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		<title>Consequences of commodification</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Times newspaper&#8217;s website has lost two‑thirds of its audience following the implementation of a paywall, according to data published yesterday – a dramatic decline, but not as steep as many had forecast. Read more: Techdirt and Guardian
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		<link>http://www.who-owns-the-world.org/en/2010/07/28/kommodifizierungsfolgen/</link>
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		<title>Right to Water at the UN</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Nobody can survive without water, water is necessary for all life on earth. For the first time since the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted 60 years ago, the UN General Assembly is finally poised to recognize the Human Right to Water and Sanitation. By the end of July 2010, the General Assembly will [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.who-owns-the-world.org/en/2010/07/22/english-right-to-water-at-the-un/</link>
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		<title>Global Intellectual Property Right will cause more wealth on the one hand and death on the other</title>
		<description><![CDATA[International experts claim ACTA („WTO Agreement on Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights“) to threaten global access to affordable medicines. Read more
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		<link>http://www.who-owns-the-world.org/en/2010/07/13/acta-bedeutet-tod/</link>
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		<title>FIFA World Cup: gains and debt</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What is left after the World Cup?
Video: Wavering Flag by Playing Fields Connective
The FIFA Soccer World Cup in South Africa &#8211; a critical parody. Soccer stadiums were built, not schools, gains are being made by a few, many are left with debt.
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		<link>http://www.who-owns-the-world.org/en/2010/07/08/fifa-world-cup-gains-and-debt/</link>
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		<title>Crises of Capitalism</title>
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In a short animation video, radical sociologist David Harvey asks if it is time to look beyond capitalism, towards a new social order that would allow us to live within a system that could be responsible, just and humane. View his full lecture at the RSA (Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.who-owns-the-world.org/en/2010/07/05/english-crises-of-capitalism/</link>
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		<title>Re-envisioning the City</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You can&#8217;t imagine a more just, more sustainable planet, without also imagining a new kind of city. More than half of the world&#8217;s population is urban, and cities often amplify many of the problems we face as a planet: inequality, violence, pollution, isolation. Luckily, people around the world are joining forces to re-imagine how we [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.who-owns-the-world.org/en/2010/07/05/re-envisioning-the-city/</link>
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		<title>Female care work seen as a &#8220;Common&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Provoking: Female care work seen as a &#8220;Common&#8221;:
&#8220;The roots of sexism and racism are the same: a situation where you need workers without rights. Enslavement is essential to this process of accumulation and these have not been one time events; these developments became structural to capitalist society. In the last twenty years you can see [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.who-owns-the-world.org/en/2010/06/28/common-care-work/</link>
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		<title>An Interview on the Commons with de Angelis and Stavrides</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The term &#8220;commons&#8221; occurs in a variety of historical contexts. First of all, the term came up in relation to land enclosures during pre- or early capitalism in England; second, in relation to the Italian autonomia movement of the 1960s; and third, today, in the context of file-sharing networks, but also increasingly in the alter-globalization [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.who-owns-the-world.org/en/2010/06/24/english-an-interview-on-the-commons/</link>
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		<title>Article: Escaping the bondage of the dominant agrifood system: community-based cooperative strategies</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The “Missouri School” of critical agrifood studies has provided an effective framework for documenting and understanding the structural dimensions of the global agrifood system and locating important nodes of power. This has directed attention toward the negative impacts of industrialization and corporate concentration on agricultural producers, local communities and economies, and the environment. Using these [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.who-owns-the-world.org/en/2010/06/18/article-escaping-the-bondage-of-the-dominant-agrifood-system-community-based-cooperative-strategies/</link>
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		<title>Contesting property: &#8220;Steal something from work day&#8221; 15th of April</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Don’t carp, carpenters!
Don’t wait, waiters!
Let’s put the team in teamster!
Every steelworker a steal-from-worker!
Every hoodlum a Robin Hoodlum!
Raise the bar, baristas!
Raise hell, bellboys!
Wage war, wage slaves—
April 15 is Steal Something from Work Day!
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		<link>http://www.who-owns-the-world.org/en/2010/06/10/steal-something-from-work-day/</link>
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