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A beautiful and poignant new years poem posted by Dean Omori and shared by the Future of Occupy Collective, with special thanks to the talents of Dean Omori. Happy New Year and to the future ahead of us. Together lets make it as bright, just and sustainable as We Can! Music & Film By Dean [...]

At a time when the Commons is being talked about more and more by the Occupy Movement and our latest ‘Occupying the Commons’ magazine has now been published we felt it would be a highly relevant time to present through a series of videos “The Story of the School of Commoning.” The School of Commoning is [...]

Legendary journalist and reporter Bill Moyers returns to PBS with a new program in 2012 called Bill Moyers and Company which so far has been focusing primarily on the economic injustice originating from Wall Street, banks, some corporations and their relationships with politics and government. In this segment, he also features economist William Black and [...]

Reposted from aljazeera.com, authored by Michel Bauwens,  originally published on Friday, March 9, 2012 The Occupy Wall Street movement is a model for a new economic paradigm, in which value is first created by communities. In Zuccotti Park, protesters created an ‘ethical economy’ based on the group’s shared values [GALLO/GETTY] Chiang Mai, Thailand - Last week I discussed the [...]

from YouTube: A taste of the feature documentary, Occupy Love. This is a community funded film. http://www.occupylove.org ”Love is the felt experience of connection to another being. An economist says ‘more for you is less for me.’ But the lover knows that more of you is more for me too. If you love somebody their happiness is [...]

From YouTube: Fans in the Pacific Northwest: Makana will be performing in your area in early June 2012! Please see his schedule for full concert info: http://makanamusic.com/events/#action=ai1ec_month&ai1ec_month_offset=1&am… Get We Are The Many: http://makanamusic.com/albums/albums-by-makana/we-are-the-many/ Makana’s website: http://www.makanamusic.com Makana on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/makanafans Hawaii video interview with Makana by Civil Beat. Included performance of We Are The Many. [...]

http://nathanieljamesmusic.com/ From Nathaniel James: I am a singer/songwriter. I am a busker in London and Cardiff. I support the Occupy Movement. I do not represent the Occupy Movement as a whole in any way shape or form. I am an individual that is proud to be part of Occupy. This is my own individual work. [...]

Licensed under a “Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license“ From YouTube by VideoNation: In a just world, the idea of wealth–be it money derived from the work of human hands, the resources and natural splendor of the planet itself–and the knowledge handed down through generations belongs to all of us. But in our decidedly unjust and [...]

From YouTube by Takvera: Animation by takver.com set to the song The Commons by protest folksinger David Rovics. For information on Reclaim the Commons issues visit rtc.revolt.org, or these other websites on biotech issues: geaction.org, biodev.org, familyfarmdefenders.org, seedsofdeception.com, oaklandinstitute.org, sunshine-project.org, biojustice2007.org, bioseguridad.blogspot.com. Released in conjunction with BioJustice 2007: a week long celebration of sustainable food [...]

James Quilligan at OWS Making Worlds Conference, Feb 16-18 2012 – Part 2 James Quilligan explains how the liberal discourse filtered into our academic literature on the commons, seen also in Elinor and Vicent Ostrom’s work. This liberal discourse on excludable, non-excludable, rivalrous and non-rivalrous goods from economist James McGill Buchanan and Public Choice Theory [...]