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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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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, brings together 34 contributions and 31 authors exploring policies and strategies for creating cities as commons.
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European network for alternative thinking and political dialogue
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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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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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Before passing away, Richard Douthwaite wrote this important article, linking money to the energy supply.
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The rise of the social economy today is in part, a self-defense against the new enclosures.
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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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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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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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The Commons Transition Coalition presents: 'Sharing Value & Ownership for the Common Good: Building the Commons Economy'.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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Against pseudo-abundance, scarcity engineering and perpetually increasing social injustice… Enter the Commons. An article by Michel Bauwens.
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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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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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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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