- Description
- I am an activist fighting for democracy and an end to corporate rule. I first got involved in activism by organizing an alternative graduation when my college invited Dick Cheney to speak at our official ceremony, and haven't looked back since. I worked as the youth spokesperson for Ralph Nader’s 2008 presidential campaign, organizing people to fight corporations in their communities. I have also organized extensively for Democracy Unlimited of Humboldt County, California, a collective committed to community sovereignty, bioregional democracy and alternatives to corporate control and capitalism. While there, I helped to launch the Campaign to Legalize Democracy/Move to Amend, a national grassroots campaign to amend the Constitution to abolish corporate constitutional rights and to organize local communities to declare independence from corporate rule. I'm now working to organize Salt Lake to support this national amendment and to wage a people’s battle against major corporate polluters. I also work on democratic community revitalization, feminist empowerment and political street theater, and am currently working on a play and book.
![[youtube width=”640″ height=”375″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5cVyFaEEmw[/youtube] Ash has been in DC since the occupation there began last week. This is the speech she gave from the main stage.](http://www.peacefuluprising.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/ash-sanders-occupy-dc-main-stage-115x115.jpg "Ash Sanders’ speech from Freedom Plaza in DC")