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There is no better way to celebrate the birth of Christ than to peacefully demonstrate for an end to hunger and poverty across the world. 
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How do you reclaim the commons? Check out these outcomes from Zemos98 hackcamp to learn more.
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Watch this video introduction by the Earthworker Cooperative, made at the occasion of the opening of the first factory, and see the explanation of their crowdfunding campaign below: Liz McCarthy explains: To find out more and support the project: chuffed.org/project/givetanks This holiday season, reduce financial stress for low-income earners, support green jobs in worker-owned Australian …
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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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An update from our friends at the unMonastery in Matera, Italy and, as you’ll soon see, beyond. Over the past 6 months the unMonastery has been going through a number of significant developments, explorations and experiments?—?these initiatives have had mixed results, some very successful and some borderline disastrous; the net effect has restricted our capacity …
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A step through the city of the Commons of 2040, an environment that can provide the conditions and infrastructures for commoning in urban areas.
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This is a follow up to our excerpts on November 8 about the emergence of Death Star Platforms like Uber and AirBNB. Excerpted from Neal Gorenflo: “Below are five things platform coops must do to beat Death Stars platforms. 1. Incubate the Templates It will take focused, well-resourced, and consistent effort to work out the …
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« We need to pioneer technical, organizational and financial forms that enable users to mutualize the benefits of their own online sharing ». Excerpted from David Bollier: “Our imaginations and aspirations must begin to shift their focus from open platforms to digital commons. Self-organized commoners must be able to control the terms of their interactions …
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Excerpted from Neal Gorenflo: “Bill Johnson of StructureC3 referred to Uber and Airbnb as Death Star platforms in a recent chat. The label struck me as surprisingly apt: it reflects the raw ambition and focused power of these platforms, particularly Uber. Uber’s big bet is global monopoly or bust. They’ve raised over $8 billion in …
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Creative Commons allows people to grant others freedom, but with very specific and often mutually exclusive conditions. And that’s only sort of freedom.
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Patterns of Commoning is arguably the most accessible and broad-ranging survey of contemporary commons in print.
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http://p2pfoundation.net/Ten_Commandments_of_Peer_Production_and_Commons_Economics Source The ten commandments of peer production and commons economics For a mode of production and value creation that is free, fair and sustainable! Michel Bauwens, Berlin, October 23, 2015, for the Uncommons conference Text “As we have tried to show elsewhere, the emergence of Commons-Oriented Peer Production has generated the emergence of a…
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The ten commandments of peer production and commons economics For a mode of production and value creation that is free, fair and sustainable! Michel Bauwens, Berlin, October 23, 2015, for the Uncommons conference
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P2P Plazas: one year of research looking for interesting, challenging and inspiring autonomous experiences in Southern Europe
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Help our friends at the Mutual Aid Network (MAN) build local, resilient, peer to peer economic networks through their crowdfunding campaign.
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Shareable's Cat Johnson interviews David Bollier about the Commons Strategies Group new book anthology Patterns of Commoning.
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Now here is an improbable idea:an activist hedge fund. Robin Hood Coop skims market investments to support commoners
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Now here is an improbable idea:an activist hedge fund. Robin Hood Coop skims market investments to support commoners
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From open access platforms to managed digital commons: how can we unleash the enormous value that distributed, autonomous production can create.
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“Data on patterns and infrastructure must be a collective property, managed by the government. Each new player on the market must have a chance to become at least as large as other providers. A decentralized market benefits the user and provides tax revenues that could be collected locally. We look forward to the introduction of …
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Patents give patent-holders the power to deny access to others, thereby limiting or denying the public’s right of participation to science and culture.
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We featured Majorie Kelly’s similar distinction regarding ownership, but Seth Godin argues that it is also a mindset: “For generations, places with significant oil production have developed a different culture than other places. This extraction mindset occurs in environments where profits are taken from a captive resource. It doesn’t matter if it’s coal, tickets or …
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“Development of a more efficacious sharing economy will require constraining expansion of mediated micro-entrepreneurship and serialized rental in favor of modes consistent with communitarian provisioning. Fortunately, the last year has given rise to a few interesting propositions and many innovative social enterprises with the potential to steer us in a more democratic and accountable direction.” …
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Shareable's Neal Gorenflo recounts the high points of the recent Somero 2015 event in Gijón Spain
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This is an important synthesis of ten years of research at the P2P Foundation, on the emerging practices of the new productive communities and the ethical entrepreneurial coalitions that create livelihoods for shared resources. I’m working with Neal Gorenflo of Shareable on a more accessible version for a broader public, but this one is for …
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