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The next day Monday September 28 at 19:30 will be presented book "Memory and Movement Citizens Neighborhood" Waterfall Publishers.
Speakers:
- Alejandro Ruiz Carbonell , neighborhood activist movement.
- Nacho Murgui president of the Regional Federation of Neighbourhood Associations of Madrid (FRAVM) and one of the authors.

The history of the neighborhood movement summarizes the construction of citizenship in Spain during the last forty years. Emerged in the heat of the struggle for living conditions dignity and to overcome the repression by the Franco regime, neighborhood associations quickly acquired a profile remarkably democratic and participatory social success, especially in big cities like Madrid and Barcelona.
His contribution as "citizenship schools" has been, however, shunned the official accounts of the transition. This book brings together studies on a story that is largely inseparable from the memory of the activists and leaders of associations, participants in a civic group of experiences that still claim their place in the collective imagination of democracy. The neighborhood movement was, above all, a race to the bottom up become one of the key agents of urban transformation. Their struggle is notable for its unique combination of organizational autonomy and bargaining power. Today, the neighborhood movement functions as a kind of movement of movements, a vertex on which oscillate issues affecting the social dimension of citizenship, health, environment, education, housing and employment . Its raison d'être remains the single claim to identify the citizenship participation beyond voting.

This book involves the following authors: Manuel Castells, Marcello Caprarella, Fanny Hernandez Brotons, Pamela Radcliff, Elisabeth Lorenzi, Pablo Sánchez León, Félix López Rey, Francisca Sauquillo, Victor Renes, María del Prado de la Mata, María Roces, Vicente Pérez Quintana, Tomás Rodríguez Villasante, Andrés Walliser, Teresa Bonilla, Jaime Baquero, Carmen San José, Julio Alguacil Gómez, Concepción Denche Morón, Manuel Basagoiti, Paloma Bru, Jordi Borja and Nacho Murgui.