Sources of Commons Law

List

Provided by Trent Schroyer:

-Henry George and Geonomics that have resulted in an Earthrights movement -consult Alanna Hartzok, Co-Director Earth Rights Institute Web: <http://www.earthrights.net/>www.earthrights.net

-Ward Morehouse who has created peoples tribunals in Japan and the U.N ( that i attended ) and others named in the following quote from him - he is constantly talking about 'people's law' as a legal commons that can emerge whereever needed to indict corporate and state crimes:

"The Permanent People's Tribunal should be part of the Commons debate. Its origins go back to Bertrand Russell and the war crimes of the 1970s and include the Algiers Declaration of the Rights of Peoples in 1976. The repository of more recent tribunals is the the Lelio Baso Foundation in Rome and the coordinator in Milan, G. Tognoni (spelling ?) Even more relevant to the "Commons Debate" is the Charter on Industrial Hazards and Human Rights which grew out of a series of tribunals (including Bhopal) in the 1990s. The text of the charter is given in Brigit Hanna, Ward Morehouse, and Satyu Sarangi, The Bhopal Reader, 2004" - quote from ward morehouse

- Ivan Illich talked about the 'vernacular domain' from the 70's onward and in a series of historical reconstructions made a case for that has been misunderstood in this discourse - i think he is one source of Wolfgang Sachs 'cosmopolitan localism' that i used as a key notion in my writing - for an account of this consult trant schroyer ' Beyond Western Economics' ( Routledge 2009- chapter 2 & 4)) for a chapter on Illich and Polanyi that argues the sustainability of small communities in a post-secular argumentation.

-and of course the background debate about Gandhi's in India about swaraj, or self rule. that that has not had the recognition it needs - here both critics of small communities and defenders will find partial support - i think this debate has a relevance for the commons movement in many ways - again i argue both sides of this case in 'Beyond Western Economics' chapter 5

- finally the marxism really relevant to the commons movement are the cultural marxists - especially Jurgen Habermas whose Universal Pragmatics and discourse ethics- is the ultimate critique of positivism and the politics of productivism - he has been wrongly labeled as having become a liberal after publication of 'Between Facts and Norms' - which is very wrong - of course his procedural constitutionalism may have some conflicts with the commons movements but as a theory of communication - i think- it is the most sophisticated around