10.00am – 4.30pm, Thursday, 28 May 2015 – CACSSS Seminar Room (ORB G27), University College Cork, Ireland – http://www.ucc.ie/en/appsoc/news/fullstory-543936-en.html During the first part of this day-long Thinkery, which will be led by Silvia Federici and George Caffentzis, you will be invited to listen, think and converse with others about anti-capitalist commoning. Based in New York,… Continue reading
Date archives "May 2015"
Commons conquer Barcelona! A victory for David over Goliath
By Mayo Fuster Morell – @lilaroja Originally published – http://www.onlinecreation.info/archives/1135 Yesterday (May 24th) the candidature “Barcelona in common” won the municipal elections (the option of 1 of each 4 people voting). “Now Madrid”- a candidature also connected to commons ethos – became a key force for the governance of Madrid city. Those are only two… Continue reading
Michel Bauwens presents P2P to the French Senate
For the: “colloque revenu de base au Sénat” This ten-minute French-language video was made on the request of Arnaud Delepine, and Jean-Eric Hyafil of the Centre d’Economie de la Sorbonne, for the benefit of a colloqium which took place in the French Senate on May 19th and which discussed the topic of the basic income.
Gar Alperovitz on Democratic Planning, the Market and the State
Gar Alperovitz, cooperativist and advocate of the Next System Project, is interviewed by Geoff Gilbert: “* You consistently return to economic planning as necessary for any system seeking stability, for both the entire economy and for communities. Can you explain our current system of backdoor corporate planning? Every area you look at, either tax or… Continue reading
A Crowd Expedition interview on P2P at the Ouishare Fest 2015
A huge thank you to Martijn Arets of Crowd Expedition for doing this interview with me that elicited lots of detailed and even personal details about the experience of the P2P Foundation and the transformation of our society and its challenges. Perhaps my favourite video to date!! Watch it here:
New Film Documentary, “Seeing the Forest”
In the 1990s, many communities in central Oregon were torn asunder by the “War of the Woods.” Environmentalists had brought lawsuits against the U.S. Forest Service for violating its own governing statutes. For decades, timber companies had been allowed to clear-cut public forests, re-seed with tree monocultures, and build ecologically harmful roads on mountain landscapes…. Continue reading
With P2P: Spain’s ‘citizen candidates’ shake up politics
With the election results only a few hours away, we’d like to finish today’s coverage with an extract from Katharine Ainger‘s excellent Al-Jazeera article entitled “Spain’s ‘citizen candidates’ shake up politics“. In preparation for the article Ainger contacted P2P Foundation co-founder Michel Bauwens for some feedback. Bauwens told Al Jazeera given historical problems with monolithic… Continue reading
The Prospects for Radical Democracy in Spain
Continuing our series on Spain’s all-important municipal elections, we are happy to present this article, originally published in In These Times, and authored by Vicente Rubio Pueyo and Pablo La Parra The upcoming municipal elections will be a key test for the rising leftist movement in Spain. “Do you hear the buzz? The buzz says: let’s… Continue reading
Video of the Day: Buzzing for the Commons in Madrid
Today, as municipal elections take place throughout the Spanish State we wanted to present a series of posts reflecting the new citizen-led electoral coalitions spawned out of the 15-M Movement. First up is this inspiring video, originally shared by Cecilia Barriga on Vimeo and featuring an impassioned Ada Colau (who’s running for mayor in Barcelona)… Continue reading
Are there true sharing entreprises ?
When evaluating platforms claiming to be a part of the “sharing economy”, it is important to look at why they were set up, how they are organized, and who they are intended to benefit. Those that implement a logic of collaboration, sharing and distributed power at each of these levels, stand to offer a compelling… Continue reading
The Ubiquitous Commons: a legal and technical toolkit for a user-controlled data commons ?
Excerpted from Maija Palmer: “Could a system be created that gave back some control to individuals? An international group of researchers led by Salvatore Iaconesi, a lecturer at the La Sapienza university in Rome, and Oriana Persico, a communication scientist, is trying to create a legal and technical toolkit that would allow people to do… Continue reading
Off-grid solar systems increasingly viable for low-income communities
Excerpted from the ‘GE Look Ahead’ series: ““First has been the improvement of efficiency of LEDs of 10,000% in the past 13 years,” says Russell Sturm, ?head of Climate Change Advisory at the International Finance Corporation (IFC), part of the World Bank Group. “Batteries have improved 90% with the whole revolution around lithium and it’s… Continue reading
The emancipatory potential of the blockchain will rest on its property arrangments
A new legal and technological entity called a Distributed Collaborative Organization represents a new way of organizing multi-stakeholder cooperatives at scale. Could the difference between dystopia and protopia pivot on the structure of ownership? Excerpted from Noah Thorp, on Disintermediating Banking and User Accounts: “The revolution in progress can generally be described as “disintermediation”. It… Continue reading
The resurgence of emancipatory muncipalism in Barcelona and beyond
It is always great to receive news that our work at the P2P Foundation has a real effect on the world and social change, so I was particularly happy to receive a message from a journalist in Barcelona that “Your ideas have been really instrumental in creating the participatory democratic online platforms being adopted by… Continue reading
OuiShare Fest 2015 – Transition is the Keyword
By Ann Marie Utratel for Goteo – http://goteo.org/blog/5324 Wednesday May 20th was the opening of OuiShare Fest 2015, held again in Paris under this year’s theme “Lost in Transition”. Casual conversation about this theme was a good icebreaker; most people I spoke with felt that the theme had a rather dark tone, although a few… Continue reading
Essay of the Day: Ethnography of a Humanitarian Hacking Community
* Article: The Ethic of the Code: An Ethnography of a ‘Humanitarian Hacking’ Community. By Douglas Haywood. Journal of Peer Production, Issue 3, July 2013 From the Abstract: “Hackers and computer hacking have become important narratives in academia and popular media. These discussions have frequently portrayed hackers as deviant, framing them ethnocentrically within North Atlantic… Continue reading