Dear Birgit:
fully agree that local initiatives are not sufficient,
my own belief is that very little is possible at national scale within the eurozone especially with the government committed to carrying out the extreme measures of the accord,
in the absense of a democratic and sovereign monetary policy, I'm very partial to the transition proposals of CADTM and Ellen Brown, but it's hard to see them as realistic options under the current government
in the meantime I believe it would be useful to start linking up local and regional currencies and to link them up with a 'national' (or even transnational) credit commons system, based on a link with the solidarity economy, SME's and coop entities that gives it real economic clout and liquidity, as it has done for the WIR in Switzerland,
in general, I would hope for interconnecting provisioning and mutual aid networks, on the model of what has started in Madison, Wisconsin with Stephanie Rearick's Mutual Aid Network and the stirrings of
encommuns.org in Lille. Is there anything to be done at the urban level, on the model of what is happening in a multitude of places in Italy ?
we need a multitude of people in Greece to start thinking not just about local resilience, but about rebuilding, an alternative mode of production with its own logic ; the pieces of the puzzle are there, but who can and is willing to assemble them ?
Plan C for the moment can't be based on the hope of a political party carrying it out, but, for the moment, in my opinion, must be based about patient self-organization and the rebuilding of social and political forces that actually believe in alternatives,
Michel