Don’t Let Belgrade D(r)own (Ne da(vi)mo Beograd) is a local political movement that is gathering large numbers of people interested in improving the living and working conditions of all our citizens; improving, conserving, and lawfully using common and natural resources, building democratic institutions, sustainable urban development, urban and cultural policies and incorporating citizens into the development of their environment. The movement grew out of a series of mass protests against the theft of the Sava Amphitheater and the phantom demolition of buildings on Hercegovacka Street for the purposes of the Belgrade Waterfront project.
Its mision is to give the inhabitants of Saint Médard en Jalles the desire and the opportunity to be actors for a common future that responds to environmental and social emergencies: to be a source of proposals and concrete and autonomous actions, to be informed, to follow, to support and to get involved in citizen participation actions in and beyond Saint Médard en Jalles, to promote collective intelligence tools for direct democracy, and to ensure that the commitments made by the elected representatives are respected.
Platform “Budimo Grad” is a political group. It started as a grassroots movement on Facebook three years ago (FB group “Varaždinsko smeće” ). In 2019. the most active members of the movement established organization “Varaždin bez smeća”. This civil society organization promotes transparency and openness of local governance, citizen participation and protection of the natural environment.
We are a group of residents who have decided to run for municipal elections next March, without a thematic program or political party, all with a view to regenerating local democracy well beyond partisan divisions .
Active citizenship list of left-wing.
Political-cultural association engaged in the social and cultural revaluation of the town.
Srđ je Grad is a local/municipal political party, founded in October 2020. As a political citizen initiative, we had run for the city elections in 2013, 2017. As a political party we are running for the city and county elections with the candidates for both the Mayor and County Prefect. For the County Prefect position an alliance was made between local political parties Srđ je Grad and Zaokret alongside national parties New Left and Možemo. The electoral list consists of people from all around the County, both from the major coastal and island municipalities, members of both informal and formal local initiatives. Since 2017 we have also had a representative in the County Council. In 2018 Srđ je Grad ran for the positions during the district council elections under a political citizen initiative called Dajmo Ruke.
Shared governance and the environment are the fundamentals of the new municipal team. All subjects, from the day-to-day management of the municipality to future projects, are addressed along these two lines.
Zagreb is OURS! (croatian abbreviation ZJN) is a green-left political platform formed in February 2017 by citizens from all walks of life (activists, cultural workers, trade unionists, social entrepreneurs etc., many of whom have been previously active for years in social movements in Zagreb), with the aim of “building a new politics based on the principles of wide participation, inclusiveness and openness”. Following the example of Barcelona en Comú, the Platform’s policy agenda includes promoting participatory democracy and returning decision-making powers to citizens, democratizing public institutions, safeguarding quality public services such as schools and kindergartens and stopping the privatisation of public utilities such as the waste management system. The Platform envisions the future development of Zagreb as a socially just, green and multicultural city and and embraces Zagreb’s less privileged and more vulnerable among us, including those impacted by discrimination based on class, age, health, ability, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, sex characteristics, nationality, language, religion, belief or lack of one, as well as other statuses and likely intersections.
CMdB is a movement that does not aim at mere political representation or at the formation of yet another hierarchical group: its goal is above all the creation of new institutions of democratic participation within which all the inhabitants of the places have the opportunity to develop an awareness civic and to translate it into participation in collective decisions, according to a model of self-government democracy.
