Rebel Cities 16: Cape Town Housing Movement Uses Occupy Tactics to Battle Apartheid's Legacy

Conceived as a tenant and workers movement, Reclaim the City's first aim was to pressure the Cape Town government to turn publicly held land into social housing rather than sell it off to developers.

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Rebel Cities 15: Municipalism In Venezuela Offers A Pathway Beyond Authoritarianism

Venezuela has more than 1,000 communes – like El Maizal, with its cooperative of 2,000 farmer families – but they face opposition from Venezuela's politicians and elites.

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Rebel Cities 14: In Montevideo, People-Power Keeps Pushing Uruguay's Pink Tide

It legalized marijuana, abortion and gay marriage. It boasts universal healthcare and produces nearly all its energy with renewables. Why is Uruguay so advanced and what can we learn from the country?

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Rebel Cities 13: Porto Alegre In Brazil Shows How Participatory Budgeting Works

Citizen control of spending decisions means communities decide what their city does and does not do with public funds. For 30 years the process has worked in Brazil, and now it's spreading rapidly.

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Rebel Cities 12: Valparaiso Shows How Radical Municipalism Must Deal With Our Burning World

In October 2016, Valparaiso, Chile, elected a radical municipalist administration. The city is aware that it is existentially threatened by the fires consuming it, and aims to tackle climate change head on.

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Rebel Cities 11: As Newham Transforms London, Democratic Socialists Awaken

In Newham, East London, Rokhsana Fiaz took power in May with a radical manifesto to alleviate the council's housing crisis and increase citizen participation. She is following through, and change is afoot.

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Rebel Cities 10: Rosario, Argentina, Abandons The Establishment

In Rosario, where the Future City Party seeks to "build the utopia," a new University of Doing prepares students not for managing a corporation or state job, but managing the commons.

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Rebel Cities 9: Iceland's Slow-Burning Digital Democratic Revolution

Icelanders to their credit have twice peacefully ousted governments, they are world leaders in transparency laws and digital freedom, and they decided not to bail out its failed banks.

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Rebel Cities 8: New York & Warsaw New Focal Points for A Growing Global Movement

Looking at the growing municipalist movement on display at Fearless Cities, it's useful to think of it as a network movement, where every city is looking to build autonomy locally while thinking globally.

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Rebel Cities 7: Water Wars for the Human Right to Water in Athens and Beyond

In Greece, which has faced austerity-on-steroids since 2010, privatization and asset stripping have driven the story as cities fight to preserve their water systems from corporate takeover.

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