Pirates save fishes

Markus Euskirchen | 26. January 2010 | Filed under: • • • • • • Biodiversity/gen.Ressources • Editor's Choice • Practical Struggles • Distribution of Wealth | 1 Comment

In past years, illegal commercial trawlers parked off Somalia’s coast and scooped up the ocean’s contents. Now, fishermen on the northern coast of neighboring Kenya say, the trawlers are not coming because of pirates. “There is a lot of fish now, there is plenty of fish. There is more fish than people can actually use Continue reading →

WikiSym 2010 Gdańsk, Poland

Markus Euskirchen | 25. January 2010 | Filed under: • • • • Upcoming Events • Communication • Public Goods | Leave a comment

WikiSym is a symposium (conference) series dedicated to wiki and open collaboration research and practice. A wiki is a website-based collaboration tool and content management system where everyone with access to the website can read, edit, and organize the contents, usually through a simple browser interface. The technology is so flexible, however, that wikis are Continue reading →

Feral vs. capitalist trade

Markus Euskirchen | 21. January 2010 | Filed under: • Debates: Theories/Alternatives • Editor's Choice • Communication • Political Alternatives | Leave a comment

Feral Trade is a public experiment trading goods over social networks. The use of the word ‘feral’ describes a process which is wilfully wild (as in pigeon) as opposed to romantically or nature-wild (wolf). The passage of goods can open up wormholes between diverse social settings, routes along which other information, techniques or individuals can Continue reading →

Open Cola and Cube Cola

Markus Euskirchen | 12. January 2010 | Filed under: • • • • • Education/Knowledge • Fun Stuff/Oddities • De-Privatization • Editor's Choice • Health/Social Issues • Public Goods | 3 Comments

The principle of Open Source now set Cola free from monopolist capital. It was reconstructed via reverse ingeneering, published as Open Cola under the GPL and since then optimized by global community under the conditions of free cooperation. One of the approaches is Cube Cola: Besides working on the recipe a group of artists from Continue reading →

Chicago: Capital of Municipal Privatisation

Markus Euskirchen | 7. January 2010 | Filed under: • • • Actors • Privatization | Leave a comment

As it happens, Chicago is the nation’s leader in municipal privatization efforts. That’s right: The city that conservatives portray as the citadel of the power-grabbing, government-growing left has been selling itself off in pieces for years. It signed a 99-year lease for the Chicago Skyway, a toll road in the city’s South Side, back in Continue reading →

Prokla available online

Markus Euskirchen | 5. January 2010 | Filed under: • • • Education/Knowledge • Debates: Theories/Alternatives • Editor's Choice • Public Goods | Leave a comment

Prokla (Probleme des Klassenkampfes/problems of class struggle), one of the leading and long standing unorthodox Marxist journals in Germany, is now available from the internet. The older issues from 1971 to 2006 are even freely accessible. Of course Prokla as all left journals is dependent on subscriptions. Check out www.prokla.de

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