This Week on Democracy Matters: Coal Trains Across the West Heading to China, and Afghanistan

On this week's program, we talk Afghanistan - the president's latest announcement on troop withdrawal, the politics involved, and what's likely to happen next.  And Stoney Bird and Rick Dubrow of the Living Democracy Initiating Group in Bellingham, WA, where the community is coming together to say "no" to coal trains proposed to run from Wyoming's Powder Basin through Washington State, and then to China.

Each week on Democracy Matters we bring you stories from the frontlines as communities bring rights-based organizing to their communities - asserting their local self-governing authority to make the critical decisions that affect their lives and their community.

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