URBAN DEMOCRACY

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

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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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