Continue reading “BREAKING: Robert Steele on Alex Jones — Electoral Reform Game Plan in 12 Minutes”
BREAKING: Alex Jones Special – 1 Hour with Robert Steele on Electoral Reform — Commercial Free
Access, Crowd-Sourcing, Design, P2P / Panarchy, PoliticsMichel Bauwens: P2P Commons Next Steps
Design, Economics/True Cost, Governance, P2P / Panarchy, Politics
Proposed Next Steps for the emerging P2P and Commons networks
I believe the time is there to start constructing the following three institutional coalitions:
* The civic/political institution: The Alliance of the Commons
* The economic institution: the P2P/Commons Globa-local « Phyle »
* The political-economy institution: The Chamber of the Commons
Sepp Hasslberger: Urban Farming in Kansas
Access, Education, Innovation, Manufacturing, P2P / Panarchy, Resilience
Is Urban Farming taking off? Here's a documentary about the Urban Farming Guys in Kansas City…
Check Out What the Urban Farming Guys Have Been Doing the Last 3 Years. You're Gonna Be Amazed.
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Jim Rough: To Facilitate a National Conversation
Crowd-Sourcing, Culture, Design, Governance, P2P / Panarchy, Politics, Sources (Info/Intel)
Since 1993 we’ve been experimenting with a strategy for convening this kind of large-‐system conversation and we are excited at how well our approach is working, and the prospect for how it can work at the national and global levels. Our approach is different than the one described in the Project paper, however. And it’s different from “Deliberative Democracy” approaches in general because it aims for a creative conversation, rather than one that is deliberative. This requires a different set of facilitation skills and understandings about group process.
PDF (7 Pages): To Facilitate a National Conversation
OPEN POWER Electoral Reform Home Page
Access, Design, Governance, P2P / Panarchy, Politics
Want an Honest Government Of, By, and For We the 99%?
Here’s How.
I cannot stress this enough: whatever your issue, however righteous and important it might be, it will never get a fair hearing as things now stand.
The ONLY way any issue might receive a fair hearing is if we FIRST achieve Electoral Reform and restore integrity to our government.
Open Power Electoral Reform @ Phi Beta Iota (see latest posts)
NEW:
Open Power Electoral Reform 12 Point Act
Michel Bauwens: #Occupy Role of Power in a P2P Open Source Economy
#OSE Open Source Everything, P2P / Panarchy2012, trending again.
The role of power relations in a p2p economy
The #occupy movement, which is a surface manifestation of a deeper Multitude movement, is in fact a refutation of power. Not only of the “power in place”, i.e. big banks, governments, etc. but of what we call “instituted power”, the kind of power your boss has over you. The consensus decision making process, a form of direct democracy that has been adopted by the #occupy movement, is the most obvious affirmation of this refutation of instituted power relations, which until now has been seen as a necessary structuring mechanisms of society. Read full article.
