Reading+Materials

Recent Additions

 * The Future of the Commons Radical History Review Winter 2011: @http://rhr.dukejournals.org/content/2011/109/101.full.pdf+html (Requires a subscription. Abstract available.)

General Background on Commons

 * David Bollier, a one-pager on the commons, [].
 * On The Commons, [|Commons governance and social charters.pdf] (Author?)
 * Alexa Bradley, Julie Ristau [|12 Commons Dispatches for These Times.docx]
 * Peter Barnes, Jonathan Rowe, and David Bollier, "The State of the Commons" - a 32-page public education introduction to the commons for general readers. The document is cast as an "annual report to commoners" -- the analogue of a corporate annual report -- that documents how the commoners' shared wealth is being managed and mismanaged, [].
 * Silvia Federici, Feminism and the Politics of the Commons, //The Commoner//, [|http://www.commoner.org.uk/?p=113]
 * On The Commons, [|Equity and the Commonsblog.pdf]
 * George Caffentzis, A Tale of Two Conferences: Globalization, the Crisis of Neoliberalism and the Question of the Commons, //The Commoner//, []. (This essay draws an important distinction between a commons created to serve capitalist development and what might be thought of as the anti-capitalist commons).
 * Silke Helfrich, Ranier Kuhlen, Wolfgang Sachs, and Christian Siefkes, German Green Party's foundation, [].
 * David Bollier, "This Land Is Our Land," a 45-minute video, produced by the Media Education Foundation of Northampton, Mass., a nonprofit that produces politically progressive films for the higher ed market. A streaming version of the film is available at[| http://www.mediaed.org/cgi-bin/commerce.cgi?preadd=action&key=146]
 * David Bollier, "The Commons Rising" a companion public-education report that focuses on the many positive commons developments going on. This is now quite outdated, but it gives a nice sense of the range of constructive commons-based activity going on,[| http://bollier.org/sites/default/files/State%20of%20the%20Commons.pdf].
 * David Bollier, a four-part online course on the commons will debut in a few weeks at the UN Institute for Training and Research website, (Link soon.)
 * Leo Burke, "A Common Matter" from //Kosmos Journal//, Fall|Winter 2010, @http://www.kosmosjournal.org/articles/a-common-matter.
 * James B. Quilligan, "Interest Rates and Climate Change: Realigning our Incentives through the Power of the Commons" from //Kosmos Journal//, Fall|Winter 2010, @http://www.kosmosjournal.org/articles/interest-rates-and-climate-change-realigning-our-incentives-through-the-power-of-the-commons.
 * James B. Quilligan, "People Sharing Resources|Toward a New Multilateralism of the Global Commons" from //Kosmos Journal//, Fall|Winter 2009, http://www.kosmosjournal.org/articles/people-sharing-resources-toward-a-new-multilateralism-of-the-global-commons.
 * George Pór, "Connecting Our Conversations|Becoming Wiser Together," from //Kosmos Journal,// Spring|Summer 2008, @http://www.kosmosjournal.org/articles/connecting-our-conversations-becoming-wiser-together.

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 * How Occupy Movement Might Apply Commons **
 * George Pór, “How r’evolution carries itself forward by the working groups of Occupy” []
 * Mark Jagdev, "Can Occupy occupy strategy?” from The Future of Occupy, February 2012 issue: Focus on Working Groups[| http://thefutureofoccupy.org/2012/02/05/can-occupy-occupy-strategy/]
 * Mary Beth Steisslinger, “Sage Advice for Occupy? from Nobel winner Elinor Ostrom”

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 * Articles about 15-M by Spanish thinker Amador Fernández-Savater **
 * "Notes from #Acampada Sol I: http://takethesquare.net/2011/07/08/notes-from-acampadasol-1/
 * "How to Organize a Climate" :[[file:How to organize a climate.doc]]
 * "The Art of Vanishing: The Crisis of Consensual Culture": http://www.barcelonametropolis.cat/en/page.asp?id=23&ui=419
 * "Notes on The non Violence of The 15-M movement": http://takethesquare.net/2011/08/08/notes-on-the-non-violence-of-the-15-m-movement/
 * "Lawrence of Arabia and The (Non) Battle of Sol": @http://www.desrealitat.org/2011/09/lawrence-of-arabia-and-non-battle-of.html
 * From "No to the War" to 15-M: Social Movements that are not Social Movements:[[file:AmadorSocialMovements.doc]]

Background Materials on Rio+20 UN Conference on Sustainable Development
> [|People's Summit] portal > People's Summit [|Occupy the Earth Summit Initiative]
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;"> [|Zero Draft] UN negotiators draft outcome document


 * More on the Commons from other sources **
 * Dossier at YES! Magazine: @http://www.yesmagazine.org/people-power/the-commons