David Bollier, PATTERNS OF COMMONING & Juliana Barbassa on Rio & the Olympics

Summary: David Bollier talks about the ancient social formation called the Commons and the radically new versions it’s taking — and spreading — around the world. His new book, co-edited with Silke Helfrich, is Patterns of Commoning. Then, the Rio Olympics are happening now, in a Brazil plagued by corruption, conflict and a de facto coup against president Dilma Roussef. We re-air our October 2015 interview with Juliana Barbassa about her book, Dancing With The Devil In The City of God: Rio de Janeiro on the Brink. It’s about how the preparations for the Olympic Games revealed the cracks in the “Brazilian miracle.”