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| Affiliation | Wisconsin Greens |
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| Name | Ben Manski |
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Madison, Wisconsin , United States |
| Email | None |
| Website | http://votemanski.com/ |
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July 16, 1974
(49 years)
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| Contributor | RBH |
| Last Modifed | RBH
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Ben Manski is a public interest attorney and pro-democracy advocate. He is the executive director of the Liberty Tree Foundation, as well as principal attorney at Manski Law, LLC, co-owner of the green business network PosiPair.com, a member of the Sociology faculty at MATC and of AFT 6100, and an associate fellow with the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington, D.C..
A Madison original, Manski grew up on Madison's west side, attending Randall Elementary, Van Hise Middle, and West High schools, and earning degrees in Law and Sociology from the UW-Madison. Since his youth, he has worked for a wide variety of causes, notably serving on the staffs of Wisconsin's Environmental Decade and Greenpeace in the 1990s-era anti-mining movement. In 2001, Ben was elected co-chair of the Green Party of the United States, and worked as national director of the Campus Greens USA. In 2001-2002, he helped found the major U.S. peace organization, United for Peace and Justice.
Manski was a primary figure in the student movements of the 1990s, serving then as national coordinator of the Democracy Teach-Ins and the group 180/MDE in the lead-up to the Seattle WTO protests. At that time, Manski was also prominently involved in other social change movements, and worked in the employ of various labor, environmental, and pro-democracy organizations.
Since the early 1990s, Manski has been a featured speaker on scores of campuses and at hundreds of events, from Barcelona to Caracas to Seattle, and has appeared in The New York Times, Washington Post, USA Today, Washington Times, Chicago Tribune, The Nation, The Progressive, Mother Jones, The Call, In These Times, among others, as well as on National Public Radio, Air America, Pacifica, CNN, ABC News, Fox News, as well as a regular guest on Wisconsin Public Radio's "Week in Review".
Ben Manski has published widely, including contributions to Campus Inc.: Corporate Power and the Ivory Tower, TNI's Yearbook on Public Services, and IPS' Mandate for Change. He is currently working on his first book, a history of militia law and the National Guard.
Recent priorities for Manski have included his efforts as national coordinator of the No Stolen Elections! movements in 2004 and 2008, his role in organizing the Local Democracy Network to support local approaches for achieving a green economic transition, and his work in building Safeguard the Guard, Safeguard Democracy, a multi-state campaign designed to reform state statutes to impede the unlawful deployment of National Guard troops to Iraq and Afghanistan. In 2010, Manski helped to initiate and lead MovetoAmend.org, the largest national coalition to overturn the U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Citizens United v. FEC.
In 2009, Ben Manski opened his firm, Manski Law, LLC, specializing in non-profit, coop, and public sector law. He also serves on the sociology faculty of Madison College, and as CVO of PosiPair.com, a green internet startup owned by his wife, Sarah.
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