Showing posts with label commons. Show all posts
Showing posts with label commons. Show all posts
Thursday, May 21, 2020

Posts that I especially recommend today: Thursday, May 21, 2020

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How the United States Government Failed to Prepare for the Global Pandemic by Vijay Prashad from CounterPunch . (Note: You must be aware o...
Thursday, December 31, 2015

'Free Basics' Will Take Away More Than Our Right to the Internet

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Click here to access article by Vandana Shiva from Common Dreams . (Note: Shiva uses a couple of abbreviations commonly used in India: ...
Sunday, June 7, 2015

Reimagining our collective powers against austerity

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Click here to access article by Max Haiven from Reflections on a Revolution. (a must-read) Wow! Absolutely stunning in its advancement of...
Thursday, March 5, 2015

Cracking Capitalism vs. The State Option

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Click here to access this interview with John Holloway by Amador Fernández-Savater posted in Guerrilla Translation (run by a cooperative b...
Friday, January 9, 2015

Economics of the Anthropocene

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Click here if you wish to access this 20:49m video presentation by Joshua Farley from the original posting on the Post Carbon Institute...
Sunday, September 28, 2014

The commons as an approach to governance, sustainable resource management and social wellbeing

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Click here to access a summary article and 49:15m podcast interview with David Bollier from the Norwegian website Levevei . (I accessed thi...
Thursday, July 10, 2014

Makerspaces: More Than a Fad

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Click here to access article from LocalOrg . While the business model aspect of a makerspace can be compared to a health club, the output...
Tuesday, September 10, 2013

The art of building a new world: Freedom according to the Zapatistas

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Click here to access article by Raúl Zibechi from Americas Program .  It takes seven hours to traverse the 100 kilometers that separate S...
Wednesday, September 4, 2013

The Promise of an Unhurried Society

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Click here to access article by Mat Little from New Compass (Norway). I have a problem with an argument presented in this piece. The auth...
Saturday, August 17, 2013

Commonist Tendencies: Mutual Aid Beyond Communism (New Book)

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Click here to access a book description (original source is from Amazon) posted on Infoshop News of this recently published book by author...
Thursday, August 15, 2013

Memory and the Radical Imagination

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Click here to access the 51:41m audio interview with Max Haiven , an assistant professor of cultural studies in Nova Scotia from radio stat...
Thursday, June 6, 2013

Enclosure, Luddism, and Magna Carta

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Click here to access the 55:00m audio interview with Peter Linebaugh, a social historian, at the studios of KPFA in Berkeley, California.  ...
Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Hope from the Margins

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Click here to access article by Gustavo Esteva from The Wealth of the Commons . These notes offer a quick glance to ways, in the south of...
Tuesday, May 7, 2013

Building The Commons: 2013 Forum

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Click here to access posting by davana from Making Worlds: a commons coalition. The significance of this post is to illustrate that the O...
Thursday, November 17, 2011

We Power

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Click here to access article by Julie Ristau & Alexa Bradley from On the Commons. Through our experience with numerous community proje...
Wednesday, February 9, 2011

Indigenous Communities Fighting For Land Rights More Than Ever - Governments & Corporations Fighting Back

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by Rachel Cernansky from Tree Hugger. "On one hand the necessity of secure rights is now widely promoted by climate change negotiators...
Sunday, January 2, 2011

The Corporatization of Social Commons

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by Zeynep Tufekci from Technosociology .  We are increasingly aware of the erosion of the traditional commons such as public services, pu...
Sunday, November 7, 2010

The Grassroots of Resilience

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by Kate Bodi from Culture Change .  This is really two inter-related articles. This report starts with the U.S. and concludes with a pre...
Monday, September 27, 2010

Anger as a Private Company Takes Over Libraries

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by David Streitfeld from NY Times .  Just when I thought that things couldn't get much worse for life in the US, this report comes alo...
Saturday, September 25, 2010

Cooperation Law for a Sharing Economy

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by Janelle Orsi from Yes! website.  The author is a lot more optimistic about the growth of legal support for cooperative enterprises tha...