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Sociologist Erik Olin Wright explains why a basic income would not be a “disincentive” to work (unlike means-tested anti-poverty programs). 
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The Sharing Economy has to be a genuine form of economic sharing that addresses the power structures and politics that maintain an unjust status quo
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Decentralizing the commons is a key requisite for their protection and evolution.
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While much of the momentum to fight climate change is focused on political channels, there are parallel efforts using law to force government to take specific, enforceable actions to reduce carbon emissions. It’s a difficult battle, but in recent weeks two notable initiatives have gained further momentum – a court ruling relying on the public trust doctrine and a new human rights declaration that has broad international support.
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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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Hard hitting commentary from Chris Hedges on the futility of appealing to corporate-bought regulatory agencies and bodies.
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Robin Hood Coop is proud to announce its first round of funding for commons producing projects
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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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Michel Bauwens focuses on three specific realms crucial to a Commons-based economy – ecological sustainability, open knowledge and social solidarity.
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The quick fix mindset behind geoengineering must be transformed to one that seeks a humble partnership with nature if we are to address climate change
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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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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
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COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE COMMONS COMMONS TRANSITION CULTURE & IDEAS P2P ACTION ITEMS P2P SOCIETY AND POLITICS PEER PROPERTYcoll
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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.
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How do you reclaim the commons? Check out these outcomes from Zemos98 hackcamp to learn more.
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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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Join our friends from the Chicago Chamber of the Commons to discuss our Commons Transition plans
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Activism, Commons, Commons Transition, Culture & Ideas, Ethical Economy, Featured Book, Guest Post, P2P Action Items, P2P Bibliography, P2P Books, P2P Collaboration, P2P Development, P2P Foundation, P2P Theory, Peer Production, Politics, Sharing. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
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Meet the hardest working man in Commons Oriented Peer Production, Michel Bauwens at the Melbourne School of Design on December 4th.
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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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A campaign which highlights the true reality of poverty while pointing the way towards real solutions for a fair and sustainable world.
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In the gap between people and increasingly unaccountable institutions beholden to financial interests, citizens are rising up to reclaim the commons.
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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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The idea of bioocultural rights provides a powerful legal framework for reclaiming land, culture, traditional knowledge and self-governance.
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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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