Occupons le terrain

Note from Michel Bauwens : This is very interesting approach, from Belgium, which I had not discovered before: anti-enclosure, pro-commons local movements, active in the fight to preserve endangered common resources

This network was born out of the mobilisation of many citizens' groups and associations in Wallonia and Brussels who wanted to coordinate and support each other.

➔ The ambitions of this network are:

• to go beyond the individualistic logic of "Not in my backyard! "
• to go beyond the local and sectoral fight and the punctual solidarity
• to establish an active and permanent solidarity
• to affirm collectively what we no longer want today and what we want for tomorrow.

➔ This network aims to share concrete tools to :

• counteract the logics based on the monopolization and commodification of territories and places of life (privatization, artificialization, concreting, extension of zonings, ...)
• preserve our common natural resources: forests, green spaces, agricultural land, water tables, islands of silence, etc.
• maintain and extend healthy living and housing environments for the greatest number of people
• democratically conceive new and intelligent alternatives to public and/or private projects that do not take into account the opinion of the population (housing, mobility, territorial development,...)

➔ This network and website, created in spring 2018, have the immediate objectives of:

• document the inconsistencies of current policies and their concrete ravages;
• in particular, to identify, list and map the many places where our common resources are threatened;
• bring together and federate the many strong citizen mobilisations of recent years;
• create a framework where these mobilisations can be organised so that their voice becomes audible and has a determining influence on political decisions;
• in particular, to make these citizens' mobilisations and the projects they are carrying out heard at all levels of power (municipal, provincial, regional and federal).