In this issue of Liberty Tree news we bring you important updates from the movement for greaterlocal democracy. From expanding municipal broadband networks, to increasing local minimum wages, to passing resolutions calling for an end to corporate personhood, communities across the country are continuing to fulfill their roles as "laboratories of democracy". However cities and towns are also under attack by corporate interests who are attempting to preempt these forward thinking democracy reforms and in the process severely limit local self government.
Since its founding Liberty Tree has been at the forefront of the movement for greater local democracy. This leadership includes organizing the 2007 Local Democracy Convention, writing a policy briefing (co-authored by Liberty Tree board members Karen Dolan and Ben Manski) that successfully called on the federal government to formally review its preemption policies, and bringing together important movement leaders for the Local Democracy conference at our first twoDemocracy Conventions.
Read on for some the latest local democracy movement news from around the country:
