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Pools: A Proposal for One-Click Co-ops in Online Groups | P2P Foundation

Thinking about ways of mainstreaming the co-op model, the idea that keeps coming up is something like a co-op layer on top of a site like Meetup.
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State Power and Commoning: Transcending a Problematic Relationship | P2P Foundation

Can the State the re-imagined for a commons-centric world – and, can Commoners come up with creative action initiatives to advance this vision?
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COMMONS TRANSITION FEATURED ESSAY GUEST POST OPEN GOVERNMENT P2P DEVELOPMENT P2P GOVERNANCE P2P PUBLIC POLICY P2P SOCIETY AND POLITICS P2P THEORY POLITICS

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The City as Commons: a Policy Reader | P2P Foundation

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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Towards a Society of the Commons[1]  - Transform Network

Towards a Society of the Commons[1]  - Transform Network | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it
European network for alternative thinking and political dialogue
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Open Source Life: How the open movement will change everything

Open Source Life: How the open movement will change everything | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it
Consider this: in just a few short years, the open-source encyclopedia Wikipedia has made closed-source encyclopedias obsolete — both the hard-bound kind and the CD-ROM or commercial online kind. Goodbye World Book and Brittanica.
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Freedom Coop

A European Cooperative Society(SCE) that creates toolkits for self-management, self-employment, economic autonomy and financial disobedience for individuals and groups striving for fairer social and economic relationships.

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Degrowth and the Supply of Money in an Energy-Scarce World | P2P Foundation

Before passing away, Richard Douthwaite wrote this important article, linking money to the energy supply.
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John Restakis on Civil Power and the Partner State | P2P Foundation

The rise of the social economy today is in part, a self-defense against the new enclosures.
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Why the P2P and Commons Movement Must Act Trans-Locally and Trans-Nationally - Commons Strategies

Why the P2P and Commons Movement Must Act Trans-Locally and Trans-Nationally - Commons Strategies | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it
This fundamental transformation of our social, political and economic systems requires trans-local practices and forms of organization based on the commons.
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Are we Reaching an Age of Stagnation? | P2P Foundation

Can the factors creating a slower growth world find open discussion in time to avoid severe social strife and an Age of Stagnation
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COMMONS TRANSITION ECONOMY AND BUSINESS FEATURED PODCAST P2P ECOLOGY P2P SOCIETY AND POLITICScommons tra

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The Emergence of Commons and Guilds as a Silent Revolution | P2P Foundation

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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Sharing Value & Ownership for the Common Good: Building the Commons Economy | P2P Foundation

The Commons Transition Coalition presents: 'Sharing Value & Ownership for the Common Good: Building the Commons Economy'.
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Towards a 'General Political License' to regulate the relations of the commons with the political world | P2P Foundation

The General Political License would allow policy makers to have the support of commons and commoners, subject to clear conditions of reciprocity.
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All power to the {historical} imagination! McKenzie Wark on Karatani | P2P Foundation

Kojin Karatani’s The Structure of World History is an astonishing work of synthetic historical theory: world history is the history of modes of exchange.
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Techno-Utopianism, Counterfeit and Real 11: Left-Wing Critics of Mason -- Kate Aronoff | P2P Foundation

Framing "political action" as primarily state action, rather than a component of the new counter-institutions the kind of false dichotomy we need to avoid.
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We're All In This Together: The Commons, the Collaborative Economies and the Digital Communities - Commons Transition

We're All In This Together: The Commons, the Collaborative Economies and the Digital Communities - Commons Transition | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it
A short film exploring the distinctions between in-person events and the more decentralized ways we interact and collaborate as digital communities.
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The Post-Capitalist Strategy of the P2P Foundation | P2P Foundation

Michel Bauwens: A note on the post-capitalist strategy of the P2P Foundation How to create a Post-Capitalist strategy? As expressed in our previous posts —  where we describe the work of Kojin Karatani—  we agree that the present system is based on a trinity of capital-state-nation, and that this reflects the integration of three modes... Continue reading →
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COMMONS COMMONS TRANSITION CULTURE & IDEAS ETHICAL ECONOMY OPEN COOPS & SUSTAINABLE LIVELIHOODS ORIGINAL CONTENT P2P SOCIETY AND POLITICS P2P THEORY

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Beyond Development: The Commons as a New/Old Paradigm of Human Flourishing | P2P Foundation

David Bollier's presentation to the Agence Française de Développement in Paris outlining the commons as an alternative vision of "development."
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The open source revolution is coming and it will conquer the 1% - ex CIA spy | Nafeez Ahmed

The open source revolution is coming and it will conquer the 1% - ex CIA spy | Nafeez Ahmed | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it
Nafeez Ahmed: The man who trained more than 66 countries in open source methods calls for re-invention of intelligence to re-engineer Earth
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Not a Co-op? Not a Platform Co-op! | P2P Foundation

Last month Shareable wrote a great article entitled “11 Platform Cooperatives Creating a Real Sharing Economy“. It’s a really nice list of projects who are all moving in the right direction (i.e. toward greater sharing of ownership and control), but some of them aren’t actually co-operatives. This got me thinking: Should organisations that are not... Continue reading →
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How Does the Commons Work?

How can we use "commoning" as a process to transform the social paradigm of our current system? In his paper for our "New Systems: Possibilities an
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Connecting the Dots the P2P Way: The Commons as the Response to the Structural Crises of the Global System - Commons Transition

Connecting the Dots the P2P Way: The Commons as the Response to the Structural Crises of the Global System - Commons Transition | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it
Against pseudo-abundance, scarcity engineering and perpetually increasing social injustice… Enter the Commons. An article by Michel Bauwens.
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Why the P2P and Commons Movement Must Act Trans-Locally and Trans-Nationally | P2P Foundation

Michel Bauwens (Madison, Wisconsin), June 12, 2016: Part One – Analyzing the global situation One of the best books I have read in the last ten years is undoubtedly, The Structure of World History, by Kojin Karatini.
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The Gender Wage Gap Part 1: Why Statistics Are a Bitch | P2P Foundation

This is the first of three videos that will tackle an investigation of the gender wage gap going beyond popular rhetoric and analysing its underlying causes
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Decrypting Cryptocurrency | P2P Foundation

Paul Vigna explains how Bitcoin currency and the blockchain distributed ledger system are laying the groundwork for alternatives to today’s monetary system.
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