Original title: The mayor - mobility is a human right.
Can one mayor make a difference?
The Mayor of Palermo, Leoluca Orlando,is famous and loved as a fighter against the mafia. He also wants mobility to be recognized as a human right. In his city, Orlando has abolished the residence permit. He welcomes personally the African fortune seekers at the port and recently came to The Hague to launch his method during the first meeting of the Global Parliament of Mayors.
In its "Charter of Palermo" Orlando says that migrants are entitled to housing, employment and health services regardless of their immigration status. Therefore he goes against the national policy with its "tyranny of the residence permit” and empowers his city to protect migrants.
Driven mayors are taking more power to themselves and experiment with radical solutions to persistent problems: in his book "If Mayors Ruled the World", political scientist Benjamin Barber takes the mayors side and pleads for international cooperation between cities in a Global Parliament of Mayors. Recently, mayors from around the world attended the establishment in The Hague. Can mayors form a global network and restore the civilian’s confidence in politics?
Originally broadcasted by VPRO in 2016.
© VPRO Backlight October 2016
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Credits:
Director: Bregtje van der Haak
English, French and Spanish subtitles: Ericsson.
French and Spanish subtitles are co-funded by European Union.
