[P2P-F] [tapas] [NetworkedLabour] [commoning] support appreciated for Plan C, a commons transition plan for greek civil movements

Thu Jul 16 12:34:16 CEST 2015

thank you Pat, will look at WIEGO with interest,

Michel

On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 5:18 PM, Pat Conaty <
pat.commonfutures at phonecoop.coop> wrote:

> Hi Michel, George and Stacco
>
> You asked for more info Michel. Greece has so many self-employed workers
> and so do more and more countries in the UK as the state services are
> decimated by austerity. So what do trade unions and co-ops and social
> finance organisations do to respond to the growing precariat and right
> across Europe from east to west.
>
> I talked yesterday of Gandian horizontal organising methods. This is
> democratic practical socialism in action if it is understood for its
> potency. There is a superb example - the WIEGO network for the supporting
> the precariat. You can have a look at their website.
>
> Supported by the Textile workers union (that Gandhi helped found after
> World War I, these horizontal methodologies for economic democracy grew out
> of work in India with SEWA bank.  Indeed as part of the integrated strategy
> their movement has combined since the late 1970s trade union, co-op
> solutions, mutual savings and loans and solidarity economy politics.
>
> In India the network membership is now 1.7 million and WEiGO promotes the
> model internationally. They began with a gender focus but now organise
> empowerment for women and men.
>
> This summary report attached gives you the their street wise and
> sophisticated strategy. They are now working in Eastern Europe, Latin
> America and other parts of Asia.
>
> Their work is changing ILO policy because it is so successful and some
> trade unions are showing more interest and some co-op networks also.
>
> We have a conference tomorrow in London on the precariat and new models of
> social union organising and WIEGO are speaking at the event that the Trade
> Union Congress are hosting.
>
> Pat
>
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> On 16 Jul 2015, at 08:27, Michel Bauwens <michel at p2pfoundation.net> wrote:
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 2:21 PM, Pat Conaty <
> pat.commonfutures at phonecoop.coop> wrote:
>
>> Hence the argument for a partner state that is not on top but on tap in
>> its support for new forms of Co-operative Economic Democracy to secure
>> co-operative commonwealth.
>>
>> Great Michel to see you setting out the framework for a Plan C (for
>> co-operative commons). We need collaborative work to flesh this out but you
>> have made a flying start.
>>
>
> would be great if you could add material here:
> http://p2pfoundation.net/Plan_C_for_Advancing_the_Commons_Transition_in_Greece
>
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> http://commonstransition.org
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