The European Municipalist Network project is a space to strengthen the emerging municipalist ecosystem.
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#MunicipalistMonday 🧵 looks at tips & tools for running a democratic neighbourhood assembly. 🔥🔥
It draws wisdom from Cooperation Jackson, Zagreb je NAS!, Naples Urban Commons, EMN's FoP group, Belo Horizonte's Muitas, Barcelona En Comu, Feminise Politics Now! & many more.
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Degrowth Municipalism could change the world @GetGlesgaMoving @_WCCA @adfreecities @steve_rushton_ @degrowthlondon @thoughtland @ErskineChris #degrowth #municipalism bellacaledonia.org.uk/2024/1…
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"Sometimes you don't want to believe that you have to deal with these threats, but they are here, and they are real"
We're exploring how we can best organise against the far-right, with a film screening and Q&A 📽️
#FearlessCities
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"At its best, a movement is an ever-moving organism that adapts and shifts when needed. And today it really is needed. We dare to dream of a world where the interests of capitalism are not put over the interests of people"
@NatashaJosette speaking at #FearlessCities SY 💬
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At the opening panel of #FearlessCities, our FJ spoke about how "we want to see a wholesale rethinking of what local democracy is for and how local government is organised."
WIth co-organisers @OpusIndependent @steve_rushton_ & @citizen_network
#DemocracyNow
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A massive thank you to Food Squad in Sheffield for hosting the European Municipalist Network’s Friday event before #FearlessCities
With participants from Gdansk to Glasgow, Naples to the North.
@EMN_Project @CooperationTown @Francelibertes @SolidarityEcon @bcnencomu
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"Our antiracism has to see itself as continuing decolonial struggles to build a world beyond empires"
'A World Without Racism' author @JoshuaVirasami in conversation with @DesreeReynolds last night, opening Fearless Cities South Yorkshire 💬
#FearlessCities
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"Degrowth means transforming societies to ensure environmental justice and a good life for all within planetary boundaries"
We're exploring degrowth, bus reform, advertising bans and establishing a "right to the city" 📉
#FearlessCities
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"At its best, a movement is an ever-moving organism that adapts and shifts when needed. And today it really is needed. We dare to dream of a world where the interests of capitalism are not put over the interests of people"
Me today speaking at #FearlessCities SY 💬
"At its best, a movement is an ever-moving organism that adapts and shifts when needed. And today it really is needed. We dare to dream of a world where the interests of capitalism are not put over the interests of people"
@NatashaJosette speaking at #FearlessCities SY 💬
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"Care and the commons create the cracks in the system through which the light enters" ☀️
@AngelinaKussy opens our weekend of events on the theme of reimagining our commons through neighbourhoods of care.
#FearlessCities
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"There's a cultural socialisation that power is 'over there', but our lived experience can be that power is with us"
Take back the city – how do we transfer power from politicians to citizens when it comes to local decisions? 🏙️
#FearlessCities
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Some highlights of this afternoon's sessions, on the feminisation of politics, nurturing cultures of commoning, building antiracist cities, and how we can finance just neighbourhood and bioregional transitions.
#FearlessCities
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Thank you for coming! To our friends from Barcelona and everyone else. We are so proud for having made #FearlessCities happen together with co-organisers @OpusIndependent @citizen_network and @steve_rushton_ - and of course all of you speakers & participants!
Closing plenary at #FearlessCities summit. What a great weekend! Thank’s a million for inviting us over. Ir’s been a pleasure to be part of this amazing event. See you soon! @DemeMove
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"The real problem with transition is this: we don’t have any control over the real functions of our economic system"
@abundance_org's @KeirMilburn speaking at our session on municipalism, transition, and how we can run public services in the public interest 💬
#FearlessCities
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Heureux d'intervenir au #FearlessCities à Sheffield 3 jours de réflexion sur comment transformer nos villes pour les gens, par les gens
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Excited to be speaking at #FearlessCities in Sheffield 3 days of thinking about how to transform our cities for the people, by the people
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FEARLESS CITIES S YORKSHIRE- we're excited to see you in Sheffield 2-3rd November for this summit about municipalism and local democracy that we are coorganising with @OpusIndependent, @citizen_network & @steve_rushton_
#FearlessCities
Register here fearlesscitiessy.org/
These self-managed buildings are spaces where the local community – and anyone else – can engage and co-organise. The difference from squatted social centres in other European countries is that these buildings are recognised in perpetuity.
#UrbanCommons
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An urban commons in Naples offers a window towards a world beyond prisons,An urban commons in Naples offers a window towards a world beyond prisons by @steve_rushton_
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An urban commons in Naples offers a window towards a world beyond prisons,An urban commons in Naples offers a window towards a world beyond prisons by @steve_rushton_
bellacaledonia.org.uk/2024/0…
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In Italy, a post-industrialised Neapolitan district struggles to reclaim a healthy sea
By me
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💥NEW REPORT - today we share ‘Cities In Action: Democratising Local Governance, co-authored with @SANEGlasgow and @ItsOurCitySheff shorturl.at/iDMSY ##CitiesInAction #localgov #municipalism - a wee thread 🧵1/8
