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Oficina de Acción Comunal | https://oficinacomunal.org/en/ Comunes urbanos, procesos políticos municipalistas y prácticas Wed, 10 May 2023 14:58:10 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 https://oficinacomunal.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/FAVICON-150x150.png Oficina de Acción Comunal | https://oficinacomunal.org/en/ 32 32 Cypress Revolution https://oficinacomunal.org/en/urban-commoning-in-europe/actors/actor/cypress-revolution/ Tue, 09 May 2023 10:02:59 +0000 https://oficinacomunal.org/urban-commoning-in-europe/actors/actor/cypress-revolution/ Toward the end of 2018, citizens of the Montenegrin port city of Bar organized themselves and demanded that the local government and the Ministry of Education stop the construction of a kindergarten. This perhaps sounds like an unlikely story of urban activism. Nevertheless, it is true: a Bar community decisively opposed the building of a kindergarten in place of a centrally located…

]]> Deutsche Wohnen & Co Enteignen https://oficinacomunal.org/en/urban-commoning-in-europe/actors/actor/deutsche-wohnen-co-enteignen/ Tue, 09 May 2023 10:02:59 +0000 https://oficinacomunal.org/urban-commoning-in-europe/actors/actor/deutsche-wohnen-co-enteignen/ “Deutsche Wohnen & Co Enteignen” (Expropriate Deutsche Wohnen& Co) is an initiative and related campaign by Mietenvolksentscheid, Kotti & Co, other tenant initiatives, tenants of Deutsche Wohnen, the Interventionistische Linke (interventionist left), members of different parties and others. They are currently organising a petition for a referendum that calls for an expropriation and(re…

]]> Plataforma de Afectadxs por la Hipoteca – PAH https://oficinacomunal.org/en/urban-commoning-in-europe/actors/actor/plataforma-de-afectadxs-por-la-hipoteca-pah/ Tue, 09 May 2023 10:02:59 +0000 https://oficinacomunal.org/urban-commoning-in-europe/actors/actor/plataforma-de-afectadxs-por-la-hipoteca-pah/ After the financial meltdown of 2008, in February 2009, activists presented the creation of the Plataforma de Afectados por la Hipoteca (pah ) in Barcelona, with the aim of denouncing the social consequences of the housing crisis and fighting against evictions and over-indebtedness. Ten years later, the pah has more than 250 local nodes that, together with tenants’ unions and neighbourhood…

]]> Josaph’Aire https://oficinacomunal.org/en/urban-commoning-in-europe/actors/actor/josaphaire/ Tue, 09 May 2023 10:02:59 +0000 https://oficinacomunal.org/urban-commoning-in-europe/actors/actor/josaphaire/ Josaph’Aire is a “Living Lab at large”, a collection of different projects that come together to explore and practice alternative ways of living in the city: local food production, close relationship to nature and biodiversity, sustainable water management, solidarity economy, auto-construction laboratories for minimal housing, circular economy, renewable energy. More concretely this is reflected…

]]> Coalition for Sana https://oficinacomunal.org/en/urban-commoning-in-europe/actors/actor/coalition-for-sana/ Tue, 09 May 2023 10:02:54 +0000 https://oficinacomunal.org/urban-commoning-in-europe/actors/actor/coalition-for-sana/ Coalition for Sana gathers 23 organizations from eight cities in the river basin, which are for years pointing out the irregularities regarding the planning and construction of the Medna hydropower plant on the Sana River. On the occasion of putting into operation of the hydropower plant , The Coalition pointed out that it represents the beginning of the end of one of the most beautiful and…

]]> Let’s defend the rivers of Stara Planina https://oficinacomunal.org/en/urban-commoning-in-europe/actors/actor/lets-defend-the-rivers-of-stara-planina/ Tue, 09 May 2023 10:02:54 +0000 https://oficinacomunal.org/urban-commoning-in-europe/actors/actor/lets-defend-the-rivers-of-stara-planina/ The Serbian citizen activist group “Let´s Defend Rivers of Stara Planina” if fighting for the preservation of the rivers and waterfalls of Stara Planina. The Government of the Republic plans to build hundreds of small hydroelectric power stations in the declared Nature Park and beyond in Serbia and channel picturesque mountain rivers into pipes. The project would permanently damage the Nature Park…

]]> Freedom Square https://oficinacomunal.org/en/urban-commoning-in-europe/actors/actor/freedom-square/ Tue, 09 May 2023 10:02:54 +0000 https://oficinacomunal.org/urban-commoning-in-europe/actors/actor/freedom-square/ The Skopje2014 urban reconstruction project is the biggest infrastructure investment in the entire Macedonian history. Freedom Square opposed the project and denounced the ultimate goal of urban reconstruction, officially announced by the Macedonian government in 2010, was allegedly to raise the profile of the Macedonian capital. In reality, this proved to be a costly endeavor financed by public…

]]> Don’t let Belgrade d(r)own https://oficinacomunal.org/en/urban-commoning-in-europe/actors/actor/dont-let-belgrade-drown/ Tue, 09 May 2023 10:02:54 +0000 https://oficinacomunal.org/urban-commoning-in-europe/actors/actor/dont-let-belgrade-drown/ Don’t Let Belgrade D(r)own (Ne da(vi)mo Beograd) is a local political movement that is gathering large numbers of people interested in improving the living and working conditions of all our citizens; improving, conserving, and lawfully using common and natural resources, building democratic institutions, sustainable urban development, urban and cultural policies and incorporating citizens into the…

]]> We Don’t Give Away Varšavska https://oficinacomunal.org/en/urban-commoning-in-europe/actors/actor/we-dont-give-away-varsavska/ Tue, 09 May 2023 10:02:54 +0000 https://oficinacomunal.org/urban-commoning-in-europe/actors/actor/we-dont-give-away-varsavska/ Pravo na grad (Right to the City) is an organisation engaged in advocacy and public campaigning against privatization and economic overexploitation of space, public and common goods, while promoting the need for citizens’ participation in the management of public goods. Over the last ten years, the organization has undertaken a number of campaigns and protest actions raising the public awareness…

]]> Srđ Hill development https://oficinacomunal.org/en/urban-commoning-in-europe/actors/actor/srd-hill-development/ Tue, 09 May 2023 10:02:54 +0000 https://oficinacomunal.org/urban-commoning-in-europe/actors/actor/srd-hill-development/ Srđ is ours! is a civil initiative which fights against the planned construction of a golf park on Srđ, the mountain above Dubrovnik. The golf course is actually a cover for the construction of an apartment complex on the last possible location where Dubrovnik can expand. The initial space plan was intended for the construction of a sports and recreation centre for the inhabitants of Dubrovnik…

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