Guadal video from nu project on Vimeo. The makers of ‘Guadal: Journey To A Post Crisis Economics’ are travelling to Andalusia this month to document and and share in the experience of community resistance to the austerity imposed on the people of the region by the troika and the Spanish state. They already have an… Continue reading
Date archives "June 2015"
Three Ways to Put Tech Platforms into the Commons
by Janelle Orsi for THE NATION Do you suppose the founders named it “Airbnb” because they envisioned pulling billions ‘n’ billions of dollars out of thin air? Ok, while I poke fun, I do confess that there is much to love about Airbnb, the online platform that enables travelers to book private rooms and homes… Continue reading
The Commons – a new European concept? Inaugural meeting of the European Parliament Common Goods Intergroup.
As we gathered for it, this European Parliament Common Goods Intergroup meeting, promised to be intriguing… was the Parliament about to embrace the commons as a template for a more participatory politics? It was indeed a political meeting, with the banners of the four parties who had come together in support of it prominent behind… Continue reading
Video of the Day – Silvia Federici: Women, Reproduction, and the Construction of Commons
In this talk, presented at MAD on April 18, 2013 as part the “Reproducing Value” series, Silvia Federici discusses gender, the commons, and ways of approaching contemporary collectivity. Silvia Federici is a scholar, teacher, and activist from the radical feminist Marxist tradition. She is a professor emerita and Teaching Fellow at Hofstra University, where she… Continue reading
Reform or Regroup? To save capitalism, will the rich accept reform?
By Art Martin – Originally published at The Light of True Democracy Few would disagree that the contemporary capitalist societies that define the “Modern Western world” are in crisis. The crisis takes the form of a “syndrome,” a condition made up of a variety of “symptoms” that relate to each other in complex ways, including… Continue reading
OuishareFest 2015: Interview with Juan Urrutia
Thursday, May 31, 2015. In the Circus of the Cabaret Sauvage, David de Ugarte interviewed Juan Urrutia during the OuiShareFest 2015. A rare and rich document explaining the foundations of a 20 years effort to create an Economics of Abundance. ¿What did happen in the nineties? How a distinguished professor of Economics, well known academic… Continue reading
Mapping “Below the Radar” Organizations in Crowdfunding platforms, with Maria Botella of European Alternatives
One of our guests at the recent Goteathon will be Maria Botella, who is the main researcher in the European Alternatives project “Mapping BTR”, a Nesta Policy and Research grant awardee for “Data Driven Methods for Mapping Below the Radar Activity in the Social Economy”. According to their website, “Mapping BTR” is a research project exploring… Continue reading
The looting of the Caja Madrid Foundation
New filtration brought to light by Xnet’s Mailbox Today we are leaking Caja Madrid Foundation’s contracts: how the Spanish conservative Popular Party (PP) used Caja Madrid buy political parties and trade unions. Thanks again to anonymous citizen collaboration and Infolibre’s free journalism work, today we are revealing through our Mailbox for citizen leaks agains… Continue reading
Trend of the Day: Mutually-Led Social Work
Excerpted from Rachel Schraer: “A group of social workers has requested to split off from their council and form a mutually-led social work practice, in order to put more focus on early intervention. The Calderdale social workers, many of whom were newly qualified, asked to be allowed to set up a practice outside of the… Continue reading
Book of the Day: «The book of community» in English
Our community experience in a downloadable Kindle ebook written by the whole team of las Indias and translated by Steve Herrick. We proudly present you today The Book of Community which you can buy now in Amazon. It was written by the whole team of las Indias and translated by Steve Herrick. From the introduction… Continue reading
Video of the Day: Warning To the People of Earth
“William Rees is the co-creator of the Eco-Footprint concept. He has measured humanity’s use of the planet’s resource, and what he has discovered is frightening. We are using more resources than the planet can possibly supply us with. Without a huge change in the way we live, our planet-wide civilization will likely collapse. This 29-minute… Continue reading