[P2P-F] Fwd: P2P / Commons on Wall St, fyi

Wed Nov 2 15:42:25 CET 2011

tonight at Lib. Plaza: A 'commons' rather than 'market state' orientation
is a very fruitful way to think about solving humanity's problems in a new
way.

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From: Thomas Lowenhaupt <toml at communisphere.com>
Date: Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 8:33 PM
Subject: Re: Michel Bauwens
To: Michel Bauwens <michel at p2pfoundation.net>
Cc: Jared Krupnick <jared at synergisticwebs.com>, anthony at occupythenet.com

 See here -
http://www.nycga.net/events/event/michael-bauwens-on-peer-to-peer/

Tom

On 11/2/2011 1:19 AM, Michel Bauwens wrote:

To succeed in social change, I believe you need 3 things. First, a genuine
mass movement, which is what #ows is all about, as the first native
movement and great hope of the digital age; second, concrete alternatives
that can change our lives and allow us to live our values right now, and
this is what commons-based peer production provides, as a new way of producing
value, with the P2P Foundation as one of the initiatives to map the
thousands of projects being created in this field, in order to achieve
mutual alignment and create a growing counter economy that can co-exist and
perhaps even supersede the present dysfunctional one; finally, we need to
be able to stop bad policies, and propose new ones that allow alternatives
to survive and thrive, for which we need true democratic processes. A
'commons' rather than 'market state' orientation is a very fruitful way to
think about solving humanity's problems in a new way.

Michel Bauwens is founder of the P2P Foundation, a global collaborative
researching peer production, and a partner of the Commons Strategies Group,
which seeks to seed conversations around the new commons paradigm.

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