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A brilliant report from our friends Common Wealth proposing a public-common partnership approach to local energy production. It shows how PCPs can be the model for implementing Labour's Local Power Plan but it can also begin bottom up through individual local projects. Let's do it

A new article from Keir Milburn and Gareth S. Brown

Transforming the Public into the Commons: What strategies can social movements learn from the New Municipalist wave?

rosalux.de/en/news/id/519…

🔴 Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung

Transforming the public into the commons can help us defend and extend democracy against the power of authoritarian oligarchs so we can finally tackle the crises facing us. A new article looking at experiences in Spain and Italy from me and Gareth S. Brown
rosalux.de/en/news/id/519…

Time flies! Common Wealth launched five years ago today 🎂

Thanks to our supporters + the wonderful team who have built CW together, it has been quite a journey.

Proud of what we've achieved, excited by what is to come. Here's a preview of upcoming work.

common-wealth.org/perspectives/t…

📢 News from MSF at the WHO #PPRIconference ! Today we are unveiling the cost of the pivotal TB-PRACTECAL clinical trial: €34 million. This move aims to shed light on drug development costs - an area usually shrouded in secrecy
theguardian.com/global-develop…

Getting really annoyed with people who say 'yes' to something, make a commitment, and then go silent on you.

Green growth is officially dead.

With new research projecting a 19% decline in GDP this century b/c of global heating, it should be clear that an alternative is necessary & that those still saying that green growth is possible are ignorant or ideologues nature.com/articles/s4158…

This is a 3+2 postdoc fellowship with a very generous research budget. Come work with us!

If you want to ask me anything about the institute, I will be happy to talk.

saco.csic.es/index.php/s/Qy…

What’s happening to openDemocracy is a disaster.

Solidarity Adam Ramsay and everyone else being laid off.

El ecologismo sin clase es jardinería. Por esto desde IDRA hemos montado este ciclo de debates, porque la jardinería es diver pero cambiar el mundo es mucho mejor 💚

Inscripciones aquí: idrabcn.com/es/clase/

📢Publicación informe📢

'El municipalismo en España. Aprendizajes de un ciclo político 2015-2023'

Análisis de los avances, límites y retos que experimentaron las plataformas municipalistas tanto desde el plano organizativo como institucional

👉 repositori.uji.es/xmlui/handle/1…

“I’d never heard of a gulag before, but they sound a heck of a useful”

Haddon, age 7.
West Tampa Elementary School

Please sign and circulate this letter in support of Jodi Dean.

chng.it/Mfp6bRT8qQ

'Researching Developers and Landlords: A tenant's how-to guide'

Brilliant work by Rich Goulding for Greater Manchester Tenants Union as part of our Centripetal Cities project.

Will be useful for tenant unions, housing campaigns + others in UK and further afield

tenantsunion.org.uk/news-stories/r…

The CEO of AstraZeneca, Pascal Soriot, makes £16.9 million a year...

...but according to one of their top shareholders, he's 'massively underpaid'.

Corporate greed moves wealth away from global health and into rich CEOs pockets. Its time for change.

ft.com/content/c72267…

tHeRe Is No AlTeRnAtIVe

(is this national led agricultural community wealth building?!)

Given the dread state of Italian politics, it is all the more instructive that some of the most significant movements for an ecological transition from below have been emerging there 1/3
jacobin.com/2023/04/italy-…

Why do academics do unpaid peer reviews for for-profit publishers?

The parent company of Elsevier, Relx, reported a net profit of £1.79 billion in 2023.

A peer-review boycott of for-profit publishers should be straightforward. #AcademicTwitter

researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-europe…

A la Floresta... de l'acció veïnal x recuperar les cases buides, a la posada en marxa de 'Clau Mestra', el primer projecte cooperatiu d’autoconstrucció. Una realitat, avui, d'habitatge assequible, autogestió comunitària i implicació al barri. elcritic.cat
elcritic.cat/mes/sostre-cri…