When we started the Center for Popular Democracy, people often asked us, "What exactly does ‘popular democracy' mean?" To us, popular democracy is about building power from communities up and empowering people to participate fully in their democracy.

History shows that when communities organize and work together, we can accomplish great things. From the women's rights movement to the civil rights movement, the farmworkers movement to the gay liberation movement, time and again, people organized to determine the direction of our democracy. And that is what popular democracy is all about.

The Center for Popular Democracy and our base-building partner organizations are on the front lines, promoting justice for workers, confronting discrimination and demanding real opportunity for immigrant families.

Our work at Center for Popular Democracy is about linking local struggles for justice together and connecting them to a larger national movement. Take a look:

Read more about the issues we work on:

• Organizational capacity
• Strategic networks
• Economic Justice
• Racial Justice
• Immigrant RightsCommunity Justice
• Public Education
• Voting Rights & Democracy