tonight at Lib. Plaza: A 'commons' rather than 'market state' orientation is a very fruitful way to think about solving humanity's problems in a new way. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Thomas Lowenhaupt <[email protected]> Date: Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 8:33 PM Subject: Re: Michel Bauwens To: Michel Bauwens <[email protected]> Cc: Jared Krupnick <[email protected]>, [email protected] See here - http://www.nycga.net/events/event/michael-bauwens-on-peer-to-peer/ Tom On 11/2/2011 1:19 AM, Michel Bauwens wrote: To succeed in social change, I believe you need 3 things. First, a genuine mass movement, which is what #ows is all about, as the first native movement and great hope of the digital age; second, concrete alternatives that can change our lives and allow us to live our values right now, and this is what commons-based peer production provides, as a new way of producing value, with the P2P Foundation as one of the initiatives to map the thousands of projects being created in this field, in order to achieve mutual alignment and create a growing counter economy that can co-exist and perhaps even supersede the present dysfunctional one; finally, we need to be able to stop bad policies, and propose new ones that allow alternatives to survive and thrive, for which we need true democratic processes. A 'commons' rather than 'market state' orientation is a very fruitful way to think about solving humanity's problems in a new way. Michel Bauwens is founder of the P2P Foundation, a global collaborative researching peer production, and a partner of the Commons Strategies Group, which seeks to seed conversations around the new commons paradigm. -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net Connect: http://p2pfoundation.ning.com; Discuss: http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation Updates: http://del.icio.us/mbauwens; http://friendfeed.com/mbauwens; http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens