People always want to bring up the “I Have a Dream” speech on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, but I’ve never been able to read that one through. More eloquent to my mind is the open letter he wrote to white church leaders from Birmingham Jail, where he’d been imprisoned for marching for civil rights. The local white pastors in Birmingham called the protests “unwise and untimely” and labeled Dr. King an outsider and troublemaker, since he’d come over from Atlanta to help lead the march.
Peter Minuit and the Gift Economy
Something that cannot be sold cannot be commodified. It is like that with commons. If ever they are commodified, they cease to be commons.…