Mayor Eric Garcetti (Los Angeles)/Benjamin Barber: “Can Cities Counter Trump”
globa0yvjsy2025-03-27T12:00:42+01:00CNN/Fareed Zakaria, December 23, 2016 Link
Inaugural meeting of Global Parliament of Mayors in The Hague, The Netherlands
globa0yvjsy2025-03-27T12:00:42+01:00The Hague / New York, September 1st 2016 On September 9, 10-11 2016, mayors representing cities from all over the world will convene in The Hague and celebrate the founding of the Global Parliament of Mayors (GPM). This new platform will enable cities to further their cooperation in addressing global challenges. For this inaugural meeting, mayors, experts, (UN-)organizations [...]
Benjamin R. Barber: “A Governance Alternative to Faltering Nation-States”
globa0yvjsy2025-03-27T12:00:42+01:00Citylab, December 5, 2016 Let’s count down the list: There’s Brexit, of course: Brazil, Belgium, Spain, Venezuela, and the Philippines all look increasingly dysfunctional. Reactionary populism and xenophobia have risen to power in Hungary, Poland, and, astonishingly, the United States, with similar threats in France, and most recently, Italy after the defeat of Renzi. Link
World’s Mayors Have a New Place for Sharing Ideas
globa0yvjsy2025-03-27T12:00:42+01:00JEN KINNEY FEBRUARY 22, 2016 With local leaders increasingly facing global challenges like climate change and large-scale migration — and often rising to the occasion — the more opportunities for mayors to collaborate, the better. This year, they’ll have another space for that kind of sharing: the first meeting [...]
The West’s major cities are the best defense against the tide of right-wing nationalism
globa0yvjsy2025-03-27T12:00:42+01:00Washington Post, November 22, 2016 Towards the end of October, Sadiq Khan, the first Muslim mayor of London, addressed an event hosted by the London Jewish Forum that commemorated the 80th anniversary of the Battle of Cable Street, a famous street protest in the British capital that saw an alliance of local Jewish residents, Irish dockworkers, [...]
Mayor Orlando (Palermo): “Een gedreven burgemeester die alle vluchtelingen met open armen ontvangt”
globa0yvjsy2025-03-27T12:00:42+01:00VPRO Tegenlicht, November 15, 2016 – Burgemeester Leoluca Orlando van Palermo, beroemd en geliefd als bestrijder van de maffia, is een man met een missie. Hij wil dat mobiliteit als mensenrecht wordt erkend. Link
Cities Will Be the Best Answer to a Trump White House
globa0yvjsy2025-03-27T12:00:43+01:00New York Magazine – November 15, 2016 As the United States seeks to understand what the hell happened on Election Day, one of the most helpful frames for understanding is the urban-rural divide. Link
City limits: introducing the Global Parliament of Mayors
globa0yvjsy2025-03-27T12:00:43+01:00Geographic Magazine, November 05, 2015 City leaders from around the world gathered recently for the Global Parliament of Mayors. Could cities be set to overtake national governments as key decision makers? Link
2016/11
globa0yvjsy2025-03-27T12:00:43+01:00GPM Steering Committee and Consultative Committee formed, GPM Secretariat appointed and hosted in The Hague.
Mayor Ada Colau (Barcelona) “After Habitat III: a stronger urban future must be based on the right to the city”
globa0yvjsy2025-03-27T12:00:43+01:00Quito, October 20, 2016 – “All the major global challenges – climate change, the economy, inequality, the very future of democracy – will be solved in cities. If nations want to succeed with their policies, we must be connected as serious actors on the global stage”. link