What we’re about
Educate: We understand popular education as essential to cooperative governance and liberation. We are exchanging knowledge and skills among residents and the public.
Advocate: We are advocates for collective governance and liberation, but intersecting oppressions demand that we contend with a broad set of issues. Our labor is to advocate beyond a single issue and exercise collaborative resistance.
Organize: Relational organizing and building collective power is our work. Our liberation is bound to one another. We don’t just work with the people; we are the people.
Resist: We resist beliefs, policies, and structures that do not give our people the chance to thrive. We engage in and support direct action, social pressure, and other forms of resistance.
Create: We believe critique seeds resistance, but liberation is found in our actions to bring our imagination to life. It is not enough to resist what doesn’t serve us; We must build what we deserve.
What is Participatory Budgeting?
Participatory budgeting is a process of democratic deliberation and decision-making, in which ordinary people decide how to allocate part of a municipal or public budget. Participatory budgeting allows residents to identify, discuss, and prioritize public spending projects, and gives them the power to make real decisions about how money is spent.
Participatory budgeting is designed to involve those left out of traditional methods of public engagement, such as low-income residents, non-citizens, and youth.
Check out the Participatory Budgeting Project to learn more about how this practice is taking place across the world (https://www.participatorybudgeting.org/about-pb/#what-is-pb)
Membership
People’s Budget Birmingham is reshaping its membership model in 2024 to prepare new leaders among Birmingham residents.
Check out our 2020 People’s Priorities Report to see the founding members of this campaign!
We look forward to moving boldly toward grassroots control.