Join Riot Act for this conversation between authors on re-establishing the commons, participation in local democracy, and building power. Snacks and beverages provided, FREE event.

Budget Justice challenges everything you thought you knew about “dull” and daunting government budgets. It shows how the latter confuse and mislead the public by design, not accident. Arguing that they are moral documents that demand grassroots participation to truly work for everyone, the book shows how everyday citizens can shape policy to tackle everything from rising housing and food costs to unabated police violence, underfunded schools, and climate change–driven floods and wildfires.

Commonist Horizon: How do we move from defensive tactics to transformative, strategic revolts, attacking the root causes of urban oppression and putting into practice alternative forms of urban life? One proposal for such a revolutionary alternative to capital’s organization of our lived environment has been the commons, wherein inhabitants communally control the conditions that make up their daily lives.