---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Silke Helfrich <[email protected]> Date: Wed, Aug 3, 2016 at 9:32 PM Subject: [tapas] Commons, State Power and New Political Movements / WSF :2016 - August 11 To: COMMONING LIste engl <[email protected]>, " [email protected]" <[email protected]>, European Alternatives <[email protected]>, Smart CSOs Community < [email protected]>, Chantal Delmas <[email protected]> Cc: Becky Lentz <[email protected]>, "[email protected]" < [email protected]>, "Claudia Gómez-Portugal M." < [email protected]>, Gustavo Soto <[email protected]>, Gustavo Esteva <[email protected]>, mayo fuster <[email protected]>, Jesse Chen <[email protected]>, Orsan Senalp <[email protected]>, Elisabetta Cangelosi <[email protected]>, Elizabeth Peredo < [email protected]> Dear all, as you probably know, this World Social Forum edition 2016 in Montreal will host a dedicated Commons Space. The WSF Commons Committee has just published a first (!) English and French language draft of the program for the space which you can download here https://commonsspace.hackpad.com/Franais-httpwiki.remixthecommons.orgimagesP... One of the debates within that Commons Space was suggested to explore the relationship between new political movements and the Commons. Occupy, M15, social movements in several Latin Amerian countries, DIEM25 in Europe, the climate justice movement, digital activists including Wikileaks, the Bernie Sanders campaigners in the US, and others. Each has shown that (pressure for) change comes from below, from common people doing uncommon things, while using new tecnologies and ways of relating to each other. How transformative are these movements? How do they frame their work, strategies and slogans? What role do they play in the fight for the commons and what role does the commons as a discourse and political paradigm play for them? We want to explore this topic through a fishbowl discussion and hope to assess and openly discuss some of the achievements and aspirations of these political transformations from a commons perspective. Details here or on the hackpad below: https://commonsblog.wordpress.com/2016/08/03/the-commons-state-power-and-new... You are cordially invited to: - assist if you are in Montreal and join the fishbowl - spread the word through your lists and point me to ppl who might be interested so that I can ping them BUT MOST IMPORTANTLY contribute to the discussion even from a remote position (your desk or armchair :-) I 've started documenting the contributions I received during the preparation process on the hackpad (special thanks to Mayo Fuster and Jesse Chen!) https://commonsspace.hackpad.com/THE-COMMONS-STATE-POWER-AND-NEW-POLITICAL-M... Please help us all to make the Commons visible at WSF2016! Silke -- Silke Helfrich www.commonsblog.de -- Check out the Commons Transition Plan here at: http://commonstransition.org P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation>Updates: http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/