November 2011 - P2P-Foundation - lists.ourproject.org

Coleman -- training workers for global economy
by Kevin Carson 08 Nov '11

08 Nov '11

http://prorevnews.blogspot.com/2011/11/war-on-education-and-reading-david.h… -- Kevin Carson Research Associate, Center for a Stateless Society http://c4ss.org Homebrew Industrial Revolution: A Low-Overhead Manifesto http://homebrewindustrialrevolution.wordpress.com Desktop Regulatory State: The Countervailing Power of Super-Empowered Individuals http://desktopregulatorystate.wordpress.com Organization Theory: A Libertarian Perspective http://mutualist.blogspot.com/2005/12/studies-in-anarchist-theory-of.html

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Insight...Euro Politburo....
by robert searle 07 Nov '11

07 Nov '11

The following maybe of interest... http://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/Insight-Euro-new-politburo-no-reuters_molt…

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Michael Moore on the Occupy Movement.
by robert searle 07 Nov '11

07 Nov '11

Maybe of interest. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908//vp/45158908#45158908

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Fwd: FYI, 6 minute video of Robert Steele on Electoral Reform goes viral
by Michel Bauwens 07 Nov '11

07 Nov '11

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Robert Steele <robert.david.steele.vivas(a)gmail.com> Date: Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 7:30 AM Subject: FYI, 6 minute video of me on Electoral Reform goes viral To: Robert.David.Steele.Vivas(a)gmail.com Share if you see fit. For NCDD: would love to see this treated as a dialog and deliberation topic. On 30 Oct Robert Steele traveled to NYC to present an electoral reform statement of demand and an act with eleven elements to the OWS working group on electoral reform. He was filmed by a volunteer. That six minute film was posted by the volunteer to YouTube, made the front page of Reddit, and has now gone viral. See it at YouTube, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOWkaeG-1IQ; the documents can be seen at http://tinyurl.com/OWS-ER-HO I have cancelled the planned trip, everyone is telling me to stay put and tend to the cyber world. Reddit is recruiting individuals at each occupy site to be the electoral reform advocates, while a new site is being created by other volunteers. I have no idea how this turns out, but it seems a good thing. -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net Connect: http://p2pfoundation.ning.com; Discuss: http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation Updates: http://del.icio.us/mbauwens; http://friendfeed.com/mbauwens; http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens

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Re: [P2P-F] Rebramding #occupy
by Michel Bauwens 07 Nov '11

07 Nov '11

sharing withh our list ... feel free 2 add on Ning, we can promote the discussion and when finalized, can publish on p2p blog, Michel On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 3:12 PM, Tiberius Brastaviceanu < tiberius.brastaviceanu(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Dear collaborators, > > Here in Montreal we are getting ready to make a step forward at #occupy > Montreal. Our #occupy Center of Coordination for the New Economy<https://picasaweb.google.com/116079266705302284056/OccupyMontrealBuilding>is almost ready. It is now the largest heated structure on the camp, a > multifunctional space, which form a bedroom (sleeping at least 8 people) > it can morph into a working space (comfortably sitting at least 6 people at > their computers), and into a conference room (sitting at least 15 people, > with a large projection screen and a HD projector). > [I want to thank my other 5 collaborators in this project, including > Florin] > > Before we make the next move, engaging our local committees and other > #occupy camps around the world, I would like to release this article. > > https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Pfmf3cBcvyFuC63ypzBVDO2CVr6UBZ-SY-efuTV… > > > If you believe in this cause please provide feedback / contribute with new > ideas / provide constructive criticism... > > If you think someone else can help please send the link. > [this doc is shared with right to edit to whoever has the link, so please > be careful when you spread it, don't put it on a large mailing list for > example : ) , not! because it is secret, but I would like to keep it clean > and finish it soon]. > > Thanks! > > -- > t!b! <http://www.google.com/profiles/tiberius.brastaviceanu> > co-founder of SENSORICA <http://www.sensorica.co>, > an open, decentralized and self-organizing > value network (an open enterprise) > > founder of Multitude Project<https://sites.google.com/site/multitude2008/> > > Google Profile <https://plus.google.com/117593809719446924575/about> > Facebook Tiberius Brastaviceanu<http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000279944184> > Twitter @TiberiusB <http://twitter.com/TiberiusB> > > -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net Connect: http://p2pfoundation.ning.com; Discuss: http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation Updates: http://del.icio.us/mbauwens; http://friendfeed.com/mbauwens; http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens

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The Bitcoin Economy Is Collapsing With No Sign of Recovery - Nicholas Jackson - Technology - The Atlantic
by 10natalie＠cox.net 07 Nov '11

07 Nov '11

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/08/the-bitcoin-economy-i…....

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just do it ecomovement doc
by Michel Bauwens 07 Nov '11

07 Nov '11

http://justdoitfilm.com/ hi Sepp, could you present this to our audience? Michel -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net Connect: http://p2pfoundation.ning.com; Discuss: http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation Updates: http://del.icio.us/mbauwens; http://friendfeed.com/mbauwens; http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens

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Fwd: Parliament blocks expert groups' budget until safeguards against their capture by special interests and increased transparency are introduced
by Dante-Gabryell Monson 06 Nov '11

06 Nov '11

Ideally, Next step would be to enable such transparency including what concerns national ministers operating via the EU Councilium, all politicians active within the parties, etc I hope that this recent decision from the EU Parliament is not merely party politics ( and influence of certain lobbies via corrupted politics ? ) vs bureaucrats ! ----- Original Message ----- *From:* *To:* aitec-lobby(a)reseau-ipam.org *Sent:* Thursday, October 27, 2011 4:08 PM *Subject:* [aitec-lobby] Une victoire d'ALTER-EU à Bruxelles : Parliament blocks expert groups' budget until safeguards against their capture by special interests and increased transparency are introduced En anglais ci-dessous, l'annonce d'une victoire dans la lutte contre l'accaparement des groupes d'experts de la commission par les intérêts privés : le parlement a bloqué leur budget en demandant des changements dans leur fonctionnement. a+ Florent *De : *Natacha *Date : *27 octobre 2011 08:45:31 HAEC *À : *Natacha *Objet : **[ALTER-EU Coalition] ALTER-EU: Parliament blocks expert groups' budget until safeguards against their capture by special interests and increased transparency are introduced* The Alliance for Lobbying Transparency and Ethics Regulation in the EU (ALTER-EU) Media advisory. For immediate release: Thursday 27 October 2011 *Parliament blocks expert groups' budget until safeguards against their capture by special interests and increased transparency are introduced. The Plenary of the European Parliament yesterday voted overwhelmingly in favour of freezing part of the budget for the European Commission's expert groups until new rules are introduced to provide safeguards against their capture by special interests and to improve transparency [1]. ALTER-EU has welcomed this initiative by the Parliament to put pressure on the European Commission to prevent the corporate capture of EU policy preparation.* **The Parliament has asked to: • ''Provide safeguards against capture from special interests and corporate interests.'' • ''Ban lobbyists and corporate executives sitting in expert groups in a ‘personal capacity’.'' • ''agendas, minutes and participants’ submissions should be available on-line'' Twenty per cent of the budget covering travel, accommodation and other expenses of experts coming to Brussels to advise the Commission on legislative and policy initiatives will be put in reserve until new rules are in place. ALTER-EU researcher Yiorgos Vassalos said: ''ALTER-EU welcomes the Parliament vote, which should help resolve some serious problems that exist in EU policy-drafting. Under the current rules [2], industry lobbyists are allowed to dominate many groups and in this way capture new draft legislation. These privileges have to be abolished and the Commission should urgently produce new rules". ALTER-EU estimates [3] that around 100 expert groups are dominated by big corporations which as a result get to co-draft policies and regulations in policy areas where they have vested interests (finance, biotechnology, raw materials, climate, agriculture, research and more). Agendas and minutes of expert group meetings are rarely in the public domain. Members of the European Parliament decided to use their budget powers after the Commission ignored their call to ''ensure a balanced representation of interest groups in the membership of expert groups'' in 2008 [4], declined to involve them in the procedure for revising the rules for expert groups in 2010 and refused to fully respond to the questions they raised earlier this year [5]. The amendment [6] was tabled by the Greens on the report on the 2012 EU budget by the Italian Social-democrat MEP Francesca Balzani. It was supported by the Social-democrats, Liberals, the United Left and almost all Conservatives and Reformists, as well as EPP MEPs Monica Macovei and Zuzanna Roithova. The European Ombudsman will conclude an inquiry into whether the functioning of expert groups adheres to principles of good governance by the end of this year. The Commission should now propose new rules that effectively tackle the problems of unbalanced composition and lack of transparency. For more information, please contact: Yiorgos Vassalos, Corporate Europe Observatory: yiorgos(a)corporateeurope.org, tel: +32-2-8930-930 / +32-4-8467-5162 Paul de Clerck, Friends of the Earth Europe: paul(a)milieudefensie.nl , tel: +32-4-9438-0959 *Notes*: [1] Amendment 534 on the Francesca Balzani's report on the 2012 EU Budget was voted by 401 in favour and 272 against on Wednesday, October 26, 2011 [2] ALTER-EU statement on the current rules on expert groups: http://www.alter-eu.org/sites/default/files/documents/alter-eu.statement.ex… [3] http://www.alter-eu.org/sites/default/files/alter-eu_workshop_11-05-2011.pdf [4] http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?type=TA&reference=P6-TA-2008-… [5] http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?pubRef=-//EP//TEXT+OQ+O-2011-… [6] The conditions that the Parliament put for releasing the reserve are the following: ''The Commission shall modify the rules on expert groups in the following way: 1. Scrap exceptions in the obligation to have a balanced composition of expert groups (technical nature + experts in ''personal capacity''). Prohibit a single interest category (business, union or other) from having the majority of the non-government and non-EU seats in any expert group. Provide safeguards against capture from special interests and corporate interests. 2. Ban lobbyists and corporate executives sitting in expert groups in a ‘personal capacity’. The Commission should clarify whether members of an expert group are there as stakeholders or as experts committed to acting in the public interest. The second should be thoroughly checked for conflicts of interest and their ''declaration of professional activities'' should be in the public domain. 3. Common selection criteria throughout all DGs, that guarantee balance among different categories of stakeholders and absence of Conflict of Interests for experts and establish an obligatory open selection process with a public call and a published mandate of each expert group which goes beyond a simple representation of Member states authorities. 4. All membership information (incl. affiliations), agendas, minutes and participants’ submissions should be available on-line unless if there is a clear and published reason for not providing this info. Reports of groups should be published before getting adopted by the Commission.'' The document that includes amendment 534 is accessible here in Document 5(bis) – Part 6 : http://www.europarl.europa.eu/activities/committees/editoDisplay.do?languag… *The Alliance for Lobbying Transparency and Ethics Regulation (ALTER-EU) is a coalition of over 160 civil society groups, trade unions, academics and public affairs firms concerned with the increasing influence exerted by corporate lobbyists on the political agenda in Europe, the resulting loss of democracy in EU decision-making and the postponement, weakening, or blockage even, of urgently needed progress on social, environmental and consumer-protection reforms.* Natacha Cingotti Lobby transparency and corporate power Friends of the Earth Europe Tel: +32 2 893 10 23 Fax: +32 2 893 10 35 Skype: c_natacha natacha.cingotti(a)foeeurope.org www.foeeurope.org www.facebook.com/FoEEurope www.twitter.com/foeeurope aitec-lobby mailing list aitec-lobby(a)reseau-ipam.org https://reseau-ipam.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/aitec-lobby

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A local circular resilient system
by Michel Bauwens 06 Nov '11

06 Nov '11

http://www.lesekovores.com/ dear sepp, thanks for looking into this, Michel Urban symbiosis Through establishing close contacts between districts and uncultivated green belt land, towns and cities boast an excellent potential for the development of healthy, local and seasonal agriculture. Progressively, towns and cities can equip themselves with facilities that enable them to operate in a closed loop, with short supply channels as the backbone. The result is the emergence of farm districts that achieve independence in food terms. -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net Connect: http://p2pfoundation.ning.com; Discuss: http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation Updates: http://del.icio.us/mbauwens; http://friendfeed.com/mbauwens; http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens

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thanks for spreading the word: p2p teach-in at Zuccoti Park tomorrow at 6 pm
by Michel Bauwens 06 Nov '11

06 Nov '11

Dear friends, I've been invited to speak at #OccupyWallStreet, thanks for spreading the word: http://www.nycga.net/events/event/michael-bauwens-on-peer-to-peer/ -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net Connect: http://p2pfoundation.ning.com; Discuss: http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation Updates: http://del.icio.us/mbauwens; http://friendfeed.com/mbauwens; http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens

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