Comments on: The Unemployed Exchange Association (UXA): Grassroots Economic Development in the 1930’s https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/the-unemployed-exchange-association-uxa-grassroots-economic-development-in-the-1930s/2009/12/17 Researching, documenting and promoting peer to peer practices Mon, 21 Dec 2009 03:11:33 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.15 By: Michel Bauwens https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/the-unemployed-exchange-association-uxa-grassroots-economic-development-in-the-1930s/2009/12/17/comment-page-1#comment-420302 Mon, 21 Dec 2009 03:11:33 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=6356#comment-420302 In reply to Jeff Vail.

Thanks for your comments,

I wonder if you are familiar with the Common Security Clubs? While they are not vehicles for concrete material security, they are certainly a step in the right direction of bringing material security to the table …

Michel

]]> By: Jeff Vail https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/the-unemployed-exchange-association-uxa-grassroots-economic-development-in-the-1930s/2009/12/17/comment-page-1#comment-420242 Thu, 17 Dec 2009 19:58:14 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=6356#comment-420242 To me, this is very important. It’s a historical example to draw on that, I think, largely foreshadows how we will actually adapt to the building crises of the future (as opposed to the noisy but ultimately ineffective contributions that I expect from centralized governments). What I see as most exciting is the potential to accellerate these efforts by integrating them with the internet–not that this is anything new to readers here, but imagine what these UXAs could have accomplished with unlimited connectivity to share best practices, adapt ideas to find locally appropriate solutions, etc. Also, one of the contemporary problems that must be overcome is that, for many, they are not geographically co-located with hordes of similarly situated people with whom to coordinate and cooperate (think rural or suburban regions)–the internet allows for these geographically dispersed groups to come together virtually in a way that simply wasn’t possible in the past (with the exception of fairs, festivals, or other such periodic events).

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