Growing, growing, gone: connecting the dots to transform the global economy before it's too late
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on peer-to-peer dynamics in politics, the economy and organizations
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John Holloway sees socialist models based on taking state power as reproducing rather than abolishing the capital-labor relationship in many ways. 
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So, how to be an anti-capitalist in the 21st century? You should give up the fantasy of smashing capitalism to start constructing an emancipatory future.
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Activists are types who, by some quirk of personality, enjoy long meetings, shouting slogans, and spending a night or two in jail.
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As his candidancy falters, where can that rapturous energy be channelled? Into building an economy that serves ordinary people, and excludes the 1%
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They say that online activism is to marches like air support is to boots on the ground.
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Alanna from Loomio met Vica Rogers in London, to learn more about her world of citizen education and activism. Vica was involved in the Occupy movement in the UK, and has continued working on related issues ever since.
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I have, of late, had a falling out with many of my fellow ‘progressives’, similar I suppose to that of Paul Kingsnorth, who is being savaged by Naomi Klein and others for giving up on the environmental movement and non-local activism, and by humanists for losing faith in our species’ capacity for innovation and change.
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What made you into an environmentalist? Think back over your life to an event that inspired you with care for some special part of our planet
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Urban commons projects are cropping up around the world to restore citizens' sense of ownership in their neighborhoods.
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BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — A prominent French whistleblower and Spanish anti-corruption activists who triggered an investigation of a former International Monetary Fund chief announced Thursday they are designing a digital payment system aimed at excluding middlemen companies that make money from online purchases.
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Ministers will stop councils boycotting unethical companies. How can they claim to believe in localism?
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Crises offer the opportunity to implement policies that lead to profound political and economic changes on the fast track as societies are in turmoil.
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For the autonomists and like-minded thinkers, the goal is Exodus rather than taking power.
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In Capitalism what matters is not whether fictional entities or human beings are making money, but whether decision makers are making money.
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Environmentalist Xiuhtezcatl Roske-Martinez is just 15 and leading a collective of millennial activists determined to save the planet before it's too late.
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Conversationpiece enables dialogues and participatory setups to talk about the most burning topics in post-digital culture today.
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Rather than wasting these vast sums on the inhumane machinery of warfare, we could provide emergency assistance to desperate refugees and asylum seekers.
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If we have a collective right to a resource, we should be able to participate in decisions about that resource’s use.
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All proposals for “reform” within the present system are designed to be implemented within existing institutional structures.
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What role have internet freedom technologists played in the global struggles for progressive political change and social justice?
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We need to find ways of globally sharing wealth and natural resources more equally and in a way that is cooperative and doesn't lead to conflict.
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Dear citizens of Facebook around the world! Do join us in establishing the Republic of Facebook. You have nothing to lose but the limits on your own personal potential. Join us in an effort to address directly the awesome challenges of rapid technological evolution and climate change in a systematic manner that will give hope to…
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A call for sharing is being expressed by campaigners, activists, progressive economists, academics and many more
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An excerpt from "The Transformative Effects of Crisis: A Hitchhiker’s Guide to the New Economic Cultures in Spain and Greece" by Janosch Sbeih
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