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From:
Thomas Lowenhaupt <toml@communisphere.com>
Date: Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 8:33 PM
Subject: Re: Michel Bauwens
To: Michel Bauwens <
michel@p2pfoundation.net>
Cc: Jared Krupnick <
jared@synergisticwebs.com>,
anthony@occupythenet.com
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.