[P2P-F] Fwd: [Commoning] Statement of Separation /F.Iacomella

Mon Aug 5 23:08:57 CEST 2013

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From: Silke Helfrich <silke.helfrich at gmx.de>
Date: Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 10:58 PM
Subject: [Commoning] Statement of Separation /F.Iacomella
To: commoning <commoning at lists.wissensallmende.de>

August 1, 2013

Dear friends,

We write to share some urgent, distressing news.

It has been shocking for us to learn in recent weeks that someone who
worked closely with many of us, Franco Iacomella, has systematically
interfered with email correspondence from 50+ people; secretly altered
Skype accounts; perpetrated a variety of digital impersonations; and
misrepresented his professional credentials and affiliations. We do not
make such accusations lightly; we have digital proof and a partial
confession.

These actions have had serious consequences for our working relationships,
projects, outreach and funding efforts and personal reputations. They have
also sowed the seeds of distrust and hurt feelings amongst long-standing
collaborators who were unaware of the manipulated nature of their
communications. And so we wish to publicly declare that the Commons
Strategies Group, P2P Foundation and Heinrich Boell Foundation will no
longer be working with Franco Iacomella. We have severed all personal and
professional relationships with him, and are exploring legal action as
warranted.

The organizations directly affected by Iacomella’s manipulations and
deceptions include the P2P Foundation, the Commons Strategies Group and
FLACSO (Argentina) as well as a number of individuals, especially Beatriz
Busaniche of Via Libre (Argentina) and Michel Bauwens (P2P Foundation). The
Heinrich Boll Foundation, the Right Livelihood Award Foundation and Vía
Libre Foundation were all indirectly affected. Untold other individuals and
groups may have been affected by these communications manipulations without
even perceiving them.

If you have experienced unusual issues when dealings with the organizations
or individuals named here (i.e., failures to respond; unusual emails;
abrupt terminations of Skype contact links; etc.), we wish to apologize. We
also wish to ask you to re-connect with these organizations and
individuals, and resume ongoing relationships without the malicious
interventions and impersonations that Iacomella perpetrated in an unknown
number of cases from at least September 2012 until July 2013.

As one might imagine, Iacomella’s deceptions have had all sorts of
insidious and subtle effects on our working relationships with each other,
on dozens of colleagues with whom we work, and on the commons movement more
generally. We now wish to refocus on rebuilding the interpersonal and
social fabric that binds us together in shared purpose.

Sincerely,

P2P Foundation: Michel Bauwens
Commons Strategies Group: Michel Bauwens, Silke Helfrich, David Bollier
Heinrich Böll Foundation: Heike Loeschmann
Vía Libre Foundation (Argentina): Beatriz Busaniche
FLACSO Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (Argentina): Miguel
Lengyel (Director).
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