The local as a reference for new mobilisations, solidarity networks and actions Penny Koutrolikou and Dimitra Spanou, Encounter Athens – Intro [video] • Citizens committee of Exarchia – Athens [video] [ppt] [text] • Citizens […]
Beyond political parties and ideologies and by abolishing divisions, Exarcheia unite us. Residents Committee of Exarcheia was formed in 2007 with the slogan “we take the neighborhood into our own hands”. […]
On the 11 November 2011 Mavili Collective – a group of artists and theatre makers – occupied the disused building of Embros theatre and proposed an intense programme of activities. The […]
Plataforma Gueto is a Social Black Movement based in Big Lisbon Neighbourhoods. The Plataforma fights against all forms of discrimination and social injustice towards the population that live in social housing […]
Barcelona has turned into a fallacious scenery, a bussiness oriented city that hides the peopleʼs real life, made of cheap stone houses, flesh and bones. On the one hand we find the […]
Análisis 15-M Madrid is a Madrid-based group of people who have taken part in the 15th of May movements from the very beginning. Most of them have a background in […]
TEMPORIUSO is an action-research project initiated in 2008 by cantieri isola association in partnership with precare.it group, which are today collectively Association Temporiuso.net, under the patronage of Department of Culture of the Province of Milan, […]
In the 2011, after 10 and more years of general urban mismanagement, and the deletion of any kind of cultural activity in the town, the former mayor announced a “public” […]
Our main goal is to promote “civic ecology”: the personal and social development through environmental enhancement of local communities. We are based in a neighbourhood of around 30.000 people, Alta […]
While the discussion about the crisis concerns mainly its global or state dimensions, the adverse effects of the crisis are strongly experienced in local everyday realities. However, these realities vary […]
Crisis regimes and emerging social movements 