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  Defending Our Common Wealth
The net result of all this plundering is to diminish the wealth we hold in common.
Where you’re likely to hear people talking about our common wealth is at a block party, a union meeting, a street festival, or a concert in the park.
Love of our common wealth is the root impulse behind countless acts of gratitude and kindness that ordinary people perform every day.
www.newdream.org /newsletter/common_wealth.php   (1601 words)

  
  OnTheCommons.org | From Common Wealth to Common Property
Common property — as distinct from common wealth, and from individual or government property — has a long though little-known history.
Common property is normally managed as a unit on behalf of the whole community.
A classic case is the medieval common pasture; its survival for centuries, contrary to the ‘tragedy’ myth, is the ultimate example of sustainable management.
onthecommons.org /node/688   (871 words)

  
  DVD Talk > Reviews > Common Wealth (La comunidad)
Common Wealth (original Spanish title: La comunidad) slides effortlessly between genres, so we're never quite sure when to laugh and when to cringe; the effect is almost surreal and is undeniably effective.
Common Wealth's balance of dark humor and suspense is a tricky one to balance, and although the film doesn't sustain itself perfectly all the way to the end, it almost gets there in perfect shape.
Common Wealth appears in what looks like the advertised 2.35:1 aspect ratio, but at least in the credits, it's evident that there's missing information on each side of the image, as many of the names in the credits are partially cut off.
www.dvdtalk.com /reviews/read.php?id=14185   (1019 words)

  
 Common Wealth Development - home buyer education and counseling
Common Wealth housing staff can provide eight hours of one-on-one home buyer education counseling to first-time home buyers.
Common Wealth Development is a non-profit, community development corporation located on Madison's east side.
This year, in conjunction with WHEDA, Common Wealth is implementing this pilot project to provide home buyer education and counseling to individuals and families purchasing homes in the 53704 zip code in Madison.
www.cwd.org /housing/yahara/yahara.aspx   (197 words)

  
 Tate Modern | Past Exhibitions | Common Wealth
Common Wealth is a group exhibition that brings together five celebrated international contemporary artists from Europe and Latin America, in the most important display of their work in the UK to date.
Included in Common Wealth are Ping Pond Table 1998, which consists of four ping-pong tables surrounding a lily pond, and Oval with Pendulum 1996, a round billiard table with two white balls and a third red ball attached to a pendulum.
The exhibition, curated by Tate Modern Curator, Jessica Morgan, explores the meanings and implications of the words common and wealth including ideas about the potential use-value of art, how it might contribute to a shared public prosperity, and what common ground is offered by architecture and museum galleries.
www.tate.org.uk /modern/exhibitions/commonwealth   (554 words)

  
 Delaware Valley Grantmakers > Publications & Newsletter
Released in October 2001, Common Wealth: Giving in Pennsylvania is the first-ever statewide report on philanthropic giving in Pennsylvania.
This important study, which DVG commissioned along with Grantmakers of Western Pennsylvania and Community Foundations for Pennsylvania, will serve as a benchmark for assessing the strength of the state's charitable sector and help provide a framework as we move forward in our continuing efforts to grow giving throughout the commonwealth.
Covering the period from 1992 to 1999, Common Wealth focuses on Pennsylvania's foundation growth and giving trends and identifies charitable causes and special population groups that are supported by the state's foundations.
www.dvg.org /publications/commonwealth.htm   (134 words)

  
 Lakeland College - NEWS at Lloydminster, Sherwood Park, Vermilion
Common Wealth Credit Union made a Green and Gold donation ($100,000) today to Lakeland College’s Capital Campaign that is raising funds for a new Academic Wing at the college’s Lloydminster Campus.
Common Wealth Credit Union has consistently contributed to the development of Lakeland College in the past and this significant donation is testament to their commitment to Lakeland College, the surrounding community and their future employees.
Common Wealth Credit Union is a member owned financial institution headquartered in Lloydminster with 10 branch locations across northern Alberta, proudly serving 43,000 members.
www.lakelandc.ab.ca /topstories2004/NR2004June08.html   (395 words)

  
 JOHN CARRUTHERS' COMMON WEALTH
What is called trade in common language is, in his model, merely the subdivision of the common wealth according to the various valid claims exercised by capitalists.
In commercial economy, the entire common wealth is owned by capitalists, in proportion to the size of their recognised claims.
If an individual capitalist is content not to consume a larger proportion of his share of the common wealth than the average of his fellows, he will be able to enjoy that proportion every year, and still keep good his claim to the proportion of the whole year's produce to which he was originally entitled.
www.keithrankin.com /krnkn_JCarruthers1995.html   (10128 words)

  
 Common Wealth Party
The Common Wealth Party was dissolved in 1945 and most members joined the Labour Party.
In July 1942, the 1941 Committee merged with a band of Richard Acland's supporters known as Forward March to form a new political party under the name Common Wealth, and almost the only members of the committee who stayed on were Vernon Bartlett, Tom Wintringham and J. Priestley, who became chairman.
Kirn Mackay comes, at his own request, to propose the affiliation of Common Wealth to the Labour Party, and to ask whether I thought such a suggestion would be accepted.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /Pcommonwealth.htm   (548 words)

  
 Guardian Unlimited | Arts critics | I have seen the future and it bounces
Common Wealth, an exhibition at Tate Modern by Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla, Thomas Hirschhorn, Carsten Höller and Gabriel Orozco, aspires to the calm intelligence of Lorenzetti's medieval painting.
The show, we are told, intends to generate "a collective experience" through the work of five artists "selected for their direct engagement with questions of social and material exchange and for their consistently questioning approach to the potential limitations, as well as the opportunities, offered by the process of publicpresentation".
Common Wealth wants to be democratic in form as well as theme: if it is about political systems, it is also about rejecting the authoritarian modernist work of art in favour of a more open, collectively authored practice.
www.guardian.co.uk /arts/critic/feature/0,1169,1082471,00.html   (1498 words)

  
 OnTheCommons.org | Common Wealth Recycling Program: A Victory in Washington State
We allow the common wealth to stop flowing and concentrate it in the hands of a few.
As we look at initiatives to use common wealth, such as rents for scarce ecological resources like the sky, we should consider the constituencies that will be engaged by different uses of the funds.
Commons activists could propose that revenue be directed to a Children’s Opportunity Trust Fund to provide educational and wealth-creation opportunities.
onthecommons.org /node/1016   (879 words)

  
 Common Wealth: Tax Policy Has Shifted The Tax Burden Off The Shoulders Of The Wealthy And On To The Middle Class
Common Wealth: Tax Policy Has Shifted The Tax Burden Off The Shoulders Of The Wealthy And On To The Middle Class
Once you accept Gates's point that society's rules significantly influence how and where wealth is generated, and how it is distributed, the next step is to ask a question that is not yet on the political radar screen:
The "surplus wealth" would be turned over to a corporation that would issue stock to the American people according to a congressionally devised plan.
www.commondreams.org /views/061200-104.htm   (758 words)

  
 Common Wealth Award   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The Common Wealth Award was established at the Annual Meeting, May 1979.
The two-word name Common Wealth was chosen to describe the "wealth" that is "common" to all Virginians.
The Common Wealth Award was established to provide an annual grant to promote projects in the interest of conservation, beautification, horticulture, preservation, and education.
www.gcvirginia.org /Awards/CWA.asp   (83 words)

  
 JOHN CARRUTHERS' COMMON WEALTH
What is called trade in common language is, in his model, merely the subdivision of the common wealth according to the various valid claims exercised by capitalists.
In commercial economy, the entire common wealth is owned by capitalists, in proportion to the size of their recognised claims.
If an individual capitalist is content not to consume a larger proportion of his share of the common wealth than the average of his fellows, he will be able to enjoy that proportion every year, and still keep good his claim to the proportion of the whole year's produce to which he was originally entitled.
keithrankin.co.nz /krnkn_JCarruthers1995.html   (10126 words)

  
 WorkingForChange-Pursuing the common wealth
Radio airwaves are a common asset, as are timber and minerals on public lands.
Of course, the value of our common wealth is beyond measure, though there are aspects of it that can be roughly quantified, the report argues.
In fact, the report says, the value of our common wealth is worth more than the estimated $40 trillion value of our nation's private wealth.
www.workingforchange.com /article.cfm?itemid=15917   (755 words)

  
 Our Common Wealth | Centre for Policy Development
In ‘Reclaiming the Australian Commons’, Arvanitakis charts the enclosure of Australia's common wealth and calls for governments to re-draw the 'line in the sand' between commons and commodities
John Menadue launched Our Common Wealth with a call for 'hochmar' -– the science of the heart –- the capacity to see, to feel and then to act as if the future depends on you.
Education as a commons: why we should all share in the picnic of knowledge
www.cpd.org.au /category/all-articles/our-common-wealth   (559 words)

  
 Sigma Xi: The Scientific Research Society: The Common Wealth Award for Science and Invention   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Through the will of the late Ralph Hayes (1894-1977), the Common Wealth Awards are made annually in the fields of literature, science and invention, sociology, public service and government, dramatic arts and mass communications.
In order to meet the standards of peer recognition set forth by Hayes, nominations are currently provided by a number of prominent organizations that are pledged to the advancement, betterment or support of the particular area in which the award is made.
He died in 1977 at the age of 82, leaving the Common Wealth Awards as but one part of his charitable legacy.
www.sigmaxi.org /programs/prizes/common.shtml   (387 words)

  
 Redefining Progress - Common Assets   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The wealth of our nation in the 21st century will be built from riches that belong to all of us - our common assets.
At the turn of the 20th Century, great wealth was born from common assets such as material resources carved from a land that was largely unbound.
The American commons include tangible assets such as public forests and minerals, intangible wealth such as copyrights and patents, critical infrastructure like the Internet and government research, and cultural resources such as the broadcast airwaves and public spaces.
www.rprogress.org /newprograms/commAsse/index.shtml   (528 words)

  
 Creating Common Wealth   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The idea for the Creating Common Wealth - Youth Enterprise Development Forum – came from the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in 2002, where Commonwealth Youth Ministers agreed to support and implement the Youth for the Future initiative.
The Creating Common Wealth Forum looked at the steps we need to put into place to bring about change in our countries and in our communities to promote greater youth enterprise development.
In 1995 she was a delegate to the UN Children's Conference and to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child.
www.thesource.gov.au /creating_common_wealth/about/about.htm   (3542 words)

  
 Common Wealth of Puerto Rico Veteran Benefits - Military Benefits - Military.com
The Common Wealth of Puerto Rico provides several veteran benefits.
The partial exemption shall be determined according to the degree of disability that has been determined as of January 1 of each year by the Federal Government's Veteran's Administration for the veteran, through a written certificate to such effect.
The Common Wealth of Puerto Rico offers several programs to assist military veterans who wish to pursue education or vocational training.
www.military.com /benefits/veteran-benefits/common-wealth-of-puerto-rico-veteran-benefits   (696 words)

  
 The Tomales Bay Institute: Common Wealth   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
One problem is that we're destroying much of our common wealth -- inheritances like clean air and water that are essential for life on earth.
One reason we destroy our common wealth is that we don't charge anything to use it.
If we as common owners of these scarce assets were as businesslike as any private owner would be, we'd charge market prices and divide the income.
www.earthisland.org /tbi/commonwealth.html   (271 words)

  
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The plunder is widespread,affecting public lands, the broadcast airwaves, the Internet, the public domain of knowledge and creativity, publicly funded medicines, and even our genes.
As companies quietly seize our common wealth, however, our government often fails to protect us, sometimes actually giving away our common assets.
Bollier – a journalist, activist and public policy expert – not only documents the serious costs and consequences of runaway market activity, he develops a new language for understanding and reclaiming the commons.
www.silenttheft.com   (129 words)

  
 M S S R F - Centre for Research on Sustainable Agricultural & Rural Development
Learning is indeed our common wealth and your Foundation, MSSRF, is doing excellent work to share that wealth more widely and to create more of it.
The countries of the Commonwealth are indeed united, in their diversity, by great common bonds, which you can express as the three 'L's' of law, language and learning.
Fortunately that wealth is not a fixed quantity that creates winners and losers when we share it.
www.mssrf.org /events_conferences/content_events/common_welth.htm   (4214 words)

  
 Common Wealth
Common Wealth Common Wealth is a group exhibition that brings together five celebrated international contemporary Landmark 2003, on display in Common Wealth, uses a cartographic felt floor.
Common Wealth Development was created twenty-five years ago out of a commitment to preserve the vitality Since that time, Common Wealth has participated in many projects to improve.
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www.pipsprofit.com /investments/common_wealth.html   (330 words)

  
 common wealth credit union   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Common Wealth, credit Union, Lloydminster, Alberta, Banks, Banking, Credit Unions, Loans, Personal Loans, lending institutions, credit unions, credit union, mortgages, home owner...
Common Wealth Credit Union is pleased to offer a highly competitive account where you can invest your...
Common Wealth Credit Union made a Green and Gold donation ($100,000) today to Lakeland College's Capital...
www.locatingproperty.com /articles/14/common-wealth-credit-union.html   (871 words)

  
 Silent Theft: The Private Plunder of Our Common Wealth   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Crisp and revelatory, Silent Theft is a bold attempt to develop a new language of the commons and, in the face of a market order that knows no bounds, to outline an ambitious new project for reclaiming our common wealth.
The book's thesis holds that the 'commons' -- understood as our collectively owned assets, (natural resources being one example) -- are under steady threat of enclosure (privatization) by an increasingly aggressive commercial sphere in search of expanding profits.
His use of the more archaic terms 'commons' and 'enclosure' to describe the process is a shrewd one, connecting current encroachments to those more infamous enclosure laws of time past.
www.newenglandrealestatelistings.com /real-estate-books/0415944821.html   (1502 words)

  
 Common Wealth   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Common Wealth Development was created twenty-four years ago out of a commitment to preserve the vitality of Madison's...
Common wealth for the common good By Rev. Ted Kennedy The Australian Catholic Bishops' Conference Statement on the Distribution of Wealth in Australia has been nearly five years in the making.
Common Wealth Solar Services is one of the oldest Solar Contractors in the state of Virginia.
www.7-bucks.com /a6/common-wealth.html   (496 words)

  
 New Homes Get New Start in Youngstown   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
These four-bedroom homes are part of 10 sponsored by Common Wealth to the north of St. Elizabeth Health Center.
The homes were co-developed by Common Wealth, a nonprofit community development corporation, and NRP Group, according to the report.
According to the report, Common Wealth has focused on inner city redevelopment since 1989, working in Youngstown, Campbell, Struthers, East Liverpool, Steubenville, Lisbon, Sebring, Beloit, East Alliance, and Columbiana to build new homes and/or renovate existing structures.
www.business-journal.com /archives/20040816CommonWealthHomes.asp   (220 words)

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