Fantastic short video from our friends at Local Futures to which we’d like to add that you can also Design Global, Manufacture Local! Going local puts more focus on what’s really important: friends and family, community, good food, clean environment. This 2-minute animated video from our friends at Local Futures offers a succinct and accessible intro… Continue reading
Date archives "February 2017"
Democratize the union: let the rank-and-file decide!
To revitalize labor unions, workers themselves will have to be put in control. Applying participatory budgeting to dues allocation would be a good start. Originally posted by Alexander Kolokotronis at ROAR Magazine. According to exit poll data, Donald Trump won Ohio union households 54 percent to 41 percent against Hillary Clinton. At the national level,… Continue reading
A money system for the people – if we want it
Money creation, like alchemy, is shrouded in ambiguous language and yields eternal wealth! For most of history these secrets have been used to empower sovereigns to spend money without the painful business of taxing or borrowing. Those foolish enough to try to grasp it with their rational minds are beffuddled by unexpected politics, propaganda and… Continue reading
A Dignity Economy: Creating an Economy that Serves Human Dignity and Preserves Our Planet
A book by Evelin Lindner titled “A Dignity Economy: Creating an Economy that Serves Human Dignity and Preserves Our Planet”. Description “This book is not just about a new what. The book is also about a new how. The new how is about fluid conversation, about public deliberation, about grappling with issues. And it is… Continue reading
Book of the Day: Why Rentiers Thrive and Work Does Not Pay
A book by Guy Standing fully titled “The Corruption of Capitalism: Why rentiers thrive and work does not pay”: “There is a lie at the heart of global capitalism. Politicians, financiers and global bureaucrats claim to believe in free competitive markets, but have constructed the most unfree market system ever. It is corrupt because income… Continue reading
Dispatches from the Commons Assembly
Many people are engaged in commons-based alternative practices as part of the struggle for ecological, social and cultural transition within their communities. In these fields, the commons approach offers a new vocabulary for collective action and social justice. It opens up ways of reshaping processes for governance of resources by communities themselves. Commons-based practices respect… Continue reading
The Food Commons in Europe
Food, a life enabler and a cultural cornerstone with multiple meanings, is governed as a mere commodity by the neoliberal food policies that prevail in Europe. These meanings so relevant to human are reduced to the one of tradeable good and the value of food is mixed with its price in the market. RE-VALUING MULTIDIMENSIONAL… Continue reading
How to counter the radical counter-revolution of the Trump Insurgency
The following analysis by Jordan Greenhall is about the best I have seen on the meaning and tactics of the Trump forces. In a nutshell, as no other has the Trump media campaign sensed the end of the era neoliberal globalization, and to use the new p2p media and micro-targeting to bring manipulative communication and… Continue reading
Nathan Schneider in defense of platform cooperativism: responding to the Las Indias critique
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