hi dante, we're not really in a position to give advice, as we only started very recently and are working through our own growth issues, but we started first with a set of principles (why are we together), then with a constitution (how we are going to achieve these principles concretely); everything we do has to be compatible with the constitution and inspired by the principles. the legal form is secondary to this primary community constituting dynamic, in my opinion, Michel On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 5:40 PM, Dante-Gabryell Monson < [email protected]> wrote:
*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 ?* * *
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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
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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.”
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