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URBAN DEMOCRACY

An Internet Journal Issue No. 2 (April, 2001) ISSN 1617-8092

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Urban Democracy

Art in Society

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Local Freedom Presupposes Society-Wide Freedom
Urban Democracy - Making It An Issue
Some Notes On the Latest U.S. Elections
We Propose A Discussion: The Example of
the Right to Recall
Regional Forum
Not Against Each Other! Together!
The Quest for Increased Regional Democracy (Self Rule)
Local Democracy and Present Budgetary Constraints
Do Not Go Well Together
Urban Self-Rule
Debate: Who Is The Ordinary Citizen

We propose to create a forum of international, democratic debate. A forum
for the people, the woman and man "in the street," for their grass roots
organizations, for concerned scientists, artists, writers, and those engaged
in politics who have decided to put the goal of strengthening political
participation of ordinary citizens on the top of their agenda.
We know that municipal (and regional) democracy cannot but fail if society
at large is not fully democratized, in the sense of meaningful influence and
a real voice for the majority that is at present allowed only to vote
every four or five years while the important decisions are taken by
professional politicians susceptible to the pressures of the few,
most often those with a lot of money.
But we also know that society at large cannot be fully democratic if local
(and regional) affairs are left unattended by local people failing to
empower themselves to decide the very things that affect them in an
essential way at their very doorsteps. Local reform, aiming at an increased
say of the many in everything vital for their communities,is the prerequisite
for democracy in our societies.

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Click on the issue you want to check: Issue # 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
Go back to the homepage of Urban Democracy Art in Society www.hoelderlin.de Street Voice homepage	Local Freedom Presupposes Society-Wide Freedom Urban Democracy - Making It An Issue Some Notes On the Latest U.S. Elections We Propose A Discussion: The Example of the Right to Recall Regional Forum Not Against Each Other! Together! The Quest for Increased Regional Democracy (Self Rule) Local Democracy and Present Budgetary Constraints Do Not Go Well Together Urban Self-Rule Debate: Who Is The Ordinary Citizen We propose to create a forum of international, democratic debate. A forum for the people, the woman and man "in the street," for their grass roots organizations, for concerned scientists, artists, writers, and those engaged in politics who have decided to put the goal of strengthening political participation of ordinary citizens on the top of their agenda. We know that municipal (and regional) democracy cannot but fail if society at large is not fully democratized, in the sense of meaningful influence and a real voice for the majority that is at present allowed only to vote every four or five years while the important decisions are taken by professional politicians susceptible to the pressures of the few, most often those with a lot of money. But we also know that society at large cannot be fully democratic if local (and regional) affairs are left unattended by local people failing to empower themselves to decide the very things that affect them in an essential way at their very doorsteps. Local reform, aiming at an increased say of the many in everything vital for their communities,is the prerequisite for democracy in our societies.

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