Democracy Talk
Watch Frances' Talk on "The Real Crisis"
Watch
Frances' Speech at Porter Square Books, Cambridge, MA
Read 'E' editor on Frances' recent award
Read ‘Planet Earth Reviews’ review of Democracy’s Edge
Watch
Frankie present at the Uplift Academy, Wellesley, MA
Speaking Tour
Sunday, July 27th, 2008, 2:00 PM
Keynote speech and workshop
Kickapoo Country Fair
Organic Valley National Headquarters
One Organic Way
La Farge, WI
Friday, September 5th, 2008, time TBD
Visiting Speaker
Albuquerque Academy
Simms Auditorium
6400 Wyoming Boulevard, NE
Albuquerque, NM
Stories from the Edge
Caffeinated Community Comeback: Small Ohio Town Discovers Power of Networking
An “Interpretation of Life” – The View from Emilia Romagna, Italy
Village Women Become their Own Bankers, Wowing the World of Finance
Citizens Play Key Role in Historic Health Care Reform Law
Breakthrough Concept "Responsibility" -- Imagine That!-- Becomes Law in Maine
The Sweet Taste
of Success: former Trade Center workers start employee-owned restuarant.
Education is
"A Process of Living and Not a Preparation for Future Living."
From Grief and Anger
to Food Power.
Citizens Speak Out
for Democracy in Media.
Links to Living Democracy Makers...
by Focus
Economics and Everyday Life
American Independent Business Alliance (AMIBA)
Business Alliance for Local Living Economies (BALLE)
Clean Clothes Connection- Peace Through Interamerican Community Action
Coalition for Environmentally Responsible Economies (CERES)
Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund
Cooperative Home Care Associates
Corporate Accountability International
Dow Jones Sustainability World Index (DJSI World)
Friends and Residents of Saint Thomas (FROST)
Institute for Local Self-Reliance
International Labor Organization
National Center for Employee Ownership (NCEO)
National Cooperative Business Association
National Interfaith Coalition for Worker Justice (NICWJ)
Program on Corporations, Law and Democracy (POCLAD)
Rainforest Action Network
(RAN)
Social Accountability International (SAI)
United Students Against Sweatshops (USAS)
Workers Rights Consortium (WRC)
Politics and the Inauguration of the Citizen
Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN)
Baltimoreans United for Leadership Development (BUILD)
Center for Responsive Politics
Center for Voting and Democracy
Clean Elections Institute, Inc.
Coalition for Healthier Cities and Communities
Communities Organized for Public Service (COPS)
East Brooklyn Congregations (EBC)
Greater Boston Interfaith Coalition
Hartford Areas Rally Together (HART)
Industrial Areas Foundation (IAF)
Kentuckians for the Commonwealth (KFTC)
League of Independent Voters/League of Pissed-Off Voters
Maine Citizens for Clean Elections
National Coalition for Dialogue and Deliberation
National Peopleââ¬â¢s Action (NPA)
National Training and Information Center (NTIC)
Pacific Institute for Community Organizations (PICO)
Pennsylvania Environmental Network (PEN)
Saint Paul Department of Planning and Economic Development
Seattle's Department of Neighborhoods
Education: Sharing Power and Apprenticing Democracy
Big Picture Schools
Center for Collaborative Education
Central Park East Secondary School
Coalition of Essential Schools
Educators for Social Responsibility
Forum for Education and Democracy
Institute for Student Achievement
Lehman Alternative Community School
Texas Interfaith Education Fund (IEF)
Youth Action Program and Homes, Inc.
Community Security: The Exclusion Illusion and The Power of Connection
Allied Communities of Tarrant (ACT)
Citizens on Patrol Project (COPP)
Changing Lives Through Literature
Men Against Destruction-Defending Against Drugs and Social Disorder (MAD DADS)
National Association for Community Mediation
National Coalition for Dialogue and Deliberation
Portland Office of Neighborhood Involvement
Resolve to Stop the Violence Project (RSVP)
Vermont Community and Restorative Justice System
Washington
State Institute for Community Oriented Policing
The Debasement of the Media and the Sound of Democracy
Center for International Media Action
Center for Media & Democracy (Publisher of PR Watch)
Coalition of Immokalee Workers/Radio Conciencia
Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR)
Hometown Utilicom (public Internet utility)
Magazines for Living Democracy
Corporate Responsibility: Corporate Power and The Shape We Give It
The Alliance for Democracy
American Independent Business Alliance (AMIBA)
Business Alliance for Local Living Economies (BALLE)
Corporate Accountability International
Dow Jones Sustainability World Index (DJSI World)
Institute for Local Self-Reliance
Institute for Local Self-Reliance
National Center for Employee Ownership (NCEO)
National Cooperative Business Association
Program on Corporations, Law and Democracy (POCLAD)
Social Accountability International (SAI)
United Nations
Global Reporting Initiative (GRI)
Food: the myth of choice & the taste of democracy
American Community Garden Association
American Corn Growers Association
Community Food Security Coalition
The Edible Schoolyard, Martin Luther Kind, Jr. Middle School
FIAN International / Right to Food Journal
Food First/Institute for Food and Development Policy
George Jones Farm, Ecological Design Innovation Center
Global Resource Action Center for the Environment (GRACE)
Howard Lyman, Voice for a Viable Future
Jane Akre and Steve Wilson, The Jane and Steve Fund
Just Food Northfield Community Co-Op
National Campaign for Sustainable Agriculture
National Cooperative Grocers Association
National Farm to School Program
National Gardening Association
Northeast Organic Farming Association (NOFA)
-Howard Zinn
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