{"id":1244,"date":"2011-11-28T13:48:31","date_gmt":"2011-11-28T19:48:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/?p=1244"},"modified":"2011-11-28T13:58:38","modified_gmt":"2011-11-28T19:58:38","slug":"occupy-and-commons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2011\/11\/28\/occupy-and-commons\/","title":{"rendered":"Occupy and Commons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BRtc-k6dhgs\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>i&#8217;ve been thinking about the notion of &#8220;commons&#8221; and it&#8217;s popped up in a number of conversations lately.  here&#8217;s a quick explanation lifted from <a href=\"http:\/\/occupyphillymedia.org\/content\/occupation-philly-day-20-oct-25-commons-not-capitalism\">&#8220;Commons Not Capitalism,&#8221;<\/a> a day 20 report posted about a month ago at <a href=\"http:\/\/occupyphillymedia.org\">OccupyPhillyMedia<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><em>A commons is a simple idea really, and something that humans have done throughout our existence, even before we had languages, even before we made up the word \u201ccommons\u201d in multiples languages. A commons is something held by people in common, to be used, shared, and enjoyed. It can be a physical space, like a field for grazing or planting, or a library or park; it can be knowledge, like the ideas within our libraries or free and open-source software; it can be those things that sustain all of life, like the air and water; it can be some of the things that make us most human, such as dignity, love, caring, art, and our imagination.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>i&#8217;d add to this culture, beliefs, agreements, like the common agreement we have in this country that it&#8217;s okay to protest and speak out, if done peacefully, or as is catching some press today, that America is not a battlefield.  <\/p>\n<p>in Open Space, the circle, bulletin board and &#8220;marketplace&#8221; in which participants move about, with the right and responsibility to maximize thier own learning and contributing, are all commons.  and while i appreciate the focus on commons, setting it against capitalism might miss the point.  capital is perhaps another sort of commons, or at least the parts that move and accumulate because of various commons existe and are accessible to all.  &#8220;markets,&#8221; so often held up as dangerous are also commons.  <\/p>\n<p>the video above does a good job of telling this story in another way. it&#8217;s not as simple as any <em>us<\/em> against <em>them<\/em>, or <em>this<\/em> against <em>that<\/em>.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>i&#8217;ve been thinking about the notion of &#8220;commons&#8221; and it&#8217;s popped up in a number of conversations lately. here&#8217;s a quick explanation lifted from &#8220;Commons Not Capitalism,&#8221; a day 20 report posted about a month ago at OccupyPhillyMedia: A commons is a simple idea really, and something that humans have done throughout our existence, even &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2011\/11\/28\/occupy-and-commons\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Occupy and Commons&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88889,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,48,26,29,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democracy","category-heartening","category-money-and-markets","category-mutuality","category-open-space-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1244"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/88889"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1244"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1247,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1244\/revisions\/1247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}