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WOS-4 Commons-Based Peer Production and Basic Income

By Dmytri Kleiner 17 October 2006

Dmytri Kleiner strikes again! This time responding to comments by Michel Bauwens regarding this previous post, Kleiner spells out in more detail his v...

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First Cut is the Deepest

By Paul Helliwell 12 October 2006

Free improvisation guitarist and theorist Derek Bailey could be described as the Samuel Beckett of post-war music. Bailey moved nohow-onward by means ...

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Academic Freedom Under Attack in South Africa

By Freedom of Expression InstituteMedia Release: FXI Concerned about growing `climate of fear´ at the University of KwaZulu-Natal9 October 2006 The Freedom of Expression Institute last week wrote to theVice-Chancellor of the University of KwaZulu Natal, ProfessorMalegapuru Makgoba, expressing its concern regarding thestate of freedom of expression and academic freedom at thatuniversity. The FXI told Makgoba it believed `free expressionand academic freedom are in severe decline at your universityand urge you to act expeditiously to stem this trend which isalready derailing your vision of being "the premier university ofAfrican scholarship"´. 11 October 2006

The latest incident causing concern for the FXI is the matter ofFazel Khan, who is being hauled before a disciplinarycommittee. Khan, a sociology lect...

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Divided City I - London Social Forum – housing and land rights conference

By Keith Parkins 9 October 2006

Report on the Divided Cities conference by Keith Perkins, reposted from :http://www0.indymedia.org.uk/en/2006/10/352437.htmlAt the request of the Euro...

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Divided City II

By Anthony Iles 9 October 2006

Divided CityDivided City organised by the London Social Forum was a large event organised at Limehouse Town Hall, (full programme) since I live on Com...

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Property Rights in Favelas?

By Robert Neuwirth 8 October 2006

I'm reposting this item from http://squattercity.blogspot.com/2006/09/property-rights-in-favelas.html to draw attention to Robert Neuwirth's...

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Extreme Makeover

By Merijn Oudenampsen 6 October 2006

Amsterdam is undergoing a historic process of regeneration. Much of the city’s reserve of social housing is being transformed into luxury accommodat...

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The Conditions of Possibility: Tributes to Marina Vishmidt 1976-2024 (I)

By Mute Collective 6 June 2024

Marina Vishmidt, a much loved and deeply formative contributor for our magazine from its early years, tragically passed away at the end of April. The ...

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Mute Archive Move

By mute 27 June 2022

This June and July the Mute magazine archive is being moved from its current home in a shipping container a hundred miles north of London to a new smaller space in Berlin.

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