Grow Community to Share Power

• In Our Neighborhoods
  • Hold regular town halls in District 6 and around Athens.
  • Facilitate ongoing community organization on the neighborhood level.

• In all of Athens
  • Rethink governance as a grassroots process with participatory budgeting and policymaking.
  • Empower committees of directly affected community members with decision-making authority.
  • Bring democracy out of City Hall into more public spaces with a focus on listening and collaboration.

• Beyond Athens
  • Stand up to large institutions, corporate and state, on behalf of the people.
  • Organize to change policy and transform government into a vehicle of the people.

Read more about Jesse’s platform.