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Tragedy of the Market: Opening

On Friday, January 6, 2012 at SFU downtown, we enjoyed the opening panel of Tragedy of the Market: From Crisis to Commons. Chronologically, Arthur Manuel, Dave Bleakney and Harsha Walia spoke. Tweets from the #commons2012 Twitter hashtag are below. Retweets and spambots have been excluded.

  1. PoliticsReSpun
    500 years of market fundamentalism crisis tonight at #commons2012. http://commons2012.wordpress.com/ #bcpoli #occupy #vanpoli #cdnpoli
    Politics, Re-Spun
    Fri, Jan 06 2012 22:35:30
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  2. kevinharding
    At #commons2012. Let's see what happens.
    kevin harding
    Fri, Jan 06 2012 22:35:30
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  3. PoliticsReSpun
    At #commons2012, thinking about a new world w/ a healthy commons. http://ow.ly/1Dr1u6 #bcpoli #occupy #vanpoli #cdnpoli
    Politics, Re-Spun
    Fri, Jan 06 2012 22:35:30
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  4. KateMilberry
    Listening to fiona jeffries open #commons2012; politics of the commons & a restoration of community
    KateMilberry
    Fri, Jan 06 2012 22:35:30
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  5. kevinharding
    Full room at #commons2012. Good to see. Going through a long (but good) introduction.
    kevin harding
    Fri, Jan 06 2012 22:35:30
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  6. sarahbjorknas
    Politics of #mutualaid and restoration of community bonds. #commons2012
    Sarah Bjorknas
    Fri, Jan 06 2012 22:35:30
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  7. PoliticsReSpun
    Mutual aid, solidarity, community building and direct democracy are commons-building, not colonialism. #commons2012 #bcpoli #vanpoli
    Politics, Re-Spun
    Fri, Jan 06 2012 22:35:30
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  8. PoliticsReSpun
    Once you deregulate the greed, people steal all the can. #commons2012 #bcpoli #vanpoli
    Politics, Re-Spun
    Fri, Jan 06 2012 22:35:30
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  9. sarahbjorknas
    Art Manuel giving a 'discovered person' perspective of capitalism at #commons2012
    Sarah Bjorknas
    Fri, Jan 06 2012 22:32:36
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  10. KateMilberry
    Arthur Manuel: #occupy movement showed non-natives that free market didnt have all the answers #commons2012
    KateMilberry
    Fri, Jan 06 2012 22:35:30
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  11. kevinharding
    Art Manuel giving a good discussion about capitalist realism from the colonised's perspective. #commons2012
    kevin harding
    Fri, Jan 06 2012 22:35:30
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  12. PoliticsReSpun
    Indigenous people treat the earth, animals, plants, air and water as equal partners, not a resource. #commons2012 #bcpoli #vanpoli
    Politics, Re-Spun
    Fri, Jan 06 2012 22:35:30
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  13. kevinharding
    Art Manuel makes a good point: settlers import a hierarchical and competitive value system. #commons2012
    kevin harding
    Fri, Jan 06 2012 22:35:30
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  14. KateMilberry
    Art Manuel: "Cdns are stupid" Smart, funny analysis of contemporary capitalism & its foundation on resource extraction #commons2012 #cdnpoli
    KateMilberry
    Fri, Jan 06 2012 22:35:30
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  15. sarahbjorknas
    "Earth has a life itself and if you mess with it there are consequences." Art Manuel #commons2012 We're stupid. #tarsands #canpoli
    Sarah Bjorknas
    Fri, Jan 06 2012 22:35:30
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  16. kevinharding
    In the Cdn constitution, the collective power of Canadian people was divided between fed and prov - excluding indigenous. #commons2012
    kevin harding
    Fri, Jan 06 2012 22:35:30
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  17. kevinharding
    And the only say we get is to elect a rep. #commons2012
    kevin harding
    Fri, Jan 06 2012 22:35:30
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  18. PoliticsReSpun
    Art Manuel talks about how s.91 & s.92 means people have no autonomy. Aboriginal title has challenged that. #commons2012 #bcpoli #vanpoli
    Politics, Re-Spun
    Fri, Jan 06 2012 22:35:30
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  19. kevinharding
    There's a way for Canadians to get involved in the debate - but they need to get involved with indigenous. #commons2012
    kevin harding
    Fri, Jan 06 2012 22:35:30
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  20. PoliticsReSpun
    We need to work with indigenous peoples to force the elected politicians to stop the destruction. #commons2012 #bcpoli #vanpoli
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    Fri, Jan 06 2012 22:35:30
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  21. kevinharding
    Next speaker makes an important point: "official labour" movmt often forgets labour is way more than paid official jobs. #commons2012
    kevin harding
    Fri, Jan 06 2012 22:35:30
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  22. PoliticsReSpun
    The British were good at building corruption right into the legal order. Welcome to Canada! #commons2012 #bcpoli #vanpoli
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    Fri, Jan 06 2012 22:35:30
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  23. kevinharding
    Speaker will talk about labour movement, concept of growth, self-victimization, and more. Also post-war compromise. #commons2012
    kevin harding
    Fri, Jan 06 2012 22:35:30
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  24. KateMilberry
    Dave Bleakney on self-victimization of unionized labour & the labour mvmt's delusion #commons2012 #cdnpoli #vanpoli
    KateMilberry
    Fri, Jan 06 2012 22:35:30
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