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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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Extreme Manufacturing | Factor e Farm Blog

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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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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‘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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International Organization for a Participatory Society

As you may know by now, the site for IOPS – International Organization for a Participatory Societywent online yesterday. You may remember that the project was inspired by a Z Poll about revolutionary organization. You can see that poll from the … 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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Wikipedia and Free Software communities by Mayo Fuster Morell

Extracting lessons for bringing into reality our dreams without idealizing them Comunes is a non-profit collective (mainly based in Madrid but with an international community) dedicated to facilitating the use of free/libre web tools and resources to collectives and activists … 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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2012-02-29 Anonymous & WikiLeaks Unite to expose Stratfor as 25 Anons are arrested

Submitted by clayclai on Wed, 02/29/2012 – 17:09 WikiLeaks and Anonymous collaborate in releasing The Global Intelligence Files of the global intelligence company Stratfor. This is huge, like another Cablegate dump, Stratfor is known as the private CIA. From the WikiLeaks site: On Monday February … Continue reading

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