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Neighborhoods NewsOP ED NEWS: Tulane Gives BackDate: December 26, 2009LABOR NOTES: Development on Bronx's Dime Must Push Up WagesDate: January 7, 2010EventsParticipatory Budgeting workshop at The City from Below(March 27, 2009 - March 30, 2009)"The struggle for the city is largely a struggle over public money. On one hand, public budgets finance much of the development responsible for gentrification, while community groups are forced to fight for budgetary scraps, be they for social services, housing, schools, health facilities, or public transportation. This is an exhausting and often demoralizing struggle. It encourages competition rather than collaboration, and reliance on politicians rather than democratic community control." Extending Democracy w/The Progressive, Manski, Farsetta, Gray, Wellstone(May 1, 2009 - May 2, 2009)Major speakers include Robert Redford, Amy Goodman, Naomi Klein, Barbara Ehrenreich, Rev. Jesse Jackson, and the editorial staff of the Progressive Magazine. Liberty Tree's Ben Manski, together with various members of Liberty Tree's Board of Directors and Board of Advisors -- John Nichols and Robert McChesney, among them -- will also be speaking at this exciting event. U.S. Social Forum II(June 22, 2009 - June 26, 2010)Another World is Possible! Another U.S.A. is necessary! Publications & TalksProspects 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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