The crisis affecting the European Union should provide the perfect opportunity for people to come together to not only demand an alternative but to actively create our vision for a better world. Just imagine the endless possibilities if we all worked together in the spirit of solidarity.

It is easy to look at what is happening in Greece and Spain in a detached way, distancing the relationship between them and us. There are many similarities that could be explored as essentially the reason why people are on the streets is that they are not having a say in how their country is run. This is what’s moving and touching the people on the ground, I’m sure we can all relate to what is happening in the world if we wanted to.

Commons can provide an alternative to market based economy if it is routed in evolution rather than revolution. To make those changes we need to understanding the root of the problem and create a new social structure through education and awareness training with the ultimate goal being to have a common world. Our wants and needs would be met by engaging with the future whilst learning to collaborate with others around us. It is a cultural change away from individual to more collaborative models.

The banking debt crisis has been turned into a state debt crisis as the banks were bailed out by nation states. What is not currently discussed is asking to whom we owe this money to, is it not to ourselves. Also the debt should not be seen as a barrier as I remember the banks wrote off billions of dollars during the height of the credit crisis. The crisis is being used as a smoke screen to turn people in on themselves and away from their fellow person.

In this current system at the moment people don’t think that they count but everybody has a point. Co-evolving with you to the next level of compassion, creativity and consciousness will bring down the market state and grow the alternative in the commons. I call it democratic mobilisation to reinvent democracy due to the financial crash as people are paying for the problem that they did not profit from.

Societies are represented in the media and by politicians completely different to how they are represented on the ground. Greece is trying to restore democracy, democracy being a Greek word which means ‘when citizens rule their country’. In the last couple of decades we are not seeing democracy in many countries in Western Europe, we should be giving the power back to the people where it belongs.

Politicians are being guarded by 2,000 policemen to be able to walk in and out of the parliament – the government is illegal and there should be a trial taking place. A quote from a Greek activist: “We don’t want as much as we did. We have been waiting for our politicians to make change but they never do, rather they continue to introduce laws to protect themselves, steal money from the state and only when things go completely out of control do people make their voices heard”. The most fundamental thing is for resource users to become producers of their own resources which would give people a sense of belonging; an element of control over their lives.

I think, therefore we are…