Medellín, September 2, 2010 The friendship would prove an important tool to rebuild trust, to find reasons to live ... All who have a friend in the most generous sense of the word, is one of the keys to future calls Colombia a responsibility at once intimate and public, a political secret in the highest sense of the term. William Ospina
SOLIDARITY ECONOMY IS A REALITY IN MEDELLIN
With all begins full silletería VI SEMINAR Another Economy is Possible REDESOL- Solidarity Economy Network Antioquia received more than 350 in the sixth version of ECONOMY IS POSSIBLE ANOTHER SEMINAR, this time for "Marketing and Public Policy for the Solidarity Economy."
The diversity of attendees was latent, young men and women, representatives of solidarity organizations, CBOs, cooperatives, mutual associations, students, independent, professional, unemployed, public servants and others, came together to make these days of reflection and proposed a large crop. The day began with a panel on "Models viable and applicable to market solidarity economy ", which included the exposure of the Popular Training Institute - IPC - ANTIOCH REDESOL organization, on" public policy analysis and marketing local social economy and the state of solidarity movement "This was followed the presentation of the Foundation of Farmers Organizations of Salinas - Ecuador FUNORSAL his presentation: Analysis of changes in the consumption pattern of small to large traders. Then was the turn of the Corporation Women Come to the presentation on the experience of economic organization in a network of women in perspective gender.
Then this context that the experiences presented above, which provided information for the conversation, he went to work for committees which addressed topics such as marketing in rural areas (production) of the solidarity economy urban market (trade and services) for the solidarity economy and public policy and social movement of solidarity economy.
All socialized thoughts and experiences be known by everyone in the Proceedings of the Seminar will be published on the website http://seminariotraeconomiaesposible.blogspot.om
We then prepare for the second day of the seminar (morning come September 3, 8:00 a.m. to 12:30 m) with the intention to conclude the sixth version of the meeting of Economic Development.
Today we find that another economy is possible and urgent to create an inclusive and supportive experiences were presented today demonstrate how it is possible to reframe the economic issue, not focused on profit and spread of deserts in the monetary in our pockets, but taking care of the good life, a life of dignity, remembering that we can not abide by an invisible hand market also seems blind because he happened always favors the capital and its purposes. Programming
New training opportunities are open with the School of Economic Development.
In the coming days the school is kicking formations solidarity economy in different parts of the city.
In Comuna 03 - Manrique will start a course basic solidarity economy on Saturday 28 August at CEDEZO Manrique, classes are five Saturday, 8 am to 1 pm and the training is aimed at members of units associated products, community action groups , local administrative board and PB delegates.
In the commune 10 - La Candelaria this training will Solidarity Economy starting next September 1 for five Wednesdays from 8 am to 1 pm in Bolivar Prado Shopping Center (Across Prado metro station).
communes For 12 - and 13 America - San Javier basic course begins Thursday September 2 and will run on Mondays and Thursdays from 2 pm to 5 pm in the Library Park Bethlehem .
addition, the VI Seminar Another Economy is Possible to be held on 2 and 3 September, students in the School of Economic Solidarity may attend the conference with Community Marketing Ecuadorian expert Rubén Tapia on Tuesday August 31 at 4:30 pm in the House of Culture and Cooperation of Trust.
School Solidarity Economy is an initiative of the Social Development Secretariat the Mayor of Medellin in agreement with the Joint Venture for Solidarity Economy (Corporate Development - Foundation Trust).
For more information contact the phone 217 12 12.
More information: González Ana Milena Trujillo Social Communicator - Temporary Union Solidarity Economy February 17, 1912 Tel 12-301 222 67 83
Registration open until Saturday August 28 - FREE ADMISSION WITH PRE-REGISTRATION
mass participation in the pre-registration: business associations,
cooperatives, mutuals, students and public servants.
come together to perform the Sixth Seminar ECOMÍA OTHER POSSIBLE under the WEEK OF SOLIDARITY will be carried out various activities on the commercialization of the economy the production and responsible consumption , and public policy for solidarity economy is visible collaborative networks and meetings held experiences of economic solidarity, among others. Men and women leaders of social sector and solidarity, solidarity organizations, cooperatives, mutual , public servants and professionals of social sciences and humanities , have answered the call that since the Network Antioquia Solidarity Economy is in the spirit of fostering dialogue and reflection in a match that visible and sustainable productive experiences to controvert the established order with supportive companies and creating opportunities for marketing and implementation of public policies.
New Amente recognizes the relevance of culture conomic solidarity with a logic and rationality of social production and distribution than the capitalist system, in the context of economic solidarity networks work to create different collective wealth the prevailing capitalist logic or how to distribute sde state action. We past the rhetoric to find that OTHER ECONOMY MAY with autonomous management, where economic and social aspects overlap and interact, where people take priority to community above the capital, and where are your partners and purpose associated. reiterate the call that we conventional acids and convinced, and have experienced s OTHER ECONOMY IS POSSIBLE!, Do not run out your space, pre-registering, the Seminar is free with admission to pre-registration and interested in advancing the consolidation of a culture of solidarity , the invitation is extended to persons or organizations involved or that in his work and stan mind the principles of the Solidarity Economy: solidarity, the mutual aid and self . Programming WEEK OF SOLIDARITY and registration form the Seminar http: / / seminariotraeconomiaesposible.blogspot.com
Information and registration OTHER ECONOMIC SEMINAR MAY : Corporation foster CLL 53 # 42-52, Tel: 2165255, 2171212, seminarioredesol2010@gmail.com
How to get what we need without money? The answer is
A new way of understanding economy
By: Trueke.
is difficult at first to understand how it is possible access to goods and services with no money involved. Then we forget what should be the economy, what is shared among those who are, and try to fully exploit the resources available through work.
Instead, it has economic been for us today only money. All economic sense if there is money at stake. If not, the exchanges seem rather favors between friends, entertainment, leisure recreational or solidarity.
But it should not be., Even without money, if someone gives a cucumber, if someone repair a fault, if someone takes the kids to school, is not performing an economic activity? ; Obviously yes, but there is no money involved.
"money is the obstacle between the need and the satisfactions, the Trueke is the bridge spanning the obstacle "
Under capitalism, for someone to win, another must lose. The tradeoff however is a game of infinite sums, which satisfy the needs of the other benefits everyone. The abundance of social currency used in barter networks allows a fair reward to each according to their activity, that no one gets lost.
"we all need something and we all have something to give"
should reflect deeply on the objectives and the context in which they reside exchange practices and experiences of alternative currencies, which are spreading with remarkable speed and enthusiasm in various countries.
one hand, are a practical response against real and current needs. other hand, is a proposed change oriented social relations and economic systems, being motivated by certain values, ideas and solidarity projects and alternatives.
The question is, on the other hand, if a return to the remote past, or whether they are opening a different future and extremely original.
Naturally, as a practical response to felt needs of these experiences arise especially in the marginalization and poverty, conditioned by the lack of cash income capable of processing market official. As a response to specific needs, barter and reciprocity among neighbors is widely practiced among people who share what little they have, so spontaneous, it is a way to survive by those who have very low incomes, a system in which access to any property or service is the corresponding availability of cash.
But barter and reciprocity are also verified in other socio-economic levels, as a practical way of exchanging goods, services, labor, information, knowledge, etc., And avoid incurring unnecessary costs in cash (including including taxes). These practices involve intersubjective relationship exists mutual trust and mutual credibility, which often occur only within families, between friends, groups and communities made up of elective affinities and shared projects in neighborhoods and community tradition that existing social organizations created for other purposes.
I think the spontaneous practice of reciprocity and exchange, both as a response to shortcomings as motivated by relationships and electives, gives us the key to exploring the possibilities that they converge and contribute to projects for change in economic and social relations.
one hand, such projects can be part of a process aimed at overcoming poverty and inequality in income distribution. In this sense, the efficiency of the practice of bartering is shown in the fact that many people manage to survive through them, and social diffusion can only help to expand their potential. But, of course, find objective limits on the fact that those involved in these relationships what they do is basically share their poverty. However, it is conceivable that can transcend these limits, increasing its effects, to the extent that active processes are articulated with broader, and specifically deployed as an insert creative processes and production of the popular economy and solidarity.
On the other hand, the spread of barter, reciprocity and alternative currencies may be part of the social construction of new economic relations, new forms of production, distribution, consumption and development in a more general , involving not only the poor but also people and social groups of different social, motivated by a desire for participation and sharing, and values \u200b\u200band ideals rooted in longing for justice, solidarity, human and spiritual development.
This dimension also has limits, given naturally by the fact that its spread is about people and groups to join the process predispose these generous motives and desires. However, here too it is conceivable that these limits can be transcended to the extent that the practices are inserted into the dynamics of the economy of solidarity and work that through a proper demonstration of its efficiency can lead to the development and group behavior ties beyond the spontaneous and the family and community affinity.
However, in view of the widespread or amplitude which can reach development of these initiatives barter and alternative funds, should further reflect on the reason for the experiences that insert money barter and alternative projects for transformation. It is quite clear that they arise from a critical implicit or explicit market economy, and while not intending to replace the market sought to correct the trend seems to be inherent to it, to the uneven distribution. There can be some clarification in this regard.
The first is that the market as such is not itself essentially an unfair organization, to the extent that it is human relations of exchange process which if made between financial assets of equal value, would not create inequality and concentration of wealth. In itself, the market is an expression of man's social being, and highlights the fact solidarity that we need each other and we work for each other. perverse effects, which is "the problem" is capitalist organization of the market.
However, the roots of inequity in the market are not given either by the existence of money, which is essentially a means of measuring value and an instrument of exchange, and as such seems inseparable from the fact universal market. The origin of the problem seems to be rather on the transformation of money into capital, and this transformation is caused, in turn, on the fact that the money takes a "scarcity value" derived from the emission concentration of power in the hands State and financial institutions of capitalism.
Hence it has great significance and the possibility of issuing and circulation of money alternative that can escape the capitalist control, and eliminate the scarcity value of money. This clearly implies a process of currency that can be abolished rate. This certainly raises complex theoretical problems can not be considered in this brief presentation. But it is important to note that the idea is nothing exotic, having been raised by the most important currents of contemporary economic thought. For example, for Keynes, who formulated the need to eliminate the scarcity value of money by his ex nulla creation, like a flame. Or Milton Friedman, who explains and substantiates the thesis that a market model of perfect competition involves removing the monopoly of money issuance by the State, and there is also an economic factor on this complete freedom of initiative.
In a recently published study on "Development and further transformation of the economy in time", in which a long full theoretical research on the economics of solidarity and democratic market, raised the argument that equity distributive only be built in terms of a unified world market where there is a single currency in universal circulation, and an immense crowd of alternative currencies, no state or national but local and community dimension. is obvious that in the short space of this exhibition is impossible to justify and explain in some detail this thesis, but I wanted to at least mention it, it seems that in both directions, the global monetary unification and the emergence of alternative local currencies, which seem to aim, though still shy, the search for solutions to major problems of the global economic crisis that we are immersed.
Finally, I would only add that in view of the development of alternative funds, it is essential to have a new theory of money , which demonstrate social and intersubjective nature. Among the issues to further theoretically and on which I have made some contributions in the book mentioned, perhaps the most important is the fact that money is essentially not a material fact, or purely symbolic, not only an instrument of change, but a social relationship that involves mutual bonds of trust and credibility among economic actors and a trade takes place.
Issue money, money, alternative, is the simplest thing in the world, when there is trust and credibility . Evidenced by the fact that each of us actually gives money, real money in the most technical sense of the term, each time you sign a "voucher" each time making a commitment to pay, whether in contract, by simple writing or orally. If I tell someone, "You can expect that in 30 days you pay 500 thousand dollars, and that person believed me because he trusts my word, we have established a social relationship creates money from nothing (ex nulla) so that that person can develop productive activities, trade or consumption, you want because your business has actually been funded by my word.
The financing is credit, or trust, and the money supply , which may take the form of notes, bonds, vouchers, or simply put, is as good as the credibility which gives rise socially. Proof of this is that the State, through its Central Bank, can issue all the tickets you want and put in circulation, but "the market" (ie, operators) does not believe in the consistency of such issue, all of it is translated only in inflation, or in loss of value money because money is not created real .
is therefore clear that any initiative, experience or process to create alternative money may have validation and consistency only if based on social relations of trust, and is able to elicit the appropriate credibility social. In this sense, barter and money creating alternative social scale are possible in economic framework of solidarity, that is, the processes of production, distribution, consumption and accumulation that are based on, and build, social relations of cooperation, mutual aid, reciprocity, equality and trust.
* Paper presented at the Seminar on barter and alternative currencies, IEP, Santiago de Chile, 2000.
Solidarity Economy Network is part of a process of solidarity between social organizations and production units to boost an alternative to the traditional economy, with the slogan of another economy and other world may have led various initiatives to reflect on the to solidarity.
inscriptions open until Saturday, August 28 - Seminar OTHER ECONOMY MAY
Solidarity Week - Sunday 29 August to Friday September 3,
The current crisis in the global economy, a consequence of capitalism as an economic model has been leaving sequelae such as poverty, unemployment, exclusion , violence and war; the only way to reduce these effects is creating other economies and social relations. This is where the solidarity economy presented as an alternative to major challenges as we begin to surface as a set of actors with principles based on solidarity the mutual aid and self to make economy and put the experiences of solidarity in a development scenario where man is the protagonist in achieving its aims and purposes.
Solidarity Economy Network of Antioquia - REDESOL - made by corporations encourage, Vamos Mujer , Con-Vivamos , Penca Aloe, Organic Agriculture Network - RECAB - the project Trueke , the Popular Training Institute IPC and Foundation TRUST , promoted since 2003 various initiatives which promote the construction and visualization of thought and caring practices, processes and projects launched by a caring economy where these aspects as responsible drinking the ethical banking The agroecology the solidarity finance the barter, exchange markets supportive, caring culture , among others.
In the interest of fostering dialogue and reflection, we come together to carry out Solidarity Week, on Sunday 29 August to Friday September 3, 2010 in Medellin ; be carried out various activities on the marketing economy, the production and responsible consumption , and public policy for solidarity economy is visible collaborative networks and meetings held experiences of economic solidarity, among others.
Under the Solidarity Week will make the OTHER ECONOMIC SEMINAR MAY on Thursday 2 and Friday 3 September in the Garden Auditorium botanist, with the aim of advancing the creation of local and national markets and international, in a supportive peer search elsewhere.
We will meet to take a look at the marketing and public policy advocacy from the solidarity economy; REDESOL invites the community at large to generate processes and charity projects for go transforming economic and political realities to a inclusive and participatory democracy, we share and exchange knowledge through activities that promote solidarity economics, practice, thought and solidarity projects.
invited Experiences:
Project collaborative networks and advice to governments in Brazil's solidarity economy - MCCH-Maquita Cushunchic Marketed as Brothers of Ecuador, the Cooperative Coohobienestar of Armenia, the Ministry of Economic Development and Economic Organization Bogotá network of women in gender, Corporación Vamos Mujer Medellin, network marketing experience.
