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Defense Reform : Publications & Talks VIDEO: National Launch of Guard Home! campaign(January 21, 2009)Short video of the national launch of the campaign to "Bring the Guard Home! It's the Law." Featured presenters included Rep. Mike Fisher (VT), Rep. David Segal (RI), Jean Athey (Peace Action), Leah Bolger (Vets for Peace), Karen Dolan (IPS), Elaine Brower (Militiary Families Speak Out), Ben Manski (Liberty Tree), Benson Scotch (Of Counsel). NICHOLS: You are the Commander in Chief(April 2, 2009)Video of John Nichols' speech at the April 2, 2009, teach-in, "You are the Commander in Chief." This event was one of a series of five events launching Wisconsin"s National Guard campaign. Antiwar Radio interviews Ben Manski(June 18, 2009)Antiwar.com's Scott Horton interviews Ben Manski, Executive Director of Liberty Tree regarding the Bring the Guard Home! campaign. Update on Efforts to Block Deployment of National Guard Troops to Iraq and Afghanistan(May 29, 2009)A radio interview of Ben Manski and Dan Hendelman on KBOO VIDEO: Who Decides About War?(October 2, 2009 - October 3, 2009)"Who Decides About War?," the National Conference on War Powers, Law, and Democracy, took place October 2-3, 2009 in Washington D.C.. Organized by the Guard Home! campaign, Liberty Tree Foundation, and many partners, and hosted by the National Lawyers Guild at the Georgetown Law School, this conference was the first of its kind in many years, uniting academics with activists, attorneys with veterans, in exploring key reforms necessary to democratizing defense in the United States, and making war less likely. US social forum: War Powers: Who Decides?(June 22, 2010)BURNS: The strategy behind the Guard Home movement(October 14, 2009)"Just take a look at our current situation: The United States exists in a permanent state of war, can even be said to be addicted to war, and all decision-making about the question of war has now been placed in the hands of one man: the President. Whatever we think of the current occupant of that office, this is clearly a dangerous, unhealthy and undemocratic state of affairs." FIRST VIDEO: Who Decides About War?(October 2, 2009 - October 3, 2009)You don't have to wait any longer: The initial video is in from Who Decides About War?, the National Conference on War Powers, Law, and Democracy. This exciting conference took place on October 2nd and 3rd at the Georgetown School of Law, and featured over one hundred participants from 18 states Participants included veterans, military family members, journalists, lawyers, law students, professors, and other advocates of a more democratic, peaceful system of national defense. SWANSON: Who SHOULD Decide About War?(October 3, 2009)Who should decide: we the people of the world, through democratically created and enforced international and national and state laws. Your Time Is Up, Mr. President -- the National Guard Is Coming Home(February 5, 2008)The following article was originally produced for AlterNet. Prospects for Participatory Democracy in the U.S.A"The task . . . is to facilitate the growth of an aggressive democracy movement in the United States." Democratizing Defense: A Discussion from the Liberty Tree JournalFrom Volume 2, Issue 3, of the Liberty Tree Journal, "Democracy against Empire." Manski: From liberty to empire -- The demise of American defenseA history and legal analysis of the transformation of the National Guard. CCR: Restore. Protect. Expand The Constitution: Amend the War Powers Resolution(April 9, 2009)A discussion of the need to restore the Congressional role in declaring war by amending the War Powers Act. |
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