A common modus operandi has underpinned a range of activist interventions seeking to build alternative forms of political space and community via a politics of neighbouring over the last few decades. The opening quote, from a 2013 article penned by Brigadas in the journal Libre Pensamiento, underlines how such interventions emerge in relation to the fragmented political spaces discussed in the previous chapter. For Brigadas, the denunciation of boundaries necessarily led to an effort to re-compose community ties around a collective of neighbours. Brigadas saw itself as ‘a space that is being built by the neighbours of Madrid against discriminatory (racist, xenophobic, classicist) social control in our neighbourhood … to pave the way to construct an us full of meaning’ (Brigadas Vecinales de Observación de Derechos Humanos 2011, 11). Part of how Brigadas sought to build such a space was through a practice that they called vecineo (translatable to neighbouring) that involved intervening in public space to begin a conversation with neighbours regarding the practices being observed, what they signified and the group's actions to combat this (Brigadas Vecinales de Observación de Derechos Humanos 2012, 20).