Via: From The Campaign for Real Democracy / Project 2012 which has set out the following principles: VALUES: Equality – each person is able to speak and be listened to – there is no elite platform Difference – we learn from each other’s perspectives; we may disagree, but we listen to one another respectfully and… Continue reading
Flattr contributions now open on p2p blog
Some of you may have noticed that we have for about a month now, been supporting Flattr donations on our blog. The work of P2P Foundation relies mostly on the goodwill of volunteers around the world who care about this effort. You can help us continue and improve this work by making a donation using… Continue reading
Homebrew Industrial Revolution, Chapter Seven: The Alternative Economy As a Singularity
[I’m down to the final stretch of serializing The Homebrew Industrial Revolution: A Low Overhead Manifesto, at Michel Bauwens’ kind invitation. We begin the series of excerpts from the seventh and last chapter. I’ll do this in three installments, since it’s one of the more important chapters in the book] We have seen the burdens… Continue reading
Robin Good on Digital Curation
Howard Rheingold interviews one of my heroes, Robin Good, on the importance of curation, which is what we are essentially doing at the P2P Foundation blog:
#15M to #19J Spain Rallies for Protests
The Spanish protest movement known as #15M has organised country wide demonstrations on June 19th – map with confirmed locations – in order to make a statement of purpose and to protest against the signature of “A Pact for the Euro” or “Euro Pact”. The movement is rallying for European and global support: THERE ARE… Continue reading
Democratic mobilizations in Europe – seeds 4 a commons-based society?
Plans for the School of Commoning are moving quickly forward. Inspired by the blog of Michel Bauwens on the same subject http://bit.ly/k7jijy we will offer a new workshop on the current, real democracy mobilizations and how they may relate to the transition to a post-capitalist, commons-based society. It will take place in London at SOAS University, June… Continue reading
Book of the Week: How New Currency could change the world
* Book: New Currency: How Money Changes the World As We Know It. By Jordan Bruce MacLeod. Integral Publishers, 2009 This is not a new book but it is very readable, cogently explained, with lots of interesting history of past experiences and lessons learned from them. It’s a very good introduction and background to the… Continue reading
P2P: a new model for enterprise and for society – a conversation with Michel Bauwens
P2P: a new model for enterprise and for society – a conversation with Michel Bauwens Wednesday, June 15, 2011 from 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM (GMT+1000) The Hub, Melbourne, Australia Humanity has invented a new model of value creation that is based on sharing knowledge, code and design and involves the cooperation of a commons/community,… Continue reading
The new wave of anti-corporate hacktivism
Excerpted from Micah White: “Historically, denial of service has been the primary tactic of electronic civil disobedience. Now, we are seeing instead the politicization of highly-skilled, clandestine hacker groups who are explicitly anti-corporate. One of the first to arise is LulzSecurity. They have hacked Sony six times in a row and dumped internal code. When… Continue reading
On Anagorism
The “Anagorism” page of the P2P Foundation Wiki includes a quote from John Crump in which he states that “socialism is, by definition, a marketless society,” and that “[f]ar from socialism being compatible with exchange and the market, the generalised production of goods for exchange on the market is the hallmark of an entirely different… Continue reading
A critique of the Peer-to-Peer Potlatch meme
Andrew Whelan has written an interesting critique of interpreting peer to peer as a gift economy: * Leeching Bataille : Peer-to-Peer Potlatch and the Acephalic Response. A few prior reactions based on a first quick reading: – the P2P Foundation, or my own (Michel Bauwens) version of P2P Theory has also critiqued the thesis of… Continue reading
Slouching towards Protopia
Excerpted from Kevin Kelly: “I think our destination is neither utopia nor dystopia nor status quo, but protopia. Protopia is a state that is better than today than yesterday, although it might be only a little better. Protopia is much much harder to visualize. Because a protopia contains as many new problems as new benefits,… Continue reading
The Zapatistas after 17 years
Andrew Flood concludes his review of the history of the movement, with conclusions about the current situation: “Today, quite remarkably, the Zapatista’s continue to survive as a movement controlling a large swathe of Chiapas, probably around 150,000 people in around 1,300 communities that continues to build an infrastructure of eduction, health clinics and co-ops independent… Continue reading
P2P Labor Organization
Some time ago, Michel Bauwens asked me to report here on an article I’d written at League of Ordinary Gentlemen on free market labor struggle, and particularly on the P2P angle: “Labor Roundtable: Kevin Carson.” This is my (very) belated attempt to oblige. As Michel pointed out, the article is pretty U.S.-centric insofar as it… Continue reading
Anonymous to governments: Let us explain your delicate situation
Anonymous Spain has posted the following message after yesterday’s announcement by Spanish police informing of the arrest of 3 Anonymous hackers. The official press release remarked they had arrested the leaders of said group in Spain. Yes. This is an Anonymous message from the Spanish revolution to politicians, dictators and plutocrats all over the planet:… Continue reading
The amazing bike-sharing program in Hangzhou, China
Via: Elizabeth Press at Streetfilms writes: “The 50,000-bike system in this southern China city of almost 7 million people (about 1.5 million people fewer than New York City) blows all other bike-shares off the map. As Bradley Schroeder of the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy said, “I don’t think there is anywhere you can… Continue reading