The P2P Foundation is serializing videos on the Solidarity Economy produced by the SUSY (Sustainable and Solidarity Economy) Project. See all videos here. Associate Veena Nabar worked on behalf of the College in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, which is geographically isolated from mainland India, to produce a film about Ellon Hinengo Co-operative Society. Ellon… Continue reading
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Samuel Bowles on the Death of ‘Homo Economicus’
This video was produced by the Institute of New Economic Thinking. Good incentives are no substitute for good citizens. Human beings, notes Sam Bowles, a Research Professor at the Santa Fe Institute, are complex, psychological beings given to all sorts of motivations well beyond naked self-interest. That might be news to the economics profession, which… Continue reading
Solidarity Economy Showcase: Shared Interest
The P2P Foundation is serializing videos on the Solidarity Economy produced by the SUSY (Sustainable and Solidarity Economy) Project. See all videos here. In the North East of England, the College team visited Shared Interest, a social enterprise based in Newcastle that uses the investments of individuals to make loans to Fairtrade producers around the… Continue reading
Felix Weth on Fairmondo and Open Multi-Stakeholder Coops
The P2P Foundation is serializing video highlights from last year’s Platform Cooperativism conference. Click here to see all conference videos. (16 mins) Felix Weth — Fairmondo is an online marketplace owned by its users. It is open to professional as well as private sellers, with no general restrictions on what products and services can be… Continue reading
Solidarity Economy Showcase: CASA Manchester
The P2P Foundation is serializing videos on the Solidarity Economy produced by the SUSY (Sustainable and Solidarity Economy) Project. See all videos here. Care and Share Associates (CASA), a care provider owned by its employees, was chosen as the focus for the film highlighting the solidarity economy in the North West of England. The film-makers… Continue reading
Stop #CensorshipMachine: EU copyright threatens our freedoms
Europe wants Internet companies to filter all of your uploads. (It is a censorship machine.) An upload filter can’t recognize your legal use of copyrighted content. (Like parody, citations and – oh, noes! – memes.) And you will have no meaningful protection from unfair deletion. (So, the proposed safeguards will not save you.) This needs… Continue reading
Silvia Zuur on how Enspiral benefits all freelancers
The P2P Foundation is serializing video highlights from last year’s Platform Cooperativism conference. Click here to see all conference videos. (12 mins) Silvia Zuur — . At its heart, it’s a group of people who want to co-create an encouraging, diverse community of people trying to make a difference.
Silke Helfrich on the Commons as a way of working and living together
“In a way we need to stop looking for definitions of the commons as a notion, as a concept. Because in fact it’s not about a thing. It’s not about a concept. It’s not about something separated from us. It’s another way of being in the world. It’s another way of thinking about the world,… Continue reading
A Conversation between DiEM25 and Commoners: How to Build an Alternative Together?
On the evening of the 15th of November – as a kick off to the first European Commons Assembly- a conversation took place between commoners and DiEM25. The conversation explores what it means for the commons movement to become political and how the potential synergies between the commons movement and DiEm25 could look like. On… Continue reading
Afghan Beekeepers Demonstrate the Power of Co-ops to Transform Lives
Cross-posted from Shareable. Cat Johnson: We recently came across an inspiring video report by Agence France-Presse about a honey cooperative run by women in Afghanistan. It offers a glimpse into the life of an Afghan mother of seven who runs a beekeeping enterprise. She is just one of an estimated 200 women in the Bamiyan province working in honey production… Continue reading
Wolfgang Kowalsky on How the European Union Is Failing To Regulate the So-Called Sharing Economy
The P2P Foundation is serializing video highlights from last year’s Platform Cooperativism conference. Click here to see all conference videos. Cities and Technological Sovereignty 6 – The Gig Economy Needs To Meet Its Responsibilities (13 mins) Wolfgang Kowalsky – The ‘gig economy’ may sound cool but in reality many of the jobs offer a fast… Continue reading
Mayo Fuster Morell: Barcelona as a Case Study on Urban Policy for Platform Cooperativism
The P2P Foundation is serializing video highlights from last year’s Platform Cooperativism conference. Click here to see all conference videos. (15 mins) Mayo Fuster Morell – Mayo Fuster Morell will provide a brief overview of public policy making approaches to the sharing economy. Using the example of Barcelona, Mayo will focus on what policymakers can… Continue reading
Energy as a Common Good
Energy as a Commons is a video produced during the first public meeting of the European Commons Assembly in Brussels, 15-17 November, 2016. Cecile Blanchet reflects on how the energy system is designed to please the needs of constant growth of the markets and opposes it to a community-managed paradigm that is inclusive and accessible… Continue reading
How Can We Redesign Cities as Shared Spaces?
Cat Johnson: At a time when corporate sponsorship and ownership of city spaces, buildings, and events continues to grow at lightning pace, it’s more important than ever to rethink our cities as shared entities that belong to all of us. In his recent speech at the Smart City Expo World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, researcher, activist, and author David Bollier argued that… Continue reading
How do we mobilize today ? Charles Heckscher on Transient Solidarities
Charles Heckscher is a great scholar on the evolution of forms of cooperation within business entities, and on collective action with the labor movement. In this brilliant overview, “Transient Solidarities: commitment and collective action in post-industrial societies“, that starts with historical forms, he outlines the new forms of solidarity that are born within networked societies…. Continue reading
Urban Commons and the Right to the City
This video was made by interviewing a group of commoners who attended to the first public meeting of the European Commons Assembly in Brussels, 15-17 November, 2016. They reflected about how neoliberalism shape cities as places for tourism, gentrifying and dismantling the cooperative environment of the neighborhoods; as well as how commoners build alternatives by… Continue reading