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During the week of June 5 to 12, 2016, the [[Mutual Aid Network]] of Madison, Wisconsin, with [[Stephanie Rearick]], organized a mapping week to identify resources and alternative value flows in and around Madison, in order to create more equitable economic development.<br />
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The material here are the kind of resources and organizations that were identified during that proces.<br />
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=Participating in the MAN Up Madison Mapping Summit=<br />
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* See the [[MAN Up Madison Mapping Summit]] page for details.<br />
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* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1n1yOZ8UkaXYETFcosBShxGgWzuGdqx-h9u4bEmpdqPA/edit Madison Mapping Summit Schedule]<br />
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* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/167xf0XRpDEI9bULoZXM3N2TRuNB7pG_vI9ndMjblQe8/edit Madison Mapping Project - flyer]<br />
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* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1iciRHyRCI7WQqPJq3YBGkgmoTT-DUISl2M-yjqdz-Qo/edit Appeal for partners and sponsors]<br />
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* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1n1yOZ8UkaXYETFcosBShxGgWzuGdqx-h9u4bEmpdqPA/edit Open schedule]<br />
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=Key Generic Resources=<br />
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Not specific to Madison:<br />
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* [http://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Mikorizal_Software Mikorizal Software]: software for interconnecting resource flows for the ethical and sustainable economy<br />
* [https://localwiki.org/madisonwi/ Madison, WI LocalWiki]<br />
* [[Local Economic Development Resource Flow Mapping]]<br />
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==Tools==<br />
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* Co-budget, tool for re-investing resources in a network, http://cobudget.co/#/<br />
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=Key Local Resources=<br />
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* The [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/155cLOdn5xhqVuCxUi2ATzhgCr3yHJMjdYCIJ7nNP5_M/edit#gid=0MAN Mapping Summit data collector] (http://tiny.cc/madmap)<br />
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==Cooperatives==<br />
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* [[Allied Community Cooperative]]<br />
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==Maps==<br />
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* [http://locecon.org/clusters/cluster/24/ Map of Madison WI MAN Partners]<br />
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==Tools==<br />
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* Robust budgeting worksheet used by the Mutual Aid Network, see http://www.mutualaidnetwork.org/robust-budgeting/ (page empty ?)<br />
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==Income and Resource Generation (incl. money and currencies)==<br />
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* [[Dane County TimeBank]]<br />
* [[Mutual Aid Network]]<br />
* [[Time For the World]]<br />
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=Directory=<br />
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As compiled by Bob Haugen and Lynn Foster [http://locecon.org/clusters/cluster/24/]:<br />
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==Cooperatives==<br />
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#[[Allied Community Cooperative]] ; Function: Economic Organization<br />
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==Cooperative Spaces==<br />
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#Art In ; Function: Community Workspace<br />
#[http://horizoncw.com/ Horizon Coworking] ; Function: Community Workspace<br />
#[http://www.sector67.org/blog/about/ Sector 67] ; Function: Community Workspace (a Community Workspace / Hackerspace / Makerspace / Collaborative Environment in Madison)<br />
#[http://www.synergymadison.com/home/ Synergy Coworking] ; Function: Community Workspace<br />
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==Food==<br />
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# [http://www.cartsforcommunity.com/about.html Carts 4 Community] ; Function: Food production<br />
# [http://feedkitchens.org/about-us/ FEED Kitchens] ; Function: Food Biz Incubation (Food Enterprise and Economic Development (FEED) Kitchens is a project of the Northside Planning Council of Madison)<br />
# [http://www.healthyfoodforalldanecounty.org/ Food for All] ; Function: Food recovery (Healthy Food for All increases distribution of locally grown produce in areas where it is not otherwise readily available) [http://isthmus.com/food-drink/first-years-a-successful-one-for-healthy-food-for-all/]<br />
# [http://www.motherfools.com/ Mother Fools] ; Function: Food retail (co-owned by Stephanie Rearick, co-founder of the MAN)<br />
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==Housing==<br />
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#[http://occupymadisoninc.com/about/ Occupy Madison] ; Function: Housing (Building Tiny Houses)<br />
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==Social Justice Organizations==<br />
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#MAN ([[Mutual Aid Network]] ; Function: Economic Organization<br />
#[http://www.wnpj.org/ Wisconsin Network for Peace and Justice] ; Function: Organizing</div>SRosehttps://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/index.php?title=Samuel_Rose&diff=90390Samuel Rose2015-04-04T12:32:38Z<p>SRose: </p>
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<div>My name is [[Samuel Rose]].<br />
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[http://holocene.cc Holocene Systems,LLC] is the enterprise that I have created to<br />
help people deal with the complexities of knowledge, understanding,<br />
change, human systems, evolution, foresight, cooperation and<br />
collaboration, and technology.<br />
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I have always been interested in effective knowledge synthesis, and I am<br />
interested in exploring and developing the concepts of open knowledge,<br />
open design, and open business.<br />
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I also love music, and writing, graphic arts, and<br />
inventing/tinkering/personal fabrication.<br />
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Here's a growing list of blogs, wikis, social software experiments and developings, and ongoing research projects that I am involved in:<br />
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*[http://CommunityWiki.org CoummunityWiki]<br />
*[http://MeatballWiki.org Meatball Wiki]<br />
*[http://CooperationCommons.com/cooperation-commons Cooperation Commons Weblog]<br />
*[http://SmartMobs.com SmartMobs Weblog]<br />
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[[Category:ActiveContributor]]<br />
[[Category:Bios]]</div>SRosehttps://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/index.php?title=Wealth_Generating_Ecology&diff=90389Wealth Generating Ecology2015-04-04T12:31:20Z<p>SRose: </p>
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<div>A Wealth Generating Ecology is a system oriented around "making, sharing, using" vs. "producing, distributing, consuming". "making, sharing, using" affords extensibility, interoperability, transparency, and plurality. These properties typically offer multitude of emerging new niches of opportunity in the dynamic environment, instead of a few. Engaging and fulfilling these opportunities will in turn typically spur the emergence of many more smaller niches within niches. This type of system does not "redistribute" wealth. Instead, it generates means and access to wealth for more and more of it's participants, the more extensible, interoperable, transparent and plural it's outcomes are.<br />
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=Related=<br />
* [[The Holistic Problem of Manufacturing]]<br />
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workgroup Workgroup]<br />
* [[Financial Commons]]<br />
* [[Distributed Personal Fabrication]]<br />
* [[Hackerspaces]]</div>SRosehttps://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/index.php?title=Wealth_Generating_Ecology&diff=90388Wealth Generating Ecology2015-04-04T12:29:00Z<p>SRose: </p>
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<div>A Wealth Generating Ecology is a system oriented around "making, sharing, using" vs. "producing, distributing, consuming". "making, sharing, using" affords extensibility, interoperability, transparency, and plurality. These properties typically offer multitude of emerging new niches of opportunity in the dynamic environment, instead of a few. Engaging and fulfilling these opportunities will in turn typically spur the emergence of many more smaller niches within niches. <br />
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=Related=<br />
* [[The Holistic Problem of Manufacturing]]<br />
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workgroup Workgroup]<br />
* [[Financial Commons]]<br />
* [[Distributed Personal Fabrication]]<br />
* [[Hackerspaces]]</div>SRosehttps://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/index.php?title=Product-Centered_Business_Supply_Chain_Development_vs_People-Centered_Business_Network_Ecosystem_Development&diff=89985Product-Centered Business Supply Chain Development vs People-Centered Business Network Ecosystem Development2015-02-20T03:39:43Z<p>SRose: </p>
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By Sam Rose, Paul Hartzog, and Richard Adler and informed in part by collaborations with Steve Bosserman.<br />
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Adapted from http://www.localfoodsystems.org/comparing-business-development-paradigms<br />
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==Product centered business supply chain development==<br />
<br />
Product centered supply chain business development depends on:<br />
<br />
* unlimited growth<br />
* exclusive access to resources<br />
* artificial scarcity around actually abundant resources <br />
* people filling roles in a linear system<br />
* hoarding of surplus<br />
<br />
This way of operating focuses on what is being produced, and requires people to be largely fixed into roles to serve the linear supply chain model. People and natural systems are generally considered to be "resources" that are raw materials and labor for production and distribution, end-points consumption. Linearity in this production model leads to seeking more raw materials for more production/distribution/consumption. The organization in this system is around the assumption of unlimited growth. All actors in this system are all seeking unlimited growth at the same time. The competition around unlimited growth tends to lead to a focus of finding and capturing the largest "markets" before others find and capture it.<br />
<br />
Markets for product-centered supply chain business development tend to look at statistics and averages of different factors of people and resources, in order to identify the largest markets. <br />
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In product centered supply chain business development, when systems reveal a "power law" distribution when ranking quantity and frequency, actors tend to ignore the "tail" and focus on on the "head" of the "power law" distribution.<br />
<br />
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It is reasonable to assume that unlimited growth, without transformation of waste into "food" for the system, cannot be sustained. It is plausible to conclude that currently struggling, and in some cases collapsing industrial systems that are focused on production/products over people are, in decline. Most of our existing efforts in economic development tend to be focused on shoring up/preventing this collapse. Resources, time, energy are directed towards activities that are still focused on product-centered development, which is a development that requires ever more resources, ever more growth. As this growth declines, people leave geographic areas and relocate to where the growth is perceived to be happening. However, the systems they leave behind are still firmly fixed in product-centered development. <br />
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This collapsing product-centered economic development activity tends to focus on creating "employment", attracting business who bring "jobs" to an area. Communities are focusing on preventing the collapse of an unsustainable system, and are ignoring what is *emerging*. What is emerging is "people centered business network ecosystem development".<br />
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==People centered business network ecosystem development==<br />
<br />
"People centered" means that control of infrastructure, access, distribution, resources, and co-governance are now on the scale of the individual person. When an individual person with this empowerment reaches their individual carrying capacity to operate, they will tend to reach out to others who are operating like them, and a connection-based network will emerge. Economic development here targets individuals operating as self-employed independents who network together. <br />
<br />
Independents, small businesses, community groups, working together, with government, higher education, and larger business are the new economic driver. The more control people have an on individual scale of infrastructure, access, distribution, resources, and governance, *and* the more connectivity there is between those people, the that more growth happens in "people centered economic development". When control of infrastructure, access, distribution, resources, and co-governance are now on the scale of the individual person, a new way of coopertive co-managing of existing resources, and surpluses of production tends to emerge. That new way of co-managing is known as "Resource Sharing": <br />
<br />
- "The absolutely essential understanding to be absorbed here is that commons management (cooperative co-management of resources) is not primarily a technical problem but a social one and that the key ingredient in the solution is information transparency. Therefore, implementation requires a thorough grounding in both social dilemmas (Kollock) as well as technology design."<br />
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In other words: Production centered supply chain economic development can rely on technology alone to manage systems. People centered business network ecosystem development requires the engagement of all of the people in all areas of management. Technology can help, and it can primarily help by helping people to access and see the landscape of the systems they are participating in, who is connected to whom, and how? What are the real limits to resources you are using with others? What is actually scarce, what is actually abundant, and what decisions can you make together with others based on that information?<br />
<br />
It turns out that learning, tools for problem solving, and even designs and plans and software as static objects are *not* scarce. It is very easy to copy them, especially if they exist in a digital form, and it takes very little resource to store them, and make them available to others. Individual people who are making these items tend to have very little to gain by making them scarce, as they often lack the resources needed to create that artificial scarcity around designs, knowledge, software, information. People tend to discover that there is more efficiency in sharing these creations, and working together to adapt them to immediate and long-term problems they are trying to solve (see: "Giving it away, making money" Bosserman 2008). This sharing begets more sharing when done in a way that is equitable for the people and the systems people are part of. This sharing also opens up access to individuals to control of infrastructure, freedom of access, a plausible way towards collaborating around needed distribution, and co-governance around the sharing of resources.<br />
<br />
Actions are the focus, because all individuals now potentially have access to any "role" as it might have existed in production centered development. I can now be a designer, a marketer, a shop worker, etc Co-governed systems are "mapped" as a network ecology by looking at the resources that are shared, co-governed, or already exist as a "commons", and who the participants are. Value exchanges, and economic activity are mapped based on actions, not roles of people. Sharing what is learned, what is created, creates a way in which many others may engage, and those people now have multiple ways in which they may engage. This creates a new engine for *exponential* economic growth that is driven by people who all have access to control, and so work together to co-manage their new-found powers of control. The engine, at it's core, is "making, sharing, using". Viewing a system through the lens of actions, and having access to transparent information, gives you a view into ever-more emerging ways in which you can adapt previously-shared solutions towards emerging problems. Each adaptation of solutions to problems refines the quality of solutions available for future problem solving. This generates wealth in the ecosystem, and so is accurately described as a "wealth generating ecology".<br />
<br />
People are in the center of this system. People with access to information co-create and share knowledge about how to convert sources into energy, how to integrate food production into waste management, how to combine physical production output with cultural production needs, how to educate their children on operating in this emerging system. These people operate as independents, networked together, and also as members of multiple existing and new types of organizations that also are "making, sharing using" in this system. This system can adapt better to change over tie, because anyone can help adapt it. This system can manage resources better, because it gives a more accurate picture of what those resources are. This system can make better use of resources because it tends to share knowledge about how to allow the outputs of one activity to become the inputs of another. This opens the door for more people to share what is abundant, create cohesive with living systems instead of destroying them, and exchange equitably around what is scarce."<br />
(http://www.localfoodsystems.org/comparing-business-development-paradigms)<br />
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=Discussion and Related Graphics=<br />
<gallery><br />
File:01-20thcenturyeconomicparadigm large.png|Product centered business supply chain development as 20th cy economic paradigm ([http://forwardfound.org/blog/?q=comparing-business-development-paradigms Source])<br />
File:02-21stcent large.png|21st cy wealth-generating ecologies ([http://forwardfound.org/blog/?q=comparing-business-development-paradigms Source])<br />
</gallery><br />
<br />
;Product-centered economic development<br />
[[File:03-Production-Centered.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Product-centered economic development<br />
([http://www.localfoodsystems.org/agenda-framework-ag-bio-cluster-leadership-council-meeting-february-8-2010 Source])]]<br />
<br />
Steve Bosserman writes:<br />
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"For some, a local economy is production-centered as represented in the graphic above. In this model, production is the starting point in the center. Examples include goat cheese (thanks to Abbe Turner and Lucky Penny Creamery for hosting our session!), lambs for meat, and CSAs. Output, whether food, water, energy, fuel, or housing and clothing, targets specific market niches among people in the outer ring (the arrows point outward). Output has the option of passing through the steps of processing, preparation, and retail along the way. The system is designed according to three organizing principles: money rules, keep your business to yourself (the brutal free enterprise system at work), and scale up at every opportunity to extract a competitive advantage."<br />
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;People-centered economic development<br />
<br />
"The alternative local economy is people-centered, as depicted in the graphic above. In this instance the system starts with people as a market block in the center who, collectively, draw the output of the various systems to them based on satisfying a critical need in the most affordable, convenient, healthy, safe, and secure manner. In other words, people in a local area become the integrative agents who define the system and bring the elements together on their terms. This can be as simple as serving a plate of food from local sources, or as complex as manufactured components and assemblies in a major advanced energy installation made in local distributed manufacturing operations.<br />
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[[File:04-People-Centered.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Product-centered economic development<br />
([http://www.localfoodsystems.org/agenda-framework-ag-bio-cluster-leadership-council-meeting-february-8-2010 Source])]]<br />
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...<br />
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To continue, this concentration of people can be residents in a neighborhood or community, employees at their workplace, students, faculty, and administration at a school or university, or staff and clientele at a medical center. The point of consumption is the most important because it is here that the person in the middle chooses to purchase from a local source based on affordability, convenience, healthiness, safety, and security. Once that decision is made, the balance of retail-to-preparation-to-processing-to-production flow is organized in support of the consumer (the arrows point inward). ... The organizing principles for the system are sustainability (resilience and persistence), openness (development and collaboration), and scope (diversity and variety).<br />
<br />
...<br />
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The people-centered approach starts with the marketing premise that people, given a viable option to choose a healthier, safer, and more secure alternative without having to compromise affordability and convenience (and taste, in the case of food), will take it. Another premise is that A system designed with attention to sustainability, openness, and scope can deliver a viable option. An institution-based local food systems such as the Cleveland Clinic - City Fresh / Cleveland Botanical Garden, or Planet Ohio - Ohio University are examples. This sets the stage for a business case presented by Steve Fortenberry and Goodness Grows to implement a Workforce Food Center concept, whereby a local food system is designed to serve several hundred employees of a large enterprise at great savings to the employer due to reduced health care costs through healthier food choices for the employees. Everyone wins. This business case will be loaded into the Ag-Bio Cluster community investment portfolio from which all can learn and benefit! "<br />
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[[Category:Economics]]<br />
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[[Category:Collaborative Economy]]<br />
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[[Category:Articles]]<br />
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[[Category:Manufacturing]]<br />
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[[Category:Commons]]<br />
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[[Category:P2P Theory]]</div>SRosehttps://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/index.php?title=Product-Centered_Business_Supply_Chain_Development_vs_People-Centered_Business_Network_Ecosystem_Development&diff=59159Product-Centered Business Supply Chain Development vs People-Centered Business Network Ecosystem Development2012-02-03T16:30:00Z<p>SRose: </p>
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<div>=Text=<br />
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By Sam Rose, Paul Hartzog and informed in part by collaborations with Steve Bosserman.<br />
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Adapted from http://www.localfoodsystems.org/comparing-business-development-paradigms<br />
<br />
<br />
==Product centered business supply chain development==<br />
<br />
Product centered supply chain business development depends on:<br />
<br />
* unlimited growth<br />
* exclusive access to resources<br />
* artificial scarcity around actually abundant resources <br />
* people filling roles in a linear system<br />
* hoarding of surplus<br />
<br />
This way of operating focuses on what is being produced, and requires people to be largely fixed into roles to serve the linear supply chain model. People and natural systems are generally considered to be "resources" that are raw materials and labor for production and distribution, end-points consumption. Linearity in this production model leads to seeking more raw materials for more production/distribution/consumption. The organization in this system is around the assumption of unlimited growth. All actors in this system are all seeking unlimited growth at the same time. The competition around unlimited growth tends to lead to a focus of finding and capturing the largest "markets" before others find and capture it.<br />
<br />
Markets for product-centered supply chain business development tend to look at statistics and averages of different factors of people and resources, in order to identify the largest markets. <br />
<br />
In product centered supply chain business development, when systems reveal a "power law" distribution when ranking quantity and frequency, actors tend to ignore the "tail" and focus on on the "head" of the "power law" distribution.<br />
<br />
<br />
It is reasonable to assume that unlimited growth, without transformation of waste into "food" for the system, cannot be sustained. It is plausible to conclude that currently struggling, and in some cases collapsing industrial systems that are focused on production/products over people are, in decline. Most of our existing efforts in economic development tend to be focused on shoring up/preventing this collapse. Resources, time, energy are directed towards activities that are still focused on product-centered development, which is a development that requires ever more resources, ever more growth. As this growth declines, people leave geographic areas and relocate to where the growth is perceived to be happening. However, the systems they leave behind are still firmly fixed in product-centered development. <br />
<br />
This collapsing product-centered economic development activity tends to focus on creating "employment", attracting business who bring "jobs" to an area. Communities are focusing on preventing the collapse of an unsustainable system, and are ignoring what is *emerging*. What is emerging is "people centered business network ecosystem development".<br />
<br />
<br />
==People centered business network ecosystem development==<br />
<br />
"People centered" means that control of infrastructure, access, distribution, resources, and co-governance are now on the scale of the individual person. When an individual person with this empowerment reaches their individual carrying capacity to operate, they will tend to reach out to others who are operating like them, and a connection-based network will emerge. Economic development here targets individuals operating as self-employed independents who network together. <br />
<br />
Independents, small businesses, community groups, working together, with government, higher education, and larger business are the new economic driver. The more control people have an on individual scale of infrastructure, access, distribution, resources, and governance, *and* the more connectivity there is between those people, the that more growth happens in "people centered economic development". When control of infrastructure, access, distribution, resources, and co-governance are now on the scale of the individual person, a new way of coopertive co-managing of existing resources, and surpluses of production tends to emerge. That new way of co-managing is known as "Resource Sharing": <br />
<br />
- "The absolutely essential understanding to be absorbed here is that commons management (cooperative co-management of resources) is not primarily a technical problem but a social one and that the key ingredient in the solution is information transparency. Therefore, implementation requires a thorough grounding in both social dilemmas (Kollock) as well as technology design."<br />
<br />
In other words: Production centered supply chain economic development can rely on technology alone to manage systems. People centered business network ecosystem development requires the engagement of all of the people in all areas of management. Technology can help, and it can primarily help by helping people to access and see the landscape of the systems they are participating in, who is connected to whom, and how? What are the real limits to resources you are using with others? What is actually scarce, what is actually abundant, and what decisions can you make together with others based on that information?<br />
<br />
It turns out that learning, tools for problem solving, and even designs and plans and software as static objects are *not* scarce. It is very easy to copy them, especially if they exist in a digital form, and it takes very little resource to store them, and make them available to others. Individual people who are making these items tend to have very little to gain by making them scarce, as they often lack the resources needed to create that artificial scarcity around designs, knowledge, software, information. People tend to discover that there is more efficiency in sharing these creations, and working together to adapt them to immediate and long-term problems they are trying to solve (see: "Giving it away, making money" Bosserman 2008). This sharing begets more sharing when done in a way that is equitable for the people and the systems people are part of. This sharing also opens up access to individuals to control of infrastructure, freedom of access, a plausible way towards collaborating around needed distribution, and co-governance around the sharing of resources.<br />
<br />
Actions are the focus, because all individuals now potentially have access to any "role" as it might have existed in production centered development. I can now be a designer, a marketer, a shop worker, etc Co-governed systems are "mapped" as a network ecology by looking at the resources that are shared, co-governed, or already exist as a "commons", and who the participants are. Value exchanges, and economic activity are mapped based on actions, not roles of people. Sharing what is learned, what is created, creates a way in which many others may engage, and those people now have multiple ways in which they may engage. This creates a new engine for *exponential* economic growth that is driven by people who all have access to control, and so work together to co-manage their new-found powers of control. The engine, at it's core, is "making, sharing, using". Viewing a system through the lens of actions, and having access to transparent information, gives you a view into ever-more emerging ways in which you can adapt previously-shared solutions towards emerging problems. Each adaptation of solutions to problems refines the quality of solutions available for future problem solving. This generates wealth in the ecosystem, and so is accurately described as a "wealth generating ecology".<br />
<br />
People are in the center of this system. People with access to information co-create and share knowledge about how to convert sources into energy, how to integrate food production into waste management, how to combine physical production output with cultural production needs, how to educate their children on operating in this emerging system. These people operate as independents, networked together, and also as members of multiple existing and new types of organizations that also are "making, sharing using" in this system. This system can adapt better to change over tie, because anyone can help adapt it. This system can manage resources better, because it gives a more accurate picture of what those resources are. This system can make better use of resources because it tends to share knowledge about how to allow the outputs of one activity to become the inputs of another. This opens the door for more people to share what is abundant, create cohesive with living systems instead of destroying them, and exchange equitably around what is scarce."<br />
(http://www.localfoodsystems.org/comparing-business-development-paradigms)<br />
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[[Category:Economics]]<br />
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[[Category:Collaborative Economy]]<br />
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[[Category:Articles]]<br />
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[[Category:Manufacturing]]<br />
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[[Category:Commons]]<br />
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[[Category:Peerproduction]]<br />
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[[Category:P2P Theory]]</div>SRosehttps://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/index.php?title=User-Generated_Ecosystem&diff=58242User-Generated Ecosystem2012-01-16T12:17:37Z<p>SRose: /* Description */</p>
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<div>Graph at http://www.casiseguro.com/2006/12/26/mass-innovation-user-generated-ecosystem/<br />
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Commentary at http://www.casiseguro.com/2006/12/26/mass-innovation-user-generated-ecosystem/<br />
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=Description=<br />
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The graph distinguishes<br />
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'''* [[User-Generated Infrastructures]]''': See our entries on [[User-Capitalized Networks]], [[Customer-build network infrastructures]] and [[Customer-Controlled Networks]]<br />
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Examples: [[Skype]] ; [[Fon]], Wifi hubs, VOIP, [[Open Meshworks]]<br />
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'''[[User-Generated Applications]]''' <br />
Examples : paypal API, [[github]] API, Facebook applications, Twitter API, [[Google App Engine]] <br />
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'''[[User-Generated Content]]''': See our entries on [[How far will User Generated Content Go]] and [[User Filtered Content]]<br />
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[[Category:Collaborative Economy]]</div>SRosehttps://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/index.php?title=User-Generated_Ecosystem&diff=58239User-Generated Ecosystem2012-01-16T12:13:15Z<p>SRose: </p>
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'''[[User-Generated Content]]''': See our entries on [[How far will User Generated Content Go]] and [[User Filtered Content]]<br />
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How about people identifying craters on Mars? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clickworkers --[[User:SRose|SRose]] 14:54, 15 January 2012 (UTC)</div>SRosehttps://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/index.php?title=Michigan:_The_Transformation_Manifesto&diff=54981Michigan: The Transformation Manifesto2011-10-11T18:58:12Z<p>SRose: /* Energy */</p>
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*I'm Sam Rose, from the Foundation or Peer To Peer Alternatives http://p2pfoundation.net/ and co-founder http://futureforwardinstitute.com/ I am a Michigan native, former blue collar worker and now independent business person.<br />
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== "Michigan is Screwed" ==<br />
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See: http://www.youtube.com/embed/AUpO1QFMDtM<br />
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/42121778#42121778<br />
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It's likely you are highly aware of the current political situation that people in Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Pennsylvania and other struggling industrial states are facing. In Michigan in particular it looks to me like the goal of Rick Snyder and the legislators that control the Michigan House/Senate is to tear down 20th century community infrastructures, starting from the bottom up. <br />
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The reality is that if the people in power in Michigan now fully succeed, private mega corporations will queue up to enclose property, extract wealth and resources at lightning speed, further impoverish our community's most vulnerable members, push out those willing to fight by making their lives and communities miserable, and put whomever is left on their knees. They want our money flowing out of our pockets and communities, and their cheaply made worthless crap flowing in. They want to grab our land, our trees, frack out our natural gas and deplete our water, and run our soil down to clay. They want to push people out of the largest cities, fence of the empty land, bulldoze the buildings and sit on the land waiting for a future day when it's value increases. They want to do all of this while paying next to no taxes, employing none of the people of Michigan, and investing nothing back into the communities. They already got a huge amount of the money out of our communities by way of fraudulant mortgage scams that destroyed the economies of several countries around the world. They can make it more miserable for any of us that don't pick up and leave by: increasing our taxes (the elderly and retired, the poor, etc). Making our schools so deplorable that no one will want to move to our communities. And, whenever possible, declaring an "emergency" and dissolving local government, installing private corporations in their place with license to do whatever they want without any oversight. I am willing to bet that most of you that voted for Rick Snyder and the people in Michigan Congress probably did not vote for what I describe above. I'll bet that your ancestors didn't fight to get you to where you are now, just to see us all start to slip back towards whatever they came here to get away from. However, the sad fact is that what I describe above is now upon you, and all of us. <br />
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<br> Fortunately for us, we don't have to accept this reality. We currently have all of the building blocks we need to turn things around for ourselves here in a relatively short amount of time. <br />
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A clue comes to us from our own state's past. At the turn of the 19th-20th century, automobiles were prohibitively expensive for all but a few people. One of the reasons was a monopoly on the designs of automotive technology by George B. Selden: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_B._Selden Selden and associate's efforts to protect their patents led to a battle with Henry Ford, which resulted in a decision by courts to open up automotive technology for those that were not using the Selden engine design. <br />
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From Open Source - History and Development Adrienne Walker San Jose State University&nbsp;[http://infosherpas.com/ojs/index.php/openandlibraries/article/view/43/65 http://infosherpas.com/ojs/index.php/openandlibraries/article/view/43/65]: <br />
<blockquote>''Free sharing and open source are not 21st century ideas, we tend to think of open source as a way of being connected to the Internet as software but open source was in existence early in the 20th century although it took a different form. That form was automobile manufacturing. For those of you familiar with early automotive history, Henry Ford challenged the patent of George Selden. Selden had a chokehold on the automobile industry but Ford won a challenge to Selden's patent (The history of free and open source, 2009). Henry Fords breakthrough initiated the beginning of open source in the modern age and coupled with the formation of the Motor Vehicle Manufacturers Association was influential in creating cross-licensing agreements. Cross-licensing agreements existed between the United States automobile manufacturers of the day. Each automobile manufacturing company modified the technology and filed patents, these patents were shared, and no exchange of money, no lawsuits and an industry thrived (The history of free and open source, 2009).'' </blockquote><ref>Special thanks to Nathan Oostendorp who made me aware of this part of Michigan industrial history when he presented this at http://igniteannarbor.com see http://ingenuitas.com/</ref> <br />
We can do this again in Michigan. We can start in our own communities, re-building our economies around sharing not just technology, but also production of food, energy, and knowledge.<br />
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== Energy ==<br />
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'''There's enough wind and solar power across the state of Michigan to run the whole state on wind and solar energy alone.''' Open sourcing the technology for wind, solar, and batteries for hybrid/electric cars would create an explosion of innovation across the state and in the region, and eventually worldwide. If we really want to get into manufacturing green energy in the state of Michigan, the fastest route will be by way of creating sound design cores for small wind generators and solar collectors/solar voltaics and releasing them under an open license (like TAPR for instance http://www.tapr.org/ohl.html ) Our first step can be to install hybrid solar/wind in as many individua locations as possible (some neighbrhoods can team up and group buy for a whole block), and install them in a way that turns the current electrical grid into a "Net metering" grid: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_metering<br />
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In the US, much of the electric grid is municipally owned, community owned (as in "rural electric co-operatives"), publicly licensed, and/or runs over public rights of way. This provides a great deal of public-interest policy leverage over the existing grid.<br />
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We can also create the basic building blocks for multiple open source technology storage options (such as hydrogen, water tanks, etc). And, we already have much of what we would need to turn our power grid into a "smart grid" in terms of software and hardware. The single most important policy for promoting p2p energy is already in place in many areas--that is "net metering" or "reverse metering". Net metering allows any peer producer to put surplus energy onto the grid. In many cases such locally peer-produced energy, reverse-metered onto the grid, is credited at a subsidized rate above the normal consumer rate for electricity.<br />
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Where net metering is already in place, an additional policy initiative could be attempted. This would entail allowing each peer-producer and consumer the option to negotiate rates among themselves. Some peer-producers might charge rates higher than the "retail" consumer rate. In this case such producers would operate much like existing "green power" producers. In other cases producers might sell their surplus to preferred consumers (say family-related households or eco-village neighbors) at a discounted rate. Such a practice could be implemented over the existing grid with little more administrative effort than existing "green power" programs require.<br />
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As parts of the existing grid are gradually updated and upgraded, it should be possible to build in direct p2p balancing, metering, and billing capability so that no institutional "middleman" is required for adding or withdrawing amounts of energy that are below some threshold adequate to prevent outages or overloads.<br />
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We can also start processing our plant and animal waste in open source biodigesters to produce electricity (example http://www.appropedia.org/Category:Biogas ) and our agricultural and surburban landscaping refuse into new soil and biofuel. <br />
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Much of this new infrastructure can be managed by user-owned cooperatives where needed.<br />
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== Housing ==<br />
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We have a real opportunity with the collapse of the inflated real estate economy to cooperatively purchase land, and re-develop it for production of food, energy, and physical production. REsidential land can be contracted back to families, but this time with support from cooperatives and credit unions instead of big Wall Street banks. <br />
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== Education ==<br />
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It's time to create cooperatives where parents and teachers are the owners of school systems. Most cirricular development can be released under creative commons licenses (as seen with http://wikieducator.org/OERF:Home http://ftacademy.org/ http://www.oercommons.org/ etc etc ) <br />
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A really compelling and immediately useful example is https://open.umich.edu/wiki/Main_Page<br />
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Parents can work with teachers and their students to adaptively shape learning over time. '''No more showing up in cinderblock buildings and being trained to be told what to do at the expense of truly learning how and why to do it. We teach children CRITICAL THINKING and skills to solve problems on their own with little or nothing to work with except their minds. Children are no longer raw material to be shaped into employees for big business. They are now taught to invent, build, experiment, create and destroy, co-manage and co-govern anywhere anytime with anything. They are taught actual history and left to decide for themselves. They are taught to produce their *own* food, energy, information systems as needed. They are taught to be programmers, not users. Makers, not consumers. Independent problem solvers, not employees. This is 21st century education in Michigan.'''<br />
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== Manufacturing ==<br />
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Manufacturing in Michigan will become small, distributed, diverse and massively adaptable and interoperable. Designs are shared and improved constantly. Technology cooperatives not only design and produce physhical hardware and software technology for people, but they also teach people how to do this themselves, and how to effectively use technology. <br />
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Existing manufacturing labor unions will help create these new technology cooperatives by taking their pension fund monies out of greedy wall street companies and re-investing in Local Economic Development. Tens of thousands of people who are laid off from jobs will also pool resources to create these Technology Cooperatives throughout the state. This could happen here in Michigan within one year. <br />
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== Money ==<br />
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Already here in Michigan, we are leading the way towards creating a '''plurality of currencies'''. We want to have more than one option for currencies, given the instability of US and global financial systems. Some existing examples include:<br />
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* [http://www.baybucks.org/ Bay Bucks]<br />
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Examples of P2P currencies that work digitally from around the world can be found on the [[:Category:Money]] page.<br />
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== Research and Development ==<br />
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Michigan Technology Cooperatives can invest their surplus resources in ongoing open source research and development, driven by the needs of people in Michigan and throughout the US and world. Students learn to participate in this activity at as early an age as possible. <br />
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== Michigan Food Revolution ==<br />
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Food cooperatives and community supported agriculture have proven themselves in places like Pittsburgh, Cleveland, and elsewhere. As our world spirals into a collapse of global commercial energy and resource distribution, leading to increasing costs for imported goods, we can sidestep that problem and produce food locally and regionally. We can create enough food locally in Michigan to make imports a luxury-only source of food (instead of the majority of food source for our state). We can create community owned food cooperatives in every city in the state, while simultaneously bolstering the '''hundreds of thousands of LOCAL food producers and retailers that already exist in this state'''.<br />
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The federal government is moving towards de-funding programs like WIC, and other aid programs that help bring food to the poorest people in the state. 2011 is the year to find methods to connect people to people to meet food production needs.<br />
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== Jobs ==<br />
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'''NO. No more jobs.''' It is ALREADY fact that over 98% of businesses in Michigan are now small businesses<ref>http://levin.senate.gov/senate/smallbusiness/index.html</ref>. This is in part because most of those who are left actually participating in economic activity stopped looking for a job about 5-6 years ago and started a business. So this is what we do, we start businesses, and we connect them together. Go pay the $10 and register a DBA with your name on it at the county clerk. You are now ready to do businesses. Team up with other people in your community to share what you are learning about starting and running your own collaborative business/enterprise. In some cases we start cooperatives, credit unions, and ways for people to invest and receive return on investment in their local community (and not just monetary investment). We stop saving our retirement savings in 401k and other Wall Street scams and we invest that money locally and receive a robust and healthy return on investment.'''However, where people must hold jobs, their right to collectively bargain is supported. We DO NOT want to slide back to Dickensian work systems. We want to support working people and their hard won rights.''' <br />
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== Taxes ==<br />
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'''Rich people will pay more taxes. Poor people will pay less. Want to pay less taxes? Make less money.'''<br />
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== Health Care ==<br />
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Have I used the word "cooperative" enough in this manifesto? You are about to read it again. Why, you ask?:<br />
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'''Wouldn't you rather be a co-owner in the entity that helps you pool costs with others towards your healthcare, than deal with the corporate profit-driven casino model that currently exists for health insurance?'''<br />
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'''The time for Health Care Cooperatives in Michigan is NOW. Michigan Health Care Cooperatives hire doctors and their practices and take good care of them. They reject doctors who put profit over their Hippocratic Oath.<ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippocratic_Oath</ref>. In this way, Michigan leads the way in reforming health care ''starting with the doctor/patient relationship''. Health Care Cooperatives in Michigan also FUND proven services, such as mid-wife-run birth centers, and other so-called "alternative medicine" providers. <br />
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'''We start with changing the law in Michigan to allow us the RIGHT to create these cooperatives.'''<br />
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== Government ==<br />
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When we're not busy having our faces shoved to the grindstone at a job, we're going to have some time to engage in Local, State, and Federal governments. However, we are also going to make them increasingly obsolete in the process. We are going to be able to come up with rules together via connective technologies like the internet. We're going to also be able to team up on government when we're not being listened to. <br />
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'''We can do it without political parties''' following [[The Political Principles of Peer-to-Peer Advocacy]]. <br />
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'''''No advocate of peer-to-peer politics wants all communications or activity routed through them. Bottlenecks are weaknesses.'''''<br />
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'''That being said, any politician *or* party that ascribes to the principles of openness, p2p and the commons is worth collaborating and working with. '''<br />
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== Your additions here ==<br />
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This is what transformation in Michigan means to me. What does it mean to you? I want to know. I'll faithfully incorporate whatever any of you contribute, and I will spread it around. It's time to get real, dig in and change this place, now.<br />
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== Other links ==<br />
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* [http://forwardfound.org/blog/?q=five-commons The Five Commons]<br />
* [http://p2pfoundation.net/Manifesto P2P Manifesto]<br />
* [http://cooperationcommons.com Cooperation Commons]<br />
* [http://lansingonlinenews.com/news/the-gop-education-agenda-why-earning-a-diploma-will-no-longer-buy-you-a-job-or-a-middle-class-life/ The GOP Education Agenda: Why earning a diploma will no longer buy you a job or a middle-class life]<br />
* [[Multitudes]](Hardt & Negri)<br />
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[[Category:P2P_Politics]]</div>SRosehttps://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/index.php?title=Anishinaabe_Council_of_Three_Fires&diff=53686Anishinaabe Council of Three Fires2011-09-07T13:30:19Z<p>SRose: quote from wikipidia</p>
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"The '''Council of Three Fires''', also known as the '''People of the Three Fires''', the '''Three Fires Confederacy''', the '''United Nations of Chippewa, Ottawa, and Potawatomi Indians''', or '''''Niswi-mishkodewin''''' in the [[Anishinaabe language]], is a long-standing [[Anishinaabe]] alliance of the [[Ojibwe]] (or Chippewa), [[Ottawa (tribe)|Ottawa]] (or Odawa), and [[Potawatomi]] [[Indigenous peoples of the Americas|Native American]] tribes and [[First Nations]].<br />
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Originally one people, or a collection of closely related bands, the identities of Ojibwa, Ottawa, and Potawatomi developed after the Anishinaabeg reached [[Michilimackinac]] on their journey westward from the Atlantic coast.<ref>Warren, William W. 1984. History of the Ojibway People. St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press.</ref> Using the [[Midewiwin]] [[Birch bark scrolls|scrolls]], Potawatomi elder Shup-Shewana dated the formation of the Council of Three Fires to 796 AD at Michilimackinac.<ref>Loew, Patty. 2001. Indian Nations of Wisconsin: Histories of Endurance and Renewal." Madison: Wisconsin Historical Society Press.</ref><br />
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In this Council, the Ojibwe were addressed as the "Older Brother," the Odawa as the "Middle Brother," and the Potawatomi as the "Younger Brother." Consequently, whenever the three Anishinaabe nations are mentioned in this specific ''and'' consecutive order of [[Ojibwe]], [[Ottawa (tribe)|Odawa]], and [[Potawatomi]], it is an indicator implying Council of Three Fires as well. In addition, the Ojibwa are the "keepers of the faith," the Odawa are the "keepers of trade," and the Potawatomi are the designated "keepers/maintainers of/for the fire" (''boodawaadam''), which became the basis for their name ''Boodewaadamii'' ([[Ojibwe language|Ojibwe]] spelling) or ''Bodéwadmi'' ([[Potawatomi language|Potawatomi]] spelling).<br />
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Though the Three Fires had several meeting places, [[Michilimackinac]] became the preferred meeting place due to its central location. From this place, the Council met for military and political purposes. From this site, the Council maintained relations with fellow [[Anishinaabe]]g nations, the ''Ozaagii'' ([[Sac tribe|Sac]]), ''Odagaamii'' ([[Fox tribe|Meskwaki]]), ''Omanoominii'' ([[Menominee]]), ''Wiinibiigoo'' ([[Ho-Chunk]]), ''Naadawe'' ([[Iroquois Confederacy]]), ''Nii'inaawi-Naadawe'' ([[Wyandot people|Wyandot]]), ''Naadawensiw'' ([[Sioux]]), ''Wemitigoozhi'' ([[France]]), ''Zhaaganaashi'' ([[England]]) and the ''Gichi-mookomaan'' (the [[United States]]).<br />
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Through the [[totem]]-system and promotion of trade, the Council generally had a peaceful existence with its neighbours. However, occasional unresolved disputes erupted into wars. Under these conditions, the Council notably fought against the [[Iroquois Confederacy]] and the [[Sioux]]. During the [[Seven Years' War]], the Council fought against [[England]]; and during the [[Northwest Indian War]] and the [[War of 1812]], they fought against the [[United States]]. After the formation of the [[United States of America]] in 1776, the Council became the core member of the [[Western Lakes Confederacy]] (also known as "Great Lakes Confederacy"), joined together with the Wyandots, [[Algonquin people|Algonquins]], [[Nipissing First Nation|Nipissing]], Sacs, Meskwaki and others."<br />
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''"Peer to peer social processes are bottom-up processes whereby agents in a distributed network can freely engage in common pursuits, without external coercion. It is important to realize that distributed systems differ from decentralized systems, essentially because in the latter, the hubs are obligatory, while in the former, they are the result of voluntary choices. Distributed networks do have constraints, internal coercion, that are the conditions for the group to operate, and they may be embedded in the technical infrastructure, the social norms, or legal rules.''<br />
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''1) '''[[Peer Production]]''': wherever a group of peers decided to engage in the production of a common resource''<br />
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''3) '''[[Peer Property]]''': the institutional and legal framework they choose to guard against the private appropriation of this common work; this usually takes the form of non-exclusionary forms of universal common property"''<br />
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=Introduction=<br />
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* Felix Stadler insists: The [[]]Governance of Peer Production is Meritocratic, not Egalitarian<br />
*The [http://www.metamute.org/en/Immaterial-Aristocracy-of-the-Internet Immaterial Aristocracy of the Internet]], a meditation on the humans behind [[Protocollary Power]], by Harry Halpin.<br />
*Manuel De Landa: [[Hierarchies and Meshworks are always mixed]] ; [http://t0.or.at/delanda/meshwork.htm Full article]<br />
*Be aware of the [http://architectures.danlockton.co.uk/architectures-of-control-in-the-digital-environment/ Architectures of Control in the Digital Environment], such as [[DRM]] and [[Trusted Computing]].<br />
*Pierre de Vries on [[Governance through Principles]] instead of rules [http://publius.cc/2008/05/14/pierre-de-vries-internet-forestry-a-principles-approach-to-governan/]<br />
*Interview: [[Clay Shirky on the New Style of Peer Leadership]]<br />
*[[Three Levels of FOSS Governance]]<br />
*[[Bradley Kuhn of Free Software Communities vs. Open Source Companies]]<br />
*Christopher Allen: The numbers that matter for governing communities: [[Personal Circle]]; [[Group Tresholds]] and [[Power Law]]s<br />
*Simon Phipps analyses the four minimum rules of a [[Open-by-Rule Community]]<br />
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=Typology=<br />
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#'''The forms of peer governance of open/free communities and peer production groups.''' See A [[Model of a Mature Open Source Project]] for a case study of the Plone community.<br />
## Informal leadership models that are pragmatically used to govern such projects: what is the nature of leadership and hierarchy in peer production? <br />
##* See [[Hierarchy]], [[Leadership]], [[Benevolent Dictator]], and search for these concepts as well as "Authority" in the wiki's search box.<br />
## The use of formal management models. <br />
##* See [[Chaordic Organizations - Characteristics]] , [[Consensus]] , [[Consent vs. Consensus]] , [[Coordination Format]] , [[Council Ceremony]] , [[Harmonization Governance]] , [[Heterarchy]] , [[Holacracy]] , [[Horizontal Accountablity]] , [[Leaderless Organizations]] , [[Open Organization]] , [[Sociocracy]] <br />
## The use of legal formats such as Foundations to formalize leadership of the infrastructure that enables the common production to occur. <br />
##* See [[Burning Man - Governance]] , [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Software_Foundation Free Software Foundation] , [[FLOSS - Governance]] , [[FLOSS Foundations]] , [[GNOME Foundation]] , [[Mozilla Foundation]], [[OpenBSD Foundation]]<br />
## Formal legislative process in government and political parties. Apart from non-representational self-governance models in the small teams responsible for peer production, whenever the allocation of scarce resources need to takes place, 'peer-informed' representational models will arise. <br />
##* See for an example, the [[Green Party Integrated Consensus-Consent-Voting Model]] <br />
# '''The methods of production used in peer production: how is the work actually done?'''<br />
##The tools used in the production process (ie. Bitkeeper, CVS, etc.)<br />
##The design of interactions at the level of the product/technological architecture (modularity, encapsulation, information hiding)<br />
#'''Governance of the infrastructures needed by the [[Online Creation Communities]]'''<br />
##According to Mayo Fuster Morell, five main models of online infrastructure provision can be distinguished: 1) Corporation services, 2) mission enterprises, 3) university networks, 4) representational foundations and 5) assemblearian collective self-provision<br />
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== Typology of Commons Regulation ==<br />
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|- valign="TOP"<br />
| width="187" | <span><font size="small">Res nullius</font></span><br />
| width="200" | <span><font size="small">all</font></span><br />
| width="182" | <span><font size="small">non-regulated</font></span><br />
|- valign="TOP"<br />
| width="187" | <span><font size="small">Res privatae</font></span><br />
| width="200" | <span><font size="small">owner</font></span><br />
| width="182" | <span><font size="small">market-regulated</font></span><br />
|- valign="TOP"<br />
| width="187" | <span><font size="small">Res publicae </font></span><br />
| width="200" | <span><font size="small">public</font></span><br />
| width="182" | <span><font size="small">state-regulated</font></span><br />
|- valign="TOP"<br />
| width="187" | <span><font size="small">Res communes</font></span><br />
| width="200" | <span><font size="small">community</font></span><br />
| width="182" | <span><font size="small">peer-regulated</font></span><br />
|}<br />
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* Source: [http://commonsblog.wordpress.com/2011/01/29/the-commons-year-one-of-the-global-commons-movement/ The Commons: Year One of the Global Commons Movement by Silke Helfrich (29. Januar 2011)]<br />
<br />
<br />
=For Historical Inspiration=<br />
<br />
#[[Athenian Democracy]] ; [[Foundations of Athenian Democracy]]<br />
#[[Iroquois Confederacy]]<br />
#[[Anishinaabe Council of Three Fires]]<br />
#[[European Medieval Democracy]]<br />
#[[Viking Democracy]]<br />
#[[Pirate Governance]]<br />
#[[Paris Commune]]<br />
<br />
=Key Resources=<br />
<br />
#[http://self-org.blogspot.com/p/resources.html Bibliography on non-hierarchical self-organisation]<br />
<br />
<br />
==Key Articles and Essays==<br />
<br />
* [[Open Process as the Organizational Spirit of the Internet Model]] Toni Prug. [http://hackthestate.org/2010/03/05/series-on-commuonism-open-process-the-organizational-spirit-of-the-internet-model-1/]<br />
<br />
* The [http://bettermeans.org/front/learn-more/open-enterprise-manifesto/ Open Enterprise Manifesto]<br />
<br />
* Identifying and understanding the problems of Wikipedia’s peer governance: The case of inclusionists versus deletionists. by Kostakis, Vasilis. First Monday, Volume 15, Number 3 - 1 March 2010 [http://firstmonday.org/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/viewArticle/2613/2479]<br />
<br />
* [[Managing Boundaries between Organizations and Communities]]: Comparing Creative Commons and Wikimedia. Paper prepared for the 3rd Free Culture Research Conference, October 8-9, 2010, Berlin. By Leonhard Dobusch and Sigrid Quack. [http://wikis.fu-berlin.de/download/attachments/59080767/Dobusch-Quack-Paper.pdf] : The general question we are addressing is: H'''ow do organizations in digital information economy manage the boundaries to related focal communities?'''<br />
<br />
* [[Brokerage, Boundary Spanning, and Leadership in Open Innovation Communities]] [http://orgsci.highwire.org/cgi/content/abstract/18/2/165]<br />
<br />
* [[Commercial Providers of Infrastructure for Collective Action Online]]. Case studies comparison: Flickr Corporation model and Wikihow Enterprise model. By Mayo Fuster Morell. For the 3rd Free culture research conference Berlin, October 2010 [http://wikis.fu-berlin.de/download/attachments/59080767/FusterMorell-Paper.pdf]: Based on the case of online creation communities, the paper presents the two main models of commercial providers of infrastructure: corporate service model and mission enterprise model. It also presents an explanatory analysis of how the type of provider shape the community generated. The empirical analysis is based of a case study comparison of Flickr and Wikihow.<br />
<br />
==Key Books==<br />
<br />
*[[Cyberchiefs]]. Autonomy and Authority in Online Tribes. Mathieu O’Neil. Macmillan/Pluto Press, 2009. <br />
*[[Protocol]] by Alexander Galloway, discusses the nature of power in distributed networks.<br />
*The [[Success of Open Source]], by Steve Webber, discusses the governance of free software and open sorce software projects in detail.<br />
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<br />
<br />
[[Category:Peerproperty]]<br />
<br />
[[Category:Peerproduction]]<br />
<br />
[[Category:Governance]]<br />
<br />
[[Category:Relational]]</div>SRosehttps://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/index.php?title=Michigan:_The_Transformation_Manifesto&diff=53200Michigan: The Transformation Manifesto2011-08-26T13:24:18Z<p>SRose: </p>
<hr />
<div>== Contributors ==<br />
<br />
*I'm Sam Rose, from the Foundation or Peer To Peer Alternatives http://p2pfoundation.net/ and co-founder http://futureforwardinstitute.com/ I am a Michigan native, former blue collar worker and now independent business person.<br />
<br />
== "Michigan is Screwed" ==<br />
<br />
See: http://www.youtube.com/embed/AUpO1QFMDtM<br />
<br />
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/42121778#42121778<br />
<br />
It's likely you are highly aware of the current political situation that people in Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Pennsylvania and other struggling industrial states are facing. In Michigan in particular it looks to me like the goal of Rick Snyder and the legislators that control the Michigan House/Senate is to tear down 20th century community infrastructures, starting from the bottom up. <br />
<br />
The reality is that if the people in power in Michigan now fully succeed, private mega corporations will queue up to enclose property, extract wealth and resources at lightning speed, further impoverish our community's most vulnerable members, push out those willing to fight by making their lives and communities miserable, and put whomever is left on their knees. They want our money flowing out of our pockets and communities, and their cheaply made worthless crap flowing in. They want to grab our land, our trees, frack out our natural gas and deplete our water, and run our soil down to clay. They want to push people out of the largest cities, fence of the empty land, bulldoze the buildings and sit on the land waiting for a future day when it's value increases. They want to do all of this while paying next to no taxes, employing none of the people of Michigan, and investing nothing back into the communities. They already got a huge amount of the money out of our communities by way of fraudulant mortgage scams that destroyed the economies of several countries around the world. They can make it more miserable for any of us that don't pick up and leave by: increasing our taxes (the elderly and retired, the poor, etc). Making our schools so deplorable that no one will want to move to our communities. And, whenever possible, declaring an "emergency" and dissolving local government, installing private corporations in their place with license to do whatever they want without any oversight. I am willing to bet that most of you that voted for Rick Snyder and the people in Michigan Congress probably did not vote for what I describe above. I'll bet that your ancestors didn't fight to get you to where you are now, just to see us all start to slip back towards whatever they came here to get away from. However, the sad fact is that what I describe above is now upon you, and all of us. <br />
<br />
<br> Fortunately for us, we don't have to accept this reality. We currently have all of the building blocks we need to turn things around for ourselves here in a relatively short amount of time. <br />
<br />
A clue comes to us from our own state's past. At the turn of the 19th-20th century, automobiles were prohibitively expensive for all but a few people. One of the reasons was a monopoly on the designs of automotive technology by George B. Selden: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_B._Selden Selden and associate's efforts to protect their patents led to a battle with Henry Ford, which resulted in a decision by courts to open up automotive technology for those that were not using the Selden engine design. <br />
<br />
From Open Source - History and Development Adrienne Walker San Jose State University&nbsp;[http://infosherpas.com/ojs/index.php/openandlibraries/article/view/43/65 http://infosherpas.com/ojs/index.php/openandlibraries/article/view/43/65]: <br />
<blockquote>''Free sharing and open source are not 21st century ideas, we tend to think of open source as a way of being connected to the Internet as software but open source was in existence early in the 20th century although it took a different form. That form was automobile manufacturing. For those of you familiar with early automotive history, Henry Ford challenged the patent of George Selden. Selden had a chokehold on the automobile industry but Ford won a challenge to Selden's patent (The history of free and open source, 2009). Henry Fords breakthrough initiated the beginning of open source in the modern age and coupled with the formation of the Motor Vehicle Manufacturers Association was influential in creating cross-licensing agreements. Cross-licensing agreements existed between the United States automobile manufacturers of the day. Each automobile manufacturing company modified the technology and filed patents, these patents were shared, and no exchange of money, no lawsuits and an industry thrived (The history of free and open source, 2009).'' </blockquote><ref>Special thanks to Nathan Oostendorp who made me aware of this part of Michigan industrial history when he presented this at http://igniteannarbor.com see http://ingenuitas.com/</ref> <br />
We can do this again in Michigan. We can start in our own communities, re-building our economies around sharing not just technology, but also production of food, energy, and knowledge.<br />
<br />
== Energy ==<br />
<br />
'''There's enough wind and solar power across the state of Michigan to run the whole state on wind and solar energy alone.''' Open sourcing the technology for wind, solar, and batteries for hybrid/electric cars would create an explosion of innovation across the state and in the region, and eventually worldwide. If we really want to get into manufacturing green energy in the state of Michigan, the fastest route will be by way of creating sound design cores for small wind generators and solar collectors/solar voltaics and releasing them under an open license (like TAPR for instance http://www.tapr.org/ohl.html ) Our first step can be to install hybrid solar/wind in as many individua locations as possible (some neighbrhoods can team up and group buy for a whole block), and install them in a way that turns the current electrical grid into a "Net metering" grid: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_metering <br />
<br />
In the US, much of the electric grid is municipally owned, community owned (as in "rural electric co-operatives"), publicly licensed, and/or runs over public rights of way. This provides a great deal of public-interest policy leverage over the existing grid.<br />
<br />
In the US, I believe the single most important policy for promoting p2p energy is already in place in many areas--that is "net metering" or "reverse metering". Net metering allows any peer producer to put surplus energy onto the grid. In many cases such locally peer-produced energy, reverse-metered onto the grid, is credited at a subsidized rate above the normal consumer rate for electricity.<br />
<br />
Where net metering is already in place, I propose that an additional policy initiative be attempted. This would entail allowing each peer-producer and consumer the option to negotiate rates among themselves. Some peer-producers might charge rates higher than the "retail" consumer rate. In this case such producers would operate much like existing "green power" producers. In other cases producers might sell their surplus to preferred consumers (say family-related households or eco-village neighbors) at a discounted rate. Such a practice could be implemented over the existing grid with little more administrative effort than existing "green power" programs require.<br />
<br />
As parts of the existing grid are gradually updated and upgraded, it should be possible to build in direct p2p balancing, metering, and billing capability so that no institutional "middleman" is required for adding or withdrawing amounts of energy that are below some threshold adequate to prevent outages or overloads.<br />
<br />
We can also start processing our plant and animal waste in open source biodigesters to produce electricity (example http://www.appropedia.org/Category:Biogas ) and our agricultural and surburban landscaping refuse into new soil and biofuel. <br />
<br />
Much of this new infrastructure can be managed by user-owned cooperatives where needed.<br />
<br />
<br />
== Housing ==<br />
<br />
We have a real opportunity with the collapse of the inflated real estate economy to cooperatively purchase land, and re-develop it for production of food, energy, and physical production. REsidential land can be contracted back to families, but this time with support from cooperatives and credit unions instead of big Wall Street banks. <br />
<br />
== Education ==<br />
<br />
It's time to create cooperatives where parents and teachers are the owners of school systems. Most cirricular development can be released under creative commons licenses (as seen with http://wikieducator.org/OERF:Home http://ftacademy.org/ http://www.oercommons.org/ etc etc ) <br />
<br />
A really compelling and immediately useful example is https://open.umich.edu/wiki/Main_Page<br />
<br />
Parents can work with teachers and their students to adaptively shape learning over time. '''No more showing up in cinderblock buildings and being trained to be told what to do at the expense of truly learning how and why to do it. We teach children CRITICAL THINKING and skills to solve problems on their own with little or nothing to work with except their minds. Children are no longer raw material to be shaped into employees for big business. They are now taught to invent, build, experiment, create and destroy, co-manage and co-govern anywhere anytime with anything. They are taught actual history and left to decide for themselves. They are taught to produce their *own* food, energy, information systems as needed. They are taught to be programmers, not users. Makers, not consumers. Independent problem solvers, not employees. This is 21st century education in Michigan.'''<br />
<br />
== Manufacturing ==<br />
<br />
Manufacturing in Michigan will become small, distributed, diverse and massively adaptable and interoperable. Designs are shared and improved constantly. Technology cooperatives not only design and produce physhical hardware and software technology for people, but they also teach people how to do this themselves, and how to effectively use technology. <br />
<br />
Existing manufacturing labor unions will help create these new technology cooperatives by taking their pension fund monies out of greedy wall street companies and re-investing in Local Economic Development. Tens of thousands of people who are laid off from jobs will also pool resources to create these Technology Cooperatives throughout the state. This could happen here in Michigan within one year. <br />
<br />
== Money ==<br />
<br />
Already here in Michigan, we are leading the way towards creating a '''plurality of currencies'''. We want to have more than one option for currencies, given the instability of US and global financial systems. Some existing examples include:<br />
<br />
* [http://newfrontier.com/libertydollar/michigan-dollar.htm Liberty Dollar]<br />
* [http://www.baybucks.org/ Bay Bucks]<br />
<br />
Examples of P2P currencies that work digitally from around the world can be found on the [[:Category:Money]] page.<br />
<br />
== Research and Development ==<br />
<br />
Michigan Technology Cooperatives can invest their surplus resources in ongoing open source research and development, driven by the needs of people in Michigan and throughout the US and world. Students learn to participate in this activity at as early an age as possible. <br />
<br />
== Michigan Food Revolution ==<br />
<br />
Food cooperatives and community supported agriculture have proven themselves in places like Pittsburgh, Cleveland, and elsewhere. As our world spirals into a collapse of global commercial energy and resource distribution, leading to increasing costs for imported goods, we can sidestep that problem and produce food locally and regionally. We can create enough food locally in Michigan to make imports a luxury-only source of food (instead of the majority of food source for our state). We can create community owned food cooperatives in every city in the state, while simultaneously bolstering the '''hundreds of thousands of LOCAL food producers and retailers that already exist in this state'''.<br />
<br />
The federal government is moving towards de-funding programs like WIC, and other aid programs that help bring food to the poorest people in the state. 2011 is the year to find methods to connect people to people to meet food production needs.<br />
<br />
== Jobs ==<br />
<br />
'''NO. No more jobs.''' It is ALREADY fact that over 98% of businesses in Michigan are now small businesses<ref>http://levin.senate.gov/senate/smallbusiness/index.html</ref>. This is in part because most of those who are left actually participating in economic activity stopped looking for a job about 5-6 years ago and started a business. So this is what we do, we start businesses, and we connect them together. Go pay the $10 and register a DBA with your name on it at the county clerk. You are now ready to do businesses. Team up with other people in your community to share what you are learning about starting and running your own collaborative business/enterprise. In some cases we start cooperatives, credit unions, and ways for people to invest and receive return on investment in their local community (and not just monetary investment). We stop saving our retirement savings in 401k and other Wall Street scams and we invest that money locally and receive a robust and healthy return on investment.'''However, where people must hold jobs, their right to collectively bargain is supported. We DO NOT want to slide back to Dickensian work systems. We want to support working people and their hard won rights.''' <br />
<br />
== Taxes ==<br />
<br />
'''Rich people will pay more taxes. Poor people will pay less. Want to pay less taxes? Make less money.'''<br />
<br />
== Health Care ==<br />
<br />
Have I used the word "cooperative" enough in this manifesto? You are about to read it again. Why, you ask?:<br />
<br />
'''Wouldn't you rather be a co-owner in the entity that helps you pool costs with others towards your healthcare, than deal with the corporate profit-driven casino model that currently exists for health insurance?'''<br />
<br />
'''The time for Health Care Cooperatives in Michigan is NOW. Michigan Health Care Cooperatives hire doctors and their practices and take good care of them. They reject doctors who put profit over their Hippocratic Oath.<ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippocratic_Oath</ref>. In this way, Michigan leads the way in reforming health care ''starting with the doctor/patient relationship''. Health Care Cooperatives in Michigan also FUND proven services, such as mid-wife-run birth centers, and other so-called "alternative medicine" providers. <br />
<br />
'''We start with changing the law in Michigan to allow us the RIGHT to create these cooperatives.'''<br />
<br />
== Government ==<br />
<br />
When we're not busy having our faces shoved to the grindstone at a job, we're going to have some time to engage in Local, State, and Federal governments. However, we are also going to make them increasingly obsolete in the process. We are going to be able to come up with rules together via connective technologies like the internet. We're going to also be able to team up on government when we're not being listened to. <br />
<br />
'''We can do it without political parties''' following [[The Political Principles of Peer-to-Peer Advocacy]]. <br />
<br />
'''''No advocate of peer-to-peer politics wants all communications or activity routed through them. Bottlenecks are weaknesses.'''''<br />
<br />
'''That being said, any politician *or* party that ascribes to the principles of openness, p2p and the commons is worth collaborating and working with. '''<br />
<br />
== Your additions here ==<br />
<br />
This is what transformation in Michigan means to me. What does it mean to you? I want to know. I'll faithfully incorporate whatever any of you contribute, and I will spread it around. It's time to get real, dig in and change this place, now.<br />
<br />
== Other links ==<br />
<br />
* [http://forwardfound.org/blog/?q=five-commons The Five Commons]<br />
* [http://p2pfoundation.net/Manifesto P2P Manifesto]<br />
* [http://cooperationcommons.com Cooperation Commons]<br />
* [http://lansingonlinenews.com/news/the-gop-education-agenda-why-earning-a-diploma-will-no-longer-buy-you-a-job-or-a-middle-class-life/ The GOP Education Agenda: Why earning a diploma will no longer buy you a job or a middle-class life]<br />
* [[Multitudes]](Hardt & Negri)<br />
== References ==<br />
<references /><br />
<br />
[[Category:P2P_Politics]]</div>SRosehttps://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/index.php?title=Michigan:_The_Transformation_Manifesto&diff=50577Michigan: The Transformation Manifesto2011-06-19T14:04:44Z<p>SRose: /* Food systems */</p>
<hr />
<div>== Contributors ==<br />
<br />
*I'm Sam Rose, from the Foundation or Peer To Peer Alternatives http://p2pfoundation.net/ and co-founder http://futureforwardinstitute.com/ I am a Michigan native, former blue collar worker and now independent business person.<br />
<br />
== "Michigan is Screwed" ==<br />
<br />
See: http://www.youtube.com/embed/AUpO1QFMDtM<br />
<br />
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/42121778#42121778<br />
<br />
It's likely you are highly aware of the current political situation that people in Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Pennsylvania and other struggling industrial states are facing. In Michigan in particular it looks to me like the goal of Rick Snyder and the legislators that control the Michigan House/Senate is to tear down 20th century community infrastructures, starting from the bottom up. <br />
<br />
The reality is that if the people in power in Michigan now fully succeed, private mega corporations will queue up to enclose property, extract wealth and resources at lightning speed, further impoverish our community's most vulnerable members, push out those willing to fight by making their lives and communities miserable, and put whomever is left on their knees. They want our money flowing out of our pockets and communities, and their cheaply made worthless crap flowing in. They want to grab our land, our trees, frack out our natural gas and deplete our water, and run our soil down to clay. They want to push people out of the largest cities, fence of the empty land, bulldoze the buildings and sit on the land waiting for a future day when it's value increases. They want to do all of this while paying next to no taxes, employing none of the people of Michigan, and investing nothing back into the communities. They already got a huge amount of the money out of our communities by way of fraudulant mortgage scams that destroyed the economies of several countries around the world. They can make it more miserable for any of us that don't pick up and leave by: increasing our taxes (the elderly and retired, the poor, etc). Making our schools so deplorable that no one will want to move to our communities. And, whenever possible, declaring an "emergency" and dissolving local government, installing private corporations in their place with license to do whatever they want without any oversight. I am willing to bet that most of you that voted for Rick Snyder and the people in Michigan Congress probably did not vote for what I describe above. I'll bet that your ancestors didn't fight to get you to where you are now, just to see us all start to slip back towards whatever they came here to get away from. However, the sad fact is that what I describe above is now upon you, and all of us. <br />
<br />
<br> Fortunately for us, we don't have to accept this reality. We currently have all of the building blocks we need to turn things around for ourselves here in a relatively short amount of time. <br />
<br />
A clue comes to us from our own state's past. At the turn of the 19th-20th century, automobiles were prohibitively expensive for all but a few people. One of the reasons was a monopoly on the designs of automotive technology by George B. Selden: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_B._Selden Selden and associate's efforts to protect their patents led to a battle with Henry Ford, which resulted in a decision by courts to open up automotive technology for those that were not using the Selden engine design. <br />
<br />
From Open Source - History and Development Adrienne Walker San Jose State University&nbsp;[http://infosherpas.com/ojs/index.php/openandlibraries/article/view/43/65 http://infosherpas.com/ojs/index.php/openandlibraries/article/view/43/65]: <br />
<blockquote>''Free sharing and open source are not 21st century ideas, we tend to think of open source as a way of being connected to the Internet as software but open source was in existence early in the 20th century although it took a different form. That form was automobile manufacturing. For those of you familiar with early automotive history, Henry Ford challenged the patent of George Selden. Selden had a chokehold on the automobile industry but Ford won a challenge to Selden's patent (The history of free and open source, 2009). Henry Fords breakthrough initiated the beginning of open source in the modern age and coupled with the formation of the Motor Vehicle Manufacturers Association was influential in creating cross-licensing agreements. Cross-licensing agreements existed between the United States automobile manufacturers of the day. Each automobile manufacturing company modified the technology and filed patents, these patents were shared, and no exchange of money, no lawsuits and an industry thrived (The history of free and open source, 2009).'' </blockquote><ref>Special thanks to Nathan Oostendorp who made me aware of this part of Michigan industrial history when he presented this at http://igniteannarbor.com see http://ingenuitas.com/</ref> <br />
We can do this again in Michigan. We can start in our own communities, re-building our economies around sharing not just technology, but also production of food, energy, and knowledge.<br />
<br />
== Energy ==<br />
<br />
'''There's enough wind and solar power across the state of Michigan to run the whole state on wind and solar energy alone.''' Open sourcing the technology for wind, solar, and batteries for hybrid/electric cars would create an explosion of innovation across the state and in the region, and eventually worldwide. If we really want to get into manufacturing green energy in the state of Michigan, the fastest route will be by way of creating sound design cores for small wind generators and solar collectors/solar voltaics and releasing them under an open license (like TAPR for instance http://www.tapr.org/ohl.html ) Our first step can be to install hybrid solar/wind in as many individua locations as possible (some neighbrhoods can team up and group buy for a whole block), and install them in a way that turns the current electrical grid into a "Net metering" grid: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_metering <br />
<br />
In the US, much of the electric grid is municipally owned, community owned (as in "rural electric co-operatives"), publicly licensed, and/or runs over public rights of way. This provides a great deal of public-interest policy leverage over the existing grid.<br />
<br />
In the US, I believe the single most important policy for promoting p2p energy is already in place in many areas--that is "net metering" or "reverse metering". Net metering allows any peer producer to put surplus energy onto the grid. In many cases such locally peer-produced energy, reverse-metered onto the grid, is credited at a subsidized rate above the normal consumer rate for electricity.<br />
<br />
Where net metering is already in place, I propose that an additional policy initiative be attempted. This would entail allowing each peer-producer and consumer the option to negotiate rates among themselves. Some peer-producers might charge rates higher than the "retail" consumer rate. In this case such producers would operate much like existing "green power" producers. In other cases producers might sell their surplus to preferred consumers (say family-related households or eco-village neighbors) at a discounted rate. Such a practice could be implemented over the existing grid with little more administrative effort than existing "green power" programs require.<br />
<br />
As parts of the existing grid are gradually updated and upgraded, it should be possible to build in direct p2p balancing, metering, and billing capability so that no institutional "middleman" is required for adding or withdrawing amounts of energy that are below some threshold adequate to prevent outages or overloads.<br />
<br />
We can also start processing our plant and animal waste in open source biodigesters to produce electricity (example http://www.appropedia.org/Category:Biogas ) and our agricultural and surburban landscaping refuse into new soil and biofuel. <br />
<br />
Much of this new infrastructure can be managed by user-owned cooperatives where needed.<br />
<br />
== Education ==<br />
<br />
It's time to create cooperatives where parents and teachers are the owners of school systems. Most cirricular development can be released under creative commons licenses (as seen with http://wikieducator.org/OERF:Home http://ftacademy.org/ http://www.oercommons.org/ etc etc ) <br />
<br />
A really compelling and immediately useful example is https://open.umich.edu/wiki/Main_Page<br />
<br />
Parents can work with teachers and their students to adaptively shape learning over time. '''No more showing up in cinderblock buildings and being trained to be told what to do at the expense of truly learning how and why to do it. We teach children CRITICAL THINKING and skills to solve problems on their own with little or nothing to work with except their minds. Children are no longer raw material to be shaped into employees for big business. They are now taught to invent, build, experiment, create and destroy, co-manage and co-govern anywhere anytime with anything. They are taught actual history and left to decide for themselves. They are taught to produce their *own* food, energy, information systems as needed. They are taught to be programmers, not users. Makers, not consumers. Independent problem solvers, not employees. This is 21st century education in Michigan.'''<br />
<br />
== Manufacturing ==<br />
<br />
Manufacturing in Michigan will become small, distributed, diverse and massively adaptable and interoperable. Designs are shared and improved constantly. Technology cooperatives not only design and produce physhical hardware and software technology for people, but they also teach people how to do this themselves, and how to effectively use technology. <br />
<br />
Existing manufacturing labor unions will help create these new technology cooperatives by taking their pension fund monies out of greedy wall street companies and re-investing in Local Economic Development. Tens of thousands of people who are laid off from jobs will also pool resources to create these Technology Cooperatives throughout the state. This could happen here in Michigan within one year. <br />
<br />
== Money ==<br />
<br />
Already here in Michigan, we are leading the way towards creating a '''plurality of currencies'''. We want to have more than one option for currencies, given the instability of US and global financial systems. Some existing examples include:<br />
<br />
* [http://newfrontier.com/libertydollar/michigan-dollar.htm Liberty Dollar]<br />
* [http://www.baybucks.org/ Bay Bucks]<br />
<br />
Examples of P2P currencies that work digitally from around the world can be found on the [[:Category:Money]] page.<br />
<br />
== Research and Development ==<br />
<br />
Michigan Technology Cooperatives can invest their surplus resources in ongoing open source research and development, driven by the needs of people in Michigan and throughout the US and world. Students learn to participate in this activity at as early an age as possible. <br />
<br />
== Michigan Food Revolution ==<br />
<br />
Food cooperatives and community supported agriculture have proven themselves in places like Pittsburgh, Cleveland, and elsewhere. As our world spirals into a collapse of global commercial energy and resource distribution, leading to increasing costs for imported goods, we can sidestep that problem and produce food locally and regionally. We can create enough food locally in Michigan to make imports a luxury-only source of food (instead of the majority of food source for our state). We can create community owned food cooperatives in every city in the state, while simultaneously bolstering the '''hundreds of thousands of LOCAL food producers and retailers that already exist in this state'''.<br />
<br />
The federal government is moving towards de-funding programs like WIC, and other aid programs that help bring food to the poorest people in the state. 2011 is the year to find methods to connect people to people to meet food production needs.<br />
<br />
== Jobs ==<br />
<br />
'''NO. No more jobs.''' It is ALREADY fact that over 98% of businesses in Michigan are now small businesses<ref>http://levin.senate.gov/senate/smallbusiness/index.html</ref>. This is in part because most of those who are left actually participating in economic activity stopped looking for a job about 5-6 years ago and started a business. So this is what we do, we start businesses, and we connect them together. Go pay the $10 and register a DBA with your name on it at the county clerk. You are now ready to do businesses. Team up with other people in your community to share what you are learning about starting and running your own collaborative business/enterprise. In some cases we start cooperatives, credit unions, and ways for people to invest and receive return on investment in their local community (and not just monetary investment). We stop saving our retirement savings in 401k and other Wall Street scams and we invest that money locally and receive a robust and healthy return on investment.'''However, where people must hold jobs, their right to collectively bargain is supported. We DO NOT want to slide back to Dickensian work systems. We want to support working people and their hard won rights.''' <br />
<br />
== Taxes ==<br />
<br />
'''Rich people will pay more taxes. Poor people will pay less. Want to pay less taxes? Make less money.'''<br />
<br />
== Health Care ==<br />
<br />
Have I used the word "cooperative" enough in this manifesto? You are about to read it again. Why, you ask?:<br />
<br />
'''Wouldn't you rather be a co-owner in the entity that helps you pool costs with others towards your healthcare, than deal with the corporate profit-driven casino model that currently exists for health insurance?'''<br />
<br />
'''The time for Health Care Cooperatives in Michigan is NOW. Michigan Health Care Cooperatives hire doctors and their practices and take good care of them. They reject doctors who put profit over their Hippocratic Oath.<ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippocratic_Oath</ref>. In this way, Michigan leads the way in reforming health care ''starting with the doctor/patient relationship''. Health Care Cooperatives in Michigan also FUND proven services, such as mid-wife-run birth centers, and other so-called "alternative medicine" providers. <br />
<br />
'''We start with changing the law in Michigan to allow us the RIGHT to create these cooperatives.'''<br />
<br />
== Government ==<br />
<br />
When we're not busy having our faces shoved to the grindstone at a job, we're going to have some time to engage in Local, State, and Federal governments. However, we are also going to make them increasingly obsolete in the process. We are going to be able to come up with rules together via connective technologies like the internet. We're going to also be able to team up on government when we're not being listened to. <br />
<br />
'''We can do it without political parties''' following [[The Political Principles of Peer-to-Peer Advocacy]]. <br />
<br />
'''''No advocate of peer-to-peer politics wants all communications or activity routed through them. Bottlenecks are weaknesses.'''''<br />
<br />
'''That being said, any politician *or* party that ascribes to the principles of openness, p2p and the commons is worth collaborating and working with. '''<br />
<br />
== Your additions here ==<br />
<br />
This is what transformation in Michigan means to me. What does it mean to you? I want to know. I'll faithfully incorporate whatever any of you contribute, and I will spread it around. It's time to get real, dig in and change this place, now.<br />
<br />
== Other links ==<br />
<br />
* [http://forwardfound.org/blog/?q=five-commons The Five Commons]<br />
* [http://p2pfoundation.net/Manifesto P2P Manifesto]<br />
* [http://cooperationcommons.com Cooperation Commons]<br />
* [http://lansingonlinenews.com/news/the-gop-education-agenda-why-earning-a-diploma-will-no-longer-buy-you-a-job-or-a-middle-class-life/ The GOP Education Agenda: Why earning a diploma will no longer buy you a job or a middle-class life]<br />
* [[Multitudes]](Hardt & Negri)<br />
== References ==<br />
<references /><br />
<br />
[[Category:P2P_Politics]]</div>SRosehttps://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/index.php?title=Tonika&diff=49845Tonika2011-05-18T17:51:26Z<p>SRose: </p>
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<div>{{ApplicationLayer}}<br />
{{DevelopmentState|active}}<br />
<br />
<br />
'''= Tonika is a "physical" social network, in contrast to existing networks like Facebook, LinkedIn, etc. which are "virtual".'''<br />
<br />
URL = http://blog.5ttt.org/quick-overview<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
=Description=<br />
<br />
"Tonika is a desktop software for individuals. It starts by assigning an anonymous numeric ID to every user.<br />
<br />
The key feature of Tonika is a low-level functionality (API, if you will) that enables the design and development of various social-type apps (or add-ons), which by virtue of running on top of Tonika are guaranteed to have a range of strong privacy and anonymity preserving properties for its users.<br />
<br />
The API provides two fundamental functions: short- and long-distance links. A short-distance link is a direct (peer-to-peer), secure (private) communication channel to a specified (by ID) friend. (These links are realized via direct peer-to-peer transport over the Internet, protected by cryptographic authentication and data encryption.)<br />
<br />
A long-distance link, the more unusual kind, is a communication channel to any desired other user (potentially not an immediate friend), specified by their anonymous ID. These long-distance links are automatically pieced together by sequences of short-distance links, that we can think of as paths along friend-to-friend contacts.<br />
<br />
Better yet, long-distance links in fact comprise multiple paths connecting the end points in order to achieve optimal throughput and resilience to network failures, while ensuring fair bandwidth allocation to all users.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
'''But what is the magic?'''<br />
<br />
Long-distance links are special: They enable any user to disseminate information to any other user in the world, while at the same time ensuring that neither party can learn anything about the physical identity of the other. This is a consequence of the fact that long-distance links are not realized via a direct Internet connection, rather by a string of connections between pairs of trusted acquaintances.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
'''And some applications, please?'''<br />
<br />
The applications of Tonika span the whole spectrum, from friend-to-friend sharing (like DropBox, Flickr, Facebook) to content distribution where a single source, like WikiLeaks, publishes to a large audience.<br />
<br />
Friend-to-friend apps built on Tonika allow their users to own their data by storing it locally, while at the same time being able to deliver it privately to designated friends or others (non-friends).<br />
<br />
Content distribution apps can reach an unlimited audience at a low-cost by taking advantage of automatic content caching in areas of the social network that exhibit high demand for the content.<br />
<br />
<br />
'''Who is interested in our technology?'''<br />
<br />
Besides home users who can benefit directly from Tonika's social sharing apps, social app developers are also interested. Their projects can benefit from Tonika by leveraging its technology as a transport layer for friend-to-friend and other social data communications, without requiring costly, centralized and failure-prone cloud solutions."<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
[[Category:P2P Infrastructure]]<br />
<br />
[[Category:Relational]]</div>SRosehttps://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/index.php?title=Michigan:_The_Transformation_Manifesto&diff=49614Michigan: The Transformation Manifesto2011-04-26T00:33:06Z<p>SRose: </p>
<hr />
<div>== Contributors ==<br />
<br />
*I'm Sam Rose, from the Foundation or Peer To Peer Alternatives http://p2pfoundation.net/ and co-founder http://futureforwardinstitute.com/ I am a Michigan native, former blue collar worker and now independent business person.<br />
<br />
== "Michigan is Screwed" ==<br />
<br />
See: http://www.youtube.com/embed/AUpO1QFMDtM<br />
<br />
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/42121778#42121778<br />
<br />
It's likely you are highly aware of the current political situation that people in Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Pennsylvania and other struggling industrial states are facing. In Michigan in particular it looks to me like the goal of Rick Snyder and the legislators that control the Michigan House/Senate is to tear down 20th century community infrastructures, starting from the bottom up. <br />
<br />
The reality is that if the people in power in Michigan now fully succeed, private mega corporations will queue up to enclose property, extract wealth and resources at lightning speed, further impoverish our community's most vulnerable members, push out those willing to fight by making their lives and communities miserable, and put whomever is left on their knees. They want our money flowing out of our pockets and communities, and their cheaply made worthless crap flowing in. They want to grab our land, our trees, frack out our natural gas and deplete our water, and run our soil down to clay. They want to push people out of the largest cities, fence of the empty land, bulldoze the buildings and sit on the land waiting for a future day when it's value increases. They want to do all of this while paying next to no taxes, employing none of the people of Michigan, and investing nothing back into the communities. They already got a huge amount of the money out of our communities by way of fraudulant mortgage scams that destroyed the economies of several countries around the world. They can make it more miserable for any of us that don't pick up and leave by: increasing our taxes (the elderly and retired, the poor, etc). Making our schools so deplorable that no one will want to move to our communities. And, whenever possible, declaring an "emergency" and dissolving local government, installing private corporations in their place with license to do whatever they want without any oversight. I am willing to bet that most of you that voted for Rick Snyder and the people in Michigan Congress probably did not vote for what I describe above. I'll bet that your ancestors didn't fight to get you to where you are now, just to see us all start to slip back towards whatever they came here to get away from. However, the sad fact is that what I describe above is now upon you, and all of us. <br />
<br />
<br> Fortunately for us, we don't have to accept this reality. We currently have all of the building blocks we need to turn things around for ourselves here in a relatively short amount of time. <br />
<br />
A clue comes to us from our own state's past. At the turn of the 19th-20th century, automobiles were prohibitively expensive for all but a few people. One of the reasons was a monopoly on the designs of automotive technology by George B. Selden: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_B._Selden Selden and associate's efforts to protect their patents led to a battle with Henry Ford, which resulted in a decision by courts to open up automotive technology for those that were not using the Selden engine design. <br />
<br />
From Open Source - History and Development Adrienne Walker San Jose State University&nbsp;[http://infosherpas.com/ojs/index.php/openandlibraries/article/view/43/65 http://infosherpas.com/ojs/index.php/openandlibraries/article/view/43/65]: <br />
<blockquote>''Free sharing and open source are not 21st century ideas, we tend to think of open source as a way of being connected to the Internet as software but open source was in existence early in the 20th century although it took a different form. That form was automobile manufacturing. For those of you familiar with early automotive history, Henry Ford challenged the patent of George Selden. Selden had a chokehold on the automobile industry but Ford won a challenge to Selden's patent (The history of free and open source, 2009). Henry Fords breakthrough initiated the beginning of open source in the modern age and coupled with the formation of the Motor Vehicle Manufacturers Association was influential in creating cross-licensing agreements. Cross-licensing agreements existed between the United States automobile manufacturers of the day. Each automobile manufacturing company modified the technology and filed patents, these patents were shared, and no exchange of money, no lawsuits and an industry thrived (The history of free and open source, 2009).'' </blockquote><ref>Special thanks to Nathan Oostendorp who made me aware of this part of Michigan industrial history when he presented this at http://igniteannarbor.com see http://ingenuitas.com/</ref> <br />
We can do this again in Michigan. We can start in our own communities, re-building our economies around sharing not just technology, but also production of food, energy, and knowledge.<br />
<br />
== Energy ==<br />
<br />
'''There's enough wind and solar power across the state of Michigan to run the whole state on wind and solar energy alone.''' Open sourcing the technology for wind, solar, and batteries for hybrid/electric cars would create an explosion of innovation across the state and in the region, and eventually worldwide. If we really want to get into manufacturing green energy in the state of Michigan, the fastest route will be by way of creating sound design cores for small wind generators and solar collectors/solar voltaics and releasing them under an open license (like TAPR for instance http://www.tapr.org/ohl.html ) Our first step can be to install hybrid solar/wind in as many individua locations as possible (some neighbrhoods can team up and group buy for a whole block), and install them in a way that turns the current electrical grid into a "Net metering" grid: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_metering <br />
<br />
In the US, much of the electric grid is municipally owned, community owned (as in "rural electric co-operatives"), publicly licensed, and/or runs over public rights of way. This provides a great deal of public-interest policy leverage over the existing grid.<br />
<br />
In the US, I believe the single most important policy for promoting p2p energy is already in place in many areas--that is "net metering" or "reverse metering". Net metering allows any peer producer to put surplus energy onto the grid. In many cases such locally peer-produced energy, reverse-metered onto the grid, is credited at a subsidized rate above the normal consumer rate for electricity.<br />
<br />
Where net metering is already in place, I propose that an additional policy initiative be attempted. This would entail allowing each peer-producer and consumer the option to negotiate rates among themselves. Some peer-producers might charge rates higher than the "retail" consumer rate. In this case such producers would operate much like existing "green power" producers. In other cases producers might sell their surplus to preferred consumers (say family-related households or eco-village neighbors) at a discounted rate. Such a practice could be implemented over the existing grid with little more administrative effort than existing "green power" programs require.<br />
<br />
As parts of the existing grid are gradually updated and upgraded, it should be possible to build in direct p2p balancing, metering, and billing capability so that no institutional "middleman" is required for adding or withdrawing amounts of energy that are below some threshold adequate to prevent outages or overloads.<br />
<br />
We can also start processing our plant and animal waste in open source biodigesters to produce electricity (example http://www.appropedia.org/Category:Biogas ) and our agricultural and surburban landscaping refuse into new soil and biofuel. <br />
<br />
Much of this new infrastructure can be managed by user-owned cooperatives where needed.<br />
<br />
== Education ==<br />
<br />
It's time to create cooperatives where parents and teachers are the owners of school systems. Most cirricular development can be released under creative commons licenses (as seen with http://wikieducator.org/OERF:Home http://ftacademy.org/ http://www.oercommons.org/ etc etc ) <br />
<br />
A really compelling and immediately useful example is https://open.umich.edu/wiki/Main_Page<br />
<br />
Parents can work with teachers and their students to adaptively shape learning over time. '''No more showing up in cinderblock buildings and being trained to be told what to do at the expense of truly learning how and why to do it. We teach children CRITICAL THINKING and skills to solve problems on their own with little or nothing to work with except their minds. Children are no longer raw material to be shaped into employees for big business. They are now taught to invent, build, experiment, create and destroy, co-manage and co-govern anywhere anytime with anything. They are taught actual history and left to decide for themselves. They are taught to produce their *own* food, energy, information systems as needed. They are taught to be programmers, not users. Makers, not consumers. Independent problem solvers, not employees. This is 21st century education in Michigan.'''<br />
<br />
== Manufacturing ==<br />
<br />
Manufacturing in Michigan will become small, distributed, diverse and massively adaptable and interoperable. Designs are shared and improved constantly. Technology cooperatives not only design and produce physhical hardware and software technology for people, but they also teach people how to do this themselves, and how to effectively use technology. <br />
<br />
Existing manufacturing labor unions will help create these new technology cooperatives by taking their pension fund monies out of greedy wall street companies and re-investing in Local Economic Development. Tens of thousands of people who are laid off from jobs will also pool resources to create these Technology Cooperatives throughout the state. This could happen here in Michigan within one year. <br />
<br />
== Money ==<br />
<br />
Already here in Michigan, we are leading the way towards creating a '''plurality of currencies'''. We want to have more than one option for currencies, given the instability of US and global financial systems. Some existing examples include:<br />
<br />
* [http://newfrontier.com/libertydollar/michigan-dollar.htm Liberty Dollar]<br />
* [http://www.baybucks.org/ Bay Bucks]<br />
<br />
Examples of P2P currencies that work digitally from around the world can be found on the [[:Category:Money]] page.<br />
<br />
== Research and Development ==<br />
<br />
Michigan Technology Cooperatives can invest their surplus resources in ongoing open source research and development, driven by the needs of people in Michigan and throughout the US and world. Students learn to participate in this activity at as early an age as possible. <br />
<br />
== Food systems ==<br />
<br />
Food cooperatives and community supported agriculture have proven themselves in places like Pittsburgh, Cleveland, and elsewhere. As our world spirals into a collapse of global commercial energy and resource distribution, leading to increasing costs for imported goods, we can sidestep that problem and produce food locally and regionally. We can create enough food locally in Michigan to make imports a luxury-only source of food (instead of the majority of food source for our state). We can create community owned food cooperatives in every city in the state, while simultaneously bolstering the '''hundreds of thousands of LOCAL food producers and retailers that already exist in this state'''.<br />
<br />
== Jobs ==<br />
<br />
'''NO. No more jobs.''' It is ALREADY fact that over 98% of businesses in Michigan are now small businesses<ref>http://levin.senate.gov/senate/smallbusiness/index.html</ref>. This is in part because most of those who are left actually participating in economic activity stopped looking for a job about 5-6 years ago and started a business. So this is what we do, we start businesses, and we connect them together. Go pay the $10 and register a DBA with your name on it at the county clerk. You are now ready to do businesses. Team up with other people in your community to share what you are learning about starting and running your own collaborative business/enterprise. In some cases we start cooperatives, credit unions, and ways for people to invest and receive return on investment in their local community (and not just monetary investment). We stop saving our retirement savings in 401k and other Wall Street scams and we invest that money locally and receive a robust and healthy return on investment.'''However, where people must hold jobs, their right to collectively bargain is supported. We DO NOT want to slide back to Dickensian work systems. We want to support working people and their hard won rights.''' <br />
<br />
== Taxes ==<br />
<br />
'''Rich people will pay more taxes. Poor people will pay less. Want to pay less taxes? Make less money.'''<br />
<br />
== Health Care ==<br />
<br />
Have I used the word "cooperative" enough in this manifesto? You are about to read it again. Why, you ask?:<br />
<br />
'''Wouldn't you rather be a co-owner in the entity that helps you pool costs with others towards your healthcare, than deal with the corporate profit-driven casino model that currently exists for health insurance?'''<br />
<br />
'''The time for Health Care Cooperatives in Michigan is NOW. Michigan Health Care Cooperatives hire doctors and their practices and take good care of them. They reject doctors who put profit over their Hippocratic Oath.<ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippocratic_Oath</ref>. In this way, Michigan leads the way in reforming health care ''starting with the doctor/patient relationship''. Health Care Cooperatives in Michigan also FUND proven services, such as mid-wife-run birth centers, and other so-called "alternative medicine" providers. <br />
<br />
'''We start with changing the law in Michigan to allow us the RIGHT to create these cooperatives.'''<br />
<br />
== Government ==<br />
<br />
When we're not busy having our faces shoved to the grindstone at a job, we're going to have some time to engage in Local, State, and Federal governments. However, we are also going to make them increasingly obsolete in the process. We are going to be able to come up with rules together via connective technologies like the internet. We're going to also be able to team up on government when we're not being listened to. <br />
<br />
'''We can do it without political parties''' following [[The Political Principles of Peer-to-Peer Advocacy]]. <br />
<br />
'''''No advocate of peer-to-peer politics wants all communications or activity routed through them. Bottlenecks are weaknesses.'''''<br />
<br />
'''That being said, any politician *or* party that ascribes to the principles of openness, p2p and the commons is worth collaborating and working with. '''<br />
<br />
== Your additions here ==<br />
<br />
This is what transformation in Michigan means to me. What does it mean to you? I want to know. I'll faithfully incorporate whatever any of you contribute, and I will spread it around. It's time to get real, dig in and change this place, now.<br />
<br />
== Other links ==<br />
<br />
* [http://forwardfound.org/blog/?q=five-commons The Five Commons]<br />
* [http://p2pfoundation.net/Manifesto P2P Manifesto]<br />
* [http://cooperationcommons.com Cooperation Commons]<br />
* [http://lansingonlinenews.com/news/the-gop-education-agenda-why-earning-a-diploma-will-no-longer-buy-you-a-job-or-a-middle-class-life/ The GOP Education Agenda: Why earning a diploma will no longer buy you a job or a middle-class life]<br />
* [[Multitudes]](Hardt & Negri)<br />
== References ==<br />
<references /><br />
<br />
[[Category:P2P_Politics]]</div>SRosehttps://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/index.php?title=Michigan:_The_Transformation_Manifesto&diff=49613Michigan: The Transformation Manifesto2011-04-26T00:23:46Z<p>SRose: </p>
<hr />
<div>== Contributors ==<br />
<br />
*I'm Sam Rose, from the Foundation or Peer To Peer Alternatives http://p2pfoundation.net/ and co-founder http://futureforwardinstitute.com/ I am a Michigan native, former blue collar worker and now independent business person.<br />
<br />
== "Michigan is Screwed" ==<br />
<br />
See: http://www.youtube.com/embed/AUpO1QFMDtM<br />
<br />
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/42121778#42121778<br />
<br />
It's likely you are highly aware of the current political situation that people in Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Pennsylvania and other struggling industrial states are facing. In Michigan in particular it looks to me like the goal of Rick Snyder and the legislators that control the Michigan House/Senate is to tear down 20th century community infrastructures, starting from the bottom up. <br />
<br />
The reality is that if the people in power in Michigan now fully succeed, private mega corporations will queue up to enclose property, extract wealth and resources at lightning speed, further impoverish our community's most vulnerable members, push out those willing to fight by making their lives and communities miserable, and put whomever is left on their knees. They want our money flowing out of our pockets and communities, and their cheaply made worthless crap flowing in. They want to grab our land, our trees, frack out our natural gas and deplete our water, and run our soil down to clay. They want to push people out of the largest cities, fence of the empty land, bulldoze the buildings and sit on the land waiting for a future day when it's value increases<ref>http://www.facebook.com/notes/amy-washburn/the-michigan-emergency-financial-manager-efm-law-and-real-property-what-were-not/168627293195504</ref>. They want to do all of this while paying next to no taxes, employing none of the people of Michigan, and investing nothing back into the communities. They already got a huge amount of the money out of our communities by way of fraudulant mortgage scams that destroyed the economies of several countries around the world. They can make it more miserable for any of us that don't pick up and leave by: increasing our taxes (the elderly and retired, the poor, etc). Making our schools so deplorable that no one will want to move to our communities. And, whenever possible, declaring an "emergency" and dissolving local government, installing private corporations in their place with license to do whatever they want without any oversight. I am willing to bet that most of you that voted for Rick Snyder and the people in Michigan Congress probably did not vote for what I describe above. I'll bet that your ancestors didn't fight to get you to where you are now, just to see us all start to slip back towards whatever they came here to get away from. However, the sad fact is that what I describe above is now upon you, and all of us. <br />
<br />
<br> Fortunately for us, we don't have to accept this reality. We currently have all of the building blocks we need to turn things around for ourselves here in a relatively short amount of time. <br />
<br />
A clue comes to us from our own state's past. At the turn of the 19th-20th century, automobiles were prohibitively expensive for all but a few people. One of the reasons was a monopoly on the designs of automotive technology by George B. Selden: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_B._Selden Selden and associate's efforts to protect their patents led to a battle with Henry Ford, which resulted in a decision by courts to open up automotive technology for those that were not using the Selden engine design. <br />
<br />
From Open Source - History and Development Adrienne Walker San Jose State University&nbsp;[http://infosherpas.com/ojs/index.php/openandlibraries/article/view/43/65 http://infosherpas.com/ojs/index.php/openandlibraries/article/view/43/65]: <br />
<blockquote>''Free sharing and open source are not 21st century ideas, we tend to think of open source as a way of being connected to the Internet as software but open source was in existence early in the 20th century although it took a different form. That form was automobile manufacturing. For those of you familiar with early automotive history, Henry Ford challenged the patent of George Selden. Selden had a chokehold on the automobile industry but Ford won a challenge to Selden's patent (The history of free and open source, 2009). Henry Fords breakthrough initiated the beginning of open source in the modern age and coupled with the formation of the Motor Vehicle Manufacturers Association was influential in creating cross-licensing agreements. Cross-licensing agreements existed between the United States automobile manufacturers of the day. Each automobile manufacturing company modified the technology and filed patents, these patents were shared, and no exchange of money, no lawsuits and an industry thrived (The history of free and open source, 2009).'' </blockquote><ref>Special thanks to Nathan Oostendorp who made me aware of this part of Michigan industrial history when he presented this at http://igniteannarbor.com see http://ingenuitas.com/</ref> <br />
We can do this again in Michigan. We can start in our own communities, re-building our economies around sharing not just technology, but also production of food, energy, and knowledge.<br />
<br />
== Energy ==<br />
<br />
'''There's enough wind and solar power across the state of Michigan to run the whole state on wind and solar energy alone.''' Open sourcing the technology for wind, solar, and batteries for hybrid/electric cars would create an explosion of innovation across the state and in the region, and eventually worldwide. If we really want to get into manufacturing green energy in the state of Michigan, the fastest route will be by way of creating sound design cores for small wind generators and solar collectors/solar voltaics and releasing them under an open license (like TAPR for instance http://www.tapr.org/ohl.html ) Our first step can be to install hybrid solar/wind in as many individua locations as possible (some neighbrhoods can team up and group buy for a whole block), and install them in a way that turns the current electrical grid into a "Net metering" grid: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_metering <br />
<br />
In the US, much of the electric grid is municipally owned, community owned (as in "rural electric co-operatives"), publicly licensed, and/or runs over public rights of way. This provides a great deal of public-interest policy leverage over the existing grid.<br />
<br />
In the US, I believe the single most important policy for promoting p2p energy is already in place in many areas--that is "net metering" or "reverse metering". Net metering allows any peer producer to put surplus energy onto the grid. In many cases such locally peer-produced energy, reverse-metered onto the grid, is credited at a subsidized rate above the normal consumer rate for electricity.<br />
<br />
Where net metering is already in place, I propose that an additional policy initiative be attempted. This would entail allowing each peer-producer and consumer the option to negotiate rates among themselves. Some peer-producers might charge rates higher than the "retail" consumer rate. In this case such producers would operate much like existing "green power" producers. In other cases producers might sell their surplus to preferred consumers (say family-related households or eco-village neighbors) at a discounted rate. Such a practice could be implemented over the existing grid with little more administrative effort than existing "green power" programs require.<br />
<br />
As parts of the existing grid are gradually updated and upgraded, it should be possible to build in direct p2p balancing, metering, and billing capability so that no institutional "middleman" is required for adding or withdrawing amounts of energy that are below some threshold adequate to prevent outages or overloads.<br />
<br />
We can also start processing our plant and animal waste in open source biodigesters to produce electricity (example http://www.appropedia.org/Category:Biogas ) and our agricultural and surburban landscaping refuse into new soil and biofuel. <br />
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Much of this new infrastructure can be managed by user-owned cooperatives where needed.<br />
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== Education ==<br />
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It's time to create cooperatives where parents and teachers are the owners of school systems. Most cirricular development can be released under creative commons licenses (as seen with http://wikieducator.org/OERF:Home http://ftacademy.org/ http://www.oercommons.org/ etc etc ) <br />
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A really compelling and immediately useful example is https://open.umich.edu/wiki/Main_Page<br />
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Parents can work with teachers and their students to adaptively shape learning over time. '''No more showing up in cinderblock buildings and being trained to be told what to do at the expense of truly learning how and why to do it. We teach children CRITICAL THINKING and skills to solve problems on their own with little or nothing to work with except their minds. Children are no longer raw material to be shaped into employees for big business. They are now taught to invent, build, experiment, create and destroy, co-manage and co-govern anywhere anytime with anything. They are taught actual history and left to decide for themselves. They are taught to produce their *own* food, energy, information systems as needed. They are taught to be programmers, not users. Makers, not consumers. Independent problem solvers, not employees. This is 21st century education in Michigan.'''<br />
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== Manufacturing ==<br />
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Manufacturing in Michigan will become small, distributed, diverse and massively adaptable and interoperable. Designs are shared and improved constantly. Technology cooperatives not only design and produce physhical hardware and software technology for people, but they also teach people how to do this themselves, and how to effectively use technology. <br />
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Existing manufacturing labor unions will help create these new technology cooperatives by taking their pension fund monies out of greedy wall street companies and re-investing in Local Economic Development. Tens of thousands of people who are laid off from jobs will also pool resources to create these Technology Cooperatives throughout the state. This could happen here in Michigan within one year. <br />
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== Money ==<br />
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Already here in Michigan, we are leading the way towards creating a '''plurality of currencies'''. We want to have more than one option for currencies, given the instability of US and global financial systems. Some existing examples include:<br />
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* [http://newfrontier.com/libertydollar/michigan-dollar.htm Liberty Dollar]<br />
* [http://www.baybucks.org/ Bay Bucks]<br />
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Examples of P2P currencies that work digitally from around the world can be found on the [[:Category:Money]] page.<br />
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== Research and Development ==<br />
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Michigan Technology Cooperatives can invest their surplus resources in ongoing open source research and development, driven by the needs of people in Michigan and throughout the US and world. Students learn to participate in this activity at as early an age as possible. <br />
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== Food systems ==<br />
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Food cooperatives and community supported agriculture have proven themselves in places like Pittsburgh, Cleveland, and elsewhere. As our world spirals into a collapse of global commercial energy and resource distribution, leading to increasing costs for imported goods, we can sidestep that problem and produce food locally and regionally. We can create enough food locally in Michigan to make imports a luxury-only source of food (instead of the majority of food source for our state). We can create community owned food cooperatives in every city in the state, while simultaneously bolstering the '''hundreds of thousands of LOCAL food producers and retailers that already exist in this state'''.<br />
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== Jobs ==<br />
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'''NO. No more jobs.''' It is ALREADY fact that over 98% of businesses in Michigan are now small businesses<ref>http://levin.senate.gov/senate/smallbusiness/index.html</ref>. This is in part because most of those who are left actually participating in economic activity stopped looking for a job about 5-6 years ago and started a business. So this is what we do, we start businesses, and we connect them together. Go pay the $10 and register a DBA with your name on it at the county clerk. You are now ready to do businesses. Team up with other people in your community to share what you are learning about starting and running your own collaborative business/enterprise. In some cases we start cooperatives, credit unions, and ways for people to invest and receive return on investment in their local community (and not just monetary investment). We stop saving our retirement savings in 401k and other Wall Street scams and we invest that money locally and receive a robust and healthy return on investment.'''However, where people must hold jobs, their right to collectively bargain is supported. We DO NOT want to slide back to Dickensian work systems. We want to support working people and their hard won rights.''' <br />
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== Taxes ==<br />
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'''Rich people will pay more taxes. Poor people will pay less. Want to pay less taxes? Make less money.'''<br />
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== Health Care ==<br />
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Have I used the word "cooperative" enough in this manifesto? You are about to read it again. Why, you ask?:<br />
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'''Wouldn't you rather be a co-owner in the entity that helps you pool costs with others towards your healthcare, than deal with the corporate profit-driven casino model that currently exists for health insurance?'''<br />
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'''The time for Health Care Cooperatives in Michigan is NOW. Michigan Health Care Cooperatives hire doctors and their practices and take good care of them. They reject doctors who put profit over their Hippocratic Oath.<ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippocratic_Oath</ref>. In this way, Michigan leads the way in reforming health care ''starting with the doctor/patient relationship''. Health Care Cooperatives in Michigan also FUND proven services, such as mid-wife-run birth centers, and other so-called "alternative medicine" providers. <br />
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'''We start with changing the law in Michigan to allow us the RIGHT to create these cooperatives.'''<br />
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== Government ==<br />
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When we're not busy having our faces shoved to the grindstone at a job, we're going to have some time to engage in Local, State, and Federal governments. However, we are also going to make them increasingly obsolete in the process. We are going to be able to come up with rules together via connective technologies like the internet. We're going to also be able to team up on government when we're not being listened to. <br />
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'''We can do it without political parties''' following [[The Political Principles of Peer-to-Peer Advocacy]]. <br />
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'''''No advocate of peer-to-peer politics wants all communications or activity routed through them. Bottlenecks are weaknesses.'''''<br />
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'''That being said, any politician *or* party that ascribes to the principles of openness, p2p and the commons is worth collaborating and working with. '''<br />
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== Your additions here ==<br />
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This is what transformation in Michigan means to me. What does it mean to you? I want to know. I'll faithfully incorporate whatever any of you contribute, and I will spread it around. It's time to get real, dig in and change this place, now.<br />
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== Other links ==<br />
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* [http://forwardfound.org/blog/?q=five-commons The Five Commons]<br />
* [http://p2pfoundation.net/Manifesto P2P Manifesto]<br />
* [http://cooperationcommons.com Cooperation Commons]<br />
* [http://lansingonlinenews.com/news/the-gop-education-agenda-why-earning-a-diploma-will-no-longer-buy-you-a-job-or-a-middle-class-life/ The GOP Education Agenda: Why earning a diploma will no longer buy you a job or a middle-class life]<br />
* [[Multitudes]](Hardt & Negri)<br />
== References ==<br />
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A list of people oriented towards thinking about a sharing, commons, p2p oriented society.<br />
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For a cooperative publishing project with Shareable.<br />
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We aim to interview two people per month, with possible publication of interview book.<br />
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Note from initial compiler Michel Bauwens:<br />
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Please note, a lot of people whom I find very interesting are not in here, because I or they do not necessarily see their work as part of this particular emergence and they belong to different paths. Also active activists who do not necessarily participate in the intellectual elaboration of p2p ideas are not included in this list. This list should in no way be seen as a list of approval or a select club to whom you do not belong. It is merely meant as a guide to find people with interesting ideas.<br />
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Thanks for suggesting names, and rationales for adding them.<br />
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* part of a general dialogue on the construction of a p2p world<br />
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#[[Adam Arvidsson]] **, on the ethical economy, http://p2pfoundation.net/Special:Search?search=%22Adam+Arvidsson%22&fulltext=Search<br />
#[[Michel Bauwens]] **, [[P2P Theory]], founder of [[P2P Foundation]]; [[Bibliography of Michel Bauwens]]<br />
#[[Yochai Benkler]] *, legal scholar, author of the classic study of [[Peer Production]], i.e. the [[Wealth of Networks]]<br />
#[[David Bollier]] **, author of [[Viral Spiral]], foremost commons scholar, now working on emerging [[Commons Law]] framework<br />
#[[James Boyle]], against IP enclosures<br />
#[[Rachel Botsman]] *, on sharing infrastructures and access via product-service systems<br />
#[[Marvin Brown]] ** , [[Civilizing the Economy]], on civic economics, http://www.shareable.net/blog/enriching-the-commons-marvin-browns-economics-of-provision<br />
#[[Axel Bruns]], theorizing [[Produsage]]<br />
#[[Chris Carlsson]] *, [[Nowtopia]], on local productive economic associations<br />
#[[Kevin Carson]] **, mutualism, relocalized production<br />
#[[David de Ugarte]] **, on Phyles as a new global organisational form, http://p2pfoundation.net/Special:Search?search=%22David+de+Ugarte%22&fulltext=Search<br />
#[[Charles Eisenstein]] *, author of The [[Ascent of Humanity]] and [[Sacred Economics]]<br />
#[[Silvia Federici]]: [http://www.commoner.org.uk/?p=113], role of women in the commons<br />
#[[Jorge Ferrer]] **, participatory spirituality<br />
#[[Alexander Galloway]], [[Protocollary Power]] in networks<br />
#[[Lisa Gansky]] *, on the [[Mesh Economy]]<br />
#[[Neal Gorenflo]] **, editor of [[Shareable]] magazine, on sharing as a social practice<br />
#[[Thomas Greco]] **, [[Open Money]] and [[Credit Commons]]<br />
#[[Joss Hands]] *, digitally-empowered political activism<br />
#[[Paul Hartzog]] **, on complexity, panarchy, and global governance<br />
#[[Silke Helfrich]] **, commons researcher and advocate<br />
#[[John Heron]] **, participatory spirituality, cooperative inquiry<br />
#[[Pekka Himanen]], the hacker ethic<br />
#[[Brian Holmes]]<br />
#[[Wolfgang Hoechsele]] **, economics of abundance<br />
#[[Pat Kane]] **, author the [[Play Ethic]]<br />
#[[Athina Karatzogianni]] **, cyberconflicts<br />
#[[Dmytri Kleiner]] **, anti-capitalist peer production through [[Venture Communism]]<br />
#[[Lawrence Lessig]], IP law, creator of [[Creative Commons]]<br />
#[[Simona Levi]] **, founder and leader of the [[Free Culture Forum]]<br />
#[[Ezio Manzini]] **, local mutual aid oriented inititiatives by civil society groups<br />
#[[Glyn Moody]], active free software advocate and commentator<br />
#[[Phoebe Moore]] **, global labour trends<br />
#[[George Pór]] **, theorizing [[Collective Intelligence]]<br />
#[[Massimo Menichelli]], on [[Open Design]]<br />
#[[Mathieu O'Neill]] **, governance of open source communities<br />
#[[James Quilligan]] **, theorizing the [[Global Commons]]<br />
#[[John Robb]] *, open source insurgencies and resilient communities, http://p2pfoundation.net/Special:Search?search=%22John+Robb%22&fulltext=Search<br />
#[[Douglas Rushkoff]] **, author, development of democratic cyber culture<br />
#[[Sam Rose]] **, peer production and local communities, open p2p infrastructures<br />
#[[Nikos Salingaros]] **, on [[P2P Urbanism]]<br />
#[[Juliet Schor]] *, economics of abundance<br />
#[[Trebor Scholz]] **, distributed creativity<br />
#[[Orsan Senalp]]**, p2p and labor<br />
#[[Clay Shirky]] *, the [[Cognitive Surplus]] making possible bottom-up [[Peer Production]]<br />
#[[Felix Stalder]], theorizing free culture and open movements<br />
#[[Richard Stallman]], founder of free software<br />
#[[Tere Vaden]] **, the [[Political Economy of Digital Literacy]]<br />
#[[Jeff Vail]] *, a theory of distributed power http://p2pfoundation.net/Special:Search?search=%22Jeff+Vail%22&fulltext=Search<br />
#[[Roberto Verzola]] **, on the economics of abundance and scarcity, http://p2pfoundation.net/Special:Search?search=%22Roberto+Verzola%22&fulltext=Search<br />
#[[Eric von Hippel]] *, user-led innovation in industrial production<br />
#[[Hilary Wainwright]] **, democratic and participatory public services, and the link between the commons and labour, http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?s=%22Hilary+Wainwright%22<br />
#[[Jay Walljasper]] **, [[All That We Share]], on the emergence of local commons initiatives<br />
#[[Mackenzie Wark]] *, author of the [[Hacker's Manifesto]], a class analysis of the [[Hacking Class]]<br />
#[[Steve Webber]], author of the [[Success of Open Source]]<br />
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Our focus is on employing technology to help people collaborate, coordinate, and cooperate around activities, issues and problems they care about. FFI leverages 15 years of experience in information and internet technologies, working with ground breaking and innovative people.<br />
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http://futureforwardinstitute.com</div>SRosehttps://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/index.php?title=Talk:Michigan:_The_Transformation_Manifesto&diff=49014Talk:Michigan: The Transformation Manifesto2011-04-10T00:10:43Z<p>SRose: Thanks Poor Richard refactored net metering into the page itself.</p>
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<div>A great start here, Sam! I would like to participate as time permits. PR [[User:Poor Richard|Poor Richard]]<br />
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[[Poor Richard]] are you located in MI? Are you associated with technology? The first thing I am putting time towards in Michigan is the technology cooperative, is the reason I ask. Let me know what you are interested in doing. Thanks! --[[User:SRose|SRose]] 00:01, 21 March 2011 (UTC) <br />
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I see on review of your facebook page that you live in Alabama [[Poor Richard]] still, I am sure we can use your help somehow and it's surely welcome! --[[User:SRose|SRose]] 00:03, 21 March 2011 (UTC)<br />
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--[[User:Poor Richard|Poor Richard]] 18:33, 21 March 2011 (UTC): Sam, I have a background in IT (especially systems analysis), appropriate technology, NGO support, intentional community, communication, and audacity. There is a partial autobio narrative on my FB info page. I am not good with people (Asperger's) but I like to make analyses, plans, tactics, outlines, lists, prioritize, etc. I have a little experience with critical path management (CPM). I think progressives nationwide should pick a state (I nominate Michigan) and turn it cooperative and green from bottom to top. You've heard of "transition towns"--why not a transition state? I don't see why every employed progressive in the US (and many outside the US, for that matter) can't give $10 (or $10 per month) to transform Michigan into a green, p2p mecca. We can build institutions there that can later serve the world. At some point we can attract the logistical and financial support of major public-interest organizations, foundations, and philanthropists. Unions and Michiganders can't be expected to cover the whole nut. Your manifesto is excellent and I can make numerous suggestions from similar manifestos of mine and others as time permits (lord willin' & the creek don't rise) if you like.<br />
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NOTES ON NAMING THINGS: UpStart, Michigan Upstarts, Uppity Michiganders, Michigreen(s) --[[User:Poor Richard|Poor Richard]] 18:33, 21 March 2011 (UTC)<br />
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ORGANIZATIONS in Michigan<br />
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--Article identifies numerous groups active in Detroit: "Vision: Urban Gardening and Green Economy Flourish in Detroit"<br />
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"The greater Detroit area is the nexus of an entire host of progressive enterprises, notable for both the diversity of its participants and the diversity of its projects."<br />
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http://www.alternet.org/story/150308/vision:_urban_gardening_and_green_economy_flourish_in_detroit?akid=6697.82342.obbTZw&rd=1&t=15<br />
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Growing Power: "Inspiring communities to build sustainable food systems that are equitable and ecologically sound, creating a just world, one food-secure community at a time." http://www.growingpower.org/<br />
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ENERGY<br />
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In the US, much of the electric grid is municipally owned, community owned (as in "rural electric co-operatives"), publicly licensed, and/or runs over public rights of way. This provides a great deal of public-interest policy leverage over the existing grid.<br />
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In the US, I believe the single most important policy for promoting p2p energy is already in place in many areas--that is "net metering" or "reverse metering". Net metering allows any peer producer to put surplus energy onto the grid. In many cases such locally peer-produced energy, reverse-metered onto the grid, is credited at a subsidized rate above the normal consumer rate for electricity.<br />
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Where net metering is already in place, I propose that an additional policy initiative be attempted. This would entail allowing each peer-producer and consumer the option to negotiate rates among themselves. Some peer-producers might charge rates higher than the "retail" consumer rate. In this case such producers would operate much like existing "green power" producers. In other cases producers might sell their surplus to preferred consumers (say family-related households or eco-village neighbors) at a discounted rate. Such a practice could be implemented over the existing grid with little more administrative effort than existing "green power" programs require.<br />
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As parts of the existing grid are gradually updated and upgraded, it should be possible to build in direct p2p balancing, metering, and billing capability so that no institutional "middleman" is required for adding or withdrawing amounts of energy that are below some threshold adequate to prevent outages or overloads. --[[User:Poor Richard|Poor Richard]] 10:13, 7 April 2011 (UTC)<br />
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Thanks [[User:Poor Richard|Poor Richard]] refactored net metering into the page itself. --[[User:SRose|SRose]] 00:10, 10 April 2011 (UTC)</div>SRosehttps://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/index.php?title=Michigan:_The_Transformation_Manifesto&diff=49013Michigan: The Transformation Manifesto2011-04-10T00:09:16Z<p>SRose: /* Energy */</p>
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<div>== Contributors ==<br />
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*I'm Sam Rose, from the Foundation or Peer To Peer Alternatives http://p2pfoundation.net/ and co-founder http://futureforwardinstitute.com/ I am a Michigan native, former blue collar worker and now independent business person.<br />
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== "Michigan is Screwed" ==<br />
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See: http://www.youtube.com/embed/AUpO1QFMDtM<br />
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/42121778#42121778<br />
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It's likely you are highly aware of the current political situation that people in Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Pennsylvania and other struggling industrial states are facing. In Michigan in particular it looks to me like the goal of Rick Snyder and the legislators that control the Michigan House/Senate is to tear down 20th century community infrastructures, starting from the bottom up. <br />
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The reality is that if the people in power in Michigan now fully succeed, private mega corporations will queue up to enclose property, extract wealth and resources at lightning speed, further impoverish our community's most vulnerable members, push out those willing to fight by making their lives and communities miserable, and put whomever is left on their knees. They want our money flowing out of our pockets and communities, and their cheaply made worthless crap flowing in. They want to grab our land, our trees, frack out our natural gas and deplete our water, and run our soil down to clay. They want to push people out of the largest cities, fence of the empty land, bulldoze the buildings and sit on the land waiting for a future day when it's value increases. They want to do all of this while paying next to no taxes, employing none of the people of Michigan, and investing nothing back into the communities. They already got a huge amount of the money out of our communities by way of fraudulant mortgage scams that destroyed the economies of several countries around the world. They can make it more miserable for any of us that don't pick up and leave by: increasing our taxes (the elderly and retired, the poor, etc). Making our schools so deplorable that no one will want to move to our communities. And, whenever possible, declaring an "emergency" and dissolving local government, installing private corporations in their place with license to do whatever they want without any oversight. I am willing to bet that most of you that voted for Rick Snyder and the people in Michigan Congress probably did not vote for what I describe above. I'll bet that your ancestors didn't fight to get you to where you are now, just to see us all start to slip back towards whatever they came here to get away from. However, the sad fact is that what I describe above is now upon you, and all of us. <br />
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<br> Fortunately for us, we don't have to accept this reality. We currently have all of the building blocks we need to turn things around for ourselves here in a relatively short amount of time. <br />
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A clue comes to us from our own state's past. At the turn of the 19th-20th century, automobiles were prohibitively expensive for all but a few people. One of the reasons was a monopoly on the designs of automotive technology by George B. Selden: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_B._Selden Selden and associate's efforts to protect their patents led to a battle with Henry Ford, which resulted in a decision by courts to open up automotive technology for those that were not using the Selden engine design. <br />
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From Open Source - History and Development Adrienne Walker San Jose State University&nbsp;[http://infosherpas.com/ojs/index.php/openandlibraries/article/view/43/65 http://infosherpas.com/ojs/index.php/openandlibraries/article/view/43/65]: <br />
<blockquote>''Free sharing and open source are not 21st century ideas, we tend to think of open source as a way of being connected to the Internet as software but open source was in existence early in the 20th century although it took a different form. That form was automobile manufacturing. For those of you familiar with early automotive history, Henry Ford challenged the patent of George Selden. Selden had a chokehold on the automobile industry but Ford won a challenge to Selden's patent (The history of free and open source, 2009). Henry Fords breakthrough initiated the beginning of open source in the modern age and coupled with the formation of the Motor Vehicle Manufacturers Association was influential in creating cross-licensing agreements. Cross-licensing agreements existed between the United States automobile manufacturers of the day. Each automobile manufacturing company modified the technology and filed patents, these patents were shared, and no exchange of money, no lawsuits and an industry thrived (The history of free and open source, 2009).'' </blockquote><ref>Special thanks to Nathan Oostendorp who made me aware of this part of Michigan industrial history when he presented this at http://igniteannarbor.com see http://ingenuitas.com/</ref> <br />
We can do this again in Michigan. We can start in our own communities, re-building our economies around sharing not just technology, but also production of food, energy, and knowledge.<br />
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== Energy ==<br />
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'''There's enough wind and solar power across the state of Michigan to run the whole state on wind and solar energy alone.''' Open sourcing the technology for wind, solar, and batteries for hybrid/electric cars would create an explosion of innovation across the state and in the region, and eventually worldwide. If we really want to get into manufacturing green energy in the state of Michigan, the fastest route will be by way of creating sound design cores for small wind generators and solar collectors/solar voltaics and releasing them under an open license (like TAPR for instance http://www.tapr.org/ohl.html ) Our first step can be to install hybrid solar/wind in as many individua locations as possible (some neighbrhoods can team up and group buy for a whole block), and install them in a way that turns the current electrical grid into a "Net metering" grid: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_metering <br />
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In the US, much of the electric grid is municipally owned, community owned (as in "rural electric co-operatives"), publicly licensed, and/or runs over public rights of way. This provides a great deal of public-interest policy leverage over the existing grid.<br />
<br />
In the US, I believe the single most important policy for promoting p2p energy is already in place in many areas--that is "net metering" or "reverse metering". Net metering allows any peer producer to put surplus energy onto the grid. In many cases such locally peer-produced energy, reverse-metered onto the grid, is credited at a subsidized rate above the normal consumer rate for electricity.<br />
<br />
Where net metering is already in place, I propose that an additional policy initiative be attempted. This would entail allowing each peer-producer and consumer the option to negotiate rates among themselves. Some peer-producers might charge rates higher than the "retail" consumer rate. In this case such producers would operate much like existing "green power" producers. In other cases producers might sell their surplus to preferred consumers (say family-related households or eco-village neighbors) at a discounted rate. Such a practice could be implemented over the existing grid with little more administrative effort than existing "green power" programs require.<br />
<br />
As parts of the existing grid are gradually updated and upgraded, it should be possible to build in direct p2p balancing, metering, and billing capability so that no institutional "middleman" is required for adding or withdrawing amounts of energy that are below some threshold adequate to prevent outages or overloads.<br />
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We can also start processing our plant and animal waste in open source biodigesters to produce electricity (example http://www.appropedia.org/Category:Biogas ) and our agricultural and surburban landscaping refuse into new soil and biofuel. <br />
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Much of this new infrastructure can be managed by user-owned cooperatives where needed.<br />
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== Education ==<br />
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It's time to create cooperatives where parents and teachers are the owners of school systems. Most cirricular development can be released under creative commons licenses (as seen with http://wikieducator.org/OERF:Home http://ftacademy.org/ http://www.oercommons.org/ etc etc ) <br />
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A really compelling and immediately useful example is https://open.umich.edu/wiki/Main_Page<br />
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Parents can work with teachers and their students to adaptively shape learning over time. '''No more showing up in cinderblock buildings and being trained to be told what to do at the expense of truly learning how and why to do it. We teach children CRITICAL THINKING and skills to solve problems on their own with little or nothing to work with except their minds. Children are no longer raw material to be shaped into employees for big business. They are now taught to invent, build, experiment, create and destroy, co-manage and co-govern anywhere anytime with anything. They are taught actual history and left to decide for themselves. They are taught to produce their *own* food, energy, information systems as needed. They are taught to be programmers, not users. Makers, not consumers. Independent problem solvers, not employees. This is 21st century education in Michigan.'''<br />
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== Manufacturing ==<br />
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Manufacturing in Michigan will become small, distributed, diverse and massively adaptable and interoperable. Designs are shared and improved constantly. Technology cooperatives not only design and produce physhical hardware and software technology for people, but they also teach people how to do this themselves, and how to effectively use technology. <br />
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Existing manufacturing labor unions will help create these new technology cooperatives by taking their pension fund monies out of greedy wall street companies and re-investing in Local Economic Development. Tens of thousands of people who are laid off from jobs will also pool resources to create these Technology Cooperatives throughout the state. This could happen here in Michigan within one year. <br />
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== Money ==<br />
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Already here in Michigan, we are leading the way towards creating a '''plurality of currencies'''. We want to have more than one option for currencies, given the instability of US and global financial systems. Some existing examples include:<br />
<br />
* [http://newfrontier.com/libertydollar/michigan-dollar.htm Liberty Dollar]<br />
* [http://www.baybucks.org/ Bay Bucks]<br />
<br />
Examples of P2P currencies that work digitally from around the world can be found on the [[:Category:Money]] page.<br />
<br />
== Research and Development ==<br />
<br />
Michigan Technology Cooperatives can invest their surplus resources in ongoing open source research and development, driven by the needs of people in Michigan and throughout the US and world. Students learn to participate in this activity at as early an age as possible. <br />
<br />
== Food systems ==<br />
<br />
Food cooperatives and community supported agriculture have proven themselves in places like Pittsburgh, Cleveland, and elsewhere. As our world spirals into a collapse of global commercial energy and resource distribution, leading to increasing costs for imported goods, we can sidestep that problem and produce food locally and regionally. We can create enough food locally in Michigan to make imports a luxury-only source of food (instead of the majority of food source for our state). We can create community owned food cooperatives in every city in the state, while simultaneously bolstering the '''hundreds of thousands of LOCAL food producers and retailers that already exist in this state'''.<br />
<br />
== Jobs ==<br />
<br />
'''NO. No more jobs.''' It is ALREADY fact that over 98% of businesses in Michigan are now small businesses<ref>http://levin.senate.gov/senate/smallbusiness/index.html</ref>. This is in part because most of those who are left actually participating in economic activity stopped looking for a job about 5-6 years ago and started a business. So this is what we do, we start businesses, and we connect them together. Go pay the $10 and register a DBA with your name on it at the county clerk. You are now ready to do businesses. Team up with other people in your community to share what you are learning about starting and running your own collaborative business/enterprise. In some cases we start cooperatives, credit unions, and ways for people to invest and receive return on investment in their local community (and not just monetary investment). We stop saving our retirement savings in 401k and other Wall Street scams and we invest that money locally and receive a robust and healthy return on investment.'''However, where people must hold jobs, their right to collectively bargain is supported. We DO NOT want to slide back to Dickensian work systems. We want to support working people and their hard won rights.''' <br />
<br />
== Taxes ==<br />
<br />
'''Rich people will pay more taxes. Poor people will pay less. Want to pay less taxes? Make less money.'''<br />
<br />
== Health Care ==<br />
<br />
Have I used the word "cooperative" enough in this manifesto? You are about to read it again. Why, you ask?:<br />
<br />
'''Wouldn't you rather be a co-owner in the entity that helps you pool costs with others towards your healthcare, than deal with the corporate profit-driven casino model that currently exists for health insurance?'''<br />
<br />
'''The time for Health Care Cooperatives in Michigan is NOW. Michigan Health Care Cooperatives hire doctors and their practices and take good care of them. They reject doctors who put profit over their Hippocratic Oath.<ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippocratic_Oath</ref>. In this way, Michigan leads the way in reforming health care ''starting with the doctor/patient relationship''. Health Care Cooperatives in Michigan also FUND proven services, such as mid-wife-run birth centers, and other so-called "alternative medicine" providers. <br />
<br />
'''We start with changing the law in Michigan to allow us the RIGHT to create these cooperatives.'''<br />
<br />
== Government ==<br />
<br />
When we're not busy having our faces shoved to the grindstone at a job, we're going to have some time to engage in Local, State, and Federal governments. However, we are also going to make them increasingly obsolete in the process. We are going to be able to come up with rules together via connective technologies like the internet. We're going to also be able to team up on government when we're not being listened to. <br />
<br />
'''We can do it without political parties''' following [[The Political Principles of Peer-to-Peer Advocacy]]. <br />
<br />
'''''No advocate of peer-to-peer politics wants all communications or activity routed through them. Bottlenecks are weaknesses.'''''<br />
<br />
'''That being said, any politician *or* party that ascribes to the principles of openness, p2p and the commons is worth collaborating and working with. '''<br />
<br />
== Your additions here ==<br />
<br />
This is what transformation in Michigan means to me. What does it mean to you? I want to know. I'll faithfully incorporate whatever any of you contribute, and I will spread it around. It's time to get real, dig in and change this place, now.<br />
<br />
== Other links ==<br />
<br />
* [http://forwardfound.org/blog/?q=five-commons The Five Commons]<br />
* [http://p2pfoundation.net/Manifesto P2P Manifesto]<br />
* [http://cooperationcommons.com Cooperation Commons]<br />
* [http://lansingonlinenews.com/news/the-gop-education-agenda-why-earning-a-diploma-will-no-longer-buy-you-a-job-or-a-middle-class-life/ The GOP Education Agenda: Why earning a diploma will no longer buy you a job or a middle-class life]<br />
* [[Multitudes]](Hardt & Negri)<br />
== References ==<br />
<references /><br />
<br />
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<hr />
<div>== Contributors ==<br />
<br />
*I'm Sam Rose, from the Foundation or Peer To Peer Alternatives http://p2pfoundation.net/ and co-founder http://futureforwardinstitute.com/ I am a Michigan native, former blue collar worker and now independent business person.<br />
<br />
== "Michigan is Screwed" ==<br />
<br />
See: http://www.youtube.com/embed/AUpO1QFMDtM<br />
<br />
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/42121778#42121778<br />
<br />
It's likely you are highly aware of the current political situation that people in Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Pennsylvania and other struggling industrial states are facing. In Michigan in particular it looks to me like the goal of Rick Snyder and the legislators that control the Michigan House/Senate is to tear down 20th century community infrastructures, starting from the bottom up. <br />
<br />
The reality is that if the people in power in Michigan now fully succeed, private mega corporations will queue up to enclose property, extract wealth and resources at lightning speed, further impoverish our community's most vulnerable members, push out those willing to fight by making their lives and communities miserable, and put whomever is left on their knees. They want our money flowing out of our pockets and communities, and their cheaply made worthless crap flowing in. They want to grab our land, our trees, frack out our natural gas and deplete our water, and run our soil down to clay. They want to push people out of the largest cities, fence of the empty land, bulldoze the buildings and sit on the land waiting for a future day when it's value increases. They want to do all of this while paying next to no taxes, employing none of the people of Michigan, and investing nothing back into the communities. They already got a huge amount of the money out of our communities by way of fraudulant mortgage scams that destroyed the economies of several countries around the world. They can make it more miserable for any of us that don't pick up and leave by: increasing our taxes (the elderly and retired, the poor, etc). Making our schools so deplorable that no one will want to move to our communities. And, whenever possible, declaring an "emergency" and dissolving local government, installing private corporations in their place with license to do whatever they want without any oversight. I am willing to bet that most of you that voted for Rick Snyder and the people in Michigan Congress probably did not vote for what I describe above. I'll bet that your ancestors didn't fight to get you to where you are now, just to see us all start to slip back towards whatever they came here to get away from. However, the sad fact is that what I describe above is now upon you, and all of us. <br />
<br />
<br> Fortunately for us, we don't have to accept this reality. We currently have all of the building blocks we need to turn things around for ourselves here in a relatively short amount of time. <br />
<br />
A clue comes to us from our own state's past. At the turn of the 19th-20th century, automobiles were prohibitively expensive for all but a few people. One of the reasons was a monopoly on the designs of automotive technology by George B. Selden: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_B._Selden Selden and associate's efforts to protect their patents led to a battle with Henry Ford, which resulted in a decision by courts to open up automotive technology for those that were not using the Selden engine design. <br />
<br />
From Open Source - History and Development Adrienne Walker San Jose State University&nbsp;[http://infosherpas.com/ojs/index.php/openandlibraries/article/view/43/65 http://infosherpas.com/ojs/index.php/openandlibraries/article/view/43/65]: <br />
<blockquote>''Free sharing and open source are not 21st century ideas, we tend to think of open source as a way of being connected to the Internet as software but open source was in existence early in the 20th century although it took a different form. That form was automobile manufacturing. For those of you familiar with early automotive history, Henry Ford challenged the patent of George Selden. Selden had a chokehold on the automobile industry but Ford won a challenge to Selden's patent (The history of free and open source, 2009). Henry Fords breakthrough initiated the beginning of open source in the modern age and coupled with the formation of the Motor Vehicle Manufacturers Association was influential in creating cross-licensing agreements. Cross-licensing agreements existed between the United States automobile manufacturers of the day. Each automobile manufacturing company modified the technology and filed patents, these patents were shared, and no exchange of money, no lawsuits and an industry thrived (The history of free and open source, 2009).'' </blockquote><ref>Special thanks to Nathan Oostendorp who made me aware of this part of Michigan industrial history when he presented this at http://igniteannarbor.com see http://ingenuitas.com/</ref> <br />
We can do this again in Michigan. We can start in our own communities, re-building our economies around sharing not just technology, but also production of food, energy, and knowledge.<br />
<br />
== Energy ==<br />
<br />
'''There's enough wind and solar power across the state of Michigan to run the whole state on wind and solar energy alone.''' Open sourcing the technology for wind, solar, and batteries for hybrid/electric cars would create an explosion of innovation across the state and in the region, and eventually worldwide. If we really want to get into manufacturing green energy in the state of Michigan, the fastest route will be by way of creating sound design cores for small wind generators and solar collectors/solar voltaics and releasing them under an open license (like TAPR for instance http://www.tapr.org/ohl.html ) Our first step can be to install hybrid solar/wind in as many individua locations as possible (some neighbrhoods can team up and group buy for a whole block), and install them in a way that turns the current electrical grid into a "Net metering" grid: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_metering <br />
<br />
We can also start processing our plant and animal waste in open source biodigesters to produce electricity (example http://www.appropedia.org/Category:Biogas ) and our agricultural and surburban landscaping refuse into new soil and biofuel. <br />
<br />
Much of this new infrastructure can be managed by user-owned cooperatives where needed.<br />
<br />
== Education ==<br />
<br />
It's time to create cooperatives where parents and teachers are the owners of school systems. Most cirricular development can be released under creative commons licenses (as seen with http://wikieducator.org/OERF:Home http://ftacademy.org/ http://www.oercommons.org/ etc etc ) <br />
<br />
A really compelling and immediately useful example is https://open.umich.edu/wiki/Main_Page<br />
<br />
Parents can work with teachers and their students to adaptively shape learning over time. '''No more showing up in cinderblock buildings and being trained to be told what to do at the expense of truly learning how and why to do it. We teach children CRITICAL THINKING and skills to solve problems on their own with little or nothing to work with except their minds. Children are no longer raw material to be shaped into employees for big business. They are now taught to invent, build, experiment, create and destroy, co-manage and co-govern anywhere anytime with anything. They are taught actual history and left to decide for themselves. They are taught to produce their *own* food, energy, information systems as needed. They are taught to be programmers, not users. Makers, not consumers. Independent problem solvers, not employees. This is 21st century education in Michigan.'''<br />
<br />
== Manufacturing ==<br />
<br />
Manufacturing in Michigan will become small, distributed, diverse and massively adaptable and interoperable. Designs are shared and improved constantly. Technology cooperatives not only design and produce physhical hardware and software technology for people, but they also teach people how to do this themselves, and how to effectively use technology. <br />
<br />
Existing manufacturing labor unions will help create these new technology cooperatives by taking their pension fund monies out of greedy wall street companies and re-investing in Local Economic Development. Tens of thousands of people who are laid off from jobs will also pool resources to create these Technology Cooperatives throughout the state. This could happen here in Michigan within one year. <br />
<br />
== Money ==<br />
<br />
Already here in Michigan, we are leading the way towards creating a '''plurality of currencies'''. We want to have more than one option for currencies, given the instability of US and global financial systems. Some existing examples include:<br />
<br />
* [http://newfrontier.com/libertydollar/michigan-dollar.htm Liberty Dollar]<br />
* [http://www.baybucks.org/ Bay Bucks]<br />
<br />
Examples of P2P currencies that work digitally from around the world can be found on the [[:Category:Money]] page.<br />
<br />
== Research and Development ==<br />
<br />
Michigan Technology Cooperatives can invest their surplus resources in ongoing open source research and development, driven by the needs of people in Michigan and throughout the US and world. Students learn to participate in this activity at as early an age as possible. <br />
<br />
== Food systems ==<br />
<br />
Food cooperatives and community supported agriculture have proven themselves in places like Pittsburgh, Cleveland, and elsewhere. As our world spirals into a collapse of global commercial energy and resource distribution, leading to increasing costs for imported goods, we can sidestep that problem and produce food locally and regionally. We can create enough food locally in Michigan to make imports a luxury-only source of food (instead of the majority of food source for our state). We can create community owned food cooperatives in every city in the state, while simultaneously bolstering the '''hundreds of thousands of LOCAL food producers and retailers that already exist in this state'''.<br />
<br />
== Jobs ==<br />
<br />
'''NO. No more jobs.''' It is ALREADY fact that over 98% of businesses in Michigan are now small businesses<ref>http://levin.senate.gov/senate/smallbusiness/index.html</ref>. This is in part because most of those who are left actually participating in economic activity stopped looking for a job about 5-6 years ago and started a business. So this is what we do, we start businesses, and we connect them together. Go pay the $10 and register a DBA with your name on it at the county clerk. You are now ready to do businesses. Team up with other people in your community to share what you are learning about starting and running your own collaborative business/enterprise. In some cases we start cooperatives, credit unions, and ways for people to invest and receive return on investment in their local community (and not just monetary investment). We stop saving our retirement savings in 401k and other Wall Street scams and we invest that money locally and receive a robust and healthy return on investment.'''However, where people must hold jobs, their right to collectively bargain is supported. We DO NOT want to slide back to Dickensian work systems. We want to support working people and their hard won rights.''' <br />
<br />
== Taxes ==<br />
<br />
'''Rich people will pay more taxes. Poor people will pay less. Want to pay less taxes? Make less money.'''<br />
<br />
== Health Care ==<br />
<br />
Have I used the word "cooperative" enough in this manifesto? You are about to read it again. Why, you ask?:<br />
<br />
'''Wouldn't you rather be a co-owner in the entity that helps you pool costs with others towards your healthcare, than deal with the corporate profit-driven casino model that currently exists for health insurance?'''<br />
<br />
'''The time for Health Care Cooperatives in Michigan is NOW. Michigan Health Care Cooperatives hire doctors and their practices and take good care of them. They reject doctors who put profit over their Hippocratic Oath.<ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippocratic_Oath</ref>. In this way, Michigan leads the way in reforming health care ''starting with the doctor/patient relationship''. Health Care Cooperatives in Michigan also FUND proven services, such as mid-wife-run birth centers, and other so-called "alternative medicine" providers. <br />
<br />
'''We start with changing the law in Michigan to allow us the RIGHT to create these cooperatives.'''<br />
<br />
== Government ==<br />
<br />
When we're not busy having our faces shoved to the grindstone at a job, we're going to have some time to engage in Local, State, and Federal governments. However, we are also going to make them increasingly obsolete in the process. We are going to be able to come up with rules together via connective technologies like the internet. We're going to also be able to team up on government when we're not being listened to. <br />
<br />
'''We can do it without political parties''' following [[The Political Principles of Peer-to-Peer Advocacy]]. <br />
<br />
'''''No advocate of peer-to-peer politics wants all communications or activity routed through them. Bottlenecks are weaknesses.'''''<br />
<br />
'''That being said, any politician *or* party that ascribes to the principles of openness, p2p and the commons is worth collaborating and working with. '''<br />
<br />
== Your additions here ==<br />
<br />
This is what transformation in Michigan means to me. What does it mean to you? I want to know. I'll faithfully incorporate whatever any of you contribute, and I will spread it around. It's time to get real, dig in and change this place, now.<br />
<br />
== Other links ==<br />
<br />
* [http://forwardfound.org/blog/?q=five-commons The Five Commons]<br />
* [http://p2pfoundation.net/Manifesto P2P Manifesto]<br />
* [http://cooperationcommons.com Cooperation Commons]<br />
* [http://lansingonlinenews.com/news/the-gop-education-agenda-why-earning-a-diploma-will-no-longer-buy-you-a-job-or-a-middle-class-life/ The GOP Education Agenda: Why earning a diploma will no longer buy you a job or a middle-class life]<br />
* [[Multitudes]](Hardt & Negri)<br />
== References ==<br />
<references /><br />
<br />
[[Category:P2P_Politics]]</div>SRosehttps://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/index.php?title=Michigan:_The_Transformation_Manifesto&diff=48650Michigan: The Transformation Manifesto2011-03-31T04:55:48Z<p>SRose: /* Money */</p>
<hr />
<div>== Contributors ==<br />
<br />
*I'm Sam Rose, from the Foundation or Peer To Peer Alternatives http://p2pfoundation.net/ and co-founder http://futureforwardinstitute.com/ I am a Michigan native, former blue collar worker and now independent business person.<br />
<br />
== "Michigan is Screwed" ==<br />
<br />
See: http://www.youtube.com/embed/AUpO1QFMDtM<br />
<br />
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/42121778#42121778<br />
<br />
It's likely you are highly aware of the current political situation that people in Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Pennsylvania and other struggling industrial states are facing. In Michigan in particular it looks to me like the goal of Rick Snyder and the legislators that control the Michigan House/Senate is to tear down 20th century community infrastructures, starting from the bottom up. <br />
<br />
The reality is that if the people in power in Michigan now fully succeed, private mega corporations will queue up to enclose property, extract wealth and resources at lightning speed, further impoverish our community's most vulnerable members, push out those willing to fight by making their lives and communities miserable, and put whomever is left on their knees. They want our money flowing out of our pockets and communities, and their cheaply made worthless crap flowing in. They want to grab our land, our trees, frack out our natural gas and deplete our water, and run our soil down to clay. They want to push people out of the largest cities, fence of the empty land, bulldoze the buildings and sit on the land waiting for a future day when it's value increases. They want to do all of this while paying next to no taxes, employing none of the people of Michigan, and investing nothing back into the communities. They already got a huge amount of the money out of our communities by way of fraudulant mortgage scams that destroyed the economies of several countries around the world. They can make it more miserable for any of us that don't pick up and leave by: increasing our taxes (the elderly and retired, the poor, etc). Making our schools so deplorable that no one will want to move to our communities. And, whenever possible, declaring an "emergency" and dissolving local government, installing private corporations in their place with license to do whatever they want without any oversight. I am willing to bet that most of you that voted for Rick Snyder and the people in Michigan Congress probably did not vote for what I describe above. I'll bet that your ancestors didn't fight to get you to where you are now, just to see us all start to slip back towards whatever they came here to get away from. However, the sad fact is that what I describe above is now upon you, and all of us. <br />
<br />
<br> Fortunately for us, we don't have to accept this reality. We currently have all of the building blocks we need to turn things around for ourselves here in a relatively short amount of time. <br />
<br />
A clue comes to us from our own state's past. At the turn of the 19th-20th century, automobiles were prohibitively expensive for all but a few people. One of the reasons was a monopoly on the designs of automotive technology by George B. Selden: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_B._Selden Selden and associate's efforts to protect their patents led to a battle with Henry Ford, which resulted in a decision by courts to open up automotive technology for those that were not using the Selden engine design. <br />
<br />
From Open Source - History and Development Adrienne Walker San Jose State University&nbsp;[http://infosherpas.com/ojs/index.php/openandlibraries/article/view/43/65 http://infosherpas.com/ojs/index.php/openandlibraries/article/view/43/65]: <br />
<blockquote>''Free sharing and open source are not 21st century ideas, we tend to think of open source as a way of being connected to the Internet as software but open source was in existence early in the 20th century although it took a different form. That form was automobile manufacturing. For those of you familiar with early automotive history, Henry Ford challenged the patent of George Selden. Selden had a chokehold on the automobile industry but Ford won a challenge to Selden's patent (The history of free and open source, 2009). Henry Fords breakthrough initiated the beginning of open source in the modern age and coupled with the formation of the Motor Vehicle Manufacturers Association was influential in creating cross-licensing agreements. Cross-licensing agreements existed between the United States automobile manufacturers of the day. Each automobile manufacturing company modified the technology and filed patents, these patents were shared, and no exchange of money, no lawsuits and an industry thrived (The history of free and open source, 2009).'' </blockquote><ref>Special thanks to Nathan Oostendorp who made me aware of this part of Michigan industrial history when he presented this at http://igniteannarbor.com see http://ingenuitas.com/</ref> <br />
We can do this again in Michigan. We can start in our own communities, re-building our economies around sharing not just technology, but also production of food, energy, and knowledge.<br />
<br />
== Energy ==<br />
<br />
'''There's enough wind and solar power across the state of Michigan to run the whole state on wind and solar energy alone.''' Open sourcing the technology for wind, solar, and batteries for hybrid/electric cars would create an explosion of innovation across the state and in the region, and eventually worldwide. If we really want to get into manufacturing green energy in the state of Michigan, the fastest route will be by way of creating sound design cores for small wind generators and solar collectors/solar voltaics and releasing them under an open license (like TAPR for instance http://www.tapr.org/ohl.html ) Our first step can be to install hybrid solar/wind in as many individua locations as possible (some neighbrhoods can team up and group buy for a whole block), and install them in a way that turns the current electrical grid into a "Net metering" grid: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_metering <br />
<br />
We can also start processing our plant and animal waste in open source biodigesters to produce electricity (example http://www.appropedia.org/Category:Biogas ) and our agricultural and surburban landscaping refuse into new soil and biofuel. <br />
<br />
Much of this new infrastructure can be managed by user-owned cooperatives where needed.<br />
<br />
== Education ==<br />
<br />
It's time to create cooperatives where parents and teachers are the owners of school systems. Most cirricular development can be released under creative commons licenses (as seen with http://wikieducator.org/OERF:Home http://ftacademy.org/ http://www.oercommons.org/ etc etc ) <br />
<br />
A really compelling and immediately useful example is https://open.umich.edu/wiki/Main_Page<br />
<br />
Parents can work with teachers and their students to adaptively shape learning over time. '''No more showing up in cinderblock buildings and being trained to be told what to do at the expense of truly learning how and why to do it. We teach children CRITICAL THINKING and skills to solve problems on their own with little or nothing to work with except their minds. Children are no longer raw material to be shaped into employees for big business. They are now taught to invent, build, experiment, create and destroy, co-manage and co-govern anywhere anytime with anything. They are taught actual history and left to decide for themselves. They are taught to produce their *own* food, energy, information systems as needed. They are taught to be programmers, not users. Makers, not consumers. Independent problem solvers, not employees. This is 21st century education in Michigan.'''<br />
<br />
== Manufacturing ==<br />
<br />
Manufacturing in Michigan will become small, distributed, diverse and massively adaptable and interoperable. Designs are shared and improved constantly. Technology cooperatives not only design and produce physhical hardware and software technology for people, but they also teach people how to do this themselves, and how to effectively use technology. <br />
<br />
Existing manufacturing labor unions will help create these new technology cooperatives by taking their pension fund monies out of greedy wall street companies and re-investing in Local Economic Development. Tens of thousands of people who are laid off from jobs will also pool resources to create these Technology Cooperatives throughout the state. This could happen here in Michigan within one year. <br />
<br />
== Money ==<br />
<br />
Already here in Michigan, we are leading the way towards creating a '''plurality of currencies'''. We want to have more than one option for currencies, given the instability of US and global financial systems. Some existing examples include:<br />
<br />
* [http://newfrontier.com/libertydollar/michigan-dollar.htm Liberty Dollar]<br />
* [http://www.baybucks.org/ Bay Bucks]<br />
<br />
Examples of P2P currencies that work digitally from around the world can be found on the [:Category:Money Money] page.<br />
<br />
== Research and Development ==<br />
<br />
Michigan Technology Cooperatives can invest their surplus resources in ongoing open source research and development, driven by the needs of people in Michigan and throughout the US and world. Students learn to participate in this activity at as early an age as possible. <br />
<br />
== Food systems ==<br />
<br />
Food cooperatives and community supported agriculture have proven themselves in places like Pittsburgh, Cleveland, and elsewhere. As our world spirals into a collapse of global commercial energy and resource distribution, leading to increasing costs for imported goods, we can sidestep that problem and produce food locally and regionally. We can create enough food locally in Michigan to make imports a luxury-only source of food (instead of the majority of food source for our state). We can create community owned food cooperatives in every city in the state, while simultaneously bolstering the '''hundreds of thousands of LOCAL food producers and retailers that already exist in this state'''.<br />
<br />
== Jobs ==<br />
<br />
'''NO. No more jobs.''' It is ALREADY fact that over 98% of businesses in Michigan are now small businesses<ref>http://levin.senate.gov/senate/smallbusiness/index.html</ref>. This is in part because most of those who are left actually participating in economic activity stopped looking for a job about 5-6 years ago and started a business. So this is what we do, we start businesses, and we connect them together. Go pay the $10 and register a DBA with your name on it at the county clerk. You are now ready to do businesses. Team up with other people in your community to share what you are learning about starting and running your own collaborative business/enterprise. In some cases we start cooperatives, credit unions, and ways for people to invest and receive return on investment in their local community (and not just monetary investment). We stop saving our retirement savings in 401k and other Wall Street scams and we invest that money locally and receive a robust and healthy return on investment.'''However, where people must hold jobs, their right to collectively bargain is supported. We DO NOT want to slide back to Dickensian work systems. We want to support working people and their hard won rights.''' <br />
<br />
== Taxes ==<br />
<br />
'''Rich people will pay more taxes. Poor people will pay less. Want to pay less taxes? Make less money.'''<br />
<br />
== Health Care ==<br />
<br />
Have I used the word "cooperative" enough in this manifesto? You are about to read it again. Why, you ask?:<br />
<br />
'''Wouldn't you rather be a co-owner in the entity that helps you pool costs with others towards your healthcare, than deal with the corporate profit-driven casino model that currently exists for health insurance?'''<br />
<br />
'''The time for Health Care Cooperatives in Michigan is NOW. Michigan Health Care Cooperatives hire doctors and their practices and take good care of them. They reject doctors who put profit over their Hippocratic Oath.<ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippocratic_Oath</ref>. In this way, Michigan leads the way in reforming health care ''starting with the doctor/patient relationship''. Health Care Cooperatives in Michigan also FUND proven services, such as mid-wife-run birth centers, and other so-called "alternative medicine" providers. <br />
<br />
'''We start with changing the law in Michigan to allow us the RIGHT to create these cooperatives.'''<br />
<br />
== Government ==<br />
<br />
When we're not busy having our faces shoved to the grindstone at a job, we're going to have some time to engage in Local, State, and Federal governments. However, we are also going to make them increasingly obsolete in the process. We are going to be able to come up with rules together via connective technologies like the internet. We're going to also be able to team up on government when we're not being listened to. <br />
<br />
'''We can do it without political parties''' following [[The Political Principles of Peer-to-Peer Advocacy]]. <br />
<br />
'''''No advocate of peer-to-peer politics wants all communications or activity routed through them. Bottlenecks are weaknesses.'''''<br />
<br />
'''That being said, any politician *or* party that ascribes to the principles of openness, p2p and the commons is worth collaborating and working with. '''<br />
<br />
== Your additions here ==<br />
<br />
This is what transformation in Michigan means to me. What does it mean to you? I want to know. I'll faithfully incorporate whatever any of you contribute, and I will spread it around. It's time to get real, dig in and change this place, now.<br />
<br />
== Other links ==<br />
<br />
* [http://forwardfound.org/blog/?q=five-commons The Five Commons]<br />
* [http://p2pfoundation.net/Manifesto P2P Manifesto]<br />
* [http://cooperationcommons.com Cooperation Commons]<br />
* [http://lansingonlinenews.com/news/the-gop-education-agenda-why-earning-a-diploma-will-no-longer-buy-you-a-job-or-a-middle-class-life/ The GOP Education Agenda: Why earning a diploma will no longer buy you a job or a middle-class life]<br />
* [[Multitudes]](Hardt & Negri)<br />
== References ==<br />
<references /><br />
<br />
[[Category:P2P_Politics]]</div>SRosehttps://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/index.php?title=Michigan:_The_Transformation_Manifesto&diff=48649Michigan: The Transformation Manifesto2011-03-31T04:44:32Z<p>SRose: /* Money */</p>
<hr />
<div>== Contributors ==<br />
<br />
*I'm Sam Rose, from the Foundation or Peer To Peer Alternatives http://p2pfoundation.net/ and co-founder http://futureforwardinstitute.com/ I am a Michigan native, former blue collar worker and now independent business person.<br />
<br />
== "Michigan is Screwed" ==<br />
<br />
See: http://www.youtube.com/embed/AUpO1QFMDtM<br />
<br />
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/42121778#42121778<br />
<br />
It's likely you are highly aware of the current political situation that people in Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Pennsylvania and other struggling industrial states are facing. In Michigan in particular it looks to me like the goal of Rick Snyder and the legislators that control the Michigan House/Senate is to tear down 20th century community infrastructures, starting from the bottom up. <br />
<br />
The reality is that if the people in power in Michigan now fully succeed, private mega corporations will queue up to enclose property, extract wealth and resources at lightning speed, further impoverish our community's most vulnerable members, push out those willing to fight by making their lives and communities miserable, and put whomever is left on their knees. They want our money flowing out of our pockets and communities, and their cheaply made worthless crap flowing in. They want to grab our land, our trees, frack out our natural gas and deplete our water, and run our soil down to clay. They want to push people out of the largest cities, fence of the empty land, bulldoze the buildings and sit on the land waiting for a future day when it's value increases. They want to do all of this while paying next to no taxes, employing none of the people of Michigan, and investing nothing back into the communities. They already got a huge amount of the money out of our communities by way of fraudulant mortgage scams that destroyed the economies of several countries around the world. They can make it more miserable for any of us that don't pick up and leave by: increasing our taxes (the elderly and retired, the poor, etc). Making our schools so deplorable that no one will want to move to our communities. And, whenever possible, declaring an "emergency" and dissolving local government, installing private corporations in their place with license to do whatever they want without any oversight. I am willing to bet that most of you that voted for Rick Snyder and the people in Michigan Congress probably did not vote for what I describe above. I'll bet that your ancestors didn't fight to get you to where you are now, just to see us all start to slip back towards whatever they came here to get away from. However, the sad fact is that what I describe above is now upon you, and all of us. <br />
<br />
<br> Fortunately for us, we don't have to accept this reality. We currently have all of the building blocks we need to turn things around for ourselves here in a relatively short amount of time. <br />
<br />
A clue comes to us from our own state's past. At the turn of the 19th-20th century, automobiles were prohibitively expensive for all but a few people. One of the reasons was a monopoly on the designs of automotive technology by George B. Selden: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_B._Selden Selden and associate's efforts to protect their patents led to a battle with Henry Ford, which resulted in a decision by courts to open up automotive technology for those that were not using the Selden engine design. <br />
<br />
From Open Source - History and Development Adrienne Walker San Jose State University&nbsp;[http://infosherpas.com/ojs/index.php/openandlibraries/article/view/43/65 http://infosherpas.com/ojs/index.php/openandlibraries/article/view/43/65]: <br />
<blockquote>''Free sharing and open source are not 21st century ideas, we tend to think of open source as a way of being connected to the Internet as software but open source was in existence early in the 20th century although it took a different form. That form was automobile manufacturing. For those of you familiar with early automotive history, Henry Ford challenged the patent of George Selden. Selden had a chokehold on the automobile industry but Ford won a challenge to Selden's patent (The history of free and open source, 2009). Henry Fords breakthrough initiated the beginning of open source in the modern age and coupled with the formation of the Motor Vehicle Manufacturers Association was influential in creating cross-licensing agreements. Cross-licensing agreements existed between the United States automobile manufacturers of the day. Each automobile manufacturing company modified the technology and filed patents, these patents were shared, and no exchange of money, no lawsuits and an industry thrived (The history of free and open source, 2009).'' </blockquote><ref>Special thanks to Nathan Oostendorp who made me aware of this part of Michigan industrial history when he presented this at http://igniteannarbor.com see http://ingenuitas.com/</ref> <br />
We can do this again in Michigan. We can start in our own communities, re-building our economies around sharing not just technology, but also production of food, energy, and knowledge.<br />
<br />
== Energy ==<br />
<br />
'''There's enough wind and solar power across the state of Michigan to run the whole state on wind and solar energy alone.''' Open sourcing the technology for wind, solar, and batteries for hybrid/electric cars would create an explosion of innovation across the state and in the region, and eventually worldwide. If we really want to get into manufacturing green energy in the state of Michigan, the fastest route will be by way of creating sound design cores for small wind generators and solar collectors/solar voltaics and releasing them under an open license (like TAPR for instance http://www.tapr.org/ohl.html ) Our first step can be to install hybrid solar/wind in as many individua locations as possible (some neighbrhoods can team up and group buy for a whole block), and install them in a way that turns the current electrical grid into a "Net metering" grid: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_metering <br />
<br />
We can also start processing our plant and animal waste in open source biodigesters to produce electricity (example http://www.appropedia.org/Category:Biogas ) and our agricultural and surburban landscaping refuse into new soil and biofuel. <br />
<br />
Much of this new infrastructure can be managed by user-owned cooperatives where needed.<br />
<br />
== Education ==<br />
<br />
It's time to create cooperatives where parents and teachers are the owners of school systems. Most cirricular development can be released under creative commons licenses (as seen with http://wikieducator.org/OERF:Home http://ftacademy.org/ http://www.oercommons.org/ etc etc ) <br />
<br />
A really compelling and immediately useful example is https://open.umich.edu/wiki/Main_Page<br />
<br />
Parents can work with teachers and their students to adaptively shape learning over time. '''No more showing up in cinderblock buildings and being trained to be told what to do at the expense of truly learning how and why to do it. We teach children CRITICAL THINKING and skills to solve problems on their own with little or nothing to work with except their minds. Children are no longer raw material to be shaped into employees for big business. They are now taught to invent, build, experiment, create and destroy, co-manage and co-govern anywhere anytime with anything. They are taught actual history and left to decide for themselves. They are taught to produce their *own* food, energy, information systems as needed. They are taught to be programmers, not users. Makers, not consumers. Independent problem solvers, not employees. This is 21st century education in Michigan.'''<br />
<br />
== Manufacturing ==<br />
<br />
Manufacturing in Michigan will become small, distributed, diverse and massively adaptable and interoperable. Designs are shared and improved constantly. Technology cooperatives not only design and produce physhical hardware and software technology for people, but they also teach people how to do this themselves, and how to effectively use technology. <br />
<br />
Existing manufacturing labor unions will help create these new technology cooperatives by taking their pension fund monies out of greedy wall street companies and re-investing in Local Economic Development. Tens of thousands of people who are laid off from jobs will also pool resources to create these Technology Cooperatives throughout the state. This could happen here in Michigan within one year. <br />
<br />
== Money ==<br />
<br />
Already here in Michigan, we are leading the way towards creating a '''plurality of currencies'''. We want to have more than one option for currencies, given the instability of US and global financial systems. Some existing examples include:<br />
<br />
* [http://newfrontier.com/libertydollar/michigan-dollar.htm Liberty Dollar]<br />
* [http://www.baybucks.org/ Bay Bucks]<br />
<br />
== Research and Development ==<br />
<br />
Michigan Technology Cooperatives can invest their surplus resources in ongoing open source research and development, driven by the needs of people in Michigan and throughout the US and world. Students learn to participate in this activity at as early an age as possible. <br />
<br />
== Food systems ==<br />
<br />
Food cooperatives and community supported agriculture have proven themselves in places like Pittsburgh, Cleveland, and elsewhere. As our world spirals into a collapse of global commercial energy and resource distribution, leading to increasing costs for imported goods, we can sidestep that problem and produce food locally and regionally. We can create enough food locally in Michigan to make imports a luxury-only source of food (instead of the majority of food source for our state). We can create community owned food cooperatives in every city in the state, while simultaneously bolstering the '''hundreds of thousands of LOCAL food producers and retailers that already exist in this state'''.<br />
<br />
== Jobs ==<br />
<br />
'''NO. No more jobs.''' It is ALREADY fact that over 98% of businesses in Michigan are now small businesses<ref>http://levin.senate.gov/senate/smallbusiness/index.html</ref>. This is in part because most of those who are left actually participating in economic activity stopped looking for a job about 5-6 years ago and started a business. So this is what we do, we start businesses, and we connect them together. Go pay the $10 and register a DBA with your name on it at the county clerk. You are now ready to do businesses. Team up with other people in your community to share what you are learning about starting and running your own collaborative business/enterprise. In some cases we start cooperatives, credit unions, and ways for people to invest and receive return on investment in their local community (and not just monetary investment). We stop saving our retirement savings in 401k and other Wall Street scams and we invest that money locally and receive a robust and healthy return on investment.'''However, where people must hold jobs, their right to collectively bargain is supported. We DO NOT want to slide back to Dickensian work systems. We want to support working people and their hard won rights.''' <br />
<br />
== Taxes ==<br />
<br />
'''Rich people will pay more taxes. Poor people will pay less. Want to pay less taxes? Make less money.'''<br />
<br />
== Health Care ==<br />
<br />
Have I used the word "cooperative" enough in this manifesto? You are about to read it again. Why, you ask?:<br />
<br />
'''Wouldn't you rather be a co-owner in the entity that helps you pool costs with others towards your healthcare, than deal with the corporate profit-driven casino model that currently exists for health insurance?'''<br />
<br />
'''The time for Health Care Cooperatives in Michigan is NOW. Michigan Health Care Cooperatives hire doctors and their practices and take good care of them. They reject doctors who put profit over their Hippocratic Oath.<ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippocratic_Oath</ref>. In this way, Michigan leads the way in reforming health care ''starting with the doctor/patient relationship''. Health Care Cooperatives in Michigan also FUND proven services, such as mid-wife-run birth centers, and other so-called "alternative medicine" providers. <br />
<br />
'''We start with changing the law in Michigan to allow us the RIGHT to create these cooperatives.'''<br />
<br />
== Government ==<br />
<br />
When we're not busy having our faces shoved to the grindstone at a job, we're going to have some time to engage in Local, State, and Federal governments. However, we are also going to make them increasingly obsolete in the process. We are going to be able to come up with rules together via connective technologies like the internet. We're going to also be able to team up on government when we're not being listened to. <br />
<br />
'''We can do it without political parties''' following [[The Political Principles of Peer-to-Peer Advocacy]]. <br />
<br />
'''''No advocate of peer-to-peer politics wants all communications or activity routed through them. Bottlenecks are weaknesses.'''''<br />
<br />
'''That being said, any politician *or* party that ascribes to the principles of openness, p2p and the commons is worth collaborating and working with. '''<br />
<br />
== Your additions here ==<br />
<br />
This is what transformation in Michigan means to me. What does it mean to you? I want to know. I'll faithfully incorporate whatever any of you contribute, and I will spread it around. It's time to get real, dig in and change this place, now.<br />
<br />
== Other links ==<br />
<br />
* [http://forwardfound.org/blog/?q=five-commons The Five Commons]<br />
* [http://p2pfoundation.net/Manifesto P2P Manifesto]<br />
* [http://cooperationcommons.com Cooperation Commons]<br />
* [http://lansingonlinenews.com/news/the-gop-education-agenda-why-earning-a-diploma-will-no-longer-buy-you-a-job-or-a-middle-class-life/ The GOP Education Agenda: Why earning a diploma will no longer buy you a job or a middle-class life]<br />
* [[Multitudes]](Hardt & Negri)<br />
== References ==<br />
<references /><br />
<br />
[[Category:P2P_Politics]]</div>SRosehttps://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/index.php?title=Michigan:_The_Transformation_Manifesto&diff=48648Michigan: The Transformation Manifesto2011-03-31T04:44:10Z<p>SRose: </p>
<hr />
<div>== Contributors ==<br />
<br />
*I'm Sam Rose, from the Foundation or Peer To Peer Alternatives http://p2pfoundation.net/ and co-founder http://futureforwardinstitute.com/ I am a Michigan native, former blue collar worker and now independent business person.<br />
<br />
== "Michigan is Screwed" ==<br />
<br />
See: http://www.youtube.com/embed/AUpO1QFMDtM<br />
<br />
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/42121778#42121778<br />
<br />
It's likely you are highly aware of the current political situation that people in Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Pennsylvania and other struggling industrial states are facing. In Michigan in particular it looks to me like the goal of Rick Snyder and the legislators that control the Michigan House/Senate is to tear down 20th century community infrastructures, starting from the bottom up. <br />
<br />
The reality is that if the people in power in Michigan now fully succeed, private mega corporations will queue up to enclose property, extract wealth and resources at lightning speed, further impoverish our community's most vulnerable members, push out those willing to fight by making their lives and communities miserable, and put whomever is left on their knees. They want our money flowing out of our pockets and communities, and their cheaply made worthless crap flowing in. They want to grab our land, our trees, frack out our natural gas and deplete our water, and run our soil down to clay. They want to push people out of the largest cities, fence of the empty land, bulldoze the buildings and sit on the land waiting for a future day when it's value increases. They want to do all of this while paying next to no taxes, employing none of the people of Michigan, and investing nothing back into the communities. They already got a huge amount of the money out of our communities by way of fraudulant mortgage scams that destroyed the economies of several countries around the world. They can make it more miserable for any of us that don't pick up and leave by: increasing our taxes (the elderly and retired, the poor, etc). Making our schools so deplorable that no one will want to move to our communities. And, whenever possible, declaring an "emergency" and dissolving local government, installing private corporations in their place with license to do whatever they want without any oversight. I am willing to bet that most of you that voted for Rick Snyder and the people in Michigan Congress probably did not vote for what I describe above. I'll bet that your ancestors didn't fight to get you to where you are now, just to see us all start to slip back towards whatever they came here to get away from. However, the sad fact is that what I describe above is now upon you, and all of us. <br />
<br />
<br> Fortunately for us, we don't have to accept this reality. We currently have all of the building blocks we need to turn things around for ourselves here in a relatively short amount of time. <br />
<br />
A clue comes to us from our own state's past. At the turn of the 19th-20th century, automobiles were prohibitively expensive for all but a few people. One of the reasons was a monopoly on the designs of automotive technology by George B. Selden: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_B._Selden Selden and associate's efforts to protect their patents led to a battle with Henry Ford, which resulted in a decision by courts to open up automotive technology for those that were not using the Selden engine design. <br />
<br />
From Open Source - History and Development Adrienne Walker San Jose State University&nbsp;[http://infosherpas.com/ojs/index.php/openandlibraries/article/view/43/65 http://infosherpas.com/ojs/index.php/openandlibraries/article/view/43/65]: <br />
<blockquote>''Free sharing and open source are not 21st century ideas, we tend to think of open source as a way of being connected to the Internet as software but open source was in existence early in the 20th century although it took a different form. That form was automobile manufacturing. For those of you familiar with early automotive history, Henry Ford challenged the patent of George Selden. Selden had a chokehold on the automobile industry but Ford won a challenge to Selden's patent (The history of free and open source, 2009). Henry Fords breakthrough initiated the beginning of open source in the modern age and coupled with the formation of the Motor Vehicle Manufacturers Association was influential in creating cross-licensing agreements. Cross-licensing agreements existed between the United States automobile manufacturers of the day. Each automobile manufacturing company modified the technology and filed patents, these patents were shared, and no exchange of money, no lawsuits and an industry thrived (The history of free and open source, 2009).'' </blockquote><ref>Special thanks to Nathan Oostendorp who made me aware of this part of Michigan industrial history when he presented this at http://igniteannarbor.com see http://ingenuitas.com/</ref> <br />
We can do this again in Michigan. We can start in our own communities, re-building our economies around sharing not just technology, but also production of food, energy, and knowledge.<br />
<br />
== Energy ==<br />
<br />
'''There's enough wind and solar power across the state of Michigan to run the whole state on wind and solar energy alone.''' Open sourcing the technology for wind, solar, and batteries for hybrid/electric cars would create an explosion of innovation across the state and in the region, and eventually worldwide. If we really want to get into manufacturing green energy in the state of Michigan, the fastest route will be by way of creating sound design cores for small wind generators and solar collectors/solar voltaics and releasing them under an open license (like TAPR for instance http://www.tapr.org/ohl.html ) Our first step can be to install hybrid solar/wind in as many individua locations as possible (some neighbrhoods can team up and group buy for a whole block), and install them in a way that turns the current electrical grid into a "Net metering" grid: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_metering <br />
<br />
We can also start processing our plant and animal waste in open source biodigesters to produce electricity (example http://www.appropedia.org/Category:Biogas ) and our agricultural and surburban landscaping refuse into new soil and biofuel. <br />
<br />
Much of this new infrastructure can be managed by user-owned cooperatives where needed.<br />
<br />
== Education ==<br />
<br />
It's time to create cooperatives where parents and teachers are the owners of school systems. Most cirricular development can be released under creative commons licenses (as seen with http://wikieducator.org/OERF:Home http://ftacademy.org/ http://www.oercommons.org/ etc etc ) <br />
<br />
A really compelling and immediately useful example is https://open.umich.edu/wiki/Main_Page<br />
<br />
Parents can work with teachers and their students to adaptively shape learning over time. '''No more showing up in cinderblock buildings and being trained to be told what to do at the expense of truly learning how and why to do it. We teach children CRITICAL THINKING and skills to solve problems on their own with little or nothing to work with except their minds. Children are no longer raw material to be shaped into employees for big business. They are now taught to invent, build, experiment, create and destroy, co-manage and co-govern anywhere anytime with anything. They are taught actual history and left to decide for themselves. They are taught to produce their *own* food, energy, information systems as needed. They are taught to be programmers, not users. Makers, not consumers. Independent problem solvers, not employees. This is 21st century education in Michigan.'''<br />
<br />
== Manufacturing ==<br />
<br />
Manufacturing in Michigan will become small, distributed, diverse and massively adaptable and interoperable. Designs are shared and improved constantly. Technology cooperatives not only design and produce physhical hardware and software technology for people, but they also teach people how to do this themselves, and how to effectively use technology. <br />
<br />
Existing manufacturing labor unions will help create these new technology cooperatives by taking their pension fund monies out of greedy wall street companies and re-investing in Local Economic Development. Tens of thousands of people who are laid off from jobs will also pool resources to create these Technology Cooperatives throughout the state. This could happen here in Michigan within one year. <br />
<br />
== Money ==<br />
<br />
Already here in Michigan, we are leading the way towards creating a '''plurality of currencies'''. We want to have more than one option for currencies, given the instability of US and global financial systems. Some existing examples include:<br />
<br />
* [http://newfrontier.com/libertydollar/michigan-dollar.htm Liberty Dollar]<br />
* [http://www.baybucks.org/Bay Bucks]<br />
<br />
<br />
== Research and Development ==<br />
<br />
Michigan Technology Cooperatives can invest their surplus resources in ongoing open source research and development, driven by the needs of people in Michigan and throughout the US and world. Students learn to participate in this activity at as early an age as possible. <br />
<br />
== Food systems ==<br />
<br />
Food cooperatives and community supported agriculture have proven themselves in places like Pittsburgh, Cleveland, and elsewhere. As our world spirals into a collapse of global commercial energy and resource distribution, leading to increasing costs for imported goods, we can sidestep that problem and produce food locally and regionally. We can create enough food locally in Michigan to make imports a luxury-only source of food (instead of the majority of food source for our state). We can create community owned food cooperatives in every city in the state, while simultaneously bolstering the '''hundreds of thousands of LOCAL food producers and retailers that already exist in this state'''.<br />
<br />
== Jobs ==<br />
<br />
'''NO. No more jobs.''' It is ALREADY fact that over 98% of businesses in Michigan are now small businesses<ref>http://levin.senate.gov/senate/smallbusiness/index.html</ref>. This is in part because most of those who are left actually participating in economic activity stopped looking for a job about 5-6 years ago and started a business. So this is what we do, we start businesses, and we connect them together. Go pay the $10 and register a DBA with your name on it at the county clerk. You are now ready to do businesses. Team up with other people in your community to share what you are learning about starting and running your own collaborative business/enterprise. In some cases we start cooperatives, credit unions, and ways for people to invest and receive return on investment in their local community (and not just monetary investment). We stop saving our retirement savings in 401k and other Wall Street scams and we invest that money locally and receive a robust and healthy return on investment.'''However, where people must hold jobs, their right to collectively bargain is supported. We DO NOT want to slide back to Dickensian work systems. We want to support working people and their hard won rights.''' <br />
<br />
== Taxes ==<br />
<br />
'''Rich people will pay more taxes. Poor people will pay less. Want to pay less taxes? Make less money.'''<br />
<br />
== Health Care ==<br />
<br />
Have I used the word "cooperative" enough in this manifesto? You are about to read it again. Why, you ask?:<br />
<br />
'''Wouldn't you rather be a co-owner in the entity that helps you pool costs with others towards your healthcare, than deal with the corporate profit-driven casino model that currently exists for health insurance?'''<br />
<br />
'''The time for Health Care Cooperatives in Michigan is NOW. Michigan Health Care Cooperatives hire doctors and their practices and take good care of them. They reject doctors who put profit over their Hippocratic Oath.<ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippocratic_Oath</ref>. In this way, Michigan leads the way in reforming health care ''starting with the doctor/patient relationship''. Health Care Cooperatives in Michigan also FUND proven services, such as mid-wife-run birth centers, and other so-called "alternative medicine" providers. <br />
<br />
'''We start with changing the law in Michigan to allow us the RIGHT to create these cooperatives.'''<br />
<br />
== Government ==<br />
<br />
When we're not busy having our faces shoved to the grindstone at a job, we're going to have some time to engage in Local, State, and Federal governments. However, we are also going to make them increasingly obsolete in the process. We are going to be able to come up with rules together via connective technologies like the internet. We're going to also be able to team up on government when we're not being listened to. <br />
<br />
'''We can do it without political parties''' following [[The Political Principles of Peer-to-Peer Advocacy]]. <br />
<br />
'''''No advocate of peer-to-peer politics wants all communications or activity routed through them. Bottlenecks are weaknesses.'''''<br />
<br />
'''That being said, any politician *or* party that ascribes to the principles of openness, p2p and the commons is worth collaborating and working with. '''<br />
<br />
== Your additions here ==<br />
<br />
This is what transformation in Michigan means to me. What does it mean to you? I want to know. I'll faithfully incorporate whatever any of you contribute, and I will spread it around. It's time to get real, dig in and change this place, now.<br />
<br />
== Other links ==<br />
<br />
* [http://forwardfound.org/blog/?q=five-commons The Five Commons]<br />
* [http://p2pfoundation.net/Manifesto P2P Manifesto]<br />
* [http://cooperationcommons.com Cooperation Commons]<br />
* [http://lansingonlinenews.com/news/the-gop-education-agenda-why-earning-a-diploma-will-no-longer-buy-you-a-job-or-a-middle-class-life/ The GOP Education Agenda: Why earning a diploma will no longer buy you a job or a middle-class life]<br />
* [[Multitudes]](Hardt & Negri)<br />
== References ==<br />
<references /><br />
<br />
[[Category:P2P_Politics]]</div>SRosehttps://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/index.php?title=Michigan:_The_Transformation_Manifesto&diff=48637Michigan: The Transformation Manifesto2011-03-28T18:30:23Z<p>SRose: /* Education */</p>
<hr />
<div>== Contributors ==<br />
<br />
*I'm Sam Rose, from the Foundation or Peer To Peer Alternatives http://p2pfoundation.net/ and co-founder http://futureforwardinstitute.com/ I am a Michigan native, former blue collar worker and now independent business person.<br />
<br />
== "Michigan is Screwed" ==<br />
<br />
See: http://www.youtube.com/embed/AUpO1QFMDtM<br />
<br />
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/42121778#42121778<br />
<br />
It's likely you are highly aware of the current political situation that people in Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Pennsylvania and other struggling industrial states are facing. In Michigan in particular it looks to me like the goal of Rick Snyder and the legislators that control the Michigan House/Senate is to tear down 20th century community infrastructures, starting from the bottom up. <br />
<br />
The reality is that if the people in power in Michigan now fully succeed, private mega corporations will queue up to enclose property, extract wealth and resources at lightning speed, further impoverish our community's most vulnerable members, push out those willing to fight by making their lives and communities miserable, and put whomever is left on their knees. They want our money flowing out of our pockets and communities, and their cheaply made worthless crap flowing in. They want to grab our land, our trees, frack out our natural gas and deplete our water, and run our soil down to clay. They want to push people out of the largest cities, fence of the empty land, bulldoze the buildings and sit on the land waiting for a future day when it's value increases. They want to do all of this while paying next to no taxes, employing none of the people of Michigan, and investing nothing back into the communities. They already got a huge amount of the money out of our communities by way of fraudulant mortgage scams that destroyed the economies of several countries around the world. They can make it more miserable for any of us that don't pick up and leave by: increasing our taxes (the elderly and retired, the poor, etc). Making our schools so deplorable that no one will want to move to our communities. And, whenever possible, declaring an "emergency" and dissolving local government, installing private corporations in their place with license to do whatever they want without any oversight. I am willing to bet that most of you that voted for Rick Snyder and the people in Michigan Congress probably did not vote for what I describe above. I'll bet that your ancestors didn't fight to get you to where you are now, just to see us all start to slip back towards whatever they came here to get away from. However, the sad fact is that what I describe above is now upon you, and all of us. <br />
<br />
<br> Fortunately for us, we don't have to accept this reality. We currently have all of the building blocks we need to turn things around for ourselves here in a relatively short amount of time. <br />
<br />
A clue comes to us from our own state's past. At the turn of the 19th-20th century, automobiles were prohibitively expensive for all but a few people. One of the reasons was a monopoly on the designs of automotive technology by George B. Selden: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_B._Selden Selden and associate's efforts to protect their patents led to a battle with Henry Ford, which resulted in a decision by courts to open up automotive technology for those that were not using the Selden engine design. <br />
<br />
From Open Source - History and Development Adrienne Walker San Jose State University&nbsp;[http://infosherpas.com/ojs/index.php/openandlibraries/article/view/43/65 http://infosherpas.com/ojs/index.php/openandlibraries/article/view/43/65]: <br />
<blockquote>''Free sharing and open source are not 21st century ideas, we tend to think of open source as a way of being connected to the Internet as software but open source was in existence early in the 20th century although it took a different form. That form was automobile manufacturing. For those of you familiar with early automotive history, Henry Ford challenged the patent of George Selden. Selden had a chokehold on the automobile industry but Ford won a challenge to Selden's patent (The history of free and open source, 2009). Henry Fords breakthrough initiated the beginning of open source in the modern age and coupled with the formation of the Motor Vehicle Manufacturers Association was influential in creating cross-licensing agreements. Cross-licensing agreements existed between the United States automobile manufacturers of the day. Each automobile manufacturing company modified the technology and filed patents, these patents were shared, and no exchange of money, no lawsuits and an industry thrived (The history of free and open source, 2009).'' </blockquote><ref>Special thanks to Nathan Oostendorp who made me aware of this part of Michigan industrial history when he presented this at http://igniteannarbor.com see http://ingenuitas.com/</ref> <br />
We can do this again in Michigan. We can start in our own communities, re-building our economies around sharing not just technology, but also production of food, energy, and knowledge.<br />
<br />
== Energy ==<br />
<br />
'''There's enough wind and solar power across the state of Michigan to run the whole state on wind and solar energy alone.''' Open sourcing the technology for wind, solar, and batteries for hybrid/electric cars would create an explosion of innovation across the state and in the region, and eventually worldwide. If we really want to get into manufacturing green energy in the state of Michigan, the fastest route will be by way of creating sound design cores for small wind generators and solar collectors/solar voltaics and releasing them under an open license (like TAPR for instance http://www.tapr.org/ohl.html ) Our first step can be to install hybrid solar/wind in as many individua locations as possible (some neighbrhoods can team up and group buy for a whole block), and install them in a way that turns the current electrical grid into a "Net metering" grid: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_metering <br />
<br />
We can also start processing our plant and animal waste in open source biodigesters to produce electricity (example http://www.appropedia.org/Category:Biogas ) and our agricultural and surburban landscaping refuse into new soil and biofuel. <br />
<br />
Much of this new infrastructure can be managed by user-owned cooperatives where needed.<br />
<br />
== Education ==<br />
<br />
It's time to create cooperatives where parents and teachers are the owners of school systems. Most cirricular development can be released under creative commons licenses (as seen with http://wikieducator.org/OERF:Home http://ftacademy.org/ http://www.oercommons.org/ etc etc ) <br />
<br />
A really compelling and immediately useful example is https://open.umich.edu/wiki/Main_Page<br />
<br />
Parents can work with teachers and their students to adaptively shape learning over time. '''No more showing up in cinderblock buildings and being trained to be told what to do at the expense of truly learning how and why to do it. We teach children CRITICAL THINKING and skills to solve problems on their own with little or nothing to work with except their minds. Children are no longer raw material to be shaped into employees for big business. They are now taught to invent, build, experiment, create and destroy, co-manage and co-govern anywhere anytime with anything. They are taught actual history and left to decide for themselves. They are taught to produce their *own* food, energy, information systems as needed. They are taught to be programmers, not users. Makers, not consumers. Independent problem solvers, not employees. This is 21st century education in Michigan.'''<br />
<br />
== Manufacturing ==<br />
<br />
Manufacturing in Michigan will become small, distributed, diverse and massively adaptable and interoperable. Designs are shared and improved constantly. Technology cooperatives not only design and produce physhical hardware and software technology for people, but they also teach people how to do this themselves, and how to effectively use technology. <br />
<br />
Existing manufacturing labor unions will help create these new technology cooperatives by taking their pension fund monies out of greedy wall street companies and re-investing in Local Economic Development. Tens of thousands of people who are laid off from jobs will also pool resources to create these Technology Cooperatives throughout the state. This could happen here in Michigan within one year. <br />
<br />
== Research and Development ==<br />
<br />
Michigan Technology Cooperatives can invest their surplus resources in ongoing open source research and development, driven by the needs of people in Michigan and throughout the US and world. Students learn to participate in this activity at as early an age as possible. <br />
<br />
== Food systems ==<br />
<br />
Food cooperatives and community supported agriculture have proven themselves in places like Pittsburgh, Cleveland, and elsewhere. As our world spirals into a collapse of global commercial energy and resource distribution, leading to increasing costs for imported goods, we can sidestep that problem and produce food locally and regionally. We can create enough food locally in Michigan to make imports a luxury-only source of food (instead of the majority of food source for our state). We can create community owned food cooperatives in every city in the state, while simultaneously bolstering the '''hundreds of thousands of LOCAL food producers and retailers that already exist in this state'''.<br />
<br />
== Jobs ==<br />
<br />
'''NO. No more jobs.''' It is ALREADY fact that over 98% of businesses in Michigan are now small businesses<ref>http://levin.senate.gov/senate/smallbusiness/index.html</ref>. This is in part because most of those who are left actually participating in economic activity stopped looking for a job about 5-6 years ago and started a business. So this is what we do, we start businesses, and we connect them together. Go pay the $10 and register a DBA with your name on it at the county clerk. You are now ready to do businesses. Team up with other people in your community to share what you are learning about starting and running your own collaborative business/enterprise. In some cases we start cooperatives, credit unions, and ways for people to invest and receive return on investment in their local community (and not just monetary investment). We stop saving our retirement savings in 401k and other Wall Street scams and we invest that money locally and receive a robust and healthy return on investment.'''However, where people must hold jobs, their right to collectively bargain is supported. We DO NOT want to slide back to Dickensian work systems. We want to support working people and their hard won rights.''' <br />
<br />
== Taxes ==<br />
<br />
'''Rich people will pay more taxes. Poor people will pay less. Want to pay less taxes? Make less money.'''<br />
<br />
== Health Care ==<br />
<br />
Have I used the word "cooperative" enough in this manifesto? You are about to read it again. Why, you ask?:<br />
<br />
'''Wouldn't you rather be a co-owner in the entity that helps you pool costs with others towards your healthcare, than deal with the corporate profit-driven casino model that currently exists for health insurance?'''<br />
<br />
'''The time for Health Care Cooperatives in Michigan is NOW. Michigan Health Care Cooperatives hire doctors and their practices and take good care of them. They reject doctors who put profit over their Hippocratic Oath.<ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippocratic_Oath</ref>. In this way, Michigan leads the way in reforming health care ''starting with the doctor/patient relationship''. Health Care Cooperatives in Michigan also FUND proven services, such as mid-wife-run birth centers, and other so-called "alternative medicine" providers. <br />
<br />
'''We start with changing the law in Michigan to allow us the RIGHT to create these cooperatives.'''<br />
<br />
== Government ==<br />
<br />
When we're not busy having our faces shoved to the grindstone at a job, we're going to have some time to engage in Local, State, and Federal governments. However, we are also going to make them increasingly obsolete in the process. We are going to be able to come up with rules together via connective technologies like the internet. We're going to also be able to team up on government when we're not being listened to. <br />
<br />
'''We can do it without political parties''' following [[The Political Principles of Peer-to-Peer Advocacy]]. <br />
<br />
'''''No advocate of peer-to-peer politics wants all communications or activity routed through them. Bottlenecks are weaknesses.'''''<br />
<br />
'''That being said, any politician *or* party that ascribes to the principles of openness, p2p and the commons is worth collaborating and working with. '''<br />
<br />
== Your additions here ==<br />
<br />
This is what transformation in Michigan means to me. What does it mean to you? I want to know. I'll faithfully incorporate whatever any of you contribute, and I will spread it around. It's time to get real, dig in and change this place, now.<br />
<br />
== Other links ==<br />
<br />
* [http://forwardfound.org/blog/?q=five-commons The Five Commons]<br />
* [http://p2pfoundation.net/Manifesto P2P Manifesto]<br />
* [http://cooperationcommons.com Cooperation Commons]<br />
* [http://lansingonlinenews.com/news/the-gop-education-agenda-why-earning-a-diploma-will-no-longer-buy-you-a-job-or-a-middle-class-life/ The GOP Education Agenda: Why earning a diploma will no longer buy you a job or a middle-class life]<br />
* [[Multitudes]](Hardt & Negri)<br />
== References ==<br />
<references /><br />
<br />
[[Category:P2P_Politics]]</div>SRosehttps://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/index.php?title=Michigan:_The_Transformation_Manifesto&diff=48631Michigan: The Transformation Manifesto2011-03-27T20:41:00Z<p>SRose: </p>
<hr />
<div>== Contributors ==<br />
<br />
*I'm Sam Rose, from the Foundation or Peer To Peer Alternatives http://p2pfoundation.net/ and co-founder http://futureforwardinstitute.com/ I am a Michigan native, former blue collar worker and now independent business person.<br />
<br />
== "Michigan is Screwed" ==<br />
<br />
See: http://www.youtube.com/embed/AUpO1QFMDtM<br />
<br />
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/42121778#42121778<br />
<br />
It's likely you are highly aware of the current political situation that people in Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Pennsylvania and other struggling industrial states are facing. In Michigan in particular it looks to me like the goal of Rick Snyder and the legislators that control the Michigan House/Senate is to tear down 20th century community infrastructures, starting from the bottom up. <br />
<br />
The reality is that if the people in power in Michigan now fully succeed, private mega corporations will queue up to enclose property, extract wealth and resources at lightning speed, further impoverish our community's most vulnerable members, push out those willing to fight by making their lives and communities miserable, and put whomever is left on their knees. They want our money flowing out of our pockets and communities, and their cheaply made worthless crap flowing in. They want to grab our land, our trees, frack out our natural gas and deplete our water, and run our soil down to clay. They want to push people out of the largest cities, fence of the empty land, bulldoze the buildings and sit on the land waiting for a future day when it's value increases. They want to do all of this while paying next to no taxes, employing none of the people of Michigan, and investing nothing back into the communities. They already got a huge amount of the money out of our communities by way of fraudulant mortgage scams that destroyed the economies of several countries around the world. They can make it more miserable for any of us that don't pick up and leave by: increasing our taxes (the elderly and retired, the poor, etc). Making our schools so deplorable that no one will want to move to our communities. And, whenever possible, declaring an "emergency" and dissolving local government, installing private corporations in their place with license to do whatever they want without any oversight. I am willing to bet that most of you that voted for Rick Snyder and the people in Michigan Congress probably did not vote for what I describe above. I'll bet that your ancestors didn't fight to get you to where you are now, just to see us all start to slip back towards whatever they came here to get away from. However, the sad fact is that what I describe above is now upon you, and all of us. <br />
<br />
<br> Fortunately for us, we don't have to accept this reality. We currently have all of the building blocks we need to turn things around for ourselves here in a relatively short amount of time. <br />
<br />
A clue comes to us from our own state's past. At the turn of the 19th-20th century, automobiles were prohibitively expensive for all but a few people. One of the reasons was a monopoly on the designs of automotive technology by George B. Selden: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_B._Selden Selden and associate's efforts to protect their patents led to a battle with Henry Ford, which resulted in a decision by courts to open up automotive technology for those that were not using the Selden engine design. <br />
<br />
From Open Source - History and Development Adrienne Walker San Jose State University&nbsp;[http://infosherpas.com/ojs/index.php/openandlibraries/article/view/43/65 http://infosherpas.com/ojs/index.php/openandlibraries/article/view/43/65]: <br />
<blockquote>''Free sharing and open source are not 21st century ideas, we tend to think of open source as a way of being connected to the Internet as software but open source was in existence early in the 20th century although it took a different form. That form was automobile manufacturing. For those of you familiar with early automotive history, Henry Ford challenged the patent of George Selden. Selden had a chokehold on the automobile industry but Ford won a challenge to Selden's patent (The history of free and open source, 2009). Henry Fords breakthrough initiated the beginning of open source in the modern age and coupled with the formation of the Motor Vehicle Manufacturers Association was influential in creating cross-licensing agreements. Cross-licensing agreements existed between the United States automobile manufacturers of the day. Each automobile manufacturing company modified the technology and filed patents, these patents were shared, and no exchange of money, no lawsuits and an industry thrived (The history of free and open source, 2009).'' </blockquote><ref>Special thanks to Nathan Oostendorp who made me aware of this part of Michigan industrial history when he presented this at http://igniteannarbor.com see http://ingenuitas.com/</ref> <br />
We can do this again in Michigan. We can start in our own communities, re-building our economies around sharing not just technology, but also production of food, energy, and knowledge.<br />
<br />
== Energy ==<br />
<br />
'''There's enough wind and solar power across the state of Michigan to run the whole state on wind and solar energy alone.''' Open sourcing the technology for wind, solar, and batteries for hybrid/electric cars would create an explosion of innovation across the state and in the region, and eventually worldwide. If we really want to get into manufacturing green energy in the state of Michigan, the fastest route will be by way of creating sound design cores for small wind generators and solar collectors/solar voltaics and releasing them under an open license (like TAPR for instance http://www.tapr.org/ohl.html ) Our first step can be to install hybrid solar/wind in as many individua locations as possible (some neighbrhoods can team up and group buy for a whole block), and install them in a way that turns the current electrical grid into a "Net metering" grid: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_metering <br />
<br />
We can also start processing our plant and animal waste in open source biodigesters to produce electricity (example http://www.appropedia.org/Category:Biogas ) and our agricultural and surburban landscaping refuse into new soil and biofuel. <br />
<br />
Much of this new infrastructure can be managed by user-owned cooperatives where needed.<br />
<br />
== Education ==<br />
<br />
It's time to create cooperatives where parents and teachers are the owners of school systems. Most cirricular development can be released under creative commons licenses (as seen with http://wikieducator.org/OERF:Home http://ftacademy.org/ http://www.oercommons.org/ etc etc ) <br />
<br />
Parents can work with teachers and their students to adaptively shape learning over time. '''No more showing up in cinderblock buildings and being trained to be told what to do at the expense of truly learning how and why to do it. We teach children CRITICAL THINKING and skills to solve problems on their own with little or nothing to work with except their minds. Children are no longer raw material to be shaped into employees for big business. They are now taught to invent, build, experiment, create and destroy, co-manage and co-govern anywhere anytime with anything. They are taught actual history and left to decide for themselves. They are taught to produce their *own* food, energy, information systems as needed. They are taught to be programmers, not users. Makers, not consumers. Independent problem solvers, not employees. This is 21st century education in Michigan.''' <br />
<br />
== Manufacturing ==<br />
<br />
Manufacturing in Michigan will become small, distributed, diverse and massively adaptable and interoperable. Designs are shared and improved constantly. Technology cooperatives not only design and produce physhical hardware and software technology for people, but they also teach people how to do this themselves, and how to effectively use technology. <br />
<br />
Existing manufacturing labor unions will help create these new technology cooperatives by taking their pension fund monies out of greedy wall street companies and re-investing in Local Economic Development. Tens of thousands of people who are laid off from jobs will also pool resources to create these Technology Cooperatives throughout the state. This could happen here in Michigan within one year. <br />
<br />
== Research and Development ==<br />
<br />
Michigan Technology Cooperatives can invest their surplus resources in ongoing open source research and development, driven by the needs of people in Michigan and throughout the US and world. Students learn to participate in this activity at as early an age as possible. <br />
<br />
== Food systems ==<br />
<br />
Food cooperatives and community supported agriculture have proven themselves in places like Pittsburgh, Cleveland, and elsewhere. As our world spirals into a collapse of global commercial energy and resource distribution, leading to increasing costs for imported goods, we can sidestep that problem and produce food locally and regionally. We can create enough food locally in Michigan to make imports a luxury-only source of food (instead of the majority of food source for our state). We can create community owned food cooperatives in every city in the state, while simultaneously bolstering the '''hundreds of thousands of LOCAL food producers and retailers that already exist in this state'''.<br />
<br />
== Jobs ==<br />
<br />
'''NO. No more jobs.''' It is ALREADY fact that over 98% of businesses in Michigan are now small businesses<ref>http://levin.senate.gov/senate/smallbusiness/index.html</ref>. This is in part because most of those who are left actually participating in economic activity stopped looking for a job about 5-6 years ago and started a business. So this is what we do, we start businesses, and we connect them together. Go pay the $10 and register a DBA with your name on it at the county clerk. You are now ready to do businesses. Team up with other people in your community to share what you are learning about starting and running your own collaborative business/enterprise. In some cases we start cooperatives, credit unions, and ways for people to invest and receive return on investment in their local community (and not just monetary investment). We stop saving our retirement savings in 401k and other Wall Street scams and we invest that money locally and receive a robust and healthy return on investment.'''However, where people must hold jobs, their right to collectively bargain is supported. We DO NOT want to slide back to Dickensian work systems. We want to support working people and their hard won rights.''' <br />
<br />
== Taxes ==<br />
<br />
'''Rich people will pay more taxes. Poor people will pay less. Want to pay less taxes? Make less money.'''<br />
<br />
== Health Care ==<br />
<br />
Have I used the word "cooperative" enough in this manifesto? You are about to read it again. Why, you ask?:<br />
<br />
'''Wouldn't you rather be a co-owner in the entity that helps you pool costs with others towards your healthcare, than deal with the corporate profit-driven casino model that currently exists for health insurance?'''<br />
<br />
'''The time for Health Care Cooperatives in Michigan is NOW. Michigan Health Care Cooperatives hire doctors and their practices and take good care of them. They reject doctors who put profit over their Hippocratic Oath.<ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippocratic_Oath</ref>. In this way, Michigan leads the way in reforming health care ''starting with the doctor/patient relationship''. Health Care Cooperatives in Michigan also FUND proven services, such as mid-wife-run birth centers, and other so-called "alternative medicine" providers. <br />
<br />
'''We start with changing the law in Michigan to allow us the RIGHT to create these cooperatives.'''<br />
<br />
== Government ==<br />
<br />
When we're not busy having our faces shoved to the grindstone at a job, we're going to have some time to engage in Local, State, and Federal governments. However, we are also going to make them increasingly obsolete in the process. We are going to be able to come up with rules together via connective technologies like the internet. We're going to also be able to team up on government when we're not being listened to. <br />
<br />
'''We can do it without political parties''' following [[The Political Principles of Peer-to-Peer Advocacy]]. <br />
<br />
'''''No advocate of peer-to-peer politics wants all communications or activity routed through them. Bottlenecks are weaknesses.'''''<br />
<br />
'''That being said, any politician *or* party that ascribes to the principles of openness, p2p and the commons is worth collaborating and working with. '''<br />
<br />
== Your additions here ==<br />
<br />
This is what transformation in Michigan means to me. What does it mean to you? I want to know. I'll faithfully incorporate whatever any of you contribute, and I will spread it around. It's time to get real, dig in and change this place, now.<br />
<br />
== Other links ==<br />
<br />
* [http://forwardfound.org/blog/?q=five-commons The Five Commons]<br />
* [http://p2pfoundation.net/Manifesto P2P Manifesto]<br />
* [http://cooperationcommons.com Cooperation Commons]<br />
* [http://lansingonlinenews.com/news/the-gop-education-agenda-why-earning-a-diploma-will-no-longer-buy-you-a-job-or-a-middle-class-life/ The GOP Education Agenda: Why earning a diploma will no longer buy you a job or a middle-class life]<br />
* [[Multitudes]](Hardt & Negri)<br />
== References ==<br />
<references /><br />
<br />
[[Category:P2P_Politics]]</div>SRosehttps://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/index.php?title=Michigan:_The_Transformation_Manifesto&diff=48601Michigan: The Transformation Manifesto2011-03-21T16:51:43Z<p>SRose: </p>
<hr />
<div>== Contributors ==<br />
<br />
*I'm Sam Rose, from the Foundation or Peer To Peer Alternatives http://p2pfoundation.net/ and co-founder http://futureforwardinstitute.com/ I am a Michigan native, former blue collar worker and now independent business person.<br />
<br />
== "Michigan is Screwed" ==<br />
<br />
See: http://www.youtube.com/embed/AUpO1QFMDtM<br />
<br />
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/42121778#42121778<br />
<br />
It's likely you are highly aware of the current political situation that people in Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Pennsylvania and other struggling industrial states are facing. In Michigan in particular it looks to me like the goal of Rick Snyder and the legislators that control the Michigan House/Senate is to tear down 20th century community infrastructures, starting from the bottom up. <br />
<br />
The reality is that if the people in power in Michigan now fully succeed, private mega corporations will queue up to enclose property, extract wealth and resources at lightning speed, further impoverish our community's most vulnerable members, push out those willing to fight by making their lives and communities miserable, and put whomever is left on their knees. They want our money flowing out of our pockets and communities, and their cheaply made worthless crap flowing in. They want to grab our land, our trees, frack out our natural gas and deplete our water, and run our soil down to clay. They want to push people out of the largest cities, fence of the empty land, bulldoze the buildings and sit on the land waiting for a future day when it's value increases. They want to do all of this while paying next to no taxes, employing none of the people of Michigan, and investing nothing back into the communities. They already got a huge amount of the money out of our communities by way of fraudulant mortgage scams that destroyed the economies of several countries around the world. They can make it more miserable for any of us that don't pick up and leave by: increasing our taxes (the elderly and retired, the poor, etc). Making our schools so deplorable that no one will want to move to our communities. And, whenever possible, declaring an "emergency" and dissolving local government, installing private corporations in their place with license to do whatever they want without any oversight. I am willing to bet that most of you that voted for Rick Snyder and the people in Michigan Congress probably did not vote for what I describe above. I'll bet that your ancestors didn't fight to get you to where you are now, just to see us all start to slip back towards whatever they came here to get away from. However, the sad fact is that what I describe above is now upon you, and all of us. <br />
<br />
<br> Fortunately for us, we don't have to accept this reality. We currently have all of the building blocks we need to turn things around for ourselves here in a relatively short amount of time. <br />
<br />
A clue comes to us from our own state's past. At the turn of the 19th-20th century, automobiles were prohibitively expensive for all but a few people. One of the reasons was a monopoly on the designs of automotive technology by George B. Selden: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_B._Selden Selden and associate's efforts to protect their patents led to a battle with Henry Ford, which resulted in a decision by courts to open up automotive technology for those that were not using the Selden engine design. <br />
<br />
From Open Source - History and Development Adrienne Walker San Jose State University&nbsp;[http://infosherpas.com/ojs/index.php/openandlibraries/article/view/43/65 http://infosherpas.com/ojs/index.php/openandlibraries/article/view/43/65]: <br />
<blockquote>''Free sharing and open source are not 21st century ideas, we tend to think of open source as a way of being connected to the Internet as software but open source was in existence early in the 20th century although it took a different form. That form was automobile manufacturing. For those of you familiar with early automotive history, Henry Ford challenged the patent of George Selden. Selden had a chokehold on the automobile industry but Ford won a challenge to Selden's patent (The history of free and open source, 2009). Henry Fords breakthrough initiated the beginning of open source in the modern age and coupled with the formation of the Motor Vehicle Manufacturers Association was influential in creating cross-licensing agreements. Cross-licensing agreements existed between the United States automobile manufacturers of the day. Each automobile manufacturing company modified the technology and filed patents, these patents were shared, and no exchange of money, no lawsuits and an industry thrived (The history of free and open source, 2009).'' </blockquote><ref>Special thanks to Nathan Oostendorp who made me aware of this part of Michigan industrial history when he presented this at http://igniteannarbor.com see http://ingenuitas.com/</ref> <br />
We can do this again in Michigan. We can start in our own communities, re-building our economies around sharing not just technology, but also production of food, energy, and knowledge.<br />
<br />
== Energy ==<br />
<br />
'''There's enough wind and solar power across the state of Michigan to run the whole state on wind and solar energy alone.''' Open sourcing the technology for wind, solar, and batteries for hybrid/electric cars would create an explosion of innovation across the state and in the region, and eventually worldwide. If we really want to get into manufacturing green energy in the state of Michigan, the fastest route will be by way of creating sound design cores for small wind generators and solar collectors/solar voltaics and releasing them under an open license (like TAPR for instance http://www.tapr.org/ohl.html ) Our first step can be to install hybrid solar/wind in as many individua locations as possible (some neighbrhoods can team up and group buy for a whole block), and install them in a way that turns the current electrical grid into a "Net metering" grid: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_metering <br />
<br />
We can also start processing our plant and animal waste in open source biodigesters to produce electricity (example http://www.appropedia.org/Category:Biogas ) and our agricultural and surburban landscaping refuse into new soil and biofuel. <br />
<br />
Much of this new infrastructure can be managed by user-owned cooperatives where needed.<br />
<br />
== Education ==<br />
<br />
It's time to create cooperatives where parents and teachers are the owners of school systems. Most cirricular development can be released under creative commons licenses (as seen with http://wikieducator.org/OERF:Home http://ftacademy.org/ http://www.oercommons.org/ etc etc ) <br />
<br />
Parents can work with teachers and their students to adaptively shape learning over time. '''No more showing up in cinderblock buildings and being trained to be told what to do at the expense of truly learning how and why to do it. We teach children CRITICAL THINKING and skills to solve problems on their own with little or nothing to work with except their minds. Children are no longer raw material to be shaped into employees for big business. They are now taught to invent, build, experiment, create and destroy, co-manage and co-govern anywhere anytime with anything. They are taught actual history and left to decide for themselves. They are taught to produce their *own* food, energy, information systems as needed. They are taught to be programmers, not users. Makers, not consumers. Independent problem solvers, not employees. This is 21st century education in Michigan.''' <br />
<br />
== Manufacturing ==<br />
<br />
Manufacturing in Michigan will become small, distributed, diverse and massively adaptable and interoperable. Designs are shared and improved constantly. Technology cooperatives not only design and produce physhical hardware and software technology for people, but they also teach people how to do this themselves, and how to effectively use technology. <br />
<br />
Existing manufacturing labor unions will help create these new technology cooperatives by taking their pension fund monies out of greedy wall street companies and re-investing in Local Economic Development. Tens of thousands of people who are laid off from jobs will also pool resources to create these Technology Cooperatives throughout the state. This could happen here in Michigan within one year. <br />
<br />
== Research and Development ==<br />
<br />
Michigan Technology Cooperatives can invest their surplus resources in ongoing open source research and development, driven by the needs of people in Michigan and throughout the US and world. Students learn to participate in this activity at as early an age as possible. <br />
<br />
== Food systems ==<br />
<br />
Food cooperatives and community supported agriculture have proven themselves in places like Pittsburgh, Cleveland, and elsewhere. As our world spirals into a collapse of global commercial energy and resource distribution, leading to increasing costs for imported goods, we can sidestep that problem and produce food locally and regionally. We can create enough food locally in Michigan to make imports a luxury-only source of food (instead of the majority of food source for our state). We can create community owned food cooperatives in every city in the state, while simultaneously bolstering the '''hundreds of thousands of LOCAL food producers and retailers that already exist in this state'''.<br />
<br />
== Jobs ==<br />
<br />
'''NO. No more jobs.''' It is ALREADY fact that over 98% of businesses in Michigan are now small businesses<ref>http://levin.senate.gov/senate/smallbusiness/index.html</ref>. This is in part because most of those who are left actually participating in economic activity stopped looking for a job about 5-6 years ago and started a business. So this is what we do, we start businesses, and we connect them together. Go pay the $10 and register a DBA with your name on it at the county clerk. You are now ready to do businesses. Team up with other people in your community to share what you are learning about starting and running your own collaborative business/enterprise. In some cases we start cooperatives, credit unions, and ways for people to invest and receive return on investment in their local community (and not just monetary investment). We stop saving our retirement savings in 401k and other Wall Street scams and we invest that money locally and receive a robust and healthy return on investment.'''However, where people must hold jobs, their right to collectively bargain is supported. We DO NOT want to slide back to Dickensian work systems. We want to support working people and their hard won rights.''' <br />
<br />
== Taxes ==<br />
<br />
'''Rich people will pay more taxes. Poor people will pay less. Want to pay less taxes? Make less money.'''<br />
<br />
== Health Care ==<br />
<br />
Have I used the word "cooperative" enough in this manifesto? You are about to read it again. Why, you ask?:<br />
<br />
'''Wouldn't you rather be a co-owner in the entity that helps you pool costs with others towards your healthcare, than deal with the corporate profit-driven casino model that currently exists for health insurance?'''<br />
<br />
'''The time for Health Care Cooperatives in Michigan is NOW. Michigan Health Care Cooperatives hire doctors and their practices and take good care of them. They reject doctors who put profit over their Hippocratic Oath.<ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippocratic_Oath</ref>. In this way, Michigan leads the way in reforming health care ''starting with the doctor/patient relationship''. Health Care Cooperatives in Michigan also FUND proven services, such as mid-wife-run birth centers, and other so-called "alternative medicine" providers. <br />
<br />
'''We start with changing the law in Michigan to allow us the RIGHT to create these cooperatives.'''<br />
<br />
== Government ==<br />
<br />
When we're not busy having our faces shoved to the grindstone at a job, we're going to have some time to engage in Local, State, and Federal governments. However, we are also going to make them increasingly obsolete in the process. We are going to be able to come up with rules together via connective technologies like the internet. We're going to also be able to team up on government when we're not being listened to. <br />
<br />
'''We can do it without political parties''' following [[The Political Principles of Peer-to-Peer Advocacy]]. <br />
<br />
'''''No advocate of peer-to-peer politics wants all communications or activity routed through them. Bottlenecks are weaknesses.'''''<br />
<br />
'''That being said, any politician *or* party that ascribes to the principles of openness, p2p and the commons is worth collaborating and working with. '''<br />
<br />
== Your additions here ==<br />
<br />
This is what transformation in Michigan means to me. What does it mean to you? I want to know. I'll faithfully incorporate whatever any of you contribute, and I will spread it around. It's time to get real, dig in and change this place, now.<br />
<br />
== Other links ==<br />
<br />
* [http://forwardfound.org/blog/?q=five-commons The Five Commons]<br />
* [http://p2pfoundation.net/Manifesto P2P Manifesto]<br />
* [http://cooperationcommons.com Cooperation Commons]<br />
== References ==<br />
<references /><br />
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[[Category:P2P_Politics]]</div>SRosehttps://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/index.php?title=Freedom_Box&diff=48580Freedom Box2011-03-21T00:29:41Z<p>SRose: </p>
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'''= a personal server running a free software operating system, with free applications designed to create and preserve personal privacy. Freedom Box software is particularly tailored to run in "plug servers," which are compact computers that are no larger than power adapters for electronic appliances'''<br />
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URL = http://www.freedomboxfoundation.org/<br />
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=Description=<br />
<br />
<br />
'''1.'''<br />
<br />
"Freedom Box is the name we give to a personal server running a free software operating system, with free applications designed to create and preserve personal privacy.<br />
<br />
Freedom Box software is particularly tailored to run in "plug servers," which are compact computers that are no larger than power adapters for electronic appliances.<br />
<br />
Located in people's homes or offices such inexpensive servers can provide privacy in normal life, and safe communications for people seeking to preserve their freedom in oppressive regimes.<br />
<br />
Why Freedom Box? Because social networking and digital communications technologies are now critical to people fighting to make freedom in their societies or simply trying to preserve their privacy where the Web and other parts of the Net are intensively surveilled by profit-seekers and government agencies. Because smartphones, mobile tablets, and other common forms of consumer electronics are being built as "platforms" to control their users and monitor their activity.<br />
<br />
Freedom Box exists to counter these unfree "platform" technologies that threaten political freedom. Freedom Box exists to provide people with privacy-respecting technology alternatives in normal times, and to offer ways to collaborate safely and securely with others in building social networks of protest, demonstration, and mobilization for political change in the not-so-normal times.<br />
<br />
Freedom Box software is built to run on hardware that already exists, and will soon become much more widely available and much more inexpensive. "Plug servers" and other compact devices are going to become ubiquitous in the next few years, serving as "media centers," "communications centers," "wireless routers," and many other familiar and not-so-familiar roles in office and home.<br />
<br />
Freedom Box software images will turn all sorts of such devices into privacy appliances. Taken together, these appliances will afford people around the world options for communicating, publishing, and collaborating that will resist state intervention or disruption. People owning these appliances will be able to restore anonymity in the Net, despite efforts of despotic regimes to keep track of who reads what and who communicates with whom.<br />
<br />
Freedom Box is a collaborative project of programmers around the world who believe in Free Software, Free Society. Many of its members will come from the Debian community, and many will come from other corners of the Free World. In coming weeks we will be announcing here the technical leads for Freedom Box and its component projects.<br />
<br />
The [[Freedom Box Foundation]], which will support the Freedom Box Project and conserve the free software it makes, is led by Eben Moglen, Professor of Law at Columbia Law School and founder of the Software Freedom Law Center."<br />
(http://www.freedomboxfoundation.org/)<br />
<br />
<br />
'''2.''' Commentary from the NYT:<br />
<br />
"[[Eben Moglen]] ... (is) ... putting together a shopping list to rebuild the Internet — this time, without governments and big companies able to watch every twitch of our fingers. <br />
<br />
The list begins with “cheap, small, low-power plug servers,” Mr. Moglen said. “A small device the size of a cellphone charger, running on a low-power chip. You plug it into the wall and forget about it.”<br />
<br />
Almost anyone could have one of these tiny servers, which are now produced for limited purposes but could be adapted to a full range of Internet applications, he said.<br />
<br />
“They will get very cheap, very quick,” Mr. Moglen said. “They’re $99; they will go to $69. Once everyone is getting them, they will cost $29.”<br />
<br />
The missing ingredients are software packages, which are available at no cost but have to be made easy to use. “You would have a whole system with privacy and security built in for the civil world we are living in,” he said. “It stores everything you care about.”<br />
<br />
Put free software into the little plug server in the wall, and you would have a Freedom Box that would decentralize information and power, Mr. Moglen said. This month, he created the [[Freedom Box Foundation]] to organize the software.<br />
<br />
“We have to aim our engineering more directly at politics now,” he said. “What has happened in Egypt is enormously inspiring, but the Egyptian state was late to the attempt to control the Net and not ready to be as remorseless as it could have been.<br />
<br />
...<br />
<br />
In response to Mr. Moglen’s call for help, a group of developers working in a free operating system called Debian have started to organize Freedom Box software. Four students from New York University who heard a talk by Mr. Moglen last year have been building a decentralized social network called Diaspora. ” <br />
(http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/16/nyregion/16about.html)<br />
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=More Information=<br />
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CBS video reportage, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrRhnxadDQw&feature=player_embedded<br />
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[[Category:Technology]]<br />
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'''= a personal server running a free software operating system, with free applications designed to create and preserve personal privacy. Freedom Box software is particularly tailored to run in "plug servers," which are compact computers that are no larger than power adapters for electronic appliances'''<br />
<br />
<br />
URL = http://www.freedomboxfoundation.org/<br />
<br />
<br />
=Description=<br />
<br />
<br />
'''1.'''<br />
<br />
"Freedom Box is the name we give to a personal server running a free software operating system, with free applications designed to create and preserve personal privacy.<br />
<br />
Freedom Box software is particularly tailored to run in "plug servers," which are compact computers that are no larger than power adapters for electronic appliances.<br />
<br />
Located in people's homes or offices such inexpensive servers can provide privacy in normal life, and safe communications for people seeking to preserve their freedom in oppressive regimes.<br />
<br />
Why Freedom Box? Because social networking and digital communications technologies are now critical to people fighting to make freedom in their societies or simply trying to preserve their privacy where the Web and other parts of the Net are intensively surveilled by profit-seekers and government agencies. Because smartphones, mobile tablets, and other common forms of consumer electronics are being built as "platforms" to control their users and monitor their activity.<br />
<br />
Freedom Box exists to counter these unfree "platform" technologies that threaten political freedom. Freedom Box exists to provide people with privacy-respecting technology alternatives in normal times, and to offer ways to collaborate safely and securely with others in building social networks of protest, demonstration, and mobilization for political change in the not-so-normal times.<br />
<br />
Freedom Box software is built to run on hardware that already exists, and will soon become much more widely available and much more inexpensive. "Plug servers" and other compact devices are going to become ubiquitous in the next few years, serving as "media centers," "communications centers," "wireless routers," and many other familiar and not-so-familiar roles in office and home.<br />
<br />
Freedom Box software images will turn all sorts of such devices into privacy appliances. Taken together, these appliances will afford people around the world options for communicating, publishing, and collaborating that will resist state intervention or disruption. People owning these appliances will be able to restore anonymity in the Net, despite efforts of despotic regimes to keep track of who reads what and who communicates with whom.<br />
<br />
Freedom Box is a collaborative project of programmers around the world who believe in Free Software, Free Society. Many of its members will come from the Debian community, and many will come from other corners of the Free World. In coming weeks we will be announcing here the technical leads for Freedom Box and its component projects.<br />
<br />
The [[Freedom Box Foundation]], which will support the Freedom Box Project and conserve the free software it makes, is led by Eben Moglen, Professor of Law at Columbia Law School and founder of the Software Freedom Law Center."<br />
(http://www.freedomboxfoundation.org/)<br />
<br />
<br />
'''2.''' Commentary from the NYT:<br />
<br />
"[[Eben Moglen]] ... (is) ... putting together a shopping list to rebuild the Internet — this time, without governments and big companies able to watch every twitch of our fingers. <br />
<br />
The list begins with “cheap, small, low-power plug servers,” Mr. Moglen said. “A small device the size of a cellphone charger, running on a low-power chip. You plug it into the wall and forget about it.”<br />
<br />
Almost anyone could have one of these tiny servers, which are now produced for limited purposes but could be adapted to a full range of Internet applications, he said.<br />
<br />
“They will get very cheap, very quick,” Mr. Moglen said. “They’re $99; they will go to $69. Once everyone is getting them, they will cost $29.”<br />
<br />
The missing ingredients are software packages, which are available at no cost but have to be made easy to use. “You would have a whole system with privacy and security built in for the civil world we are living in,” he said. “It stores everything you care about.”<br />
<br />
Put free software into the little plug server in the wall, and you would have a Freedom Box that would decentralize information and power, Mr. Moglen said. This month, he created the [[Freedom Box Foundation]] to organize the software.<br />
<br />
“We have to aim our engineering more directly at politics now,” he said. “What has happened in Egypt is enormously inspiring, but the Egyptian state was late to the attempt to control the Net and not ready to be as remorseless as it could have been.<br />
<br />
...<br />
<br />
In response to Mr. Moglen’s call for help, a group of developers working in a free operating system called Debian have started to organize Freedom Box software. Four students from New York University who heard a talk by Mr. Moglen last year have been building a decentralized social network called Diaspora. ” <br />
(http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/16/nyregion/16about.html)<br />
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=More Information=<br />
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CBS video reportage, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrRhnxadDQw&feature=player_embedded<br />
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[[Category:Standards]]<br />
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[[Category:Technology]]<br />
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[[Category:P2P Infrastructure]]<br />
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[[Category:NextNet]]<br />
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[[Category:Application Layer]]</div>SRosehttps://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/index.php?title=Talk:Michigan:_The_Transformation_Manifesto&diff=48578Talk:Michigan: The Transformation Manifesto2011-03-21T00:03:08Z<p>SRose: </p>
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<div>A great start here, Sam! I would like to participate as time permits. PR [[User:Poor Richard|Poor Richard]]<br />
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[[Poor Richard]] are you located in MI? Are you associated with technology? The first thing I am putting time towards in Michigan is the technology cooperative, is the reason I ask. Let me know what you are interested in doing. Thanks! --[[User:SRose|SRose]] 00:01, 21 March 2011 (UTC) <br />
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I see on review of your facebook page that you live in Alabama [[Poor Richard]] still, I am sure we can use your help somehow and it's surely welcome! --[[User:SRose|SRose]] 00:03, 21 March 2011 (UTC)</div>SRosehttps://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/index.php?title=Talk:Michigan:_The_Transformation_Manifesto&diff=48577Talk:Michigan: The Transformation Manifesto2011-03-21T00:01:45Z<p>SRose: </p>
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<div>A great start here, Sam! I would like to participate as time permits. PR [[User:Poor Richard|Poor Richard]]<br />
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[[Poor Richard]] are you located in MI? Are you associated with technology? The first thing I am putting time towards in Michigan is the technology cooperative, is the reason I ask. Let me know what you are interested in doing. Thanks! --[[User:SRose|SRose]] 00:01, 21 March 2011 (UTC)</div>SRosehttps://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/index.php?title=Michigan:_The_Transformation_Manifesto&diff=48514Michigan: The Transformation Manifesto2011-03-19T17:15:02Z<p>SRose: </p>
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<div>== Contributors ==<br />
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*I'm Sam Rose, from the Foundation or Peer To Peer Alternatives http://p2pfoundation.net/ and co-founder http://futureforwardinstitute.com/ I am a Michigan native, former blue collar worker and now independent business person.<br />
<br />
== "Michigan is Screwed" ==<br />
<br />
See: http://www.youtube.com/embed/AUpO1QFMDtM<br />
<br />
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/42121778#42121778<br />
<br />
It's likely you are highly aware of the current political situation that people in Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Pennsylvania and other struggling industrial states are facing. In Michigan in particular it looks to me like the goal of Rick Snyder and the legislators that control the Michigan House/Senate is to tear down 20th century community infrastructures, starting from the bottom up. <br />
<br />
The reality is that if the people in power in Michigan now fully succeed, private mega corporations will queue up to enclose property, extract wealth and resources at lightning speed, further impoverish our community's most vulnerable members, push out those willing to fight by making their lives and communities miserable, and put whomever is left on their knees. They want our money flowing out of our pockets and communities, and their cheaply made worthless crap flowing in. They want to grab our land, our trees, frack out our natural gas and deplete our water, and run our soil down to clay. They want to push people out of the largest cities, fence of the empty land, bulldoze the buildings and sit on the land waiting for a future day when it's value increases. They want to do all of this while paying next to no taxes, employing none of the people of Michigan, and investing nothing back into the communities. They already got a huge amount of the money out of our communities by way of fraudulant mortgage scams that destroyed the economies of several countries around the world. They can make it more miserable for any of us that don't pick up and leave by: increasing our taxes (the elderly and retired, the poor, etc). Making our schools so deplorable that no one will want to move to our communities. And, whenever possible, declaring an "emergency" and dissolving local government, installing private corporations in their place with license to do whatever they want without any oversight. I am willing to bet that most of you that voted for Rick Snyder and the people in Michigan Congress probably did not vote for what I describe above. I'll bet that your ancestors didn't fight to get you to where you are now, just to see us all start to slip back towards whatever they came here to get away from. However, the sad fact is that what I describe above is now upon you, and all of us. <br />
<br />
<br> Fortunately for us, we don't have to accept this reality. We currently have all of the building blocks we need to turn things around for ourselves here in a relatively short amount of time. <br />
<br />
A clue comes to us from our own state's past. At the turn of the 19th-20th century, automobiles were prohibitively expensive for all but a few people. One of the reasons was a monopoly on the designs of automotive technology by George B. Selden: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_B._Selden Selden and associate's efforts to protect their patents led to a battle with Henry Ford, which resulted in a decision by courts to open up automotive technology for those that were not using the Selden engine design. <br />
<br />
From Open Source - History and Development Adrienne Walker San Jose State University&nbsp;[http://infosherpas.com/ojs/index.php/openandlibraries/article/view/43/65 http://infosherpas.com/ojs/index.php/openandlibraries/article/view/43/65]: <br />
<blockquote>''Free sharing and open source are not 21st century ideas, we tend to think of open source as a way of being connected to the Internet as software but open source was in existence early in the 20th century although it took a different form. That form was automobile manufacturing. For those of you familiar with early automotive history, Henry Ford challenged the patent of George Selden. Selden had a chokehold on the automobile industry but Ford won a challenge to Selden's patent (The history of free and open source, 2009). Henry Fords breakthrough initiated the beginning of open source in the modern age and coupled with the formation of the Motor Vehicle Manufacturers Association was influential in creating cross-licensing agreements. Cross-licensing agreements existed between the United States automobile manufacturers of the day. Each automobile manufacturing company modified the technology and filed patents, these patents were shared, and no exchange of money, no lawsuits and an industry thrived (The history of free and open source, 2009).'' </blockquote><ref>Special thanks to Nathan Oostendorp who made me aware of this part of Michigan industrial history when he presented this at http://igniteannarbor.com see http://ingenuitas.com/</ref> <br />
We can do this again in Michigan. We can start in our own communities, re-building our economies around sharing not just technology, but also production of food, energy, and knowledge.<br />
<br />
== Energy ==<br />
<br />
'''There's enough wind and solar power across the state of Michigan to run the whole state on wind and solar energy alone.''' Open sourcing the technology for wind, solar, and batteries for hybrid/electric cars would create an explosion of innovation across the state and in the region, and eventually worldwide. If we really want to get into manufacturing green energy in the state of Michigan, the fastest route will be by way of creating sound design cores for small wind generators and solar collectors/solar voltaics and releasing them under an open license (like TAPR for instance http://www.tapr.org/ohl.html ) Our first step can be to install hybrid solar/wind in as many individua locations as possible (some neighbrhoods can team up and group buy for a whole block), and install them in a way that turns the current electrical grid into a "Net metering" grid: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_metering <br />
<br />
We can also start processing our plant and animal waste in open source biodigesters to produce electricity (example http://www.appropedia.org/Category:Biogas ) and our agricultural and surburban landscaping refuse into new soil and biofuel. <br />
<br />
Much of this new infrastructure can be managed by user-owned cooperatives where needed.<br />
<br />
== Education ==<br />
<br />
It's time to create cooperatives where parents and teachers are the owners of school systems. Most cirricular development can be released under creative commons licenses (as seen with http://wikieducator.org/OERF:Home http://ftacademy.org/ http://www.oercommons.org/ etc etc ) <br />
<br />
Parents can work with teachers and their students to adaptively shape learning over time. '''No more showing up in cinderblock buildings and being trained to be told what to do at the expense of truly learning how and why to do it. We teach children CRITICAL THINKING and skills to solve problems on their own with little or nothing to work with except their minds. Children are no longer raw material to be shaped into employees for big business. They are now taught to invent, build, experiment, create and destroy, co-manage and co-govern anywhere anytime with anything. They are taught actual history and left to decide for themselves. They are taught to produce their *own* food, energy, information systems as needed. They are taught to be programmers, not users. Makers, not consumers. Independent problem solvers, not employees. This is 21st century education in Michigan.''' <br />
<br />
== Manufacturing ==<br />
<br />
Manufacturing in Michigan will become small, distributed, diverse and massively adaptable and interoperable. Designs are shared and improved constantly. Technology cooperatives not only design and produce physhical hardware and software technology for people, but they also teach people how to do this themselves, and how to effectively use technology. <br />
<br />
Existing manufacturing labor unions will help create these new technology cooperatives by taking their pension fund monies out of greedy wall street companies and re-investing in Local Economic Development. Tens of thousands of people who are laid off from jobs will also pool resources to create these Technology Cooperatives throughout the state. This could happen here in Michigan within one year. <br />
<br />
== Research and Development ==<br />
<br />
Michigan Technology Cooperatives can invest their surplus resources in ongoing open source research and development, driven by the needs of people in Michigan and throughout the US and world. Students learn to participate in this activity at as early an age as possible. <br />
<br />
== Food systems ==<br />
<br />
Food cooperatives and community supported agriculture have proven themselves in places like Pittsburgh, Cleveland, and elsewhere. As our world spirals into a collapse of global commercial energy and resource distribution, leading to increasing costs for imported goods, we can sidestep that problem and produce food locally and regionally. We can create enough food locally in Michigan to make imports a luxury-only source of food (instead of the majority of food source for our state). We can create community owned food cooperatives in every city in the state, while simultaneously bolstering the '''hundreds of thousands of LOCAL food producers and retailers that already exist in this state'''.<br />
<br />
== Jobs ==<br />
<br />
'''NO. No more jobs.''' It is ALREADY fact that over 98% of businesses in Michigan are now small businesses<ref>http://levin.senate.gov/senate/smallbusiness/index.html</ref>. This is in part because most of those who are left actually participating in economic activity stopped looking for a job about 5-6 years ago and started a business. So this is what we do, we start businesses, and we connect them together. Go pay the $10 and register a DBA with your name on it at the county clerk. You are now ready to do businesses. Team up with other people in your community to share what you are learning about starting and running your own collaborative business/enterprise. In some cases we start cooperatives, credit unions, and ways for people to invest and receive return on investment in their local community (and not just monetary investment). We stop saving our retirement savings in 401k and other Wall Street scams and we invest that money locally and receive a robust and healthy return on investment.'''However, where people must hold jobs, their right to collectively bargain is supported. We DO NOT want to slide back to Dickensian work systems. We want to support working people and their hard won rights.''' <br />
<br />
== Taxes ==<br />
<br />
'''Rich people will pay more taxes. Poor people will pay less. Want to pay less taxes? Make less money.'''<br />
<br />
== Health Care ==<br />
<br />
Have I used the word "cooperative" enough in this manifesto? You are about to read it again. Why, you ask?:<br />
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'''Wouldn't you rather be a co-owner in the entity that helps you pool costs with others towards your healthcare, than deal with the corporate profit-driven casino model that currently exists for health insurance?'''<br />
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'''The time for Health Care Cooperatives in Michigan is NOW. Michigan Health Care Cooperatives hire doctors and their practices and take good care of them. They reject doctors who put profit over their Hippocratic Oath.<ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippocratic_Oath</ref>. In this way, Michigan leads the way in reforming health care ''starting with the doctor/patient relationship''. Health Care Cooperatives in Michigan also FUND proven services, such as mid-wife-run birth centers, and other so-called "alternative medicine" providers. <br />
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'''We start with changing the law in Michigan to allow us the RIGHT to create these cooperatives.'''<br />
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== Government ==<br />
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When we're not busy having our faces shoved to the grindstone at a job, we're going to have some time to engage in Local, State, and Federal governments. However, we are also going to make them increasingly obsolete in the process. We are going to be able to come up with rules together via connective technologies like the internet. We're going to also be able to team up on government when we're not being listened to. <br />
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'''We can do it without political parties''' following [[The Political Principles of Peer-to-Peer Advocacy]]. <br />
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'''''No advocate of peer-to-peer politics wants all communications or activity routed through them. Bottlenecks are weaknesses.'''''<br />
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'''That being said, any politician *or* party that ascribes to the principles of openness, p2p and the commons is worth collaborating and working with. '''<br />
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== Your additions here ==<br />
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This is what transformation in Michigan means to me. What does it mean to you? I want to know. I'll faithfully incorporate whatever any of you contribute, and I will spread it around. It's time to get real, dig in and change this place, now.<br />
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== References ==<br />
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"'''You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete'''" - Buckminster Fuller [http://attainable-utopias.org/tiki/tiki-index.php?page=VisionStatement]<br />
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'''Never doubt that a small group of committed citizens can change the world.'''<br />
- Margaret Mead [http://www.brilliantswarm.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=14&Itemid=1]<br />
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<big><br />
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'''Towards an Open and Autonomous Internet and Society'''<br />
</big><br />
* Participate in the [[ContactCon]] conference, October 20, 2011, NYC<br />
<br />
* Co-create our [[Autonomous Internet Road Map]] to create the [[:Category:NextNet|Next Net]]<br />
<br />
* Check out the already existing [[:Category:P2P_Infrastructure|P2P-oriented Infrastructures]]<br />
<br />
* Check out our directory of [http://p2pfoundation.net/Product_Hacking Open Hardware and Open Manufacturing Initiatives]<br />
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* [[:Category:Open|Open Everything]], open access initiatives for every area of human life<br />
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We aim to be a pluralist network to document, research, and promote peer to peer alternatives. Our political aims could be summarized under the following maxims: <br />
# ending the destruction of the biosphere by abandoning the dangerous conceptions of pseudo-abundance in the natural world (i.e. based on the assumption that natural resources are infinite); <br />
# promoting free cultural exchange by abandoning the innovation-inhibiting conceptions of pseudo-scarcity in the cultural world (i.e. based on the assumption that the free flow of culture needs to be restricted through excessive copyrights etc...).<br />
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==The P2P Paradigms==<br />
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[[:Category:Participation | Participatory Processes]] ; [[:Category:Cooperation | Cooperation]]<br />
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[[:Category:Commons | Commons Output]] ; [[:Category:Sharing | Sharing]]<br />
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==The Three Aspects of Peer Production==<br />
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[[:Category:Peerproduction | Peer Production]]<br />
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[[:Category:Peergovernance | Peer Governance]]<br />
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==P2P Infrastructures==<br />
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[[:Category:Standards | Open Standards]]<br />
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[[:Category:Technology | P2P & Technology]] ; [[:Category:P2P Infrastructure | P2P Technological Infrastructure]]<br />
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#[[:Category:EthicalEconomy | Adam Arvidsson's Ethical Economy]]<br />
#[[:Category:OpenCapital | Chris Cook's Open Capital approach]]<br />
#[[:Category:Peereconomy | Christian Siefkes' Peer Economy]]<br />
#Jon Awbrey's [[:Category:Inquiry | Inquiry into Peer Educational Resources]]<br />
#[[:Category:User Owned | Patrick Anderson's User Ownership Theory]]<br />
#Péter Mázsa's [[Free Tax Project]]<br />
#Robert Searle's [[Transfinancial Economics]]<br />
#[[:Category:Peertrust | Stan Rhodes' Peer Trust Network Project]]<br />
#Thomas Kalka's [[:Category:Paradigms | Key P2P Concepts]]<br />
#[[:Category:Synergy | Timothy Wilken's Synergic Projects]]<br />
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= Other P2P Foundation Projects =<br />
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#[[Collaboration Platform Projects]]: cooperation for social action<br />
#[[Core Peer-2-Peer Collaboration Principles]] - Initiator Ryan Lanham<br />
#[[Distributed Manufacturing Collaborative Platforms]]: open design and distributed manufacturing platforms<br />
#[[List of P2P Researchers]] - preparation for launch of a [[P2P Research Group]]<br />
#[[List of European Policy Consultants]] - Celia Blanco<br />
#[[Participatory Spirituality Conference]]<br />
#[[P2P Cities]]: open cities<br />
#[[P2P Public Intellectuals]]<br />
#[[P2P Theory Books]]<br />
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"'''You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete'''" - Buckminster Fuller [http://attainable-utopias.org/tiki/tiki-index.php?page=VisionStatement]<br />
<br />
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'''Never doubt that a small group of committed citizens can change the world.'''<br />
- Margaret Mead [http://www.brilliantswarm.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=14&Itemid=1]<br />
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<big><br />
<br />
'''Towards an Open and Autonomous Internet and Society'''<br />
</big><br />
* Participate in the [[ContactCon]] conference, October 20, 2011, NYC<br />
<br />
* Co-create our [[Autonomous Internet Road Map]] to create the [[:Category:NextNet]]<br />
<br />
* Check out the already existing [[:Category:P2P_Infrastructure|P2P-oriented Infrastructures]]<br />
<br />
* Check out our directory of [http://p2pfoundation.net/Product_Hacking Open Hardware and Open Manufacturing Initiatives]<br />
<br />
* [[:Category:Open|Open Everything]], open access initiatives for every area of human life<br />
<br />
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</div><br />
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'''We function as a clearinghouse for open/free, participatory/p2p and commons-oriented initiatives.'''<br />
<br />
We aim to be a pluralist network to document, research, and promote peer to peer alternatives. Our political aims could be summarized under the following maxims: <br />
# ending the destruction of the biosphere by abandoning the dangerous conceptions of pseudo-abundance in the natural world (i.e. based on the assumption that natural resources are infinite); <br />
# promoting free cultural exchange by abandoning the innovation-inhibiting conceptions of pseudo-scarcity in the cultural world (i.e. based on the assumption that the free flow of culture needs to be restricted through excessive copyrights etc...).<br />
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__NOTOC__</div>SRosehttps://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/index.php?title=Michigan:_The_Transformation_Manifesto&diff=48474Michigan: The Transformation Manifesto2011-03-18T23:00:02Z<p>SRose: </p>
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*I'm Sam Rose, from the Foundation or Peer To Peer Alternatives http://p2pfoundation.net/ and co-founder http://futureforwardinstitute.com/ I am a Michigan native, former blue collar worker and now independent business person.<br />
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== "Michigan is Screwed" ==<br />
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See: http://www.youtube.com/embed/AUpO1QFMDtM<br />
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It's likely you are highly aware of the current political situation that people in Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Pennsylvania and other struggling industrial states are facing. In Michigan in particular it looks to me like the goal of Rick Snyder and the legislators that control the Michigan House/Senate is to tear down 20th century community infrastructures, starting from the bottom up. <br />
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The reality is that if the people in power in Michigan now fully succeed, private mega corporations will queue up to enclose property, extract wealth and resources at lightning speed, further impoverish our community's most vulnerable members, push out those willing to fight by making their lives and communities miserable, and put whomever is left on their knees. They want our money flowing out of our pockets and communities, and their cheaply made worthless crap flowing in. They want to grab our land, our trees, frack out our natural gas and deplete our water, and run our soil down to clay. They want to push people out of the largest cities, fence of the empty land, bulldoze the buildings and sit on the land waiting for a future day when it's value increases. They want to do all of this while paying next to no taxes, employing none of the people of Michigan, and investing nothing back into the communities. They already got a huge amount of the money out of our communities by way of fraudulant mortgage scams that destroyed the economies of several countries around the world. They can make it more miserable for any of us that don't pick up and leave by: increasing our taxes (the elderly and retired, the poor, etc). Making our schools so deplorable that no one will want to move to our communities. And, whenever possible, declaring an "emergency" and dissolving local government, installing private corporations in their place with license to do whatever they want without any oversight. I am willing to bet that most of you that voted for Rick Snyder and the people in Michigan Congress probably did not vote for what I describe above. I'll bet that your ancestors didn't fight to get you to where you are now, just to see us all start to slip back towards whatever they came here to get away from. However, the sad fact is that what I describe above is now upon you, and all of us. <br />
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<br> Fortunately for us, we don't have to accept this reality. We currently have all of the building blocks we need to turn things around for ourselves here in a relatively short amount of time. <br />
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A clue comes to us from our own state's past. At the turn of the 19th-20th century, automobiles were prohibitively expensive for all but a few people. One of the reasons was a monopoly on the designs of automotive technology by George B. Selden: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_B._Selden Selden and associate's efforts to protect their patents led to a battle with Henry Ford, which resulted in a decision by courts to open up automotive technology for those that were not using the Selden engine design. <br />
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From Open Source - History and Development Adrienne Walker San Jose State University&nbsp;[http://infosherpas.com/ojs/index.php/openandlibraries/article/view/43/65 http://infosherpas.com/ojs/index.php/openandlibraries/article/view/43/65]: <br />
<blockquote>''Free sharing and open source are not 21st century ideas, we tend to think of open source as a way of being connected to the Internet as software but open source was in existence early in the 20th century although it took a different form. That form was automobile manufacturing. For those of you familiar with early automotive history, Henry Ford challenged the patent of George Selden. Selden had a chokehold on the automobile industry but Ford won a challenge to Selden's patent (The history of free and open source, 2009). Henry Fords breakthrough initiated the beginning of open source in the modern age and coupled with the formation of the Motor Vehicle Manufacturers Association was influential in creating cross-licensing agreements. Cross-licensing agreements existed between the United States automobile manufacturers of the day. Each automobile manufacturing company modified the technology and filed patents, these patents were shared, and no exchange of money, no lawsuits and an industry thrived (The history of free and open source, 2009).'' </blockquote><ref>Special thanks to Nathan Oostendorp who made me aware of this part of Michigan industrial history when he presented this at http://igniteannarbor.com see http://ingenuitas.com/</ref> <br />
We can do this again in Michigan. We can start in our own communities, re-building our economies around sharing not just technology, but also production of food, energy, and knowledge.<br />
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== Energy ==<br />
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'''There's enough wind and solar power across the state of Michigan to run the whole state on wind and solar energy alone.''' Open sourcing the technology for wind, solar, and batteries for hybrid/electric cars would create an explosion of innovation across the state and in the region, and eventually worldwide. If we really want to get into manufacturing green energy in the state of Michigan, the fastest route will be by way of creating sound design cores for small wind generators and solar collectors/solar voltaics and releasing them under an open license (like TAPR for instance http://www.tapr.org/ohl.html ) Our first step can be to install hybrid solar/wind in as many individua locations as possible (some neighbrhoods can team up and group buy for a whole block), and install them in a way that turns the current electrical grid into a "Net metering" grid: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_metering <br />
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We can also start processing our plant and animal waste in open source biodigesters to produce electricity (example http://www.appropedia.org/Category:Biogas ) and our agricultural and surburban landscaping refuse into new soil and biofuel. <br />
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Much of this new infrastructure can be managed by user-owned cooperatives where needed.<br />
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== Education ==<br />
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It's time to create cooperatives where parents and teachers are the owners of school systems. Most cirricular development can be released under creative commons licenses (as seen with http://wikieducator.org/OERF:Home http://ftacademy.org/ http://www.oercommons.org/ etc etc ) <br />
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Parents can work with teachers and their students to adaptively shape learning over time. '''No more showing up in cinderblock buildings and being trained to be told what to do at the expense of truly learning how and why to do it. We teach children CRITICAL THINKING and skills to solve problems on their own with little or nothing to work with except their minds. Children are no longer raw material to be shaped into employees for big business. They are now taught to invent, build, experiment, create and destroy, co-manage and co-govern anywhere anytime with anything. They are taught actual history and left to decide for themselves. They are taught to produce their *own* food, energy, information systems as needed. They are taught to be programmers, not users. Makers, not consumers. Independent problem solvers, not employees. This is 21st century education in Michigan.''' <br />
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Manufacturing in Michigan will become small, distributed, diverse and massively adaptable and interoperable. Designs are shared and improved constantly. Technology cooperatives not only design and produce physhical hardware and software technology for people, but they also teach people how to do this themselves, and how to effectively use technology. <br />
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Existing manufacturing labor unions will help create these new technology cooperatives by taking their pension fund monies out of greedy wall street companies and re-investing in Local Economic Development. Tens of thousands of people who are laid off from jobs will also pool resources to create these Technology Cooperatives throughout the state. This could happen here in Michigan within one year. <br />
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== Research and Development ==<br />
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Michigan Technology Cooperatives can invest their surplus resources in ongoing open source research and development, driven by the needs of people in Michigan and throughout the US and world. Students learn to participate in this activity at as early an age as possible. <br />
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== Food systems ==<br />
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Food cooperatives and community supported agriculture have proven themselves in places like Pittsburgh, Cleveland, and elsewhere. As our world spirals into a collapse of global commercial energy and resource distribution, leading to increasing costs for imported goods, we can sidestep that problem and produce food locally and regionally. We can create enough food locally in Michigan to make imports a luxury-only source of food (instead of the majority of food source for our state). We can create community owned food cooperatives in every city in the state, while simultaneously bolstering the '''hundreds of thousands of LOCAL food producers and retailers that already exist in this state'''.<br />
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'''NO. No more jobs.''' It is ALREADY fact that over 98% of businesses in Michigan are now small businesses<ref>http://levin.senate.gov/senate/smallbusiness/index.html</ref>. This is in part because most of those who are left actually participating in economic activity stopped looking for a job about 5-6 years ago and started a business. So this is what we do, we start businesses, and we connect them together. Go pay the $10 and register a DBA with your name on it at the county clerk. You are now ready to do businesses. Team up with other people in your community to share what you are learning about starting and running your own collaborative business/enterprise. In some cases we start cooperatives, credit unions, and ways for people to invest and receive return on investment in their local community (and not just monetary investment). We stop saving our retirement savings in 401k and other Wall Street scams and we invest that money locally and receive a robust and healthy return on investment.<br />
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== Health Care ==<br />
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Have I used the word "cooperative" enough in this manifesto? You are about to read it again. Why, you ask?:<br />
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'''Wouldn't you rather be a co-owner in the entity that helps you pool costs with others towards your healthcare, than deal with the corporate profit-driven casino model that currently exists for health insurance?'''<br />
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'''The time for Health Care Cooperatives in Michigan is NOW. Michigan Health Care Cooperatives hire doctors and their practices and take good care of them. They reject doctors who put profit over their Hippocratic Oath.<ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippocratic_Oath</ref>. In this way, Michigan leads the way in reforming health care ''starting with the doctor/patient relationship''. Health Care Cooperatives in Michigan also FUND proven services, such as mid-wife-run birth centers, and other so-called "alternative medicine" providers. <br />
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'''We start with changing the law in Michigan to allow us the RIGHT to create these cooperatives.'''<br />
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When we're not busy having our faces shoved to the grindstone at a job, we're going to have some time to engage in Local, State, and Federal governments. However, we are also going to make them increasingly obsolete in the process. We are going to be able to come up with rules together via connective technologies like the internet. We're going to also be able to team up on government when we're not being listened to. <br />
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'''''No advocate of peer-to-peer politics wants all communications or activity routed through them. Bottlenecks are weaknesses.'''''<br />
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'''That being said, any politician *or* party that ascribes to the principles of openness, p2p and the commons is worth collaborating and working with. '''<br />
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== Your additions here ==<br />
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This is what transformation in Michigan means to me. What does it mean to you? I want to know. I'll faithfully incorporate whatever any of you contribute, and I will spread it around. It's time to get real, dig in and change this place, now.<br />
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== References ==<br />
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*I'm Sam Rose, from the Foundation or Peer To Peer Alternatives http://p2pfoundation.net/ and co-founder http://futureforwardinstitute.com/ I am a Michigan native, former blue collar worker and now independent business person.<br />
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== "Michigan is Screwed" ==<br />
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See: http://www.youtube.com/embed/AUpO1QFMDtM<br />
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It's likely you are highly aware of the current political situation that people in Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Pennsylvania and other struggling industrial states are facing. In Michigan in particular it looks to me like the goal of Rick Snyder and the legislators that control the Michigan House/Senate is to tear down 20th century community infrastructures, starting from the bottom up. <br />
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The reality is that if the people in power in Michigan now fully succeed, private mega corporations will queue up to enclose property, extract wealth and resources at lightning speed, further impoverish our community's most vulnerable members, push out those willing to fight by making their lives and communities miserable, and put whomever is left on their knees. They want our money flowing out of our pockets and communities, and their cheaply made worthless crap flowing in. They want to grab our land, our trees, frack out our natural gas and deplete our water, and run our soil down to clay. They want to push people out of the largest cities, fence of the empty land, bulldoze the buildings and sit on the land waiting for a future day when it's value increases. They want to do all of this while paying next to no taxes, employing none of the people of Michigan, and investing nothing back into the communities. They already got a huge amount of the money out of our communities by way of fraudulant mortgage scams that destroyed the economies of several countries around the world. They can make it more miserable for any of us that don't pick up and leave by: increasing our taxes (the elderly and retired, the poor, etc). Making our schools so deplorable that no one will want to move to our communities. And, whenever possible, declaring an "emergency" and dissolving local government, installing private corporations in their place with license to do whatever they want without any oversight. I am willing to bet that most of you that voted for Rick Snyder and the people in Michigan Congress probably did not vote for what I describe above. I'll bet that your ancestors didn't fight to get you to where you are now, just to see us all start to slip back towards whatever they came here to get away from. However, the sad fact is that what I describe above is now upon you, and all of us. <br />
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<br> Fortunately for us, we don't have to accept this reality. We currently have all of the building blocks we need to turn things around for ourselves here in a relatively short amount of time. <br />
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A clue comes to us from our own state's past. At the turn of the 19th-20th century, automobiles were prohibitively expensive for all but a few people. One of the reasons was a monopoly on the designs of automotive technology by George B. Selden: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_B._Selden Selden and associate's efforts to protect their patents led to a battle with Henry Ford, which resulted in a decision by courts to open up automotive technology for those that were not using the Selden engine design. <br />
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From Open Source - History and Development Adrienne Walker San Jose State University&nbsp;[http://infosherpas.com/ojs/index.php/openandlibraries/article/view/43/65 http://infosherpas.com/ojs/index.php/openandlibraries/article/view/43/65]: <br />
<blockquote>''Free sharing and open source are not 21st century ideas, we tend to think of open source as a way of being connected to the Internet as software but open source was in existence early in the 20th century although it took a different form. That form was automobile manufacturing. For those of you familiar with early automotive history, Henry Ford challenged the patent of George Selden. Selden had a chokehold on the automobile industry but Ford won a challenge to Selden's patent (The history of free and open source, 2009). Henry Fords breakthrough initiated the beginning of open source in the modern age and coupled with the formation of the Motor Vehicle Manufacturers Association was influential in creating cross-licensing agreements. Cross-licensing agreements existed between the United States automobile manufacturers of the day. Each automobile manufacturing company modified the technology and filed patents, these patents were shared, and no exchange of money, no lawsuits and an industry thrived (The history of free and open source, 2009).'' </blockquote><ref>Special thanks to Nathan Oostendorp who made me aware of this part of Michigan industrial history when he presented this at http://igniteannarbor.com see http://ingenuitas.com/</ref> <br />
We can do this again in Michigan. We can start in our own communities, re-building our economies around sharing not just technology, but also production of food, energy, and knowledge.<br />
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== Energy ==<br />
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'''There's enough wind and solar power across the state of Michigan to run the whole state on wind and solar energy alone.''' Open sourcing the technology for wind, solar, and batteries for hybrid/electric cars would create an explosion of innovation across the state and in the region, and eventually worldwide. If we really want to get into manufacturing green energy in the state of Michigan, the fastest route will be by way of creating sound design cores for small wind generators and solar collectors/solar voltaics and releasing them under an open license (like TAPR for instance http://www.tapr.org/ohl.html ) Our first step can be to install hybrid solar/wind in as many individua locations as possible (some neighbrhoods can team up and group buy for a whole block), and install them in a way that turns the current electrical grid into a "Net metering" grid: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_metering <br />
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We can also start processing our plant and animal waste in open source biodigesters to produce electricity (example http://www.appropedia.org/Category:Biogas ) and our agricultural and surburban landscaping refuse into new soil and biofuel. <br />
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Much of this new infrastructure can be managed by user-owned cooperatives where needed.<br />
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== Education ==<br />
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It's time to create cooperatives where parents and teachers are the owners of school systems. Most cirricular development can be released under creative commons licenses (as seen with http://wikieducator.org/OERF:Home http://ftacademy.org/ http://www.oercommons.org/ etc etc ) <br />
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Parents can work with teachers and their students to adaptively shape learning over time. '''No more showing up in cinderblock buildings and being trained to be told what to do at the expense of truly learning how and why to do it. We teach children CRITICAL THINKING and skills to solve problems on their own with little or nothing to work with except their minds. Children are no longer raw material to be shaped into employees for big business. They are now taught to invent, build, experiment, create and destroy, co-manage and co-govern anywhere anytime with anything. They are taught actual history and left to decide for themselves. They are taught to produce their *own* food, energy, information systems as needed. They are taught to be programmers, not users. Makers, not consumers. Independent problem solvers, not employees. This is 21st century education in Michigan.''' <br />
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== Manufacturing ==<br />
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Manufacturing in Michigan will become small, distributed, diverse and massively adaptable and interoperable. Designs are shared and improved constantly. Technology cooperatives not only design and produce physhical hardware and software technology for people, but they also teach people how to do this themselves, and how to effectively use technology. <br />
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Existing manufacturing labor unions will help create these new technology cooperatives by taking their pension fund monies out of greedy wall street companies and re-investing in Local Economic Development. Tens of thousands of people who are laid off from jobs will also pool resources to create these Technology Cooperatives throughout the state. This could happen here in Michigan within one year. <br />
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== Research and Development ==<br />
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Michigan Technology Cooperatives can invest their surplus resources in ongoing open source research and development, driven by the needs of people in Michigan and throughout the US and world. Students learn to participate in this activity at as early an age as possible. <br />
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== Food systems ==<br />
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Food cooperatives and community supported agriculture have proven themselves in places like Pittsburgh, Cleveland, and elsewhere. As our world spirals into a collapse of global commercial energy and resource distribution, leading to increasing costs for imported goods, we can sidestep that problem and produce food locally and regionally. We can create enough food locally in Michigan to make imports a luxury-only source of food (instead of the majority of food source for our state). We can create community owned food cooperatives in every city in the state, while simultaneously bolstering the '''hundreds of thousands of LOCAL food producers and retailers that already exist in this state'''.<br />
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== Jobs ==<br />
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'''NO. No more jobs.''' It is ALREADY fact that over 98% of businesses in Michigan are now small businesses<ref>http://levin.senate.gov/senate/smallbusiness/index.html</ref>. This is in part because most of those who are left actually participating in economic activity stopped looking for a job about 5-6 years ago and started a business. So this is what we do, we start businesses, and we connect them together. Go pay the $10 and register a DBA with your name on it at the county clerk. You are now ready to do businesses. Team up with other people in your community to share what you are learning about starting and running your own collaborative business/enterprise. In some cases we start cooperatives, credit unions, and ways for people to invest and receive return on investment in their local community (and not just monetary investment). We stop saving our retirement savings in 401k and other Wall Street scams and we invest that money locally and receive a robust and healthy return on investment.<br />
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== Health Care ==<br />
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Have I used the word "cooperative" enough in this manifesto? You are about to read it again. Why, you ask?:<br />
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'''Wouldn't you rather be a co-owner in the entity that helps you pool costs with others towards your healthcare, than deal with the corporate profit-driven casino model that currently exists for health insurance?'''<br />
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'''The time for Health Care Cooperatives in Michigan is NOW. Michigan Health Care Cooperatives hire doctors and their practices and take good care of them. They reject doctors who put profit over their Hippocratic Oath.<ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippocratic_Oath</ref>. In this way, Michigan leads the way in reforming health care ''starting with the doctor/patient relationship''. Health Care Cooperatives in Michigan also FUND proven services, such as mid-wife-run birth centers, and other so-called "alternative medicine" providers. <br />
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'''We start with changing the law in Michigan to allow us the RIGHT to create these cooperatives.'''<br />
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== Government ==<br />
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When we're not busy having our faces shoved to the grindstone at a job, we're going to have some time to engage in Local, State, and Federal governments. However, we are also going to make them increasingly obsolete in the process. We are going to be able to come up with rules together via connective technologies like the internet. We're going to also be able to team up on government when we're not being listened to. <br />
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'''We can do it without political parties''' following [[The Political Principles of Peer-to-Peer Advocacy]]. <br />
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'''''No advocate of peer-to-peer politics wants all communications or activity routed through them. Bottlenecks are weaknesses.'''''<br />
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'''That being said, any politician *or* party that ascribes to the principles of openness, p2p and the commons is worth collaborating and working with. '''<br />
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== Your additions here ==<br />
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This is what transformation in Michigan means to me. What does it mean to you? I want to know. I'll faithfully incorporate whatever any of you contribute, and I will spread it around. It's time to get real, dig in and change this place, now.<br />
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== References ==<br />
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<div>=Confirmed Participants February 2011=<br />
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Confirmed Participants so far:<br />
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* [[Michel Bauwens]] - [http://p2pfoundation.net P2P Foundation]<br />
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Michel Bauwens is a Belgian national working out of Thailand, focusing on a book about P2P Theory which adequately describes and explains current trends, to propose, in dialog with others, sustainable strategies for political and social change, i.e. to achieve a 'commons-based society' that can operate within a reformed market and state. <br />
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His past includes creation of two internet start-ups, the intranet/extranet company E-Com (sold to Alcatel) and the interactive marketing company Kyberco (sold to Tagora holding). He was European Mgr. of Thought Leadership for MarchFIRST, and ebusiness strategy director for Belgacom, Belgium’s leading telco (1999-2002). <br />
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He started his career as information analyst and reference librarian for the United States Information Agency (1983-2000), worked as information manager for British Petroleum (1990-1993) (where he created one of the first virtual information centers and is credited for coining the concept of cybrarian), and is former editor-in-chief of the first European digital convergence magazine, the Dutch language Wave.<br />
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* [http://duckduckgo.com/?q=Thomas+Benjamin+cryptocracy Thomas Benjamin] - [http://cryptocracy.net/ Cryptocracy]<br />
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Thomas Heydt-Benjamin researches security and privacy properties of ubiquitous and pervasive computing systems. Thomas brings with him to this work his prior experience in both attacks on and defenses of pervasive computing systems. In 2007 he participated in investigation of new contactless smart credit cards used in the United States, in which the team discovered serious flaws. In 2008 he and colleagues examined security and privacy properties of pacemakers and implantable cardiac defibrillators, determining that some aspects of existing designs may present dangerous security vulnerabilities. As a member of the security and cryptography team at IBM Zurich Research Laboratory from 2008 to 2009, Thomas worked with ZRL's famous anonymous credentials systems, inventing several extensions to anonymous credentials. Thomas is currently focused on novel solutions to real world security problems in resource constrained devices similar to the credit cards and pacemakers he has previously studied. Thomas started hacking and exploring computer security systems at age 6 when first exposed to assembler programming on the IBM PC. This early interest lead to formal study of computer science during high school through the Science Honors Program at Columbia University. He then earned a Bachelor of Science in computer science from Yale University, and a Master of Science in computer science from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. <br />
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* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Canter Marc Canter] - founder Macromedia, founder Digital City Project [http://www.thedigitalcity.org/]<br />
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Marc Canter is CEO of Broadband Mechanics, which produces People Aggregator, a social networking tool with source available (but not under an open source license). Previously, he was a founder of the company that became Macromedia. <br />
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His blog, [http://marc.blogs.it/ Marc's Voice], frequently critiques other Internet luminaries and competitors, such as Mark Zuckerberg. <br />
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Canter is also a contributor to many open standards efforts and advocates for end-user controlled digital identities and content - being a co-founder of the "Identity Gang", and a co-signer of the Social Web Users' Bill of Rights. <br />
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He has consulted with global corporations including PCCW and Intel and has written on the multimedia industry, micro-content publishing and social networking. <br />
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Canter is developing software in the Greater Cleveland area and teaching classes at Case Western Reserve University<br />
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* Suresh Fernando, [[http://wiki.openkollab.com/Home OpenKollab]]<br />
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Suresh's primary current project is the development of ProM, a 'dating site' for the climate action movement. The ProM concept is described [http://www.slideshare.net/sureshf/project-matching-summary040211final-6843146 here]. The current status of the project is described [http://cotw.cc/wiki/Project_Matching here]. As a part of this project, Suresh and the rest of the ProM team are developing the architecture and processes for scalable open projects.<br />
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During the last several years Suresh has been focused on developing innovative solutions and strategies in both the open collaboration and social finance space. He is the co-founder of [http://mudball.net/openkollab/ OpenKollab], a virtual think tank exploring ways of leveraging recent developments in open collaboration processes, peer-to-peer culture, technology infrastructure, interoperability protocols etc. in service of massive social and systemic change. He is also a senior consultant for [http://www.cognitivepolicyworks.com/about-us/ Cognitive Policy Works]. Suresh is a social innovator who marries innovative strategies and models by fusing a deep understanding of collaboration processes and tools, community building platforms and processes and social finance models. He is also currently providing enterprise cross-boundary collaboration services; assisting organizations to identify the appropriate technology infrastructure and processes to effectively work together across organizational boundaries.<br />
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* [[http://duckduckgo.com/?q=Adam+Fisk Adam Fisk]], Founder, [http://www.littleshoot.org LittleShoot] and [http://www.bravenewsoftware.org Brave New Software]<br />
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Adam Fisk is a P2P bit twiddler who was the lead engineer at LimeWire before founding [http://www.littleshoot.org Little Shoot] and [http://www.bravenewsoftware.org Brave New Software]. Adam is continuing to work on LittleShoot as well as Brave New Software's first project, the P2P censorship circumvention tool "Lantern." Lantern uses the LittleShoot P2P platform, a decentralized, encrypted, open source and standards-based platform for an Internet with fewer points of control.<br />
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* [[Paul B. Hartzog]], Founder, [http://www.Panarchy.com Panarchy]<br />
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Paul B. Hartzog, one of the coiners of the word "panarchy," is an independent scholar and hacker, currently teaching at the University of Michigan's School of Information. <br />
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Recipient of an NSF IGERT to study complex systems, he has a Masters in Globalization and Environmental Politics from the University of Utah, and a Masters in Political Theory from the University of Michigan. <br />
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His work on panarchy hybridizes political philosophy / economy, network culture, complex systems, and critical social theory. <br />
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His interests include Complexity Theory, Cooperation, International Relations, Environmental Politics, Information Society and Economy, Information Technologies, Sustainable Development, Network Culture, and Ethics. Paul also is a cofounder of The Forward Foundation. <br />
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His work history includes Howard Rheingold, Stanford University, the University of Michigan, and The Institute for the Future. <br />
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* [http://duckduckgo.com/?q=Scott+Heiferman Scott Heiferman] - founder, [http://www.Meetup.com Meetup.com]<br />
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Scott Heiferman is CEO and a co-founder of [http://www.meetup.com/ Meetup], a service that helps people use the internet to organize local community groups with local offline meetings. Meetup originally gained notoriety as the grassroots backbone of the Howard Dean presidential campaign in 2004. <br />
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As of April 2008, five million people have registered on Meetup. Meetup's investors include eBay, Omidyar Network, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Esther Dyson, and others. <br />
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Heiferman also co-founded Fotolog and i-traffic. <br />
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Prior to founding i-traffic, Heiferman was employed by Sony with the title "Interactive Marketing Frontiersman." In 2005, Scott received the Jane Addams Award from the National Conference on Citizenship. <br />
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In 2004 M.I.T. Technology Review awarded Scott "Innovator of the Year" for his work with Meetup. He graduated from The University of Iowa in 1994 and has posted a photo on his personal Fotolog for every day since 2001.<br />
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* [http://www.phibetaiota.net/2011/02/whos-who-in-collective-intelligence-aaron-huslage/ Aaron Huslage] - Originator [http://www.phibetaiota.net/2011/02/reference-aidphone-flybox-for-autonomous-internet/ Aidphone Flybox]<br />
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Aaron Huslage has been hacking on Internet technologies since 1987, and been a thought leader in the Internet industry since 1993. His greatest talent lies in communicating highly technical information to those who aren’t highly technical.<br />
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He constantly researches new and emerging technologies and the latest system management techniques with an emphasis on very large-scale, low-cost, simple mobile, wireless and public interest communications. Aaron is a member of the organizing committee for O’Reilly’s Emerging Telephony Conference. He is intimately familiar with Sun Microsystems offerings, and heavily committed to the concept of Open Everything including OpenBTS.<br />
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* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Berlin_Johnson Steven Johnson] - author, founder [http://outside.in/ Outside.in]<br />
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Steve Johnson is an expert on product management in technology products, using an outside-in, market-driven approach that creates successful products that people want to buy.<br />
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Author, [http://www.amazon.com/Where-Good-Ideas-Come-Innovation/dp/1594487715 Where Good Ideas Come From]<br />
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* [http://duckduckgo.com/?q=Venessa+Miemis Venessa Miemis] - media activist and artist, founder [http://www.emergentbydesign.com/ Emergent by Design]<br />
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Venessa Miemis is a futurist and digital ethnographer, researching the impacts of social technologies on society and culture and designing systems to facilitate innovation and the evolution of consciousness. <br />
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She earned a Masters in Media Studies at the New School in NYC. <br />
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She is the founder and editor of Emergent by Design, and a principal organizer with Doug Rushkoff of the CONTACT conference.<br />
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* [http://duckduckgo.com/?q=Richard+Metzger Richard Metzger] - founder, [http://www.disinfo.com/ Disinformation] and [http://dangerousminds.net/ Dangerous Minds]<br />
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Richard Metzger (born October 25, 1965 in Wheeling, West Virginia) is a television host and author. <br />
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He was the host of the TV show Disinformation (United Kingdom Channel 4, 2000-01), The Disinformation Company and its website, Disinfo.com. <br />
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He is currently the host of the online talk show Dangerous Minds. <br />
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He is the author of two books, ''Disinformation: The Interviews'' (2002) which feature unedited interviews with several of the characters and thinkers who were guests on the series and ''Book of Lies: The Disinformation Guide To Magick & The Occult'' (2004) an anthology of occult essays.<br />
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* [http://duckduckgo.com/?q=Genesis+P-Orridge Genesis P-Orridge] - musician, artist, founder Throbbing Gristle<br />
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Genesis Breyer P-Orridge (born Neil Andrew Megson 22 February 1950) is an English singer-songwriter, musician, writer and artist.<br />
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His early confrontational performance work in COUM Transmissions in the late 1960s and early 1970s along with the industrial band Throbbing Gristle, which dealt with subjects such as prostitution, pornography, serial killers, occultism and his own exploration of gender issues, generated controversy. <br />
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Later musical work with Psychic TV received wider exposure, including some chart-topping singles. <br />
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P-Orridge is credited on over 200 releases.<br />
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* [http://duckduckgo.com/?q=Eli+Pariser Eli Pariser] - founder, [http://www.MoveOn.org MoveOn]<br />
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Eli Pariser (born December 17, 1980 in Lincolnville, Maine) is the former Executive Director of [http://www.moveon.org/?skip=1 MoveOn.org], and the organization's current Board President. <br />
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Pariser's rise to prominence as a political activist began when he and college student David H. Pickering launched an online petition calling for a nonmilitary response to the attacks of September 11th. (At the time, he was working as a program assistant for the national nonprofit More Than Money.) <br />
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In less than a month, half a million people had signed the petition and in November of that year, Moveon.org founders Wes Boyd and Joan Blades asked Pariser to join their organization. <br />
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During the 2004 US Presidential Election, Pariser co-created the Bush in 30 Seconds ad contest and raised over $30 million from small donors to run ads and back Democratic and progressive candidates. <br />
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* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Pesce Mark Pesce] - inventor, technologist, futurist<br />
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Mark Pesce is an inventor, author and educator, best known for work that fused the World Wide Web with real-time 3D computer graphics; the result, known as VRML (for Virtual Reality Modeling Language) has become an international standard. <br />
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The author of numerous articles on science, technology, media and the arts, Pesce has also written five books, including ''The Playful World: How Technology is Transforming Our Imagination'' (Random House, 2000) which presented a roadmap of key 21st century technologies. <br />
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Pesce contends we are entering an ‘era of hyperdistribution’ that will radically change our media ecosystem. Central to this shift is the take-up of p2p filesharing software like BitTorrent that provides the first truly efficient digital media distribution platform based on the principles of swarming. <br />
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* [http://duckduckgo.com/?q=Andrew+Rasiej Andrew Rasiej] - co-founder [http://personaldemocracy.com/ Personal Democracy Forum]<br />
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Andrew Rasiej is a futurist, social entrepreneur, and Founder of [http://personaldemocracy.com/ Personal Democracy Forum], an annual conference and website about the intersection of politics and technology. <br />
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He is also the co-Founder of techPresident.com, an award winning blog that covers how the Obama administration is using the web, and how technology is empowering new levels of citizen engagement throughout the United States. <br />
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He is also the Founder a not for profit organization called MOUSE.org focused on 21st century public education, Co-Founder of Mideastwire.com, which translates Arabic and Farsi news and opinion pieces into English, and serves as Senior Technology Advisor to the Sunlight Foundation a Washington DC focused on using technology to help make government more transparent. <br />
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He is also the Chairman of the [http://www.meetup.com/ny-tech/ NY Tech Meetup], a 15,000 member organization of technologists, venture funders, marketers in New York City.<br />
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'''twitter:''' [http://twitter.com/#!/rasiej @rasiej]<br />
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* [[Sam Rose]] - [http://futureforwardinstitute.com Future Forward Institute]<br />
[[File:Sam rose crop.jpg|left]]<br />
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Sam Rose founded a commons-based business model consultancy that builds theory and practice in the open, helping communities and social enterprises create and usefully deploy open source software, open licensed hardware, and open education resources. <br />
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He is interested in effective knowledge synthesis, and in exploring and developing the concepts of open knowledge, open design, and open business. <br />
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He is involved in a growing list of blogs, wikis, social software experiments and developings, including CoummunityWiki, Meatball Wiki, Cooperation Commons Weblog, Smartmobs Weblog. Sam Rose is also a partner and principle technologist in http://hollymeadcapital.com<br />
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Past clients have included Howard Rheingold, MacArthur Foundation, MIT Press, Stanford University, USDA, David Korten and People Centered Development Forum, and the Cooperation Commons and Social Media Classroom community.<br />
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* [http://duckduckgo.com/?q=Rachel+Rosenfelt Rachel Rosenfelt] - founder, The [http://thenewinquiry.com/ New Inquiry]<br />
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Rachel Rosenfelt is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of The New Inquiry. <br />
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She is also a new media and marketing consultant based in New York. Prior to The New Inquiry she worked at the World Wide Workshop Foundation, rising to Program Manager. <br />
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She holds her degree from Barnard College in the field of Women’s Studies, where online activism and organization for women’s issues sparked her interest in the transformational power of new media. <br />
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'''twitter:''' [http://twitter.com/#!/rachelrosenfelt @rachelrosenfelt]<br />
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* [http://duckduckgo.com/?q=Douglas+Rushkoff Douglas Rushkoff] - media theorist, author<br />
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Douglas Rushkoff is an American media theorist, writer, columnist, lecturer, graphic novelist and documentarian. <br />
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He is best known for his association with the early cyberpunk culture, and his advocacy of open source solutions to social problems. <br />
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Rushkoff is most frequently regarded as a media theorist, and known for coining terms and concepts including viral media (or media virus), digital native, and social currency. <br />
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He has written ten books on media, technology, and culture. He wrote the first syndicated column on cyberculture for The New York Times Syndicate, as well as regular columns for The Guardian of London, Arthur, Discover and the online magazines Daily Beast,[4] TheFeature.com and meeting industry magazine One+. <br />
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Rushkoff currently teaches in the Media Studies department at The New School University in Manhattan.<br />
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'''twitter:''' [http://twitter.com/#!/rushkoff @rushkoff]<br />
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* [http://duckduckgo.com/?q=Micah+Sifry Micah Sifry] - co-founder [http://www.personaldemocracy.com Personal Democracy Forum]<br />
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Micah L. Sifry is a co-founder and editor of the Personal Democracy Forum, a daily website and annual conference on how technology is changing politics. <br />
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He is also the editor of PdF’s new group blog TechPresident, which focuses on how the campaigns are using the web and how the web is using them. Along with his partner Andrew Rasiej, he consults on how political organizations, campaigns, non-profits and media entities can adapt to and thrive in a networked world. <br />
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He is the author or editor of four books, the most recent being Is That a Politician in Your Pocket? (John Wiley & Sons, 2004), written with Nancy Watzman. <br />
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He is also an adjunct professor at the Political Science Department of the City University of New York/Graduate Center, where he teaches a course called “Writing Politics.”<br />
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* [http://duckduckgo.com/?q=Dave+Winer Dave Winer] - founder, [http://www.Scripting.com Scripting.com]<br />
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Dave Winer in Brooklyn, New York City) is an American software developer, entrepreneur and writer in New York City.<br />
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Winer is noted for his contributions to outliners, scripting, content management, and web services, as well as blogging and podcasting. <br />
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He is the founder of the software companies Living Videotext and Userland Software, a former contributing editor for the Web magazine HotWired, the author of the Scripting News weblog, a former research fellow at Harvard Law School, and current visiting scholar at New York University's Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute.<br />
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[[Category:Conferences]]</div>SRosehttps://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/index.php?title=Michigan:_The_Transformation_Manifesto&diff=48455Michigan: The Transformation Manifesto2011-03-18T02:37:35Z<p>SRose: /* Energy */</p>
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<div>== Contributors ==<br />
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*I'm Sam Rose, from the Foundation or Peer To Peer Alternatives http://p2pfoundation.net/ and co-founder http://futureforwardinstitute.com/ I am a Michigan native, former blue collar worker and now independent business person.<br />
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== "Michigan is Screwed" ==<br />
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See: http://www.youtube.com/embed/AUpO1QFMDtM<br />
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It's likely you are highly aware of the current political situation that people in Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Pennsylvania and other struggling industrial states are facing. In Michigan in particular it looks to me like the goal of Rick Snyder and the legislators that control the Michigan House/Senate is to tear down 20th century community infrastructures, starting from the bottom up. <br />
<br />
The reality is that if the people in power in Michigan now fully succeed, private mega corporations will queue up to enclose property, extract wealth and resources at lightning speed, further impoverish our community's most vulnerable members, push out those willing to fight by making their lives and communities miserable, and put whomever is left on their knees. They want our money flowing out of our pockets and communities, and their cheaply made worthless crap flowing in. They want to grab our land, our trees, frack out our natural gas and deplete our water, and run our soil down to clay. They want to push people out of the largest cities, fence of the empty land, bulldoze the buildings and sit on the land waiting for a future day when it's value increases. They want to do all of this while paying next to no taxes, employing none of the people of Michigan, and investing nothing back into the communities. They already got a huge amount of the money out of our communities by way of fraudulant mortgage scams that destroyed the economies of several countries around the world. They can make it more miserable for any of us that don't pick up and leave by: increasing our taxes (the elderly and retired, the poor, etc). Making our schools so deplorable that no one will want to move to our communities. And, whenever possible, declaring an "emergency" and dissolving local government, installing private corporations in their place with license to do whatever they want without any oversight. I am willing to bet that most of you that voted for Rick Snyder and the people in Michigan Congress probably did not vote for what I describe above. I'll bet that your ancestors didn't fight to get you to where you are now, just to see us all start to slip back towards whatever they came here to get away from. However, the sad fact is that what I describe above is now upon you, and all of us. <br />
<br />
<br> Fortunately for us, we don't have to accept this reality. We currently have all of the building blocks we need to turn things around for ourselves here in a relatively short amount of time. <br />
<br />
A clue comes to us from our own state's past. At the turn of the 19th-20th century, automobiles were prohibitively expensive for all but a few people. One of the reasons was a monopoly on the designs of automotive technology by George B. Selden: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_B._Selden Selden and associate's efforts to protect their patents led to a battle with Henry Ford, which resulted in a decision by courts to open up automotive technology for those that were not using the Selden engine design. <br />
<br />
From Open Source - History and Development Adrienne Walker San Jose State University&nbsp;[http://infosherpas.com/ojs/index.php/openandlibraries/article/view/43/65 http://infosherpas.com/ojs/index.php/openandlibraries/article/view/43/65]: <br />
<blockquote>''Free sharing and open source are not 21st century ideas, we tend to think of open source as a way of being connected to the Internet as software but open source was in existence early in the 20th century although it took a different form. That form was automobile manufacturing. For those of you familiar with early automotive history, Henry Ford challenged the patent of George Selden. Selden had a chokehold on the automobile industry but Ford won a challenge to Selden's patent (The history of free and open source, 2009). Henry Fords breakthrough initiated the beginning of open source in the modern age and coupled with the formation of the Motor Vehicle Manufacturers Association was influential in creating cross-licensing agreements. Cross-licensing agreements existed between the United States automobile manufacturers of the day. Each automobile manufacturing company modified the technology and filed patents, these patents were shared, and no exchange of money, no lawsuits and an industry thrived (The history of free and open source, 2009).'' </blockquote><ref>Special thanks to Nathan Oostendorp who made me aware of this part of Michigan industrial history when he presented this at http://igniteannarbor.com see http://ingenuitas.com/</ref> <br />
We can do this again in Michigan. We can start in our own communities, re-building our economies around sharing not just technology, but also production of food, energy, and knowledge.<br />
<br />
== Energy ==<br />
<br />
'''There's enough wind and solar power across the state of Michigan to run the whole state on wind and solar energy alone.''' Open sourcing the technology for wind, solar, and batteries for hybrid/electric cars would create an explosion of innovation across the state and in the region, and eventually worldwide. If we really want to get into manufacturing green energy in the state of Michigan, the fastest route will be by way of creating sound design cores for small wind generators and solar collectors/solar voltaics and releasing them under an open license (like TAPR for instance http://www.tapr.org/ohl.html ) Our first step can be to install hybrid solar/wind in as many individua locations as possible (some neighbrhoods can team up and group buy for a whole block), and install them in a way that turns the current electrical grid into a "Net metering" grid: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_metering <br />
<br />
We can also start processing our plant and animal waste in open source biodigesters to produce electricity (example http://www.appropedia.org/Category:Biogas ) and our agricultural and surburban landscaping refuse into new soil and biofuel. <br />
<br />
Much of this new infrastructure can be managed by user-owned cooperatives where needed.<br />
<br />
== Education ==<br />
<br />
It's time to create cooperatives where parents and teachers are the owners of school systems. Most cirricular development can be released under creative commons licenses (as seen with http://wikieducator.org/OERF:Home http://ftacademy.org/ http://www.oercommons.org/ etc etc ) <br />
<br />
Parents can work with teachers and their students to adaptively shape learning over time. '''No more showing up in cinderblock buildings and being trained to be told what to do at the expense of truly learning how and why to do it. We teach children CRITICAL THINKING and skills to solve problems on their own with little or nothing to work with except their minds. Children are no longer raw material to be shaped into employees for big business. They are now taught to invent, build, experiment, create and destroy, co-manage and co-govern anywhere anytime with anything. They are taught actual history and left to decide for themselves. They are taught to produce their *own* food, energy, information systems as needed. They are taught to be programmers, not users. Makers, not consumers. Independent problem solvers, not employees. This is 21st century education in Michigan.''' <br />
<br />
== Manufacturing ==<br />
<br />
Manufacturing in Michigan will become small, distributed, diverse and massively adaptable and interoperable. Designs are shared and improved constantly. Technology cooperatives not only design and produce physhical hardware and software technology for people, but they also teach people how to do this themselves, and how to effectively use technology. <br />
<br />
Existing manufacturing labor unions will help create these new technology cooperatives by taking their pension fund monies out of greedy wall street companies and re-investing in Local Economic Development. Tens of thousands of people who are laid off from jobs will also pool resources to create these Technology Cooperatives throughout the state. This could happen here in Michigan within one year. <br />
<br />
== Research and Development ==<br />
<br />
Michigan Technology Cooperatives can invest their surplus resources in ongoing open source research and development, driven by the needs of people in Michigan and throughout the US and world. Students learn to participate in this activity at as early an age as possible. <br />
<br />
== Food systems ==<br />
<br />
Food cooperatives and community supported agriculture have proven themselves in places like Pittsburgh, Cleveland, and elsewhere. As our world spirals into a collapse of global commercial energy and resource distribution, leading to increasing costs for imported goods, we can sidestep that problem and produce food locally and regionally. We can create enough food locally in Michigan to make imports a luxury-only source of food (instead of the majority of food source for our state). We can create community owned food cooperatives in every city in the state, while simultaneously bolstering the '''hundreds of thousands of LOCAL food producers and retailers that already exist in this state'''.<br />
<br />
== Jobs ==<br />
<br />
'''NO. No more jobs.''' It is ALREADY fact that over 98% of businesses in Michigan are now small businesses<ref>http://levin.senate.gov/senate/smallbusiness/index.html</ref>. This is in part because most of those who are left actually participating in economic activity stopped looking for a job about 5-6 years ago and started a business. So this is what we do, we start businesses, and we connect them together. Go pay the $10 and register a DBA with your name on it at the county clerk. You are now ready to do businesses. Team up with other people in your community to share what you are learning about starting and running your own collaborative business/enterprise. In some cases we start cooperatives, credit unions, and ways for people to invest and receive return on investment in their local community (and not just monetary investment). We stop saving our retirement savings in 401k and other Wall Street scams and we invest that money locally and receive a robust and healthy return on investment.<br />
<br />
== Health Care ==<br />
<br />
Have I used the word "cooperative" enough in this manifesto? You are about to read it again. Why, you ask?:<br />
<br />
'''Wouldn't you rather be a co-owner in the entity that helps you pool costs with others towards your healthcare, than deal with the corporate profit-driven casino model that currently exists for health insurance?'''<br />
<br />
'''The time for Health Care Cooperatives in Michigan is NOW. Michigan Health Care Cooperatives hire doctors and their practices and take good care of them. They reject doctors who put profit over their Hippocratic Oath.<ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippocratic_Oath</ref>. In this way, Michigan leads the way in reforming health care ''starting with the doctor/patient relationship''. Health Care Cooperatives in Michigan also FUND proven services, such as mid-wife-run birth centers, and other so-called "alternative medicine" providers. <br />
<br />
'''We start with changing the law in Michigan to allow us the RIGHT to create these cooperatives.'''<br />
<br />
== Government ==<br />
<br />
When we're not busy having our faces shoved to the grindstone at a job, we're going to have some time to engage in Local, State, and Federal governments. However, we are also going to make them increasingly obsolete in the process. We are going to be able to come up with rules together via connective technologies like the internet. We're going to also be able to team up on government when we're not being listened to. <br />
<br />
'''We can do it without political parties''' following [[The Political Principles of Peer-to-Peer Advocacy]]. <br />
<br />
'''''No advocate of peer-to-peer politics wants all communications or activity routed through them. Bottlenecks are weaknesses.'''''<br />
<br />
== Your additions here ==<br />
<br />
This is what transformation in Michigan means to me. What does it mean to you? I want to know. I'll faithfully incorporate whatever any of you contribute, and I will spread it around. It's time to get real, dig in and change this place, now.<br />
<br />
== References ==<br />
<references /><br />
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[[Category:P2P_Politics]]</div>SRosehttps://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/index.php?title=Michigan:_The_Transformation_Manifesto&diff=48454Michigan: The Transformation Manifesto2011-03-18T02:36:32Z<p>SRose: /* Health Care */</p>
<hr />
<div>== Contributors ==<br />
<br />
*I'm Sam Rose, from the Foundation or Peer To Peer Alternatives http://p2pfoundation.net/ and co-founder http://futureforwardinstitute.com/ I am a Michigan native, former blue collar worker and now independent business person.<br />
<br />
== "Michigan is Screwed" ==<br />
<br />
See: http://www.youtube.com/embed/AUpO1QFMDtM<br />
<br />
It's likely you are highly aware of the current political situation that people in Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Pennsylvania and other struggling industrial states are facing. In Michigan in particular it looks to me like the goal of Rick Snyder and the legislators that control the Michigan House/Senate is to tear down 20th century community infrastructures, starting from the bottom up. <br />
<br />
The reality is that if the people in power in Michigan now fully succeed, private mega corporations will queue up to enclose property, extract wealth and resources at lightning speed, further impoverish our community's most vulnerable members, push out those willing to fight by making their lives and communities miserable, and put whomever is left on their knees. They want our money flowing out of our pockets and communities, and their cheaply made worthless crap flowing in. They want to grab our land, our trees, frack out our natural gas and deplete our water, and run our soil down to clay. They want to push people out of the largest cities, fence of the empty land, bulldoze the buildings and sit on the land waiting for a future day when it's value increases. They want to do all of this while paying next to no taxes, employing none of the people of Michigan, and investing nothing back into the communities. They already got a huge amount of the money out of our communities by way of fraudulant mortgage scams that destroyed the economies of several countries around the world. They can make it more miserable for any of us that don't pick up and leave by: increasing our taxes (the elderly and retired, the poor, etc). Making our schools so deplorable that no one will want to move to our communities. And, whenever possible, declaring an "emergency" and dissolving local government, installing private corporations in their place with license to do whatever they want without any oversight. I am willing to bet that most of you that voted for Rick Snyder and the people in Michigan Congress probably did not vote for what I describe above. I'll bet that your ancestors didn't fight to get you to where you are now, just to see us all start to slip back towards whatever they came here to get away from. However, the sad fact is that what I describe above is now upon you, and all of us. <br />
<br />
<br> Fortunately for us, we don't have to accept this reality. We currently have all of the building blocks we need to turn things around for ourselves here in a relatively short amount of time. <br />
<br />
A clue comes to us from our own state's past. At the turn of the 19th-20th century, automobiles were prohibitively expensive for all but a few people. One of the reasons was a monopoly on the designs of automotive technology by George B. Selden: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_B._Selden Selden and associate's efforts to protect their patents led to a battle with Henry Ford, which resulted in a decision by courts to open up automotive technology for those that were not using the Selden engine design. <br />
<br />
From Open Source - History and Development Adrienne Walker San Jose State University&nbsp;[http://infosherpas.com/ojs/index.php/openandlibraries/article/view/43/65 http://infosherpas.com/ojs/index.php/openandlibraries/article/view/43/65]: <br />
<blockquote>''Free sharing and open source are not 21st century ideas, we tend to think of open source as a way of being connected to the Internet as software but open source was in existence early in the 20th century although it took a different form. That form was automobile manufacturing. For those of you familiar with early automotive history, Henry Ford challenged the patent of George Selden. Selden had a chokehold on the automobile industry but Ford won a challenge to Selden's patent (The history of free and open source, 2009). Henry Fords breakthrough initiated the beginning of open source in the modern age and coupled with the formation of the Motor Vehicle Manufacturers Association was influential in creating cross-licensing agreements. Cross-licensing agreements existed between the United States automobile manufacturers of the day. Each automobile manufacturing company modified the technology and filed patents, these patents were shared, and no exchange of money, no lawsuits and an industry thrived (The history of free and open source, 2009).'' </blockquote><ref>Special thanks to Nathan Oostendorp who made me aware of this part of Michigan industrial history when he presented this at http://igniteannarbor.com see http://ingenuitas.com/</ref> <br />
We can do this again in Michigan. We can start in our own communities, re-building our economies around sharing not just technology, but also production of food, energy, and knowledge.<br />
<br />
== Energy ==<br />
<br />
'''There's enough wind and solar power across the state of Michigan to run the whole state on wind and solar energy alone.''' Open sourcing the technology for wind, solar, and batteries for hybrid/electric cars would create an explosion of innovation across the state and in the region, and eventually worldwide. If we really want to get into manufacturing green energy in the state of Michigan, the fastest route will be by way of creating sound design cores for small wind generators and solar collectors/solar and releasing them under an open license (like TAPR for instance http://www.tapr.org/ohl.html ) Our first step can be to install hybrid solar/wind in as many individua locations as possible (some neighbrhoods can team up and group buy for a whole block), and install them in a way that turns the current electrical grid into a "Net metering" grid: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_metering <br />
<br />
We can also start processing our plant and animal waste in open source biodigesters to produce electricity (example http://www.appropedia.org/Category:Biogas ) and our agricultural and surburban landscaping refuse into new soil and biofuel. <br />
<br />
Much of this new infrastructure can be managed by user-owned cooperatives where needed. <br />
<br />
== Education ==<br />
<br />
It's time to create cooperatives where parents and teachers are the owners of school systems. Most cirricular development can be released under creative commons licenses (as seen with http://wikieducator.org/OERF:Home http://ftacademy.org/ http://www.oercommons.org/ etc etc ) <br />
<br />
Parents can work with teachers and their students to adaptively shape learning over time. '''No more showing up in cinderblock buildings and being trained to be told what to do at the expense of truly learning how and why to do it. We teach children CRITICAL THINKING and skills to solve problems on their own with little or nothing to work with except their minds. Children are no longer raw material to be shaped into employees for big business. They are now taught to invent, build, experiment, create and destroy, co-manage and co-govern anywhere anytime with anything. They are taught actual history and left to decide for themselves. They are taught to produce their *own* food, energy, information systems as needed. They are taught to be programmers, not users. Makers, not consumers. Independent problem solvers, not employees. This is 21st century education in Michigan.''' <br />
<br />
== Manufacturing ==<br />
<br />
Manufacturing in Michigan will become small, distributed, diverse and massively adaptable and interoperable. Designs are shared and improved constantly. Technology cooperatives not only design and produce physhical hardware and software technology for people, but they also teach people how to do this themselves, and how to effectively use technology. <br />
<br />
Existing manufacturing labor unions will help create these new technology cooperatives by taking their pension fund monies out of greedy wall street companies and re-investing in Local Economic Development. Tens of thousands of people who are laid off from jobs will also pool resources to create these Technology Cooperatives throughout the state. This could happen here in Michigan within one year. <br />
<br />
== Research and Development ==<br />
<br />
Michigan Technology Cooperatives can invest their surplus resources in ongoing open source research and development, driven by the needs of people in Michigan and throughout the US and world. Students learn to participate in this activity at as early an age as possible. <br />
<br />
== Food systems ==<br />
<br />
Food cooperatives and community supported agriculture have proven themselves in places like Pittsburgh, Cleveland, and elsewhere. As our world spirals into a collapse of global commercial energy and resource distribution, leading to increasing costs for imported goods, we can sidestep that problem and produce food locally and regionally. We can create enough food locally in Michigan to make imports a luxury-only source of food (instead of the majority of food source for our state). We can create community owned food cooperatives in every city in the state, while simultaneously bolstering the '''hundreds of thousands of LOCAL food producers and retailers that already exist in this state'''.<br />
<br />
== Jobs ==<br />
<br />
'''NO. No more jobs.''' It is ALREADY fact that over 98% of businesses in Michigan are now small businesses<ref>http://levin.senate.gov/senate/smallbusiness/index.html</ref>. This is in part because most of those who are left actually participating in economic activity stopped looking for a job about 5-6 years ago and started a business. So this is what we do, we start businesses, and we connect them together. Go pay the $10 and register a DBA with your name on it at the county clerk. You are now ready to do businesses. Team up with other people in your community to share what you are learning about starting and running your own collaborative business/enterprise. In some cases we start cooperatives, credit unions, and ways for people to invest and receive return on investment in their local community (and not just monetary investment). We stop saving our retirement savings in 401k and other Wall Street scams and we invest that money locally and receive a robust and healthy return on investment.<br />
<br />
== Health Care ==<br />
<br />
Have I used the word "cooperative" enough in this manifesto? You are about to read it again. Why, you ask?:<br />
<br />
'''Wouldn't you rather be a co-owner in the entity that helps you pool costs with others towards your healthcare, than deal with the corporate profit-driven casino model that currently exists for health insurance?'''<br />
<br />
'''The time for Health Care Cooperatives in Michigan is NOW. Michigan Health Care Cooperatives hire doctors and their practices and take good care of them. They reject doctors who put profit over their Hippocratic Oath.<ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippocratic_Oath</ref>. In this way, Michigan leads the way in reforming health care ''starting with the doctor/patient relationship''. Health Care Cooperatives in Michigan also FUND proven services, such as mid-wife-run birth centers, and other so-called "alternative medicine" providers. <br />
<br />
'''We start with changing the law in Michigan to allow us the RIGHT to create these cooperatives.'''<br />
<br />
== Government ==<br />
<br />
When we're not busy having our faces shoved to the grindstone at a job, we're going to have some time to engage in Local, State, and Federal governments. However, we are also going to make them increasingly obsolete in the process. We are going to be able to come up with rules together via connective technologies like the internet. We're going to also be able to team up on government when we're not being listened to. <br />
<br />
'''We can do it without political parties''' following [[The Political Principles of Peer-to-Peer Advocacy]]. <br />
<br />
'''''No advocate of peer-to-peer politics wants all communications or activity routed through them. Bottlenecks are weaknesses.'''''<br />
<br />
== Your additions here ==<br />
<br />
This is what transformation in Michigan means to me. What does it mean to you? I want to know. I'll faithfully incorporate whatever any of you contribute, and I will spread it around. It's time to get real, dig in and change this place, now.<br />
<br />
== References ==<br />
<references /><br />
<br />
[[Category:P2P_Politics]]</div>SRosehttps://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/index.php?title=Michigan:_The_Transformation_Manifesto&diff=48453Michigan: The Transformation Manifesto2011-03-18T02:33:52Z<p>SRose: </p>
<hr />
<div>== Contributors ==<br />
<br />
*I'm Sam Rose, from the Foundation or Peer To Peer Alternatives http://p2pfoundation.net/ and co-founder http://futureforwardinstitute.com/ I am a Michigan native, former blue collar worker and now independent business person.<br />
<br />
== "Michigan is Screwed" ==<br />
<br />
See: http://www.youtube.com/embed/AUpO1QFMDtM<br />
<br />
It's likely you are highly aware of the current political situation that people in Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Pennsylvania and other struggling industrial states are facing. In Michigan in particular it looks to me like the goal of Rick Snyder and the legislators that control the Michigan House/Senate is to tear down 20th century community infrastructures, starting from the bottom up. <br />
<br />
The reality is that if the people in power in Michigan now fully succeed, private mega corporations will queue up to enclose property, extract wealth and resources at lightning speed, further impoverish our community's most vulnerable members, push out those willing to fight by making their lives and communities miserable, and put whomever is left on their knees. They want our money flowing out of our pockets and communities, and their cheaply made worthless crap flowing in. They want to grab our land, our trees, frack out our natural gas and deplete our water, and run our soil down to clay. They want to push people out of the largest cities, fence of the empty land, bulldoze the buildings and sit on the land waiting for a future day when it's value increases. They want to do all of this while paying next to no taxes, employing none of the people of Michigan, and investing nothing back into the communities. They already got a huge amount of the money out of our communities by way of fraudulant mortgage scams that destroyed the economies of several countries around the world. They can make it more miserable for any of us that don't pick up and leave by: increasing our taxes (the elderly and retired, the poor, etc). Making our schools so deplorable that no one will want to move to our communities. And, whenever possible, declaring an "emergency" and dissolving local government, installing private corporations in their place with license to do whatever they want without any oversight. I am willing to bet that most of you that voted for Rick Snyder and the people in Michigan Congress probably did not vote for what I describe above. I'll bet that your ancestors didn't fight to get you to where you are now, just to see us all start to slip back towards whatever they came here to get away from. However, the sad fact is that what I describe above is now upon you, and all of us. <br />
<br />
<br> Fortunately for us, we don't have to accept this reality. We currently have all of the building blocks we need to turn things around for ourselves here in a relatively short amount of time. <br />
<br />
A clue comes to us from our own state's past. At the turn of the 19th-20th century, automobiles were prohibitively expensive for all but a few people. One of the reasons was a monopoly on the designs of automotive technology by George B. Selden: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_B._Selden Selden and associate's efforts to protect their patents led to a battle with Henry Ford, which resulted in a decision by courts to open up automotive technology for those that were not using the Selden engine design. <br />
<br />
From Open Source - History and Development Adrienne Walker San Jose State University&nbsp;[http://infosherpas.com/ojs/index.php/openandlibraries/article/view/43/65 http://infosherpas.com/ojs/index.php/openandlibraries/article/view/43/65]: <br />
<blockquote>''Free sharing and open source are not 21st century ideas, we tend to think of open source as a way of being connected to the Internet as software but open source was in existence early in the 20th century although it took a different form. That form was automobile manufacturing. For those of you familiar with early automotive history, Henry Ford challenged the patent of George Selden. Selden had a chokehold on the automobile industry but Ford won a challenge to Selden's patent (The history of free and open source, 2009). Henry Fords breakthrough initiated the beginning of open source in the modern age and coupled with the formation of the Motor Vehicle Manufacturers Association was influential in creating cross-licensing agreements. Cross-licensing agreements existed between the United States automobile manufacturers of the day. Each automobile manufacturing company modified the technology and filed patents, these patents were shared, and no exchange of money, no lawsuits and an industry thrived (The history of free and open source, 2009).'' </blockquote><ref>Special thanks to Nathan Oostendorp who made me aware of this part of Michigan industrial history when he presented this at http://igniteannarbor.com see http://ingenuitas.com/</ref> <br />
We can do this again in Michigan. We can start in our own communities, re-building our economies around sharing not just technology, but also production of food, energy, and knowledge.<br />
<br />
== Energy ==<br />
<br />
'''There's enough wind and solar power across the state of Michigan to run the whole state on wind and solar energy alone.''' Open sourcing the technology for wind, solar, and batteries for hybrid/electric cars would create an explosion of innovation across the state and in the region, and eventually worldwide. If we really want to get into manufacturing green energy in the state of Michigan, the fastest route will be by way of creating sound design cores for small wind generators and solar collectors/solar and releasing them under an open license (like TAPR for instance http://www.tapr.org/ohl.html ) Our first step can be to install hybrid solar/wind in as many individua locations as possible (some neighbrhoods can team up and group buy for a whole block), and install them in a way that turns the current electrical grid into a "Net metering" grid: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_metering <br />
<br />
We can also start processing our plant and animal waste in open source biodigesters to produce electricity (example http://www.appropedia.org/Category:Biogas ) and our agricultural and surburban landscaping refuse into new soil and biofuel. <br />
<br />
Much of this new infrastructure can be managed by user-owned cooperatives where needed. <br />
<br />
== Education ==<br />
<br />
It's time to create cooperatives where parents and teachers are the owners of school systems. Most cirricular development can be released under creative commons licenses (as seen with http://wikieducator.org/OERF:Home http://ftacademy.org/ http://www.oercommons.org/ etc etc ) <br />
<br />
Parents can work with teachers and their students to adaptively shape learning over time. '''No more showing up in cinderblock buildings and being trained to be told what to do at the expense of truly learning how and why to do it. We teach children CRITICAL THINKING and skills to solve problems on their own with little or nothing to work with except their minds. Children are no longer raw material to be shaped into employees for big business. They are now taught to invent, build, experiment, create and destroy, co-manage and co-govern anywhere anytime with anything. They are taught actual history and left to decide for themselves. They are taught to produce their *own* food, energy, information systems as needed. They are taught to be programmers, not users. Makers, not consumers. Independent problem solvers, not employees. This is 21st century education in Michigan.''' <br />
<br />
== Manufacturing ==<br />
<br />
Manufacturing in Michigan will become small, distributed, diverse and massively adaptable and interoperable. Designs are shared and improved constantly. Technology cooperatives not only design and produce physhical hardware and software technology for people, but they also teach people how to do this themselves, and how to effectively use technology. <br />
<br />
Existing manufacturing labor unions will help create these new technology cooperatives by taking their pension fund monies out of greedy wall street companies and re-investing in Local Economic Development. Tens of thousands of people who are laid off from jobs will also pool resources to create these Technology Cooperatives throughout the state. This could happen here in Michigan within one year. <br />
<br />
== Research and Development ==<br />
<br />
Michigan Technology Cooperatives can invest their surplus resources in ongoing open source research and development, driven by the needs of people in Michigan and throughout the US and world. Students learn to participate in this activity at as early an age as possible. <br />
<br />
== Food systems ==<br />
<br />
Food cooperatives and community supported agriculture have proven themselves in places like Pittsburgh, Cleveland, and elsewhere. As our world spirals into a collapse of global commercial energy and resource distribution, leading to increasing costs for imported goods, we can sidestep that problem and produce food locally and regionally. We can create enough food locally in Michigan to make imports a luxury-only source of food (instead of the majority of food source for our state). We can create community owned food cooperatives in every city in the state, while simultaneously bolstering the '''hundreds of thousands of LOCAL food producers and retailers that already exist in this state'''.<br />
<br />
== Jobs ==<br />
<br />
'''NO. No more jobs.''' It is ALREADY fact that over 98% of businesses in Michigan are now small businesses<ref>http://levin.senate.gov/senate/smallbusiness/index.html</ref>. This is in part because most of those who are left actually participating in economic activity stopped looking for a job about 5-6 years ago and started a business. So this is what we do, we start businesses, and we connect them together. Go pay the $10 and register a DBA with your name on it at the county clerk. You are now ready to do businesses. Team up with other people in your community to share what you are learning about starting and running your own collaborative business/enterprise. In some cases we start cooperatives, credit unions, and ways for people to invest and receive return on investment in their local community (and not just monetary investment). We stop saving our retirement savings in 401k and other Wall Street scams and we invest that money locally and receive a robust and healthy return on investment.<br />
<br />
== Health Care ==<br />
<br />
Have I used the word "cooperative" enough in this manifesto? You are about to read it again. Why, you ask?:<br />
<br />
'''Wouldn't you rather be a co-owner in the entity that helps you pool costs with others towards your healthcare, than deal with the corporate profit-driven casino model that currently exists for health insurance?'''<br />
<br />
'''The time for Health Care Cooperatives in Michigan is NOW. Michigan Health Care Cooperatives hire doctors and their practices and take good care of them. They reject doctors who put profit over their Hippocratic Oath.<ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippocratic_Oath</ref>. In this way, Michigan leads the way in reforming health care ''STARTING WITH THE DOCTOR/PATIENT RELATIONSHIP''. Health Care Cooperatives in Michigan also FUND proven services, such as mid-wife-run birth centers, and other so-called "alternative medicine" providers. <br />
<br />
We start with changing the law in Michigan to allow us the RIGHT to create these cooperatives.'''<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
== Government ==<br />
<br />
When we're not busy having our faces shoved to the grindstone at a job, we're going to have some time to engage in Local, State, and Federal governments. However, we are also going to make them increasingly obsolete in the process. We are going to be able to come up with rules together via connective technologies like the internet. We're going to also be able to team up on government when we're not being listened to. <br />
<br />
'''We can do it without political parties''' following [[The Political Principles of Peer-to-Peer Advocacy]]. <br />
<br />
'''''No advocate of peer-to-peer politics wants all communications or activity routed through them. Bottlenecks are weaknesses.'''''<br />
<br />
== Your additions here ==<br />
<br />
This is what transformation in Michigan means to me. What does it mean to you? I want to know. I'll faithfully incorporate whatever any of you contribute, and I will spread it around. It's time to get real, dig in and change this place, now.<br />
<br />
== References ==<br />
<references /><br />
<br />
[[Category:P2P_Politics]]</div>SRosehttps://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/index.php?title=Michigan:_The_Transformation_Manifesto&diff=48452Michigan: The Transformation Manifesto2011-03-18T02:19:40Z<p>SRose: /* Jobs */</p>
<hr />
<div>== Contributors ==<br />
<br />
*I'm Sam Rose, from the Foundation or Peer To Peer Alternatives http://p2pfoundation.net/ and co-founder http://futureforwardinstitute.com/ I am a Michigan native, former blue collar worker and now independent business person.<br />
<br />
== "Michigan is Screwed" ==<br />
<br />
See: http://www.youtube.com/embed/AUpO1QFMDtM<br />
<br />
It's likely you are highly aware of the current political situation that people in Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Pennsylvania and other struggling industrial states are facing. In Michigan in particular it looks to me like the goal of Rick Snyder and the legislators that control the Michigan House/Senate is to tear down 20th century community infrastructures, starting from the bottom up. <br />
<br />
The reality is that if the people in power in Michigan now fully succeed, private mega corporations will queue up to enclose property, extract wealth and resources at lightning speed, further impoverish our community's most vulnerable members, push out those willing to fight by making their lives and communities miserable, and put whomever is left on their knees. They want our money flowing out of our pockets and communities, and their cheaply made worthless crap flowing in. They want to grab our land, our trees, frack out our natural gas and deplete our water, and run our soil down to clay. They want to push people out of the largest cities, fence of the empty land, bulldoze the buildings and sit on the land waiting for a future day when it's value increases. They want to do all of this while paying next to no taxes, employing none of the people of Michigan, and investing nothing back into the communities. They already got a huge amount of the money out of our communities by way of fraudulant mortgage scams that destroyed the economies of several countries around the world. They can make it more miserable for any of us that don't pick up and leave by: increasing our taxes (the elderly and retired, the poor, etc). Making our schools so deplorable that no one will want to move to our communities. And, whenever possible, declaring an "emergency" and dissolving local government, installing private corporations in their place with license to do whatever they want without any oversight. I am willing to bet that most of you that voted for Rick Snyder and the people in Michigan Congress probably did not vote for what I describe above. I'll bet that your ancestors didn't fight to get you to where you are now, just to see us all start to slip back towards whatever they came here to get away from. However, the sad fact is that what I describe above is now upon you, and all of us. <br />
<br />
<br> Fortunately for us, we don't have to accept this reality. We currently have all of the building blocks we need to turn things around for ourselves here in a relatively short amount of time. <br />
<br />
A clue comes to us from our own state's past. At the turn of the 19th-20th century, automobiles were prohibitively expensive for all but a few people. One of the reasons was a monopoly on the designs of automotive technology by George B. Selden: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_B._Selden Selden and associate's efforts to protect their patents led to a battle with Henry Ford, which resulted in a decision by courts to open up automotive technology for those that were not using the Selden engine design. <br />
<br />
From Open Source - History and Development Adrienne Walker San Jose State University&nbsp;[http://infosherpas.com/ojs/index.php/openandlibraries/article/view/43/65 http://infosherpas.com/ojs/index.php/openandlibraries/article/view/43/65]: <br />
<blockquote>''Free sharing and open source are not 21st century ideas, we tend to think of open source as a way of being connected to the Internet as software but open source was in existence early in the 20th century although it took a different form. That form was automobile manufacturing. For those of you familiar with early automotive history, Henry Ford challenged the patent of George Selden. Selden had a chokehold on the automobile industry but Ford won a challenge to Selden's patent (The history of free and open source, 2009). Henry Fords breakthrough initiated the beginning of open source in the modern age and coupled with the formation of the Motor Vehicle Manufacturers Association was influential in creating cross-licensing agreements. Cross-licensing agreements existed between the United States automobile manufacturers of the day. Each automobile manufacturing company modified the technology and filed patents, these patents were shared, and no exchange of money, no lawsuits and an industry thrived (The history of free and open source, 2009).'' </blockquote><ref>Special thanks to Nathan Oostendorp who made me aware of this part of Michigan industrial history when he presented this at http://igniteannarbor.com see http://ingenuitas.com/</ref> <br />
We can do this again in Michigan. We can start in our own communities, re-building our economies around sharing not just technology, but also production of food, energy, and knowledge.<br />
<br />
== Energy ==<br />
<br />
'''There's enough wind and solar power across the state of Michigan to run the whole state on wind and solar energy alone.''' Open sourcing the technology for wind, solar, and batteries for hybrid/electric cars would create an explosion of innovation across the state and in the region, and eventually worldwide. If we really want to get into manufacturing green energy in the state of Michigan, the fastest route will be by way of creating sound design cores for small wind generators and solar collectors/solar and releasing them under an open license (like TAPR for instance http://www.tapr.org/ohl.html ) Our first step can be to install hybrid solar/wind in as many individua locations as possible (some neighbrhoods can team up and group buy for a whole block), and install them in a way that turns the current electrical grid into a "Net metering" grid: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_metering <br />
<br />
We can also start processing our plant and animal waste in open source biodigesters to produce electricity (example http://www.appropedia.org/Category:Biogas ) and our agricultural and surburban landscaping refuse into new soil and biofuel. <br />
<br />
Much of this new infrastructure can be managed by user-owned cooperatives where needed. <br />
<br />
== Education ==<br />
<br />
It's time to create cooperatives where parents and teachers are the owners of school systems. Most cirricular development can be released under creative commons licenses (as seen with http://wikieducator.org/OERF:Home http://ftacademy.org/ http://www.oercommons.org/ etc etc ) <br />
<br />
Parents can work with teachers and their students to adaptively shape learning over time. '''No more showing up in cinderblock buildings and being trained to be told what to do at the expense of truly learning how and why to do it. We teach children CRITICAL THINKING and skills to solve problems on their own with little or nothing to work with except their minds. Children are no longer raw material to be shaped into employees for big business. They are now taught to invent, build, experiment, create and destroy, co-manage and co-govern anywhere anytime with anything. They are taught actual history and left to decide for themselves. They are taught to produce their *own* food, energy, information systems as needed. They are taught to be programmers, not users. Makers, not consumers. Independent problem solvers, not employees. This is 21st century education in Michigan.''' <br />
<br />
== Manufacturing ==<br />
<br />
Manufacturing in Michigan will become small, distributed, diverse and massively adaptable and interoperable. Designs are shared and improved constantly. Technology cooperatives not only design and produce physhical hardware and software technology for people, but they also teach people how to do this themselves, and how to effectively use technology. <br />
<br />
Existing manufacturing labor unions will help create these new technology cooperatives by taking their pension fund monies out of greedy wall street companies and re-investing in Local Economic Development. Tens of thousands of people who are laid off from jobs will also pool resources to create these Technology Cooperatives throughout the state. This could happen here in Michigan within one year. <br />
<br />
== Research and Development ==<br />
<br />
Michigan Technology Cooperatives can invest their surplus resources in ongoing open source research and development, driven by the needs of people in Michigan and throughout the US and world. Students learn to participate in this activity at as early an age as possible. <br />
<br />
== Food systems ==<br />
<br />
Food cooperatives and community supported agriculture have proven themselves in places like Pittsburgh, Cleveland, and elsewhere. As our world spirals into a collapse of global commercial energy and resource distribution, leading to increasing costs for imported goods, we can sidestep that problem and produce food locally and regionally. We can create enough food locally in Michigan to make imports a luxury-only source of food (instead of the majority of food source for our state). We can create community owned food cooperatives in every city in the state, while simultaneously bolstering the '''hundreds of thousands of LOCAL food producers and retailers that already exist in this state'''.<br />
<br />
== Jobs ==<br />
<br />
'''NO. No more jobs.''' It is ALREADY fact that over 98% of businesses in Michigan are now small businesses<ref>http://levin.senate.gov/senate/smallbusiness/index.html</ref>. This is in part because most of those who are left actually participating in economic activity stopped looking for a job about 5-6 years ago and started a business. So this is what we do, we start businesses, and we connect them together. Go pay the $10 and register a DBA with your name on it at the county clerk. You are now ready to do businesses. Team up with other people in your community to share what you are learning about starting and running your own collaborative business/enterprise. In some cases we start cooperatives, credit unions, and ways for people to invest and receive return on investment in their local community (and not just monetary investment). We stop saving our retirement savings in 401k and other Wall Street scams and we invest that money locally and receive a robust and healthy return on investment.<br />
<br />
== Government ==<br />
<br />
When we're not busy having our faces shoved to the grindstone at a job, we're going to have some time to engage in Local, State, and Federal governments. However, we are also going to make them increasingly obsolete in the process. We are going to be able to come up with rules together via connective technologies like the internet. We're going to also be able to team up on government when we're not being listened to. <br />
<br />
'''We can do it without political parties''' following [[The Political Principles of Peer-to-Peer Advocacy]]. <br />
<br />
'''''No advocate of peer-to-peer politics wants all communications or activity routed through them. Bottlenecks are weaknesses.'''''<br />
<br />
== Your additions here ==<br />
<br />
This is what transformation in Michigan means to me. What does it mean to you? I want to know. I'll faithfully incorporate whatever any of you contribute, and I will spread it around. It's time to get real, dig in and change this place, now.<br />
<br />
== References ==<br />
<references /><br />
<br />
[[Category:P2P_Politics]]</div>SRosehttps://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/index.php?title=Michigan:_The_Transformation_Manifesto&diff=48451Michigan: The Transformation Manifesto2011-03-18T02:19:04Z<p>SRose: /* Food systems */</p>
<hr />
<div>== Contributors ==<br />
<br />
*I'm Sam Rose, from the Foundation or Peer To Peer Alternatives http://p2pfoundation.net/ and co-founder http://futureforwardinstitute.com/ I am a Michigan native, former blue collar worker and now independent business person.<br />
<br />
== "Michigan is Screwed" ==<br />
<br />
See: http://www.youtube.com/embed/AUpO1QFMDtM<br />
<br />
It's likely you are highly aware of the current political situation that people in Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Pennsylvania and other struggling industrial states are facing. In Michigan in particular it looks to me like the goal of Rick Snyder and the legislators that control the Michigan House/Senate is to tear down 20th century community infrastructures, starting from the bottom up. <br />
<br />
The reality is that if the people in power in Michigan now fully succeed, private mega corporations will queue up to enclose property, extract wealth and resources at lightning speed, further impoverish our community's most vulnerable members, push out those willing to fight by making their lives and communities miserable, and put whomever is left on their knees. They want our money flowing out of our pockets and communities, and their cheaply made worthless crap flowing in. They want to grab our land, our trees, frack out our natural gas and deplete our water, and run our soil down to clay. They want to push people out of the largest cities, fence of the empty land, bulldoze the buildings and sit on the land waiting for a future day when it's value increases. They want to do all of this while paying next to no taxes, employing none of the people of Michigan, and investing nothing back into the communities. They already got a huge amount of the money out of our communities by way of fraudulant mortgage scams that destroyed the economies of several countries around the world. They can make it more miserable for any of us that don't pick up and leave by: increasing our taxes (the elderly and retired, the poor, etc). Making our schools so deplorable that no one will want to move to our communities. And, whenever possible, declaring an "emergency" and dissolving local government, installing private corporations in their place with license to do whatever they want without any oversight. I am willing to bet that most of you that voted for Rick Snyder and the people in Michigan Congress probably did not vote for what I describe above. I'll bet that your ancestors didn't fight to get you to where you are now, just to see us all start to slip back towards whatever they came here to get away from. However, the sad fact is that what I describe above is now upon you, and all of us. <br />
<br />
<br> Fortunately for us, we don't have to accept this reality. We currently have all of the building blocks we need to turn things around for ourselves here in a relatively short amount of time. <br />
<br />
A clue comes to us from our own state's past. At the turn of the 19th-20th century, automobiles were prohibitively expensive for all but a few people. One of the reasons was a monopoly on the designs of automotive technology by George B. Selden: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_B._Selden Selden and associate's efforts to protect their patents led to a battle with Henry Ford, which resulted in a decision by courts to open up automotive technology for those that were not using the Selden engine design. <br />
<br />
From Open Source - History and Development Adrienne Walker San Jose State University&nbsp;[http://infosherpas.com/ojs/index.php/openandlibraries/article/view/43/65 http://infosherpas.com/ojs/index.php/openandlibraries/article/view/43/65]: <br />
<blockquote>''Free sharing and open source are not 21st century ideas, we tend to think of open source as a way of being connected to the Internet as software but open source was in existence early in the 20th century although it took a different form. That form was automobile manufacturing. For those of you familiar with early automotive history, Henry Ford challenged the patent of George Selden. Selden had a chokehold on the automobile industry but Ford won a challenge to Selden's patent (The history of free and open source, 2009). Henry Fords breakthrough initiated the beginning of open source in the modern age and coupled with the formation of the Motor Vehicle Manufacturers Association was influential in creating cross-licensing agreements. Cross-licensing agreements existed between the United States automobile manufacturers of the day. Each automobile manufacturing company modified the technology and filed patents, these patents were shared, and no exchange of money, no lawsuits and an industry thrived (The history of free and open source, 2009).'' </blockquote><ref>Special thanks to Nathan Oostendorp who made me aware of this part of Michigan industrial history when he presented this at http://igniteannarbor.com see http://ingenuitas.com/</ref> <br />
We can do this again in Michigan. We can start in our own communities, re-building our economies around sharing not just technology, but also production of food, energy, and knowledge.<br />
<br />
== Energy ==<br />
<br />
'''There's enough wind and solar power across the state of Michigan to run the whole state on wind and solar energy alone.''' Open sourcing the technology for wind, solar, and batteries for hybrid/electric cars would create an explosion of innovation across the state and in the region, and eventually worldwide. If we really want to get into manufacturing green energy in the state of Michigan, the fastest route will be by way of creating sound design cores for small wind generators and solar collectors/solar and releasing them under an open license (like TAPR for instance http://www.tapr.org/ohl.html ) Our first step can be to install hybrid solar/wind in as many individua locations as possible (some neighbrhoods can team up and group buy for a whole block), and install them in a way that turns the current electrical grid into a "Net metering" grid: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_metering <br />
<br />
We can also start processing our plant and animal waste in open source biodigesters to produce electricity (example http://www.appropedia.org/Category:Biogas ) and our agricultural and surburban landscaping refuse into new soil and biofuel. <br />
<br />
Much of this new infrastructure can be managed by user-owned cooperatives where needed. <br />
<br />
== Education ==<br />
<br />
It's time to create cooperatives where parents and teachers are the owners of school systems. Most cirricular development can be released under creative commons licenses (as seen with http://wikieducator.org/OERF:Home http://ftacademy.org/ http://www.oercommons.org/ etc etc ) <br />
<br />
Parents can work with teachers and their students to adaptively shape learning over time. '''No more showing up in cinderblock buildings and being trained to be told what to do at the expense of truly learning how and why to do it. We teach children CRITICAL THINKING and skills to solve problems on their own with little or nothing to work with except their minds. Children are no longer raw material to be shaped into employees for big business. They are now taught to invent, build, experiment, create and destroy, co-manage and co-govern anywhere anytime with anything. They are taught actual history and left to decide for themselves. They are taught to produce their *own* food, energy, information systems as needed. They are taught to be programmers, not users. Makers, not consumers. Independent problem solvers, not employees. This is 21st century education in Michigan.''' <br />
<br />
== Manufacturing ==<br />
<br />
Manufacturing in Michigan will become small, distributed, diverse and massively adaptable and interoperable. Designs are shared and improved constantly. Technology cooperatives not only design and produce physhical hardware and software technology for people, but they also teach people how to do this themselves, and how to effectively use technology. <br />
<br />
Existing manufacturing labor unions will help create these new technology cooperatives by taking their pension fund monies out of greedy wall street companies and re-investing in Local Economic Development. Tens of thousands of people who are laid off from jobs will also pool resources to create these Technology Cooperatives throughout the state. This could happen here in Michigan within one year. <br />
<br />
== Research and Development ==<br />
<br />
Michigan Technology Cooperatives can invest their surplus resources in ongoing open source research and development, driven by the needs of people in Michigan and throughout the US and world. Students learn to participate in this activity at as early an age as possible. <br />
<br />
== Food systems ==<br />
<br />
Food cooperatives and community supported agriculture have proven themselves in places like Pittsburgh, Cleveland, and elsewhere. As our world spirals into a collapse of global commercial energy and resource distribution, leading to increasing costs for imported goods, we can sidestep that problem and produce food locally and regionally. We can create enough food locally in Michigan to make imports a luxury-only source of food (instead of the majority of food source for our state). We can create community owned food cooperatives in every city in the state, while simultaneously bolstering the '''hundreds of thousands of LOCAL food producers and retailers that already exist in this state'''.<br />
<br />
== Jobs ==<br />
<br />
'''NO. No more jobs.''' It is ALREADY fact that over 98% of businesses in Michigan are now small businesses<ref>http://levin.senate.gov/senate/smallbusiness/index.html</ref>. This is in part because most of those who are left actually participating in economic activity stopped looking for a job about 5-6 years ago and started a business. So this is what we do, we start businesses, and we connect them together. Go pay the $10 and register a DBA with your name on it at the county clerk. You are now ready to do businesses. Team up with other people in your community to share what you are learning. In some cases we start cooperatives, credit unions, and ways for people to invest and receive return on investment in their local community (and not just monetary investment). We stop saving our retirement savings in 401k and other Wall Street scams and we invest that money locally and receive a robust and healthy return on investment.<br />
<br />
== Government ==<br />
<br />
When we're not busy having our faces shoved to the grindstone at a job, we're going to have some time to engage in Local, State, and Federal governments. However, we are also going to make them increasingly obsolete in the process. We are going to be able to come up with rules together via connective technologies like the internet. We're going to also be able to team up on government when we're not being listened to. <br />
<br />
'''We can do it without political parties''' following [[The Political Principles of Peer-to-Peer Advocacy]]. <br />
<br />
'''''No advocate of peer-to-peer politics wants all communications or activity routed through them. Bottlenecks are weaknesses.'''''<br />
<br />
== Your additions here ==<br />
<br />
This is what transformation in Michigan means to me. What does it mean to you? I want to know. I'll faithfully incorporate whatever any of you contribute, and I will spread it around. It's time to get real, dig in and change this place, now.<br />
<br />
== References ==<br />
<references /><br />
<br />
[[Category:P2P_Politics]]</div>SRosehttps://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/index.php?title=Michigan:_The_Transformation_Manifesto&diff=48450Michigan: The Transformation Manifesto2011-03-18T02:14:23Z<p>SRose: /* "Michigan is Screwed" */</p>
<hr />
<div>== Contributors ==<br />
<br />
*I'm Sam Rose, from the Foundation or Peer To Peer Alternatives http://p2pfoundation.net/ and co-founder http://futureforwardinstitute.com/ I am a Michigan native, former blue collar worker and now independent business person.<br />
<br />
== "Michigan is Screwed" ==<br />
<br />
See: http://www.youtube.com/embed/AUpO1QFMDtM<br />
<br />
It's likely you are highly aware of the current political situation that people in Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Pennsylvania and other struggling industrial states are facing. In Michigan in particular it looks to me like the goal of Rick Snyder and the legislators that control the Michigan House/Senate is to tear down 20th century community infrastructures, starting from the bottom up. <br />
<br />
The reality is that if the people in power in Michigan now fully succeed, private mega corporations will queue up to enclose property, extract wealth and resources at lightning speed, further impoverish our community's most vulnerable members, push out those willing to fight by making their lives and communities miserable, and put whomever is left on their knees. They want our money flowing out of our pockets and communities, and their cheaply made worthless crap flowing in. They want to grab our land, our trees, frack out our natural gas and deplete our water, and run our soil down to clay. They want to push people out of the largest cities, fence of the empty land, bulldoze the buildings and sit on the land waiting for a future day when it's value increases. They want to do all of this while paying next to no taxes, employing none of the people of Michigan, and investing nothing back into the communities. They already got a huge amount of the money out of our communities by way of fraudulant mortgage scams that destroyed the economies of several countries around the world. They can make it more miserable for any of us that don't pick up and leave by: increasing our taxes (the elderly and retired, the poor, etc). Making our schools so deplorable that no one will want to move to our communities. And, whenever possible, declaring an "emergency" and dissolving local government, installing private corporations in their place with license to do whatever they want without any oversight. I am willing to bet that most of you that voted for Rick Snyder and the people in Michigan Congress probably did not vote for what I describe above. I'll bet that your ancestors didn't fight to get you to where you are now, just to see us all start to slip back towards whatever they came here to get away from. However, the sad fact is that what I describe above is now upon you, and all of us. <br />
<br />
<br> Fortunately for us, we don't have to accept this reality. We currently have all of the building blocks we need to turn things around for ourselves here in a relatively short amount of time. <br />
<br />
A clue comes to us from our own state's past. At the turn of the 19th-20th century, automobiles were prohibitively expensive for all but a few people. One of the reasons was a monopoly on the designs of automotive technology by George B. Selden: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_B._Selden Selden and associate's efforts to protect their patents led to a battle with Henry Ford, which resulted in a decision by courts to open up automotive technology for those that were not using the Selden engine design. <br />
<br />
From Open Source - History and Development Adrienne Walker San Jose State University&nbsp;[http://infosherpas.com/ojs/index.php/openandlibraries/article/view/43/65 http://infosherpas.com/ojs/index.php/openandlibraries/article/view/43/65]: <br />
<blockquote>''Free sharing and open source are not 21st century ideas, we tend to think of open source as a way of being connected to the Internet as software but open source was in existence early in the 20th century although it took a different form. That form was automobile manufacturing. For those of you familiar with early automotive history, Henry Ford challenged the patent of George Selden. Selden had a chokehold on the automobile industry but Ford won a challenge to Selden's patent (The history of free and open source, 2009). Henry Fords breakthrough initiated the beginning of open source in the modern age and coupled with the formation of the Motor Vehicle Manufacturers Association was influential in creating cross-licensing agreements. Cross-licensing agreements existed between the United States automobile manufacturers of the day. Each automobile manufacturing company modified the technology and filed patents, these patents were shared, and no exchange of money, no lawsuits and an industry thrived (The history of free and open source, 2009).'' </blockquote><ref>Special thanks to Nathan Oostendorp who made me aware of this part of Michigan industrial history when he presented this at http://igniteannarbor.com see http://ingenuitas.com/</ref> <br />
We can do this again in Michigan. We can start in our own communities, re-building our economies around sharing not just technology, but also production of food, energy, and knowledge.<br />
<br />
== Energy ==<br />
<br />
'''There's enough wind and solar power across the state of Michigan to run the whole state on wind and solar energy alone.''' Open sourcing the technology for wind, solar, and batteries for hybrid/electric cars would create an explosion of innovation across the state and in the region, and eventually worldwide. If we really want to get into manufacturing green energy in the state of Michigan, the fastest route will be by way of creating sound design cores for small wind generators and solar collectors/solar and releasing them under an open license (like TAPR for instance http://www.tapr.org/ohl.html ) Our first step can be to install hybrid solar/wind in as many individua locations as possible (some neighbrhoods can team up and group buy for a whole block), and install them in a way that turns the current electrical grid into a "Net metering" grid: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_metering <br />
<br />
We can also start processing our plant and animal waste in open source biodigesters to produce electricity (example http://www.appropedia.org/Category:Biogas ) and our agricultural and surburban landscaping refuse into new soil and biofuel. <br />
<br />
Much of this new infrastructure can be managed by user-owned cooperatives where needed. <br />
<br />
== Education ==<br />
<br />
It's time to create cooperatives where parents and teachers are the owners of school systems. Most cirricular development can be released under creative commons licenses (as seen with http://wikieducator.org/OERF:Home http://ftacademy.org/ http://www.oercommons.org/ etc etc ) <br />
<br />
Parents can work with teachers and their students to adaptively shape learning over time. '''No more showing up in cinderblock buildings and being trained to be told what to do at the expense of truly learning how and why to do it. We teach children CRITICAL THINKING and skills to solve problems on their own with little or nothing to work with except their minds. Children are no longer raw material to be shaped into employees for big business. They are now taught to invent, build, experiment, create and destroy, co-manage and co-govern anywhere anytime with anything. They are taught actual history and left to decide for themselves. They are taught to produce their *own* food, energy, information systems as needed. They are taught to be programmers, not users. Makers, not consumers. Independent problem solvers, not employees. This is 21st century education in Michigan.''' <br />
<br />
== Manufacturing ==<br />
<br />
Manufacturing in Michigan will become small, distributed, diverse and massively adaptable and interoperable. Designs are shared and improved constantly. Technology cooperatives not only design and produce physhical hardware and software technology for people, but they also teach people how to do this themselves, and how to effectively use technology. <br />
<br />
Existing manufacturing labor unions will help create these new technology cooperatives by taking their pension fund monies out of greedy wall street companies and re-investing in Local Economic Development. Tens of thousands of people who are laid off from jobs will also pool resources to create these Technology Cooperatives throughout the state. This could happen here in Michigan within one year. <br />
<br />
== Research and Development ==<br />
<br />
Michigan Technology Cooperatives can invest their surplus resources in ongoing open source research and development, driven by the needs of people in Michigan and throughout the US and world. Students learn to participate in this activity at as early an age as possible. <br />
<br />
== Food systems ==<br />
<br />
Food cooperatives and community supported agriculture have proven themselves in places like Pittsburgh, Cleveland, and elsewhere. As our world spirals into a collapse of global commercial energy and resource distribution, leading to increasing costs for imported goods, we can sidestep that problem and produce food locally and regionally. We can create enough food locally in Michigan to make imports a luxury-only source of food (instead of the majority of food source for our state). We can create community owned food cooperatives in every city in the state, while simultaneously bolstering the '''hundreds of thousands of food producers and retailers that already exist in this state'''. <br />
<br />
== Jobs ==<br />
<br />
'''NO. No more jobs.''' It is ALREADY fact that over 98% of businesses in Michigan are now small businesses<ref>http://levin.senate.gov/senate/smallbusiness/index.html</ref>. This is in part because most of those who are left actually participating in economic activity stopped looking for a job about 5-6 years ago and started a business. So this is what we do, we start businesses, and we connect them together. Go pay the $10 and register a DBA with your name on it at the county clerk. You are now ready to do businesses. Team up with other people in your community to share what you are learning. In some cases we start cooperatives, credit unions, and ways for people to invest and receive return on investment in their local community (and not just monetary investment). We stop saving our retirement savings in 401k and other Wall Street scams and we invest that money locally and receive a robust and healthy return on investment.<br />
<br />
== Government ==<br />
<br />
When we're not busy having our faces shoved to the grindstone at a job, we're going to have some time to engage in Local, State, and Federal governments. However, we are also going to make them increasingly obsolete in the process. We are going to be able to come up with rules together via connective technologies like the internet. We're going to also be able to team up on government when we're not being listened to. <br />
<br />
'''We can do it without political parties''' following [[The Political Principles of Peer-to-Peer Advocacy]]. <br />
<br />
'''''No advocate of peer-to-peer politics wants all communications or activity routed through them. Bottlenecks are weaknesses.'''''<br />
<br />
== Your additions here ==<br />
<br />
This is what transformation in Michigan means to me. What does it mean to you? I want to know. I'll faithfully incorporate whatever any of you contribute, and I will spread it around. It's time to get real, dig in and change this place, now.<br />
<br />
== References ==<br />
<references /><br />
<br />
[[Category:P2P_Politics]]</div>SRosehttps://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/index.php?title=Michigan:_The_Transformation_Manifesto&diff=48448Michigan: The Transformation Manifesto2011-03-17T23:17:01Z<p>SRose: </p>
<hr />
<div>== Contributors ==<br />
<br />
*I'm Sam Rose, from the Foundation or Peer To Peer Alternatives http://p2pfoundation.net/ and co-founder http://futureforwardinstitute.com/ I am a Michigan native, former blue collar worker and now independent business person.<br />
<br />
== "Michigan is Screwed" ==<br />
<br />
See: http://www.youtube.com/embed/AUpO1QFMDtM<br />
<br />
It's likely you are highly aware of the current political situation that people in Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Pennsylvania and other struggling industrial states are facing. In Michigan in particular it looks to me like the goal of Rick Snyder and the legislators that control the Michigan House/Senate is to tear down 20th century community infrastructures, starting from the bottom up. <br />
<br />
The reality is that if the people in power in Michigan now fully succeed, private mega corporations will queue up to enclose property, extract wealth and resources at lightning speed, further impoverish our community's most vulnerable members, push out those willing to fight by making their lives and communities miserable, and put whomever is left on their knees. They want our money flowing out of our pockets and communities, and their cheaply made worthless crap flowing in. They want to grab our land, our trees, frack out our natural gas and deplete our water, and run our soil down to clay. They want to push people out of the largest cities, fence of the empty land, bulldoze the buildings and sit on the land waiting for a future day when it's value increases. They want to do all of this while paying next to no taxes, employing none of the people of Michigan, and investing nothing back into the communities. They already got a huge amount of the money out of our communities by way of fraudulant mortgage scams that destroyed the economies of several countries around the world. They can make it more miserable for any of us that don't pick up and leave by: increasing our taxes (the elderly and retired, the poor, etc). Making our schools so deplorable that no one will want to move to our communities. And, whenever possible, declaring an "emergency" and dissolving local government, installing private corporations in their place with license to do whatever they want without any oversight. I am willing to bet that most of you that voted for Rick Snyder and the people in Michigan Congress probably did not vote for what I describe above. I'll bet that your ancestors didn't fight to get you to where you are now, just to see us all start to slip back towards whatever they came here to get away from. However, the sad fact is that what I describe above is now upon you, and all of us. <br />
<br />
<br> Fortunately for us, we don't have to accept this reality. We currently have all of the building blocks we need to turn things around for ourselves here in a relatively short amount of time. <br />
<br />
A clue comes to us from our own state's past. At the turn of the 19th-20th century, automobiles were prohibitively expensive for all but a few people. One of the reasons was a monopoly on the designs of automotive technology by George B. Selden: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_B._Selden Selden and associate's efforts to protect their patents led to a battle with Henry Ford, which resulted in a decision by courts to open up automotive technology for those that were not using the Selden engine design. <br />
<br />
From Open Source - History and Development Adrienne Walker San Jose State University&nbsp;[http://infosherpas.com/ojs/index.php/openandlibraries/article/view/43/65 http://infosherpas.com/ojs/index.php/openandlibraries/article/view/43/65]: <br />
<blockquote>''Free sharing and open source are not 21st century ideas, we tend to think of open source as a way of being connected to the Internet as software but open source was in existence early in the 20th century although it took a different form. That form was automobile manufacturing. For those of you familiar with early automotive history, Henry Ford challenged the patent of George Selden. Selden had a chokehold on the automobile industry but Ford won a challenge to Selden's patent (The history of free and open source, 2009). Henry Fords breakthrough initiated the beginning of open source in the modern age and coupled with the formation of the Motor Vehicle Manufacturers Association was influential in creating cross-licensing agreements. Cross-licensing agreements existed between the United States automobile manufacturers of the day. Each automobile manufacturing company modified the technology and filed patents, these patents were shared, and no exchange of money, no lawsuits and an industry thrived (The history of free and open source, 2009).'' </blockquote> <br />
We can do this again in Michigan. We can start in our own communities, re-building our economies around sharing not just technology, but also production of food, energy, and knowledge. <br />
<br />
== Energy ==<br />
<br />
'''There's enough wind and solar power across the state of Michigan to run the whole state on wind and solar energy alone.''' Open sourcing the technology for wind, solar, and batteries for hybrid/electric cars would create an explosion of innovation across the state and in the region, and eventually worldwide. If we really want to get into manufacturing green energy in the state of Michigan, the fastest route will be by way of creating sound design cores for small wind generators and solar collectors/solar and releasing them under an open license (like TAPR for instance http://www.tapr.org/ohl.html ) Our first step can be to install hybrid solar/wind in as many individua locations as possible (some neighbrhoods can team up and group buy for a whole block), and install them in a way that turns the current electrical grid into a "Net metering" grid: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_metering <br />
<br />
We can also start processing our plant and animal waste in open source biodigesters to produce electricity (example http://www.appropedia.org/Category:Biogas ) and our agricultural and surburban landscaping refuse into new soil and biofuel. <br />
<br />
Much of this new infrastructure can be managed by user-owned cooperatives where needed. <br />
<br />
== Education ==<br />
<br />
It's time to create cooperatives where parents and teachers are the owners of school systems. Most cirricular development can be released under creative commons licenses (as seen with http://wikieducator.org/OERF:Home http://ftacademy.org/ http://www.oercommons.org/ etc etc ) <br />
<br />
Parents can work with teachers and their students to adaptively shape learning over time. '''No more showing up in cinderblock buildings and being trained to be told what to do at the expense of truly learning how and why to do it. We teach children CRITICAL THINKING and skills to solve problems on their own with little or nothing to work with except their minds. Children are no longer raw material to be shaped into employees for big business. They are now taught to invent, build, experiment, create and destroy, co-manage and co-govern anywhere anytime with anything. They are taught actual history and left to decide for themselves. They are taught to produce their *own* food, energy, information systems as needed. They are taught to be programmers, not users. Makers, not consumers. Independent problem solvers, not employees. This is 21st century education in Michigan.''' <br />
<br />
== Manufacturing ==<br />
<br />
Manufacturing in Michigan will become small, distributed, diverse and massively adaptable and interoperable. Designs are shared and improved constantly. Technology cooperatives not only design and produce physhical hardware and software technology for people, but they also teach people how to do this themselves, and how to effectively use technology. <br />
<br />
Existing manufacturing labor unions will help create these new technology cooperatives by taking their pension fund monies out of greedy wall street companies and re-investing in Local Economic Development. Tens of thousands of people who are laid off from jobs will also pool resources to create these Technology Cooperatives throughout the state. This could happen here in Michigan within one year. <br />
<br />
== Research and Development ==<br />
<br />
Michigan Technology Cooperatives can invest their surplus resources in ongoing open source research and development, driven by the needs of people in Michigan and throughout the US and world. Students learn to participate in this activity at as early an age as possible. <br />
<br />
== Food systems ==<br />
<br />
Food cooperatives and community supported agriculture have proven themselves in places like Pittsburgh, Cleveland, and elsewhere. As our world spirals into a collapse of global commercial energy and resource distribution, leading to increasing costs for imported goods, we can sidestep that problem and produce food locally and regionally. We can create enough food locally in Michigan to make imports a luxury-only source of food (instead of the majority of food source for our state). We can create community owned food cooperatives in every city in the state, while simultaneously bolstering the '''hundreds of thousands of food producers and retailers that already exist in this state'''. <br />
<br />
== Jobs ==<br />
<br />
'''NO. No more jobs.''' It is ALREADY fact that over 98% of businesses in Michigan are now small businesses<ref>http://levin.senate.gov/senate/smallbusiness/index.html</ref>. This is in part because most of those who are left actually participating in economic activity stopped looking for a job about 5-6 years ago and started a business. So this is what we do, we start businesses, and we connect them together. Go pay the $10 and register a DBA with your name on it at the county clerk. You are now ready to do businesses. Team up with other people in your community to share what you are learning. In some cases we start cooperatives, credit unions, and ways for people to invest and receive return on investment in their local community (and not just monetary investment). We stop saving our retirement savings in 401k and other Wall Street scams and we invest that money locally and receive a robust and healthy return on investment.<br />
<br />
== Government ==<br />
<br />
When we're not busy having our faces shoved to the grindstone at a job, we're going to have some time to engage in Local, State, and Federal governments. However, we are also going to make them increasingly obsolete in the process. We are going to be able to come up with rules together via connective technologies like the internet. We're going to also be able to team up on government when we're not being listened to. <br />
<br />
'''We can do it without political parties''' following [[The Political Principles of Peer-to-Peer Advocacy]]. <br />
<br />
'''''No advocate of peer-to-peer politics wants all communications or activity routed through them. Bottlenecks are weaknesses.'''''<br />
<br />
== Your additions here ==<br />
<br />
This is what transformation in Michigan means to me. What does it mean to you? I want to know. I'll faithfully incorporate whatever any of you contribute, and I will spread it around. It's time to get real, dig in and change this place, now.<br />
<br />
== References ==<br />
<references /><br />
<br />
[[Category:P2P_Politics]]</div>SRosehttps://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/index.php?title=Michigan:_The_Transformation_Manifesto&diff=48447Michigan: The Transformation Manifesto2011-03-17T23:16:19Z<p>SRose: </p>
<hr />
<div>== Contributors ==<br />
<br />
*I'm Sam Rose, from the Foundation or Peer To Peer Alternatives http://p2pfoundation.net/ and co-founder http://futureforwardinstitute.com/ I am a Michigan native, former blue collar worker and now independent business person.<br />
<br />
== "Michigan is Screwed" ==<br />
<br />
See: http://www.youtube.com/embed/AUpO1QFMDtM<br />
<br />
It's likely you are highly aware of the current political situation that people in Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Pennsylvania and other struggling industrial states are facing. In Michigan in particular it looks to me like the goal of Rick Snyder and the legislators that control the Michigan House/Senate is to tear down 20th century community infrastructures, starting from the bottom up. <br />
<br />
The reality is that if the people in power in Michigan now fully succeed, private mega corporations will queue up to enclose property, extract wealth and resources at lightning speed, further impoverish our community's most vulnerable members, push out those willing to fight by making their lives and communities miserable, and put whomever is left on their knees. They want our money flowing out of our pockets and communities, and their cheaply made worthless crap flowing in. They want to grab our land, our trees, frack out our natural gas and deplete our water, and run our soil down to clay. They want to push people out of the largest cities, fence of the empty land, bulldoze the buildings and sit on the land waiting for a future day when it's value increases. They want to do all of this while paying next to no taxes, employing none of the people of Michigan, and investing nothing back into the communities. They already got a huge amount of the money out of our communities by way of fraudulant mortgage scams that destroyed the economies of several countries around the world. They can make it more miserable for any of us that don't pick up and leave by: increasing our taxes (the elderly and retired, the poor, etc). Making our schools so deplorable that no one will want to move to our communities. And, whenever possible, declaring an "emergency" and dissolving local government, installing private corporations in their place with license to do whatever they want without any oversight. I am willing to bet that most of you that voted for Rick Snyder and the people in Michigan Congress probably did not vote for what I describe above. I'll bet that your ancestors didn't fight to get you to where you are now, just to see us all start to slip back towards whatever they came here to get away from. However, the sad fact is that what I describe above is now upon you, and all of us. <br />
<br />
<br> Fortunately for us, we don't have to accept this reality. We currently have all of the building blocks we need to turn things around for ourselves here in a relatively short amount of time. <br />
<br />
A clue comes to us from our own state's past. At the turn of the 19th-20th century, automobiles were prohibitively expensive for all but a few people. One of the reasons was a monopoly on the designs of automotive technology by George B. Selden: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_B._Selden Selden and associate's efforts to protect their patents led to a battle with Henry Ford, which resulted in a decision by courts to open up automotive technology for those that were not using the Selden engine design. <br />
<br />
From Open Source - History and Development Adrienne Walker San Jose State University&nbsp;[http://infosherpas.com/ojs/index.php/openandlibraries/article/view/43/65 http://infosherpas.com/ojs/index.php/openandlibraries/article/view/43/65]: <br />
<blockquote>''Free sharing and open source are not 21st century ideas, we tend to think of open source as a way of being connected to the Internet as software but open source was in existence early in the 20th century although it took a different form. That form was automobile manufacturing. For those of you familiar with early automotive history, Henry Ford challenged the patent of George Selden. Selden had a chokehold on the automobile industry but Ford won a challenge to Selden's patent (The history of free and open source, 2009). Henry Fords breakthrough initiated the beginning of open source in the modern age and coupled with the formation of the Motor Vehicle Manufacturers Association was influential in creating cross-licensing agreements. Cross-licensing agreements existed between the United States automobile manufacturers of the day. Each automobile manufacturing company modified the technology and filed patents, these patents were shared, and no exchange of money, no lawsuits and an industry thrived (The history of free and open source, 2009).'' </blockquote> <br />
We can do this again in Michigan. We can start in our own communities, re-building our economies around sharing not just technology, but also production of food, energy, and knowledge. <br />
<br />
== Energy ==<br />
<br />
'''There's enough wind and solar power across the state of Michigan to run the whole state on wind and solar energy alone.''' Open sourcing the technology for wind, solar, and batteries for hybrid/electric cars would create an explosion of innovation across the state and in the region, and eventually worldwide. If we really want to get into manufacturing green energy in the state of Michigan, the fastest route will be by way of creating sound design cores for small wind generators and solar collectors/solar and releasing them under an open license (like TAPR for instance http://www.tapr.org/ohl.html ) Our first step can be to install hybrid solar/wind in as many individua locations as possible (some neighbrhoods can team up and group buy for a whole block), and install them in a way that turns the current electrical grid into a "Net metering" grid: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_metering <br />
<br />
We can also start processing our plant and animal waste in open source biodigesters to produce electricity (example http://www.appropedia.org/Category:Biogas ) and our agricultural and surburban landscaping refuse into new soil and biofuel. <br />
<br />
Much of this new infrastructure can be managed by user-owned cooperatives where needed. <br />
<br />
== Education ==<br />
<br />
It's time to create cooperatives where parents and teachers are the owners of school systems. Most cirricular development can be released under creative commons licenses (as seen with http://wikieducator.org/OERF:Home http://ftacademy.org/ http://www.oercommons.org/ etc etc ) <br />
<br />
Parents can work with teachers and their students to adaptively shape learning over time. '''No more showing up in cinderblock buildings and being trained to be told what to do at the expense of truly learning how and why to do it. We teach children CRITICAL THINKING and skills to solve problems on their own with little or nothing to work with except their minds. Children are no longer raw material to be shaped into employees for big business. They are now taught to invent, build, experiment, create and destroy, co-manage and co-govern anywhere anytime with anything. They are taught actual history and left to decide for themselves. They are taught to produce their *own* food, energy, information systems as needed. They are taught to be programmers, not users. Makers, not consumers. Independent problem solvers, not employees. This is 21st century education in Michigan.''' <br />
<br />
== Manufacturing ==<br />
<br />
Manufacturing in Michigan will become small, distributed, diverse and massively adaptable and interoperable. Designs are shared and improved constantly. Technology cooperatives not only design and produce physhical hardware and software technology for people, but they also teach people how to do this themselves, and how to effectively use technology. <br />
<br />
Existing manufacturing labor unions will help create these new technology cooperatives by taking their pension fund monies out of greedy wall street companies and re-investing in Local Economic Development. Tens of thousands of people who are laid off from jobs will also pool resources to create these Technology Cooperatives throughout the state. This could happen here in Michigan within one year. <br />
<br />
== Research and Development ==<br />
<br />
Michigan Technology Cooperatives can invest their surplus resources in ongoing open source research and development, driven by the needs of people in Michigan and throughout the US and world. Students learn to participate in this activity at as early an age as possible. <br />
<br />
== Food systems ==<br />
<br />
Food cooperatives and community supported agriculture have proven themselves in places like Pittsburgh, Cleveland, and elsewhere. As our world spirals into a collapse of global commercial energy and resource distribution, leading to increasing costs for imported goods, we can sidestep that problem and produce food locally and regionally. We can create enough food locally in Michigan to make imports a luxury-only source of food (instead of the majority of food source for our state). We can create community owned food cooperatives in every city in the state, while simultaneously bolstering the '''hundreds of thousands of food producers and retailers that already exist in this state'''. <br />
<br />
== Jobs ==<br />
<br />
'''NO. No more jobs.''' It is ALREADY fact that over 98% of businesses in Michigan are now small businesses<ref>http://levin.senate.gov/senate/smallbusiness/index.html</ref>. This is in part because most of those who are left actually participating in economic activity stopped looking for a job about 5-6 years ago and started a business. So this is what we do, we start businesses, and we connect them together. Go pay the $10 and register a DBA with your name on it at the county clerk. You are now ready to do businesses. Team up with other people in your community to share what you are learning. In some cases we start cooperatives, credit unions, and ways for people to invest and receive return on investment in their local community (and not just monetary investment). We stop saving our retirement savings in 401k and other Wall Street scams and we invest that money locally and receive a robust and healthy return on investment.<br />
<br />
== Government ==<br />
<br />
When we're not busy having our faces shoved to the grindstone at a job, we're going to have some time to engage in Local, State, and Federal governments. However, we are also going to make them increasingly obsolete in the process. We are going to be able to come up with rules together via connective technologies like the internet. We're going to also be able to team up on government when we're not being listened to. <br />
<br />
'''We can do it without political parties''' following [[The Political Principles of Peer-to-Peer Advocacy]]. <br />
<br />
'''''No advocate of peer-to-peer politics wants all communications or activity routed through them. Bottlenecks are weaknesses.'''''<br />
<br />
== Your additions here ==<br />
<br />
This is what transformation in Michigan means to me. What does it mean to you? I want to know. I'll faithfully incorporate whatever any of you contribute, and I will spread it around. It's time to get real, dig in and change this place, now.<br />
<br />
<references /><br />
<br />
[[Category:P2P_Politics]]</div>SRosehttps://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/index.php?title=Michigan:_The_Transformation_Manifesto&diff=48446Michigan: The Transformation Manifesto2011-03-17T23:15:41Z<p>SRose: /* Jobs */</p>
<hr />
<div>== Contributors ==<br />
<br />
*I'm Sam Rose, from the Foundation or Peer To Peer Alternatives http://p2pfoundation.net/ and co-founder http://futureforwardinstitute.com/ I am a Michigan native, former blue collar worker and now independent business person.<br />
<br />
== "Michigan is Screwed" ==<br />
<br />
See: http://www.youtube.com/embed/AUpO1QFMDtM<br />
<br />
It's likely you are highly aware of the current political situation that people in Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Pennsylvania and other struggling industrial states are facing. In Michigan in particular it looks to me like the goal of Rick Snyder and the legislators that control the Michigan House/Senate is to tear down 20th century community infrastructures, starting from the bottom up. <br />
<br />
The reality is that if the people in power in Michigan now fully succeed, private mega corporations will queue up to enclose property, extract wealth and resources at lightning speed, further impoverish our community's most vulnerable members, push out those willing to fight by making their lives and communities miserable, and put whomever is left on their knees. They want our money flowing out of our pockets and communities, and their cheaply made worthless crap flowing in. They want to grab our land, our trees, frack out our natural gas and deplete our water, and run our soil down to clay. They want to push people out of the largest cities, fence of the empty land, bulldoze the buildings and sit on the land waiting for a future day when it's value increases. They want to do all of this while paying next to no taxes, employing none of the people of Michigan, and investing nothing back into the communities. They already got a huge amount of the money out of our communities by way of fraudulant mortgage scams that destroyed the economies of several countries around the world. They can make it more miserable for any of us that don't pick up and leave by: increasing our taxes (the elderly and retired, the poor, etc). Making our schools so deplorable that no one will want to move to our communities. And, whenever possible, declaring an "emergency" and dissolving local government, installing private corporations in their place with license to do whatever they want without any oversight. I am willing to bet that most of you that voted for Rick Snyder and the people in Michigan Congress probably did not vote for what I describe above. I'll bet that your ancestors didn't fight to get you to where you are now, just to see us all start to slip back towards whatever they came here to get away from. However, the sad fact is that what I describe above is now upon you, and all of us. <br />
<br />
<br> Fortunately for us, we don't have to accept this reality. We currently have all of the building blocks we need to turn things around for ourselves here in a relatively short amount of time. <br />
<br />
A clue comes to us from our own state's past. At the turn of the 19th-20th century, automobiles were prohibitively expensive for all but a few people. One of the reasons was a monopoly on the designs of automotive technology by George B. Selden: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_B._Selden Selden and associate's efforts to protect their patents led to a battle with Henry Ford, which resulted in a decision by courts to open up automotive technology for those that were not using the Selden engine design. <br />
<br />
From Open Source - History and Development Adrienne Walker San Jose State University&nbsp;[http://infosherpas.com/ojs/index.php/openandlibraries/article/view/43/65 http://infosherpas.com/ojs/index.php/openandlibraries/article/view/43/65]: <br />
<blockquote>''Free sharing and open source are not 21st century ideas, we tend to think of open source as a way of being connected to the Internet as software but open source was in existence early in the 20th century although it took a different form. That form was automobile manufacturing. For those of you familiar with early automotive history, Henry Ford challenged the patent of George Selden. Selden had a chokehold on the automobile industry but Ford won a challenge to Selden's patent (The history of free and open source, 2009). Henry Fords breakthrough initiated the beginning of open source in the modern age and coupled with the formation of the Motor Vehicle Manufacturers Association was influential in creating cross-licensing agreements. Cross-licensing agreements existed between the United States automobile manufacturers of the day. Each automobile manufacturing company modified the technology and filed patents, these patents were shared, and no exchange of money, no lawsuits and an industry thrived (The history of free and open source, 2009).'' </blockquote> <br />
We can do this again in Michigan. We can start in our own communities, re-building our economies around sharing not just technology, but also production of food, energy, and knowledge. <br />
<br />
== Energy ==<br />
<br />
'''There's enough wind and solar power across the state of Michigan to run the whole state on wind and solar energy alone.''' Open sourcing the technology for wind, solar, and batteries for hybrid/electric cars would create an explosion of innovation across the state and in the region, and eventually worldwide. If we really want to get into manufacturing green energy in the state of Michigan, the fastest route will be by way of creating sound design cores for small wind generators and solar collectors/solar and releasing them under an open license (like TAPR for instance http://www.tapr.org/ohl.html ) Our first step can be to install hybrid solar/wind in as many individua locations as possible (some neighbrhoods can team up and group buy for a whole block), and install them in a way that turns the current electrical grid into a "Net metering" grid: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_metering <br />
<br />
We can also start processing our plant and animal waste in open source biodigesters to produce electricity (example http://www.appropedia.org/Category:Biogas ) and our agricultural and surburban landscaping refuse into new soil and biofuel. <br />
<br />
Much of this new infrastructure can be managed by user-owned cooperatives where needed. <br />
<br />
== Education ==<br />
<br />
It's time to create cooperatives where parents and teachers are the owners of school systems. Most cirricular development can be released under creative commons licenses (as seen with http://wikieducator.org/OERF:Home http://ftacademy.org/ http://www.oercommons.org/ etc etc ) <br />
<br />
Parents can work with teachers and their students to adaptively shape learning over time. '''No more showing up in cinderblock buildings and being trained to be told what to do at the expense of truly learning how and why to do it. We teach children CRITICAL THINKING and skills to solve problems on their own with little or nothing to work with except their minds. Children are no longer raw material to be shaped into employees for big business. They are now taught to invent, build, experiment, create and destroy, co-manage and co-govern anywhere anytime with anything. They are taught actual history and left to decide for themselves. They are taught to produce their *own* food, energy, information systems as needed. They are taught to be programmers, not users. Makers, not consumers. Independent problem solvers, not employees. This is 21st century education in Michigan.''' <br />
<br />
== Manufacturing ==<br />
<br />
Manufacturing in Michigan will become small, distributed, diverse and massively adaptable and interoperable. Designs are shared and improved constantly. Technology cooperatives not only design and produce physhical hardware and software technology for people, but they also teach people how to do this themselves, and how to effectively use technology. <br />
<br />
Existing manufacturing labor unions will help create these new technology cooperatives by taking their pension fund monies out of greedy wall street companies and re-investing in Local Economic Development. Tens of thousands of people who are laid off from jobs will also pool resources to create these Technology Cooperatives throughout the state. This could happen here in Michigan within one year. <br />
<br />
== Research and Development ==<br />
<br />
Michigan Technology Cooperatives can invest their surplus resources in ongoing open source research and development, driven by the needs of people in Michigan and throughout the US and world. Students learn to participate in this activity at as early an age as possible. <br />
<br />
== Food systems ==<br />
<br />
Food cooperatives and community supported agriculture have proven themselves in places like Pittsburgh, Cleveland, and elsewhere. As our world spirals into a collapse of global commercial energy and resource distribution, leading to increasing costs for imported goods, we can sidestep that problem and produce food locally and regionally. We can create enough food locally in Michigan to make imports a luxury-only source of food (instead of the majority of food source for our state). We can create community owned food cooperatives in every city in the state, while simultaneously bolstering the '''hundreds of thousands of food producers and retailers that already exist in this state'''. <br />
<br />
== Jobs ==<br />
<br />
'''NO. No more jobs.''' It is ALREADY fact that over 98% of businesses in Michigan are now small businesses<ref>http://levin.senate.gov/senate/smallbusiness/index.html</ref>. This is in part because most of those who are left actually participating in economic activity stopped looking for a job about 5-6 years ago and started a business. So this is what we do, we start businesses, and we connect them together. Go pay the $10 and register a DBA with your name on it at the county clerk. You are now ready to do businesses. Team up with other people in your community to share what you are learning. In some cases we start cooperatives, credit unions, and ways for people to invest and receive return on investment in their local community (and not just monetary investment). We stop saving our retirement savings in 401k and other Wall Street scams and we invest that money locally and receive a robust and healthy return on investment.<br />
<br />
== Government ==<br />
<br />
When we're not busy having our faces shoved to the grindstone at a job, we're going to have some time to engage in Local, State, and Federal governments. However, we are also going to make them increasingly obsolete in the process. We are going to be able to come up with rules together via connective technologies like the internet. We're going to also be able to team up on government when we're not being listened to. <br />
<br />
'''We can do it without political parties''' following [[The Political Principles of Peer-to-Peer Advocacy]]. <br />
<br />
'''''No advocate of peer-to-peer politics wants all communications or activity routed through them. Bottlenecks are weaknesses.'''''<br />
<br />
== Your additions here ==<br />
<br />
This is what transformation in Michigan means to me. What does it mean to you? I want to know. I'll faithfully incorporate whatever any of you contribute, and I will spread it around. It's time to get real, dig in and change this place, now.</div>SRosehttps://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/index.php?title=Michigan:_The_Transformation_Manifesto&diff=48445Michigan: The Transformation Manifesto2011-03-17T22:49:33Z<p>SRose: </p>
<hr />
<div>== Contributors ==<br />
<br />
*I'm Sam Rose, from the Foundation or Peer To Peer Alternatives http://p2pfoundation.net/ and co-founder http://futureforwardinstitute.com/ I am a Michigan native, former blue collar worker and now independent business person.<br />
<br />
== "Michigan is Screwed" ==<br />
<br />
See: http://www.youtube.com/embed/AUpO1QFMDtM<br />
<br />
It's likely you are highly aware of the current political situation that people in Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Pennsylvania and other struggling industrial states are facing. In Michigan in particular it looks to me like the goal of Rick Snyder and the legislators that control the Michigan House/Senate is to tear down 20th century community infrastructures, starting from the bottom up. <br />
<br />
The reality is that if the people in power in Michigan now fully succeed, private mega corporations will queue up to enclose property, extract wealth and resources at lightning speed, further impoverish our community's most vulnerable members, push out those willing to fight by making their lives and communities miserable, and put whomever is left on their knees. They want our money flowing out of our pockets and communities, and their cheaply made worthless crap flowing in. They want to grab our land, our trees, frack out our natural gas and deplete our water, and run our soil down to clay. They want to push people out of the largest cities, fence of the empty land, bulldoze the buildings and sit on the land waiting for a future day when it's value increases. They want to do all of this while paying next to no taxes, employing none of the people of Michigan, and investing nothing back into the communities. They already got a huge amount of the money out of our communities by way of fraudulant mortgage scams that destroyed the economies of several countries around the world. They can make it more miserable for any of us that don't pick up and leave by: increasing our taxes (the elderly and retired, the poor, etc). Making our schools so deplorable that no one will want to move to our communities. And, whenever possible, declaring an "emergency" and dissolving local government, installing private corporations in their place with license to do whatever they want without any oversight. I am willing to bet that most of you that voted for Rick Snyder and the people in Michigan Congress probably did not vote for what I describe above. I'll bet that your ancestors didn't fight to get you to where you are now, just to see us all start to slip back towards whatever they came here to get away from. However, the sad fact is that what I describe above is now upon you, and all of us. <br />
<br />
<br> Fortunately for us, we don't have to accept this reality. We currently have all of the building blocks we need to turn things around for ourselves here in a relatively short amount of time. <br />
<br />
A clue comes to us from our own state's past. At the turn of the 19th-20th century, automobiles were prohibitively expensive for all but a few people. One of the reasons was a monopoly on the designs of automotive technology by George B. Selden: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_B._Selden Selden and associate's efforts to protect their patents led to a battle with Henry Ford, which resulted in a decision by courts to open up automotive technology for those that were not using the Selden engine design. <br />
<br />
From Open Source - History and Development Adrienne Walker San Jose State University&nbsp;[http://infosherpas.com/ojs/index.php/openandlibraries/article/view/43/65 http://infosherpas.com/ojs/index.php/openandlibraries/article/view/43/65]: <br />
<blockquote>''Free sharing and open source are not 21st century ideas, we tend to think of open source as a way of being connected to the Internet as software but open source was in existence early in the 20th century although it took a different form. That form was automobile manufacturing. For those of you familiar with early automotive history, Henry Ford challenged the patent of George Selden. Selden had a chokehold on the automobile industry but Ford won a challenge to Selden's patent (The history of free and open source, 2009). Henry Fords breakthrough initiated the beginning of open source in the modern age and coupled with the formation of the Motor Vehicle Manufacturers Association was influential in creating cross-licensing agreements. Cross-licensing agreements existed between the United States automobile manufacturers of the day. Each automobile manufacturing company modified the technology and filed patents, these patents were shared, and no exchange of money, no lawsuits and an industry thrived (The history of free and open source, 2009).'' </blockquote> <br />
We can do this again in Michigan. We can start in our own communities, re-building our economies around sharing not just technology, but also production of food, energy, and knowledge. <br />
<br />
== Energy ==<br />
<br />
'''There's enough wind and solar power across the state of Michigan to run the whole state on wind and solar energy alone.''' Open sourcing the technology for wind, solar, and batteries for hybrid/electric cars would create an explosion of innovation across the state and in the region, and eventually worldwide. If we really want to get into manufacturing green energy in the state of Michigan, the fastest route will be by way of creating sound design cores for small wind generators and solar collectors/solar and releasing them under an open license (like TAPR for instance http://www.tapr.org/ohl.html ) Our first step can be to install hybrid solar/wind in as many individua locations as possible (some neighbrhoods can team up and group buy for a whole block), and install them in a way that turns the current electrical grid into a "Net metering" grid: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_metering <br />
<br />
We can also start processing our plant and animal waste in open source biodigesters to produce electricity (example http://www.appropedia.org/Category:Biogas ) and our agricultural and surburban landscaping refuse into new soil and biofuel. <br />
<br />
Much of this new infrastructure can be managed by user-owned cooperatives where needed. <br />
<br />
== Education ==<br />
<br />
It's time to create cooperatives where parents and teachers are the owners of school systems. Most cirricular development can be released under creative commons licenses (as seen with http://wikieducator.org/OERF:Home http://ftacademy.org/ http://www.oercommons.org/ etc etc ) <br />
<br />
Parents can work with teachers and their students to adaptively shape learning over time. '''No more showing up in cinderblock buildings and being trained to be told what to do at the expense of truly learning how and why to do it. We teach children CRITICAL THINKING and skills to solve problems on their own with little or nothing to work with except their minds. Children are no longer raw material to be shaped into employees for big business. They are now taught to invent, build, experiment, create and destroy, co-manage and co-govern anywhere anytime with anything. They are taught actual history and left to decide for themselves. They are taught to produce their *own* food, energy, information systems as needed. They are taught to be programmers, not users. Makers, not consumers. Independent problem solvers, not employees. This is 21st century education in Michigan.''' <br />
<br />
== Manufacturing ==<br />
<br />
Manufacturing in Michigan will become small, distributed, diverse and massively adaptable and interoperable. Designs are shared and improved constantly. Technology cooperatives not only design and produce physhical hardware and software technology for people, but they also teach people how to do this themselves, and how to effectively use technology. <br />
<br />
Existing manufacturing labor unions will help create these new technology cooperatives by taking their pension fund monies out of greedy wall street companies and re-investing in Local Economic Development. Tens of thousands of people who are laid off from jobs will also pool resources to create these Technology Cooperatives throughout the state. This could happen here in Michigan within one year. <br />
<br />
== Research and Development ==<br />
<br />
Michigan Technology Cooperatives can invest their surplus resources in ongoing open source research and development, driven by the needs of people in Michigan and throughout the US and world. Students learn to participate in this activity at as early an age as possible. <br />
<br />
== Food systems ==<br />
<br />
Food cooperatives and community supported agriculture have proven themselves in places like Pittsburgh, Cleveland, and elsewhere. As our world spirals into a collapse of global commercial energy and resource distribution, leading to increasing costs for imported goods, we can sidestep that problem and produce food locally and regionally. We can create enough food locally in Michigan to make imports a luxury-only source of food (instead of the majority of food source for our state). We can create community owned food cooperatives in every city in the state, while simultaneously bolstering the '''hundreds of thousands of food producers and retailers that already exist in this state'''. <br />
<br />
== Jobs ==<br />
<br />
'''NO. No more jobs.''' It is ALREADY fact that over 98% of economic activity in Michigan is now small business activity. This is in part because most of those who are left actually participating in economic activity stopped looking for a job about 5-6 years ago and started a business. So this is what we do, we start businesses, and we connect them together. Go pay the $10 and register a DBA with your name on it at the county clerk. You are now ready to do businesses. Team up with other people in your community to share what you are learning. In some cases we start cooperatives, credit unions, and ways for people to invest and receive return on investment in their local community (and not just monetary investment). We stop saving our retirement savings in 401k and other Wall Street scams and we invest that money locally and receive a robust and healthy return on investment. <br />
<br />
== Government ==<br />
<br />
When we're not busy having our faces shoved to the grindstone at a job, we're going to have some time to engage in Local, State, and Federal governments. However, we are also going to make them increasingly obsolete in the process. We are going to be able to come up with rules together via connective technologies like the internet. We're going to also be able to team up on government when we're not being listened to. <br />
<br />
'''We can do it without political parties''' following [[The Political Principles of Peer-to-Peer Advocacy]]. <br />
<br />
'''''No advocate of peer-to-peer politics wants all communications or activity routed through them. Bottlenecks are weaknesses.'''''<br />
<br />
== Your additions here ==<br />
<br />
This is what transformation in Michigan means to me. What does it mean to you? I want to know. I'll faithfully incorporate whatever any of you contribute, and I will spread it around. It's time to get real, dig in and change this place, now.</div>SRosehttps://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/index.php?title=Michigan:_The_Transformation_Manifesto&diff=48444Michigan: The Transformation Manifesto2011-03-17T22:46:17Z<p>SRose: </p>
<hr />
<div>== Contributors ==<br />
<br />
*I'm Sam Rose, from the Foundation or Peer To Peer Alternatives http://p2pfoundation.net/ and co-founder http://futureforwardinstitute.com/ I am a Michigan native, former blue collar worker and now independent business person.<br />
<br />
== "Michigan is Screwed" ==<br />
<br />
See: http://www.youtube.com/embed/AUpO1QFMDtM<br />
<br />
It's likely you are highly aware of the current political situation that people in Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Pennsylvania and other struggling industrial states are facing. In Michigan in particular it looks to me like the goal of Rick Snyder and the legislators that control the Michigan House/Senate is to tear down 20th century community infrastructures, starting from the bottom up. <br />
<br />
The reality is that if the people in power in Michigan now fully succeed, private mega corporations will queue up to enclose property, extract wealth and resources at lightning speed, further impoverish our community's most vulnerable members, push out those willing to fight by making their lives and communities miserable, and put whomever is left on their knees. They want our money flowing out of our pockets and communities, and their cheaply made worthless crap flowing in. They want to grab our land, our trees, frack out our natural gas and deplete our water, and run our soil down to clay. They want to push people out of the largest cities, fence of the empty land, bulldoze the buildings and sit on the land waiting for a future day when it's value increases. They want to do all of this while paying next to no taxes, employing none of the people of Michigan, and investing nothing back into the communities. They already got a huge amount of the money out of our communities by way of fraudulant mortgage scams that destroyed the economies of several countries around the world. They can make it more miserable for any of us that don't pick up and leave by: increasing our taxes (the elderly and retired, the poor, etc). Making our schools so deplorable that no one will want to move to our communities. And, whenever possible, declaring an "emergency" and dissolving local government, installing private corporations in their place with license to do whatever they want without any oversight. I am willing to bet that most of you that voted for Rick Snyder and the people in Michigan Congress probably did not vote for what I describe above. I'll bet that your ancestors didn't fight to get you to where you are now, just to see us all start to slip back towards whatever they came here to get away from. However, the sad fact is that what I describe above is now upon you, and all of us. <br />
<br />
<br> Fortunately for us, we don't have to accept this reality. We currently have all of the building blocks we need to turn things around for ourselves here in a relatively short amount of time. <br />
<br />
A clue comes to us from our own state's past. At the turn of the 19th-20th century, automobiles were prohibitively expensive for all but a few people. One of the reasons was a monopoly on the designs of automotive technology by George B. Selden: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_B._Selden Selden and associate's efforts to protect their patents led to a battle with Henry Ford, which resulted in a decision by courts to open up automotive technology for those that were not using the Selden engine design. <br />
<br />
From Open Source - History and Development Adrienne Walker San Jose State University&nbsp;[http://infosherpas.com/ojs/index.php/openandlibraries/article/view/43/65 http://infosherpas.com/ojs/index.php/openandlibraries/article/view/43/65]: <br />
<blockquote>''Free sharing and open source are not 21st century ideas, we tend to think of open source as a way of being connected to the Internet as software but open source was in existence early in the 20th century although it took a different form. That form was automobile manufacturing. For those of you familiar with early automotive history, Henry Ford challenged the patent of George Selden. Selden had a chokehold on the automobile industry but Ford won a challenge to Selden's patent (The history of free and open source, 2009). Henry Fords breakthrough initiated the beginning of open source in the modern age and coupled with the formation of the Motor Vehicle Manufacturers Association was influential in creating cross-licensing agreements. Cross-licensing agreements existed between the United States automobile manufacturers of the day. Each automobile manufacturing company modified the technology and filed patents, these patents were shared, and no exchange of money, no lawsuits and an industry thrived (The history of free and open source, 2009).'' </blockquote> <br />
We can do this again in Michigan. We can start in our own communities, re-building our economies around sharing not just technology, but also production of food, energy, and knowledge. <br />
<br />
== Energy ==<br />
<br />
'''There's enough wind and solar power across the state of Michigan to run the whole state on wind and solar energy alone.''' Open sourcing the technology for wind, solar, and batteries for hybrid/electric cars would create an explosion of innovation across the state and in the region, and eventually worldwide. If we really want to get into manufacturing green energy in the state of Michigan, the fastest route will be by way of creating sound design cores for small wind generators and solar collectors/solar and releasing them under an open license (like TAPR for instance http://www.tapr.org/ohl.html ) Our first step can be to install hybrid solar/wind in as many individua locations as possible (some neighbrhoods can team up and group buy for a whole block), and install them in a way that turns the current electrical grid into a "Net metering" grid: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_metering <br />
<br />
We can also start processing our plant and animal waste in open source biodigesters to produce electricity (example http://www.appropedia.org/Category:Biogas ) and our agricultural and surburban landscaping refuse into new soil and biofuel. <br />
<br />
Much of this new infrastructure can be managed by user-owned cooperatives where needed. <br />
<br />
== Education ==<br />
<br />
It's time to create cooperatives where parents and teachers are the owners of school systems. Most cirricular development can be released under creative commons licenses (as seen with http://wikieducator.org/OERF:Home http://ftacademy.org/ http://www.oercommons.org/ etc etc ) <br />
<br />
Parents can work with teachers and their students to adaptively shape learning over time. '''No more showing up in cinderblock buildings and being trained to be told what to do at the expense of truly learning how and why to do it. We teach children CRITICAL THINKING and skills to solve problems on their own with little or nothing to work with except their minds. Children are no longer raw material to be shaped into employees for big business. They are now taught to invent, build, experiment, create and destroy, co-manage and co-govern anywhere anytime with anything. They are taught actual history and left to decide for themselves. They are taught to produce their *own* food, energy, information systems as needed. They are taught to be programmers, not users. Makers, not consumers. Independent problem solvers, not employees. This is 21st century education in Michigan.''' <br />
<br />
== Manufacturing ==<br />
<br />
Manufacturing in Michigan will become small, distributed, diverse and massively adaptable and interoperable. Designs are shared and improved constantly. Technology cooperatives not only design and produce physhical hardware and software technology for people, but they also teach people how to do this themselves, and how to effectively use technology. <br />
<br />
Existing manufacturing labor unions will help create these new technology cooperatives by taking their pension fund monies out of greedy wall street companies and re-investing in Local Economic Development. Tens of thousands of people who are laid off from jobs will also pool resources to create these Technology Cooperatives throughout the state. This could happen here in Michigan within one year. <br />
<br />
== Research and Development ==<br />
<br />
Michigan Technology Cooperatives can invest their surplus resources in ongoing open source research and development, driven by the needs of people in Michigan and throughout the US and world. Students learn to participate in this activity at as early an age as possible. <br />
<br />
== Food systems ==<br />
<br />
Food cooperatives and community supported agriculture have proven themselves in places like Pittsburgh, Cleveland, and elsewhere. As our world spirals into a collapse of global commercial energy and resource distribution, leading to increasing costs for imported goods, we can sidestep that problem and produce food locally and regionally. We can create enough food locally in Michigan to make imports a luxury-only source of food (instead of the majority of food source for our state). We can create community owned food cooperatives in every city in the state, while simultaneously bolstering the '''hundreds of thousands of food producers and retailers that already exist in this state'''. <br />
<br />
== Jobs ==<br />
<br />
'''NO. No more jobs.''' It is ALREADY fact that over 98% of economic activity in Michigan is now small business activity. This is in part because most of those who are left actually participating in economic activity stopped looking for a job about 5-6 years ago and started a business. So this is what we do, we start businesses, and we connect them together. Go pay the $10 and register a DBA with your name on it at the county clerk. You are now ready to do businesses. Team up with other people in your community to share what you are learning. In some cases we start cooperatives, credit unions, and ways for people to invest and receive return on investment in their local community (and not just monetary investment). We stop saving our retirement savings in 401k and other Wall Street scams and we invest that money locally and receive a robust and healthy return on investment. <br />
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== Government ==<br />
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When we're not busy having our faces shoved to the grindstone at a job, we're going to have some time to engage in Local, State, and Federal governments. However, we are also going to make them increasingly obsolete in the process. We are going to be able to come up with rules together via connective technologies like the internet. We're going to also be able to team up on government when we're not being listened to. <br />
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'''We can do it without political parties''' following [[The Political Principles of Peer-to-Peer Advocacy]]. <br />
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'''''No advocate of peer-to-peer politics wants all communications or activity routed through them. Bottlenecks are weaknesses.'''''</div>SRose