The City Is Ours

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The City Is Ours
Miasto Jest Nasze
AbbreviationMJN
Chairperson Barbara Jędrzejczyk [1]
Founded30 December 2014[ citation needed ]
HeadquartersBoudena 4, Warsaw
Ideology
Political position Left-wing [ citation needed ]
National affiliation The Left (2024 Warsaw local elections)
Colours  Yellow
Warsaw City Council
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Warsaw district councils [2]
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Website
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Miasto Jest Nasze members, 2018 Czlonkowie Stowarzyszenia Miasto Jest Nasze.jpg
Miasto Jest Nasze members, 2018
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Map of reprivatisation 2.0.
"Cigarettes for children" campaign Smog. Papierosy dla dzieci.jpg
"Cigarettes for children" campaign
Election campaign Kampania wyborcza.jpg
Election campaign

The City Is Ours (Polish : Miasto Jest Nasze, MJN) is an independent citizen platform launched in 2013 in Warsaw, as of 2014 registered as a non-profit civic association. Miasto Jest Nasze is considered to be one of the major urban movements in Poland. In 2018 Polish local elections coalition formed by Miasto Jest Nasze took 22 seats in Warsaw district councils.

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Organization

Miasto Jest Nasze counts more than 250 members (February 2023) and is led by board headed by Barbara Jędrzejczyk. The association is present in 12 of 18 Warsaw districts. [3]

Activity

Since its beginning, Miasto Jest Nasze focuses on exposing and publicizing malfunctions of Warsaw authorities. It supports transparency across all city functions as well as civic participation through participatory budgets and public consultations. As part of its activity, it monitors the work of politicians and city officials by publicizing irregularities in Warsaw's management and pressing on the importance of accountability. MJN uses tools typical to bottom-up organization (e.g. throwing up a street dance party) [4] [5] political party (e.g. running in elections) and think tanks (organizing conferences [6] and publishing expert reports presenting alternative solutions [7] ).

Among its scope of interests are such issues as: sustainable transport in the city, community rights, environment (especially smog and preserving green areas in the city), land management, [8] reprivatisation of Warsaw properties, [9] participatory democracy. [10]

Miasto Jest Nasze activity has been focusing on identifying and addressing critical issues, inter alia including the following:

Over the past years the activity of Miasto Jest Nasze has also been commented on in various foreign non-English press articles (including Frankfurter Rundschau , [19] Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk , [20] Le Monde , [21] as well as Czech [22] [23] or Slovak [24] [25] media).

Warsaw municipal elections

2014

In 2014 local elections MJN won 7 seats in three Warsaw district councils (4 seats in Śródmieście, 2 in Praga-Północ, and 1 in Żoliborz). [26] [27]

2018

2018 local elections the coalition of local urban movements led by MJN received 5,72% of votes, winning 22 seats in 7 district councils (Mokotów, Ochota, Rembertów, Wawer, Wesoła, Wola, Żoliborz). Justyna Glusman, MJN candidate for mayor of Warsaw, received 2,32% of votes. [28] After the election she became member of the Warsaw mayor board as the Warsaw City Hall coordinator responsible for sustainable development, green area management and fighting smog. [29]

In the local elections of 2018, Miasto Jest Nasza launched an informative campaign to encourage EU citizens living in Warsaw to register and vote in the elections. The site allowed to generate a fast and user-friendly registration application, an innovative solution aiming at promoting the participation of the wide group of foreigners living in the capital. [30]

2024

Upon the 2024 local elections MJN signed an electoral agreement with the Left Together on 29 January 2024, [31] [32] [33] and run from The Left electoral lists. [34] [35] They gained three seats in the Warsaw City Council and twelve seats in Warsaw district councils. [36] [37]

International cooperation

Miasto jest Nasze is a member of the federation "Urban Movement Congress", which groups 40 organizations from around 20 Polish cities. [38]

In June 2017 Miasto Jest Nasze members participated in the Fearless Cities Summit in Barcelona, organized by Barcelona en Comú within the global municipalist movement “Fearless Cities network”. [39] In July 2018, Miasto Jest Nasze hosted the Fearless Cities CEE International Municipalist Summit in Warsaw. The first such conference to be held, it was a platform to exchange experiences on urban activism in the region, regrouping more than a hundred participants from Central and Eastern European municipalist movement organizations (including Spasi Sofia from Sofia, [40] Ne Davimo Beograd from Belgrade, Praha sobě from Prague and Iare Pekhit from Tbilisi). [6] [41]

Election results

Warsaw mayoral election

ElectionCandidate1st round2nd roundResult
Votes%Votes%
2018 Justyna Glusman 20,6432.32 (#5)—Lost [42]
2024 Supported Magdalena Biejat [43] [44] 99,44212.86 (#3)—Lost

Warsaw City Council

ElectionVotes%Seats−/+
2018 50,0025.72 (#4)
0 / 60
New [45]
2024 102,00913.30 (#3)
3 / 60
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As part of The Left which won 8 seats in total.

Warsaw district councils

ElectionSeats−/+
2014
7 / 423
New [27]
2018
22 / 425
Increase2.svg 15 [46]
2024
12 / 420
Decrease2.svg 10
As part of The Left which won 29 seats in total.

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