[P2P-F] How do I get support to start a new Phyle / Cooperative ?

Sun Dec 11 00:44:46 CET 2011

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 <
dante.monson at gmail.com> 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 ?*
> *
> *
>
> //
>
> 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
>
> ///
>
> 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 <
> dante.monson at gmail.com> 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>
>> .
>>
>> ///
>>
>> It also set up its own bank-financial system
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caja_Laboral
>>
>> ///
>>
>> 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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