A New Deal for Rochester
Posted by Alex White · October 23, 2013 3:00 PM

The Real Solutions to Crime in our City
Posted by Alex White · October 18, 2013 3:07 PM

City Wants Rights Free Zones
Posted by Alex White · October 15, 2013 1:25 PM

Short video: Good for Sheriff
Posted by Emily Good · October 17, 2013 9:27 PM

Rochester Accent Interview
Posted by Emily Good · July 01, 2013 4:08 PM

Restore Weekend Visits to MCF and MCJ
Posted by Emily Good · June 24, 2013 9:20 PM · 1 reaction

Questionnaire from Suzie B. Anthony's Wordpress page
Posted by · September 15, 2013 9:32 AM

City purchase of property damaged by demolition contractor
Posted by · July 19, 2013 11:25 AM

Louise Slaughter's Support For Tom Richards
Posted by · July 15, 2013 10:56 AM

City Council Candidate Forums
Posted by David Sutliff-Atias · September 10, 2013 10:09 PM

Crime in the 19th Ward
Posted by David Sutliff-Atias · August 26, 2013 11:20 PM · 3 reactions

Green Rochester in Candidate Forums
Posted by David Sutliff-Atias · July 25, 2013 8:32 PM

The People Have Spoken
Posted by · November 06, 2013 11:40 AM

This Election Change The Direction Of Education
Posted by · November 05, 2013 7:56 AM

Doctors Heal Sick Bodies – Teachers Inspire Great Minds
Posted by · November 04, 2013 8:38 AM

As a member of the Rochester City Council, I will continue to organize community support for the political and economic reconstruction of our City, with a priority on people and planet rather than corporate profit.  Upon election, I will focus on implementing the following programs:

City Office for Cooperative Development

Corporate welfare as a strategy for economic development has clearly failed our communities, with an extreme lack of living wage work available to our citizens.  Instead, we must use our City's resources to create new jobs in the form of worker-owned cooperatives.  Using the Mondragon Cooperatives of Spain and the Evergreen Cooperatives of Cleveland, OH as models, we can rebuild our urban economy to provide living wage jobs for all that need them.  The Office of Cooperative Development will play a  crucial role by overseeing the distribution of start-up funds, providing technical assistance for these democratically-managed workplaces, and leveraging economic support from community anchor institutions such as the University of Rochester.

Neighborhood Councils & Participatory Budgeting

I will introduce a Charter revision to establish elected neighborhood-level councils that will be given authority over certain aspects of City administration.  Bringing democracy down to this level will encourage and enable more Rochesterians to be involved in our community's political processes and be more invested in their neighborhood's success.  As part of this decentralization, the neighborhood councils will administer a participatory budgeting process, in which all members of the community will be able to designate City budget funds for needed projects.

Other policies that I would support as your next Councilmember:

1. An Independent Civilian Review Board overseeing the Rochester Police Department
2. Restorative justice, that heals rather than punishes for crime
3. Guarantee quality food as a human right
4. End the use of City resources for home foreclosures
5. Introduce curbside compost pickup
6. Divest City funds from national banks
7. Prioritize mass and active transportation in all City planning
8. Encourage the use of City-owned land for urban agriculture
9. Extend existing hydrofracking moratorium to a permanent ban, and pursue legal action against New York State if fracking is allowed anywhere near Hemlock & Canadice Lakes.
10. End the profiling and criminalization of Rochester's communities of color, particularly youth, by the RPD

Growing Our Future: Food Security & Urban Agriculture
Posted by Drew Langdon 🌻 · October 14, 2013 11:49 AM · 1 reaction

How Democracy At Work Can Revive Rochester's Economy
Posted by Drew Langdon 🌻 · October 13, 2013 5:05 PM

Pride & Poverty
Posted by Drew Langdon 🌻 · September 18, 2013 8:22 PM