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Items tagged karen dolan (6) Democracy News:Chicago Ward Trials Participatory BudgetingDate: May 21, 2009Chicago May Oppose Iran InvasionDate: May 15, 2008Winter Soldier: Iraq & AfghanistanDate: Thursday March 13 - 16Your Time Is Up, Mr. President -- the National Guard Is Coming HomeDate: February 5, 2008Prominent Americans Ask Military to Refuse to Attack IranDate: October 3, 2007Events:Participatory 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." |
