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The City as Commons: a Policy Reader, brings together 34 contributions and 31 authors exploring policies and strategies for creating cities as commons. 
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Andrew Stewart interviews Kevin Carson on the issue of corporate water privatization and cooperative ownership, commons-based alternatives.
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The Peer Production License (PPL) allows cooperatives and solidarity-based collectives, but not corporations, to monetize cultural works.
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Blockchain based distributed applications, Commons based licenses, network effects and antitrust legislation and much more in this David Bollier interview.
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We’ve begun a mapping exercise to identify all the people and organisations working with arts, culture and heritage around the Cateran Trail
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We must declare Facebook to be independent, and we must plan it and administer it so that it responds to the needs of its citizens around the world.
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To see just how stupid this “argument” is, we only have to imagine its equivalent being used by apologists for other class systems throughout history.
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An example of this would be my perplexity towards encountering CodeSolid and their proposal for Employee-Owned Source Code, originating as it does from a cooperative, which Nathan Schneider considers to be a platform cooperative. As he writes about them in a Facebook exchange:
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This is excerpted from the second part of an in-depth review of the book, Commun, by Martin O’Shaughnessy. Here, first in summary, are the nine propositions: * Proposition 1: it is necessary to construct a politics of the common: * Proposition 2: we must mobilise rights of use to challenge property rights. * Proposition 3: …
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The commons is a living organism and that’s precisely what needs to be studied: its aliveness
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How do you reclaim the commons? Check out these outcomes from Zemos98 hackcamp to learn more.
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Shareable's Cat Johnson interviews David Bollier about the Commons Strategies Group new book anthology Patterns of Commoning.
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An update from our friends at the unMonastery in Matera, Italy and, as you’ll soon see, beyond. Over the past 6 months the unMonastery has been going through a number of significant developments, explorations and experiments?—?these initiatives have had mixed results, some very successful and some borderline disastrous; the net effect has restricted our capacity …
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During the late Middle ages Europeans formed alliances which were based primarily not on kinship, but on some other common characteristic such as occupation
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What can bind people together beyond the minimal social and civic ties? David Bollier argues that the Commons can be the driver for systemic change
jean lievens's insight:
COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE COMMONS COMMONS TRANSITION CULTURE & IDEAS P2P ACTION ITEMS P2P SOCIETY AND POLITICS PEER PROPERTYcoll
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The Cooperativa d’Autofinançament Social en Xarxa (CASX) – which means co-operative of social and network self-financing – is a savings, donations and project funding cooperative, which was set up with the purpose of providing funding for projects that are aligned with the principles of the CIC and the integral revolution, as “the deposits made to... Continue reading →
jean lievens's insight:
COMMONS COMMONS TRANSITION COOPERATIVES CROWDFUNDING OPEN COOPS & SUSTAINABLE LIVELIHOODS ORIGINAL CONTENT P2P FOUNDATION P2P MONEY PEER PROPERTY
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Located in Barcelona, AureaSocial is a Catalan Integral Cooperative initiated open space for health, education and self-management.
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In New York, 596 Acres has plenty of experience in working with municipalities to convert vacant lots into community gardens.
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An infographic describing how the Fifth Season Coop's innovative six-member class structure fosters regional food security and local economic stability.
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Once in a while, we are confronted by initiatives which elicit contrary feelings, especially if they come from what you consider as ‘your own side’.
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Excerpted from a great and clarifying contribution from Natalia Fernández, translated by Steve Herrick: “Municipal goods and services are not “commons,” and a rental vehicle from a company-owed fleet is not “collaborative.” Confusing things only can lead to disillusionment and disappointment. Anglo culture and the absence of public policies in the US tended to distort …
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Can the commons serve as an alternative to the corporate or state domination of big data, the lifeblood of this dawning digital world? Can it serve as the foundation for collective empowerment? Can it provide a means of criticizing the IT corporations’ perception of themselves? From the Berliner Gazette, presenting the project, ‘Big Data in …
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There is no better way to celebrate the birth of Christ than to peacefully demonstrate for an end to hunger and poverty across the world.
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Help our friends at the Mutual Aid Network (MAN) build local, resilient, peer to peer economic networks through their crowdfunding campaign.
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David Bollier reflects on the work of the Commons Strategies Group while taking us through their beautiful new website.
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