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New Commons Video and Seminar

on Tue, 09/13/2011 - 10:04
The School of Commoning has just published “Voices from the Commons,” a new video you can find here at the home page of the Campaign for Commons Literacy. It brings into focus some of the most essential and evocative questions about the commons, addressed by such eminent commons thinkers/activists as Silke Helfrich, Michel Bauwens, and James Quilligan, as well as our School of Commoning team.

A Time to Reflect - The Commons: A Method of Socio-Economic Renewal

on Thu, 09/01/2011 - 23:43

"Major Isaac Jasper Adaka Boro (September 10, 1938 -- May 9, 1968), fondly called "Boro", was a celebrated Niger Delta nationalist and Nigerian civil war hero. He was one of the pioneers of minority rights activism in Nigeria." Wikipedia  

Democratic Mobilisations, the Commons and Communities

on Thu, 08/11/2011 - 15:50
Our June SoC workshop on Democratic Mobilisations, the Commons and Communities held at the School of Oriental and African Studies London, 24th June 2011. Exploring the commons, commoning and communities in the context fo the Spanish and Greece mobilisations. The recent mass mobilisations in the Arab world, Spain, Greece and other countries, have been signalling a deep yearning for real democracy expressing the desire of the people for greater freedom, participation, and ending the expropriation of the resources of all by the few.

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