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# Another Alberta is Possible

A province where democracy isn't just for the wealthy few, but belongs to everyone who calls Alberta home

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## 🏛️ Democracy Under Attack

The UCP's Bill 54 is just the beginning. While they restrict voting access and silence opposition voices, we envision an Alberta where democracy is expanded, not eroded. Where every worker, student, immigrant, and Indigenous person has not just a voice, but real power in shaping our collective future.

## Our Vision: True Democratic Participation

### 🗳️ Universal Voting Rights

If you live here, work here, or pay taxes here - you vote here.

No more arbitrary citizenship requirements. Permanent residents, temporary workers, students, and all community members get a say in the decisions that affect their daily lives.

### ⚒️ Workplace Democracy

Democracy doesn't end at the factory gate.

Worker cooperatives, union representation on corporate boards, and employee ownership programs. When workers control their workplaces, they control their communities.

### 🏘️ Community Power

Real local control over local issues.

Participatory budgeting, community assemblies, and neighbourhood councils with actual decision-making power over housing, transit, and development.

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## From Exclusion to Inclusion

While the UCP works to restrict who can vote and limit democratic participation, we fight for the opposite: a democracy that includes everyone affected by political decisions.

#### 📋 Automatic Voter Registration

Register every Albertan automatically when they turn 18, get a health card, file taxes, or establish residency. No bureaucratic barriers.

#### 🏢 Workplace Voting

Polling stations in every major workplace. Paid time off to vote. Make it easier to participate than not to participate.

#### 🏠 Resident Voting Rights

Municipal voting rights for all residents regardless of citizenship status. If you live in the community, you get a say in how it's run.

#### 📱 Digital Democracy

Secure online voting options, digital town halls, and mobile polling for rural and remote communities.

#### 🗣️ Multilingual Access

Ballots and voting information in all community languages. Democracy shouldn't require perfect English.

#### ♿ Universal Access

Every polling station fully accessible. Home voting for seniors and disabled community members. No one left behind.

## Economic Democracy

True democracy requires economic democracy. When a small elite controls the wealth, they control the politics.

### 🏭 The Problem: Corporate Control

Giant corporations and wealthy donors buy elections while working families struggle to afford housing, healthcare, and education. This isn't democracy - it's oligarchy.

### 🤝 The Solution: Worker Ownership

When workers own businesses collectively, profits stay in communities. When workers have power, they vote for policies that benefit working families, not just shareholders.

#### 🏭 Cooperative Development

Public funding for worker cooperatives and employee stock ownership plans. Transform capitalism from within.

#### 🏦 Public Banking

A provincial bank owned by and accountable to Albertans, not Wall Street shareholders. Looking at you ATB.

#### ⚡ Energy Democracy

Community-owned renewable energy projects. Let communities profit from their own resources.

#### 🏠 Housing as a Right

Public housing development, tenant cooperatives, and community land trusts to end housing as a commodity.

## Indigenous Sovereignty & Solidarity

No democracy in Alberta is legitimate without Indigenous sovereignty. True reconciliation means sharing power, not just consulting.

### 🚫 Colonial Democracy

The UCP's "democracy" continues 150+ years of colonial domination. Bill 54 affects Indigenous communities who were never consulted about its impacts on their governance and rights.

### 🪶 Indigenous Leadership

Guaranteed Indigenous representation in provincial government. Recognition of Indigenous law and governance. Land back and resource sharing agreements that respect Indigenous sovereignty.

## Youth Power & Climate Justice

The future belongs to young people. They deserve the biggest say in creating it.

#### 🗳️ Votes at 16

Lower the voting age to 16 for all elections. Young people work, pay taxes, and live with political consequences longer than anyone.

#### 🏫 School Democracy

Student representation on school boards. Student unions with real power over curriculum and school policy.

#### 🌍 Climate Assemblies

Citizens' assemblies with youth leadership to plan Alberta's just transition to renewable energy.

#### 💼 Youth Job Guarantee

Public employment programs focused on climate action, care work, and community building.

## From Vision to Reality

## 🔥 This isn't just a dream - it's a roadmap

Every victory for democracy started with people who refused to accept the status quo. The eight-hour work day, women's suffrage, Indigenous rights - all won through organized struggle by ordinary people who demanded something better.

## Take Action Today

Building democratic socialism requires all of us. Find your way to contribute:

#### 🏛️ Electoral Action

Support candidates who champion expanded democracy and workers' rights. Run for office yourself.

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#### ⚒️ Labor Organizing

Join or help organize unions, worker cooperatives, and tenant unions in your community.

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#### 🏘️ Community Building

Start neighborhood councils, mutual aid networks, and community gardens. Democracy begins at home.

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#### 📢 Spread the Vision

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"Another world is possible. She is walking toward us on a quiet day, and I can hear her breathing." - Arundhati Roy

The choice is ours: accept the UCP's vision of restricted democracy for the few, or fight for expanded democracy for all. Which Alberta do you choose?