Building Civic Power: K. Sabeel Rahman
Civic Power
Civic power puts communities most impacted by legislative decisions in the drivers' seat of making public policy. Community members get to have a say in areas like policing, zoning, education, taxation, voting rights, and more. Participatory budgeting creates a structure of representative decision making that is responsive and reflective of the affected communities. This form of civic power exists around the world and can be replicated in the United States on a large scale.
Radical Democracy
True bottom-up democracy is a radical but simple concept that fully espouses civic power…
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