Well done presentation on the FairCoop initiative:
Date archives "February 2015"
Xnet responds to the SGAE in Europe
Xnet answered the SGAE’s disastrous comments on the Draft Report regarding the harmonization of certain aspects of Copyright and related rights in the Information Society in Europe. EXCLUSIVE: This is the anachronistic and toxic document that the SGAE has circulated. Click to download the pdf Our answer This is the answer we have given… Continue reading
Beer, video games and local culture
“The Beer Diaries” is not only a business model, but an ethical model. A way of being and working that promotes values that make for interesting lives. That’s why it’s an excellent example of what services mean in a world of the direct economy. Several weeks ago, Obama became the first president to write a… Continue reading
The Newly Launched Commons Transition Plan
The P2P Foundation recently launched a new website, the Commons Transition Platform, as a central repository for policy ideas that help promote a wide variety of commons and peer-to-peer dynamics. The site represents a new, more coordinated stage of activism in this area – collecting practical policy proposals for legally authorizing and encouraging the creation… Continue reading
The Tax Dodging Bill: it’s time for big corporations to pay their fair share
This week, a coalition of NGOs launched a campaign for a new law in the UK that could make sure that corporations pay their fair share of taxes to public coffers. Dubbed the ‘Tax Dodging Bill’, the proposed law could generate at least £3.6 billion a year for the UK treasury (equivalent to £600 for every… Continue reading
Circumvention Tech Festival March 1-6 Valencia, Spain
We are happy to announce that the OpenITP Circumvention Tech Festival will take place on March 1-6, in Valencia, Spain. Visit the CTFestival website! This festival is a collaboration that will consist of a week-long series of conferences, workshops, hackathons, and social gatherings, bringing together the organizations and individuals that work on or with anti-surveillance… Continue reading
Utopians are ruining everything
By Vera Bradova. Original post here. Utopianism has, rightly, acquired an unsavory reputation. Since my preoccupations on this blog concern the creation of a place of refuge from Babylon, as well as the opening of a crack in the system where another world is born, I thought it prudent to shine a light on it…. Continue reading
Tech-Bros Want To Remake Your World In Their Image
What is really going on behind the corporate rhetoric of the so-called ‘sharing economy’? That is, the bullshit sharing economy, the economy where all the risks and very little of the profits are shared? The economy that allows a level of exploitation of which the likes of McDonalds and Walmart can only dream? This article… Continue reading
«Selling out» is a misnomer: How communities are transformed from making the sale
A small or medium enterprise, a family business, a community that starts producing, needs to secure as soon possible a diverse client base, but selling is also a true test that challenges everyones’s moral fiber. In a working productive community, it is everyone’s responsibility to go out and “make the sale”. Selling is, to most… Continue reading
The New Greek Government Endorses Commons-Based, Peer Production Solutions
All attention in Greece and global financial circles has been understandably focused on the new Greek Government’s fierce confrontation with its implacable European creditors. Less attention has been paid to the Government’s plans to help midwife a new post-capitalist order based on commons and peer production. A commons colleDeputy Prime Minister Gianni Dragasakisague, John Restakis,… Continue reading
A world of ‘sharing and caring’ won’t begin in Davos
At this year’s gathering of the world’s richest and most powerful at Davos, the World Economic Forum founder has urged delegates that the motto for their 2015 meeting should be ‘sharing and caring’. Inequality is again on the agenda (if not considered the top threat to world stability, as last year), which has prompted many… Continue reading
The sharing economy in Argentina: atmospherics from the Sharing Brothers
The ninth episode of the Sharing Brothers sharing-economy-supported trip throughout Latin America. In this episode they cover Argentina, watch it here:
What does the P2P Foundation do?
Dear Friends, The P2P Foundation is progressing with a number of exciting projects for 2015. As some of you are already aware, we are very happy to announce the launch of Commons Transition. Commons Transition is a database of policy proposals aimed toward achieving a more humane and environmentally grounded mode of societal organization. Basing… Continue reading
Indigenous Peoples, the True Pioneers of the Sharing Economy
In a short, fascinating piece at Guerrilla Translation!, Madrid-based journalist Bernardo Gutiérrez shows how the collaborative practices of pre-capitalist indigenous peoples are not so different from post-capitalist practices of crowdfunding, open source software and peer production. “The native peoples anticipated the much-touted sharing economy by a few centuries,” writes Gutiérrez. “While the current global crisis… Continue reading
Immanuel Wallerstein on the end of Capitalism
Epicurus and Kinkade
Could American egalitarianism discover interesting ideas in Epicurean communitarian traditions? After reading Kat Kinkade‘s Is it Utopia Yet?, probably the least understandable idea, from an Indiano point of view, would be her concept of open community. According to it, a community has a set of rules, and if you accept them, you can theoretically become a member. As… Continue reading