NEW: Open Source Everything Category @ P2P Foundation – The Revolution Begins

Category:Open Source Everything has been created.  Here is the Intent statement: By agreement with the P2P Foundation, those of us coming together to foster improved cross-fertilization across the various opens will use the P2P Foundation Wiki to create pages and links so that a culture of Open Cooperativism is fostered in this neutral and nurturing …

Michel Bauwens: P2P Commons Next Steps

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 Read full post.

Michel Bauwens: #Occupy Role of Power in a P2P Open Source Economy

2012, 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 …