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Budgeting Justice

Celina Su Boston Review
Cities must empower historically marginalized communities to shape how public funds are spent.

We Need Popular Participation, Not Populism

Hilary Wainwright Red Pepper
What we need is a form of political leadership that frees democracy from liberalism through supporting citizens in asserting their popular sovereignty over the conditions of material daily life by getting organised as workers, as hospital users, as teachers, as students, as parents – and as citizens capable of mutual self-government.

Canoas: A Government of, for and by the People

Ruth Needleman Portside
Here in the states, we know what it means to see our democratic rights attacked. But do we have a vision of what an expansion of democracy and popular participation in government might look like?

Power To The People, But Really: Participatory Democracy in El Salvador

Beverly Bell Other Worlds
Estela Hernandez is both a member of the national assembly and a leader in the transformational social movement, La Coordinadora of the Lower Lempa and the Bay of Jiquilisco in rural El Salvador. Here, Hernandez talks about a radical vision and practice of direct, participatory democracy by the citizens in the government of the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front, or FMLN.
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