Stacco has the links from the commonstransition.org site, here's what we have on CLT's on the p2p wiki: http://p2pfoundation.net/Community_Land_Trusts On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 11:02 PM, Pat Conaty < [email protected]> wrote:

HI Apostolis and Miche

Good points below. I have been providing some info on JAK interest free banks on another smaller list than this today. Michel you may wish to transcribe these points onto the plan.

The JP Narayan work in India I mentioned was a huge non-violent civil disobedience movement against Indira Gandhi in the 1960s and 1970s. The Community Land Trust movements in the USA, UK and Canada and now also Belgium originally at source sprung out of the US civil rights movement in the South from 1968. Once again back to King’s last book on Where do we go from here? During 1967 when this book was written, I was young and 250 dead American were being brought back in body bags each week from Vietnam and most working class kids black, brown and white.

Bob Swann a war resister was a key leader then of alternative economic practices and had direct contact with the Gandhian land reformers in India in the 1970s who were their inspiration and they also were working with Ralph Borsodi who was in India helping Narayan and the focus in India and thereafter in the USA was on the development of co-operative revolving loan funds and on the Constant currency.

Borsodi is an amazing character who was working on CLTs in the 1930s during the Great Depression. The Decentralist Manifesto he and others put together in the 1950s is worth looking at. Also Fritz Schumacher was a close friend of Bob Swann and the Institute for Community Economics in the USA set up by Swann and Borsodi. ICE was hugely important in innovating co-operative land and co-operative finance solutions.

But few mainstream socialists know anything at all about this really practical non-violent groups of peace makers who are all are part of a decentralising socialist tradition. Indeed all commoners!

I have just put up a series of articles on the CLTs and how to establish them practically. Stacco or Michel can share the link. But these short articles could be useful to those in Greece if you want to translate the material.

Remember the land question and the money questions are both taboo. But we simply have to provide practical step by step pathways and answers to find peaceful economic democracy solutions for commoners. The partner state will be crucial. Hence why I emphasise the guild socialist tradition. Syriza could assist here but they need to get to grips with policy and practice aspects and especially with the news that their central committee has said No to the Eurogroup plan and demands.

All the best

Pat

On 15 Jul 2015, at 16:34, Apostolis Xekoukoulotakis <[email protected]> wrote:

There are 3 things that can be done.

a) Ripple : An electronic payment system independent of the current banks that can provide liquidity to the market. No need for Banks nor for cash for the market to work.

b) Open Value Network: The development of the OVN model to as many economic sectors as possible. Specifically, the transfer of state-owned property to local non-profit organizations (the members of which are the local community), that act as custodians to that property, allowing that property to be used as in the OVN model. Greece has a lot of state-owned property that is not used.

c) The creation of a capital accumulation fund for the OVNs. Pat Conaty has made proposals on this with regards to cooperatives. I propose the implementation of Ryaki, my proposal, since it is a much better, if not the best possible, solution.

2015-07-15 14:50 GMT+03:00 Michel Bauwens <[email protected]>:

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personally, I believe that extractive models are inappropriate for the survival of our planet, and I would like to see corporate reform towards generative models,

this would suggest a double strategy:

* direct support for not-for-profit entities that directly co-produce commons and integrate negative externalities

* corporate reforms that limit the damage of negative externalities at for-profit corporations

Move towards commoning in extractive corporations is a progress, to the degree they can also affect the extractive purpose, but if they only serve intensified extraction, that would be problematic,

Michel

On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 6:11 PM, George Pór <[email protected]> wrote:

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Michel, would that be that there's no room for-profits in the Plan C or, more broadly, in the Commons Transitions? I doubt that that's what you meant,

But if there's, wouldn't help if workers there too learn working without bosses?

george

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On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 11:09 AM, Michel Bauwens < [email protected]> wrote:

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agreed, buurtzorg is different than a classic forprofit entity (with extractive I mean that, not mining <g>)

please go head by asking James,

Michel

On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 4:04 PM, George Pór <[email protected]> wrote:

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hi Michel,

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i have not read the book but my impression is that it is exclusively focused on entities that have extractive practices ?

I'm not sure.

Most of them have nothing to do the extensive extraction of natural resources, unless we include all organizations, who are using products or services whose the ingredients were ultimately extracted from the Earth, after a long chain of of intermediate companies

For example. the book features a Buurtzorg, a self-managed community nursing organizations in the Netherlands. It's worth a read.

Btw, the "Plan C for Advancing the Commons Transition in Greece" seems to be more important and urgent than ever, given the vacuum that rift <http://www.bbc.com/news/business-33531845> in the "institutions' may deepen.

Shouldn't we ask Quilligan to give Plan C a hand?

george

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