(Deutsch) Zwei neue Commons-Bücher
Markus Euskirchen | 18. May 2012 | Filed under: Alternativen • Commons • Literatur • Theorie • Public Goods | Leave a comment
(Deutsch) Was in Griechenland so zum Verkauf steht
Mike Nagler | 27. April 2012 | Filed under: Deutsche Bank • Germany Trade and Invest • Griechenland • GTAI • HRADF • Privatization • Treuhand • Finances • Mobility • Public Goods • Public Space • Privatization • Distribution of Wealth • Security • Water • Housing | Leave a comment
(Deutsch) Occupy geht weiter
Henrik Lebuhn | 25. April 2012 | Filed under: Finances • Struggles • Krise • General • Upcoming Events • Labour/Precarity • Debates: Theories/Alternatives • Finances • Public Space • Practical Struggles | Leave a comment
(Deutsch) “Danke, das hatten wir schon!”
Lea | 17. April 2012 | Filed under: Antifeminismus • Emanzipation • Familienpolitik • Feminismus • Geschlechternormen • Kristina Schröder • Populismus • Actors • Gender Relations • Literature/Books • Practical Struggles • Press • Privatization • Distribution of Wealth | Leave a comment
Health workers in Kilkis, Greece, have occupied their local hospital and have issued a statement saying it is now fully under workers control.
Mike Nagler | 17. February 2012 | Filed under: Political Alternatives • Practical Struggles | Leave a comment
Stefan Merten about “Com’on!”
Markus Euskirchen | 12. December 2011 | Filed under: Berlin • Commons • DIE LINKE • Property • Re-Municipalization • Cooperative Economy • De-Privatization • Public Goods | Leave a comment
Stefan Merten reported to oekonux mailinglist from “Com’on!”: “Last Saturday I attended the workshop “COM’ ON! – Die alte Eigentumswelt dreht sich”. The workshop has been organized by the Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung which is the foundation of the party “Die Linke” in Germany. “Die Linke” is the socialist party in Germany. As far as I understood the Continue reading →
Community Gardening and Grassroots Politics in the Neoliberal City
Henrik Lebuhn | 11. April 2011 | Filed under: Commons • Ernährung • Municipalities • Agriculture • Cooperative Economy • Debates: Theories/Alternatives • Public Goods • Practical Struggles • Privatization | Leave a comment
When community garden activists of the 1970s and early 1980s clandestinely planted tomatoes, cucumber and sunflowers in abandoned backyards and on run-down lots, they probably never imagined that a time would come when city administrations would embrace urban gardening as an important “cultural, ecological and social resource”.1 Many of today’s community gardens in North America Continue reading →
UniCommon: The rebellion of living knowledge
Markus Euskirchen | 23. March 2011 | Filed under: Education • Practical Struggles | Leave a comment
An extraordinary season of struggle, beyond Uniriot, which has been several things: the will to compose different political cultures, the desire of conflict and the innovation inside and against the university reformed by Bologna Process. The attempt of building up a new experimentation outside of any reassuring identity, but creating a new network able to Continue reading →
Pirate Utopias
Markus Euskirchen | 14. March 2011 | Filed under: Property • Piraten • Cooperative Economy • Actors • Practical Struggles | Leave a comment
During the ‘Golden Age’ of piracy in the 17th and 18th centuries, crews of early proletarian rebels, dropouts from civilization, plundered the lucrative shipping lanes between Europe and America. They operated from land enclaves, free ports; ‘pirate utopias’ located on islands and coastlines as yet beyond the reach of civilization. From these mini-anarchies – ‘temporary Continue reading →
If It Sounds Too Good…
Markus Euskirchen | 10. March 2011 | Filed under: Infrastructure • PPP • Energy • Disposal/Recycling • PPP | Leave a comment
What You Need to Know, but Don’t, About Privatizing Infrastructure States and cities are being told that they can fix their budgets and have money left over by leasing their infrastructure for 50, 75 or even 99 years. It sounds great, even miraculous. But we all need to slow down and do our homework, because Continue reading →
April ’11, Rome: Conference on Water Commons
Markus Euskirchen | 7. March 2011 | Filed under: Commons • Daseinsvorsorge • Infrastructure • Italien • Water • Upcoming Events • Public Goods • Water | Leave a comment
The Conference “Common Goods of Humankind: The Referendum Against Water Privatisation in Italy” will take place in Rome on the 28th an 29th of April. Read more
Freedom by decentralization
Markus Euskirchen | 25. February 2011 | Filed under: Internet • Network • Open Source • Communication • Practical Struggles | Leave a comment
The net needs alternatives to corporate social networks like Facebook because social networking and digital communications technologies are now critical to people fighting to make freedom in their societies or simply trying to preserve their privacy. But corporate services and other parts of the Net are intensively surveilled by profit-seekers and government agencies. Because smartphones, Continue reading →
Property, Commoning and the Politics of Free Software
Markus Euskirchen | 8. February 2011 | Filed under: Commons • Property • Intellectual Property • Internet • Open Source • Debates: Theories/Alternatives • Public Goods | Leave a comment
The Commoner, “web journal for other values”, presents the first of a two volume Special Issue. Both volumes will have a focus on commoning and property. The essay in this first volume – divided in chapters, which can be read separately – is based on an inter-disciplinary PhD thesis titled “Property, Commoning and the Politics Continue reading →
Within the state, without the state
Markus Euskirchen | 12. January 2011 | Filed under: Africa • Actors • Poverty • Struggles • Cooperative Economy • Actors • Practical Struggles • Distribution of Wealth | Leave a comment
The WSF 2011 will take place in Dakar, Senegal. This is why from mid-January bus and car caravans will start their journey to Dakar from several places in Africa and Europe. When talking about government in this context, it is useful to distinguish between local authorities and the national (or federal) state. Demba Moussa Dembele, Continue reading →
The Future of ‘The Commons’: Neoliberalism’s ‘Plan B’ or the Original Disaccumulation of Capital?
Markus Euskirchen | 24. December 2010 | Filed under: Commons • Privatization's Crisis • Theorie • Debates: Theories/Alternatives • Public Goods | Leave a comment
The current issue of new formations contains an interesting article on “the future of the commons”: The ‘commons’ has undergone a remarkable transformation in the last fifteen years, from a word referring rather archaically to a grassy square in the centre of New England towns to one variously used by real estate developers, ‘free software’ Continue reading →
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