<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Stacco Troncoso</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:staccotroncoso@p2pfoundation.net">staccotroncoso@p2pfoundation.net</a>></span><br>Date: Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 7:23 PM<br>Subject: This is how people power wins an election: the story of Ahora Madrid<br>To: <a href="mailto:commonswatch@lists.p2pfoundation.net">commonswatch@lists.p2pfoundation.net</a><br><br><br><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:large">As a continuation of the <a href="http://commonstransition.org/common-space-for-exchange-cities-in-transition-and-citizen-struggles/" target="_blank">other day's post</a> 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. </div><div style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:large"><br></div><div><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:large">We </span><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">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. </font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif" size="4"><br></font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif" size="4"><a href="http://commonstransition.org/this-is-how-people-power-wins-an-election-the-story-of-ahora-madrid/" target="_blank">http://commonstransition.org/<wbr>this-is-how-people-power-wins-<wbr>an-election-the-story-of-<wbr>ahora-madrid/</a></font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif" size="4"><br></font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">That's it. Happy solstice/holidays/take your pic everyone. Looking forward to seeing you all again next year.</font></div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="m_-1618591858347293575gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"></span><font size="2"><br></font></div><div><font size="2"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">Strategic direction steward <a href="http://p2pfoundation.net/" target="_blank">P2P Foundation</a>. Director of content <a href="http://commonstransition.org" target="_blank">commonstransition.org</a></span><br><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">Co-founder <a href="http://guerrillatranslation.org" target="_blank">guerrillatranslation.org</a></span></font></div><div><br><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></font></span></div>
</div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>Check out the Commons Transition Plan here at: <a href="http://commonstransition.org" target="_blank">http://commonstransition.org</a>  </div><div><br></div>P2P Foundation: <a href="http://p2pfoundation.net" target="_blank">http://p2pfoundation.net</a>  - <a href="http://blog.p2pfoundation.net" target="_blank">http://blog.p2pfoundation.net</a> <br><br><a href="http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation" target="_blank"></a>Updates: <a href="http://twitter.com/mbauwens" target="_blank">http://twitter.com/mbauwens</a>; <a href="http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens" target="_blank">http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens</a><br><br>#82 on the (En)Rich list: <a href="http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/" target="_blank">http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/</a> <br></div></div></div></div>
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