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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
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
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