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Budget Justice : On Building Grassroots Politics and Solidarities - Celina Su

Budget Justice

On Building Grassroots Politics and Solidarities

By: Celina Su

Hardcover | 9 September 2025

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A bold vision that empowers communities to solve our cities' most pressing problems

Amid political repression and a deepening affordability crisis, 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 reveals how everyday citizens can shape policy to tackle everything from rising housing and food costs to unabated police violence, underfunded schools, and climate changedriven floods and wildfires.

Drawing on her years of engagement with democratic governance in New York City and around the globe, Celina Su proposes a new kind of democracy-in which city residents make collective decisions about public needs through processes like participatory budgeting, and in which they work across racial divides and segregated spaces as neighbors rather than as consumers or members of voting blocs. Su presents a series of "interludes" that vividly illustrate how budget justice plays out on the ground, including in-depth interviews with activists from Porto Alegre, Brazil, Barcelona, Spain, and Jackson, Mississippi, and shares her own personal reflections on how changing social identities inform one's activism.

Essential reading to empower citizens, Budget Justice explains why public budgets reflect a crisis not so much in accounting as in democracy, and enables everyone, especially those from historically marginalized communities, to imagine and enact people's budgets and policies-from universal preschool to affordable housing-that will enable their communities to thrive.

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