Posts tagged municipalism
Asserting community power, and rejecting polarisation, is how we can react to a worsening climate—without waiting for politicians to change their ways
Alternative Editorial: Hope is dead. Long live Hope
A/UK EDITORIAL, 4TH SECTOR, ALTER NATIVES, COMMUNITY, DEMOCRATIC INNOVATION, LOCALISM, YOUTHpat kanecop26, climate change, solutions, municipalism, cosmolocalism
"The State of Us" event revealed the mulitple forms of agency within municipalism
Alternative Editorial: Soft Power Battles
A/UK EDITORIAL, A BETTER MEDIA, BOUNCE BEYOND, PARTY POLITICS, TELL THE STORYpat kanesoft power, Dominic cummings, media, British identity, transformation, Plymouth, municipalism
"I wanted ordinary citizens to feel like they owned the chamber". A mindful review of ex-Mayor of Sheffield Magic Magid's The Art of Disruption
Barcelona has truly been a “fearless city” when facing COVID - helping the poor, migrants, local business, green spaces, care and culture…
In Budapest, Washington State, Paris - and Camden - Climate Assemblies are expressing voices, shifting priorities and setting policy
How do we do the “feminisation of politics”, asks Indra Adnan? Municipally, locally—or starting with the basic quality of our relationships?
Packed into the city squares of Italy, the "sardines" movement rejects both party politics and anti-immigration policies - with fun and wit
"If we don’t do the impossible, we’re going to wind up with the unthinkable." From 1978, Murray Bookchin rebels against extinction
Social ecology, horizontalism, bioregionalism - a brief tour around the theories that back up a return to the local
Municipalism is "a lifeboat capable of carrying us, our communities and the values we cherish safely through the perilous decades ahead"
Collaboration, dialogue, horizontality: what links the "feminisation" & "municipalisation" of politics.
When you ban cars from your city centre, you can hear birds sing, coffee spoons tinkle, see children wander...
Alternative Editorial: Let's Be Scared
4TH SECTOR, A/UK EDITORIAL, BREXIT, COMMUNITY, ENVIRONMENTALISTS, LOCALISM, PARTY POLITICSpat kaneclimate change, localism, grassroots, environment, organisation, municipalism
“Don’t scale UP, scale OUT". Municipalism isn't just about a smaller version of the old state - but a new kind of politics
Alternative Editorial: We're Looking In The Wrong Place
A/UK EDITORIAL, BIG PICTURE, COMMUNITY, INGENUITY, LAB FOCUS, LOCALISM, NEW ECONOMICSpat kanesymptoms, causes, top down, bottom up, localism, transition network, doughnut economics, spirit level, futurism, collaboration, laboratories, municipalism
A "city-driven" basic income scheme from Barcelona - not "smart" but "wise cities"
