Category Archives: Hybrids

Live from Amsterdam, Second Day Networked Labour Seminar

Posted on May 9, 2013 by
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#Walmartstrike and the union resurgence | Godfrey’s Blog of Claims

Posted on November 26, 2012 by

The #Walmartstrike on Black Friday was an historic moment for the global labour movement. It represents the public coming out of the synthesis of occupy direct action tactics and sustainable union structures to produce a direct unionism that has the … Continue reading →

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Transformative Power: Political organisation in transition by Hilary Wainwright

Posted on November 16, 2012 by

16 November 2012 Hilary Wainwright Socialist Register In a context of uncertainty and flux, it helps to start from the specific. My starting point is the rise of Syriza, the radical left coalition rooted in the movements resisting austerity that has become … Continue reading →

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Global Unionism: The Social Network Model

Posted on October 25, 2012 by

The network is the vanguard. Dan Gallin, Chair of the Global Labour Institute The union movement and FaceBook are about the same size, as of October 2012. That’s about one billion members, or one seventh of the world’s population[1]. It’s … Continue reading →

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AGORA 99 PROGRAM IS OUT | CITIZEN DEBT AUDIT GROUP (PACD)

Posted on October 25, 2012 by

See you in Agora99 – Nov 1st to 4th, Madrid From the Citizen Debt Audit Platform in Spain (PACD), we have worked on convergence with different groups in the debt axis in order to be able to come up with common … Continue reading →

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The Dramatic Rise of Peer-to-Peer Communication within the emancipatory movements Reflections of an International Labour, Social Justice and Cyber Activist

Posted on October 23, 2012 by

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 →

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Social and political movements related to the P2P (participatory), open (open access to knowledge), and ‘commons’ paradigms | P2P Foundation

Posted on October 10, 2012 by

A directory of social and political movements related to the P2P (participatory), open (open access to knowledge), and ‘commons’ paradigms. Please read: Mapping a Coalition for the Commons. By Philippe Aigrain. Contents [hide] 1 Introduction 2 Sister Organizations 3 Citations 3.1 On P2P dialogue across … Continue reading →

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S17 anniversary Where do we stand? | Adbusters

Posted on September 13, 2012 by

Hey all you hacktivists, cypherpunks, mystical anarchists and global revolutionaries out there, As the one year anniversary of OWS approaches, where do we stand? To put it in a nutshell: the Zuccotti encampment model might have passed its heyday, but … Continue reading →

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Florence 10+10: A democratic rupture for Europe | Citizens, movements, networks and unions assembly to turn the tide

Posted on July 29, 2012 by

FLORENCE 10+10 Ten years ago, Florence hosted the first ever European Social Forum. It constituted an extraordinary moment in the construction of a continent-wide demos, which presented analyses, proposals and solutions which would have avoided Europe crashing into the terrible … Continue reading →

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Thinking of ‘peer production’ and ‘transnationalization of production’ together | P2P Foundation

Posted on July 16, 2012 by

A proposal for working on a convergence of the ideas of Gramsci, Robert Cox and P2P Theory, by Örsan Şenalp: Our intention is to draw mainlines for an historical materialist narrative of the rise of the p2p as the dynamic of … Continue reading →

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Abundance, utopia and degrowth in popular history

Posted on May 24, 2012 by

24May2012 By David de Ugarte Popular utopias have always demanded abundance, and when empowered with technology, have established it in very similar terms to those we use today. Degrowth, on the other hand, only has historical roots in the Church’s reaction … Continue reading →

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Networks Without a Cause; A Critique of Social Media by Geert Lovink

Posted on May 19, 2012 by

 (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands) Description With the vast majority of Facebook users caught in a frenzy of ‘friending’, ‘liking’ and ‘commenting’, at what point do we pause to grasp the consequences of our info-saturated lives? What compels us to … Continue reading →

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Organizing P2P organizations

Posted on May 17, 2012 by

April 7, 2011 — Poor Richard Image via Wikipedia I probably should have titled this “Hacking the Organization”. What follows is not a primer of organizational design but simply a back-of-the-envelope sketch of how a number of organizational design and … Continue reading →

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The P2P sector an opportunity for low-cost local reindustrialization

Posted on May 17, 2012 by

Grupo Cooperativo de las Indias ~ http://grupolasindias.coop ~ reindustrializa@grupolasindias.coop History of the industrial P2P sector The explosion in the social use of the Internet in the ’90s generated notable changes in the whole productive process. One of the most striking effects … Continue reading →

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Solidarity in Action: “99 Pickets” Picking Up Steam as May Day Approaches

Posted on April 26, 2012 by

Posted 1 day ago on April 25, 2012, 9:05 a.m. EST by OccupyWallSt Workers across New York City are organizing “99 Picket Lines” building up to May Day, where New Yorkers will join a broad coalition of unions, immigrant rights groups, community- and faith-based … Continue reading →

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Extreme Manufacturing | Factor e Farm Blog

Posted on April 18, 2012 by

A brief introduction to the method by Aaron (see script) We are proud to announce the beta release of an the Extreme Manufacturing platformfor Open Source Ecology. We are now testing the platform. Extreme Manufacturing (XM) is an open source hardware development methodology based on … Continue reading →

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Indignad@s Occupy Biennale

Posted on April 18, 2012 by

Anonymous - Mon, 2012-04-16 01:59 We create an aesthetic and political experiment in the Berlin Biennale space for people from all over the world to gather, organize assemblies, direct action, interactive self-education, strategy-development and other forms of politico-social engagement. Thus we … Continue reading →

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Democracia Real Ya: Five Reasons to Take The Streets

Posted on April 16, 2012 by

Posted 5 hours ago on April 16, 2012, 10:37 a.m. EST by OccupyWallSt The following was translated from Democracia Real Ya (Real Democracy Now) Barcelona, aSpanish protest movement that helped inspire #OWS. While some things are specific to Spain/Europe, they echo our reasons for … Continue reading →

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A pivotal p2p transition moment: Open Source Ecology launches Extreme Manufacturing platform

Posted on April 15, 2012 by

Michel Bauwens, 15th April 2012 The birth of the era of mass production, based on economies of scale, which is now ending, was when Ford instituted the Assembly line. The birth of the era of physical peer production, based on economies of … Continue reading →

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SPRING IS HERE. WE ARE COMING | OCCUPY GENERAL STRIKE

Posted on April 15, 2012 by

THE PLAN For May 1st, 2012 Occupy Los Angeles is organizing around a “4 Winds” People’s Power Car and Bike Caravan through the urban sprawl of Los Angeles that will culminate in Direct Action in and around the Financial District … Continue reading →

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