Since the Greek crisis is one of the hottest topics globally and in the light of the Greek Debt Committee’s declaration that all debt is “illegal, illegitimate, and odious”, it might be interesting to remember Tim Jones’s article on the Greek debt which was published the day after Syriza’s victory in the elections. In a… Continue reading
Date archives "June 2015"
Organizing workers globally through networked technology: LaborTech conference
Steve Zeltzer of LaborTech and the Labor Video Project announces the LaborTech Conference on 26th July in Stanford: The organization of workers globally through the internet has greater potential obviously than at any time in history. Workers are linked up through multi-nationals and face global struggles for their lives that can only be resolved throughout… Continue reading
CommonsFest 2015 Prefestival Event Report
Waiting for the publication of the CommonsFest report which, this year, took place in Athens, we are reposting the report of the prefestival event held in Heraklion (Crete): The third year of our presence in Heraklion we chose to organize a two day event titled “Developing collaborative structures for the Commons”. For this we invited… Continue reading
Urban commoning is moving beyond community gardens
Stavrides argues that for commoning to become more mainstream would require new kinds of institutions, specifically political ones. Thus far, political inspiration has come from outside Europe: from the water commons system in Cochabamba, Bolivia, or the Zapatistas in Chiapas, Mexico, or most recently the Syrian Kurds in Kobane. But that may be changing. With… Continue reading
Maasai women lead a solar revolution
The Women and Entrepreneurship in Renewable Energy Project (WEREP), an initiative by Green Energy Africa, aims to turn Kajiado County to solar power by training women as solar installers and encouraging them to market the clean energy concept to fellow pastoralists. The solar energy drive began in around November 2014, and so far about 2,000… Continue reading
Background on the urban and tourist issues in Barcelona
What the new commons coalition has on its plate, excerpted from Ashifa Kassam: “Colau’s main challenge will come from inheriting a city at a crossroads. “The Barcelona model is in decline,” said journalist Marta Monedero, referring to the ideas that guided the city’s growth in the late 1980s and early 1990s and helped put Barcelona… Continue reading
An update on CommonAccord, a commons for Civil Code 3.0 legal documents
An update via James Hazard: Commonaccorda commons for legal documents, a kind of Civil Code 3.0, on GitHub, and compatible with P2P transacting systems such as blockchain. Primavera de Filippi did the software code and Marc Dangeard is using it in his company. The License can be found here , along with some documents we… Continue reading
Buen Conocer/FLOK Society: public policy and sustainable models for a social knowledge economy in Ecuador
Note from Michel Bauwens: Please note that the official publication is a censored version that leaves out the main strategic document about the FLOK transition, that was an integral part of the project. It is available through a selection of strategic documents about the FLOK, which was produced by CommonsTransition.org. Originally published in FLOK Society’s… Continue reading
Short video interview on the money commons on the occasion of the launch of the Brand currency at Berg Rivier, South Africa
More detais on the project to follow. This short interview was done just two hours before my departure from South Africa and online before the flight took off. Enjoy it here:
Project of the Day: Green Worker Cooperatives
The Green Worker Cooperatives are a nonprofit created by South Bronx native Omar Freilla: “Through his organization, Freilla aims to cultivate a whole network of worker-owned green businesses in his hometown, the traditional dumping ground for New York City. The first of these co-ops, ReBuilders Source, began operations last year as a discount retailer of… Continue reading
P2Pvalue Podcast 001: Marco Berlinguer – How to Assess Value in Peer Production
This recording of Marco Berlinguer discussing the research carried out by Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (IGOP) in the first phase of the P2Pvalue project was recorded on February 19th 2015 as part of a series of hangouts at the Havens Center at the University of Wisconsin jointly held by Michel Bauwens of the P2P Foundation and… Continue reading
The Revolutionary Importance of Science: A Response to Alex Gorrion
By John Jacobi. Original text here. Editors note: This essay, written by one of our magazine editors, articulates why scientific thinking is an important tool for individuals and groups hoping to do something about the havoc industry has wrought. Several times it mentions a “revolutionary ecological analysis,” a reference to the budding Wildist movement that… Continue reading
Coase’s Blockchain: can equity crowdfunding accelerate past Venture Capital?
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Financial hacking with Faircoin
Community currency engineer, Matthew Slater, reconsiders his opinion of FairCoop. Having kept an eye on the altcoins for a good while I wasn’t initially impressed by the claims of Faircoin. There have been several coins issued attached to good causes but without a clear monetary function. The idea is usually to set up a cryptocurrency,… Continue reading
24M: It was not a victory for Podemos, but for the 15M movement
X-net‘s Simona Levi reflects on the recent results of the Spanish Municipal Elections and seeks to correct some popular misconceptions resulting from international press coverage on the role of Podemos. The propaganda has spread far and wide, and we are concerned to note how many analysts, particularly foreign media outlets without local correspondents, are giving… Continue reading
Communal Property: A Libertarian Analysis by Kevin Carson
It was only with the rise of the modern state, toward the end of the Middle Ages, that governments began to take an interest in regulating the lives of individuals. The modern centralized state was confronted with the problem of opacity, and became preoccupied with, in James Scott’s language, an attempt to make society legible,… Continue reading