the commons

OCCUPY! CONNECT! CREATE! - Imagining Life Beyond "The Economy" (part one)

Ethan — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 20:29:28 -0400

by Ethan Miller

"Fall in love with hard and patient work-we are the beginning, not the end."

-Zizek, at #OccupyWallStreet

"Lost my job, found an occupation!"

- sign at #OccupyWallStreet

Jonathan Rowe (1946-2011) dies

michaeljohnson — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 11:42:35 -0400

a key thinker and writer about the commons

Field studies in solidarity economics 2

michaeljohnson — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 10:29:51 -0500

Climbing El Cumbre, the People's World Conference on Climate Change

San Francisco Community Congress: background and update

michaeljohnson — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 23:41:57 -0400

San Francisco Community Congress: background and update

(EDITOR’S NOTE: A very interesting grassroots development happening in SanFrancisco: The San Francisco Community Congress.The goal is to “devise practical, locally actionable proposals to shape and direct future policy affecting the local economy and the provision of critical human services.” Their mantra, “another San Francisco is possible.” If the devil is in the details, then this appears to be the beginning of a premier Solidarity Economy project.

GEO is...

Noncapitalist Markets?

Ethan — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 11:31:36 -0400

Can we have markets without the unsustainability of the capitalist format and its attendent biospheric destruction and social and psychic dislocation?