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We have entered a prolonged period of dissent characterised by an escalation in the magnitude and diversity of public protest 
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Decentralizing the commons is a key requisite for their protection and evolution.
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Rise of the Commons: Fundamentals of P2P Economies: a summary of Michel Bauwens' recent New Zealand workshop.
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Jay Casano reports from the recent Platform Cooperativism Conference in NYC.
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Let's address poverty by encouraging resiliency and independence from global markets.
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The Laboratory for Insurrectionist Imagination gathers artists and activists to co-create more creative forms of resistance and civil disobedience.
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Common wealth trusts address the two greatest flaws in contemporary capitalism—its relentless destruction of nature and widening of inequality.
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X-net's Simona Levi corrects some popular misconceptions resulting from international press coverage on the role of Podemos.
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In an era of politics characterised by unconstrained corporate lobbying, a well-oiled ‘revolving door’ between industry and government, and an endless stream of campaign contributions from dirty oil and other lucrative industries, is the long-championed ideal of a truly democratic state now a lost cause? Should concerned citizens and activists turn their attention instead to establishing sustainable economic alternatives within their towns and communities? Or should we all be doing much more to ensure that “government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth”, as Abraham Lincoln once avowed?
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This report demonstrates how a call for sharing underpins many existing initiatives for social justice, environmental stewardship, true democracy and global peace. On this basis, STWR argues that sharing should be more widely promoted as a common cause that can help connect civil society organisations and social movements under a united call for change.
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My criticism of Facebook and other sites is not they are not useful, it is rather that they are private, centralized, proprietary platforms. Also, simply abstaining from Facebook in the name of my own media purity is not something that I’m interested in, I don’t see capitalism as a consumer choice, I’m more interested in the condition of the masses, than my own consumer correctness. In the end it’s clear that criticizing platforms like Facebook today means using those platforms. Thus, I became a user and set up the Telekommunisten page. Unsurprisingly, it’s been quite successful for us, and reaches a lot more people than our other channels, such as our websites, mailing lists, etc. Hopefully it will also help us promote new decentralized channels as well, as they become viable.
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There is an urgent need for citizens to demand the pressing structural reforms needed to address interconnected social, political and environmental crises.
jean lievens's insight:
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How do you reclaim the commons? Check out these outcomes from Zemos98 hackcamp to learn more.
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Hard hitting commentary from Chris Hedges on the futility of appealing to corporate-bought regulatory agencies and bodies.
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The Chicago Chamber of Commons want to foster deeper collaboration among the collaborative economy, co-operatives and other mutual-benefit initiatives
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The Sustainable Development Goals do not constitute a transformative agenda for meeting the basic needs of all people within the means of our shared planet.
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Contribute to the Cloughjordan Community Farm's fundraiser so they can recover their stolen equipment.
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Michel Bauwens focuses on three specific realms crucial to a Commons-based economy – ecological sustainability, open knowledge and social solidarity.
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Power is still power, and a lot of the techniques for building it and challenging it from the past aren't going away—unless we let ourselves forget them.
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Reposted from our Commons Transition website, here’s an interview with Rajesh Makwana, executive director of Share The World’s Resources, (or STWR). STWR is a London-based civil society organisation campaigning for a fairer sharing of wealth, power and resources within and between nations. The interview is part of a series on Commoners in Transition.
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This week, stalwarts of the Occupy Democracy campaign in Britain are continuing to stand their ground in Parliament Square. The heavy-handed police crackdown and evictions may have scuppered much of the plans for peaceful and creative demonstrations, but the re-emergence of the Occupy movement is a welcome sight in an increasingly unequal, stressed and disaffected city of London.
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Although Facebook is a for-profit organization, its users could transform it into a form of participatory democratic global governance.
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