---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: David Bollier <[email protected]> Date: Thu, Apr 9, 2015 at 9:44 AM Subject: Fwd: On the Lam with Bank Robber Enric Duran To: Heike Loeschmann <[email protected]>, Michel Bauwens < [email protected]> Excellent profile of Enric Duran and CIC, in VICE magazine, by Nathan Schneider. David -------- Original Message -------- Subject: On the Lam with Bank Robber Enric Duran Date: Tue, 07 Apr 2015 14:41:57 -0400 From: Nathan Schneider <[email protected]> <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Be the Bank You Want to See in the World [image: [image: Enric Duran]] If you could make a new economy from the ground up, what would it look like? Enric Duran has tried—twice. In 2008 he became famous after borrowing half a million dollars from Spain's banks and refusing to give it back. He then masterminded the Catalan Integral Cooperative, a network of independent workers that may just represent the future of work altogether. Now, still in hiding because of his heist, Duran is orchestrating his next utopia, a cryptocurrency-infused global financial system. In this month's issue of *VICE* magazine <https://www.vice.com/read/be-the-bank-you-want-to-see-in-the-world-0000626-v22n4>, I go face-to-face with Duran and on a tour of his remarkable undertakings. *Read the article VICE's website <https://www.vice.com/read/be-the-bank-you-want-to-see-in-the-world-0000626-v22n4> or look through the print version <http://therowboat.com/articles/BeTheBank.pdf>. While you're at it, retweet this <https://twitter.com/nathanairplane/status/585500554505359360>.* In other news I had a great time speaking about *God in Proof* at St. Thomas University <http://theaquinian.net/occupy-journalist-gives-dollard-lecture-thursday/> in Fredericton, Canada. I talked about cooperativism on *Majority Report with Sam Seder* <http://majority.fm/2015/03/30/mm-monday-nathan-schneider-the-cooperative-economy/> and at Civic Hall <http://techpresident.com/news/25485/thinking-outside-boss-interest-rising-cooperative-alternatives-sharing-economy> with a panel of sagely organizers and thinkers. I upset some white people <http://americamagazine.org/issue/no-white-man-innocent> and prayed the Angelus <http://americamagazine.org/content/all-things/angelus-work>. New look! If you've received this newsletter in the past, you might have noticed that it used to come from MailChimp, and now it doesn't. That's part of my ongoing experiments in #SlowComputing—for the most part, trying to use community-driven software <http://www.therowboat.com/open-journalism/> rather than profit-driven stuff. (Stay tuned for an article on the subject in *The New Republic*.) Since coding universally compatible emails is sort of a nightmare, there are sure to be glitches. Please let me know if there any problems with this email on your end. ------------------------------ [image: [The Row Boat]] <http://www.therowboat.com/> You've received this email because you're subscribed to my newsletter. Unsubscribe here <https://lists.mayfirst.org/mailman/options/therowboat>. Sent with GNU Mailman <https://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/index.html>, with help from other free-and-open software <http://www.therowboat.com/open-journalism/>. -- Check out the Commons Transition Plan here at: http://commonstransition.org P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation>Updates: http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/