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Participatory Budgeting Organizing ResourcesAnalyses of Participatory Democracy ElsewhereArticles by country, analyzing participatory democracy initiatives. Participatory Budgeting ResourcesToolkits, useful websites and other resources for communities interested in participatory budgeting. Local Democracy News SourcesNews sources for updates on participatory democracy efforts around the world. NewsParticipatory Budgeting comes to the United StatesDate: October 15, 2009NYTIMES: Budgets by the People, for the PeopleDate: July 28, 2009Chicago Ward Trials Participatory BudgetingDate: May 21, 2009EventsDemocracy Track at the U.S. Social ForumThe Democracy Track is a series of sessions and community spaces at the U.S. Social Forum in Atlanta, Georgia, June 27-July 1, 2007. The purpose of these sessions is to centralize democracy in all of our everyday struggles. Local Democracy Convention: The Community Power Road to DemocracyThe Local Democracy Convention will feature some of the most cutting-edge local democracy organizing going on in the US and around the world. Convention participants will have opportunity to attend plenaries, panels, skills-building workshops, strategy sessions, and a party or two. Whether you have been doing local democracy work for years, or are just discovering that your concerns are directly related to local power and democracy, join us this fall for what is sure to be a defining moment in the development of a new democracy movement in the United States! U.S. Social Forum II(June 22, 2009 - June 26, 2010)Another World is Possible! Another U.S.A. is necessary! Publications & TalksVideo from the Local Democracy ConventionEdited video footage from the 2006 Local Democracy Convention is now online, and also available for order! Prospects for Participatory Democracy in the U.S.A"The task . . . is to facilitate the growth of an aggressive democracy movement in the United States." |
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