Campaigns and Sponsored Projects

Alliance for Democracy works on a variety of campaigns. Generally, campaign areas are proposed by Alliance national council members, but we welcome input from our members as well. It is expected that the people who propose campaigns will also do the work involved in creating a focus that emphasizes aspects of corporate rule versus participatory democracy, and with making and sustaining the connections with allied organizations and grassroots activists that lead to success. Past campaigns have included work on single payer health care and public funding of elections. For more information please contact the Alliance office.

Community Rights versus Corporate Globalization

Campaigns have focused on defending local food and farms, opposing multinational trade deals like the TPP, and amending the Constitution to say that corporations are not people and money isn't speech.

For more information, please see the following pages:

Public Banking

Communities normally go to big banks for help funding worthy projects. But interest paid on loans and fees on bond services increase costs. 

Can we afford to give Wall Street an ever-larger slice of the pie? Or should cities and states create their own publicly-owned banks, where state revenues can be deposited and used to back loans for worthy purposes, such as infrastructure, housing, small business development and student loans? Find out more here.

Defending Water for Life

Water is life itself, and access to water and sanitation should be protected as a fundamental human right. But for giant corporations water is about profit. Around the world, local communities are fighting the devastating impacts of water commodification and extraction.

Our Defending Water for Life campaign fights in California, Maine, Oregon and Washington to keep municipal water under public control, to end extraction for bottled water, and to oppose bulk-water exports.

Find out more on the campaign page.

The People's Vote Must Count

If you reject racist claims of voter fraud, but are still concerned that electronic vote-counting machines could be used to steal an election, join our campaign for hand-counted paper ballots. Our campaign offers communities a step-by-step program for implementing hand-counted paper ballot voting, and shares information on the dangers of electronic balloting. Find out more on the campaign page here.

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