Participatory Budgeting in the City
Knoxville Citizens
Want a Say in
Spending their Money
By: Lisa Slade
The Knoxville Voice
June 26, 2008 - The night before Knox County Commission met to make their final decisions on community grants, a separate group of citizens gathered for a colloquium on participatory budgeting. This group was smaller — only seven people attended the potluck meeting — and attendees didn’t have a specific agenda, only a desire for a more citizen-inclusive budgeting process in Knoxville.
What We're Doing
Summaries of Events: Upcoming and Recent
Our 2009 Conference at Amherst, Mass
Our International Network Meets in Luxemburg, 2009
Report from the Worker Coop Meeting in New Orleans
--And More
Voices from the Solidarity Economy Movement
Building Alternatives
for People and Planet
Edited by Jenna Allard,
Carl Davidson and Julie Matthaei
ChangeMaker Publications.
pp. 427, $25.00.
http://www.lulu.com/changemaker
Review by Jerry Harris
Global Studies Association
We finally have a book that gives a clear and partisan voice to the solidarity economy. While not so widely known within the continental U.S., this important and growing movement has deep historic roots in the international experience of cooperative economics, especially in the third world. It has especially gained in strength and depth over the last two decades.
The movement covers a broad range of alternatives in the realm of political economy that promote the social control of capital. It has no one platform or framework; rather, it has grown in opposition to the hardships caused by neoliberalism and "low road, race-to-the-bottom" capitalism.
