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Sat Mar 30 13:18:16 CET 2013

Thanks Michel, The beginning of something reaally powerful.

Add this into the mix: Is knowing obsolete? Sugata Mitra

 http://youtu.be/y3jYVe1RGaU

On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 11:31 AM, Michel Bauwens
<michel at p2pfoundation.net>wrote:

> this proposal will appear april 2 on the p2p blog,
>
> Michel Bauwens:
>
> The recent success of a global mobilization (500+ participants and
> collectives in 23 countries and over 50 cities) to collaborative map
> P2P-driven, commons-oriented, collaboration/sharing-based initiatives in
> hispanic countries, has shown a grassroots hunger for more mutual
> coordination to enhance the capacity to initiate social change. I would
> like to add the hypothesis that what is in the making is not just a new
> social imaginery, but also a potential new political subject. To build and
> obtain more civic infrastructures to enable and empower autonomous social
> production, I believe we must move to mutualize our forces and create a new
> set of political, social and economic institutions which can have
> ‘transitional’ effects, i.e. prepare the ground for a phase-transition to a
> political economy and civilization in which socially and environmentally
> friendly free association between autonomous producers and citizens become
> the norm.
>
> *I believe the time is there to start constructing the following three
> institutional coalitions:*
>
> ** The civic/political institution: The Alliance of the Commons*
>
> An alliance of the commons is an alliance, meeting place and network of
> p2p-commons oriented networks, associations, places; who do not have
> economic rationales. These alliances can be topical, local, transnational,
> etc … An example is the initiative Paris Communs Urbains which is
> attempting to create a common platform for urban commons intiatives in the
> Paris region; another Parisian/French example is the freecultural network
> Libre Savoirs, which is developing a set of policy proposals around digital
> rights. (both examples were communicated to me by Lionel Maurel).
>
> An alliance of the commons is a meeting place and platform to formulate
> policy proposals that enhance civic infrastructures for the commons.
>
> ** The economic institution: the P2P/Commons Globa-local « Phyle »*
>
> A phyle (as orgiginally proposed by lasindias.net) is a coalition of
> commons-oriented, community-supportive ethical enterprises which trade and
> exchange in the market to create livelyhoods for commoners and peer
> producers engaged in social production. The use of a peer production
> licence keeps the created exchange value within the sphere of the commons
> and strengthens the existence of a more autonomous counter-economy which
> refuses the destructive logic of profit-maximisation and instead works to
> increase benefits for their own, but also the emerging global commons.
> Phyles created integrated economies around the commons, that render them
> more autonomous and insure the social reproduction of its members.
> Hyperproductive global phyles that generate well-being for their members
> will gradually create a counterpower to the hitherto dominant MNO’s.
>
> ** The political-economy institution: The Chamber of the Commons*
>
> In analogy with the well-known chambers of commerce which work on the
> infrastructure for for-profit enterprise, the Commons chamber exclusively
> coordinates for the needs of the emergent coalitions of commons-friendly
> ethical enterprises (the phyles), but with a territorial focus. Their aim
> is to uncover the convergent needs of the new commons enterprises and to
> interface with territorial powers to express and obtain their
> infrastructural, policy and legal needs.
> *In short, we need a alliance of the commons to project civil and
> political power and influence at every level of society; we need phyles to
> strengthen our economic autonomy from the profit-maximizing dominant
> system; and we need Chambre of the Commons to achieve territorial policy;
> legal and infrastructural conditions for the alternative, human and
> nature-friendly political economy to thrive. Neither alone is sufficient,
> but together they could be a powerful triad for the necessary phase
> transition.*
>
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