re-posted from Making Worlds: a Commons Coalition Making Worlds: a Commons Coalition is a collaborative effort by OWS and other groups and individuals to explore the utility of the commons in creating a better world. Making Worlds: a Commons Coalition brings projects working to reclaim the commons to the fore of the Occupy movement. Commons are…[Read more]

I admire my friends from the Major Group of Children and Youth, one of the 9 United Nations Commission for Sustainable Development Major Groups (ie. global civil society stakeholders). These groups went to Rio+20 in the hopes of salvaging something, ANYTHING useful out of those deliberations.   Rio+20 was supposed to set an international agreement [...]

At a time when the Commons is being talked about more and more by the Occupy Movement and our latest ‘Occupying the Commons’ magazine has now been published we felt it would be a highly relevant time to present through a series of videos “The Story of the School of Commoning.” The School of Commoning is [...]

Reposted from InterOccupy.org by InterOccupy Admin, on May 5, 2012. Please reflect and share your thoughts about how to improve it. Does it go far enough? Does it go to far? What would you like to see included? We are living in a world controlled by forces incapable of giving freedom and dignity to the world´s [...]

Reposted from On the Commons authored by Jay Walljasper, May 2nd 2012. Protesters around the world rallied for economic equity May 1   May Day is the missing holiday in America. It’s noted on the calendar as Law Day, and remembered as either a spring celebration with pagan roots (think maypoles and may baskets) or the [...]

NOAM CHOMSKY: WHAT NEXT FOR OCCUPY? Noam Chomsky is credited as a linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, historian,  activist and the ‘father of modern linguistics’ (Wikipedia) having also taught linguistics at MIT for 50 years! A long time favorite on lecture circuits and in progressive media as well as a best-selling author, his most recent…[Read more]

NOAM CHOMSKY: WHAT NEXT FOR OCCUPY?   Noam Chomsky is credited as a linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, historian,  activist and the ‘father of modern linguistics’ (Wikipedia) having also taught linguistics at MIT for 50 years! A long time favorite on lecture circuits and in progressive media as well as a best-selling author, his most…[Read more]

As a biologist and commons activist, and an avid meditator with a universalist bent, i always look forward to the Spring Festivals, Holidays, and Holy Days of celebration and renewal.  I tend to think of April (Passover – Earth Day – Easter), May (Beltane – International Workers Day – The Buddhist Festival of Wesak) and [...]

As a biologist and commons activist, and an avid meditator with a universalist bent, i always look forward to the Spring Festivals, Holidays, and Holy Days of celebration and renewal.  I tend to think of April (Passover – Earth Day – Easter), May (Beltane – International Workers Day – The Buddhist Festival of Wesak) and June (The Great Journey [...]

  Stephen Collis: What has your involvement with OWS been, and what is your background? Sara Burke: My involvement with OWS began before OWS began. My answer to your question might make more sense if I tell you a little bit first about my background and then my activism with OWS. I work as an [...]

Reposted from Online Creation Communities, by Mayo Fuster Morell,  originally posted on Thursday, March 1st, 2012 Full title: A report on Occupy Wall Street (OWS) - Forum on  the commons 16-17 Feb 2012 in NYC from the eyes of a digital  commoner from the global movement generation coming from Barcelona I did write a report on [...]

Written by Wolfgang Hoeschele The Occupy Wall Street movement has reached far beyond its beginnings, with similar occupations occurring around the world, while it echoes previous occupations of public space in Egypt, Spain, and Israel. These movements have clearly struck a chord with a huge number of people, not only those sitting in public…[Read more]