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Connecting the Dots 1: Keep Connecting Dots.... | P2P Foundation

Growing, growing, gone: connecting the dots to transform the global economy before it's too late

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Techno-Utopianism, Counterfeit and Real 4: John Holloway — Other Non-Capitalist Techno-Utopianisms | P2P Foundation

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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How to be an anti-capitalist in the 21st century? Four proposed strategies ... | P2P Foundation

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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Against Activism

Against Activism | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it
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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Game over for Sanders? It needn't be | P2P Foundation

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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Online activists support uprisings around the world. Here’s what we know about them.

Online activists support uprisings around the world. Here’s what we know about them. | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it
They say that online activism is to marches like air support is to boots on the ground.
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Keep Going Between Meetings: Debt Resistance UK

Keep Going Between Meetings: Debt Resistance UK | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it

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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In Defence of Inaction | how to save the world

In Defence of Inaction | how to save the world | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it

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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The Revolution is Love | P2P Foundation

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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The City as a Commons

The City as a Commons | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it
Urban commons projects are cropping up around the world to restore citizens' sense of ownership in their neighborhoods.
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Spain activists, whistleblower creating digital pay system

Spain activists, whistleblower creating digital pay system | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it

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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Boycotts are vital to democracy. So that’s why the Tories will ban them | Owen Jones

Boycotts are vital to democracy. So that’s why the Tories will ban them | Owen Jones | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it
Ministers will stop councils boycotting unethical companies. How can they claim to believe in localism?
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A discussion of the crises in Spain and Greece | P2P Foundation

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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Techno-Utopianism, Counterfeit and Real 3: Other Non-Capitalist Techno-Utopianisms | P2P Foundation

For the autonomists and like-minded thinkers, the goal is Exodus rather than taking power.

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Most people don’t know what Capitalism is. | P2P Foundation

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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The 15-year-old activist who's suing the US government for destroying his and your future

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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Transmediale 2016: Necessary Conversations Off-the-Cloud | P2P Foundation

Transmediale 2016: Necessary Conversations Off-the-Cloud | P2P Foundation | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it
Conversationpiece enables dialogues and participatory setups to talk about the most burning topics in post-digital culture today.
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Scrapping Trident and transitioning to a nuclear-free world | P2P Foundation

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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Community Development and the Commons | P2P Foundation

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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Essay of the Day: The Decline and Fall of Sloanism | P2P Foundation

All proposals for “reform” within the present system are designed to be implemented within existing institutional structures.

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Freedom technologists and the future of global justice | P2P Foundation

Freedom technologists and the future of global justice | P2P Foundation | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it

What role have internet freedom technologists played in the global struggles for progressive political change and social justice?

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The invisible heart: sharing the world's resources | P2P Foundation

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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Declaration of Independence for the Republic of Facebook

Declaration of Independence for the Republic of Facebook | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it
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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Letting “peace and love flow” for a world in crisis | P2P Foundation

A call for sharing is being expressed by campaigners, activists, progressive economists, academics and many more
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M.A. Thesis: The Transformative Effects of Crisis in Spain and Greece | P2P Foundation

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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