From The School of Commoning:

On May 8th, the UK House of Commons (the lower of house of the Parliament) will host the launch of a 12-seminar series on The Emergence of a Commons-based Economy, run by James Quilligan and jointly organized by the School of Commoning and the Christian Council for Monetary Justice. Please alert any contacts you may have in the UK to this program and refer them to , for a description and registration details.

Although those events will take place in the UK, their impact will not be limited to one country. Our intent is to move the commons in the forefront of the national discussion about the way out of the unending crisis. If we succeed, which is within the horizon given the powerful line-up NGOs and think tanks supporting the Quilligan Seminars by each convening one of them, it will have a positive impact on the commons movement everywhere, particularly.

The Convergence for a Commons-based Economy, a commons for the Commons, which we plan to start forming at the concluding event of the Quilligan seminar series, will be open to international membership. If we muster enough technical capacity during the seminars, we’ll also broadcast them live via streaming webvideo. At minimum, we want to film the events, create an e-book of its materials, and develop an interactive knowledge map, adding up to an online toolkit for the transition to a commons-based economy, which will be available worldwide, free of charge.

We need your help to make it happen. Please visit the seminar series’ crowdfunding website and if you like what you see, express your support with a donation. Even small amounts help. We’d also appreciate if you’d help spreading the word, by forwarding this message to your commons-friendly contacts, facebooking tweeting about it, using the site’s shortened URL: http://igg.me/p/87869 .