In early October, the European Parliament’s Legal Affairs Committee will vote on the Digital Single Market copyright legislation. Here we would like to express our alarm at the direction EU copyright legislation…
Will You Join Us In Madrid?
The next European Commons Assembly will be in Madrid in October. And you can still be a part of it: Click here to join. In cooperation with the Transeuropa Festival and…
Conference: Bottom-up Citizens Movements and Urban Commons
Commons Network director Sophie Bloemen will host a workshop on urban commons on Saturday (September 23rd) as part of the Euler Conference in Berlin. The workshop asks: is urban commons a buzz…
The European Commons Assembly: You Can Still Come To Madrid
It’s almost time for the next European Commons Assembly, a global gathering of commoners and commons activists in MediaLab Prado, Madrid. Commons Network is one of the organizers and we welcome you…
Community Networks: Sharing Collective Connectivity For Everyone?
Can we see communication as a commons? Can citizens use community networks to become more autonomous? How is it going now? How can legislators like the EU support this? Commons Network is…
The European Commons Assembly Debuts in Brussels
Proposes new citizen-based institutions for revitalizing Europe and policy. On November 16, 2016 commoners from across Europe will gather in the European Parliament in Brussels to advocate with MEPs for commons-based policy and…
Commoners hit the capital of Europe: Commons Assembly in Brussels
22 November 2016- In the wake of Trump´s shocking victory and in the midst of a deep EU crisis accelerated by Brexit many commons activists around Europe have reacted with a sense…
Community energy meets the Sustainable Development Goals
Berlin, December 12. Nr. 3 of a series of posts on renewable community energy by Commons Network fellow Cecile Blanchet. If the cooperative model is far from being a new one, it…
Commons Network at energy conference "Future without the NAM"
Our Energy fellow Cecile Blanchet participated on Saturday 7 January to “a future without the NAM“in the Netherlands. The focus was on the potential remunicipalization of the gas utility (the NAM), which is exploiting…
Dispatches from the European Commons Assembly
February 1st 2017 Watch: Three days in Brussels Read: Stories on ECA Many people are engaged in commons-based alternative practices as part of the struggle for ecological, social and…