Mayors of Madrid and Barcelona, Manuela Carmena Castrillo and Ada Colau, during the Fearless Cities conference in 2017. Photo: Barcelona En Comú / Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0)
When the citizen platform Barcelona En Comú invited activists and organizations from around the world to Barcelona for the Fearless Cities Summit in 2017, we hoped that the event would mark a turning point for the municipalist movement. Just two years previously, our citizen candidacy had been catapulted into office on a wave of public indignation at cuts, corruption and a city hall that paid more heed to lobbies and speculators than to the people of Barcelona’s 73 neighborhoods.
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