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First, Occupy the Market State: Second, Claim Sovereignty: Third, Practice Subsidiarity
Apr 8 2012in Commons, Direct Democracy, FoO Media, Social Innovation by FoO-StewardTags: commons, democracy, designed deliberative, evolution, market state, people power, thinking together, third sector
Occupy and allied movements have uncovered the glaring truth, we the citizens of most nations have little or no power to reform the current Market State system that is wreaking such havoc on our economies, our communities and our ecosystems. Can we stop the blatant enclosure of the ways and means of production (Market) and governance [...]
Tags: commons, democracy, designed deliberative, evolution, market state, people power, thinking together, third sector
How r’evolution carries itself forward by the Working Groups of Occupy
Feb 4 2012in Direct Democracy, Essays, FoO Media, Identity & Strategy, Working Groups by George PórTags: connective intelligence, differentiation, emergence, evolution, integration, sense-making, transformation, working groups
R’evolution is shorthand for the jump time of evolution, when social relations that have been frozen for a long time start thawing and the obsolescence of the dominant social order becomes obvious to the multitudes. It’s a time of unfreeze, a fascinating moment, when what the future can become is up to us, to our [...]
Tags: connective intelligence, differentiation, emergence, evolution, integration, sense-making, transformation, working groups
General Assemblies: the primordial soup of social life in the 3rd millennium
Dec 9 2011in Big Picture, Commons, Direct Democracy, Essays, FoO Media, Social Innovation by George PórTags: capital, collective capabilities, collective intelligence, complexity, differentiation, emergence, evolution, General Assemblies, globalization, governance, mode of value creation, ruling class, social life form, social organism
— an essay about evolutionary dynamics and the Occupy movement — Part One 1. How life assembled itself The origins of life Where were you and I, and what did we do, 3.5 billion years ago? Most likely, swimming in one of the Earth’s before-life oceans, close to the shoreline, as self-replicating but [...]
Tags: capital, collective capabilities, collective intelligence, complexity, differentiation, emergence, evolution, General Assemblies, globalization, governance, mode of value creation, ruling class, social life form, social organism
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