---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Stacco Troncoso <[email protected]> Date: Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 7:23 PM Subject: This is how people power wins an election: the story of Ahora Madrid To: [email protected] As a continuation of the other day's post <http://commonstransition.org/common-space-for-exchange-cities-in-transition-and-citizen-struggles/> on the Municipalist electoral coalitions which took power in several Spanish cities, here's an in-depth interview I conducted with Ahora Madrid's heads of transparency and citizen participation. We spoke at length about citizen participation, transparency, the Commons, a 60 million-euro participatory budget, the persistent misunderstanding that Podemos equals Ahora Madrid or Barcelona en Comú, how to bring “open source logics” to city governance, and the difficulties of institutional encroachment for those used to consensus-oriented assembly spaces. I think that this is very relevant material for the ECA, and an valuable resource for any commons-based electoral strategy that goes beyond pandering to existing party structures. Check it out in the link below. http://commonstransition.org/this-is-how-people-power-wins- an-election-the-story-of-ahora-madrid/ That's it. Happy solstice/holidays/take your pic everyone. Looking forward to seeing you all again next year. -- Strategic direction steward P2P Foundation <http://p2pfoundation.net/>. Director of content commonstransition.org Co-founder guerrillatranslation.org -- Check out the Commons Transition Plan here at: http://commonstransition.org P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation>Updates: http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/