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As citizens, we have to decide where we stand: with the old system that's dying, or for a new system that we [ourselves] have to birth? 
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A list of P2P trends for reconstructing our world with distributed infrastructures, shared resources, commons, and related livelihoods.
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The commons is a living organism and that’s precisely what needs to be studied: its aliveness
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Rise of the Commons: Fundamentals of P2P Economies: a summary of Michel Bauwens' recent New Zealand workshop.
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#Global Goals? It's high time UN agencies and the mainstream media acknowledge the true scale of global poverty
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A call for the establishment of a Chamber of Commons USA to advocate, preserve and develop the values and economic models of the Commons.
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Michel Bauwens shares his top recommendations for government policies to encourage open source development and a commons-based society.
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As further evidence comes to light of how our economic systems are decimating the natural world, sharing is fast emerging as the central theme in the discourse on how to ensure prosperity for all within planetary boundaries.
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“Up until now, cryptocurrencies have held great potential, but it hasn’t always coincided with a practicality that would alleviate [social] ills. Certain elements such as bypassing the need for central banks are steps along the way, but there was something missing. A holistic social and economic system is urgently needed to address the inequalities inherent in the current system.”
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The P2P Foundation's Michel Bauwens shares his vision of a new type of Open Cooperativism for the P2P age.
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P2P Foundation » Blog Archive » Enric Duran on shared and disobedient crowdfunding platform networks
We’ve recently featured Coopfunding, an Open-Sourced crowdfunding platform designed to “…promote the financing of projects with a social, self managed and cooperative nature.” Today we present a guest article by Enric Duran, one of the developers behind Coopfunding and its parent-project, the Catalan Integral Cooperative, explaining the reasons that led to the creation of Coopfunding. This article was originally published inRadi.MS
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The General Assembly of the Catalan Integral Cooperative has confirmed a proposed partnership with the P2P Foundation.
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Continuing our coverage of FLOK Society’s recent “Buen Conocer” summit, we’re glad to present this special long-form conversation between Open Access chronicler Richard Poynder and Michel Bauwens, held just before the summit took place. The interview is specially noteworthy for being a very honest across-the-board examination of FLOK as a process, including both its virtues and the unavoidable pitfalls it has faced. Read on for more.
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My previous four posts centred on several projects associated with the Catalan Integral Cooperative (AureaSocial, MaCUS, CASX and SOM Pujarnol). In this one I would like to share with you my notes on one of the most active CIC committees, known as the CAC. The Central d’Abastiment Catalana (CAC), which means “Catalan Supply Center”, was... Continue reading →
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BUILDING THE OPEN SOURCE CIRCULAR ECONOMY COMMONS TRANSITION COOPERATIVES DEFAULT ETHICAL ECONOMY FOOD AND AGRICULTURE OPEN COOPS & SUSTAINABLE LIVELIHOODS ORIGINAL CONTENT P2P BUSINESS MODELS P2P FOUNDATION P2P INFRASTRUCTURES P2P MONEY
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There is an urgent need for citizens to demand the pressing structural reforms needed to address interconnected social, political and environmental crises.
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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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Join our friends from the Chicago Chamber of the Commons to discuss our Commons Transition plans
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Activism, Commons, Commons Transition, Culture & Ideas, Ethical Economy, Featured Book, Guest Post, P2P Action Items, P2P Bibliography, P2P Books, P2P Collaboration, P2P Development, P2P Foundation, P2P Theory, Peer Production, Politics, Sharing. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
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Worldwide, numerous organizations are working to push back on the economic and political forces that increasingly threaten to enclose those things which we all own together, such as:
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Thanks to Irma Wilson of FutureSharp, South Africa, for her assistance in producing this screencast, presenting the different proposals of the P2P Foundation on one overview slide, which is explained here: “The three key responses we see from the world in crisis can be grouped as the movements around Sustainability, Openness and Solidarity, gives the …
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Reposted from our Commons Transition website, here’s an interview with Rajesh Makwana, executive director of Share The World’s Resources, (or STWR). STWR is a London-based civil society organisation campaigning for a fairer sharing of wealth, power and resources within and between nations. The interview is part of a series on Commoners in Transition.
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We need to talk a lot more about sharing as a way to radically reframe the post-growth debate, argues a recent report from the Green House. If growthism is the substitute for a more just and equal society, then it’s time that we all start saying so – and embrace a new common sense for sharing.
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“Inventing a new global monetary system is – let us concede – unprecedented. But after twenty years of living in networked culture, it’s also safe to say that “the experts” never anticipated crazy ideas like Linux, wikis, social networking, Bittorrent, open design and manufacturing, 3D printing or Bitcoin, let alone that millions of users would adopt such innovations with breathtaking speed. What really needs adjusting is our imagination and courage. “
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Bronwen Morgan, a researcher and expert in regulation and rights related to social activism and claims for social and economic human rights, recently approached us to share the following article. It deals with sustainable food systems, the sharing economy, and the ethos of legal infrastructure by using the recent crowdfunding campaigns of Open Food Network (Australia) and FarmDrop (UK) as a window onto these issues.
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This could be an important initiative aimed at creating a greater awareness of open cooperativism within the CIC, while also overcoming the problem of client-provider relationships between the Commons-oriented structure and productive projects.
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As host of the weekly C-Realm podcast, KMO holds a singular position, acting as facilitator for a wide range of perspectives on economics, consciousness, resource depletion, techno-utopianism, climate change, etc. KMO’s own evolving worldview combines all of the above into a very unique and nuanced analysis that informs the underlying, and not always immediately evident, C-Realm narrative.
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