February 2012 - P2P-Foundation - lists.ourproject.org

Int'l Year of the Cooperative
by Neal Gorenflo 13 Feb '12

13 Feb '12

Hello colleagues, Shareable just published an interview with Chuck Gold of ICA about the Int'l Year of the Coop: http://www.shareable.net/blog/co-ops-are-big-business-charles-gould-intervi… This follows a recent Shareable feature story about cooperatives, "Meet the New Boss: You" http://www.shareable.net/blog/meet-the-new-boss-you We commissioned these articles to help educate the general public about the value of cooperatives in creating democratic societies. Many of you probably share the idea that coops have special relevance in the age of Occupy, mounting financial crisis, and increasing employment precarity, especially among youth. I hope that you will share these articles in your communities, and perhaps more importantly with those on the boundaries of your communities who are seeking new ways to be in the world. I think they make good introductions to coops and also correct common misconceptions about them, like that they are small and counter-cultural (a US bias, at least). Shareable is working informally with other groups, including the P2P Foundation, to raise the profile of coops as a solution (albeit an imperfect one) and get cooperative development into policy discussions. The US has systematically supported cooperative development in the past to address market failures (the Rural Electrification Administration in The Great Depression). Perhaps we will return to this and join many other countries with cooperative economic strategies. I also invite you to share with us any media that you're doing around coops. We'd like to share your media with our community, which you've helped us to grow to 50,000 unique visitors a month. Thank you! -Neal -- Neal Gorenflo | Publisher, Shareable <http://shareable.net/> | @ShareableDesign <http://twitter.com/#!/ShareableDesign> | 415.867.0429

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George Dafermos Fwd: Your interview is live
by Nicolás Mendoza 13 Feb '12

13 Feb '12

George Dafermos writes: Hello list! The below interview, which evolved out of an email exchange between Michel Bauwens and George Dafermos on the topic of peer governance, will probably be of interest to list members: < http://shareable.net/blog/governance-of-open-source-george-dafermos-intervi… > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Best, george From: michelsub2004(a)gmail.com [michelsub2004(a)gmail.com] on behalf of Michel Bauwens [michel(a)p2pfoundation.net] Sent: Monday, February 13, 2012 5:25 AM To: George Dafermos - TBM Cc: Nicolás Mendoza Subject: Re: Your interview is live hi george, I'm no longer on the list because of this special project taking up all my time .. so I copy nicolas who can forward to the list, but do send him something forwardable, I have been tweeting/facebooking the interview several times already, Michel On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 11:05 PM, George Dafermos - TBM <G.N.Dafermos(a)tudelft.nl> wrote: Hi Michel, How about we post the link to the interview to the p2p-foundation mailing list? Am sure it'll be of interest to list members:) x, g. -- Nicolás Mendoza

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by Banco BBVA 13 Feb '12

13 Feb '12

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Economic Genius.
by robert searle 13 Feb '12

13 Feb '12

The following maybe of interest. http://hosted.verticalresponse.com/691058/36defff050/TEST/TEST/

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How I Failed To Save The World..
by robert searle 11 Feb '12

11 Feb '12

Maybe of interest... http://www.amazon.co.uk/How-I-Failed-Save-World/dp/143439445X#_

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New Technologies......
by robert searle 11 Feb '12

11 Feb '12

Maybe of interest. http://hosted.verticalresponse.com/691058/8ece2699f1/282758247/4a6f2ba2fa/

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Were Extreme Suffragettes regarded as Terrorists?
by robert searle 11 Feb '12

11 Feb '12

The following maybe of interest. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-16945901

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A Banking Error.............
by robert searle 11 Feb '12

11 Feb '12

The following maybe of interest. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-16607018

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Prahlad Jani....................................
by robert searle 11 Feb '12

11 Feb '12

The following maybe of interest!! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prahlad_Jani

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DSM 5
by robert searle 11 Feb '12

11 Feb '12

The following maybe of interest. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/allen-frances/dsm-5_b_1251448.html?ref=health…

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