<div dir="ltr">Dear Birgit:<div><br></div><div>fully agree that local initiatives are not sufficient,</div><div><br></div><div>my own belief is that very little is possible at national scale within the eurozone especially with the government committed to carrying out the extreme measures of the accord,</div><div><br></div><div>in the absense of a democratic and sovereign monetary policy, I'm very partial to the transition proposals of CADTM and Ellen Brown, but it's hard to see them as realistic options under the current government</div><div><br></div><div>in the meantime I believe it would be useful to start linking up local and regional currencies and to link them up with a 'national' (or even transnational) credit commons system, based on a link with the solidarity economy, SME's and coop entities that gives it real economic clout and liquidity, as it has done for the WIR in Switzerland,</div><div><br></div><div>in general, I would hope for interconnecting provisioning and mutual aid networks, on the model of what has started in Madison, Wisconsin with Stephanie Rearick's Mutual Aid Network and the stirrings of <a href="http://encommuns.org">encommuns.org</a> in Lille. Is there anything to be done at the urban level, on the model of what is happening in a multitude of places in Italy ?</div><div><br></div><div>we need a multitude of people in Greece to start thinking not just about local resilience, but about rebuilding, an alternative mode of production with its own logic ; the pieces of the puzzle are there, but who can and is willing to assemble them ?</div><div><br></div><div>Plan C for the moment can't be based on the hope of a political party carrying it out, but, for the moment, in my opinion, must be based about patient self-organization and the rebuilding of social and political forces that actually believe in alternatives,</div><div><br></div><div>Michel</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 1:58 PM, Birgit Daiber <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bir.dai@hotmail.com" target="_blank">bir.dai@hotmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div><div dir="ltr">Dear Michel, <div><br></div><div>thanks for the initiative to work on a commoners' Plan C concerning Greece.<div>Last year already a referendum was held in Thessaloniki on water as common good - and there</div><div>are other initiatives in Greece active in different fields - let's connect with these initiatives and try to</div><div><span style="font-size:12pt">develop common strategies. I will come back to you in some days - as I'm actually on mission and</span></div><div><font size="3">not </font>really<font size="3"> able to concentrate on it.</font></div><div><span style="font-size:12pt"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12pt">But: Greece will not get rid of the European Monetary Union's strangling rules by </span></div><div><span style="font-size:12pt">such initiatives! And Greece needs strong solidarity actions - not only today but tomorrow and in future - as this war will go on. </span><span style="font-size:12pt">EMU wants Greece to be their garbage-place for all errors made during the European crisis - and</span></div><div><font size="3">they will not stop to burn incredible amounts of money on it! To find at least a kind of corridor for </font></div><div><font size="3"> sustainable development will be the hardest thing!</font></div><div><span style="font-size:12pt"><br></span></div><div><font size="3">At the same time there are two other issues to be discussed: The question on European democracy and the question of a new financial architecture globally but regionally in Europe too. </font><span style="font-size:12pt"> We could refer to projects like "Banco del Sur" in Latin America, now followed on BRICS-level. Just for your information:</span></div><div><span style="font-size:12pt">Pedro Paez Perez published a basic reflection on Money as Common Good in 2012 - you find it as attachment.</span></div><div><span style="font-size:12pt"><br></span></div><div>Best wishes, Yours, Birgit</div><div><br></div><div><br><div><br></div>
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<div><br></div><br><br><div><hr>Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2015 15:08:51 +0700<br>From: <a href="mailto:michel@p2pfoundation.net" target="_blank">michel@p2pfoundation.net</a><br>To: <a href="mailto:tapas@lists.p2pfoundation.net" target="_blank">tapas@lists.p2pfoundation.net</a>; <a href="mailto:p2p-foundation@lists.ourproject.org" target="_blank">p2p-foundation@lists.ourproject.org</a>; <a href="mailto:commongood@listi.jpberlin.de" target="_blank">commongood@listi.jpberlin.de</a><br>CC: <a href="mailto:networkedlabour@lists.contrast.org" target="_blank">networkedlabour@lists.contrast.org</a>; <a href="mailto:commoning@lists.wissensallmende.de" target="_blank">commoning@lists.wissensallmende.de</a>; <a href="mailto:commoning@lists.commons-institut.org" target="_blank">commoning@lists.commons-institut.org</a><br>Subject: [CommonGood] support appreciated for Plan C, a commons transition plan for greek civil movements<br><br><div dir="ltr"><span class="">dear friends,<div><br></div><div>I will try to work on this in the coming days, but would really appreciate any support ,</div><div><br></div><div>see: <a href="http://p2pfoundation.net/Plan_C_for_Advancing_the_Commons_Transition_in_Greece#Proposals" target="_blank">http://p2pfoundation.net/Plan_C_for_Advancing_the_Commons_Transition_in_Greece#Proposals</a></div><div><br></div></span><div>Michel<br clear="all"><span class=""><div><br></div>-- <br><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>Check out the Commons Transition Plan here at: <a href="http://commonstransition.org" target="_blank">http://commonstransition.org</a> </div><div><br></div>P2P Foundation: <a href="http://p2pfoundation.net" target="_blank">http://p2pfoundation.net</a> - <a href="http://blog.p2pfoundation.net" target="_blank">http://blog.p2pfoundation.net</a> <br><br><a href="http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation" target="_blank"></a>Updates: <a href="http://twitter.com/mbauwens" target="_blank">http://twitter.com/mbauwens</a>; <a href="http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens" target="_blank">http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens</a><br><br>#82 on the (En)Rich list: <a href="http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/" target="_blank">http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/</a> <br></div></div></div></div>
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