The Fair Coop. The Earth cooperative for a fair economy
Activists from various fields of alternative economy like Enric Duran (Robin of the Banks), Cooperativa Integral Catalana, Michael Bauwens, P2P Foundation, or Amir Taaki, , bitcoin developer, launched this September 17, after months of networking, a draft global economic system based on cooperation, ethics, solidarity, redistribution north-south, and justice in economic relations.
The Fair Coop is a global cooperative attempt to become independent of the “old economic system” based on central banks and fiat currencies by a new currency reference, faircoin, to promote the global commons and decentralized economies. .
The date, 17S coincides symbolically with six years of the campaign “We can live without capitalism,” and five years since the campaign with more than a hundred data points in the Spanish state to create alternative economy networks by inviting people to abandon their bank accounts. It is also a step in the “Comprehensive Revolution”,which in the words of Duran, “aims to give visibility to a self-organized movement that is working to build other possible worlds from below.”
The Fair Coop is Born !
“We needed to find a coin that was not controlled by the old capitalism (euros / dollars), or operated by the most innovative capitalism (bitcoin), and in which we could incorporate our values and cooperative practices,” says Duran, “So faircoin was chosen. “
After months of networking the Fair Coop has also emerged , Durán explains, it is “a step in the extension of the integral revolution (Revolución integral) throughout the world, and also the values of society p2p, openness and cooperative hacker ethics, among others. “
Based on the redistribution and exchange among equals, open political participation, decentralization, commons production and distribution of open knowledge, the development will be divided into three phases, the first one inaugurated this September 17, encompasses the dynamic social collaboration already begun in the common network, the Fair Network.
We first seek to increase the value of the reference currency, the faircoin, through savings, to capitalize it. Then will come the phase of generating economic activity based on faircoin to finally consolidate it as independent as possible from the economic system of fiat currencies dependent on governments and, therefore, the capitalist system. It is starting the battle between centralized and decentralized economic systems.
Primary aim to link integral coops and local currencies
The system is intended to surmount the limitations of the various social currencies so that they are designed for better interconnected local and some distant use, and at present continue to be related to fiat currency, and can suffer from their crises. To do this, Faircoin has a still developing structure integrated in the network of common discussion of the Fair Network and local nodes dealing with its extension and encouraging consolidation in the territories.
Faircoin and will Faircredit will be the way to access the Fair Market, a virtual market that aims to promote products and let services “move everywhere.”
Capitalized from the start with 10 million faircoin by the current partners Faircoin , the same day the 17th Sept these Global South funds will begin to function, designed to empower those local projects especially under attack by the global system, as wwell as and the funds for the Common Good and Technology Infrastructure, which qualitatively prioritize projects that can most benefit the global common good.
Translated from DIAGONAL by the The Free https://www.diagonalperiodico.net/
September 16th Fair Coop Pre-Launch Promotion video: https://fair.to/kki9U
September 11th update: Launched https://fair.to a shorter privacy friendly to promote the fair economy
September 9th update: Launched the new main wallet. 1.2 Version https://www.fair-coin.org/#wallet with new features like coincontrol and minting view
September 8th update:
in a new broader cooperative that has been called Fair Coop. This coop will not accept fiat money and faircoin will be the only cryptocurrency accepted.I, as a member of this launching team, have the mandate today to show this video in advance:
Michael Bauwens about Fair Coop from Radi.ms on Vimeo.
Right now begins the precampaign in social media, to prepare the launch day
You can collaborate by:
– Liking on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/thefaircoop
– following on twitter https://twitter.com/fair_coop
– tweeting with the double hashtag #faircoop #faircoin
– Subscribing to the faircoin subreddit that will be shared between faircoin and faircoop
https://www.reddit.com/r/faircoin
The launch will be some day between 16 and 19 of september. Meanwhile a lot of work is being done daily with about 10-12 people
working in a permanent online hackaton for this launch
Best regards for everyone
Fair Coop se propone impulsar la transición hacia un nuevo modelo económico que reduzca las desigualdades reforzando los ámbitos de producción democrática, el empoderamiento y el trabajo en red.
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original Spanish language version of Diagonal article
Activistas de diversos ámbitos de la economía alternativa como Enric Durán, de la Cooperativa Integral Catalana, Michael Bauwens, de la P2P Foundation, o Amir Taaki, desarrollador del bitcoin, lanzan este 17 de septiembre, tras meses de trabajo en red, un proyecto de sistema económico mundial basado en la cooperación, la ética, la solidaridad, la redistribución norte-sur, y la justicia en las relaciones económicas. Es la Fair Coop, una cooperativa mundial que tratará de independizarse del “viejo sistema económico”, basado en bancos centrales y monedas fiat, mediante una nueva moneda referencia, el faircoin, que impulse el procomún global y las economías descentralizadas. .
La fecha, 17S, coincide, simbólicamente, con la que hace seis años arrancaba la campaña “Podemos vivir sin capitalismo”, y hace cinco impulsó la huelga a la banca por la que más de un centenar de puntos de información en todo el Estado crearon redes de economía alternativa invitando a la gente a abandonar sus cuentas bancarias. Es, asimismo, un paso más en la “Revolución integral” que, en palabras de Durán, “tiene como objetivo dar visibilidad a todo un movimiento autoorganizado que trabaja para construir desde abajo otros mundos posibles”.
Nace la Fair Coop
“Hacía falta encontrar una moneda que no fuera controlada por el viejo capitalismo (euros / dólares), ni explotada por el capitalismo más innovador (bitcoin), y a la que pudiéramos incorporar nuestros valores y prácticas cooperativas”, señala Durán, “Por ello faircoin fue la escogida“. Tras meses de trabajo en red, además, surgía la Fair Coop que, explica Durán, es “un paso más en la extensión de la revolución integral en todo el mundo; y también de los valores de la sociedad p2p, el cooperativismo abierto y la ética hacker, entre otros”.
Basada en la redistribución e intercambio entre iguales, la participación política abierta, la descentralización, la producción de procomún y la distribución de conocimiento abierto, su desarrollo económico se estructurará en tres fases, inaugurándose este 17 de septiembre la primera de ellas, que se acompasa con dinámicas de colaboración social ya iniciadas en la red común, la Fair Network. En este primer momento se tratará de incrementar el valor de esta moneda de referencia, la faircoin, a través del ahorro, para capitalizarla. A continuación, llegará la fase de generar actividad económica basada en el faircoin para, finalmente, consolidar un sistema económico justo lo más independiente posible de las monedas fiat, dependientes de los gobiernos y, por ende, del sistema capitalista. Se trata de iniciar el combate entre el sistema económico centralizado y los descentralizados.
El sistema pretende enmendar las limitaciones de las monedas sociales que están pensadas para su uso en lo local y poco interconectadas hasta ahora, y que, sobre todo, al seguir relacionadas con moneda fiat, pueden sufrir sus mismos avatares. Para ello, cuentan con una estructura en desarrollo integrado por la red de discusión común Fair Network, y se impulsarán nodos locales que se ocupen de su extensión y afianzamiento en los territorios. El faircoin y el faircredit serán los modos de acceso al Fair Market, un mercado virtual que tratará de impulsar que productos y servicios “se muevan por todas partes”.
Capitalizado desde el inicio por los socios actuales con 10 millones de faircoin, el mismo día 17 se ponen en funcionamiento los fondos del Sur Global, destinados a empoderar proyectos locales en especial en entornos más atacados por el sistema global, y los fondos del Procomún y de Infraestructura Tecnológica, que priorizarán cualitativamente aquellos proyectos que más puedan beneficiar el bien común global.
Breaking news July 31th: A cooperative of about 4000 members has endorsed faircoin
A cooperative of about 4000 members interested in to promote the fair
economy, has decided to endorse faircoin and is working in a project for
the public promotion and extension of faircoin that will be published
with all the details in September. Because they want to lead directly
the communication of their campaign we are not authorized to publish
more details at the moment.
This will be a big step for our community, and we call everybody to be
involved and be part of this faircoin and fair economy project, when it
is released.
FairCoin wallet release v1.2.0. Get it here, sources: https://github.com/FairCoinTeam/fair-coin.git
Fair Coop. The Earth cooperative for a fair economy from Radi.ms on Vimeo.
Relevant Contacts
http://enricduran.cat/es/
Cooperativa Integral Catalana(Integral Catalan Coop) www.cooperativa.cat
Aureasocial www.aureasocial.org
Fem-lo Comú (Lets do it In Common)femlocomu.aureasocial.org (Campanya per la col·lectivització d’aureasocial)
Revolución Integral integrarevolucio.net/
CASX, Cooperativa de Autofinanciamiento Social en Red www.casx.cat
Sistema de Salut Pública Cooperativista (CIC) salut.cooperativaintegral.cat
Iniciativa “Derecho de rebelión”, por la desobediència económica www.derechoderebelion.
RADI – Revolución – Acción – Desobediencia – Integral www.radi.ms
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