Second gathering mak2

After having met last July in Malaga Mac1, we are planning to have a second gathering of municipalist movements and initiatives. This time we will meet in Pamplona/Iruñea from 20th to 22nd of January 2017.As last time, the main aim is to reinforce a dynamic movement capable of pushing the boundaries of institutions. Our objective is to establish a bottom-up democracy, and it seems the only possible way to do it is through constructing local autonomy and empowering citizens to take political decisions that are considered to be essential: a big challenge, considering municipalities were designed for quite the opposite.
Nevertheless there are many experiences that can be useful for moving in this direction. During our gathering we will focus on the lines in which political agenda and agency is already being composed, in order to both counteract local oligarchies and stop the inertias intrinsic to the institutions. In the same way as MAC1, this gathering wants to reach out to movements and to activists within the movement rather than to political representatives and people in institutional positions.

The gathering will combine plenary sessions and round tables/workshops. The proposed core themes include a wide variety of topics from those directly associated with institutional work –such as remunicipalisation of services, debt audit or mobility– to others underlying the movements –such as social centres, citizen’s journalism, social unionism– and crossing what we could consider transversal issues –such as the question of organization, the incorporation of feminist practices, or the relationship with experiences across Europe.