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demands he's on the line with us is the
first year of the
in of the convention
under democracy can mention tuesday the
chair the edge of the democracy
convention
and the executive director of liberty
tree democracy convention dot org and
liberty tree f_d_r_ dot org b websites
ben welcome back to the show
exhume a threat of nato thanks for
joining us down
tell us what can people do
who are horrified
by the fact that what should have been
shoe-in elections
in wisconsin yesterday
uh... warrants
because the democrats were massively
outspent
by transnational corporations
billionaires like the device family the
amway fortune the coke family the
vehicle goyal fend and banned all these
other you know diversified this is now
the second largest privately held
corporation america family these
politically active oligarchy what can we
do
well i think we have to start by digging
up the gravity of the situation
you know what happened is that we we
take a hard hit and uh... than the
intended to recover from that and come
back for two more without actually
changing our tactics first our strategy
and any threat of the debate on the idea
that we will be as any functioning
democracy in the arctic america they're
doomed to fail i think that the lapd and
from what happened yesterday and what's
been happening fast up actually promote
them i've got lifetime
be decanter
that problems democracy at the problem
power than the intruder my person be
entered are we have to build a democracy
movement for the united states and
that's what they've been such an
exciting part of the midterm wisconsin
and also other work of liberty tree of
the moved to amend coalition
and abducted
national democracy convention which is
gathering here in just two weeks that's
great and analyzes restates some of
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ends and and
louise will probably putting them out
but uh... bend the the websites correct
me if i'm wrong to rock and democracy
convention dot org that's for the
convention the vet coming up in medicine
in two weeks
the among others you view that they did
the website is his
huge you've got a lot of stuff going on
moved to amend dot org
uh... which i believe we started
originally by just milton
and and has or
pelagic he'd be this reporter debbie
product you bet you'd actually involved
american independent business lines but
that anita and
that any but which is a great group
freshly moved to amend it very broad
coalition
uh... and therefore anchoring
organizations are liberty tree democracy
unlimited by the alliance for democracy
in the senate committee in democracy in
the more recently by your friend the
progressive democrat of america great ok
and so that's moved to amend that
organism
you know i always recommend people go
there because i a in in in my book uh...
legal protection that's the theft the
carrying a message we've got with their
own amend the constitution
uh... it either that or congress has to
assert the authority that the
constitution gives it an article three
regulated the supreme court but so far
you know in two hundred and some of your
stay have chose not to do that
and then the third is liberty tree
f_d_r_ and that's not if the r_ as in
franklin delano roosevelt although it
makes a very easy to remember it says in
foundation for the democratic revolution
and at what you mean by the democratic
revolution
well there have been this revolution
that benjamin rush that doctor russ said
uh... at the close of the american work
independently bed only the first chapter
of the great drama had been written
and and we uh... follow in that
tradition the idea that the american
revolution at the living tradition that
it is not been completed anything but
the been completed at this point and
that uh... you the task of regret this
in particular is to make the promise of
american democracy real our borders
watched the abolitionist movement
women suffrage movement women's rights
movement civil rights movement you name
it
everything that's great about america's
original that's right workers rights
movement by back much of the labor
movement history comes from i don't
think it was kind of them
and were quite incorrect take that back
now
uh... took much of the great tradition
of the country uh... had been the work
of our forebears ento
for liberty tree uh... you'll week stand
on the great american tradition the
great progressive tradition expanding
the franchise expanding circle ending
standing democracy
about we all fell one and they come real
and we think that uh... frankly uh...
the federal government particular is
largely the creature of multinational
corporations
state government increasingly are
creatures of multinational corporations
or she is reality
the elegant and the coke rather than the
chamber of commerce
uh... you know money money talks
uh... they had to put it we were really
want to change things in america that we
have to be real
that that we need fundamental democratic
reforms
reforms that altogether
would mean that the complete change in
our economic and political structure in
the country that's what a revolution
right and and there are americans across
this country who devoted to that we have
a minute left them escape for songs i'm
curious do you agree with my
basic analysis what we saw last night
wisconsin
was the define tune into the twenty
twelve election strategy that was the
first
post serious post citizens united
election
where was basically the battle of the
obligor since the people
why do you and i don't anti-gay bigot
important to recognize that these were
republican state
that they apparently locked up third of
them
uh... and that you do word extrapolate
that statewide it would mean a complete
shit
in the cockpit the other three pretty
hopeful addictive hip hop right dept ok
i will give you that if they say i agree
with that stands a good science good for
staff and next week it's gonna be he
knows that we all know the challenges of
all these years i take those two seats
back
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