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During the late Middle ages Europeans formed alliances which were based primarily not on kinship, but on some other common characteristic such as occupation 
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The 'Not Alone' report offers solution for freelance workers with analyses, useful detail and lessons from the history of co-operatives and mutual aid.
jean lievens's insight:
COMMONS TRANSITION COOPERATIVES ETHICAL ECONOMY FEATURED ESSAY OPEN COOPS & SUSTAINABLE LIVELIHOODS P2P LABOR PEER PROPERTYommo
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Self employment levels used to be a measure of how underdeveloped an economy was. Now it has become something that is celebrated across developed countries.
jean lievens's insight:
COMMONS TRANSITION COOPERATIVES ETHICAL ECONOMY FEATURED ESSAY OPEN COOPS & SUSTAINABLE LIVELIHOODS P2P BUSINESS MODELS PEER PROPERTY
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The founding groups, the pioneers in almost any community, hold a different status: equal rights, more responsibility, and more prominence.
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An infographic describing how the Fifth Season Coop's innovative six-member class structure fosters regional food security and local economic stability.
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A call for sharing is being expressed by campaigners, activists, progressive economists, academics and many more
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“We believe that a new economy cannot be built in vacuum. We see this as a process of metamorphosis. The ethical and aware classical players will join first to transfer their classical store value and production assets into new assets. This is in essence a transfer of resources from the old economy into the new. …
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Excellent documentary, with english subtitles, about democracy in the workplace. Instead of the owners of capital renting worker’s time, the film proposes a reverse contract, i.e. the real producers rent capital, but run their own production processes. Watch the documentary here:
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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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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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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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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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The Backfeed Protocol provides a comprehensive social operating system for decentralized organisations and collaborations (DCs)
jean lievens's insight:
BLOCKCHAIN BUILDING THE OPEN SOURCE CIRCULAR ECONOMY COMMONS TRANSITION CULTURE & IDEAS ETHICAL ECONOMY OPEN COOPS & SUSTAINABLE LIVELIHOODS P2P COLLABORATION P2P LABOR PEER PROPERTYblo
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Blockchain based distributed applications, Commons based licenses, network effects and antitrust legislation and much more in this David Bollier interview.
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A critique of the ideas of U.S. cooperative leaders such as Richard Wolff and Gar Alperovitz.
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Whenever investors or entrepreneurs receive equity in a business the total returns on the equity are capped with fair returns but no perpetual claims.
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All proposals for “reform” within the present system are designed to be implemented within existing institutional structures.
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“We believe that a new economy cannot be built in vacuum. We see this as a process of metamorphosis. The ethical and aware classical players will join first to transfer their classical store value and production assets into new assets. This is in essence a transfer of resources from the old economy into the new.... Continue reading →
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This is excerpted from the second part of an in-depth review of the book, Commun, by Martin O’Shaughnessy. Here, first in summary, are the nine propositions: * Proposition 1: it is necessary to construct a politics of the common: * Proposition 2: we must mobilise rights of use to challenge property rights. * Proposition 3: …
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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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How do you reclaim the commons? Check out these outcomes from Zemos98 hackcamp to learn more.
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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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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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