Making a people's budget in Porto Alegre

From: NACLA Report on the Americas | Date: March 1, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

REPORT ON BRAZIL

Porto Alegre residents play an important role in deciding how to spend their city's money.

From the time it was founded in the early 1980s, the Brazilian Workers' Party (PT) has maintained that electoral success is not an end in itself but a springboard for developing radical, participatory forms of democracy that will enable the country to start redressing the enormous inequalities in Brazilian society. The city where the PT has made most advances in this sense is the city of Porto Alegre, capital city of the relatively wealthy state of Rio Grande do Sul, a busy ...

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