PING – Hugo is at it again!
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Posted on 09/26/2006 10:44:43 AM PDT by Thunder90
The left is holding a conference at the UW law school, and they are bringing in Juan Barrento, the mayor of Caracas, Venezuela. They are also bringing the who's who on the left here in Madison and from Chicago, including CPUSA, WWP, and RCP members
This is from the website http://www.localdemocracy.org/
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This Autumn, September 28 through October 1, gather with community organizers and pro-democracy activists in beautiful Madison, Wisconsin, to share and learn from these and other important democratic successes. Network with others working on common issues. Strategize together about how to build the democracymovement in this country, from the grassroots, up.
The Local Democracy Convention will feature some of the most cutting-edge local democracy organizing going on in the US and around the world. Convention participants will have opportunity to attend plenaries, panels, skills-building workshops, strategy sessions, and a party or two.
Whether you have been doing local democracy work for years, or are just discovering that your concerns are directly related to local power and democracy, join us this fall for what is sure to be a defining moment in the development of a new democracy movement in the United States!
Yes! It's the first . . .
LOCAL DEMOCRACY CONVENTION!
THEME: The Community Power Road to Democracy
TOPICS: Local Governments as Social Change Agents ~ Public Power, Wireless, and Cable ~ Poverty & Racism: Barriers to Participation ~Local Election Reform ~ Cities for Peace, Ecology, and Progress ~Participatory Democracy, Participatory Budgeting ~ Neighborhoods and Neighborhood Associations ~ Financing of Local Governments ~ Local Parties, Coalitions, and Movements ~ Home Rule and Preemption ~ Local Communities for Immigrant Rights ~ Direct Legislation and the Citizen Initiative ~ Community and Cooperative Economic Development ~ The Local Regulatory State ~ Community Rights vs. Corporate Rights ~ Sister Cities for Democracy ~ States Rights & Home Rule: Local Control vs. Preemption ~ The Global and the Local: Globalization from Below ~ Local Democracy: Strategy 101 ~ The Law of Local Democracy ~ Uniting for Democracy: Schools, Colleges, and Communities ~ and more!
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When Commies say "Democracy" they mean totalitarain dictatorship.
Pingaroo!!!
Ping
When we lived in Wisconsin, my dad always called Madison "The Midwest Chapter of the Kremlin".
Your dad's a smart man.
Heck......Democracy probably has a far greater chance of success in Venezuela, than it does in Madison.
LOL, good point :-)
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