By Marvin T. Brown: “Housing, like food and water, is a basic right. Providing housing also echoes the original meaning of economics: household management. Housing is also particularly relevant today because of its role in the economic crisis of 2007, which continues into the present. This crisis has been called a housing crisis and a… Continue reading
Kevin Carson’s Response to John Michael Greer
John Michael Greer (“The Flight to the Ephemeral,” The Archdruid Report, Oct. 2) was kind enough to address an earlier post of mine on this blog a few weeks back (“When Ephemeralization is Hard to Tell From Catabolic Collapse,” P2P Foundation Blog, Sept. 19). Here are my responses, in no particular order of importance.
Movement of the Day: Informal Citizen Networks in Greece
* Report: Informal Citizen Networks. The Case of Greece. Tepsie, 2013 A very interesting report, and we’ve asked our Greek friend to report on some of the movements that are described here. But first, general excerpts from this fascinating survey: Introduction “Since 2009 Greece has experienced a severe financial recession and the government has adopted… Continue reading
On the importance of the post-capitalist imagination
A quote from David Harvey, chosen by David Bollier: ” it has been drummed into our heads for a considerable period of time that there is no alternative. One of the first things we have to do is to think about the alternative in order to move towards its creation. The left has become so… Continue reading
Trend of the Day: Transnational Societal Constitutionalism
Transnational Societal Constitutionalism = a concept and a conference on how international civil society is creating its own constitutions and thereby resisting the constitutionalism of global finance. “How can global “constitutional problems”, such as human rights violations by corporations or the catastrophic risks of global capital markets, be dealt with? Societal spheres have to develop… Continue reading
Why we need cooperative accumulation
A bit of context: * today we have immaterial commons accumulation in the sphere of common knowledge, code, and design, through the contributions of volunteers, paid labor, and commons-supportive-for-profit-companies * however, it is impossible to socially reproduce oneself (read: ‘survive’) by contributing to the commons outside of the sphere of capital accumulation (read: you have… Continue reading
Open IP Licensing Guaranteed by Non-Profits
Excerpted from Cesar Harada: “Having the IP licensed by a non-profit, guarantees the un-retractable openness of a technology. That means essentially being faithful to the community and the original founding ethical values. A good example of this is the relation between the Mozilla Foundation (non-profit) and their main community generated product Firefox (free open source… Continue reading
The FabLab World Tour Documentary
* Documentary: Making Living Sharing – a FabLab world tour documentary. By Jens Dyvik “This is the story of a quest for answers to how a designer can help people create their own products. How we can collaborate globally and produce locally, and how we can make a living while sharing knowledge and designs? For… Continue reading
Project of the Day: Community Sourced Capital
Project of the Day: Community Sourced Capital = CSC helps local businesses borrow money from people in their community. Description “Neither crowdfunding nor a financial institution in the traditional sense, Community Sourced Capital (CSC) aims to build community through finance by enabling community members to provide needed capital to local businesses. Through aggregating small… Continue reading
On the SIMPOL initiative (3): International Simultaneous Policy in the context of Global Governance
We presented the International Simultaneous Policy Organization as P2P Movement of the Day on October 8. Excerpted from an interview of John Bunzl by Maha Hilal: “Can you explain what you mean by conceptualizing problems nation-centrically? Yes, let me give you an example. Let’s take the problem of horrendously excessive bankers’ bonuses. Most people, when… Continue reading