<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Örsan Şenalp</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:orsan1234@gmail.com">orsan1234@gmail.com</a>></span><br>Date: Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 5:48 PM<br>Subject: [Networkedlabour] Fair Coop. Target: Planet Earth!<br>To: "<a href="mailto:networkedlabour@lists.contrast.org">networkedlabour@lists.contrast.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:networkedlabour@lists.contrast.org">networkedlabour@lists.contrast.org</a>>, commoning <<a href="mailto:commoning@lists.wissensallmende.de">commoning@lists.wissensallmende.de</a>><br><br><br>An global open cooperative as a revolutionary tool for building other<br>
economy at the world level… now!<br>
<br>
<a href="http://snuproject.wordpress.com/2014/09/22/fair-coop-target-planet-earth/" target="_blank">http://snuproject.wordpress.com/2014/09/22/fair-coop-target-planet-earth/</a><br>
<br>
Today I have not expropriated any banks, nor presented anything anyone<br>
can call illegal, against perhaps what expected by many, neither do I<br>
present a strategy directly related to my return to public freedom,<br>
which does not mean I am not still defining that plan.<br>
<br>
What I now present is a revolutionary project on a global scale, a<br>
fruit of the immersion and learning I was allowed to thanks to my 19<br>
months of intense activity in the seclusion of hiding.<br>
<br>
The moment this project was born during my nights of creative<br>
solitude, it became clear to me that I had to make this both a<br>
priority and a reality before taking any risk as an individual. Today,<br>
I am pleased to have acted on that determination, and I hereby submit<br>
the project so that it may become everyone’s.<br>
<br>
It is the open, global cooperative Fair Coop, one more step in the<br>
extension of the integral revolution worldwide; and also the p2p<br>
society values, open cooperation, and hacker ethics, among others.<br>
<br>
I will now explain some of the thoughts that inspired me to do this:<br>
<br>
The blockchain and Bitcoin brought to the world one of the few missing<br>
pieces to allow us to become independent from the old economic system.<br>
Old, centralized and new, decentralized systems have begun an open<br>
competition for domination in the world of the future. And for the<br>
first time in thousands of years, decentralized systems have another<br>
chance.<br>
<br>
However, for those of us who understand the world in terms of<br>
cooperation, decentralization is not enough; we believe this new world<br>
needs self-organization and mutual support, cooperation needs to<br>
infiltrate all those corners where domination is falling behind.<br>
<br>
Cooperative, self-managed, collective, community-based projects are<br>
extending and multiplying everywhere.<br>
<br>
The practices that preset the way this other world can be everyday,<br>
are very much alive. Although these practices are beginning to be<br>
quite interconnected at bio-region scale, they are still too isolated<br>
and there is mutual ignorance among initiatives that are thousands of<br>
kilometers from each other, on different continents, based on<br>
different languages.<br>
<br>
Large amounts of commons are being built in parallel at the local<br>
scale, but any one project’s evolution has so far been insufficiently<br>
shared with the others. We need more powerful tools to help us share<br>
our knowledge, and we must be able to finance their development.<br>
<br>
We don’t want to stay as viewers in the confrontation between the old,<br>
oligarchic and the new, netarchic capitalism. We want a cooperative<br>
system also on a global scale, like the ones we practice at local<br>
scale, and if we want to see it happen we have to build it.<br>
<br>
Therefore it became necessary to work on a project to put social<br>
cooperation back on the stage of the dominance struggles between<br>
economic systems, showing that the path to put human beings back at<br>
the center is possible, and is there for us to expand it.<br>
<br>
This project has arrived and is called Fair.Coop, The Earth<br>
cooperative for a fair economy.<br>
<br>
The initial push to boot this initiative is what we have named<br>
“hacking money markets to introduce the virus of cooperation”.<br>
<br>
This means:<br>
<br>
A cryptocurrency, negotiable in an uncontrolled way in decentralized<br>
markets around the world can be understood as social capital, in which<br>
the number of shares is equal to the total number of created coins.<br>
<br>
If we choose it as our founding capital for a cooperative, it means<br>
this capital, instead of being accounted in the dominant currency<br>
(euro, dollar…) will be in a currency the system can not control, and<br>
also, as our cooperative project grows and provides resources and<br>
services of proven usefulness, the value of this capital and the<br>
entire cryptocurrency will grow accordingly.<br>
<br>
It is an important point and I will explain the meaning of this in a<br>
different way so it can be fully understood:<br>
<br>
Consider traditional capitalism. Company owners extract value primarily through:<br>
<br>
- Income from capital<br>
<br>
- Labour exploitation<br>
<br>
In some transnational corporations, netarchic capitalism adds a third<br>
way to extract value: free collaboration between humans. For example<br>
Facebook or Google ads generate a lot of money because we use their<br>
“free” services, while we in fact are working for them for free.<br>
<br>
What if it is us who create technological tools for cooperation<br>
between equals, and use them to generate free knowledge, global<br>
commons?<br>
<br>
Well, then we can do what we like and consider helpful: cooperating,<br>
sharing, learning, while letting the economic value of our work remain<br>
in cooperative projects, and even reverse to ourselves.<br>
<br>
It became necessary therefore to find a coin that was not controlled<br>
by old capitalism (euros / dollars …), nor exploited by the most<br>
innovative capitalism (Bitcoin), one in which we can incorporate our<br>
values and cooperative practices. Faircoin therefore was chosen.<br>
<br>
After months of networking and creation, Fair.coop is born today.<br>
<br>
The space is open to start cooperation among all of us, and we have<br>
supplied the cooperative 10,000,000 faircoins, representing 20% of<br>
total existing coins.<br>
<br>
This social capital was injected into Fair.coop with the following distribution:<br>
<br>
- 5,000,000 faircoins for the Global South fund (address:<br>
<a href="https://chain.fair-coin.org/address/fU3wRGZwese65gZqRiQiJvE483iyjY2QD4" target="_blank">https://chain.fair-coin.org/address/fU3wRGZwese65gZqRiQiJvE483iyjY2QD4</a><br>
)<br>
<br>
- 2,500,000 faircoins for the Commons fund (address:<br>
<a href="https://chain.fair-coin.org/address/fMxkQtTCFZpWuZNZQTq7HxwcZ6rQn1yAWj" target="_blank">https://chain.fair-coin.org/address/fMxkQtTCFZpWuZNZQTq7HxwcZ6rQn1yAWj</a><br>
)<br>
<br>
- 1,500,000 faircoins for the Technology Infrastructure fund (address:<br>
<a href="https://chain.fair-coin.org/address/fJ7dwkfHiJW9867xcovaJ9QDN7khDEMJMm" target="_blank">https://chain.fair-coin.org/address/fJ7dwkfHiJW9867xcovaJ9QDN7khDEMJMm</a><br>
)<br>
<br>
- 1,000,000 faircoins for the Pooled fund (address:<br>
<a href="https://chain.fair-coin.org/address/fNWcvkQLg9ELKkV5gH1nsYBJnzHqw7pka7" target="_blank">https://chain.fair-coin.org/address/fNWcvkQLg9ELKkV5gH1nsYBJnzHqw7pka7</a><br>
)<br>
<br>
And the following conditions:<br>
<br>
Except for the Pool fund which can be used to cover operating expenses<br>
at the discretion of the Ecosystem Council and the whole <a href="http://fair.coop" target="_blank">fair.coop</a>,<br>
contributions to the other three funds can not be touched in one year.<br>
<br>
With the Global South fund we call for a redistribution that can reach<br>
as many local projects as possible, prioritizing the empowerment of<br>
the areas and environments most attacked by the current system,<br>
generating a peer-to-peer cooperation environment, to restore global<br>
economic justice.<br>
<br>
As for the Commons and Technology Infrastructure funds, the call is to<br>
qualitatively prioritize projects that can most benefit the global<br>
common good.<br>
<br>
This period may well serve to build a participatory, creative and<br>
mutually supportive process leading to decisions in relation to the<br>
right priorities, defined collectively and efficiently. Also, as<br>
collaboration between equals multiplies under all Fair.Coop and<br>
especially the FairNetwork,the value of FairCoop’s social capital is<br>
expected to respond by growing in value relative to fiat currencies,<br>
not forgetting, as a symbol of our independence, that 1 faircoin will<br>
always equal 1 faircoin.<br>
<br>
In this way and just for starters, 20% of the existing monetary<br>
resources remain in the hands of a participatory and open political<br>
process. Meanwhile Fair Coop will work to continue recovering for the<br>
common good resources which may be redistributed through the same<br>
funds.<br>
<br>
So this time, if our collaborative and freely shared vocation is to<br>
benefit someone financially, it will be the same ones who are building<br>
it before anyone else, that is all cooperatives, and through the<br>
funded projects, all of humanity.<br>
<br>
In other words, we have finally found a way to cooperatively organize,<br>
share, learn, help, one that can self-manage without the need, at<br>
least in the most delicate initial phase, to depend on others, or<br>
having to prioritize selling our production in the market, not even<br>
keeping up with regular member fees. All we need in this first phase<br>
is to create free knowledge, share andbecome interwoven the way we<br>
know best, extend the intangible, and build the material commons;<br>
build social currency networks based on faircoin, such as the<br>
Faircredit project already presented (LINK).<br>
<br>
We can innovate to create value together in many areas of the commons.<br>
<br>
We can each contribute our bit of knowledge, political participation,<br>
time, donations, products, services, investment, network-building.<br>
Each based on their capabilities and priorities.<br>
<br>
The market will value it by buying our cryptocurrency and pushing up<br>
the value of our social capital, in relation to other currencies. So<br>
we can finally “squat” the forex markets, responsible for so much<br>
inequality, to recover from a part, large or small, time will tell, of<br>
these injustices.<br>
<br>
I can imagine some anticapitalist will see it as contradictory, me<br>
expressing the role of money markets in this project.<br>
<br>
Anyone trying to quit using money, and who has already done much work<br>
regarding community economy and direct exchange can certainly go<br>
beyond <a href="http://fair.coop" target="_blank">fair.coop</a>’s monetary initiatives, which does not prevent them<br>
to get involved, as one more, in collective creation and political<br>
participation.<br>
<br>
But most of us who are often using a currency, fiat or social, for<br>
trading or saving, are dependent on a reference framework for prices<br>
and store-of-value function, which is imposed by central banks, so we<br>
are somehow passive partners of the system we want to overcome.<br>
<br>
Moreover, I would like to recall that the Forex market is an<br>
irrefutable historical fact over 100 years old, with a trend to be<br>
less and less regulated. In recent years, only authoritarian states<br>
(such as the case of China where the value is set by government<br>
decision) have explored a second path in relation to how to deal<br>
politically with the market, while for all I know, from areas related<br>
to the ideas we share in the context of the integral revolution, for<br>
example, despite experiencing multiple pathways to social currencies<br>
as exchange tools has not generated any previous approach on how to<br>
confront the forex market to build economic empowerment worldwide.<br>
<br>
In recent years, new cryptocurrency exchange markets have appeared,<br>
uncontrollable by governments, and therefore it is no longer necessary<br>
to have a country and a central bank in order to have a currency that<br>
can be exchanged across the world. The banking system is outdated and<br>
more and more of us are realizing it, so the path we’re starting now<br>
is for building something that will, some day, consolidate a global<br>
alternative.<br>
<br>
What was lacking to start walking, was a monetary initiative present<br>
in these markets which, instead of relying on human competition to<br>
keep the most value, be based on human cooperation as equals, to<br>
create value for all of them. With the arrival of Fair.Coop, faircoin<br>
has become the cryptocurrency focused on social cooperation that was<br>
missing.<br>
<br>
So we’ll see over time whether this way we’re choosing is the best or<br>
not, but at least with this initiative we now have a path to explore,<br>
as to how to address this global issue of how to create a more just<br>
economic system with the level of social cooperation this planet needs<br>
and current technology allows.<br>
<br>
Fair Coop is born! Let’s get connected, entangled, let’s share,<br>
discuss, build! Everything is there to be done and everything is<br>
possible. Now it’s up to us!<br>
<br>
Let’s be the change we wish to see in the world!<br>
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