Too much gloom and doom! The citizens do have power. They just have to be willing to donate valuable time and money toward fighting for their beliefs.
You want citizen empowerment? Demand perpetual NRP funding so that neighborhoods can manage their own economic development, based on direct resident feedback. I've heard a lot of people tearing into CMs recently. I consider them 'the people'. They work hard, earn a modest income and spend a great deal of time circulating among the rest of 'the people'. We're lucky to have a city council, as it protects us to a certain extent from overt and excessive corporate influence. Regards, Jason Stone Nokomis --- Andy Driscoll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Never forget: the 35W Access Project will go through if the powers want it > to, impact statement or no impact statement. Citizens have no power in this > matter, unless the powers are under a real threat of losing that power. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free web site building tool. Try it! http://webhosting.yahoo.com/ps/sb/ REMINDERS: 1. Think a member has violated the rules? Email the list manager at [EMAIL PROTECTED] before continuing it on the list. 2. Don't feed the troll! Ignore obvious flame-bait. For state and national discussions see: http://e-democracy.org/discuss.html For external forums, see: http://e-democracy.org/mninteract ________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Un-subscribe, etc. at: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
