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http://www.yesmagazine.org/issues/food-for-everyone/the-city-that-ended-hunger
"Food is a right" was apparently a political platform. That makes me sad.
But I actually found this article more interesting.
http://www.yesmagazine.org/issues/what-would-democracy-look-like/562
"Participatory budgeting".
...
I went over to the HN thread on this matter in order to see a critical response, hopefully with links and stuff, but all I found was a bunch of people bickering over semantics and argumenta ad homeniem. The best part was when people started whining about critical thinking.
Sigh. Fucking Americans.
"Food is a right" was apparently a political platform. That makes me sad.
But I actually found this article more interesting.
http://www.yesmagazine.org/issues/what-would-democracy-look-like/562
"Participatory budgeting".
...
I went over to the HN thread on this matter in order to see a critical response, hopefully with links and stuff, but all I found was a bunch of people bickering over semantics and argumenta ad homeniem. The best part was when people started whining about critical thinking.
Sigh. Fucking Americans.