Displacement Battles on Two Continents Show How We Can Reshape the Politics of Housing Isaiah J. Poole: Communities can do more than just put a Band-Aid on the problem of gentrification and displacement, and a panel of researchers who held a forum at the Democracy Collaborative’s offices in Washington discussed the best thinking and work happening… Continue reading
Republished from Democracy Now.org – Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez interview Nathan Schneider Ten Years Since Economic Collapse Sparked Occupy Wall Street, the Cooperative Movement Is Surging This week marks the seventh anniversary of the Occupy Wall Street movement and 10 years since the collapse of U.S. investment bank Lehman Brothers, which triggered the onset… Continue reading
Following the activities that took place during the cultiMake event, organised last August in Ioannina (Greece) in the context of the Distributed Design Market Platform project, the P2P Lab’s aim was to communicate further the outcomes of the event. To this end, two of our participants presented some of the technological solutions that were developed… Continue reading
Republished from Medium.com As the decentralisation movement grows, I consider the characteristics of decentralisation, what decentralisation is a tactic for, why and what work still needs to happen to re-decentralize the digital world. Decentralisation has gone mainstream Between Tim Berners-Lee raising the call to arms to re-decentralize the web, Mozilla, Internet Archive and other institutions pledging… Continue reading
Join a symposium exploring new approaches for a more cooperative society, based on the thinking of the late philosopher Ivan Illich. Saturday 13 October: 11.00-18.00 Register Here. What to expect In his book ‘Tools for Conviviality’ (1973), the late Austrian philosopher Ivan Illich argued that the nature of modern ‘tools’, from machines to schools, had… Continue reading
In June 2014, activists in Barcelona formed a citizen’s platform to stand for election and “win back” the city from its centre-right city council, which the movement saw as having sold out the city to business interests. With little money or experience, the movement ousted the conservative political establishment, and is starting to bring change… Continue reading
BEK – AUTONOMOUS SPACE FOR FREE SOCIAL AND CULTURAL ACTIVITIES When talking about our story, first of all, we want to emphasize that one day, hopefully soon, this will really become OUR story. A story of all included, anyone who wants to participate, a story of a community that builds its own part of a… Continue reading
Cross-posted from Shareable. Nithin Coca: As tensions between tech companies and their surrounding communities in cities like San Francisco, Seattle, and Austin continue to escalate, there’s an effort underway to find meaningful, collaborative solutions. From driving up the costs of housing to increasing traffic congestion, employees of large-scale tech corporations have been blamed for intensifying… Continue reading
Republished from International Money Reform Paul Brinkkemper: Have you ever tried to explain to someone how money is created as a loan by banks? Then you most likely came across misunderstanding, disbelief and apathy. If the movement for monetary reform is to gain influence among the general public, we have to educate many people. To… Continue reading
Republished from Rural Hack Pasquale Marzocchella: Rural Social Innovation Declaration is an elaborative document of Rural HUB research project. This is a testimony-rich document that explains the development process of a new rural economy. The new rural economy seeks ways to reappropriate a market-based economy, to be re-organized as a community-based economy, where the value… Continue reading
Technological change is ridden with conflicts, bifurcations and unexpected developments. Neurocapitalism takes us on an extraordinarily original journey through the effects that cutting-edge technology has on cultural, anthropological, socio-economic and political dynamics. Today, neurocapitalism shapes the technological production of the commons, transforming them into tools for commercialization, automatic control, and crisis management. But all is… Continue reading
Stir to Action has worked in partnership with the Centre for Urban Research on Austerity at De Montfort University in Leicester to produce a new video resource for the municipalist movement. The video was inspired by CURA’s Municipal Socialism in the 21st Century event in June 2018, and highlights the latest concepts in the movement,… Continue reading
This post by Gabriel Weinberg, CEO & Founder at DuckDuckGo (2008-present) is republished from Quora Did you know that unlike searching on DuckDuckGo, when you search on Google, they keep your search history forever? That means they know every search you’ve ever done on Google. That alone is pretty scary, but it’s just the shallow… Continue reading
Republished from University of Plymouth Denis Roio: This thesis describes a practice based research journey across various projects dealing with the design of algorithms, to highlight the governance implications in design choices made on them. The research provides answers and documents methodologies to address the urgent need for more awareness of decisions made by algorithms… Continue reading
There are many new platforms trying to make blockchains more scalable, or creating alternatives to the architecture of blockchain to fulfill on the aspirations of blockchain advocates, but that current blockchains fail to deliver on. Hashgraph has been getting some press and many are excited about the speeds they promise and some of the videos… Continue reading
By Ben Martin; reposted from Ensia.com By requiring planners to consider impacts on society and the environment as well as economics, New Zealand is setting a much-needed example for other nations. “Life is about more than just money.” It’s almost a cliché. But that quote isn’t from a left-wing think tank or a green non-governmental… Continue reading