Plan C for Advancing the Commons Transition in Greece
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Context
Plan A is the name for the capitulation towards the demands of the creditors, now the most realistic possibility; plan B is the grexit which offers Greece an independent path within the same economic logic, but with basic sovereign powers to protect and advance their own interests; plan C stands for a Commons Transition, which can take place either under conditions laid out by Plan A or Plan B, but which could become the main strategy under conditions of a revival of popular power and democracy.
Status
A very very preliminary first draft at this stage, but this document will improve every day.
Proposals
Building up alternative democratic power and self-organization
- create Commons Transition Circles for every town and region to be the advocates and agents of commons creation ; create a Coalition of Commons Transition Circles to share and coordinate activities; members of these circles support the creation of the initiatives listed below.
- create Assemblies of the Commons for every town and region, and per social domain of activity to unite the citizens with commons concerns ; create a Coalition of the Assemblies of the Commons to share and coordinate activities
- create Chambers of the Commons, bound by social charters, for every town and region and for economic domains of activity; members are all entrepreneurial and producitive entities responsible for the livelihood of the commoners ; create a Coalition of the Chambers of the Commons to share and coordinate activities
- create Mutual Aid Networks in every town and region to assist citizens in their access to basic resources
- create a Association for the Advancement of the Commons Transition to coordinate policy proposals to be carried out by civic or public service entities in support of the transition
- create a 'self-management learning center' to support even non-commons organizations of all sorts to move to self-management inspired by the experiences described in Reinventing Organizations
Monetary Reform
- create a independent national currency, citizen-based if need be
- create a national B2B currency (Swiss bank) for use as B2B reserve currency
- create a network of local and regional currencies
- create a national public bank, citizen-based if needed
- create a solidarity economy bank
- create a 'self-management learning center' to support even non-commons organizations of all sorts moving towards self-management structures and processes, inspired by the spirit of Reinventing Organizations
Productive Reform
- generalize a framework for independent renewable energy production
- generalize a framework for direct food production and consumption
- democratize access to affordable housing by systemizing the creation of Community Land Trusts and similar solutions
- create local/regional incubators for the solidarity economy
- create a network of productive workshops for every locality/region and for every domain of economic activity
- create a network of solidarity economy incubators in every town and region
- create a network of support for the SME economy
- create a network of provisioning councils at local, regional and national levels to insure a flow of basic resources to all citizens
- create and support the creation of knowledge commons for every area of human activity
- link thematic incubators for the solidarity and SME economy to each of these shared knowledge commons