[p2p-research] Google to tear down social networking walls

[Michel Bauwens]

Hi sam,

as you probably gathered from this article,
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ismael-hosseinzadeh/herbert-hoover-copycat_b_168617.html

the obama admin is still very beholden to certain interests, to the
detriment of the public good,

nevertheless, they are not impervious to public pressure .. it's still early
days for the kind of policies we advocate, but we have to start the long
process of changing policies, but of course not at the detriment of building
our own structures ...

Michel

On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 1:57 AM, Samuel Rose <samuel.rose at gmail.com> wrote:

>
>
> On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 6:37 AM, Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004 at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Hi Sam,
>>
>> of course I'm all for self-organizing,
>>
>> but I think that the obama admin offers quite a historical opportunity to
>> install policy initiatives with high leverage to assist this process ...
>>
>> it's our taxpayers money after all,
>>
>> Michel
>>
>>
>>
> Yes, I could be wrong.
>
> I am still skeptical that even Obama admin will address change in open
> commons-based ways, for local economies. I am not yet seeing this language
> coming out of Obama admin.
>
> But, it is very early.
>
> We have a democratic Governor here in Michigan, who is very closely aligned
> with Obama, and they have not been receptive to enabling open commons-based
> economies. Although, they of course do at least acknowledge that taxpayer
> money is commons, and that social services, and environmental protections,
> etc need to flow from that taxpayer money pool.
>
> Anyway, they *may* be receptive to the argument that working in the way
> that Michel is proposing could come in at a lower cost, and yield higher
> returns.
>
> So, I agree that it is worth putting this in front of them.
>
>
>
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