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“Health Democracy: Liberating Americans From Medical Insurance” 2012, by Paul...

BOOK REVIEW/Jai Jai Noire Sept 4, 2013   “Health Democracy: Liberating Americans From Medical Insurance” 2012, by Paul Glover http://www.healthdemocracy.org/book.html ($17 e-book, $25 paper)     Paul...

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Bushwick Food Coop

Bushwick Food Coop is a member-owned food cooperative, which started out of the necessity of a group of people who wanted to build up a buying club for good quality and affordable food. The members...

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Berliner Energietisch

Berliner Energietisch was born out of the wish of a small group of people of 10 people from 3 different organisations to take back the electricity grid of the city of Berlin into the public hands. The...

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Lehmhausen Berlin/Brandenburg

David tells us about Lehmhausen, a project of a community outside of Berlin. They have regular meetings and are looking for a location to either start building their houses or renovating existing...

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Pagaki Café // Worker’s Collective

Sevi talks to alterNation about the Pagaki (Pagkaki) Café in Athens. An important video that talks about workers rights, alternative business structures, with a very nice comment on media practices and...

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Cooperative Networking In Action

Robin Seydel’s wonderful 2011 keynote presentation from the California Cooperative Conference is worth review and study: http://www.geo.coop/blog/cooperative-networking-problem-solving… Read the rest

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Fireworks Bay Area News on Eviction Resistence

http://fireworksbayarea.com/featured/san-francisco-actions-highlight-growing-anger-over-evictions-and-police-terror/… Read the rest

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RathausStern Lichtenberg

RathauStern Lichtenberg is an initiative started by different groups of friends, who want to purchase the old premises of a police station in Berlin. Apart from a co-housing project, the intention is...

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Santropol Roulant

Santropol Roulant is a non-profit co-working space, started by two friends who used to work at a neighboring cafe called Santropol. The initiative develops various projects, including a roof-top garden...

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PARALLELE KREUZUNGEN // PARALLEL CROSSINGS

Filmfestival für soziale Innovation download Program (pdf, 1MB) – Änderungen vorbehalten / subject to be changed Wir freuen uns, Euch „Parallele Kreuzungen” zu präsentieren. Sorgsam kuratiert wie eine...

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Reverend Billy and the Stop Shopping Choir Wall St. Performance

Reverend Billiy is a well known american activist and performer, who together with The Stop Shopping Choir, organized a performance in Wall Street to revoke the to be implemented “corporate...

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Favela Monte Azul

Monte Azul is a non profit organization founded by Ute Crämer and other citizens of São Paulo. Based on the Waldorf method, it is primarily an educational project, which has developed and unfolded its...

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Parallel Crossings screenings at la Galerie du Buisson / Paris

Parallel Crossings moves to Paris. A first step, that will take place in a contemporary art gallery, la galerie du buisson  at the end of februar, the 27&28 th februar and the 1st of march. Here...

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Organismo Parque Augusta

Organismo Parque Augusta is one of the activists groups involved in the movement to save the last remaining piece of Atlantic Forest in that almost of São Paulo. It has been quite a struggle for a few...

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Communal living project Lichtenberg

60 people of several generations are going to live together in a former Gdr stasi building in Berlin Lichtenberg. with the help of mieter syndikat they founded a ltd ( Gmbh) and bought the house put if...

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“Health Democracy: Liberating Americans From Medical Insurance” 2012, by Paul...

BOOK REVIEW/Jai Jai Noire Sept 17, 2013 “Health Democracy: Liberating Americans From Medical Insurance” 2012, by Paul Glover http://www.healthdemocracy.org/book.html ($17 e-book, $25 paper) Paul...

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La Gonette – Local currency of Lyon

La Gonette is the new local currency of Lyon and its region. We have met the association who created it in Lyon this summer an wanted to post our interview close to the launching of this new currency,...

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Bizim Bakkal

Gentrification is threatening to destroy Berlin Investment in real estate is driving up rents and for one greengrocer in the Kreuzberg district, it’s even putting his livelihood at risk. This is why...

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Spreeblüte an alternative currency for Berlin

Leo, Theo and Charly are part of the Ngo Regio Berlin. Their goal is to start a new local currency for Berlin. Spreebluete will support small businesses, save resources, and promote a fairer economic...

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SO. LASS DISKO MACHEN. 7.04 // 19.00

Liebe Freunde der Zukunft, auf der schönen Hamburger Elbinsel Wilhelmsburg entsteht gerade “Minitopia”, Hamburgs erste Stadtfarm, Plattform und Keimzelle urbaner Selbstversorgung. Hier wollen wir uns...

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