Via Corinna Lotz of A World to Win: “For absolutely free, anyone can visit any number of studios, look at paintings, sculpture, ceramics and textiles made by talented and highly trained artists, young and old. Unlike the luxurious auction houses of St James where bidding is dominated by hedge fund owners, Russian billionaires, Chinese industrialists,… Continue reading
Date archives "July 2008"
Mobilizing against Obama’s first betrayal
Via Alternet, read the whole reportage here. More background on FISA here. Excerpt: “Many activists are outraged by the Senator’s recent announcement that he will back a controversial bill to grant the Executive more spying powers and immunize telephone companies accused of illegal surveillance. Both efforts demonstrate how Obama’s national network, which broke fundraising records… Continue reading
Self-organisation and counter-economic strategies
Via Kevin Flanagan. Kevin: “Danish artists group Superflex have released a .pdf of their most recent book on-line, free to download and share. Ive not had a thorough read of the book but it covers lots of interesting projects, some Superflex are directly involved in such as ‘Free Beer’, ‘Copy Shop’ but the book also… Continue reading
John Heron’s critique of the integrative spirituality initiative
As many of our readers perhaps already know, we have a lively and interesting discussion on ‘open source spirituality’ in our Ning P2P community forum, where we are very happy and proud to have seen John Heron join us. He has made a formal critique of Lawrence Wolllerheim’s text, which is the basis of our… Continue reading
The open source water and sanitation alliance: AKVO
AKVO.org is an initiative well worth supporting! Here below is the intro by one of the founders, and there’s also a video interview of Mark Charmer conducted by Vinay Gupta. Thomas Bjelkeman: “Billions of people live under crushing poverty and 40% of the worlds population doesn’t even have adequate sanitation, they go behind the nearest… Continue reading
Stefan Merten: peer money is a contradiction in terms
Contribution by Stefan Merten in the Oekonux mailing list: The following is something I promised Michel to do. It has been triggered by the use of the term “peer money” which I think is a contradiction in terms. This is an attempt to give reasons why I think that money and peer production are generally… Continue reading