Category Archives: P2P

Parecon Vs. Peercommony: An Exchange Between Michael Albert and Christian Siefkes | ZNet

Posted on March 12, 2013 by

 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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Sharing Commons Spring Barcelona March 2013

Posted on March 6, 2013 by

Promotional poster Sharing commons sprint. Barcelona. March 20th & 21st 2013. In occasion of Michel Bauwens (P2P Foundation) visit to Barcelona. Brought to you collaboratively by OuiShare, IGOP – UAB & Spanish Chapter of Open Knowledge Foundation, with the support of BCN The … Continue reading →

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Global Unionism: The Peer-to-Peer Model | New Unionism Network

Posted on February 20, 2013 by

The transnationalisation of production, along with the rise of global supply chains, informalisation, financialisation, and connecting of world markets through informationalisation have all hit hard on workers. It seems to have become impossible to overcome the resulting divisions among working … Continue reading →

Posted in Activism, Networked labour, Networks, Organising, P2P, Solidarity, Strategy | 7 Comments

Invitation: GlobalSquare online meeting, Sunday 3 February 2013

Posted on January 29, 2013 by

Next meeting of GlobalSquare (also known as Occupy the WSF initiative) Location: Occupytalk.org server, room: Assemblies & Round Tables > OPEN SPACE (Mumble instructions below) Date: Sunday, 3rd of February 2013 Time: 19.00 GMT/UTC, check your local time here: time zone converter About … Continue reading →

Posted in 15M, Activism, Alliances, Anonymous, Arab Spring, Idle No More!, Indigenous, Occupy, P2P, Participation, Revolution, Solidarity, WSF 2013 | 2 Comments

Guerilla Open Access Manifesto by Aaron Swartz July 2008

Posted on January 15, 2013 by

Information is power. But like all power, there are those who want to keep it for themselves. The world’s entire scientific and cultural heritage, published over centuries in books and journals, is increasingly being digitized and locked up by a … Continue reading →

Posted in Anonymous, Arab Spring, Free Information, Internet, Open Access, Organising, P2P | 10 Comments

Netwar 2.0: the convergence of streets and networks

Posted on January 15, 2013 by

by GIORGIO GRIZIOTTI, DARIO LOVAGLIO, and TIZIANA TERRANOVA 23 February 2012 To the extent to which we are not witnessing a clash between two capitalisms but a process of reconfiguration realized through the hegemony of finance, information and circulation, the only way to change … Continue reading →

Posted in Anonymous, Arab Spring, free labour, immaterial labour, Labour, Networks, Occupy, Organising, P2P, Wikileaks | 1 Comment

The unmaking of the working class and the rise of the Maker | Re-Public

Posted on January 4, 2013 by

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 | 4 Comments

Rethinking Marxism Special Issue: THE COMMON AND THE FORMS OF THE COMMUNE

Posted on December 29, 2012 by

Rethinking Marxism: A Journal of Economics, Culture & Society Volume 22, Issue 3, 2010 Special Issue: THE COMMON AND THE FORMS OF THE COMMUNE

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HOW DOES THE IDEA OF P2P AND THE COMMONS DIFFER FROM THE SOCIALIST TRADITION?

Posted on December 29, 2012 by

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 →

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Complete LaborTech 2012 Schedule

Posted on November 29, 2012 by

Download Pdf here LaborTech 2012 Schedule FRIDAY, November 30 5:00 – 7:00 PM Registration – (McLaren Center rm. 252) 7:00 PM Plenary – (McLaren Center rm. 252) Welcoming – Dorothy Kidd, Professor, Department of Media Studies, USF, AFT 4269 Spooked by the MOOCs (Massively Open … Continue reading →

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Beyond Digital Plenty by Christian Siefkes

Posted on November 28, 2012 by

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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Support Walmart Black Friday Strikers! | OWS

Posted on November 15, 2012 by

Support Walmart Black Friday Strikers! Support the Walmart Black Friday Strikers! It’s time to take a stand and support the workers who are standing up to live better through an unfair labor practice strike. Walmart workers decided to strike on Black … Continue reading →

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Global Decentralized Media Co-ordination: Occupying the Communications | Model communication base for Another World

Posted on November 15, 2012 by

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 →

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FROM #14N TO #21D: COMING OF THE SYSTEMIC GENERAL STRIKE TO REPLACE ANCIENT CAPITALIST WORLD WITH FRESH COLLABORATIVE ONES

Posted on November 14, 2012 by

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 | 4 Comments

THE COMING OF THE INDEFINITE STRIKE IN GREECE – LETS CREATE A MASSIVE STRIKE FUND FOR GREEK SOCIETY

Posted on November 7, 2012 by

Greece Jumpstarts Week of Protests as General Strike Takes on Austerity End of austerity cuts as likely as ‘Father Christmas’ – Common Dreams staff Greek workers began a week of anti-austerity strikes across the country Monday as state hospital doctors, … Continue reading →

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In the ewe of massive general strikes: Can we build bottom up networked collaborative economies to support societies in the PIIGS and beyond

Posted on November 7, 2012 by

This is the first part of the audio version (see video version here) answering your questions to the P2P Foundation Reddit page: redd.it/11d4m7 based on the Synthetic overview of the collaborative economy report by the P2P Foundation and Orange Labs. James Burke gathered together the … Continue reading →

Posted in 14N, 15M, Activism, Alliances, Exchange, free labour, Movements, networkers, Occupy, P2P, Participation, Revolution, Solidarity | 2 Comments

Making Firenze10+10 a success: some concrete proposals Francine Mestrum, Global Social Justice

Posted on November 7, 2012 by

[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 →

Posted in 14N, 15M, Activism, Alliances, Commons, Exchange, Firenze 10+10, Movements, Networks, Occupy, P2P, Participation, Revolution, Solidarity, unions | 1 Comment

Internationalisation and Expansion of November 14 General Strike by Puerta Del Sol Economics Assembly

Posted on November 7, 2012 by

by Economics Sol Assembly on Tuesday, 6 November 2012 at 14:43 · Original call INTERNATIONAL GENERAL STRIKE 14N CALL TO ACTION Puerta Del Sol Economics Assembly Tuesday, November, 6, 2012 The Puerta Del Sol Economics Assembly is calling for the mobilization for … Continue reading →

Posted in 14N, 15M, Activism, Alliances, Anonymous, P2P, Participation, Revolution, Solidarity, unions, Wikistrike | 10 Comments

Anonymous and Open Call for #14N: Distributed Systemic General Strike

Posted on November 5, 2012 by

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 →

Posted in 14N, 15M, Activism, Alliances, Anonymous, Arab Spring, Commons, Exchange, free labour, Occupy, P2P, unions, Wikistrike | 2 Comments

BARCELONA 15M Newsletter nr 31: Spain provides blue print for systemic general strike

Posted on November 5, 2012 by

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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