---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Olivier Hoedeman <[email protected]> Date: Wed, Aug 15, 2018 at 10:58 AM Subject: SAVE THE DATE - Municipalize Europe! The agenda of transformative towns and cities for the 2019 European elections - 16 October 2018, Brussels To: <[email protected]> Municipalize Europe! The agenda of transformative towns and cities for the 2019 European elections Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO), Transnational Institute (TNI), Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung (RLS) and Barcelona En Comú 16 October 2018, Brussels The local level has long been a laboratory of social mobilization and democratic innovation in Europe and around the world. But now, more than ever before, it is municipalism - action from town councils and city halls, in alliance with social movements - that is creating alternatives to a Europe of corporate interests, privatization and the rollback of human rights. In Spain, ‘cities of change’ are combating speculation and defending the right to housing; in Italy, local governments are creating new legal mechanisms to protect the urban commons; in Poland, urban movements are fighting environmental degradation and air pollution; and in cities across Europe energy and water delivery is being taking back in public hands after failed privatisation. Progressive municipal governments are using ethical public procurement and other tools to promote vibrant local solidarity economies. Progressive municipalism is transforming Europe from the bottom up. Municipalize Europe!, co-organized by CEO, TNI, RLS and Barcelona En Comú, seeks to explore the limits and opportunities that the European Union represents for the municipalist movement at local level, in the run up to the 2019 European elections. Draft program (subject to change) 09:30 - 10:00: Welcome - Ernest Urtasun, MEP - RLS* TBC* 10:00-12:30: “Municipalize Europe! Building alternatives from our neighbourhoods & EU-level *limits and opportunities* Speakers (to be confirmed - TBC): - Gerardo Pisarello, First Deputy Mayor for Economy and Labour, Barcelona TBC - Eleanora De Maigo, City Councilor, Naples TBC - Rutger Groot Wassink, Alderman of Amsterdam City Council *TBC* - Anne-Sophie Olmos, Councilor for Public Management and Procurement, Grenoble City Council *TBC* - *Kenneth Haar*, Corporate Europe Observatory *TBC* Afternoon: ‘next steps’ meetings -- Olivier Hoedeman Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) Rue d'Edimbourg 26, 1050 Brussels, Belgium http://www.corporateeurope.org Tel. +32 (0)2 893 0930 Mobile: +32 474 486545 skype: olivierhoedeman twitter: olivierhoedeman Sign up to CEO's e-newsletter: http://www.corporateeurope.org/subscribe-our-newsletter -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net Connect: http://p2pfoundation.ning.com; Discuss: http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation Updates: http://del.icio.us/mbauwens; http://friendfeed.com/mbauwens; http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens