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**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 resources that are neither private nor state-owned like air, water and soil, the internet and human culture. We need to safeguard them from the private market. Making Worlds grows out of an understanding that Occupy itself is a form of commoning, a process in which everyone can participate, every voice can contribute, an open movement that belongs to no one and to everyone. Through holding conversations in communities around the city among organizations, activists and others, we aim to create links between the Occupy movement, the Commons movement, activist organizations and people who may not consider themselves activists. This way we can become visible to each other and work together on our common problems.

We are beginning to organize our second Making Worlds Forum, "Building the Institutions of the Commons", to be held October 18-20. We envision 3 days of workshops and conversations on how to build spaces and projects for a politics, technology, culture and an economy of, by and for the 99%. Come join the conversation. Welcome to the Paradigm Shift! Everyone's invited!

http://madrilonia.org: [|Making Worlds: Construyendo los comunes en Nueva York]
http://comune-info.net/2012/07/non-cerchiamo-visioni-comuni-poniamo-domande-insieme/

=Upcoming Events...=

=**AUGUST**=

Union for Radical Political Economics Summer Conference (See Program)
="Political Economy of the 99%: Today and Tomorrow"= 4:00 pm Friday, August 10 - 1:00 pm Monday, August 13 Epworth Center, High Falls, NY Join radical political economists and Occupy activists from around the country (some people are both) to explore transformative strategies and alternatives to capitalism and the status quo in a relaxed, summer-camp environment for adults and kids alike. Making Worlds folk will have a session on the Commons. There will also be sessions on solidarity economies, alternative banking concepts, movement building and political economy. Special rates for occupy activists: only $55 for the entire conference tenting (including food) + an additional $15 for a cabin. Childcare available. Click [|here] to register. = = =JULY=

[|Occupy National Gathering] - Philadelphia, July 4th
Occupy National Gathering on July 4th, 2012 in Philadelphia, PA! Come together to collaborate, share ideas and help brainstorm a vision for our future!

Occupy Town Square in Queens - Sunday 22nd
with many trainings, teach-ins, skill shares, dance, live music, games, think tank and information from community organizations. Whether you consider yourself a supporter of the movement or not, we want to meet you: come share your ideas and stories, learn about the movement, argue with us, debate with us, collaborate with us. If you’re already active in OWS, this is a chance to exchange information, to coordinate between working groups, and to get to know our brothers and sisters in the movement. PlayStreet, 78th Street bet. Northern Blvd & 34th Ave. Jackson Heights, Queens

=Past Events...=

> **Saturday 16, from 3 to 5pm @ 60 Wall St** > > Participants: Making Worlds, IndigNación, Amador Fernández-Savater, and Miguel Robles-Durán > > During the last few months, there has been a widespread feeling that the Occupy movement has been fading away from the public attention and that the groups working on new projects and initiatives are dispersed. > > Maybe these two problems are linked. On Saturday 16, we will gather to discuss how communication and organization are mutually related problems: > > What does ‘dispersion’ mean? > Is it necessarily a negative term? > To what does it respond? > Is the activist logic the only answer to ‘dispersion’? > How can we imagine forms of organization and media that would not focus exclusively on spectacular politics? > Is it possible to think about forms of organization that could turn dispersion into a creative multiplication of actions and projects? > > June 1,2,3 (Fri-Sat-Sun)- CITY WIDE > We are joining the Mutual Aid WG @ 4 pm @ Union Square
 * **Common-ication: an open conversation on forms of organization and media in Occupy**
 * == NYC Community Garden Coalition UnConference ==
 * Organized in collaboration w/Occupy Wall Street
 * http://bureaux.petitemort.org/2012/07/occupy-the-land-unconference-expanded/
 * ====**Minutes Meeting 05/26/2012**====
 * ====**Minutes Meeting 5/19/2012**====
 * **May 1st**
 * ===**APRIL**===
 * **April 7, 2012 -** Planning Meeting notes
 * **April 14th -** City-wide General Assembly
 * **April 22nd, 1-3pm -** [|Arts & The Commons], workshop in Catskill Community Center, Catskill, NY.
 * **Meeting on April Saturday the 28th at 4pm**
 * **Meeting on April Saturday the 28th at 4pm**
 * **March 24, 2012** - Building the Culture of the Commons in Queens
 * Slideshow
 * Meeting's Notes
 * [[file:makingworlds/March 24th Invitation.pdf|Invitation Poster]]
 * ===**February 16, 2012 -** Making Worlds FORUM ON THE COMMONS===
 * Presentations (Workshops)
 * Speakers
 * Forum Documents
 * Press, Media & Videos
 * Forum Poster



**Why the Making Worlds Forum on the Commons?**
===The Occupy movement is entering a new phase, one in which many of us feel the need to combine renewed engagement through direct actions and mobilizations with a deep reflection on the strategic objectives of our movement. In order to fulfill this need, the organizing committee of Making Worlds* is inviting Occupy supporters, sympathizers, and other organizations to participate in this Forum on the politics of the commons. In particular, we are interested in understanding how groups and communities working on housing, health care, education, food, water, energy, information, communication and knowledge resources can develop a vision of these resources as commons: a third form of social organization to the state and corporate capitalism. Making Worlds has the ambitious goal of articulating a strategic vision from and for the movement as well as specific political initiatives aiming at its realization.===