In her report entitled “A CONTRE COURANT – An assessment of the dynamics of participatory lists in the French municipal elections in 2020″, Elisabeth Dau (Commonspolis, Utopia) highlights the effervescence of the nascent municipalism in…
Alima el Bajnouni is Vice-President of Commonspolis and an active member of several Marseille associations working for the right to the city, including “A City Center for All” and Babalex, which promotes Citizenship through the…
On Monday 27 April 2020, 150 people met in the framework of the “Lundi en Commun” usually organised by Action Commune for a Special Edition “Fearless Cities” led by various french partner organisations: Mouvement Utopia,…
In the last run-up to french municipal elections, the authors of this op-ed piece invited elected officials, candidates and citizens to imagine, in their territories, policies for the meeting. “Cultivating this relational ecology seems to…
An Interview with Camille, spokesperson for the Citizens’ Assembly of Commercy. Didier Fradin is a contributor to several citizen and participatory experiments at #MAVOIX and La Belle Démocratie. He took advantage of “The Commune of…
Didier Fradin contributes to several citizen participation experiments at #MAVOIX and La Belle Démocratie. He was present at the Commune of Communes conference (January 18–19, 2020), the first gathering of free municipalities and municipal initiatives,…
The #LabsofCare project support municipalist and social movements to experiment and put into practice Care in their organizational culture. #LabsofCare will document and make available tools and methods addressing sharing of power, collective dynamics inspired…
#LabsofCare is a collective project to foster a community of activists across Europe developing practical ideas to bring care to the foreground in organisations working towards social transformation. In this videos participants of #LabsofCare Project…
Our colleagues from Action Commune, an association which supports participatory lists for municipal elections in France, listed in January 2020 more than 258 participatory lists, “a third in villages of less than 10,000 inhabitants,…
Launch of the municipalista.org map This work, a study and a website, stems from the restlessness of spaces that believe in municipalism as a construction and social transformation tool from grassroots. Spaces that look…