Migrants make cities. #MunicipalistMonday – for International Migrants Day - turns to Seven Sisters Market in North London aka 'Latin Village'. Here migrants from South America trail-blaze pathways to democratically and locally organising against gentrification.

Mid-October EMN's #OpenCall participants met in Naples to share strategies, strengthen connections and build collaborations. This also offered a chance to delve into Naples' inspirational urban commons. #MunicipalistMonday celebrates take homes from those incredible spaces.

Today's #MunicipalistMonday looks to Cape Town's inspirational Reclaim the City movement – a movement fighting for universal justice, especially in the realm of housing, whilst struggling against spatial apartheid (an ongoing legacy of historic injustice).

How can young people make change? How can we transform their energy and aspirations into tangible actions? Today's #MunicipalistMonday tackles these questions – looking at Youthstok, a program developed by SocLab (Białystok, Poland) and supported by EMN. #emnAwardedProject

Jackson Rising (2018) provided must-read know-how for a previous #MunicipalistMonday on how to co-create a democratic local public assembly.

https://twitter.com/EMN_Project/status/1673289369472442368

Today's #MunicipalistMonday 🧵 showcases Cooperation Jackson, who are “"Building a solidarity economy in Jackson, Mississippi, anchored by a network of cooperatives and worker-owned, democratically self-managed enterprises."
https://cooperationjackson.org/

How can we escape corporate control? How can we create universal access to medicines, vaccines and other drugs?
One of the #emnAwardedProjects tackled these big questions. Exploring medicine as a commons – a key theme for municipalism.
#MunicipalistMonday 🧵

#MunicipalistMonday focuses on Turkey denying Rojava water, 1 of many Turkish atrocities. For International Day for Preventing the Exploitation of the Environment in War & Armed Conflict. & We'll explore Rojava's women reirrigating their lands. #JinJiyanAzadi

This week's #MunicipalistMonday thread explores how happiness is revolutionary. This was one of our #emnAwardedProjects by Cambiamo Messina dal Basso (Let's change Messina from below) or CmdB for short. Messina is the third largest city in Sicily.

Many #MunicipalistMonday🧵s explored how occupying space is vital to build power municipalist power from Brussels to Belgrade & beyond. On this theme, today's #MunicipalistMonday explores the longest running factory occupation in Italy's history.
#GKN #JustTransition

Today's #MunicipalistMonday 🧵 looks to Bro Ffestiniog, a small town in North Wales transforming itself after economic decline. Caused by the collapse of slate production, its main industry, and neglect by successive UK governments.

#SolidarityEconomy

#MunicipalistMonday looks to Naples' leading Urban Commons. It has the most self-managed spaces in Europe. e.g. buildings that were prisons are now run as community spaces by the community. Today we look at reclaiming the coast, something privatised in Naples & Italy #MareLibero

#Commons

#MunicipalistMonday explores ending toxic patriarchy, aka the Feminisation or Feministisation of Politics. It demands our social movements embody feminist principles, therefore offering a plan (& theory of change) to end toxic patriarchy.

#EqualPayDay demands everyone should receive the same respect at work. Let's go further. Our horizon goes far beyond equal pay with eradicating all sexism & misogyny; all violence & suppression against women and other marginalised groups must end.
#MunicipalistMonday
#FeministisationofPolitics

Brazil’s Landless Workers Movement, (#MST) is a mass movement of rural workers and by all those who want to fight for land reform and against injustice and social inequality.

MST = Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra in Portuguese.

#MunicipalistMonday

#MunicipalistMonday looks to #Cyklopen is a self-built and self-managed cultural and social space in Högdalen, Stockholm. The house is managed as an urban common, and strives for more democratic ways to share and distribute resources, space and knowledge.
https://cyklopen.se/english/

Today's #MunicipalistMonday 🧵 looks to Belgrade and the Magacin Cultural Centre – a self-organised space dedicated to art, culture and social activity.

#UrbanCommons

Thanks a lot to our friends at CC-CoRDE. Today's #MunicipalistMonday drew from their newsletter, written as they explore municipalist and ground-up local movements across Europe. You can read more of their inspirational commentaries here:
https://www.weareclimates.org/about-2?lang=en

Today's #MunicipalistMonday celebrates Cooperation Town is a network of community food co-ops, self-organising on streets and social housing estates all over England. There are currently 30 co-ops – owned and run by their members democratically.

Thanks a lot to our friends at CC-CoRDE. Today's #MunicipalistMonday drew from their newsletter, written as they explore municipalist and ground-up local movements across Europe. You can read more of their inspirational commentaries here:
https://www.weareclimates.org/about-2?lang=en