Mutual Aid Networks and Local Solidarity
Stephanie Rearick and her friends and co-workers have been constructing a solidarity-based economic network in Madison, Wisconsin and beyond:
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Let’s Create a Fair and Joyful Society for All
Why do humans, full of good qualities and wishing for happiness, not manage to live together in harmony?
From Consumers to Communards
Surely the most striking thing about the promise of the direct economy and P2P production for a generation that has been separated from production by crisis and precariousness is the end of the figure of the consumer.
The Death of the Labor Market
Over the past 20 years, the existence of common spaces, places of social debate and pretty much everything involving citizenship has been erased in a conscious and ideologically-directed manner.
Here’s What a Commons-Based Economy Looks Like
So what might a commons-based economy actually look like in its broadest dimensions, and how might we achieve it?
The Promise of “Open Co-operativism”
Is it possible to imagine a new sort of synthesis or synergy between the emerging peer production and commons movement on the one hand, and growing, innovative elements of the co-operative and solidarity economy movements on the other?
The Newly Launched Commons Transition Plan
The P2P Foundation recently launched a new website, the Commons Transition Platform, as a central repository for policy ideas that help promote a wide variety of commons and peer-to-peer dynamics.
Fairness and the Commons
One of the challenges that we have in this process is how to create distributed systems of organization that work, not only technology-based, but human-based.
Open Sauce / Source for the Food Revolution
In opposition to corporate control and intellectual property, we need systems and processes which emphasize sharing and collaboration for food systems work.
“Communities with Cooperatives, not Communities of Cooperatives”
The idea of Las Indias is that it is a community with cooperative businesses, not a community of cooperatives.
The Fabulous Future of P2P Economics, Commerce and Democracy
One thing everyone I met has in common is a desire to create a new world order, a new way of creating, connecting and being which is beyond the market, beyond ownership, growth and capitalism.
Growing the Open Food Revolution
The open food movement has been developing at a pace in recent months through projects like the Australian-based Open Food Network, a free and open source project aimed at supporting diverse food enterprises and making it easy to access local sustainable food.