800 Years of Commons: The Meaning of Magna Carta, Commons and Peer-to-Peer Production

* Event in Berlin, September 8: 800 Years of Commons: The Meaning of Magna Carta, Commons, Peer-to-Peer-Production and Their Legal Protection in Our Times

Via David Bollier:

If you’re in or near Berlin on September 8, please come to the public talk, “800 Years of Commons: The Meaning of Magna Carta, Commons, Peer-to-Peer Production and Their Legal Protection in Our Times.”

David Bollier and Michel Bauwens will both talk, followed by a discussion moderated by Silke Helfrich: a convening of the Commons Strategies Group. At the Heinrich Boell Foundation, Schumannstraße 8. September 8 from 19.00 to 21.00.

This year, leaders of government, business and the bar are celebrating the 800th anniversary of Magna Carta, the landmark affirmation of individual rights and law as a check on the power of the king. What does the “Great Charter” mean today when two very different sorts of sovereigns, the nation state and transnational corporations, now govern “the King’s forests”?

Two noted activists, David Bollier and Michel Bauwens of the Commons Strategies Group/P2P Foundation, will discuss the role of the commons and peer-to-peer production in meeting people’s needs and the many enclosures of the commons that are abridging their fundamental rights. The two talks will also describe a wide variety of legal innovations that commoners are inventing to fulfill the principles of Magna Carta and build a new socio-economic order by constituting new rules and norms for their common production, governance and property modalities.

The event will be moderated by Silke Helfrich who, with the two speakers, is a member of the Commons Strategies Group.

After the talks there will be time for discussion with participants and space to socialize over refreshments.

Simultaneous translation English/German will be provided throughout the event. Registration is not required.

More Information:

* via Joanna Barelkowska, Referat Internationale Politik ; E-Mail, [email protected], Telefon +49(0)285 34 -306

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