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Category Archives: Commons
Labour as a Common-Pool Resource by Tom Walker
To better explain what it means to regard labour power as a common-pool resource, it is helpful to first take a step backward to the more conventional notion that labour is a commodity, the price of which “rises and falls … Continue reading
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IdleNoMore Quebec calls for 3 days mobilisation #M20 #M21 #M22
For immediate release Montreal, March 13, 2013 – Idle No More Quebec encourages people and organizations who work in solidarity with Indigenous and environmental causes to respond to the global call to action IDLE NO MORE. As part of World … Continue reading
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Parecon Vs. Peercommony: An Exchange Between Michael Albert and Christian Siefkes | ZNet
vs. Debating Parecon (Participatory Economy) Albert: Summarizing Parecon Siefkes: My Doubts About Parecon Albert: Peercommony Doubts Parecon? Siefkes: Why I Still Doubt Albert: Debating Peercommony (Commons based peer economy) Siefkes: Summarizing Peercommony Albert: Considering Peercommony Siefkes: Peercommony Reconsidered Albert: Replying to Siefkes Reconsideration Siefkes: http://www.zcommunications.org/znet/zdebatealbsiefkes.htm
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The unmaking of the working class and the rise of the Maker | Re-Public
by Johan Söderberg One of the many attractions at the New York Maker Faire in 2011 was the ”Print-village”. It gathered twenty-something stands displaying the famous Rep-rap 3D printer and its many derivatives. Next to the Print-village was a much bigger … Continue reading
Posted in Commons, free labour, networkers, Networks, P2P
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Rethinking Marxism Special Issue: THE COMMON AND THE FORMS OF THE COMMUNE
Rethinking Marxism: A Journal of Economics, Culture & Society Volume 22, Issue 3, 2010 Special Issue: THE COMMON AND THE FORMS OF THE COMMUNE
HOW DOES THE IDEA OF P2P AND THE COMMONS DIFFER FROM THE SOCIALIST TRADITION?
What is the connection between the historical tradition of socialism/communism and the contemporary emergence of ideas and practices centered around p2p dynamics and the commons? In the article for the Argentinian national daily “Pagina 12″, journalist Mariano Blejman writes that I equate open hardware … Continue reading
FIRENZE 10+10: Reports, videos, reflections compiled by Jasper Teuinissen
A very incomplete collection of reports from Firenze 10+10, 8-11 november, Florence, Italy, http://www.firenze1010.eu/ Reports of workshops and events Report of the Food Sovereignty Meeting on Land Issues http://www.nyelenieurope.net/en/news/70-report-of-the-food-sovereignty-meeting-on-land-issues Report of the European Water Movement Assembly at Firenze 10+10 (videos see … Continue reading
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Beyond Digital Plenty by Christian Siefkes
by Christian Siefkes Building Blocks for Physical Peer Production [Originally published in Journal of Peer Production, Issue #1: Productive Negation, July 2012.] Summary Commons-based peer production has produced astonishing amounts of freely usable and shareable information. While that is amazing in … Continue reading
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Global Decentralized Media Co-ordination: Occupying the Communications | Model communication base for Another World
The description is English and Spanish, Spanish is after English La descripci’on est’a en ingles y espanol, el Espanol viene despu’es del ingles We propose to form an operational open working group that engages in collaborative propagation of the message … Continue reading
FROM #14N TO #21D: COMING OF THE SYSTEMIC GENERAL STRIKE TO REPLACE ANCIENT CAPITALIST WORLD WITH FRESH COLLABORATIVE ONES
We are ordinary people, outraged like you. Some calls us Indignados others 15M or Occupy Movement, describing those who is pushed at the brink of the global disastrous system or already fallen out of it. We are sometimes highly educated, … Continue reading
Posted in 14N, 15M, Activism, Alliances, Anonymous, Arab Spring, Commons, Exchange, Movements, Networks, Occupy, P2P, Participation, Revolution, Solidarity, unions, Wikistrike
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JOINING FORCES FOR COMMON EUROPEAN STRIKE : Our Democracy instead of Their Austerity | Firenze 10+10
More than 4 thousand participants, 300 networks and organisations from 28 countries from all over Europe and beyond, met at Fortezza da Basso in Florence from November 8th to 11th, to debate and strategize together for another Europe. Over 100 … Continue reading
Making Firenze10+10 a success: some concrete proposals Francine Mestrum, Global Social Justice
[Below is an intervention made by Francine Menstrum of Global Social Justice, on the open email list created for discussion on the successful convergence and collaboration towards and within Firenze 10+10 space that will take place between November 8-11, 2012] … Continue reading
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Anonymous and Open Call for #14N: Distributed Systemic General Strike
Anonymous and Open Call for #14N P2P and Distributed Systemic General Strike This is an anonymous call for a transnational and indefinite General Strike to start on November 14, 2012 Objectives To start building an real general strike that will connect all … Continue reading
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BARCELONA 15M Newsletter nr 31: Spain provides blue print for systemic general strike
This is the weekly newsletter that will inform you about the activities of 15M movement in Barcelona, Catalonia and occasionally the main events in Spain. This week’s issue provides blue prints for how to realise a systemic change: 1. Four days … Continue reading
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Archive for ‘P2PF/Orange Report’: Synthetic overview of the collaborative economy full appendixes
Rushkoff on “Synthetic Overview of the Collaborative Economy Report” “There is no longer any excuse to remain ignorant of the vast peer-to-peer landscape that is slowly but surely replacing the obsolete, monopolistic, and competitive institutions of yesterday. This authoritative … Continue reading
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Dec. 21 is not the end of the world but the end of Capitalism: Bolivia to expel Coca-Cola in wake of 2012 Mayan ‘apocalypse’ | RT via Cyberunions
A woman stands on a street corner in Oruro, a Bolivian mining town in the Andes Mountains In a symbolic rejection of US capitalism, Bolivia announced it will expel the Coca-Cola Company from the country at the end of the … Continue reading
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From Labour as Commodity to Labour as a Common | via Michel Bauwens
Excerpted from a draft of an article by Hilary Wainwright: “Resistance to alienation takes many forms: from the refusal to work, humour, sabotage and conventional trade unionism, to a variety of struggles for and experiments with alternatives in and against state … Continue reading
The Dramatic Rise of Peer-to-Peer Communication within the emancipatory movements Reflections of an International Labour, Social Justice and Cyber Activist
In the article I give a personal review on some of the important spaces of convergence and mobilisations some of which took place in 2011 and 2012 and others are currently being planned: like, 15O, Joint Social Conferences, Hub Meetings … Continue reading
Posted in 15M, Activism, Alliances, Anonymous, Arab Spring, Commons, Exchange, globalNOISE, Hybrids, immaterial labour, Movements, Networks, Occupy, Organisation, P2P, Participation, Revolution, Solidarity, unions
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