Another contribution from one of my favourite Quora writers Ozgur Zeren. This article was original published at viapopuli.com: If you ever wondered how could the people possibly beat the rapacious power of Corporate stranglehold on modern societies, wonder no more: The answer is Grassroots Community Organizing. Grassroots Community Organizing is a sure way to change… Continue reading
Michel Bauwens will participate in this event on October 7-8, on Australia’s Gold Coast, along with our friends from Enspiral. Check out the Festival Overview and full program below. From the event website: “In 2016 Big Blue Sky brings together the thought leaders from a cross-section of industries to work directly with our Community, Government,… Continue reading
Mortgage activist and Barcelona en Comú spokeswoman Ada Colau won the city’s 2015 mayoral election. (Barcelona en Comú / Flickr) Anna Bergren Miller: When mortgage activist Ada Colau prevailed in Barcelona’s May 2015 mayoral elections, she made headlines worldwide as a double first. The first woman to achieve the city’s highest office, Colau had, moreover,… Continue reading
Reposted from: Panarchy 101: 7 Crucial Lenses by Paul B. Hartzog The following are the key “lenses” through which I view and discuss the ongoing transformation to panarchy. Each of these lenses provide crucial understandings and insights into facets of panarchy, but panarchy itself emerges only as a result of the interactions between all of… Continue reading
Jason Hickel: It’s getting hot out there. Every one of the past 14 months has broken the global temperature record. Ice cover in the Arctic sea just hit a new low, at 525,000 square miles less than normal. And apparently we’re not doing much to stop it: according to Professor Kevin Anderson, one of Britain’s… Continue reading
Cross-posted from Shareable. Anna Bergren Miller: The City as Commons is an important new resource for urban commons activists. (Graphic by Scott Boylston) The cover of The City as Commons: A Policy Reader, published recently by Melbourne, Australia’s Commons Transition Coalition, features a repeated pattern of overlapping spirals and circular clusters of node-and-line shapes. The graphic, explains… Continue reading
Joe Brewer: What does it mean to earn a profit in an extractive economy? Simply put, it means to behave like a parasite. All you need do is attach yourself to a nutrient-rich host and suck the value out of it. When the host dies, move on to the next “market opportunity” and never look… Continue reading
A former MSc student’s personal reflections on the Transition Design Symposium The Transition Design Symposium at Dartington Hall was a resounding success. A wonderfully diverse group of practitioners, academics and cultural creatives gathered at Dartington, from June 17th to 19th, to explore the role of design in the societal transition towards sustainability and beyond. Terry… Continue reading
Jean Lievens, a dear friend and key P2P Foundation collaborator in Belgium, has passed away, though his spiritual and intellectual legacy will live on amongst his family, friends and co-constructors of a more just world. He died on Tuesday, September 6, 2016, and his funeral was held in Ostend, Belgium, on Friday the 16th. Jean… Continue reading
Several central banks, including the Bank of England, the People’s Bank of China, the Bank of Canada and the Federal Reserve, are exploring the concept of issuing their own digital currencies, using the blockchain technology developed for Bitcoin. Skeptical commentators suspect that their primary goal is to eliminate cash, setting us up for negative interest… Continue reading
This is the third and final installment from my essay, “Transnational Republics of Commoning: Reinventing Governance through Emergent Networks,” published by Friends of the Earth UK. The full essay can be downloaded as a pdf file here. III. Re-imagining the Polity for a Networked Humanity However promising the new forms of open source governance outlined… Continue reading
This is part 3 of a 4-part series of conversations with activists from around the world. Jaya Papaya from D-CENT joins the conversation Audrey: There’s a new tool: pol.is. We used it in Taiwan to solve the Uber problem. We mobilised the taxi fleets and carpoolers and other people. Engaged thousands of people in an… Continue reading
To understand how Liquid Democracy emerged, one has to understand both history and geography, as well as the interplay of ideas and culture. This interview with Rüdiger Weis, a professor of computer science at the Beuth Hochschule University of Applied Sciences, provides a good starting point for understanding the cultural and political context from which… Continue reading
When faced with the massive crises of our time, the most logical response is paralysis. What can an individual possibly do about something so massive and complex? But what if people could manage to imagine changes that matter within their own lives, and then to grow and federate them? My colleague Anna Grear, a law… Continue reading
If you’re around Paris this week, do not miss this event. The following text was written by our close colleague and friend Frédéric Sultan, of Remix the Commons. Frédéric Sultan: On September 23, 2016, a gathering will be held in Paris to exchange thoughts on new forms of local and thematic networking for the commons,… Continue reading
http://teamhuman.fm/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/TH-Ep.-01-Debt-Collective-1.mp3 Joining team human are debt resisters Astra Taylor and Thomas Gokey. Astra Taylor is a filmmaker, writer, activist, and musician. Her films include the documentaries Zizek! and the Examined Life. Taylor’s recent book The People’s Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age takes a hard look at the persisting and embedded… Continue reading