Where will the 2017 Democracy Convention take place?

April 5, 2016

Liberty Tree Foundation

Democracy News - where will the 2017 Democracy Convention take place?

We are excited to report that the planning process for the third Democracy Convention is moving forward and a location has been chosen!

The next Democracy Convention will take place in Minnesota’s Twin Cities. After careful consideration, the Minneapolis-St. Paul area has been selected by the Democracy Convention Steering Committee as the site of next summer’s national gathering of the U.S. democracy movement.

We look forward to bringing the Democracy Convention to a new city in the summer of 2017 and to working with regional activists and communities to make this next national gathering an inspirational and important event.

Want to learn more about the past two Democracy Conventions? You can access the 2011 Democracy Convention website by clicking here, and the 2013 Democracy Convention website by clicking here. The archived websites house the full convention programs, as well as the agendas for each of the conferences that took place at the convention, including speakers, performers, video archives of key plenaries, workshops, interviews and more.

Are you or your organization interested in sponsoring or endorsing the 2017 Democracy Convention? Click here to contact us and get involved!

The first Democracy Convention in 2011 featured eight concurrent conferences, each of them organized by a different team of national convening organizations; these included the:

Constitutional Reform Conference
Democratizing Defense Conference
Economic Democracy Conference
Education for Democracy Conference
Local Democracy Conference
Media Democracy Conference
Racial Equality Conference
Representative Democracy Conference

The second Democracy Convention added the Earth Democracy Conference, for a total of nine conferences. In 2017, we are adding a tenth conference, the Global Democracy Conference.

We’ll provide you with more news about the 2017 Democracy Convention in the coming weeks. Please keep an eye out and prepare to register for the convention and spread the news. In the meantime, we shine a light on the Twin Cities and the democracy movement work happening there.

Read on to learn more…