[P2P-F] anonymous campaign against p2p-foundation

Sun Nov 10 22:22:26 CET 2013

So sad, scarcity is winning. And with it misunderstanding between people.

2013/11/10 Michel Bauwens <michel at p2pfoundation.net>

> thanks for the comments,
>
> Kevin/Tom: of course this could be some cointelpro, or it could just be a
> personal issue, how would we be able to know this ?
>
> on a rational level, this is xtremely difficult to understand: we had
> friendly relations with heather, promoted her work, and she asked us to
> publish these excerpts herself. How could she forget ? that seems so
> impossible to fathom.
>
> and once she knew about the oversight, why did she not relent, but on the
> contrary escalated?
>
> as for orsan's remark,
>
> she believes we make money out of our curation, and that we are publicly
> funded. Of course you know both are wrong. We make zero income on that
> curation, all the wiki and blog work is free labour, and the very reason of
> my precarity , lack of heath insurance etc (including months with no money
> for food, solved by family solidarity): I have occasionally received very
> small sub-minimum wage contributions via james, when we fundraised in times
> of crisis;
>
> now, we won a EU grant, not for the p2p foundation, but to pay researchers
> that do actual research for the project (and none of that money has come in
> yet); this is not public funding for the foundation
>
> my situation is not rare, most of our associates live in precarious
> circumstances with very low incomes, and none of p2p-f volunteering is
> funded; we are all trying to do our best to generate derivative funding
> from the market
>
> next year is the first year I can look forward to monthly wages since
> 2007; and it will used to fill holes and bring my family to Ecuador.
>
> So no, we are not profiting from heather; on the contrary, we were helping
> her to get her ideas across to more people, costing us energy and time .
>
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