apologies for the typo, of course it is not kink, kick-starting ... Orsan
On 17 jan. 2015, at 14:12, P2P Foundation mailing list <[email protected]> wrote:
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Orsan <[email protected]> Date: Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 8:14 PM Subject: [Networkedlabour] Kink-Starting the Exodus and colonizing capitalism with forms of emancipation To: "<[email protected]>" <[email protected]>, squares <[email protected]>, Discussion list about the WSF <[email protected]>, [email protected]
Last week saw two major internet stories from ‘Robin Hood’ (aka, Enric Duran) and his plans to short circuit Capitalism.
‘Robin’ is a Catalan activist who took out bank loans of 500,000 euros and gave the cash to occupiers, anarchists and Coops. Then he helped found the fast growing CIC (Integral Coop), a group of leaderless assembly-run, coops with their own ‘anti-money’, the ECU, which aims to evade the inbuilt exploitative control of the world money system.
At his trial the State banned his witnesses who aimed to expose the multi billion frauds of the banks themselves, So Robin (Enric) ‘did a runner’, and he’s still free.
‘He presently lives as a fugitive outside Spain, and is currently busy organizing the FairCoop – Open Cooperative, a community-built effort to alleviate global economic inequalities through the use of mutual credit, reputation systems and cryptocurrencies’. (here’s lots more about Fair Coop http://commonstransition.org/portfolio/faircoop/)
FairCoop Introduction from Radi.ms on Vimeo.
The key to going global is the Commons Transition (new website hereMailScanner has detected a possible fraud attempt from "commonstransition.org" claiming to be http://commonstransition.org/), linking up commons projects like CIC, the P2P Foundation, Ubuntu, Wikipedia, the makers movement, occupy, etc.
Read all the dirty details and join in here: Fairness and the Commons, an Interview with Enric Duran.
FairCoop: virus of cooperation infects a new economy
Coops have failed in the past, being shriveled or swallowed by capitalism, like fruit trees in a desert. ‘Robin Hood”s answer is Faircoin, a socialised bitcoin project which is currently taking off.
‘……..A new economy begins with a new kind of money. If you’ve managed to live in something close to a gift economy: congratulations, you’ve made it! This only works for some of us, though, living in relatively small communities, and not on a global scale. You have to realize that you’re not really changing your neighbors’ world by trading Ubuntu installs for massage; you’re not overthrowing the hyperarchist system of human domination by paying for your tofu in rainbowcoins, now, are you?
While complementary currencies do a great job at local level, they’re just that: they complement other parts which together make up a whole. And what we really need is to build up a whole new way to live in this world.
https://thefreeonline.wordpress.com/2015/01/16/robin-hood-to-crack-capitalis...
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