Plan C for Advancing the Commons Transition in Greece

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