Category Archives: immaterial labour

Blueprint for P2P Society: The Partner State & Ethical Economy

By Michel Bauwens, 04.07.12 Image: Dave Gray A new way to produce is emerging. By this I mean: a new way to produce anything and everything, whether it is software, food, or cities. What once required rigid organisations and a society defined by the … Continue reading

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Democracia Real Ya: Five Reasons to Take The Streets

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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SPRING IS HERE. WE ARE COMING | OCCUPY GENERAL STRIKE

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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15M Global Strike – What is the plan? | Take the Square

1/ BACKGROUND AND GEOGRAPHIC EXPANSION 2/ PRINCIPLES AND DEMANDS, AIMS OF THE MOVEMENT 3/ 15M GLOBAL STRIKE AND SYSTEMATIC EXPANSION 1.1 Arab Spring: One goal, One strategy The Arab Spring was sparked by the first protests that occurred in Tunisia on 18 … Continue reading

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Documenting the History of Social Network Unionism before the GLOBAL MAY STRIKES – Part I

Movement-Space-Movement cycle: Linkages between Zapatista-WaterWar-Seattle-WSF-ESF-[JSC-ALTERSUMMIT] and Arab Spring/ 15M /OCCUPY I First post of a series of key documents that trace back the efforts  have been made for the creation of a Globally Networked -preferably in a p2p distributed way- and reinvented … Continue reading

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‘Occupy’ as a business model: The emerging open-source civilisation by Michel Bauwens | Al Jazeera

The Occupy Wall Street movement is a model for a new economic paradigm, in which value is first created by communities. In Zuccotti Park, protesters created an ‘ethical economy’ based on the group’s shared values [GALLO/GETTY] Chiang Mai, Thailand - Last week I … Continue reading

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[Occupy/Inidgnados] [May'12] #12M15M Newsletter – issue No 3 | via Dr. TR. Rojas

Dear comrades, Here goes!! Already the third issue of the Newsletter dedicated to offer updates form Assemblies around the world that are preparing actions next May 2012. Please share and spread, paste it in your facebook groups, send it to … Continue reading

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Autonomy, Labour and the Political Economy of Social Media with Dmytri Kleiner and Tiziana Terranova

Center for Gender Studies of the Department of Social Policy of Panteion University and the European research project MIG@NET invite you to the event titled: «Autonomy, Labour, and the Political Economy of Social Media». Presentations by: Dmytri Kleiner Tiziana Terranova_ … Continue reading

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Weekly Marches on Wall Street Start Today! 2PM LIBERTY SQUARE

Posted 1 day ago on March 16, 2012, 7:12 a.m. EST by OccupyWallSt Start training for May Day and join the spring resistance! Weekly marches every Friday; meet at 2 PM in Liberty Square! via the NYCGA: On Friday, March 16, 2012, … Continue reading

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The new class structure of neoliberal capitalism | Excerpted from Guy Standing‘s book on the Precariat by Michel Bauwens

Excerpted from Guy Standing‘s book on the Precariat: The New Dangerous Class “The globalisation era generated a class fragmentation that threatens democratic governance. At the top, in terms of income, above older representatives of capital, an elite of absurdly affluent figures emerged as global … Continue reading

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