BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//35.224.247.64//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.16.1// CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Gar Alperovitz X-WR-CALDESC:Historian\, political economist\, activist\, writer X-FROM-URL:https://garalperovitz.wpengine.com X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York X-LIC-LOCATION:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20241103T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20240310T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RDATE:20250309T020000 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:https://garalperovitz.wpengine.com/?post_type=ai1ec_event&\;p=1628& #038\;instance_id= DTSTAMP:20240329T080049Z CONTACT:https://democracyconvention.org/ DESCRIPTION:
A new movement — a democracy movement — was born in the streets of Seattle on November 30\, 1999. This movement’s early years were not easy. Pro-democracy organizers faced crisis after crisis: the st olen presidential elections of 2000 and 2004\; the militarization of Ameri ca that followed September 11th\; the destruction of the Gulf Coast in the aftermath of Katrina\; the Supreme Court ruling that corporations wield c onstitutional rights to buy elections\; and today\, an economic crisis tha t is being used to impose fiscal austerity and corporatization schemes on our states and people.
\nThrough these difficult struggles\, the new democracy movement has taken form\, expanded\, and matured. The first Dem ocracy Convention\, held in August of 2011\, was an incredible “coming of age” celebration for the U.S. democracy movement. Join us at the second co nvention. It’s time to take more risks and to begin to win the victories t hat make another world possible.
\nThe Democracy Convention is a pro ject of the Liberty Tree Foundation together with the conveners of each of this year’s nine conferences.
\nGar Alperovitz will be delivering a keynote address at the August 7th opening plenary\, and a workshop on “Th e Emerging Shape of the Next System” on the morning of August 8th.
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20130807 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20130809 LOCATION:Madison College @ Madison\, WI\, USA SUMMARY:The Democracy Convention URL:https://garalperovitz.wpengine.com/ai1ec_event/the-democracy-convention /?instance_id= END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR