<div dir="ltr">Dear George,<div><br></div><div>here is a first attempt at such a page,</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Political_and_Policy_Developments_Around_the_Commons">https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Political_and_Policy_Developments_Around_the_Commons</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>Input more than welcome,</div><div><br></div><div>Michel</div><div><br></div><div><div id="gmail-content" class="gmail-mw-body" style="margin-left:11em;padding:1.25em 1.5em 1.5em;border-width:1px 0px 1px 1px;border-style:solid;border-color:rgb(167,215,249);color:rgb(37,37,37);direction:ltr;font-family:sans-serif;font-size:16px"><h1 id="gmail-firstHeading" class="gmail-firstHeading" lang="en" style="color:black;background-image:none;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-color:initial;font-weight:normal;margin:0px 0px 0.25em;overflow:visible;padding:0px;border-bottom:1px solid rgb(170,170,170);font-size:1.8em;line-height:1.3;font-family:"linux libertine",georgia,times,serif">Political and Policy Developments Around the Commons</h1><div id="gmail-bodyContent" class="gmail-mw-body-content" style="line-height:1.6;font-size:0.875em"><div id="gmail-contentSub" style="font-size:11.76px;line-height:1.2em;margin:0px 0px 1.4em 1em;color:rgb(84,84,84);width:auto"></div><div id="gmail-jump-to-nav" class="gmail-mw-jump" style="overflow:hidden;height:0px;zoom:1;margin-bottom:1.4em"><a href="https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Political_and_Policy_Developments_Around_the_Commons#mw-head" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background-image:none;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-color:initial"></a><a href="https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Political_and_Policy_Developments_Around_the_Commons#p-search" 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style="font-size:12.502px"> [<a href="https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Political_and_Policy_Developments_Around_the_Commons#" id="gmail-togglelink" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background-image:none;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-color:initial">hide</a>] </span></div><ul style="list-style-type:none;margin:0.3em 0px 0.5em;padding:0px"><li class="gmail-toclevel-1 gmail-tocsection-1" style="margin-bottom:0.1em"><a href="https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Political_and_Policy_Developments_Around_the_Commons#Context" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background-image:none;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-color:initial"><span class="gmail-tocnumber">1</span> <span class="gmail-toctext">Context</span></a></li><li class="gmail-toclevel-1 gmail-tocsection-2" style="margin-bottom:0.1em"><a href="https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Political_and_Policy_Developments_Around_the_Commons#Key_themes_and_developments" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background-image:none;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-color:initial"><span class="gmail-tocnumber">2</span> <span class="gmail-toctext">Key themes and developments</span></a></li><li class="gmail-toclevel-1 gmail-tocsection-3" style="margin-bottom:0.1em"><a href="https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Political_and_Policy_Developments_Around_the_Commons#Links_to_Material_on_Ongoing_Developments" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background-image:none;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-color:initial"><span class="gmail-tocnumber">3</span> <span class="gmail-toctext">Links to Material on Ongoing Developments</span></a><ul style="list-style-type:none;margin:0px 0px 0px 2em;padding:0px"><li class="gmail-toclevel-2 gmail-tocsection-4" style="margin-bottom:0.1em"><a href="https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Political_and_Policy_Developments_Around_the_Commons#Topics" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background-image:none;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-color:initial"><span class="gmail-tocnumber">3.1</span> <span class="gmail-toctext">Topics</span></a></li><li class="gmail-toclevel-2 gmail-tocsection-5" style="margin-bottom:0.1em"><a href="https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Political_and_Policy_Developments_Around_the_Commons#By_source" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background-image:none;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-color:initial"><span class="gmail-tocnumber">3.2</span> <span class="gmail-toctext">By source</span></a><ul style="list-style-type:none;margin:0px 0px 0px 2em;padding:0px"><li class="gmail-toclevel-3 gmail-tocsection-6" style="margin-bottom:0.1em"><a href="https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Political_and_Policy_Developments_Around_the_Commons#External_Links" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background-image:none;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-color:initial"><span class="gmail-tocnumber">3.2.1</span> <span class="gmail-toctext">External Links</span></a></li><li class="gmail-toclevel-3 gmail-tocsection-7" style="margin-bottom:0.1em"><a href="https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Political_and_Policy_Developments_Around_the_Commons#P2P_Foundation_Blog_Posts" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background-image:none;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-color:initial"><span class="gmail-tocnumber">3.2.2</span> <span class="gmail-toctext">P2P Foundation Blog Posts</span></a></li><li class="gmail-toclevel-3 gmail-tocsection-8" style="margin-bottom:0.1em"><a href="https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Political_and_Policy_Developments_Around_the_Commons#P2P_Foundation_and_Commons_Transition_wiki_updates" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background-image:none;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-color:initial"><span class="gmail-tocnumber">3.2.3</span> <span class="gmail-toctext">P2P Foundation and Commons Transition wiki updates</span></a></li></ul></li></ul></li></ul></div><h1 style="color:black;background-image:none;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-color:initial;font-weight:normal;margin:0px 0px 0.25em;overflow:hidden;padding:0px;border-bottom:1px solid rgb(170,170,170);font-size:1.8em;font-family:"linux libertine",georgia,times,serif;line-height:1.3"><span class="gmail-mw-headline" id="gmail-Context">Context</span><span class="gmail-mw-editsection" style="font-size:small;margin-left:1em;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;font-family:sans-serif"><span class="gmail-mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/index.php?title=Political_and_Policy_Developments_Around_the_Commons&action=edit§ion=1" title="Edit section: Context" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background-image:none;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-color:initial">edit</a><span class="gmail-mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h1><p style="margin:0.5em 0px;line-height:inherit">Given the ecological and political/ social emergencies of the current conjuncture, the emergence of more and more commons initiatives and understandings, but still in the context of progressive forces being too much wedded to the market/state duopoly, we call, with <a href="https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/George_Por" title="George Por" class="gmail-mw-redirect" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background-image:none;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-color:initial">George Por</a>, for the launch of a newsletter that would cover more adequately political and policy developments around the commons.</p><p style="margin:0.5em 0px;line-height:inherit">In this page, I will, with others hopefully, add pointers to recent developments that should be covered in such a newsletter.</p><p style="margin:0.5em 0px;line-height:inherit"><br></p><h1 style="color:black;background-image:none;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-color:initial;font-weight:normal;margin:0px 0px 0.25em;overflow:hidden;padding:0px;border-bottom:1px solid rgb(170,170,170);font-size:1.8em;font-family:"linux libertine",georgia,times,serif;line-height:1.3"><span class="gmail-mw-headline" id="gmail-Key_themes_and_developments">Key themes and developments</span><span class="gmail-mw-editsection" style="font-size:small;margin-left:1em;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;font-family:sans-serif"><span class="gmail-mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/index.php?title=Political_and_Policy_Developments_Around_the_Commons&action=edit§ion=2" title="Edit section: Key themes and developments" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background-image:none;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-color:initial">edit</a><span class="gmail-mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h1><ul style="margin:0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em;padding:0px"><li style="margin-bottom:0.1em">the emergence of urban commons and urban commons politics. This refers to developments with the new municipal coalitions in Spain, developments around the Bologna Regulation and its spread in Italy, commons transitions project such as those in Ghent Belgium; the emergence of urban Assemblies of the Commons mostly in France; groups like the Commons Transition Coalition in Melbourne; civil political revolts such as in Saillans or Frome; commons-oriented political inspirations such as Grenoble</li></ul><ul style="margin:0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em;padding:0px"><li style="margin-bottom:0.1em">progressive parties and movements that are open to commons understandings; this would involve seeing the commons' aspects of movements like the Corbyn and Sanders campaigns, new parties that are emerging such as Podemos/Syriza; parties / movements with explicit openings towards the commons, such as the Left Party in Italy, Diem in Europe; the Pirate Parties, especially in Iceland</li></ul><ul style="margin:0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em;padding:0px"><li style="margin-bottom:0.1em">European and other continental and transnational convergences, specifically the European Commons Assembly and its potential national and regional derivates.</li></ul><ul style="margin:0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em;padding:0px"><li style="margin-bottom:0.1em">Emergence of transnational civic and generative networks ?</li></ul><ul style="margin:0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em;padding:0px"><li style="margin-bottom:0.1em">How to deal, through commons-oriented approaches, with the authoritarian and right-populists surges a la Trump</li></ul><p style="margin:0.5em 0px;line-height:inherit"><br></p><h1 style="color:black;background-image:none;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-color:initial;font-weight:normal;margin:0px 0px 0.25em;overflow:hidden;padding:0px;border-bottom:1px solid rgb(170,170,170);font-size:1.8em;font-family:"linux 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id="gmail-P2P_Foundation_and_Commons_Transition_wiki_updates">P2P Foundation and Commons Transition wiki updates</span><span class="gmail-mw-editsection" style="font-size:small;font-weight:normal;margin-left:1em;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:1em;display:inline-block"><span class="gmail-mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/index.php?title=Political_and_Policy_Developments_Around_the_Commons&action=edit§ion=8" title="Edit section: P2P Foundation and Commons Transition wiki updates" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background-image:none;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-color:initial">edit</a><span class="gmail-mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h3></div><div class="gmail-visualClear" style="clear:both"></div></div></div><div id="gmail-mw-navigation" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:16px"></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 2:41 PM, Michel Bauwens <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:michel@p2pfoundation.net" target="_blank">michel@p2pfoundation.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Dear Kevin,<div><br></div><div>Thank you so much for this perspective, I wholly agree and I want to commend you especially for your efforts in knowing the dynamics of the opposite camp, as I would not have the time to do this. I urge you to keep on working on this track, and to become a real expert in this, god knows we need people like you willing to do this. We would also welcome your perspectives and writings on the p2p and CT blogs, and you will have seen george por's proposal for a political and policy oriented commons newsletter,</div><div><br></div><div>I want to make a little point of localism, and Occupy; obviously, at least for me, it doesn't work to critique them from the outside as many post-Marxists do, and seeing them as the enemy either. These are both great and massive social mobilisations, moving into a necessary but not sufficient direction. Localized initiatives are not bad, just insufficient, swarm based mobilizations are not bad, just insufficient. At the same time, for those who have a more integrative understanding and understand 'power' and 'institutions' cannot be ignored, it's cleary not enough, and it is important to also point that out.</div><div><br></div><div>One point here is that recently at the P2P Foundation I have been pointing at the need for our language to reflect this. So I have been introducing, in the context of our work on the cosmo-local DGML based forms of physical production, to stress, not localism, but the 'subsidiarity of material production' instead. I.e. we need a lot more local production, but always also in a trans-national framework.</div><div><br></div><div>If ever you had some energy to maintain a newsletter of the kind george and I are wishing for, that would cover political commons convergences like the ECA, the assembly of the commons that are emerging, the policy work being done in so many urban settings, </div><div><br></div><div>I would put a lot of my energy of assembling such info in a way that would be accessible to the editor of such a newsletter,</div><div><br></div><div>we really need this, but at p2p-f, we are overwhelmed with our existing to do lists,</div><div><br></div><div>Michel</div><div><br></div><div>Michel</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br clear="all"><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><<<From: Holy Mountain <</span><a href="mailto:kev.flanagan@gmail.com" style="font-size:12.8px" target="_blank">kev.flanagan@gmail.com</a><span style="font-size:12.8px">></span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">To: P2P Foundation mailing list <</span><a href="mailto:p2p-foundation@lists.ourproject.org" style="font-size:12.8px" target="_blank">p2p-foundation@lists.ourproje<wbr>ct.org</a><span style="font-size:12.8px">></span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Cc: "</span><a href="mailto:staccotroncoso@p2pfoundation.net" style="font-size:12.8px" target="_blank">staccotroncoso@p2pfoundation.<wbr>net</a><span style="font-size:12.8px">"</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px"> <</span><a href="mailto:staccotroncoso@p2pfoundation.net" style="font-size:12.8px" target="_blank">staccotroncoso@p2pfoundation.<wbr>net</a><span style="font-size:12.8px">>, Ann Marie Utratel</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px"> <</span><a href="mailto:amu444@gmail.com" style="font-size:12.8px" target="_blank">amu444@gmail.com</a><span style="font-size:12.8px">>, George Pór <</span><a href="mailto:george.por@gmail.com" style="font-size:12.8px" target="_blank">george.por@gmail.com</a><span style="font-size:12.8px">></span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Subject: Re: [P2P-F] Reflections on Trump, and the role of the commons</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px"> as an alternative</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Message-ID:</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px"> <</span><a href="mailto:CACpSwUdZqSw4ACPO1VXL1B7s3XO1aELUz09My4yeFuUc-zbn2A@mail.gmail.com" style="font-size:12.8px" target="_blank">CACpSwUdZqSw4ACPO1VXL1B7s3XO1<wbr>aELUz09My4yeFuUc-zbn2A@mail.gm<wbr>ail.com</a><span style="font-size:12.8px">></span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">I completely agree Michel with your analysis of how the left have been</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">co-opted into supporting the neoliberal agenda. The other trend on the more</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">radical left over the last 30 years has been the rejection of parliamentary</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">politics in favour of localism. The risks of a puritan anti-state left</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">politics are that they have no organised opposition to challenge the</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">capture of the state by reactionary right wing forces. If the left is not</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">occupying those seat the right will.</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Liberals have successfully co-opted aspects of the left into the</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">institutions of capitalism, with the collapse of the soviet union, the end</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">of history, the establishment left that includes academics without a</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">serious alternative assumed liberalism was a given and committed to working</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">for change from within a liberal framework.</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">No one expected a resurgence of fascism. Spend any time researching this</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">and you quickly realise it is huge. It is important to think about the</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">young people who are being recruited to extreme right, what paths have lead</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">them to participate in these communities.</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">The extreme right have not had the privilege of access to government,</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">academic institutions or mainstream media and so they waste no time trying</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">to get papers published or to lobby governments to support their policies,</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">no they are entirely focused on recruiting online not through reason but</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">through myth, tapping into young peoples anxieties and offering them</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">insurgent narratives, vision and mythology.</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Where do young people go to learn about the world. Youtube. The extreme</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">right have made really effective use of this as a medium for recruitment.</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Unlike academics, politicians so on who mostly talk to each other. The</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">right engage with these young people in 'debate'.</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">The problem is also the narrative. Liberals and the left offer complex</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">narratives. Liberal politics has become a bureaucratic and there are</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">establishment gatekeepers. The extreme right offer simple narratives with</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">naive hero myths which appeal to young people who the right claim are</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">raised being taught left politics of victimhood and blame in universities.</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">The promise of figures like Trump is that he does not care for checks and</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">balances, he is the image of the authoritarian who overcomes, the</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">complexities of politics, the cynical power plays of bureaucrats and</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">experts, he does this by sheer force of charismatic will, cheered on by his</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">followers who have simply lost patience with the status quo.</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">This is the modus operandi of fascism.</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">This has emboldened the far right, those who previously entertained these</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">ideas in private for fear of social censure are coming out and organising.</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Berger is an expert on online extremism and has done significant work on</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">how Isis use social media to recruit and organise at scale. In this video</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">he explains how the far right are using the same tactics but do not face</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">the same kinds of limitations as Isis. He talks about the relative impact</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">of small groups on shaping public discourse. He is not at all convinced</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">that western governments have the capacity to effectively deal with this</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">turn.</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">We are looking at highly organised fascist recruitment and propaganda</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">machine. It cannot be tolerated and must face full resistance that means</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">alliances of everyone committed to democratic process.</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65YJmfRbbPw" rel="noreferrer" style="font-size:12.8px" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?<wbr>v=65YJmfRbbPw</a><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><a href="https://cchs.gwu.edu/sites/cchs.gwu.edu/files/downloads/Nazis%20v.%20ISIS%20Final_0.pdf" rel="noreferrer" style="font-size:12.8px" target="_blank">https://cchs.gwu.edu/sites/cch<wbr>s.gwu.edu/files/downloads/Nazi<wbr>s%20v.%20ISIS%20Final_0.pdf</a><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Part of that is offering real alternative political imaginaries, and making</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">those imaginaries available and accessible to young people is essential.</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">What would a popular alternative movement look like? One that moves beyond</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">the horizontalism of Occupy and aims effectively to get hands dirty, to</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">take power and put it to work for the kind of world we want to live in.</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"></div><span class="">-- <br><div class="m_5565387584317940920gmail_signature"><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/<wbr>mbauwens</a><br><br>#82 on the (En)Rich list: <a href="http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/" target="_blank">http://enrichlist.org/the-<wbr>complete-list/</a> <br></div></div></div></div>
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