About
Hold in Common exists to make the enclosure of the commons visible, and to equip ordinary people to recognize and resist it.
We name the seven-step pattern, we run it in public on one commons at a time, and we are building toward a nonprofit that keeps specific commons, knowledge, seed, and the public domain, open and defended. By Jessica Mantonya, a companion to Drug Policy Watch.
How we work
- Primary sources firstRulings, filings, agency decisions and the laws themselves.
- Every figure linkedIf a number appears, you can click through to where it came from.
- The strongest counterargumentEvery piece includes the best case against its own conclusion.
- Aimed at systems, never peopleWe look at rules, contracts and decisions, not personal attacks.
Commons defense: the Open Formulation
Naming the pattern is the work of seeing. The Open Formulation, a program by Del Potter, PhD, is the work of stopping one: an open, public-domain, whole-plant cannabis medicine, built so it can never be privately owned.