On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 5:36 AM, George Pór <[email protected]> wrote:
> Democractic Socialists of America, whose website says: > > • We need to organize and protect certain parts of the natural, social, > and political *commons*. Community-based trusts and co- operative > ventures need to be bolstered by fiscal, tax, and financial policies that > balance or eliminate the deeply embedded advantages collectively known as > “corporate welfare.” We also must curb monopoly patents on property related > to public health and products developed with research funded at least in > part by taxpayers. > http://www.dsausa.org/toward_an_economic_justice_agenda > > • For the future of our planet, we must struggle to end corporate > exploitation of our natural resources and fight for innovative economic > relationships that protect the *commons*. > http://www.dsausa.org/convention_speakers_and_programming > > The great systems that sustain life on Earth— the atmosphere, oceans, > lakes, rivers and groundwater, soils and natural ecosystems—must be > recognized as *commons* belonging to everyone and managed democratically. > Left to the logic of the private market, they will be exploited to > extinction. Our posterity will inherit a healthy planet only if we end the > profit-driven throwaway corporate economy and replace it with a production > system designed for systematic reuse and recycling of materials. > http://www.dsausa.org/deconstructing_obama_s_climate_message > > • We have shot ourselves in the foot, by listening to 33 years of failed > Reaganomics, and by buying into the idea that education should be a > commodity and something that banksters can get rich off of, and not part of > the *commons*. It's time we own up to our mistakes, and start calling > America's student loan debt crisis what it really is: A massive, > devastating, trillion-dollar morally criminal conspiracy, committed by Wall > Street banksters, libertarian billionaires and Reaganomics devotees. > http://www.dsausa.org/students_now_indentured_to_the_banksters > > hi george, it's great to see how the concept of the commons is moving, even in the American heartland, yesterday, I got an email from a new progressive coalition in Italy, who said these ideas were at the core of their approach for the future, this is the kind of stuff a newsletter on the political commons should follow, Michel -- Check out the Commons Transition Plan here at: http://commonstransition.org P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation>Updates: http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/
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