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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 commons have become the most exciting space for the critique of capitalism and also a scalable social practice. No longer limited to an avantgarde, the commons could take our societies beyond the constraints of markets and states – as Yochai Benkler and Michel Bauwens observe. In a talk recorded at the UN|COMMONS conference those two leading thinkers and practioners of the commons look back at experiences from the past 20 years and present outlooks for what we are able to change at the macro level if we continue to struggle for the commons.
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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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What would individualism and equality look like if detached from their foundations in a logic of equivalence?
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“Grange Future” celebrates the history and contemporary expression of ‘the grange idea.’ "
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We met Rachel O’Dwyer a couple of weeks back, at the Open Everything 2014 Convergence, celebrated in Cloughjordan Ecovillage, Ireland. We really enjoyed talking to Rachel and listening to her contributions in the Q&As and, in fact, we’re hoping to work with her in the near future. Until then, please check out this podcast, originally published as part of a series called “Contemporary Capitalism”
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The problem with the Commons is that they can be enclosed. – Howard Rheingold
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Occupy Wall Street has directed our attention to the extreme concentration of wealth resulting from decades of policy designed to trickle down prosperity. Through using a single type of bank debt currency, we allocate our labor and resources to benefit a global elite instead of our communities. Can we engage our local leaders and municipal governments to break this currency monoculture? Can global examples of currency ecology provide a map for improving educational experiences, enhancing the arts and building resilience to the fragility of central bank finance mechanisms?
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“KMO welcomes Michael Goodwin, author of Economix: How Our Economy Works (And Doesn’t Work) In Words and Pictures to the C-Realm to talk about money, history, the interplay between corporations and government, and Adam Smith’s actual words on the trustworthiness of capitalists. The conversation touches on the NYC soda ban, which Michael favors and KMO disdains. Michael will be the featured speaker at the third Full Circle Series event. KMO concludes with some remarks about the struggles of a small hog farmer in Michigan who is fighting against the Michigan state government, which favors corporate CAFO over the humane animal husbandry of small”
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A very special interview between sustainable community expert and “business provocateur” John Thackaray and our very own Michel Bauwens.
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Andrew Stewart interviews Kevin Carson on the issue of corporate water privatization and cooperative ownership, commons-based alternatives.
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Podcast of the Day: Helen Finidori on Pattern Languages for Systemic Transformation | P2P Foundation
Pattern Languages for Systemic Transformation connects sustainability knowledge and social change know-how via systemic patterns and action research.
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What would individualism and equality look like if detached from their foundations in a logic of equivalence?
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"What if we lived in a world where everyone had enough, where every one mattered, where people lived in harmony with nature? In this interview with KPFA-FM host Kris Welch, author Martin Adams says it’s possible."
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Michel explains what the FLOK Society is and how it can help Ecuador to become a p2p and commons-oriented society. At the end of May the proposed policies of FLOK will be presented amongst politicians from Ecuador and the whole of South America as well as civic society.
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Alain Ambrosi from Remix the commons collective discussing in Finnish autonomous radio program Totuusradio (“The Truth Radio”) on Monday, 9th June 2014, about the commons, cultural revolution, and revolution in culture.
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Reposted from the C-Realm podcast, KMO starts off with a discussion of David Graeber’s 2012 essay, “Of Flying Cars and the Declining Rate of Profit”, part of which we’ve recently featured of the blog. The bulk of the Podcast comprises a fascinating conversation with G- Paul Blundell on the workings of his Commune.
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Stefan Geyer interviews our good friend Josef Davies-Coates about open cooperatives, permaculture, United Diversity and the joys of being a cybrarian.
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Journalist and activist David Bollier talks about his most recent book, co-written with legal scholar Burns Weston, GREEN GOVERNANCE: Ecological Survival, Human Rights, and the Law of the Commons. Then we re-air our 2010 interview with him about the digital commons, VIRAL SPIRAL.
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A must-listen trialogue between Michel Bauwens, Dmytri Kleiner and John Restakis sketching out proposals for radical new economic models that draw on the best from the Co-op, commons and P2P and Venture Communism movements. This conversation was originally recorded by KMO of the C-Realm Podcast.
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