAKAN: The Kids Are Not All Right: Corporate Interests Threaten Children's Welfare
Boulder Should Vote on Corporate Personhood
SALON.COM: Why Mitt Romney Was Right About Corporations: The Ever-Expanding Definition of Corporate Personhood
POOLE: The People Beg to Differ, Mr. Romney: Corporations Aren't People
MARGE BAKER: Too Many Rulings are Supremely Courteous to Corporations
SOPOCI-BELKNAP: Movement to Abolish Corporate Personhood Gaining Traction
VERMONT COMMONS: Interview with Move to Amend's David Cobb
POCLAD: Why Abolish All Corporate Constitutional Rights
KELLMAN: Labor Organizing Must Challenge Corporate Rule
Call for a Wisconsin Wave of Resistance
ALLISON and ALLISON: The Climate of Corporate Personhood
UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT: ES&S optical scan machines prone to loss of data due to battery failures
PEW CENTER: Higher rates of residual votes found in Florida among African-American, Hispanic, and senior voters
HEDGES: Do Not Pity the Democrats
JURMAIN: Problem and Solution
US social forum: War Powers: Who Decides?
BADER: Review of The Lost Soul of Higher Education
DIXON: What If BP Were A Human Being?
WILLIAMSON and ALPEROVITZ: Community Stability and the Challenge of Climate Change
Rebuilding America's Communities: A Comprehensive Community Wealth Building Federal Policy Proposal
VIDEO: We the Corporations? Life & Law in the U.S.A. after Citizens United v. FEC
John Bonifaz and Laura Flanders on the Corporate Supreme Court
AZ: David Cobb on Citizens United v. FEC
Spring 2010 issue of Justice Rising: Grassroots Solutions to Corporate Domination
ZEPERNICK: On the history of corporate personhood and a strategy for overturning it
ZEPERNICK: On the history of corporate personhood and a strategy for overturning it
Documentary Beyond Elections takes a look at grassroots democracy in the Americas
PERLSTEIN: 'Bomb Power' examines roots of Imperial Presidency
SCOTCH: Legal memo on Wisconsin Safeguard the Guard Act
Testimony from MD hearing on bill to return Guard units to control of state
Alabama Citizens for Constitutional Reform introduce new film on 1901 constitutional convention
EDUCATION FOR ALL COALITION: Resources for March 4 Day of Action to Defend Public Education
VIDEO: March to Overrule the Court
CANNING AND REINSBORO: Re: Imagining Change: How to Use Story-based Strategy to Win Campaigns, Build Movements, and Change the World
NICHOLS & MCCHESNEY: The Media Revolution that Will Begin the World Again
MANSKI: The Essence of the Corporation
The Essence of the Corporation
PRICE: Milwaukeeans vs. the Privatization Pandemic
MANSKI: Public Radio's Week in Review
BACON: A constitutional right to an education
UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT: Statewide audit of optical scan machines
COBB: The Case Against Judicial Review
PROGRESSIVE STATES: Community Policing as an Alternative to Local Enforcement of Immigration Law
SHUMAN: Localization is way to redefine globalization
MAHIN on HARPERS FERRY: Courage and clarity changed history once – and will do so again
BURNS: The strategy behind the Guard Home movement
SWANSON: A Second Bill of Rights
SWANSON: Who SHOULD Decide About War?
FIRST VIDEO: Who Decides About War?
FRIEDMAN: Democracy's Gold Standard
WADE: When Will Your Neighbor Join the Movement?
La FOLLETTE: July 4, 1897 on the Dangers Threatening Representative Government
PRICE: Ohio. Birthplace of Charter Education ... and Opposition to It
BERNE: The Showdown at Schottenstein
Antiwar Radio interviews Ben Manski
Update on Efforts to Block Deployment of National Guard Troops to Iraq and Afghanistan
LETNAR CERNIC: Corporate abuses require stronger international, national legal regimes
Corporate Personhood and the "Right" to Harm the Environment
CHIEF COUPER: Seven Seeds for Policing
VIDEO: Manski, Farsetta, Alexander Gray on Extending Democracy
Democratizing Defense: A Discussion from the Liberty Tree Journal
VIDEO: Manski, Farsetta, Alexander Gray on Extending Democracy
Barack Obama's War: Afghanistan's Failing Army
Center for Campus Free Speech: Facts Still Count
CCR: Restore. Protect. Expand The Constitution: Amend the War Powers Resolution
Wisconsin votes for immediate withdrawal!
SCOTCH & BLACK: Restoring the Rule of Law Where it Matters Most
NICHOLS: You are the Commander in Chief
Manski: From Liberty to Empire -- The Demise of American Defense
NICHOLS, MCCHESNEY: The Death and Life of Great American Newspapers
NICHOLS, MCCHESNEY: The Death and Life of Great American Newspapers
COLERIDGE: Keeping Public Assets Public
MARYLAND ASSEMBLY: Testimony on National Guard
PowerShift 2009 - Democratizing Our Universities to Confront Climate Change
VIDEO: National Launch of Guard Home! campaign
Prospects for Participatory Democracy in the U.S.A
NICHOLS: Special Report on the 2008 Elections
Advancement Project: Several Battleground States Not Prepared for Voter Turnout
MANSKI: The New U.S. Democracy Movement
Brennan Center for Justice: Voter Purges
Making Voting Work: An Analysis of Military and Overseas Citzen Voting
GLOBAL GREENS: Sustainable Cities Declaration
Your Time Is Up, Mr. President -- the National Guard Is Coming Home
Liberty Tree Panel at Claim Democracy Conference
Measure T Bans Corporate Campaign Financing
We are on the offensive: Make the most of it!
VIDEO: Building a Democracy Movement in the USA
Campus Organizer's Guide to Democratizing Education
The 2006 Mid-term Elections: Change or Continuity?
ACS Paper: Preserving and Expanding the Right to Vote: Ranked-choice Voting
Z Magazine interviews Kaitlin Sopoci-Belknap about Measure T
Video from the Local Democracy Convention
Understanding Student Unionism: A Canadian Perspective
DOLAN: Foreign Policy Goes Local
Participatory Budgeting: From Porto Alegre, Brazil to the U.S.
Frequently Asked Questions about the AUMF, National Guard, and Guard recall
Corporatization: An Internal Clash of Civilizations
Manski, Dolan: Has Your Town Declared Peace Yet? Tired of being ignored by the feds, citizens pass city laws declaring peace.
MANSKI & PECK: Corporatization: An internal clash of civilizations
David Cobb: 'The New Voting Rights Movement' and 'Fighting The Corporate Takeover'
The Citizen's Election Assessment Hearing
Report on the Ottawa Retreat
Abolish Corporate Personhood

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