Rebel City of the Commons, Part II

Rebel Cities are desirable as a form of disobedience that defy states, legal frameworks, supranations or markets.

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Rebuilding the Commons: A Global Network of Rebel Cities Takes Shape, Part I

From Spain's grassroots city mayors to the Mexican Citizens' Movement, the worldwide network of rebel territories is continuing to grow.

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Spain's Electoral Rebellion: Welcome to the Post-Party Political Era, Part II

If the M15-Indignados movement inaugurated a new social grammar in Spain, last month's municipal election victories created a new political ecosystem – signaling transformational shifts that have upended the old order.

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Spain's Electoral Rebellion: Welcome to the Post-Party Political Era, Part I

From Madrid and Barcelona to Zaragoza, A Coruña, Cádiz and other major Spanish cities, government is now in the hands of independent citizen fronts called “confluences” – revealing a seismic shakeup in European politics.

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From #TakeTheSquare To São Paulo’s #FreeYourPark: The Commons Are Coming

There was a time when the occupied square was the world – and the Augusta Park actions now happening in São Paulo, Brazil - open a new phase based on a vision of the commons.

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Around the World in 843 Protests: Living the Most Revolutionary Times in History

Revolts are shaking the world, bursting in the most unexpected places, but they rarely take power. Is the big explosion still coming?

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What Brazil Protests Mean In the Dialogue of Global Revolt

Seven months after the massive mobilization on the streets of Brazil, there's a network movement of the same stature as those born in plazas during 15M, Occupy or Gezi.

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It Is Not a Revolution, It Is a New Networked Renaissance

Revolution is getting too small for us.

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Spain’s Micro-Utopias: The 15M Movement and its Prototypes, Part 3

This third of a three-part series looks at the development of the commons, legal, free knowledge, senior citizen's revolution and neo-internationalist micro-utopias that have evolved out of the 15M movement in Spain.

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Spain’s Micro-Utopias: The 15M Movement and its Prototypes, Part 2

This second in a three-part series looks at the development of participatory, fun-tivism, resilience, networked post-syndicate, and collective intelligence micro-utopias in Spain.

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