tonight at Lib. Plaza: A 'commons' <span>rathe</span><span>r than 'ma</span><span>rket state' o</span><span>rientation
is a ve</span><span>ry f</span><span>ruitful way to think about solving
humanity's p</span><span>roblems in a new way. </span><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Thomas Lowenhaupt</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:toml@communisphere.com">toml@communisphere.com</a>></span><br>
Date: Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 8:33 PM<br>Subject: Re: Michel Bauwens<br>To: Michel Bauwens <<a href="mailto:michel@p2pfoundation.net">michel@p2pfoundation.net</a>><br>Cc: Jared Krupnick <<a href="mailto:jared@synergisticwebs.com">jared@synergisticwebs.com</a>>, <a href="mailto:anthony@occupythenet.com">anthony@occupythenet.com</a><br>
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See here -
<a href="http://www.nycga.net/events/event/michael-bauwens-on-peer-to-peer/" target="_blank">http://www.nycga.net/events/event/michael-bauwens-on-peer-to-peer/</a><br>
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On 11/2/2011 1:19 AM, Michel Bauwens wrote:
<blockquote type="cite"><span>To succeed in social change, I
believe you need 3 things. Fi</span><span>rst, a
genuine mass movement, which is what #ows is all about, as the
fi</span><span>rst native movement and g</span><span>reat hope </span><span>of the digital
age; second, conc</span><span>rete alte</span><span>rnatives that can change ou</span><span>r
lives and allow us to live ou</span><span>r values </span><span>right now, and this is what commons-based pee</span><span>r p</span><span>roduction p</span><span>rovides, as a new way of p</span><span>roducing
value, with the P2P Foundation as one of the initiatives to map
the thousands of p</span><span>rojects being c</span><span>reated in this field, in o</span><span>rde</span><span>r to achieve mutual alignment and c</span><span>reate a g</span><span>rowing counte</span><span>r economy that can co-exist and pe</span><span>rhaps even supe</span><span>rsede the p</span><span>resent dysfunctional one</span><span>;
finally, we need to be able to stop bad policies, and p</span><span>ropose new ones that allow alte</span><span>rnatives to su</span><span>rvive and th</span><span>rive</span><span>, fo</span><span>r which we need t</span><span>rue democ</span><span>ratic p</span><span>rocesses.</span><span></span> A 'commons' <span>rathe</span><span>r than 'ma</span><span>rket state' o</span><span>rientation is a ve</span><span>ry f</span><span>ruitful way to think about solving humanity's p</span><span>roblems in a new way. </span><br>
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Michel Bauwens is founde<span>r of the P2P Foundation,
a global collabo</span><span>rative </span><span>resea</span><span>rching pee</span><span>r p</span><span>roduction, and a pa</span><span>rtne</span><span>r of the Commons St</span><span>rategies G</span><span>roup, which seeks
to seed conve</span><span>rsations a</span><span>round the new commons pa</span><span>radigm.</span></blockquote>
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