if anyone cares to join!<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Pamela McLean</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pamela.mclean@dadamac.net">pamela.mclean@dadamac.net</a>></span><br>
Date: Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 2:57 PM<br>Subject: Michel Bauwens - Introduction to P2P and the Commons as the new paradigm of change - Saturday, December 10 - London<br>To: Posterous <<a href="mailto:post@posterous.com">post@posterous.com</a>><br>
Cc: mark jagdev <<a href="mailto:markjagdev@gmail.com">markjagdev@gmail.com</a>>, Michel Bauwens <<a href="mailto:michelsub2004@gmail.com">michelsub2004@gmail.com</a>><br><br><br><div>
<p>Saturday, December 10, 2011, 10:00 AM</p>
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<a href="http://www.meetup.com/School-of-Commoning-Events/venue/4571802/?eventId=42358822&popup=true" target="_blank">TentCity University at Occupy London (St.Paul's)</a>
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<span>St. Paul's Cathedral</span>, <span>London</span>
<span>(<a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?q=St.+Paul%26%23039%3Bs+Cathedral%2C+London" target="_blank">map</a>)</span>
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<p>Michel Bauwens, the presenter of this talk at Occupy London, says:</p>
<p>To succeed in social change, you need 3 things.</p>
<p>A genuine mass movement. As the first native movement and great hope of the digital age that is what #ows (Occupy Wall Street) is all about</p>
<p>Concrete alternatives that can change our lives and allow us to live
our values right now. This is what commons-based peer production
provides � a new way of producing value</p>
<p>The ability to be able to stop bad policies, and propose new ones
that allow alternatives to survive and thrive, for which we need true
democratic processes</p>
<p>A �commons� rather than �market state� orientation is a fruitful way to think about solving humanity�s problems in a new way.</p>
<p>Michel Bauwens is founder of the Foundation for Peer-to-Peer
Alternatives , a global collaborative researching peer production that
maps the thousands of p2p projects being created to achieve mutual
alignment and a growing counter economy that can co-exist and perhaps
even supersede the today�s dysfunctional one. He is also an Advisor of
the School of Commoning, and partner of the Commons Strategies Group
that seeks to seed conversations around the new commons paradigm.</p><p>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<br></p><p><a href="http://www.meetup.com/School-of-Commoning-Events/members/10324587/" target="_blank">Technoshaman</a> wrote - If you could help getting
the word out about it, that too woud be good. It is also posted in the
Calendar at <a href="http://tentcityuniversity.occupylsx.org/?page_id=4" title="http://tentcityuniversity.occupylsx.org/?page_id=4" target="_blank">http://tentcityuniversity.occupylsx.org/?page_id=4</a><img src="" alt="" width="0"><img src="" alt="" width="0"> .
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