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We can build a socio-economic community with a sovereign currency without abandoning the Euro 
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Being involved with FairCoop has piqued my interest in the direct use of finance for activist means, and reading Brett Scott’s excellent “The Heretic’s Guide to Global Finance: Hacking the Future of Money”I have become aware of various attempts to do just that. Whereas FairCoop (and the related cryptocurrency Faircoin) seek to establish a parallel financial ecosystem based around social justice and fair trade, there are other projects attempting to ‘hack’ the mainstream financial system in order to use it as a means to increase equality in the world rather than, as generally seems to be the case on looking around me, to substantially decrease it.
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It is something of a tradition for us to have an end of year review, so as we leave 2014 behind and welcome in the New Year, it’s worth looking back on some of the most popular posts here on the P2P Foundation blog, and to consider how these reflect broader developments in P2P and Commons movements.
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Here’s a very special treat. Originally published on Guerrilla Translation, Movimiento por la Democracia´s “Charter for Democracy” stands out as premier example of citizen-led solution making to the various crises we face. It is a constitution for the commons written by commons.
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The legitimacy of a given social order rests on the legitimacy of its debts. In traditional cultures, debt was a glue that held society together.
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Enric Duran of the Catalan Integral Cooperative and FairCoop seeks collaborators for his freedom campaign and to develop FairCoop-
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An introduction to Fair.coop, a Commons oriented Transnational Project aimed at designing a new economy backed by a cryptocurrency: Faircoin.
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Continuing our serialization of Penny Nelson’s interview with Douglas Rushkoff for HiLobrow magazine, this week the conversation turns to the emotional components of debt, the inherent structures of corporations and why men must be kept busy with the front lawn. We recommend that you read the first part if you haven’t already, to get some context. Please, check back on Friday for the third and final installment.
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