Participatory Budgeting in Brazil
Murray Bookchin argued many times that city life and neighborhood assemblies were the real and the best meaning of politics. This is a good article that describes “participatory budgeting” in Brazil.
What I especially like is how meeting in a municipal setting to decide budgeting priorities would act as a center of unification of work place democracy and consumer groups and neighborhood groups. At the end of the article are some good, provocative questions.
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Barbara
Barbara MacLean has worked as an academic and career counselor at California State University, East Bay (CSUEB), Merritt and West Valley Colleges and as a career counselor and manager of the Oakland One Stop Career Center, a public career and jobs center in partnership with EDD. She is a co-founder and editor of Planning Beyond Capitalism.