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Hackers as Vital Disruptors for Democracy
by Nadarajah Manickam 13 Mar '21

13 Mar '21

*BOOK LAUNCH & LECTURE ON "CODING DEMOCRACY: HOW HACKERS ARE DISRUPTING POWER, SURVEILLANCE, AND AUTHORITARIANISM"* MAUREEN WEBB WEDNESDAY, MARCH 31, 5:30PM – 7:00PM PST, VIA ZOOM WEBINAR (REGISTRATION REQUIRED) Organized by SFU's Institute for the Humanities; Co-sponsored by SFU's Vancity Office for Community Engagement, Lawyers' Rights Watch Canada, & B.C. Civil Liberties Association (BCCLA) https://www.facebook.com/events/212470693893864 http://www.sfu.ca/humanities-institute/public-events/public-events/2021/cod… Register HERE <https://sfu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_gbX_IVcjTNio7nVAK19v8A> DEFENDING DEMOCRACY: ONE OF 24 BOOKS TO HELP UNDERSTAND THE WORLD IN 2021 (THE MIT PRESS) Hackers as vital disruptors, inspiring a new wave of activism in which ordinary citizens take back democracy. Hackers have a bad reputation, as shady deployers of bots and destroyers of infrastructure. In Coding Democracy, Maureen Webb offers another view. Hackers, she argues, can be vital disruptors. Hacking is becoming a practice, an ethos, and a metaphor for a new wave of activism in which ordinary citizens are inventing new forms of distributed, decentralized democracy for a digital era. Confronted with concentrations of power, mass surveillance, and authoritarianism enabled by new technology, the hacking movement is trying to “build out” democracy into cyberspace. Webb travels to Berlin, where she visits the Chaos Communication Camp, a flagship event in the hacker world; to Silicon Valley, where she reports on the Apple-FBI case, the significance of Russian troll farms, and the hacking of tractor software by desperate farmers; to Barcelona, to meet the hacker group XNet, which has helped bring nearly 100 prominent Spanish bankers and politicians to justice for their role in the 2008 financial crisis; and to Harvard and MIT, to investigate the institutionalization of hacking. Webb describes an amazing array of hacker experiments that could dramatically change the current political economy. These ambitious hacks aim to displace such tech monoliths as Facebook and Amazon; enable worker cooperatives to kill platforms like Uber; give people control over their data; automate trust; and provide citizens a real say in governance, along with capacity to reach consensus. Coding Democracy is not just another optimistic declaration of technological utopianism; instead, it provides the tools for an urgently needed upgrade of democracy in the digital era. BOOK REVIEW I’ll admit it: Hacker triumphalism makes me nauseous. Ever since Anonymous strapped on Guy Fawkes masks and started digitally sticking it to Scientologists and the Westboro Baptist Church, certain parts of the internet have become convinced that God is a hacker, here to wash the hard drives of the impure with cleansing viruses. Especially hackers. Coding Democracy: How Hackers Are Disrupting Power, Surveillance, and Authoritarianism, by lawyer and human rights activist Maureen Webb, managed to reach through my comfortable layers of snark-justified disinterest. Webb doesn’t just praise cypherpunks for being the edgy little hornets’ nest kickers they are. She’s building a powerful case for the fact that technology as we know it—omnipresent, flawed, world-improving—has become so entrenched and static that it really does need the hackers worrying the edges of its firewalls. In Webb’s telling, hackers aren’t heroes destined to bring the world to a grand new order of their own transgressive imaginings. They’re agents of positive chaos. —Emma Grey Ellis, WIRED's 13 Must-Read Books for Spring SPEAKER Maureen Webb is a labour, human rights and constitutional lawyer. Her book, Coding Democracy: How Hackers Are Disrupting Power, Surveillance and Authoritarianism, published in 2020 by The MIT Press, made Wired magazine’s “Thirteen Must Read Books for Spring 2020” list. Also the author of Illusions of Security: Global Surveillance and Democracy in the Post 9-11 World (San Francisco: City Lights, 2007), Maureen’s work has been praised by voices as diverse as Craig Newmark, Randi Weingarten, Cory Doctorow, Andrew Feenberg, Jeremy Waldron, and Mark Danner. She’s been invited to speak in many venues, including Chatham House, Virtual Futures, the Oxford Literary Festival, the London Front Line club, the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, the World Affairs Council of California, and most recently the Toronto International Festival of Authors. Part of the activist community in BC, she’s served on the boards of Lawyers Rights Watch Canada and the BC Civil Liberties Association, and from time to time, taught public interest law at UBC law school. In addition to her writing about technology and democracy, she’s written many pieces on the human rights dimensions of national security. An article she published on the Canadian Anti-terrorism Act was cited extensively in the trial judgment in R. v. Khawaja. https://www.facebook.com/events/212470693893864 http://www.sfu.ca/humanities-institute/public-events/public-events/2021/cod… -- Nat/Nada --------------------------------------------------------------------- "Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames." (Rumi) --------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.gcssfs.org/ http://primalvision.weebly.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/nadarajah-nat-manickam-b5773a71 https://amanibana.wixsite.com/virtues https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDt7Ju2LG-iZqZR2PaYOKQg/videos

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Fwd: Schumacher College 30th Anniversary Essay Competition
by Ashish Kothari 12 Mar '21

12 Mar '21

Friends, the announcement below/attached may be of interest, esp. those of you working on alternative learning/education spaces... Pl. write in to the contacts given, not back on these lists! ashish -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: Schumacher College 30th Anniversary Essay Competition Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2021 16:24:43 +0000 From: Satish Kumar <satish(a)resurgence.org> To: chikikothari(a)gmail.com <chikikothari(a)gmail.com> Dear Ashish I hope you are well. I am writing to you about a very special project we have initiated. This year is the 30th anniversary of Schumacher College. To celebrate this special occasion we have launched an international essay competition, on the theme of “Education as if People and Planet Matter“. This initiative is in collaboration with Resurgence & Ecologist magazine. First prize: £5,000. Second prize: £2,000. Third prize: £1,000. As you know, the present educational system serves the interest of the Industrial Age promoting wasteful production, consumption and ever-increasing economic growth on a finite planet. This educational system is in urgent need of transformation if we wish to see education remaining relevant to the age of ecology and serving the purpose of the regenerative culture and sustaining the integrity of our precious planet earth. Please see the link below to get full information about this competition. https://www.dartington.org/essay-competition/ <https://www.dartington.org/essay-competition/> Please also see the attached press release which has gone out to the British media. With this email I am asking for your help in two ways: 1. Please consider participating in this competition by submitting your own essay. If you could do that I will be delighted. Apart from the cash prize, we are also planning to publish a book of essays on “Education as if People and Planet Matter”. The length of your essay should be between 1000 to 1500 words. The final deadline for the submission is 1st July 2021. 2. I would be most grateful if you would kindly send this information to your contacts and post to your social media pages. If you are also able to post this information on your website that would be wonderful. 3. If you know any journalists or if you are contributing to any journals, magazines or newspapers yourself please consider promoting this competition as widely as possible particularly to people in the field of education who have some radical ideas. Thank you very much for your help and support in this regard. Please confirm that you have received this email and if you have any thoughts or comments please let me know. I look forward to hearing from you, With all my love as always, Satish. ** *Satish Kumar Editor Emeritus* *tel*| +44 1237 441293 *email*| satish(a)resurgence.org <mailto:[email protected]> *web*| www.resurgence.org <http://www.resurgence.org/> Let us know if you’d like us to reserve your next copy of *Resurgence & Ecologist magazine*by taking out a membership to The Resurgence Trust. Call us on 01208 841824 To join online atwww.resurgence.org/membership <http://www.resurgence.org/membership> *Resurgence & Ecologist magazine*– at the heart of earth, art and spirit published by The Resurgence Trust, Resurgence Centre, Hartland, Bideford, Devon EX39 6AB This email (and its attachments) may be confidential and is intended solely for the use of the individual to whom it is addressed. Please contact the sender if you believe you have received this email in error. Any views or opinions expressed are those of the author and do not necessarily represent The Resurgence Trust. The Resurgence Trust is a registered Charity in England and Wales. Charity No.1120414 Registered Office: The Resurgence Trust, Ford House, Hartland, Bideford, Devon. EX39 6EE. Tel. 01237 441293 _www.resurgence.org <http://www.resurgence.org/>_**

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CFP: International Workshop on Urban Climate Justice
by Prakash Kashwan 09 Mar '21

09 Mar '21

Dear PeDAGog Friends and Colleagues: We invite proposals for an international virtual workshop that the Climate Justice Network (https://www.climatejusticenetwork.org/) will organize during June 28-30, 2021, as part of a Special Funds project supported by the American Political Science Association (APSA). This Workshop will host a selected group of young and under-represented scholars and practitioners focused on climate justice in urban and rapidly urbanizing areas of the global South, including the South within the global North, i.e., frontline black and brown communities and indigenous peoples in North America. For more information, please see: https://www.climatejusticenetwork.org/international-virtual-workshop-on-urb… In solidarity, Prakash --------------------------------------------------------------------- Prakash Kashwan, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Connecticut Co-Director, Research Program on Economic and Social Rights, Human Rights Institute Editor, Environmental Politics Senior Research Fellow, Earth System Governance Project External Faculty Affiliate, Ostrom Workshop, Bloomington University of Connecticut 365 Fairfield Way, Storrs, CT 06269 Phone: 860-486-7951 http://prakash-kashwan.uconn.edu/ Book: Democracy in the Woods <https://www.amazon.com/Democracy-Woods-Environmental-Conservation-Comparati…> (Oxford University Press, 2017). Inequality, Democracy, and the Environment: A Cross-National Analysis <https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0921800915301191> (*Ecological Economics 2017*) Rethinking power and institutions in the shadows of neoliberalism <https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305750X18301748> (*World Development 2019*). Planetary justice: Prioritizing the poor in earth system governance <https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589811620300343> (*Earth System Governance 2020*). The UN declaration on the rights of peasants, national policies, and forestland rights <https://doi.org/10.1080/13642987.2021.1874940> (*The International Journal of Human Rights* 2021). Climate Justice in the Global North <https://online.ucpress.edu/cse/article-abstract/5/1/1125003/116311/Climate-…> (*Case Studies in the Environment 2021)*. Popular Press: Environmental Racism <https://theconversation.com/american-environmentalisms-racist-roots-have-sh…> (The Conversation).

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School of Ecology
by Nadarajah Manickam 07 Mar '21

07 Mar '21

School of Ecology 2021: Schedule and Curriculum https://homef.org/2021/03/05/school-of-ecology-2021-schedule-curriculum/

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Sharing our work: on limits to 'technological solutions' and on a transdisciplinary, justice-centred climate pedagogy
by singhvan＠rcn.com 06 Mar '21

06 Mar '21

Dear Friends, I would like to share with the group two recent papers of relevance to climate education: 1) Chirag Dhara, a climate physicist at Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, and I (physics professor and educator at Framingham State University in the US) have co-authored a paper called “ The Elephant in the Room: Why Transformative Education Must Address the Problem of Endless Exponential Economic Growth ”, arXiv:2101.07467 [econ.GN]. https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.07467 . It is a chapter in the forthcoming volume published by UNESCO, Charting an SDG 4.7 roadmap for radical, transformative change in the midst of climate breakdown. In this paper we develop several theoretical arguments that impose strong physical, mathematical, logical, pragmatic and behavioural constraints that collectively place strong limits on ‘technological solutions’ for sustainability, and therefore, the fundamental conflict between the growth agenda of SDG 8 with the others. Given the imperative for these ideas be disseminated as widely as possible, we suggest interventions in the educational system where these arguments can be introduced and explored. 2) In the same forthcoming volume I have a chapter on a transdisciplinary, justice-centred approach to climate pedagogy, describing my experiments in an undergraduate physics course for non-science majors at a small, public, mostly working class US university. However that is not yet on a preprint server so I am attaching a link to a more detailed paper on the same approach that is available here: https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.00281 . There are a couple of versions with somewhat different titles but the substance is the same. Toward an Effective Pedagogy of Climate Change: Lessons from a Physics Classroom . This work is an attempt to transcend (to the extent that I've been able to) the constraints of the neoliberal academic institution through a holistic, justice-centered framing. It is very much a work in progress, but has shown promise (and I'm currently working on how experiences of communities at the forefront of climatic and other impacts might inform this approach). Because I talk about transdisciplinarity and justice as well as climate science essentials, I hope it will be of interest and relevance to those teaching outside the sciences as well. Naturally, other educational contexts will give rise to other framings, but I am hoping that the emphasis on transdisciplinarity and justice will continue the important conversation in this direction. The Abstracts of the two papers are below. I hope you will find both these works interesting. My colleague and I welcome your comments and suggestions. Best, Vandana ———— The Elephant in the Room: Why Transformative Education Must Address the Problem of Endless Exponential Economic Growth Chirag Dhara and Vandana Singh Abstract: ———— A transformative approach to addressing complex social-environmental problems warrants reexamining our most fundamental assumptions about sustainability and progress, including the entrenched imperative for limitless economic growth. Our global resource footprint has grown in lock-step with GDP since the industrial revolution, spawning the climate and ecological crises. Faith that technology will eventually decouple resource use from GDP growth is pervasive, despite there being practically no empirical evidence of decoupling in any country. We argue that complete long-term decoupling is, in fact, well-nigh impossible for fundamental physical, mathematical, logical, pragmatic and behavioural reasons. We suggest that a crucial first step toward a transformative education is to acknowledge this incompatibility, and provide examples of where and how our arguments may be incorporated in education. More broadly, we propose that foregrounding SDG 12 with a functional definition of sustainability, and educating and upskilling students to this end, must be a necessary minimum goal of any transformative approach to sustainability education. Our aim is to provide a conceptual scaffolding around which learning frameworks may be developed to make room for diverse alternative paths to truly sustainable social-ecological cultures. Toward an Effective Pedagogy of Climate Change: Lessons from a Physics Classroom Vandana Singh Abstract A major roadblock to effective climate education is the lack of radical visions (Kwauk, 2020) for engaging with climate change and related social-environmental crises in the classroom. Key aspects of the climate system: its inherent complexity and transdisciplinarity, the entanglement of social and natural systems, and the fact that it spans large scales of space and time - all present serious challenges to our modern, compartmentalized formal education systems. I present an argument for a justice-centered, inter-to-transdisciplinary conceptualization of climate change at the nexus of science, society and justice, which is designed to engage with the very features of the climate system that make it challenging. Based on pedagogical experiments in an undergraduate physics classroom for non-science majors, I identify five general barriers to teaching climate change, and formulate four dimensions of an effective climate pedagogy: the scientific-technological, the transdisciplinary, the onto-epistemological, and the psychosocial action dimensions. Within the context of a collaborative classroom culture informed by transformational learning, I describe the use of a meta-conceptual framework that, along with the issue of climate justice, seeks to realize all four dimensions of an effective climate pedagogy. This broad holistic framework is potentially adaptable to contexts and disciplines beyond undergraduate physics.

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Opening ceremony to Re-imagine Eucation now - Ceremonia comienza ahora!
by Andrea González Andino 04 Mar '21

04 Mar '21

Opening ceremony to Re-imagine Education is now, enter here https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84152342824?pwd=a2hvbGhRL3RhRnV5ZmZrQ0R0S1RGUT09 Remember to sign up for the conference here https://re-imagining.education/registration/ [image: 153188448_199942074896240_8968383040696541160_o (1).jpg] Aquí ingresen a la Ceremonia https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84152342824?pwd=a2hvbGhRL3RhRnV5ZmZrQ0R0S1RGUT09 y recuerden registrarse aquí https://re-imagining.education/registration/ -- At. Andrea González Andino +593 984583118

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Gaarú: The growing African Movement for Earth Jurisprudence
by Carlotta Byrne 03 Mar '21

03 Mar '21

(Apologies for any x-posting) Dear Friends, I'm writing to share a new film (12 mins) - Gaarú: The growing African Movement for Earth Jurisprudence <https://vimeo.com/488184771> Released on African Environment Day/Wangari Maathai Day, the film follows African grassroots leaders who are working to protect and restore Africa’s lands, waters, forests, and the ecological knowledge of her peoples. Hailing from across the continent, these leaders are undergoing a transformational, UN-recognised training process, facilitated by The Gaia Foundation. Gaarú explores the training process, introduces Africa's new grassroots leaders and explores the meanings of Earth Jurisprudence in Africa. We have also launched an interactive story to accompany the film.<https://www.gaiafoundation.org/gaaru-the-growing-african-movement-for-earth…> Enjoy! Carlotta [Logo Description automatically generated] Carlotta Byrne Earth Jurisprudence Programme Coordinator carlotta(a)gaianet.org<mailto:[email protected]> I Skype:carlottabyrne I Mobile: 00447742645837 The Gaia Foundation www.gaiafoundation.org<http://www.gaiafoundation.org>

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[INVITATION] Webinar: Southeast Asia Peoples' Alternatives in Pandemic Times- 9 March
by Angging Aban 28 Feb '21

28 Feb '21

Dear everyone, Join the first webinar of the "Philippine Public Policy in a Time of Pandemic: Confronting the COVID-19 Challenge" series, titled *"Southeast Asian Peoples' Alternatives in Pandemic Times,"* on *March 9, 2021 *(Tuesday), *2:00 to 4:00 PM (GMT+8/ Philippine Time)*, via Zoom and Facebook Live. This webinar will highlight how marginalized communities in Southeast Asia are coping with the pandemic and how their responses are conditioned by their location, the existence of community and sectoral organizations, and levels of social solidarity and collective consciousness. It will feature case studies from the Philippines, Indonesia, and the Thai-Burma border which are part of the UP CIDS Program on Alternative Development (AltDev)'s project on grassroots responses to COVID-19 in Southeast Asia. [image: 📋] Pre-register via bit.ly/CIDSCovid19Forum <https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FCIDSCovid19Forum%3Ffb…> [image: ✉️] Email upad.cids(a)up.edu.ph for inquiries and for more information (This webinar is brought to you by the Development Cluster composed of the UP CIDS Program on Alternative Development, the UP CIDS Program on Escaping the Middle-Income Trap: Chains for Change, and the UP CIDS Political Economy Program, with support from the Global Tapestry of Alternatives.) [image: [Feb 26 440] COVID Webinar_Devt Cluster_AltDev Poster.png] Warm regards, Angging *Ananeza Aban, MCD* Senior Program Officer Program on Alternative Development (AltDev) University of the Philippines | Center for Integrative and Development Studies *Ang Bahay ng Alumni, Lower Ground Floor * *Magsaysay Ave., UP Diliman, Q.C. 1101 Philippines* *Tel. nos.: 981-8500 loc. 4266-4267 & 435-9283* *Tel. fax: 981-8500 loc. 4268 & 426-0955* *Website: cids.up.edu.ph <http://cids.up.edu.ph>* *Facebook page: www.facebook.com/upcids*

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Educating for a Just Ecological Transition
by Ashish Kothari 26 Feb '21

26 Feb '21

Dear colleagues, this may be of interest. Pl.contact Joshua directly. Joshua, this is a list called 'Post-Development Academic-Activists' Global Group', which you may want to join seeing your orientation below. thanks ashish -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: Re: [REDlistserve] SANDHANI: 6 Films on Handloom Craft Transformation in Kachchh, western India (made by local community youth) / સંધણી: કચ્છી હાથવણાટની ઉધડતી ક્ષિતિજો Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2021 10:52:45 -0500 From: Joshua Moses <jmoses(a)haverford.edu> To: Ashish Kothari <ashishkothari(a)riseup.net> Ashish, Hope this message finds you well. Please join us and spread the word about the event below. We hope this event will have the spirit of community building and forward momentum on issues related to the climate crisis and education. Educating for a Just Ecological Transition: Building Higher Educational Alliances in a Time of Climate Crisis <https://www.haverford.edu/vcam-center-arts-and-humanities-environmental-stu…> Thank you. Regards, JMM

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Fwd: Invitation - Re-Imagining Education Conference (Español abajo)
by Andrea González Andino 20 Feb '21

20 Feb '21

Hi everyone! I remember that we had a beautiful zoom meeting last year, it was very interesting to share with many of you and your initiatives around the world. I think that this invitation is very interesting for many of you. I´m part of Ecoversities Alliance and we are organizing the first Re-imagining Education Conference 4-7th March 2021. As many of you know, Ecoversities is an Alliance that´s been working for more than 5 years in alternatives to higher education. The intention of the conference is to build bridges between a diverse range of individuals, organizations, institutions, and networks to see and share other ways of knowing, being, learning, and connecting. Here is the invitation to the conferences. You can register here https://re-imagining.education/ If you have any questions please let me know. Many hugs from the Andes in Ecuador. 🏔 ---------- Forwarded message --------- De: Ecoversities Weavers <ecoversitiesweavers(a)gmail.com> Date: sáb, 20 feb 2021 a las 13:58 Subject: Invitation - Re-Imagining Education Conference (Español abajo) To: Ecoversities Friends <ecoversitiesfriends(a)googlegroups.com>, < indian-multiversities-alliance(a)googlegroups.com>, < EcoversidadesAbyaYala(a)googlegroups.com> Dear Ecoversities friends: We are glad to invite you to the first virtual Re-imagining Education Conference <https://re-imagining.education/>, which will be held from March 4 -7th 2021. We invite you to join us in re-imagining and exploring other ways of knowing, being, learning, and connecting. There are many people and organizations that are doing transformative work in education, both within mainstream institutions of higher education, and beyond. Through the conference, we hope to enable dialogue that will build bridges between a diverse range of individuals, organizations, institutions, and networks. *General information: * - *Date:* March 4 -7th 2021. - *Website for registration* https://re-imagining.education/ - *Follow us on Facebook* for updates https://www.facebook.com/ReImaginingEducationEcoversities - This conference is based on the *spirit of gift culture*, let's keep sharing abundance with the world [image: 151507407_197069151850199_2863481391431559778_o.png] Note: Attached there is a letter to invite people to join the conference in case you´ll like to share it with people outside the network, you can also share this email. Invite people who you think will be very nourished by this conference. If you have any questions please let us know! Many hugs and love! At. Organizing team. --------------------------------------- Español ------------------------------------------------- Querides: Nos complace invitarles a la primera conferencia virtual Re-imaginando la Education, que se llevará a cabo del 4 al 7 de marzo de 2021. Lo invitamos a unirse para reimaginar y explorar otras formas de conocer, ser, aprender y conectarse. Hay muchas personas y organizaciones que están realizando un trabajo transformador en la educación, tanto dentro de las principales instituciones de educación superior como fuera de ellas. A través de la conferencia esperamos posibilitar el diálogo que construirá puentes entre una amplia gama de personas, organizaciones, instituciones y redes. *Información general: * - *Fecha: *4 al 7 de marzo de 2021. - *Sitio web para registrarse* https://re-imagining.education/ - *Síguenos en Facebook* para recibir actualizaciones https://www.facebook.com/ReImaginingEducationEcoversities - Esta conferencia trae la intención y el *espíritu de la cultura del regalo *para compartiendo abundancia con el mundo Nota: Se adjunta una carta para invitar a las personas a unirse a la conferencia en caso de que desee compartirla con personas fuera de la red, también puede compartir este correo electrónico. Invita a personas que creas que se nutrirán con esta conferencia. ¡Si tienes alguna duda, nos avisas! ¡Muchos abrazos y cariño! At. Equipo organizador. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ecoversities Friends" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to ecoversitiesfriends+unsubscribe(a)googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ecoversitiesfriends/CAN6%3DQ3dAYvvy%2By4o… <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ecoversitiesfriends/CAN6%3DQ3dAYvvy%2By4o…> . -- At. Andrea González Andino +593 984583118

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