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What is at stake in Rio+20 and what are the alternatives?

Via Maxime Combes:

For your information, here is a 16-minute video fully subtitled in English (thanks to Nicola Bullard) with interviews of Pablo Solon, Edagardo Lander, Yvonne Yanez, Silvia Ribeiro, Tony Clarke, Nnimmo Bassey, Anabella Rosemberg. 
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Added by Michel Bauwens on June 11, 2012 at 5:42 — No Comments

Occupy London calls for Creating Alternatives around the commons

Via the School of Commoning newsletter:

Occupy calls for Creating Alternatives

Occupy London has moved into a new phase and is focusing on workin g for alternatives to the present system. It will hold a series of General Assemblies exploring the themes of community, commons…

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Added by Michel Bauwens on June 10, 2012 at 7:04 — No Comments

Launch of massive encyclopedia on social change driven by Indignados and Occupy movement

Via Bernardo Gutierrez:

15M.cc is up and running

 

Background

On 15 May 2011 massive spontaneous protests across Spain signalled the birth of a movement which was dubbed 15M, after the date, and was also known as the Spanish Revolution. The “indignados” (the indignant) were fed up with soaring unemployment, the ongoing recession and a political system perceived as unrepresentative and corrupt. A…

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Added by Michel Bauwens on June 9, 2012 at 5:00 — No Comments

Creation of a Faculty of Transition Studies in Mexico City

Via Paul Cockshott:

WARP - call for participation by progressive political   economists



 The week before last I was at the conferences of  the World Association for Political Economy and the World Advanced Research Project both in Mexico City.



The bulk of the conference participants were from Asia and Latin America, with a huge participation by Chinese Political Economists. Some of the Chinese Political Economists seem convinced that the capitalist…

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Added by Michel Bauwens on June 8, 2012 at 9:33 — No Comments

Evolver Anthology: Occupy Consciousness: Essays on the Global Insurrection

Via Daniel Pinchbeck

The Evolver Social Movement just released a free e-book anthology that brings together a variety of perspectives on Occupy, offering a

multi-dimensional approach to the ongoing insurrection. At a time when the initial energy around Occupy has flagged in some areas, we believe this anthology is a powerful tool as it explores not just the politics but also the subtler dimensions of the movement, which is more about process than protest.…



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Added by Michel Bauwens on June 8, 2012 at 9:26 — No Comments

The Appeal and Forum at the EP: “Another Road for Europe”

Europe is in crisis because it has been hijacked by neoliberalism and finance. In the last twenty years - with a persistent democratic deficit - the meaning of the European Union has increasingly been reduced to a narrow view of the single market and the single currency, leading to liberalisations and speculative bubbles, loss of rights and the explosion of inequalities.

This is not the Europe that was imagined decades ago as a space…

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Added by Örsan Şenalp on June 6, 2012 at 10:13 — No Comments

Culture is crucially important as fourth pillar of sustainability for Rio+20

Background on the Unconference on Culture and Sustainability in the Rio+20, organized by the Brazilian Ministry of Culture.

Here is the invitation to attend:

http://www.cultura.gov.br/riomais20/spc/2012/06/04/invitation-the-ministry-of-culture-in-rio20/

Via Jose Murilo:

More at…

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Added by Michel Bauwens on June 6, 2012 at 7:15 — No Comments

Layne Hartsell with Michel Bauwens

In this powerful interview published on June 2 2012 on YouTube, Michel Bauwens explains in an nutshell his main ideas on P2P, its impact on society and the opportunity it offers to create a sustainable world.

 

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Added by Jean Lievens on June 5, 2012 at 6:30 — No Comments

Getting the Commons on the Rio+20 agenda: your votes are needed!

Via George Por:

"Just got this message from from Helene Finidori, a new colleague in SoC. Please share it your circles.



Hello Commoners!



Here is a recommendation on the commons that I submitted on behalf of the Commons Action at the UN that could be presented for adoption to governments at the Rio Summit (or rather to put the commons on the radar). I have been advised by one of the panel members (who likes the commons as an overarching action concept)…

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Added by Michel Bauwens on June 2, 2012 at 9:25 — No Comments

Michael Albert and friends launch International Organization for a Participatory Society

Michael Albert writes:

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I, along with many others, have been working quite hard to try to build a new project called International Organization for a Participatory Society - or for Participatory Socialism, or IOPS, (the final choice between Society or Socialism, to be made later, at a founding convention). So far, in two months, there are a bit over 1800 members from 80 countries. This has been achieved despite the fact that to my knowledge not a single left media…
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Added by Michel Bauwens on June 1, 2012 at 13:37 — No Comments

Crowdfunding campaign for new documentary on Indignados in Madrid

Via Fabien Benoit:
A web-documentary project about "The Indignados" (the outraged) and the crisis in Spain called, "Madrid, an outraged city", has just been started.
Understanding the mouvement of the "indignados" means not only getting a better view of the world we're living in today, but also being able to imagine our future in different ways, opening our mind to new possibilities and refusing fatality. 
Join the adventure with two young filmmakers,…
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Added by Michel Bauwens on May 27, 2012 at 8:25 — No Comments

C4C crowdfunding campaign: Constructing a commons for the Commons

Via George Por:

re-posted from: http://www.schoolofcommoning.com/content/after-quilligan-seminars-how-bring-commons-alive-our-life-and-work



Dear supporters of the Commons,

 

On the 8th May 2012, James Quilligan  launched a 12-day seminar series

<…

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Added by Michel Bauwens on May 26, 2012 at 10:58 — No Comments

Report from the 'EU in Crisis' conference!

Via the Corporate Europe Observatory a href="mailto:ceo@corporateeurope.org" target="_blank">ceo@corporateeurope.org>

Topic: Report from the 'EU in Crisis' conference!

"As organisers we were extremely happy with the enthusiasm of the 300 or so participants. The conference showed that there are real opportunities for building strong pan-European campaigns for progressive alternatives to the EU's neo-liberal response to the crisis. This email…

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Added by Michel Bauwens on May 23, 2012 at 9:55 — No Comments

The End of Money as We Know It and the Future of Civilization

Tuesday, May 22, I will be the guest of Jay Taylor on his program, Turning Hard Times into Good Times.



You can listen to it live starting at 12:30 PM Pacific time (3:30 Eastern) or find it archived late Wednesday on the Voice America website,…

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Added by Michel Bauwens on May 22, 2012 at 3:57 — No Comments

P2P Mode of Foreign Relations

Based on the insights drawn from Kees van der Pijl and Michel Bauwens, I have identified the rise of ‘P2P mode of foreign relations’ as the radical alternative to the top down ‘Global Governance’ mode.

Below slide presents the argument.

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Added by Örsan Şenalp on May 19, 2012 at 15:00 — 1 Comment

Cyberia a state of the art of populism

In Cyberia: Life in the Trenches of Hyperspace (chap II) Douglas Rushkoff says about this post

Operating from Total Oblivion

The fractal…

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Added by Carlos Boyle on May 16, 2012 at 23:00 — No Comments

Peer-to-peer and Marxism: The Berlin Debate

On May 3, Jonathan Clyne, Lena Hanno, Alex Dirmeier and Jean Lievens had a discussion with Michel Bauwens on peer-to-peer and Marxism.  The discussion took place in the lobby of the Palace Hotel in Berlin. Here’s a slightly edited transcript of the discussion. The recording was reasonably good, but our voices were sometimes unintelligible because there were other guests talking in the lobby and there was also a piano playing (from the theme song from Titanic to What a Wonderful World,…

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Added by Jean Lievens on May 12, 2012 at 9:30 — No Comments

CFP on Platform Politics for Culture Machine journal

CALL FOR PAPERS

 

Platform Politics

 

Special issue of Culture Machine, vol. 14; http://www.culturemachine.net

 

edited by Joss Hands (Anglia Ruskin University) Greg Elmer (Ryerson University) Ganaele Langlois (University of Ontario Institute of Technology)

 

 

This special issue of the peer-reviewed, open access journal Culture Machine…

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Added by Michel Bauwens on May 4, 2012 at 18:51 — No Comments

MAY 12TH – #12M GlobalMay Statement

MAY 12TH – #12M GlobalMay Statement

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Added by Örsan Şenalp on May 3, 2012 at 13:08 — No Comments

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