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This blog post represents the latest thinking from the founder of the P2P Foundation Michel Bauwens. As part of our collaboration with Making Worlds 2013 (#MW2013) the participants of whom will be figuring out ways in which we can build the Commons in NYC and beyond, Michel presents us with his thoughts on the key next [...]

“How do communities identify with and participate in the process of commoning?” We live in a time when competitive individualism is emphasized, the shared and mutual aid obscured. And yet we live every day in webs of dependence and collectivity, sharing space, words, the air we breathe, the water we drink, the cities where we [...]

Update:  We at The Future of Occupy are collaborating with Making Worlds on this forum and our home page and key resources for the event can be found here. Friends.. In follow up to the original OWS conference on the commons (see the 1st workshop listed here: http://thefutureofoccupy.org/workshops/online-workshops/) March 29th to March 30th 2013 sees Making World’s the [...]

Throughout this month Occupy London have been hosting the New Putney Debates, with hundreds attending and participating in this huge collective series of events. With the intention to catalyze debate and discussion around the themes raised in the original Putney debates in the context of our contemporary crises one theme brought to our attention has [...]

This post by David Harvey calls for commoning at all scales. Why? Isn’t it just about local community building and horizontal organising? If so how do we effectively self-organize public goods such as water supply, drainage systems, transport etc? Do we need a mix of horizontal governance and hierarchy that is accountable, transparent and participatory [...]

re-posted from Making Worlds: a Commons Coalition Making Worlds: a Commons Coalition is a collaborative effort by OWS and other groups and individuals to explore the utility of the commons in creating a better world. Making Worlds: a Commons Coalition brings projects working to reclaim the commons to the fore of the Occupy movement. Commons are resources [...]

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 [...]

Reposted from InterOccupy.org by InterOccupy Admin, on May 5, 2012. Please reflect and share your thoughts about how to improve it. Does it go far enough? Does it go to far? What would you like to see included? We are living in a world controlled by forces incapable of giving freedom and dignity to the world´s [...]

Reposted from On the Commons authored by Jay Walljasper, May 2nd 2012. Protesters around the world rallied for economic equity May 1   May Day is the missing holiday in America. It’s noted on the calendar as Law Day, and remembered as either a spring celebration with pagan roots (think maypoles and may baskets) or the [...]

As a biologist and commons activist, and an avid meditator with a universalist bent, i always look forward to the Spring Festivals, Holidays, and Holy Days of celebration and renewal.  I tend to think of April (Passover – Earth Day – Easter), May (Beltane – International Workers Day – The Buddhist Festival of Wesak) and June (The Great Journey [...]