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Sat Mar 30 15:43:37 CET 2013

Michel, how do you see the intersection of the three coalitions with the Global
Solution Networks<https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/100666540255152085162/stream/0b84e7c8-83b3-47b5-b3ab-5f89f3ac5956>
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On Sat, Mar 30, 2013 at 12:18 PM, Anna Harris <anna at shsh.co.uk> wrote:

> 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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