Original : Refuser de financer la recherche vaccinale en «double aveugle» 26 sept. 2020 The scale of the COVID epidemic has led to strong and rapid public commitments by national governments. In particular, more than 10 billion Euros have been…
Barcelone en Comu : results before next step, the example of the Digital policy
In the last elections in May, Barcelona en Comù has formed an alliance with the Catalan Socialist Party to form a new municipal government with a common agenda and Ada Colau was re-elected for another 4-year term. The first term…
Culture in the city: the chalenges of a cultural policy
Interview Joan Subirats(1) by Alain Ambrosi May 2018 AA : In your recent article in La Vanguardia(2), you set out a framework for a cultural policy, you refer to putting into practice the key community values that should underpin that…
NDDL: No to State Violence Under Commons!
The violent destruction of the commons of the ZAD (Zone To Defend) of Notre-Dame-des-Landes by the French government is an infamous and revolting act. The current police offensive, led by several thousand gendarmes and CRS equipped with armored vehicles and…
The Forest Charter, 800 Years Old
The Charter of the Forest – Carta de Foresta – published in 1217, is recognized as the first official act that extends the protections and essential rights of the Magna Carta to the English commoners against the abuses of the…
Catalunya en Comú: To Built A Country As Commons
Interview with Joan Subirats – Barcelona, April 20, 2017 Alain Ambrosi and Nancy Thede The pro-independence government of Catalonia recently sparked a political crisis in Spain by proposing to call a referendum on independence by the end of 2017 with…
Sharing The Vocabulary Of The Commons
As Alain Ambrosi wrote in 2012, “Commons is on everyone’s lips“1. In order to make this notion known and to avoid its dilution in sometimes too vague speeches, the collective Remix the Commons endeavors to decipher the practices and to…
Commons Enter City Hall (1)
Spain’s recent municipal and regional elections have transformed the entire political scene. New citizen coalitions with roots in community groups allied with small progressive political parties won unexpected victories in several large cities. This, plus the fact that two new…
Atlas Of Charters Of Urban Commons
To help reclaiming, protecting and creating commons in our neighborhoods and cities, we offer to co-create an interactive Atlas of the charters of urban commons. The collaborative creation process will develop on an intercultural and interdisciplinary fashion, production and sharing…
The Promise of “Open Cooperativism” by David Bollier
This post is a re-publication of the introduction of David Bollier’s blog from Monday 01/19/2015. David Bollier is presenting the report of a two-day workshop, “Toward an Open Co-operativism,” held in August 2014 in Germany. This post is translated in…