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Capitalism won’t be violently overthrown. Nor should it be. Whatever system(s) may one day supplant it will instead grow quietly in the shadows of its tallest towers, and coexist for years. But in order for that to happen, I believe we need our true iconoclasts, dangerous freethinkers, and weird subversives to flock to the tech industry — rather than recoil from it in disgust, now that the pretty people have invaded. 
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Changing systems isn’t easy but it starts with small steps. Here’s ten ways in which you can help create change in a community near you now:
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“The actions of the new government suggest that Syriza is ready to take steps to implement key aspects of the platform adopted at its first Congress in July 2013.
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Together we build a Commons Humanity - Crowdfunding a Global Networked Labour Union | P2P Foundation
1. Creating one big mesh network for the working people from the Global South and Global North by linking autonomous networks and communities of high-tech/knowledge, industrial and service workers; domestic, immigrant, rural, jobless and future workers; solidarity, activism and research networks; labour, environmental, social justice and information freedom activists,
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To build a shield against repression, whilst we empower our self-organization. That’s why we are announcing that a new media is born.
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Geopolitics helps us understand the world in which we live, especially in turbulent times like these, characterized by global instability with its string of changes and permanent oscillations. But when geopolitics addresses the activity of anti-systemic movements, it has its limits. It gives us a reading of the stage on which they act, which is no small thing, but it cannot be the central inspiration of the liberation struggles.
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With the chance of the oncoming Greek elections EEL/LAK, an Athens-based NGO focused on the promotion of FLOSS and the Commons, has recently asked the political parties about their agenda in relation to Open Governance and the Commons. In total, four political parties replied -according to the polls three of them will succeed in electing MPs- proving that there has been a growing interest over the Commons discourse in Greece.
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In early 2013 we introduced a weekly series-within-a-series, “#Resources for #Resilience,” with thought leader and strategist Jennifer Sertl, who served up incisive curated lists of topical links mined from her substantive, expansive social technology practice. These resources span geographic and disciplinary bounds to identify sources of guidance and resilience that promise to be of use as we grow in our personal and community behaviors, seeking creative and professional evolution.
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According to Rifkin, every great economic paradigm shift in history brings together three new technologies that changes the way we organize our economic life: 1) new communication technologies to more efficiently manage economic activity; 2) new sources of energy to more efficiently power economic activity; and 3) new modes of transportation to more efficiently move economic activity.
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Today a summit starts in Quito, Ecuador that will discuss ways in which the country can transform itself into an open commons-based knowledge society.
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IN THE early 20th century Henry Ford combined moving assembly lines with mass labour to make building cars much cheaper and quicker—thus turning the automobile from a rich man’s toy into transport for the masses. Today a growing group of entrepreneurs is striving to do the same to services, bringing together computer power with freelance workers to supply luxuries that were once reserved for the wealthy. Uber provides chauffeurs. Handy supplies cleaners. SpoonRocket delivers restaurant meals to your door. Instacart keeps your fridge stocked. In San Francisco a young computer programmer can already live like a princess.
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I sat down with Robert Laubacher, Associate Director and Research Scientist with the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence. Laubacher discusses the climate colab, a project working to address climate change through citizen scientists and others who have an opportunity to submit proposals that will be reviewed by experts and winners will be given opportunities to contribute to briefings before the UN and US Congress
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Systems change focuses on the root causes – rather than the symptoms – of social and economic problems. At LankellyChase Foundation it is at the heart of its work, explains programme director Alice Evans.
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Professor Wright is Professor of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin (Madison). He is one of the world’s leading analysts of contemporary class formation, and his work in this area has been of influence across the social sciences and beyond.
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Something very powerful feels to me like it is starting to move. I see it in the victory of Syriza in Greece on a platform of localisation, resilience building and sustainability as an antidote to austerity. I see it in the explosion of craft breweries, farmers markets, community energy companies and so on, in Scotland's moratorium on gas fracking. I also saw it in the two days I just spent in Belgium supporting the great work of the regional Transition hub “Wallonia-Brussels” there. The trip was also to support the Belgian release of the French language version of The Power of Just Doing Stuff (“Ils Changent le Monde”).
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Most of the products of our growth-addicted economy are useless, obsolete and unnecessary junk that do not contribute to our human purpose; on the contrary they impoverish, deplete and contaminate our eco-livelihood.
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How far can the peer-to-peer revolution be pushed? It’s time we start to speculate, because history is moving fast. We need to dislodge from our minds our embedded sense of what’s possible.
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Technology will advance to continue to enable peer-to-peer discussion and influence consumer-to-business collaboration more than ever before. However, it also has the potential to displace human capital.
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In measured but far-reaching ways, a state-controlled economy is opening a space for socially responsible enterprise.
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The Commons Transition Platform is a database of practical experiences and policy proposals aimed toward achieving a more humane and environmentally grounded mode of societal organization. Basing a civil society on the Commons (including the collaborative stewardship of our shared resources) would enable a more egalitarian, just, and environmentally stable society.
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It is an old question in social movements: Should we fight the system or “be the change we wish to see”? Should we push for transformation within existing institutions, or should we model in our own lives a different set of political relationships that might someday form the basis of a new society?
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Paul Solman: “Man vs. Machine.” Long the staple of science fiction, the “end of work” now beckons as reality. Journalist, author and Friend Of Making Sen$e (FOM$) Frank Koller attended a conference on the debate at Cornell University recently. He was accommodating enough to file this report.
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1. As you know we are moving in the direction of an “Economy of Sharing” (NL: DeelEconomie”. This covers a very wide range and many forms of sharing. From @Ebay (NL: marktplaats) on Internet to Abe Pierre/Emaus second hand stores, but also sharing cars and temporary apartments (by @AirBnB) is getting popular. And do not forget that essentially Google Search and Facebook are ‘P2P commons’ where we share links, gossip and photo’s.
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