Another World is Possible! Another U.S.A. is necessary!

 "Who Decides About War" will be a national conference confronting essential questions raised by the U.S. invasions and occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan. These questions are timely, as the political process that brought the United States into those wars is widely recognized today as having been flawed at best, dishonest at worst. 

Wisconsin's "Bring the Guard Home!" campaign will be arranging meetings with state legislators at the Capitol in Madison as part of our second lobby day in support of Assembly Bill 203.

Anti-war activist Elaine Brower, Mikhail Pappas, and other members of the national Guard Home campaign will speak at a workshop outlining a state-by-state legislative effort to bring the National Guard home from Iraq and Afghanistan.

The conference will bring together a broad spectrum of people to share skills and form the relationships needed to build a permanent resistance to militarism. Youth, parents, educators, veterans, artists, members of social justice organizations and more will come together for practical training on counter-recruitment, legislative challenges, and public pressure to promote non-military alternatives.

Get together with the Wisconsin folks who are moving this campaign forward, including the "Bring the Guard Home" national coordinator, by joining the Wisconsin "Bring the Guard Home" campaign at 6pm on Friday, June 19th at the MREA Energy Fair in Custer, near Stevens Point.

Major speakers include Robert Redford, Amy Goodman, Naomi Klein, Barbara Ehrenreich, Rev. Jesse Jackson, and the editorial staff of the Progressive Magazine. Liberty Tree's Ben Manski, together with various members of Liberty Tree's Board of Directors and Board of Advisors -- John Nichols and Robert McChesney, among them -- will also be speaking at this exciting event.

"Close Down Blackwater In Illinois"
A Catholic Worker and Clearwater Conference

The conference will feature workshops on Blackwater and other private military contractors. Learn about all the ways our government has been privatizing and outsourcing our security.

Ben Manski, coordinator of the national "Bring the Guard Home!" campaign, will be a featured speaker at the Wisconsin Libertarian Party state convention

Wisconsin is launching its campaign to "Bring the Guard Home! It's the Law.," and you are invited! For this special three-day series of events, we are bringing Benson Scotch to Wisconsin from his home state of Vermont.

Benson Scotch is senior legal counsel to the national Bring the Guard Home! campaign, and this will be your best opportunity to learn more about the legal, political, and moral issues involved in this exciting effort. Please join him, Rep. Black, John Nichols, and us, April 2nd to April 4th, in Madison and Milwaukee.

An historic four-day event of inspiration, education, empowerment and effective peace action!

From Okinawa and Guam to Honduras, Germany, Iraq, and beyond people who have suffered from the abuses inherent to foreign military bases have been calling for their withdrawal. People in the U.S. have joined this call, outraged by the damage done by U.S. bases abroad and by their expense, which diverts $138 billion a year from addressing human needs and revitalizing our economy. Representatives of 13 organizations have come together to organize a national conference or the closing and withdrawal of military bases.

The Democracy Track is a series of sessions and community spaces at the U.S. Social Forum in Atlanta, Georgia, June 27-July 1, 2007. The purpose of these sessions is to centralize democracy in all of our everyday struggles.