By David Swanson

Remarks made on May 24, 2008, in Radford, Va., at the Building a New World Conference: http://www.wpaconference.org

Our First Amendment has been locked up in a chain-link Free Speech Zone.

The Fourth Amendment is under warrantless surveillance and scared for its life.

The Fifth, Sixth, and Seventh Amendments have been detained without charge.

And the Eighth Amendment is presently undergoing waterboarding.

At a workshop sponsored by May First/People Link about 40 activists got together for an exercise in what we called "collaborative democracy". Here's a description of the process written by Co-Director Jamie McClelland and myself.

The workshop centered around a collaborative and democratic process of writing a Declaration of Rights for Internet participants.