*How can I get support from / collaborate with* *a Phyle ?* *( or a cooperative ? )* * * *Is there an explanatory video ?* ( as the Mondragon excerpt below ) http://p2pfoundation.net/Phyles to go through a step by step approach, and *converge legal and financial know how* + *capital* in setting up a* "p2p compliant"* officially / financially / legally recognized structure / cooperative / business / *community organization ?* * * // Lets say, I want to start a small cooperative, with a few engineer friends, as to enable the Research and Development and construction of modular , tensegrity based tents ( example http://sharewiki.org/en/Nomad_Tribe ) or, lets say, I need a housing scheme to converge friends into a ongoing collective, buy housing and production space ( example http://sharewiki.org/en/Leipzig_project ) and buy land to produce crops for the ongoing collective /// I notice, for example, In relation to "Launching a New Cooperative", a 1979 Documentary on the Mondragon Cooperative excerpt : http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=usZt2N6ftKI#t=15s On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 1:51 PM, Dante-Gabryell Monson < [email protected]> wrote:
Mondragon Cooperative Documentary from the 70 ies ( ? )
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7efaDeFmurQ
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondrag%C3%B3n_Cooperative_Corporation
The *MONDRAGON Corporation* is a corporation<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporation> and federation <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooperative_federation> of worker cooperatives <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worker_cooperative> based in the Basque <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euskal_Herria> region of Spain<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spain> .
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It also set up its own bank-financial system
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caja_Laboral
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and in relation to the town of Mondragon
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondrag%C3%B3n
Noted poverty expert and sociology professor Barbara J. Peters (Southampton College, Long Island University) has studied the incorporated and entirely resident-owned Basque town of Mondragón, Spain. "In Mondragón, I saw no signs of poverty. I saw no signs of extreme wealth," Peters said. "I saw people looking out for each other…..It's a caring form of capitalism.”