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This is a strawman.
People are (rightly) upset at billionaries stealing both from the commons and from everybody else.
The problem is that right now #copyright (that backs #copyleft) and #dataprotection (#GDPR and so on...) are the only (weak) shield people have to fight back.
They are in fact too weak.
We need a total ridefinition of #PublicDomain, turing the default to a strongly protected #common that can be used freely but only to produce more content (#software, #art...) under the same public domain regime.
We need to turn unprotected #commons to an exception.
And we need stronger data protection and privacy laws, that grant people the right to be paid for any abuse of their data an exponentially growing amount (say 1€ for the first bit, 2€ for the second, 4€ for the third and so on).
Finally, we need to get rid of billionaries. Hopefully, without too much violence.
As an open source game developper, i'm working on remaking this not well known game, which inspired me a lot : and extending it's original concept. I hope to meet there, a great community, and makers of all kind 
#opensource #community #remake #common #videogame #gamedev #pixelart #indie #indiegame #retro #retrogaking #art #dev #programmation #android #emulation #aesthetic #aestethics #drawing #creative #gaming #steam
> “The modernity project does not define humanity. #Humanity is much older. It’s too late for modernity to succeed but it’s not too late for humanity to succeed.” Here he turns to #indigenousCultures: “For hundreds of thousands of years, they survived and did quite well without causing the sixth #massExtinction.”
“There isn’t a single Indigenous package,” he says. “Each is tuned to its [particular local] #environment, and they vary a lot. But they have #common elements: humility, only taking what you need from the environment, and the belief that we can learn a lot from our ‘our brothers and sisters,’ that is, the other animals and plants who have been around for much longer than us.”
On the U.S. Supreme Court
—Chief Justice John Roberts and his Republican majority have spent decades systematically dismantling the guardrails of American democracy.
Itself the product of unprecedented norm-breaking
—encouraged by a fifty-year special interest campaign designed to weaponize the judicial branch
—it is the Roberts majority that has hastened our endemic institutional collapse.
We can draw a straight line, for example,
from the Roberts Court’s 2010 #Citizens #United decision, which invalidated Congress’s bipartisan campaign finance limits on the farcical premise that independent expenditures could not be corrupting,
to the imminent shadow presidency of erratic mega-billionaire Elon Musk, Trump’s biggest outside spender.
Citizens United set the stage for the proliferation of political nonprofits and the establishment of #Super #PACs,
giving oligarchs like Musk a megaphone loud enough to drown out ordinary voters.
The decision turbocharged Trump’s rise, allowing his allies to flood the airwaves with disinformation and propaganda,
meanwhile trapping Democrats in a system of corporate-funded campaigns that has eroded their ability to represent the working class.
Three years later, in #Shelby #County v.#Holder, John Roberts completed his career-long vision quest to dismantle the Voting Rights Act,
invalidating its preclearance requirement for states with a history of racial discrimination.
Erasing the national consensus first achieved in the bloody crucible of the Civil Rights Era
and repeatedly reaffirmed by near-unanimous bipartisan Congresses, Roberts deemed racial discrimination a relic of ancient history,
declaring that “nearly 50 years later, things have changed dramatically.”
A flood of Republican state voter suppression laws followed, funded, and orchestrated by the same interests to which Roberts owed his majority.
“Throwing out preclearance when it has worked and is continuing to work to stop discriminatory changes is like throwing away your umbrella in a rainstorm because you are not getting wet,”
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg warned in her searing Shelby County dissent.
But soaking us was the whole point.
The downpour continues.
Final results for the 2024 House elections were tallied recently, and Republicans will owe a razor-thin 220-215 majority to the three seats the GOP flipped thanks to the North Carolina legislature’s brazenly partisan gerrymander,
a move blessed by the Supreme Court’s Republican justices’ 2018 decision in #Rucho v. #Common #Cause.
In that case, the Roberts Court
—so power-hungry that leading legal scholars have dubbed it the “Imperial Court”
—conveniently found that #partisan #gerrymandering,
-- a practice dominated by norms-be-damned Republican state legislatures,
-- presented a “political question” that was outside their purview to resolve.
Vote Midterms Gov Tim #Walz: Thank you, #Common, for joining me in North Carolina and using your voice to get out the #vote. You heard him folks - get out and #voteearly, vote now!
Mark Ruffalo, Cynthia Nixon & Common Sign SAG-AFTRA Open Letter To Protect Pro-Palestine Actors
#News #Common #CynthiaNixon #IsraelHamasWar #MarkRuffalo #Palestine #SAGAFTRA #ScreenActorsGuild #SusanSarandon
Building Beyond: Collective Strategies for Just Cities
Brussels, 9-11 September 2021
In this public summer school, we take stock of different voices, experiences, and practices of sharing and commoning within changing urban settings.
https://www.permanentbrussels.org/buildingbeyond
#Brussels #Common #Ownership #UrbanCommons
Why #Poverty #Reduction Under #Capitalism is a #Myth
The myth here is a #common #mistake and grossly overused. While #wealth was #created in significant quantities over the last few centuries as #capitalism #spread globally, that does not prove it was #capitalism that caused the #growth in #wealth.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #RepublicanParty #ThePartyOfHate
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/08/27/why-poverty-reduction-under-capitalism-is-a-myth/
Common performs at #DNC2024 Chicago Night 2
The South Side, Chicago-hailing rapper/actor/activist was joined onstage by a fellow Chicago-raised performer, gospel singer Jonathan McReynolds.
FORTUNATE (Common, revised lyrics):
“I thank God for this moment in time where Kamala Harris will change the world for the better with love, hope and grace."
#DNC2024 #KamalaHarris #HarrisWalz2024 #Democrats #Common #Chicago
#LGBTQ+ #refugee claims #homophobic #abuse ‘#common’ in #immigration #detentioncentres in the #UK.
But instead of finding #safety in #Britain, Mordi was met with #homophobic #threats and #abuse while in a #detentioncentre.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #UK #Police #Incarceration #Immigration #PoliticalAsylum #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Homophobia #Transphobia
https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/08/07/immigration-detention-centres-joel-mordi/
Time for Culture Club, where our panel shares the movies, music, TV shows, books and more they’re loving this week. Have you seen/heard/read any of the picks in the checklist?
A billionaire tax would raise $380 billion a year and make our tax systems fairer, report says
"It is the smart thing to do if we want to protect our democracies and give governments the resources needed to provide good public services — health, education, social security — and tackle the emergencies of our time — first of all, the climate crisis."
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-06-27/tax-billionaires-minimum-tax-2-per-cent-gabriel-zucman-g20/104023796
#ClimateCrisis #transition #tax #TaxAvoidance #PublicServices #CivilSociety #Common #Wealth
A #WoodMeadow is an ancient, balanced & flexible approach to land management.
I believe bringing #WoodMeadows land & practices back into #common ownership is one way to restore #nature.
I am nearly halfway on a fundraiser for a trip to the 14th European Conference on Ecological Restoration in Estonia in late August, where #WoodMeadows & their management will feature heavily. Please consider supporting me if you can afford it. Thank you 
Went to Ty Canol wood pasture in Pembrokeshire. I think there are cattle, sheep and horses on different parts of land about the place.
Apparently site of very important lichen in the UK? There was a lot of Bracken, so possibly not managed so much for vascular plants.
Lovely space, very varied. And very #WoodMeadow.
I want to create #common, #community #WoodMeadows in #WestWales, as response to #NatureEmwrgency. My fundraiser for #ecology conference in #Estonia:
