This session explores the role of physical public space in alternative forms of democracy to neo-liberalism. We discuss different democratic practices and the forms of public space they produce and the erosion of democratic rights through the privatisation of public space. Teresa Hoskyns will speak about democratic practices and public space. Doreen Massey will speak about experiences she has had in Latin America. Nina Power will speak about the increasingly repressive policing that we face in our protests and defending the right to protest.