Steve Rushton
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The best and only book on building the anti-capitalist economy in Rojava by Azize Aslan has finally been translated into English from Spanish. Can’t recommend it enough - get your copy ASAP from Daraja Press
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World Tourism Day seems a good time to question how tourism impacts (& can ruin) our towns & cities.
Cities shouldn't be playgrounds for the rich, they should be enjoyed by the multitude who live there.
#TourismDay
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#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
Terrible one year after the killing of Jîna Mahsa Aminî that so much news coverage about the Iranian women's uprising, neglects her Kurdish identity and the central role of the Kurdish women's movement leading the protests.
#JinJiyanAzadi
Check out this excellent #MunicipalistMonday thread 👇👇
Transformation Haus & Feld is a super insipring project whom we interviewed both for EMN's #MunicipalistChronicles videos & for an upcoming publication with Municipal Enquiry & Steve Rushton !
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A decade ago, I wrote about Cyclopen rebuilding an urban commons in Stockholm for Occupy.com.
Inspiring to see they are still going strong, and featuring them on yesterday's European Municipalist Network Project's #MunicipalistMonday 🧵
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“The decision-making process is highly participatory & horizontal and it takes place at monthly assemblies and through both off and online comms.”
In short it is ran as an #UrbanCommons
40 6-sheets will require the equivalent electricity of 120 average UK homes each year. In a cost of living crisis and a climate crisis, this is an unnecessary use of energy that we simply can't afford.
#ArtNotAds
Check out this brilliant thread about our movement by European Municipalist Network Project (with further info by Solidarity Economy Association) and get in touch if you need help starting a community food co-op on your street or estate.
Today's #MunicipalistMonday celebrates the inspiring Cooperation Town, 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.
Check out this podcast intro telling why we created this #emnSkillShare 🔊series.
With themes ranging from transforming our economies to storytelling's power; from putting feminism and care at the core of politics to reclaiming space by hacking the law.
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Homeless people in Finland are first given a home, then secondly assisted to resolve any social issues they may be facing—for instance, drug dependency. The opposite attitude and intervention towards homeless people elsewhere.
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#HousingCrisis