Nivedita Menon: Women's Rights to Land - The challenge of the commons.

The Manifold of the Commons: A Masterclass with Peter Linebaugh

An Urban commons? Notes from South Africa

Peter Linebaugh: Who Owns the Commons? An 800 Year Fight for Public Goods

Schedule of Public Events for Silvia Federici's Visit to Rhodes University 18 – 21 September 2013

18 September

Launch of Revolution at Point Zero: Housework, Reproduction, and Feminist Struggle and seminar presentation on Reproduction and Women's Struggles in an era of 'Primitive Accumulation.' - 5:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m., Humanities Seminar Room

19 September

Seminar for postgrad students on 'Feminism & the Commons' - 10:00 a.m. – 12: 30 p.m., New Seminar Room, Politics Department

Academic Freedom Lecture “Academic freedom and the enclosure of knowledge in the global university” - 6:00 pm, Eden Grove Blue

20 September

Workshop with activists hosted by the Unemployed Peoples' Movement – 2:00 p.m., UPM Office

21 September

Student organised seminar - 2:00 pm. - 5:00 p.m. Sociology A

Achille Mbembe: Democracy and the Ethics of Common Life

Achille Mbembe: Democracy and the Ethics of Common Life from CenterforPlaceCulturePolitics on Vimeo.

Permanent Reproductive Crisis: An Interview with Silvia Federici

by Marina Vishmidt, Mute Magazine, 7 March 2013

On the occasion of the publication of an anthology of her writing and the accession of a  Wages for Housework NY archive at Mayday Rooms in London, Marina Vishmidt interviewed Silvia Federici on her extensive contribution to feminist thought and recent work on debt activism (with contributions by Mute, Mayday Rooms and George Caffentzis)

Feminism and the Politics of the Commons

Feminism And the Politics of the Commons by TigersEye99

Interview: Peter Linebaugh on the The Magna Carta Manifesto

Peter Linebaugh lecture on the commons and the Magna Carta

From Commoning to Debt: Microcredit, Student Debt and the Disinvestment in Reproduction

An audio recording of a talk by scholar, teacher and activist Silvia Federici at Goldsmiths University (London, UK) on 12 November 2012.

Crystal Bartolovich: A Natural History of 'Food Riots'

bartolovich food riots pdf

Found at ebookbrowse.com

Revenge of the Commons: The Crisis in the South African Mining Industry

By Keith Breckenridge, History Workshop

Most accounts of the Marikana massacre, and the resulting turmoil in the South African mining industry, stress the ongoing importance of structural poverty, and the gross inequalities of life in South Africa after the end of Apartheid. If the writers on this subject (and many other events of contemporary South African politics) are correct, little has changed. But they are not right, at least not straightforwardly. The violent protests on the mines have been prompted by very dramatic changes in the distribution of power on the mines, changes that have brought about conditions of civil war within the mines’ unionised work force. And what that internecine conflict shows is that the long-term structures of political economy that supported the mines, and the distinctive features created by Apartheid South Africa, present an unexpected threat to the union movement, mining capital and the state.

Hope from the Margins

By Gustavo Esteva, Wealth of the Commons

These notes offer a quick glance to ways, in the south of Mexico, in which people are regenerating the society from the bottom up. It is a new kind of revolution without leaders or vanguards, which goes beyond development and globalization. It is about displacing the economy from the center of social life, reclaiming a communal way of being, encouraging radical pluralism, and advancing towards real democracy.

Metrópolis. Urban crisis, peripheries and activist research. Public activities.

Type of activity: lectures and debates Dates: May 5, 17, 18, 19, 31, June 1, 2, 14, 15, 16, 2012 Place: Nouvel Building, Auditorium 200 and Traficantes de Sueños Admission: free of charge, limited seating Organized by: MuseoReina Sofía with the collaboration of Fundación Banco Santander

Activity included in: Metropolis. Urban crisis, peripheries and activist research. Program for Advanced Studies in Critical Practices

Midnight Notes: Discussion on The Commons

How Commons are made – George Caffentzis

We “invaded” Rondebosch Common…but only the police destroyed the fynbos.

Click here and here to read reports on the protest by Benjamin Fogel and here to read a report by Jared Sacks.

 

Statement by those who occupied the common

Take Back the Commons Movement

28 January 2012

 

We did our best. We had everything stacked against us.

The might of the South African Police Force, the paranoia of some Rondebosch rate payers, and the arrogance of our protester turned mayor Patricia de Lille.

People's land, housing and jobs summit

by Jared Sacks, Pambazuka

For months, communities from all over Cape Town have been planning a three-day People's Land, Housing and Jobs Summit at one of Cape Town's huge open pieces of unused land. This summit is set to take place this weekend from 27 until the 29 January.

Yet, even though community representatives sent in their notification of intention to gather on the Rondebosch Common and have complied with all legislation governing the right to march, the City of Cape Town is attempting to ban the march and summit altogether.

Take Back the Common

by Christopher McMichael, Mahala

This Friday communities around the Cape will march from Athlone stadium to Rondebosch commons for a three day ‘occupation’. The aim is a public space to discuss solutions to a range of issues: housing, rent arrears, evictions, political corruption and the ongoing segregation in the city.

The chosen site is loaded with historical symbolism. Used once as a military camp by colonial authorities, it was racially integrated before the mass erasures of the Group Areas act. The community groups that have chosen the commons are asserting the right to reclaim public space in a city that, even more so than the rest of the country, is deeply segregated by race and class.