This Week’s Higgledy-piggledy
June 18, 2017Links, bits, bobs
On Spain’s (and other countries’) great movement to reclaim politics through the cities:
- Le plaidoyer du maire de Valparaiso en faveur du « municipalisme »
- À Barcelone, une alliance des villes contre les nouveaux monstres politiques
- En Espagne, les « mairies indignées » en bataille contre la « dette illégitime »
Which led to:
- CATDM — Comité pour l’abolition des dettes illégitimes, whose spokesperson, Éric Toussaint, seems pretty interesting!
- Manifiesto de Oviedo — “Manifiesto contra el endeudamiento ilegítimo y los recortes que impiden garantizar derechos, servicios de calidad y la mejora de las condiciones de vida de nuestros pueblos”
- Fearless Cities — the Barcelona en Comú-supported coalition of cities behind the International Municipalist Summit that one of the articles above talks about
- Muitas — the movement that won the municipal elections in Belo Horizonte in Brazil, also part of the Fearless Cities coalition; look at one of their great campaign clips
- PAH — Plataforma de Afectados por la Hipoteca — the movement in which Ada Colau was active before becoming Barcelona’s mayor
- The Opening Talks of the Fearless Cities conference in Barcelona
Random thoughts
None this week.