#magnacarta — Public Fediverse posts

#KingCharles is visiting the #US and is speaking at the #Congress, explaining the #MagnaCarta and why it is so important that the power of the #president #PotUS is restricted by the constitution of the #usa

Standing ovations by the #GOP while #JDVance is smelling the beef and remains sitting.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=J23slHmDiow

Strange how a document from 1215 still feels unresolved.

Because the question never changed:
Who limits power when power claims necessity?

Today it’s not just kings.
It’s states, platforms, crises - all bending the line between protection and control.

Rights don’t vanish.
They blur.

And the “exception” risks quietly becoming the rule.

https://open.substack.com/pub/associationredefine/p/introducing-the-right-chronicles?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web

#Democracy #RuleOfLaw #HumanRights #DigitalRights #PowerAndAccountability #MagnaCarta#Governance

King John did not sign the Magna Carta because he believed in human rights.
He signed it because he was cornered.

And yet, that reluctant signature helped plant one of the most radical ideas in political history:

Power must obey rules.

Eight centuries later, we still live inside that argument.
https://associationredefine.substack.com/p/introducing-the-right-chronicles?r=6l8ed8
#MagnaCarta
#HumanRights
#RuleOfLaw
#Democracy
#HistoryMatters
#RightsChronicles
#CivicEducation
#PoliticalHistory

從國會到酒吧🍻：自由民主黨副黨魁Daisy Cooper談黎智英與 BNO 港人安全 🇬🇧🇭🇰

📌 到 YouTube 或按此收看足本訪問：https://youtu.be/LupsuFzXRK4

《綠豆》專訪英國自由民主黨副黨魁 Daisy Cooper 議員，從歷史古城、《大憲章》的誕生地 St Albans 出發，探討香港人最關心的議題。

#DaisyCooper #在英港人 #BNO #黎智英 #英中關係 #對華政策 #跨境鎮壓 #聖奧爾本斯 #StAlbans #大憲章 #MagnaCarta #自由民主黨 #英國酒吧文化 #LetsTalk
https://www.instagram.com/p/DVv7aWqDNqO/

從國會到酒吧🍻：自由民主黨副黨魁Daisy Cooper談黎智英與 BNO 港人安全 🇬🇧🇭🇰

📌 到 YouTube 或按此收看足本訪問：https://youtu.be/LupsuFzXRK4

《綠豆》專訪英國自由民主黨副黨魁 Daisy Cooper 議員，從歷史古城、《大憲章》的誕生地 St Albans 出發，探討香港人最關心的議題。

#DaisyCooper #在英港人 #BNO #黎智英 #英中關係 #對華政策 #跨境鎮壓 #聖奧爾本斯 #StAlbans #大憲章 #MagnaCarta #自由民主黨 #英國酒吧文化 #LetsTalk
https://www.instagram.com/p/DVv7aWqDNqO/

After stops that took in the Bodleian Library complex and the Radcliffe Science Library, the last stop on the nostalgia tour was the British Library.

(I wrote large chunks of my PhD thesis camped out there, back in the day.)

It feels more important than ever to show appreciation for these wondrous and beautiful institutions.

#nostalgia #oxford #london #library #magnacarta #firstfolio #beowulf

An eloquent, sly and damning statement by a veteran #Texas judge, every word has weight

#uspol #ice #liamramos #magnacarta
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/02/03/books/judge-ruling-liam-conejo-ramos-analysis.html?unlocked_article_code=1.J1A.LBrO.usDrkqVpSEog&smid=bs-share

See also:

#books
#nonfiction
#HumanRights
#history
#MagnaCarta

Magna Carta by Dan Jones

The Making and Legacy of the Great Charter

On a summer's day in 1215 a beleaguered English monarch met a group of disgruntled barons in a meadow by the river Thames named Runnymede. Beset by foreign crisis and domestic rebellion, King John was fast running out of options. On 15 June he reluctantly agreed to fix his regal seal to a document that would change the world.

#books
#nonfiction
#history
#England
#MagnaCarta
#HabeasCorpus

#Magnacarta translation english part2

#Magnacarta part1 English translation

Modern #Magnacarta wishes #Salisbury

Looking through the catalogue for the Hew Locke career spanning exhibition Passages, at the Yale Centre for British Art, I came across his commission for twelve chairs to commemorate Magna Carta at Runnymede.

Here is the National Trust's page which includes a slide show about all 12 chairs.

Absolutely fascinating & brilliant work which if you are near Runnymede would definitely be worth visiting!

#art #MagnaCarta #HewLocke #politics

https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/surrey/runnymede-and-ankerwycke/the-jurors-at-runnymede

In 1215, rebel barons forced King John to seal the Magna Carta — a charter born from tyranny, demanding justice, law, and equality before power. It became democracy’s political seed.
#MagnaCarta #FreedomCharter #BritishHistory #MedievalPolitics #Storytelling #DidYouKnow #HistoryFacts #DocumentaryShort #WeirdHistory
Read more: https://www.ancient-origins.net/news-evolution-human-origins/entire-neanderthal-genome-finally-mapped-amazing-results-001138

Jury trials scrapped for crimes with sentences of less than three years www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... I imagine Reform will use this to put people like him (ie non-Anglo-Saxon) in prison without the faff of a jury trial. #magnacarta #mindfulness

Jury trials scrapped for crime...

Sarah Sackman, the Justice Minister, has just said, "There is no fundamental right to trial by jury"

Notwithstanding this volte-face:
“Jury trials are fundamental to our democracy. We must protect them”. David Lammy MP, 2020

There are only three clauses out of the 63 in the #MagnaCarta that we still follow: the freedom of the Church of England, the privileges of the City of London, and the right to justice and a fair trial.

What does the fair trial one say.....

1/2

https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Aubrey-HistoryOfEngland-Vol1/pages/339-king-john-sealing-magna-carta/

King John of England was bludgeoned (well, not literally) into signing Magna Carta in the year 1215. It was a bill of rights that limited the power of the monarch, saying the king was not above the law - something still true in British law today.

The treaty lasted only a few months, but later ones were even stronger.

The house where i grew up was sold in 1236 🙂

#vintageArt #magnaCarta #ItsInTheMagnaCarta #fobo #royalty #england #humanRights #GIMp #GIMP3 #Gimp_3

https://rollo75.blogspot.com/2025/09/horse-3488-magna-carta-big-delusion-viii.html - blogged

Magna Carta - The BIG Delusion VIII
#MagnaCarta

It seems like Harvard Law School got a pretty good deal on that geninue copy of the Magna Carta.

#history #magnacarta #uk #england

https://blog.alexseifert.com/2025/08/25/cut-price-magna-carta-copy-now-believed-genuine/

https://rollo75.blogspot.com/2025/08/horse-3481-magna-carta-big-delusion-v.html - blogged

Magna Carta - The BIG Delusion V

#MagnaCarta

https://rollo75.blogspot.com/2025/08/horse-3480-magna-carta-big-delusion-iv.html - blogged

Magna Carta - The BIG Delusion IV
#MagnaCarta

https://rollo75.blogspot.com/2025/07/horse-3478-magna-carta-big-delusion-iii.html - blogged

Magna Carta - The BIG Delusion III
#MagnaCarta

https://rollo75.blogspot.com/2025/07/horse-3477-magna-carta-big-delusion.html - blogged

Magna Carta - The BIG Delusion

#MagnaCarta

📖 **Portable Magna Carta: Rare Book of the Week**

"_This week's Rare Book of the Week is a 14th century portable Magna Carta on vellum in Latin and Anglo-Norman French which comes to auction on July 9 at Christie's with an estimate of £15,000- £20,000._"

🔗 https://www.finebooksmagazine.com/fine-books-news/portable-magna-carta-rare-book-week.

#MagnaCarta #RareBook #Book #Bookstodon @bookstodon

🧰 What would you pack in your Freedom Loot Crate?

A scroll of habeas corpus?
A VPN amulet?
A digital shield of transparency?

Our latest post explores how the Magna Carta kicked off a centuries-long upgrade—from royal seals to algorithmic rights.

📜 Blog: https://redefine.pt/2025/07/02/the-box-of-rights-if-you-had-to-put-liberty-in-a-loot-crate/
🎥 Watch Episode 1: https://youtu.be/7Xy4EUI3Y2Q

#PathwaysToFreedom #digitalrights #magnacarta #humanrights #civiceducation

**Medieval experts reveal how they found Harvard’s Magna Carta**

"_An investigation led by Prof David Carpenter of King’s College London revealed the document held at Harvard Law School since the 1940s and thought to be a copy had actually been issued by King Edward I in 1300._"

🔗 https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/about/news/medieval-experts-reveal-how-they-found-harvards-magna-carta/.

#MagnaCarta #Harvard #Medieval #Medievodons @medievodons

Are #Trees the Key to #Protecting #Vulnerable #Neighborhoods? : Medium

In #Harvard’s #Archives, #British #Scholars find a lost #MagnaCarta : Wash Post

#Perseverance #Mars #Rover becomes 1st #Spacecraft to spot #Auroras from the surface of another world : Space.com

Check our latest #KnowledgeLinks

https://knowledgezone.co.in/resources/bookmarks

Happy Magna Carta Day (15th June 1215) everyone! https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/resources/magna-carta/british-library-magna-carta-1215-runnymede/

Always remember:

"All fish-weirs shall be removed from the Thames, the Medway, and throughout the whole of England, except on the sea coast."

and:

"All barons who have founded abbeys, and have charters of English kings or ancient tenure as evidence of this, may have guardianship of them when there is no abbot, as is their due."

#MagnaCarta #history

𝗪𝗜𝗞𝗜𝗣𝗘𝗗𝗜𝗔 𝗣𝗜𝗖𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗘 𝗢𝗙 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗗𝗔𝗬

✧ Magna Carta (An Embroidery) ✧

Magna Carta (An Embroidery) is a 2015 work by English installation artist Cornelia Parker. The artwork is an embroidered representation of the complete text and images of an online encyclopedia article for Magna Carta, as it appeared in English Wikipedia on 15 June 2014, the 799th anniversary of the document. The hand-stitched embroidery is 1.5 m...

#MagnaCarta #Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magna_Carta_(An_Embroidery)

@lauren

Hey, it's only been a formal part of the law since 1215 (and part of the common law long before that). She can't be expected to keep up with all these changes...

#1215 #habeus #MagnaCarta

Harvard Law just dropped a whopping $27 on Magna Carta, because apparently, historical artifacts are the new impulse buys. 😂 Meanwhile, NYT kindly asks you to do the impossible: enable #JavaScript while disabling your survival instincts (ad blocker). 🤦‍♂️
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/world/europe/harvard-law-magna-carta-original.html #HarvardLaw #MagnaCarta #HistoricalArtifacts #AdBlocker #TechHumor #HackerNews #ngated

Harvard Law Paid $27 for a Copy of Magna Carta. It's an Original

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/world/europe/harvard-law-magna-carta-original.html

#HackerNews #HarvardLaw #MagnaCarta #OriginalHistory #RareBooks #LegalHistory

Comment l’université de Harvard a acquis un exemplaire authentique de la «Magna Carta» pour 27 dollars

#magnacarta #harvard #bibliothèques #bibliothèque #manuscrit

https://www.liberation.fr/sciences/archeologie/comment-luniversite-de-harvard-a-acquis-un-exemplaire-authentique-de-la-magna-carta-pour-27-dollars-20250515_P2C3XA2JXNEJTAUUMBDSFMDTV4/

Excerpt from "Commons, #Libraries & #Degrowth" by Andrewism

"How has the potent alternative present in the commons been so wiped from our collective memory?

"It goes back to the feudal concept of land ownership, the age of European #colonialism, and of course, the rise of #IndustrialCapitalism. The king of England, for example, owned all the land in feudal England but bestowed titles for pledges of loyalty to powerful members of the nobility that allowed them to rule over large estates. These lords leased the land they were given to aristocrats, who also leased parts of their land as payment, for military aid, or for rent. This rigidly hierarchical system of obligation between landed lords and their tenants or vassals reinforced the monarchy’s ability to stake a claim on the land in their kingdom. However, at the bottom of this system were the peasants, who did all the actual work on the common land on the lord’s estate. Many were generationally serfs; legally prohibited from leaving the land they cultivated without their lord’s permission. Lords may have come and gone, but their bondage to the land was basically forever.

"After the #MagnaCarta, the #BlackDeath, the #Crusades, and all the other dramas that brought #feudalism into decline, the nobility initiated a process of #privatisation that laid the groundwork for early #capitalism through acquisitions, settlement, and enclosure of the commons. But even though revolutions and reforms came and went and most of us have gotten rid of our inbred kings and queens and their right to rule, the concept of sovereignty over private parcels of land and the feudal relationship of landlord and tenant has endured to this day, exported globally through #EuropeanColonialism.

"Despite this violent and antisocial theft of our access to even the means of subsistence, some commons have survived and thrived, though they operate within the constraints of the State and the #GlobalCapitalist status quo. Still, there is a lot we can learn from them when it comes to how to manage the commons.

"Why have they succeeded where others have failed in maintaining their commons? All efforts to organise collective action, including the commons, must address a common set of problems: how to supply new institutions, how to solve commitment issues, and how to maintain stability. It’s not easy. And yet some individuals have created institutions, committed themselves to following the rules they’ve come up with together, and assessed their own and others’ conformance to the rules in order to maintain the stability of their shared commons. Again, why have they succeeded where others have failed? External factors seem to play a significant role. Some have more autonomy than others to change their own institutions while others have change happen too rapidly for them to respond and adjust. Regardless, people try their best to solve the problems they face, despite their limitations. What factors help or hinder them in these efforts is a matter of careful study if we wish to succeed in organising and running our own commons.

"But first, we need to clarify some definitions.

"The commons are based on a common-pool resource or CPR, which is a natural or man-made resource system that benefits a group of people, but provides diminished benefits to everyone if each individual pursues their own self-interest. We must draw a further distinction between the resource system and the resource units produced by the system. Resource systems include #forests, #groundwater basins, irrigation canals, #lakes, #fisheries, #pastures, and even #infrastructure like windmills and the internet, while resource units consist of whatever users appropriate from those resource systems, such as cubic metres of lumber harvested and water withdrawn, tons of fish harvested and fodder grazed, kilowatts generated and network bandwidth used. It’s also important to maintain the #renewability of a resource system by ensuring that the average rate of withdrawal does not exceed the average rate of #replenishment.

"The term ‘appropriators’ refers to those who withdraw resource units from a resource system, like a fisher or farmer. Appropriators may use the resource units they withdraw, like residents powering their homes or farmers watering their crops, or they may transfer the resource units for others to use, such as a logger sending lumber to a hardware store for sale. Those who arrange for the provision of a CPR through financing or design are providers, while producers are those who actually construct, repair, and sustain the resource system itself. Providers, producers, and appropriators are often all the same people.

"Appropriators who share a CPR are deeply intertwined in a tapestry of interdependence. Acting selfishly and independently will usually obtain less benefit than they could have had they collectively organised in some way. The process of organising enables us to coordinate and change our shared situations to obtain higher shared benefits and reduce shared harm.

"Some of the commons institutions that endure today are as old as over a thousand years, while others are a few hundred at most. They exist alongside the personal property of the appropriators involved, such as their crops and livestock, but have remained at the core of these communities’ economies for generations. They have survived #droughts, #floods, #wars, #pestilences, and many major economic and political changes. From the alpine meadows of Torbel, Switzerland to the 3 million hectares of Japanese forest to the irrigation systems of Spain and the Philippines, these projects have evolved over time in response to experience and circumstance. None of them are perfect demonstrations of anarchy or anything, nor are they necessarily the most ‘optimal’ by some metrics. But they are successful in establishing a level of #autonomy and #resilience in the people involved in them, and they’ve managed to carefully maintain the ecology of the regions they inhabit.

"These institutions exist in different settings and have different histories, yet they simultaneously share fundamental similarities. Unpredictable and complex environments combined with engineering and farming skills combined with a predictable population over an extended period of time. These fairly egalitarian communities have developed extensive norms that define proper behaviour, involving honesty and reliability, allowing them to live without excessive conflict in a deeply interdependent environment. The perseverance of these institutions is due to the seven, and in some cases eight, key principles that Elinor Ostrom outlines in Governing the Commons..."

Read more:
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/andrewism-commons-libraries-degrowth
#SolarPunkSunday #AnarchistLibrary #ClimateCrisis #Resiliency

Excerpt from "Commons, #Libraries & #Degrowth" by Andrewism

"How has the potent alternative present in the commons been so wiped from our collective memory?

"It goes back to the feudal concept of land ownership, the age of European #colonialism, and of course, the rise of #IndustrialCapitalism. The king of England, for example, owned all the land in feudal England but bestowed titles for pledges of loyalty to powerful members of the nobility that allowed them to rule over large estates. These lords leased the land they were given to aristocrats, who also leased parts of their land as payment, for military aid, or for rent. This rigidly hierarchical system of obligation between landed lords and their tenants or vassals reinforced the monarchy’s ability to stake a claim on the land in their kingdom. However, at the bottom of this system were the peasants, who did all the actual work on the common land on the lord’s estate. Many were generationally serfs; legally prohibited from leaving the land they cultivated without their lord’s permission. Lords may have come and gone, but their bondage to the land was basically forever.

"After the #MagnaCarta, the #BlackDeath, the #Crusades, and all the other dramas that brought #feudalism into decline, the nobility initiated a process of #privatisation that laid the groundwork for early #capitalism through acquisitions, settlement, and enclosure of the commons. But even though revolutions and reforms came and went and most of us have gotten rid of our inbred kings and queens and their right to rule, the concept of sovereignty over private parcels of land and the feudal relationship of landlord and tenant has endured to this day, exported globally through #EuropeanColonialism.

"Despite this violent and antisocial theft of our access to even the means of subsistence, some commons have survived and thrived, though they operate within the constraints of the State and the #GlobalCapitalist status quo. Still, there is a lot we can learn from them when it comes to how to manage the commons.

"Why have they succeeded where others have failed in maintaining their commons? All efforts to organise collective action, including the commons, must address a common set of problems: how to supply new institutions, how to solve commitment issues, and how to maintain stability. It’s not easy. And yet some individuals have created institutions, committed themselves to following the rules they’ve come up with together, and assessed their own and others’ conformance to the rules in order to maintain the stability of their shared commons. Again, why have they succeeded where others have failed? External factors seem to play a significant role. Some have more autonomy than others to change their own institutions while others have change happen too rapidly for them to respond and adjust. Regardless, people try their best to solve the problems they face, despite their limitations. What factors help or hinder them in these efforts is a matter of careful study if we wish to succeed in organising and running our own commons.

"But first, we need to clarify some definitions.

"The commons are based on a common-pool resource or CPR, which is a natural or man-made resource system that benefits a group of people, but provides diminished benefits to everyone if each individual pursues their own self-interest. We must draw a further distinction between the resource system and the resource units produced by the system. Resource systems include #forests, #groundwater basins, irrigation canals, #lakes, #fisheries, #pastures, and even #infrastructure like windmills and the internet, while resource units consist of whatever users appropriate from those resource systems, such as cubic metres of lumber harvested and water withdrawn, tons of fish harvested and fodder grazed, kilowatts generated and network bandwidth used. It’s also important to maintain the #renewability of a resource system by ensuring that the average rate of withdrawal does not exceed the average rate of #replenishment.

"The term ‘appropriators’ refers to those who withdraw resource units from a resource system, like a fisher or farmer. Appropriators may use the resource units they withdraw, like residents powering their homes or farmers watering their crops, or they may transfer the resource units for others to use, such as a logger sending lumber to a hardware store for sale. Those who arrange for the provision of a CPR through financing or design are providers, while producers are those who actually construct, repair, and sustain the resource system itself. Providers, producers, and appropriators are often all the same people.

"Appropriators who share a CPR are deeply intertwined in a tapestry of interdependence. Acting selfishly and independently will usually obtain less benefit than they could have had they collectively organised in some way. The process of organising enables us to coordinate and change our shared situations to obtain higher shared benefits and reduce shared harm.

"Some of the commons institutions that endure today are as old as over a thousand years, while others are a few hundred at most. They exist alongside the personal property of the appropriators involved, such as their crops and livestock, but have remained at the core of these communities’ economies for generations. They have survived #droughts, #floods, #wars, #pestilences, and many major economic and political changes. From the alpine meadows of Torbel, Switzerland to the 3 million hectares of Japanese forest to the irrigation systems of Spain and the Philippines, these projects have evolved over time in response to experience and circumstance. None of them are perfect demonstrations of anarchy or anything, nor are they necessarily the most ‘optimal’ by some metrics. But they are successful in establishing a level of #autonomy and #resilience in the people involved in them, and they’ve managed to carefully maintain the ecology of the regions they inhabit.

"These institutions exist in different settings and have different histories, yet they simultaneously share fundamental similarities. Unpredictable and complex environments combined with engineering and farming skills combined with a predictable population over an extended period of time. These fairly egalitarian communities have developed extensive norms that define proper behaviour, involving honesty and reliability, allowing them to live without excessive conflict in a deeply interdependent environment. The perseverance of these institutions is due to the seven, and in some cases eight, key principles that Elinor Ostrom outlines in Governing the Commons..."

Read more:
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/andrewism-commons-libraries-degrowth
#SolarPunkSunday #AnarchistLibrary #ClimateCrisis #Resiliency

Excerpt from "Commons, #Libraries & #Degrowth" by Andrewism

"How has the potent alternative present in the commons been so wiped from our collective memory?

"It goes back to the feudal concept of land ownership, the age of European #colonialism, and of course, the rise of #IndustrialCapitalism. The king of England, for example, owned all the land in feudal England but bestowed titles for pledges of loyalty to powerful members of the nobility that allowed them to rule over large estates. These lords leased the land they were given to aristocrats, who also leased parts of their land as payment, for military aid, or for rent. This rigidly hierarchical system of obligation between landed lords and their tenants or vassals reinforced the monarchy’s ability to stake a claim on the land in their kingdom. However, at the bottom of this system were the peasants, who did all the actual work on the common land on the lord’s estate. Many were generationally serfs; legally prohibited from leaving the land they cultivated without their lord’s permission. Lords may have come and gone, but their bondage to the land was basically forever.

"After the #MagnaCarta, the #BlackDeath, the #Crusades, and all the other dramas that brought #feudalism into decline, the nobility initiated a process of #privatisation that laid the groundwork for early #capitalism through acquisitions, settlement, and enclosure of the commons. But even though revolutions and reforms came and went and most of us have gotten rid of our inbred kings and queens and their right to rule, the concept of sovereignty over private parcels of land and the feudal relationship of landlord and tenant has endured to this day, exported globally through #EuropeanColonialism.

"Despite this violent and antisocial theft of our access to even the means of subsistence, some commons have survived and thrived, though they operate within the constraints of the State and the #GlobalCapitalist status quo. Still, there is a lot we can learn from them when it comes to how to manage the commons.

"Why have they succeeded where others have failed in maintaining their commons? All efforts to organise collective action, including the commons, must address a common set of problems: how to supply new institutions, how to solve commitment issues, and how to maintain stability. It’s not easy. And yet some individuals have created institutions, committed themselves to following the rules they’ve come up with together, and assessed their own and others’ conformance to the rules in order to maintain the stability of their shared commons. Again, why have they succeeded where others have failed? External factors seem to play a significant role. Some have more autonomy than others to change their own institutions while others have change happen too rapidly for them to respond and adjust. Regardless, people try their best to solve the problems they face, despite their limitations. What factors help or hinder them in these efforts is a matter of careful study if we wish to succeed in organising and running our own commons.

"But first, we need to clarify some definitions.

"The commons are based on a common-pool resource or CPR, which is a natural or man-made resource system that benefits a group of people, but provides diminished benefits to everyone if each individual pursues their own self-interest. We must draw a further distinction between the resource system and the resource units produced by the system. Resource systems include #forests, #groundwater basins, irrigation canals, #lakes, #fisheries, #pastures, and even #infrastructure like windmills and the internet, while resource units consist of whatever users appropriate from those resource systems, such as cubic metres of lumber harvested and water withdrawn, tons of fish harvested and fodder grazed, kilowatts generated and network bandwidth used. It’s also important to maintain the #renewability of a resource system by ensuring that the average rate of withdrawal does not exceed the average rate of #replenishment.

"The term ‘appropriators’ refers to those who withdraw resource units from a resource system, like a fisher or farmer. Appropriators may use the resource units they withdraw, like residents powering their homes or farmers watering their crops, or they may transfer the resource units for others to use, such as a logger sending lumber to a hardware store for sale. Those who arrange for the provision of a CPR through financing or design are providers, while producers are those who actually construct, repair, and sustain the resource system itself. Providers, producers, and appropriators are often all the same people.

"Appropriators who share a CPR are deeply intertwined in a tapestry of interdependence. Acting selfishly and independently will usually obtain less benefit than they could have had they collectively organised in some way. The process of organising enables us to coordinate and change our shared situations to obtain higher shared benefits and reduce shared harm.

"Some of the commons institutions that endure today are as old as over a thousand years, while others are a few hundred at most. They exist alongside the personal property of the appropriators involved, such as their crops and livestock, but have remained at the core of these communities’ economies for generations. They have survived #droughts, #floods, #wars, #pestilences, and many major economic and political changes. From the alpine meadows of Torbel, Switzerland to the 3 million hectares of Japanese forest to the irrigation systems of Spain and the Philippines, these projects have evolved over time in response to experience and circumstance. None of them are perfect demonstrations of anarchy or anything, nor are they necessarily the most ‘optimal’ by some metrics. But they are successful in establishing a level of #autonomy and #resilience in the people involved in them, and they’ve managed to carefully maintain the ecology of the regions they inhabit.

"These institutions exist in different settings and have different histories, yet they simultaneously share fundamental similarities. Unpredictable and complex environments combined with engineering and farming skills combined with a predictable population over an extended period of time. These fairly egalitarian communities have developed extensive norms that define proper behaviour, involving honesty and reliability, allowing them to live without excessive conflict in a deeply interdependent environment. The perseverance of these institutions is due to the seven, and in some cases eight, key principles that Elinor Ostrom outlines in Governing the Commons..."

Read more:
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/andrewism-commons-libraries-degrowth
#SolarPunkSunday #AnarchistLibrary #ClimateCrisis #Resiliency

Excerpt from "Commons, #Libraries & #Degrowth" by Andrewism

"How has the potent alternative present in the commons been so wiped from our collective memory?

"It goes back to the feudal concept of land ownership, the age of European #colonialism, and of course, the rise of #IndustrialCapitalism. The king of England, for example, owned all the land in feudal England but bestowed titles for pledges of loyalty to powerful members of the nobility that allowed them to rule over large estates. These lords leased the land they were given to aristocrats, who also leased parts of their land as payment, for military aid, or for rent. This rigidly hierarchical system of obligation between landed lords and their tenants or vassals reinforced the monarchy’s ability to stake a claim on the land in their kingdom. However, at the bottom of this system were the peasants, who did all the actual work on the common land on the lord’s estate. Many were generationally serfs; legally prohibited from leaving the land they cultivated without their lord’s permission. Lords may have come and gone, but their bondage to the land was basically forever.

"After the #MagnaCarta, the #BlackDeath, the #Crusades, and all the other dramas that brought #feudalism into decline, the nobility initiated a process of #privatisation that laid the groundwork for early #capitalism through acquisitions, settlement, and enclosure of the commons. But even though revolutions and reforms came and went and most of us have gotten rid of our inbred kings and queens and their right to rule, the concept of sovereignty over private parcels of land and the feudal relationship of landlord and tenant has endured to this day, exported globally through #EuropeanColonialism.

"Despite this violent and antisocial theft of our access to even the means of subsistence, some commons have survived and thrived, though they operate within the constraints of the State and the #GlobalCapitalist status quo. Still, there is a lot we can learn from them when it comes to how to manage the commons.

"Why have they succeeded where others have failed in maintaining their commons? All efforts to organise collective action, including the commons, must address a common set of problems: how to supply new institutions, how to solve commitment issues, and how to maintain stability. It’s not easy. And yet some individuals have created institutions, committed themselves to following the rules they’ve come up with together, and assessed their own and others’ conformance to the rules in order to maintain the stability of their shared commons. Again, why have they succeeded where others have failed? External factors seem to play a significant role. Some have more autonomy than others to change their own institutions while others have change happen too rapidly for them to respond and adjust. Regardless, people try their best to solve the problems they face, despite their limitations. What factors help or hinder them in these efforts is a matter of careful study if we wish to succeed in organising and running our own commons.

"But first, we need to clarify some definitions.

"The commons are based on a common-pool resource or CPR, which is a natural or man-made resource system that benefits a group of people, but provides diminished benefits to everyone if each individual pursues their own self-interest. We must draw a further distinction between the resource system and the resource units produced by the system. Resource systems include #forests, #groundwater basins, irrigation canals, #lakes, #fisheries, #pastures, and even #infrastructure like windmills and the internet, while resource units consist of whatever users appropriate from those resource systems, such as cubic metres of lumber harvested and water withdrawn, tons of fish harvested and fodder grazed, kilowatts generated and network bandwidth used. It’s also important to maintain the #renewability of a resource system by ensuring that the average rate of withdrawal does not exceed the average rate of #replenishment.

"The term ‘appropriators’ refers to those who withdraw resource units from a resource system, like a fisher or farmer. Appropriators may use the resource units they withdraw, like residents powering their homes or farmers watering their crops, or they may transfer the resource units for others to use, such as a logger sending lumber to a hardware store for sale. Those who arrange for the provision of a CPR through financing or design are providers, while producers are those who actually construct, repair, and sustain the resource system itself. Providers, producers, and appropriators are often all the same people.

"Appropriators who share a CPR are deeply intertwined in a tapestry of interdependence. Acting selfishly and independently will usually obtain less benefit than they could have had they collectively organised in some way. The process of organising enables us to coordinate and change our shared situations to obtain higher shared benefits and reduce shared harm.

"Some of the commons institutions that endure today are as old as over a thousand years, while others are a few hundred at most. They exist alongside the personal property of the appropriators involved, such as their crops and livestock, but have remained at the core of these communities’ economies for generations. They have survived #droughts, #floods, #wars, #pestilences, and many major economic and political changes. From the alpine meadows of Torbel, Switzerland to the 3 million hectares of Japanese forest to the irrigation systems of Spain and the Philippines, these projects have evolved over time in response to experience and circumstance. None of them are perfect demonstrations of anarchy or anything, nor are they necessarily the most ‘optimal’ by some metrics. But they are successful in establishing a level of #autonomy and #resilience in the people involved in them, and they’ve managed to carefully maintain the ecology of the regions they inhabit.

"These institutions exist in different settings and have different histories, yet they simultaneously share fundamental similarities. Unpredictable and complex environments combined with engineering and farming skills combined with a predictable population over an extended period of time. These fairly egalitarian communities have developed extensive norms that define proper behaviour, involving honesty and reliability, allowing them to live without excessive conflict in a deeply interdependent environment. The perseverance of these institutions is due to the seven, and in some cases eight, key principles that Elinor Ostrom outlines in Governing the Commons..."

Read more:
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/andrewism-commons-libraries-degrowth
#SolarPunkSunday #AnarchistLibrary #ClimateCrisis #Resiliency

Excerpt from "Commons, #Libraries & #Degrowth" by Andrewism

"How has the potent alternative present in the commons been so wiped from our collective memory?

"It goes back to the feudal concept of land ownership, the age of European #colonialism, and of course, the rise of #IndustrialCapitalism. The king of England, for example, owned all the land in feudal England but bestowed titles for pledges of loyalty to powerful members of the nobility that allowed them to rule over large estates. These lords leased the land they were given to aristocrats, who also leased parts of their land as payment, for military aid, or for rent. This rigidly hierarchical system of obligation between landed lords and their tenants or vassals reinforced the monarchy’s ability to stake a claim on the land in their kingdom. However, at the bottom of this system were the peasants, who did all the actual work on the common land on the lord’s estate. Many were generationally serfs; legally prohibited from leaving the land they cultivated without their lord’s permission. Lords may have come and gone, but their bondage to the land was basically forever.

"After the #MagnaCarta, the #BlackDeath, the #Crusades, and all the other dramas that brought #feudalism into decline, the nobility initiated a process of #privatisation that laid the groundwork for early #capitalism through acquisitions, settlement, and enclosure of the commons. But even though revolutions and reforms came and went and most of us have gotten rid of our inbred kings and queens and their right to rule, the concept of sovereignty over private parcels of land and the feudal relationship of landlord and tenant has endured to this day, exported globally through #EuropeanColonialism.

"Despite this violent and antisocial theft of our access to even the means of subsistence, some commons have survived and thrived, though they operate within the constraints of the State and the #GlobalCapitalist status quo. Still, there is a lot we can learn from them when it comes to how to manage the commons.

"Why have they succeeded where others have failed in maintaining their commons? All efforts to organise collective action, including the commons, must address a common set of problems: how to supply new institutions, how to solve commitment issues, and how to maintain stability. It’s not easy. And yet some individuals have created institutions, committed themselves to following the rules they’ve come up with together, and assessed their own and others’ conformance to the rules in order to maintain the stability of their shared commons. Again, why have they succeeded where others have failed? External factors seem to play a significant role. Some have more autonomy than others to change their own institutions while others have change happen too rapidly for them to respond and adjust. Regardless, people try their best to solve the problems they face, despite their limitations. What factors help or hinder them in these efforts is a matter of careful study if we wish to succeed in organising and running our own commons.

"But first, we need to clarify some definitions.

"The commons are based on a common-pool resource or CPR, which is a natural or man-made resource system that benefits a group of people, but provides diminished benefits to everyone if each individual pursues their own self-interest. We must draw a further distinction between the resource system and the resource units produced by the system. Resource systems include #forests, #groundwater basins, irrigation canals, #lakes, #fisheries, #pastures, and even #infrastructure like windmills and the internet, while resource units consist of whatever users appropriate from those resource systems, such as cubic metres of lumber harvested and water withdrawn, tons of fish harvested and fodder grazed, kilowatts generated and network bandwidth used. It’s also important to maintain the #renewability of a resource system by ensuring that the average rate of withdrawal does not exceed the average rate of #replenishment.

"The term ‘appropriators’ refers to those who withdraw resource units from a resource system, like a fisher or farmer. Appropriators may use the resource units they withdraw, like residents powering their homes or farmers watering their crops, or they may transfer the resource units for others to use, such as a logger sending lumber to a hardware store for sale. Those who arrange for the provision of a CPR through financing or design are providers, while producers are those who actually construct, repair, and sustain the resource system itself. Providers, producers, and appropriators are often all the same people.

"Appropriators who share a CPR are deeply intertwined in a tapestry of interdependence. Acting selfishly and independently will usually obtain less benefit than they could have had they collectively organised in some way. The process of organising enables us to coordinate and change our shared situations to obtain higher shared benefits and reduce shared harm.

"Some of the commons institutions that endure today are as old as over a thousand years, while others are a few hundred at most. They exist alongside the personal property of the appropriators involved, such as their crops and livestock, but have remained at the core of these communities’ economies for generations. They have survived #droughts, #floods, #wars, #pestilences, and many major economic and political changes. From the alpine meadows of Torbel, Switzerland to the 3 million hectares of Japanese forest to the irrigation systems of Spain and the Philippines, these projects have evolved over time in response to experience and circumstance. None of them are perfect demonstrations of anarchy or anything, nor are they necessarily the most ‘optimal’ by some metrics. But they are successful in establishing a level of #autonomy and #resilience in the people involved in them, and they’ve managed to carefully maintain the ecology of the regions they inhabit.

"These institutions exist in different settings and have different histories, yet they simultaneously share fundamental similarities. Unpredictable and complex environments combined with engineering and farming skills combined with a predictable population over an extended period of time. These fairly egalitarian communities have developed extensive norms that define proper behaviour, involving honesty and reliability, allowing them to live without excessive conflict in a deeply interdependent environment. The perseverance of these institutions is due to the seven, and in some cases eight, key principles that Elinor Ostrom outlines in Governing the Commons..."

Read more:
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/andrewism-commons-libraries-degrowth
#SolarPunkSunday #AnarchistLibrary #ClimateCrisis #Resiliency

How long before Tamara Lich's husband accuses Trudeau of violating our Magna Carta rights?

#MagnaCarta #TamaraLich #FreedomConvoy #Trudeau #CDNPoli

@philip_cardella

#HPsCommentary
#USHistory #Legal #FediLaw

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...of the #MagnaCarta 2), which only applied to barrons and the clergy, 👉the #US--despite #Reconstruction and all the Amendments--were never able to really overcome systemic racism and plutocratic discrimination.👈

In fact, ever since #CitizensUnitedVsFEC, the pendulum has been swinging in the opposite direction, so far culminating in the overturning of #RoeVsWade.

Alas, we are living in at...

2)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magna_Carta

The Tyee: The Case for Radical Rest https://thetyee.ca/Culture/2023/10/02/Case-Radical-Rest/ #bcnews #TheTyee - via @[email protected] #TheDaytheWorldStopsShoppingbook #TomWolfeMastersoftheUniverse #TheAgeofInsecuritybook #CharteroftheForest #COVID-19pandemic #Ju/’hoansipeople #J.B.MacKinnon #TriciaHersey #AstraTaylor #NapMinistry #radicalrest #AudreLorde #MagnaCarta #longCOVID

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The Tyee: The Case for Radical Rest https://thetyee.ca/Culture/2023/10/02/Case-Radical-Rest/ #bcnews #TheTyee - via @[email protected] #TheDaytheWorldStopsShoppingbook #TomWolfeMastersoftheUniverse #TheAgeofInsecuritybook #CharteroftheForest #COVID-19pandemic #Ju/’hoansipeople #J.B.MacKinnon #TriciaHersey #AstraTaylor #NapMinistry #radicalrest #AudreLorde #MagnaCarta #longCOVID

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A great delivery from the Selden Society- a trio of annual lectures and a trio of volumes dedicated to the notebooks of Edward Coke and edited by Sir John Baker.

(If you want to discover more about Coke then check out the final chapter of my textbook: https://www.cambridge.org/gb/universitypress/subjects/law/legal-history/historical-introduction-english-law-genesis-common-law?format=PB)

#legalhistory #edwardcoke #shakespeare #trusts #magnacarta

#OTD in 1215 the #MagnaCarta was sealed by King John of #England. That same month, 5,000 miles away, #GenghisKhan conquered #Beijing. These otherwise unconnected events represent turning points in the world’s two most influential power centers, whose reach once exceeded 20 million sq. miles. But they overlap only in the 427 sq. miles of Hong Kong, now the Magna Carta's final battle ground.

Read more: https://joelmhoffman.com/Human-Stories/essays/searching-for-hong-kong-soul-%e5%b0%8b%e8%a6%93%e9%a6%99%e6%b8%af%e5%98%85%e9%9d%88%e9%ad%82/

#尋覓香港嘅靈魂 #香港 #history #OnThisDay #KingJohn #HongKong #HK
@history

I do enjoy a trip to Lincoln: so many layers of history in one small place. Yesterday we visited the Castle - and primarily, amongst so many other other fascinating aretafts, viewed the Lincoln copy of the Magna Carta.

#Lincoln #history #LincolnCathedral #magnacarta