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The Peer Production License (PPL) allows cooperatives and solidarity-based collectives, but not corporations, to monetize cultural works. 
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Located in Barcelona, AureaSocial is a Catalan Integral Cooperative initiated open space for health, education and self-management.
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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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A summary from the Commons Strategies Group recent event in Berlin featuring videos with David Bollier, Michel Bauwens and Silke Helfrich
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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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The “sharing economy” is educating us for living in an economy with increasing non-market spaces, but it is the continuum of practices that today link up the “direct economy” and the “p2p mode of production” what will take us “beyond,” towards a new way of producing and sharing.
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Here’s Michel Bauwens in conversation with Álvaro Andoin on the need for P2P. Although the original interview was recorded over a year ago in Michel’s last visit to Spain, it’s still highly relevant and totally cool as culo.
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The Commons is under fire in Madrid, and we need help. To give you some context to understand what’s happening right now, we’re reposting this article written by Bernardo Gutiérrez, which originally appeared at Guerrilla Translation.
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The Cooperativa d’Autofinançament Social en Xarxa (CASX) – which means co-operative of social and network self-financing – is a savings, donations and project funding cooperative, which was set up with the purpose of providing funding for projects that are aligned with the principles of the CIC and the integral revolution, as “the deposits made to... Continue reading →
jean lievens's insight:
COMMONS COMMONS TRANSITION COOPERATIVES CROWDFUNDING OPEN COOPS & SUSTAINABLE LIVELIHOODS ORIGINAL CONTENT P2P FOUNDATION P2P MONEY PEER PROPERTY
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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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P2P Plazas: one year of research looking for interesting, challenging and inspiring autonomous experiences in Southern Europe
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Michel Bauwens focuses on three specific realms crucial to a Commons-Based Economy – ecological sustainability, open knowledge and social solidarity.
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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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“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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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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On the one hand we have a re-emergence of the cooperative movement and worked-owned enterprises, but they suffer from structural weaknesses. Cooperative entities work for their own members, are reluctant to accept new cooperators that would share existing profits and benefits, and are practitioners of the same proprietary knowledge and artificial scarcities as their capitalist counterparts. Even though they are internally democratic, they often participate in the same dynamics of capitalist competition which undermines their own cooperative values.
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