Alliance Campaigns - Find Out What's Going on and Get Active
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Alternative Media: Projects and Resources
In print, on the air, and on local tv, we're doing an end-run around a mainstream media that increasingly ignores innovative grassroots campaigns and alternative political viewpoints.

National Campaigns:
  • Other Voices: Supplying material for community access cable screenings
  • The Alliance blog: Updates on chapter actions and our campaigns, plus news from our allies and sharp commentary from both the alternative and mainstream media
  • AfD video (live link coming soon)
  • Justice Rising: Grassroots Solutions to Corporate Domination
Chapter Project:
  • Democracy on the Air: "Corporations and Democracy" and other members' radio projects (Mendocino/Ukiah CA, Boston MA, and Norman OK)
End Corporate Rule
The overwhelming influence that large and multinational corporations have over every aspect of our lives has to end, if we're to protect a democratic society and the viability of the planet. Our campaigns emphasize action and outreach against corporate personhood and corporate rule at every level of government, as well as collaboration with other groups to build a movement across "divide-and-conquer" lines.

National Campaigns:
  • Move to Amend: We're on the steering committee for this national coalition. Move to Amend seeks to end corporate personhood by passing a 28th Amendment to the Constitution. The coalition also seeks to build a democratic society by ensuring the right to vote and to have your vote count, and, within a framework of protection for basic human rights, to secure local- and state-level democratic decision-making from pre-emption by higher levels of government, and especially transnational entities, such as the WTO. 
    • To read about our work with the coalition, see these updates on our blog.
    • The Move to Amend website is here.
  • Political Bribery: We are revising this great guide to money in politics to reflect the Citizens United decision and the current state of clean elections actions nationwide. To find out more, click here (live link coming soon!).
  • Action Kits for Democracy Tabling: Download how-tos, fliers, and articles and help spread the word on the need to end corporate rule. See the Resources page here (live link coming soon!).
Chapter Actions:
  • Move to Amend Portland: AfD's Portland chapter has taken a lead on getting Oregon organized to end corporate personhood. Find out more on the Portland chapter website, or on their Facebook page.
  • The Concord, Massachusetts North Bridge chapter works with other local groups to sponsor "Democracy in the Balance," a series of talks and events focusing on corporate influence on government--email for more information and read about past actions here.
Corporate Globalization/Positive Alternatives
Increasingly the rules that promote corporate domination of our lives are being set by international trade and investment agreements. These agreements place short-term economic efficiency and maximization of profit above all other values, including democracy. They promote privatization, deregulation and unfettered movement of capital (the "neoliberal" agenda) which removes profits from communities and strengthens transnational corporations at the expense of civil society and the democratic process.

Since 1997, the Alliance for Democracy has had a national campaign to oppose international agreements that promote corporate globalization. The campaign first focused on stopping the Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI) and stop it we did, thanks to a strong international network of civil society organizations. Attention next turned to stopping the WTO Millennium Round in Seattle and that is history.

National Campaigns: (live links coming soon!)

Chapter Actions:
Massachusetts chapters and members recently helped pass an economic development bill that included the creation of a citizens' trade advisory board. Read more here! (live link coming soon!)

Archive:
Defending Water For Life
Learn about Alliance efforts to keep water resources in the public trust, and read about the history of the struggle to keep "Water for People and Nature" in the U.S. and around the world. This national campaign supports state-level work to protect water, including developing local resolutions against corporate personhood.

State Websites:
Archive:
Health Care
(Live links coming soon!)
Tapestry of the Commons
What is or should be Private Property? What is or should be Common Wealth? A new interactive rediscovery of the Commons By weaving ribbons representing Natural and Cultural Commons the Tapestry emerges supporting all life on the planet.