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Notes

Links of interest, about which there should probably be pages on this site or possibly on ICMS:

• wikipedia:Online deliberation
• wikipedia:Colour revolution: successful nonviolent resistance movements
• wikipedia:Committee of correspondence
• wikipedia:Symbolic violence: how existing hierarchies are maintained
• 2011-12-20 Green Bay Packers Prove That Public Ownership of Organizations is Economical "The Packers’ stocks do not gain in value, there are no dividends, and ownership can only be transferred to an immediate family member. Most importantly, there’s a 200,000 individual share limit to prevent any one person from becoming the majority owner."
• 2013-02-19 The Economy: Under New Ownership How cooperatives are leading the way to empowered workers and healthy communities.
• 2013-04-06 Mexican Workers Win Ownership of Tire Plant With Three-Year Strike "Taking over their plant was not the workers’ idea. Continental Tire proposed to sell it to them—after the union backed management into a corner so tight the owners wanted nothing more to do with it. But to get to that point workers had to wage a three-year strike and what we in the U.S. call a “comprehensive campaign.” Workers say it was not just one tactic that won the day, but a combination of relentless pressures."
• 2013-04-23 We are Players in the Game of Revolution
• 2013-05-09 Chicago Workers Open New Cooperatively Owned Factory Five Years After Republic Windows Occupation
• 2013-06-23 State Machinery For State Machines, aka "hackers need statehood"
• 2013-07-29 The Stupidity of the Crowd "New research shows that groups make worse decisions than individuals do when the choice is really obvious." Actually no, it shows that ants make bad decisions in groups; it says nothing about humans, much less humans aided by tools to enhance the accuracy of collective decisionmaking.
• 2013-08-20 The Supercell Autonomous Team Model
• http://www.nceo.org/articles/employee-ownership-100
• http://p2pfoundation.net/Building_Trust_in_P2P_Marketplaces
• http://www.alternet.org/economy/chris-hedges-explains-how-entire-regions-within-us-are-treated-exploited-colonies?paging=off
• John Green's Crash Course videos:
  • Seven Years War
  • The American Revolution

Projects

• ProCon.org: pros and cons of controversial issues -- nonpartisan
• AllOurIdeas: an "idea marketplace" -- some resemblance to liquid agenda, but simplified

See also: governance methods

Quotes

• "The ballot box, a tawdry token of democracy, enables shrewd, effective control in the mass society, by those on top." - Howard Zinn