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By Stephen Elliott-Buckley, on January 7, 2012, at 10:00 pm Tragedy of the Market: From Crisis to Commons January 6-8, 2012 Vancouver/Burnaby
All panelist biographies are here: Below are some lessons learned and observations from the sessions.
Friday:
The opening panel is recorded in the Twitter storify here.
Saturday:
Opening Panel A Global Tradition: History of the Commons
Silvia Federici
Rebuilding our Commons will allow us to live in a free and self-determined way. When we talk about the Commons, we are not talking about small-scale experiments like communes, but whole social formations. The Commons involves sharing our resources because nature is not for sale. The principle of common . . . → Read More: Politics, Re-Spun: Day Two of Tragedy of the Market: From Crisis to Commons
By Stephen Elliott-Buckley, on January 7, 2012, at 12:00 pm This weekend I attended Tragedy of the Market: From Crisis to Commons community gathering in Vancouver and Burnaby, sponsored by these groups and people.
The basic premise is not so much that capitalism is broken, and we just need to fix it, but that neoliberal market fundamentalism is inherently broken when we’re thinking about sustainability, equity and building a healthy future, largely because capitalism is diametrically opposed to the commons and rich community.
All panelist biographies are here.
Below is a storified collection of tweets from the opening night.
[View the story “Tragedy of the Market: Opening” on Storify
By Orwell's Bastard, on December 23, 2011, at 11:50 pm Like clockwork, the corporate media are swinging into action. Or perhaps like robots.
Either way, the narrative is being reinforced and amplified. Just now on CTV a “news” report is pegging the cost of Occupy at something over $714,000. Police, EMS, landscaping, etc.
Cue the manufactured resentment and the divide-and-conquer rhetoric: dirty fucking hippies taking over a public space, with all the usual triggers: rampant drug use noise filth street people nuisance drumming
and the rest of it we can recite in our sleep: hostility, local residents and businesses intimidated by the menacing anarchists, and OMG people are afraid to
. . . → Read More: Fiscal demonization of @OccupyTO continues on CTV | #classwarfare
By krellant, on December 21, 2011, at 1:10 pm
In this special Christmas episode of The Krellant, Frank Feltman tells a story of holiday mishap, and his rescue from one unlikely cat…in verse!
By Christine, on December 19, 2011, at 9:28 am As this is the season for traditions, here is a reposting from last December: There is a Hebrew phrase, Tikkun Olam, which means mending or perfecting the world. For many of the Jewish faith, Tikkun Olam has come to connote social action and the pursuit of social justice. Yesterday was the final Advent Sunday, a [...]
By Lorne, on December 14, 2011, at 7:46 am To all Canadian Consumers: Season’s Greetings. All is still well. Shop until you drop.
We repeat, Season’s Greetings. All is still well. Shop until you drop.
Your dollars help to support good-paying Canadian service jobs and bring much-needed employment to residents of developing countries, who we should be thinking of at this time of year.
And remember, pay no attention to that pesky man behind the curtain. Recommend this Post
By matttbastard, on November 27, 2011, at 2:07 pm by matttbastard
Noted w/o comment:
Time Magazine covers – December 5, 2011
h/t
By bazie, on November 26, 2011, at 3:54 am Can’t Black Friday, one of the most consumer centered days on the calendar, just be about consumerism? Sure, on Boxing Day we can pretend it is really about lofty ideals of family and the great Judeo-Christian ethic opposed to a mad fury to acquire as much stuff as cheaply as possible. But can’t we drop these pretenses and just call Black Friday for what it is?
Apparently not. Several articles out on Black Friday seem to aim for a much rosier and more meaningful view of Black Friday:
”…the family bonds together in the face of perceived adversity (i.e.
. . . → Read More: Progressive Proselytizing: Black Friday: Searching for community in a consumer world
By redtory, on November 25, 2011, at 11:42 pm According to the AP: “A record number of shoppers could head to stores across the country to take advantage of deals during the kickoff to the holiday shopping weekend.”
Interesting to think that 10,000 rabid consumers lined up outside Macy’s in the dead of night eager to save a few bucks on discounted material crap is about the same number of people that were marching in the streets of New York on OCW’s “Day of Action” protesting corporate greed and malfeasance. Go figure.
The whole notion of “holiday shopping” sickens me. This year, I’m thinking of buying a goat
. . . → Read More: Red Tory v.3.0.3: Black Friday
By Mark A. Rayner, on November 23, 2011, at 6:06 am
Alltop just watches youtube all day.
By Adam, on October 18, 2011, at 12:24 pm Every person has a different take on what one truly needs as opposed to what they want. Over time as a culture we collectively define our needs and those needs change over time. The never-ending question is ultimately what do we need to live and what do we need to be happy. Obviously, we support looking [...] . . . → Read More: Things Are Good: What We Truly Need
By cmkl, on October 17, 2011, at 10:54 pm Or at least I put a deposit down on the thing. Apparently it’ll be showing up in a Rogers store near me some time soon. . . . → Read More: cmkl: I am one of the four million people who bought an iPhone 4S last weekend
By T. A. Everitt, on October 7, 2011, at 10:00 am Christians. Church. God. Jesus. Occupy. What do these words mean to you? For many, the connotations are negative. Personal experiences with judgemental, rigid, frozen people who identify themselves as Christians have left a bitter taste in their mouths. Memories of being harangued, condescended to and lectured linger long after their encounter. Media and political examples [...] . . . → Read More: Politics, Re-Spun: Occupy the Church, Occupy Together
By Mark A. Rayner, on October 7, 2011, at 6:53 am from the 2037 Hammacher Schlemmer Glaven catalog This hat recalls the iconic headgear worn by the Cognition Brigade during the Second Robotic War. First developed for long distance thought projection, hats of this design were worn by countless Though Soldiers during the war, preferred for its ability to combat the medulla-inhibiting freeze rays of the [...] . . . → Read More: The Skwib: The Cybernetic Thought Projection Hat
By Julie MacArthur, on October 6, 2011, at 3:52 pm I am white, middle class, educated and, by all accounts, an extremely fortunate woman. I live in Canada where my parents’ (sometimes life-threatening) health issues are covered by a provincial medical plan. My water and air are clean, and food is plentiful. My husband and I are employed. I am not desperate, but I am [...] . . . → Read More: Politics, Re-Spun: Why I Am Going to Attend Occupy Vancouver
By Mark A. Rayner, on October 6, 2011, at 7:30 am from the 2037 Hammacher Schlemmer Glaven catalog This is the device that instantly turns Soylent Green and other flavorings into a soft-serve treat. The unit combines frozen Soylent Green and any additional Soylent products you can scavenge and instantly churns the ingredients to produce a treat with the texture of frozen yogurt or soft-serve ice [...] . . . → Read More: The Skwib: The Frozen Soylent Green Soft Serve Processor
By Mark A. Rayner, on October 5, 2011, at 7:35 am (from the 2037 Hammacher Schlemmer Glaven catalog) This is a six-foot Christmas tree that pops up instantly and is pre-decorated with original artwork by renowned holiday artist Thomas Kinkaid, all of which can dispense Viritron’s patented Santa Virus. The tree rises from a flat position in concentric circles to its full thirty-inch width and seventy-six-inch [...] . . . → Read More: The Skwib: The Thomas Kincaid Pop-Up Christmas Tree and Consumer Happiness Dispenser
By Mark A. Rayner, on October 4, 2011, at 7:36 am (from the 2037 Hammacher Schlemmer Glaven catalog) This is the robotic vacuum that navigates autonomously through your home up to seven times per week, where it can either clean your floors or patrol for intruders. The unit’s specially designed dual, counter-rotating agitator brushes spread carpet fibers and enable the vacuum to remove hair and other [...] . . . → Read More: The Skwib: The Laser Equipped Autonomous Robotic Vacuum
By Mark A. Rayner, on October 3, 2011, at 7:30 am from the 2037 Hammacher Schlemmer Glaven catalog This levitation belt earned The Best rating from the Hammacher Schlemmer Glaven Institute because it was the easiest to put on and operate while falling from a building. 48 out of 49 of our tests were successful, and only one of our Testing Drones was killed during the [...] . . . → Read More: The Skwib: The Best Levitation Belt
By Stephen Elliott-Buckley, on August 17, 2011, at 11:00 am I end each day quietly lamenting how I haven’t yet succeeded in completely reforming the global economy. Certainly, it’s a tall order. I search for economic and environmental sustainability. I explore no-growth, steady-state economics to see how we can transform our society’s deranged obsession with unlimited capitalist growth into a more eco-socialist model. I don’t [...] . . . → Read More: Politics, Re-Spun: The Great Shopping Shift
By T. A. Everitt, on July 29, 2011, at 7:46 pm Earlier in the month, when I clicked an inbox link to a webpage for a fundraising campaign, I did not expect to get lost in the political quagmire of women’s rights, feminism, grooming, surgical enhancement, self esteem and pop culture. A vaguely disinterested click of the mouse quickly sucked me into a black hole of [...] . . . → Read More: Politics, Re-Spun: Pubic Humiliation: The Case of the Ugly Vagina
By Peter Prontzos, on July 11, 2011, at 11:00 am Friday’s Vancouver Sun had a short item that you might have missed, “Suicides up, road deaths down due to recession.” It’s in the bottom corner of page B5: Suicides rates rose sharply in Europe in 2007 to 2009 as the financial crisis drove unemployment up and squeezed incomes, with the worst hit countries like Greece [...] . . . → Read More: Politics, Re-Spun: Austerity Leads to Suicide Rate Increase
By kevin harding, on July 6, 2011, at 10:35 pm If you’re registered to vote in BC, and provided that Elections BC hasn’t completely screwed up your voter registration (I have, at times, received three voter information cards for variations on my name), you’ve probably by now received a ballot in the mail for the mail-in referendum on the HST in BC. (If you haven’t [...] . . . → Read More: Politics, Re-Spun: I, for one, would like an HST job – and it might sway my vote.
By Christine, on July 4, 2011, at 11:16 am “As a species with the creativity, adaptability and opposable thumbs that enabled us to create an Oil Age in the first place, we can be pretty certain that there will be life beyond it. Similarly, we may be able to prevent the worst excesses of c… . . . → Read More: 350 or bust: The End Of Cheap Oil: An Opportunity to Create A Better World
By T. A. Everitt, on May 26, 2011, at 8:30 am Infant formula is a medical necessity for those who are unable to breastfeed their infants. There are a host of medically sound reasons why a mother, in conjunction with her physician would choose to utilize infant formula in lieu of breast milk. The regulated manufacturing of infant feeding products has come a long way in [...] . . . → Read More: Politics, Re-Spun: Nestlé’s War on Breastfeeding Mothers Takes Shameful New Turn
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