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by Michel Bauwens 28 May '11

28 May '11

http://www.voestalpine.com/group/en/press/press-releases/2011-05-26-prix-ar… Chris, I'm guessing this can serve? thanks for putting some announcement in both the ning and regular blogs! -- 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: ACTA "expression of concern", call for signatures till end of week...! - Fwd: videovortex Digest, Vol 53, Issue 6
by Michel Bauwens 28 May '11

28 May '11

From: peter <peter(a)constantvzw.org> To: videovortex(a)listcultures.org Subject: <videovortex> ACTA, expression of concern Message-ID: <4DDCD61E.2020705(a)constantvzw.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Hi video vortex list, Thanks to those of you who have already answered to the question below through other channels. Sending it now to this list because many of you did not yet receive this mail. --- The EU parliament will soon vote on the ACTA treaty. http://ec.europa.eu/trade/creating-opportunities/trade-topics/intellectual-… LabtoLab is a network of European medialabs, initiated by PiNG in Nantes, Constant in Brussels, Medialab Prado in Madrid, Kitchen Budapest. LabtoLab expresses its concerns about the impact of the ACTA treaty on the practices that we develop. We wrote an open letter stating these concerns, the letter can be found at this address: http://www.labtolab.org/~labtolab/wiki/index.php/Acta_expression_of_concern If you support the standpoint of the letter, we would like to ask you to co-sign this letter as a supporter. You can do this by sending an e-mail to acta(a)constantvzw.org Please include your family name and first name, the institute or organisation you are part of and your position in it, or simply the activity that you would like to see mentioned. There is some urgency involved. The voting will take place early June, so we will send the letter to members of the European Parliament and members of the national parliaments of the signatories early next week. for LabtoLab, Peter Westenberg -- constant vzw | rue du fort straat 5 | 1060 brussel belgie | 0032 (0)2 5392467 | constantvzw.org ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Valentin Spirik <valentin.spirik(a)gmail.com> Date: Fri, May 27, 2011 at 7:34 PM Subject: ACTA "expression of concern", call for signatures till end of week...! - Fwd: videovortex Digest, Vol 53, Issue 6 To: valentin.spirik(a)gmail.com Dear all, Please check this out/forward to those who should read this if you think ACTA is the wrong way to go...! (An e-mail/signature would need to be sent till end of this week!) Thanks, Valentin Spirik http://indiworks.wordpress.com/ ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: <videovortex-request(a)listcultures.org> Date: Thu, May 26, 2011 at 12:00 PM Subject: videovortex Digest, Vol 53, Issue 6 To: videovortex(a)listcultures.org Send videovortex mailing list submissions to videovortex(a)listcultures.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://listcultures.org/mailman/listinfo/videovortex_listcultures.org or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to videovortex-request(a)listcultures.org You can reach the person managing the list at videovortex-owner(a)listcultures.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of videovortex digest..." Today's Topics: 1. ACTA, expression of concern (peter) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Wed, 25 May 2011 12:12:46 +0200 From: peter <peter(a)constantvzw.org> To: videovortex(a)listcultures.org Subject: <videovortex> ACTA, expression of concern Message-ID: <4DDCD61E.2020705(a)constantvzw.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Hi video vortex list, Thanks to those of you who have already answered to the question below through other channels. Sending it now to this list because many of you did not yet receive this mail. --- The EU parliament will soon vote on the ACTA treaty. http://ec.europa.eu/trade/creating-opportunities/trade-topics/intellectual-… LabtoLab is a network of European medialabs, initiated by PiNG in Nantes, Constant in Brussels, Medialab Prado in Madrid, Kitchen Budapest. LabtoLab expresses its concerns about the impact of the ACTA treaty on the practices that we develop. We wrote an open letter stating these concerns, the letter can be found at this address: http://www.labtolab.org/~labtolab/wiki/index.php/Acta_expression_of_concern If you support the standpoint of the letter, we would like to ask you to co-sign this letter as a supporter. You can do this by sending an e-mail to acta(a)constantvzw.org Please include your family name and first name, the institute or organisation you are part of and your position in it, or simply the activity that you would like to see mentioned. There is some urgency involved. The voting will take place early June, so we will send the letter to members of the European Parliament and members of the national parliaments of the signatories early next week. for LabtoLab, Peter Westenberg -- constant vzw | rue du fort straat 5 | 1060 brussel belgie | 0032 (0)2 5392467 | constantvzw.org * * * * * * * * * C O N S T A N T V Z W ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ videovortex mailing list videovortex(a)listcultures.org http://listcultures.org/mailman/listinfo/videovortex_listcultures.org to change your settings or unsubscribe, please go to: http://listcultures.org/mailman/listinfo/videovortex_listcultures.org End of videovortex Digest, Vol 53, Issue 6 ****************************************** -- 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: Article : "Chinese prisoners forced to produce virtual gold"
by Michel Bauwens 28 May '11

28 May '11

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Dante-Gabryell Monson <dante.monson(a)gmail.com> Date: Fri, May 27, 2011 at 9:00 PM Subject: Article : "Chinese prisoners forced to produce virtual gold" To: econowmix(a)googlegroups.com Chinese prisoners forced to produce virtual gold, real profits for their guards By Vlad Savov <http://www.engadget.com/editor/vlad-savov> <http://www.engadget.com/editor/vlad-savov/rss.xml> posted May 26th 2011 5:14AM http://www.engadget.com/2011/05/26/chinese-prisoners-forced-to-produce-virt… The virtual goods economy<http://www.engadget.com/2011/04/09/world-bank-report-finds-selling-virtual-…> of massively multiplayer<http://www.engadget.com/2010/11/24/chinese-man-plays-mmo-on-titanic-screen-…> online games may be thriving, but it's also stimulating an undesirable side-effect: exploitation. A former detainee at a prison in Heilongjiang province, China, has told the *Guardian* about how he was habitually forced into playing MMOs like *World of Warcraft* for the collection of loot, which the prison guards would then resell online for as much as ¥6,000 ($924) per day. Such totals would be the product of up to 300 inmates working 12-hour daily shifts, though predictably they saw none of the profits themselves. The unnamed source was at a "re-education through labor" camp where the usual toil would involve actual, rather than virtual, mining. The profitability of the online market has seemingly inspired prison bosses to move with the times, however, with business being so brisk that the computers "were never turned off." A Chinese government edict from 2009 is supposed to have introduced a requirement that online currencies only be traded by licensed entities, but it's believed that the practice of using prisoners in this fashion continues unabated. -- 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: <Coalition> Spanish Revolution and open organising
by Dante-Gabryell Monson 28 May '11

28 May '11

I excerpt Tiberius from the thread forwarded below : *" The multitude constructive revolution cannot succeed without a new economy, in which the production and distribution of value is open and decentralized. The open enterprise <http://www.sensorica.co/> and alternative currencies <http://www.metacurrency.org/> are the most important pieces of this puzzle. "* * * *" I am busy creating an alternative to the bloody corporation. See SENSORICA <http://www.sensorica.co/>* *and Multitude Innovation<https://sites.google.com/site/multitudeinnovation/home/discovery-network>, follow development on my Discovery Network blog<http://discoverynetwork-tibi.blogspot.com/>. "* a few more links shared on this thread of the coalition list , such as http://www.misa.ws/Welcome.html <http://www.misa.ws/Welcome.html>and other links, such as this one from the p2pf blog which was mentionned http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/constructing-participatory-democracy-in-the-s… <http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/constructing-participatory-democracy-in-the-s…> Forwarded conversation Subject: <Coalition> Spanish Revolution and open organising ------------------------ From: *Darren Hill* <mail(a)vegburner.co.uk> Date: Sun, May 22, 2011 at 3:20 AM To: coalition(a)googlegroups.com Been enthused by the events in Spain If you've not been watching you can check my twitter stream for details - http://twitter.com/#!/Dazinism I've been struck by the open organisation and thought people here may find it interesting. https://n-1.cc/pg/groups/104127/take-the-square-international/ -- -----------Coalition of the Willing----------- The Coalition occupies several spaces for communication and action. Keep the discussion on this list civil & assume good faith. Strive for brevity. For the what-why-where of Coalition work, look to http://cotw.cc. That wiki functions as a routing-portal and a locus for some of the work. All group efforts should maintain an updated statement of current focus, channels and spaces of work and anything necessary to support orientation & keeping up-to-speed. "BetterMeans" is where we coordinate our work: making proposals, endorsing & signing up for work, and tracking tasks. https://secure.bettermeans.com/projects/163 Share the film: http://cotw.me/film ----------------- You are subscribed to coalition(a)googlegroups.com To unsubscribe email coalition+unsubscribe(a)googlegroups.com For more options http://groups.google.com/group/coalition?hl=en ---------- From: *George Mokray* <gmoke(a)world.std.com> Date: Tue, May 24, 2011 at 4:11 AM To: coalition(a)googlegroups.com Been networking with some of the people involved in the Egyptian uprising. They are unshakably focused on actions not words. At a meeting at MIT tonight, they were looking at how to provide real relief for the poorest of the poor. I have talked a little with one student leader and emailed another about the possibility of using simple solar and Solar IS Civil Defense tools and tactics to do just that. It just may be that the uprisings of the Arab Spring can jump start sustainable development from the refugee camps and slums on up. With the addition of Spain to the mix, these uprisings are clearly an anti-corporate globalism movement and a person-to-person globalism movement. ---------- From: *Tim Rayner* <tim(a)timrayner.net> Date: Tue, May 24, 2011 at 10:03 AM To: coalition(a)googlegroups.com Cc: George Mokray <gmoke(a)world.std.com> Pam Mc shared this link via Skype. Well worth reading. People are swarming in Spanish. http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/constructing-participatory-democracy-in-the-s… ---------- From: *Joe Brewer* <brewer(a)cognitivepolicyworks.com> Date: Tue, May 24, 2011 at 5:38 PM To: coalition(a)googlegroups.com I'm playing around with a set of ideas for a blog post about the deeper patterns driving this global phenomenon... in particular the convergence of global consciousness among the youth and the powerful tools of open collaboration that have emerged with the internet, mobile, and social media revolutions. The various populist uprisings across the globe in the last seven months can be seen as isolated or -- if we are to accelerate the pace of change -- described as a cascade of democratic waves that are sweeping across the globe. But we'll need institutional structures that can contain them (in the form of some kind of global federalist system) that preserves open communication and trust through shared governance. This is an opportunity for scaling solutions that have been in nascent form for decades... Best, Joe -- Joe Brewer Founder & Director Cognitive Policy Works http://www.cognitivepolicyworks.com -- Founder & Director Seattle Innovators http://www.seattleinnovators.org 206.914.8927 (mobile) -- -- ---------- From: *George Mokray* <gmoke(a)world.std.com> Date: Tue, May 24, 2011 at 5:59 PM To: coalition(a)googlegroups.com Every participant I've heard is very clearly cognizant that these are linked movements. Almost all of them have expressed real solidarity with their brothers and sisters in the Middle East and, to me, implied solidarity with people kept from social, political, and economic power all around the world. Notes on the Arab Spring at http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/05/13/975618/-Notes-on-the-Arab-Spring This was written over a week ago and will give you some of my preliminary impressions. I'm not sure that we need institutional structures rather than effective methodologies of mass connection. -- ---------- From: *Joe Brewer* <brewer(a)cognitivepolicyworks.com> Date: Tue, May 24, 2011 at 7:40 PM To: coalition(a)googlegroups.com Effective methodologies for mass connection ARE a form of institutional structure. The topology of organizations is going through a paradigm shift and will look very different in the next cycle... - Joe -- ---------- From: *Mark Roest* <marklroest(a)gmail.com> Date: Tue, May 24, 2011 at 7:50 PM To: consuelogriego(a)gmail.com, Ben de Vries <bendevries1968(a)gmail.com> Cc: Bill Veltrop <billveltrop(a)comcast.net>, Darren Hill < mail(a)vegburner.co.uk>, George Mokray <gmoke(a)world.std.com>, coalition(a)googlegroups.com, Tim Rayner <tim(a)timrayner.net>, Pamela McLean < pamela.mclean(a)dadamac.net>, Joe Brewer <brewer(a)cognitivepolicyworks.com> Second of 3 (or 4) ---------- From: *Mark Roest* <marklroest(a)gmail.com> Date: Tue, May 24, 2011 at 7:51 PM To: consuelogriego(a)gmail.com, Ben de Vries <bendevries1968(a)gmail.com> Cc: Bill Veltrop <billveltrop(a)comcast.net>, Darren Hill < mail(a)vegburner.co.uk>, George Mokray <gmoke(a)world.std.com>, coalition(a)googlegroups.com, Tim Rayner <tim(a)timrayner.net>, Pamela McLean < pamela.mclean(a)dadamac.net>, Joe Brewer <brewer(a)cognitivepolicyworks.com> 3rd of 3 or 4 -- ---------- From: *Mark Roest* <marklroest(a)gmail.com> Date: Tue, May 24, 2011 at 7:56 PM To: consuelogriego(a)gmail.com, Ben de Vries <bendevries1968(a)gmail.com> Cc: Bill Veltrop <billveltrop(a)comcast.net>, Darren Hill < mail(a)vegburner.co.uk>, George Mokray <gmoke(a)world.std.com>, coalition(a)googlegroups.com, Tim Rayner <tim(a)timrayner.net>, Pamela McLean < pamela.mclean(a)dadamac.net>, Joe Brewer <brewer(a)cognitivepolicyworks.com> 5th of 3 or 4 :-) Let's rock and roll! Mark -- ---------- From: *Tiberius Brastaviceanu* <tiberius.brastaviceanu(a)gmail.com> Date: Tue, May 24, 2011 at 8:01 PM To: coalition(a)googlegroups.com I see this wave as the political dimension of what I call the multitude constructive revolution<http://sites.google.com/site/multitude2008/Home/politics/towards-leaderless…> . The global multitude is well enough networked, well enough coordinated, that it can topple tyranical power structures. BUT the multitude still relies on the old value system. Once the tyrants are pushed aside, the same power structure is rebuilt, perhaps with a different flavor, because the multitude is dependent on the classical ways of producing and exchanging value. For example, the Libyan oil, the main resource in this country, will still follow the same routes towards the west, and this highly controlled flow will exert pressure on the local population to reorganize hierarchically in order to sustain their oil revenues. The multitude constructive revolution cannot succeed without a new economy, in which the production and distribution of value is open and decentralized. The open enterprise <http://www.sensorica.co> and alternative currencies<http://www.metacurrency.org/>are the most important pieces of this puzzle. *George Mokary*: "provide real relief for the poorest of the poor" I say we have a great opportunity to implement the new economy in northern Africa. That means to teach local people how to use the modern tools of communication and coordination, to use their social skills, and to form collaborative networks for the production of value and its distribution on the global market, bypassing classical hierarchical and monopolistic institutions. Watu Afrika <http://sites.google.com/site/watuafrika/> is only a draft of this concept. -- t!b! http://www.google.com/profiles/tiberius.brastaviceanu -- ---------- From: *Gabriel Quiroz* <gabriel(a)contingentemty.org> Date: Tue, May 24, 2011 at 10:15 PM To: coalition(a)googlegroups.com Cc: consuelogriego(a)gmail.com, Ben de Vries <bendevries1968(a)gmail.com>, Bill Veltrop <billveltrop(a)comcast.net>, Darren Hill <mail(a)vegburner.co.uk>, George Mokray <gmoke(a)world.std.com>, Tim Rayner <tim(a)timrayner.net>, Pamela McLean <pamela.mclean(a)dadamac.net>, Joe Brewer < brewer(a)cognitivepolicyworks.com> I'm an activist over here in Mexico and I can tell you that Tunisia and Egypt had a huge morale impact over here, also last year's support for Wikileaks. The #spanishrevolution is also being closely followed by mexican activists and here in Monterrey we are actually planning our own camp. Here are some links I've collected thanks to Darren and other friends. If anyone else has any good links, thoughts, comments or anything else pass them around! If anyone wants to read spanish sites, http://translate.google.com/ is always a great option, just type the address in the text box and then google translate will provide you a link where it translates it to your language of choice. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-13466977 http://mexico.cnn.com/mundo/2011/05/21/los-indignados-de-espana-montan-una-… http://madrid.tomalaplaza.net/ http://pamplona.tomalaplaza.net/ http://democraciarealya.es/ http://acampadagranada.tomalacalle.net/ http://alt1040.com/2011/05/dudas-spanishrevolution https://n-1.cc/pg/groups/102780/democraciarealyamlaga/?offset=0 -- ---------- From: *Joe Brewer* <brewer(a)cognitivepolicyworks.com> Date: Wed, May 25, 2011 at 3:05 AM To: coalition(a)googlegroups.com I wrote a blog post about how several global social movements can come together, partly inspired by this discussion thread. Here's the url: http://www.chaoticripple.com/2011/global-convergence-social-movements/ The full text is below... feel free to spread the link love around! A Global Convergence of Social Movements?In Collaboration<http://www.chaoticripple.com/category/collaboration/> , Economic Patterns<http://www.chaoticripple.com/category/economic-patterns/> , Social Change <http://www.chaoticripple.com/category/social-change/> on *May 24, 2011* at *6:42 pm* What will the world look like in 2050? 2070? 2100? It’s impossible to say for sure, especially since the collective impacts of human civilization have altered the state of the world at unprecedented scales. We stand at a cross-roads with an uncertain future. And we have important decisions to make. In this post, I’d like to suggest a promising path that lies before us. It is a road we can travel down if enough of us choose to do so. Imagine if the major social movements of the world — *sustainability, global justice, world federalism, corporation reform, open collaboration, and social finance *– were to congeal into a new way of being. There are trends that suggest this is already happening. We can help amplify this convergence. Or we can suppress it. <http://www.chaoticripple.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Global-Convergence.…> I’ve been following all of these movements throughout the last ten years and see a new economic paradigm<http://www.chaoticripple.com/2011/open-collaboration-paradigm/> emerging that brings them all together. We can help this process along by familiarizing ourselves with the various social movements that have been on the rise for decades: The Sustainability Movement What started out as big game hunters wanting to preserve natural lands grew into a multi-generational exploration of the relationship between human communities and the larger ecological systems that we depend on for our survival. This movement has been divided into categories like *conservation, climate change, green urbanism, local foods *and*environmental justice* throughout its history. And now it is all starting to come together in the form of whole system design for economic and urban planning. The Global Justice Movement As the last century pulled us through two World Wars and a plethora of regional conflicts, we have learned a great deal about the power of shared prosperity for lifting people out of poverty, weakening the influence of fundamentalism, and promoting compassionate responses to situations that place people in harm’s way. As new media pathways make us more aware of our profound interdependence, we are experiencing much greater consciousness about the social web of life and our moral responsibilities to improve the quality of life for all people. The World Federalism Movement Increasing sophistication across the global economy has led us to a place where global-scale governance is necessary for international business and economic development. This has taken the forms of regional federalist systems like the European Union and an explosion of transnational governing institutions like the World Bank, International Monetary Fund, and the United Nations. While these institutions remain too weak for addressing global challenges, they exemplify where we must go in order to make our global political systems responsive to the threats of regional conflict, climate change, and poverty. The Corporate Reform Movement It has been clear for some time now that the way we’ve designed publicly traded corporations is inadequate. Moving from critique and into the realm of superior design, we are now seeing new corporate forms created that seek to balance people, profit, and planet. These forms go by names like *triple bottom line companies*, *social enterprises, *and *benefit corporations.* At the same time it is increasingly the case that corporate brand strategies require that companies be responsive to the delicate web of values and shared identity that they have crafted through advanced marketing research over the last two decades. The semantics of these relationships have considerable financial power in the marketplace. And those companies that express a legitimate social mission are proving to be more adept at adapting to the desires of profoundly shifting consumer landscapes. The Open Collaboration Movement An undercurrent of change is pervading all social movements through the revolutionary changes in information technologies, mobile phones, and social media platforms on the internet. For the first time in history, crowds can self-organize and collaborate to create the largest repository of knowledge (Wikipedia), reveal large-scale consumer preferences (American Idol), build superior computer operating systems (Linux), and fund micro-scale projects (Kickstarter). The open collaboration movement is a paradigm shift in economic production that alters the range of possibilities for all of the other movements. And it makes possible the convergence we are beginning to see. The Social Finance Movement A particular example of open collaboration that is poised to transform the entire global economy is social finance. Emerging out of the micro-credit lending concept of Grameen Bank, this new approach to funding brings together social mission, community organizing, and finance into a configuration that unleashes the power of money for doing good. It has taken the forms of *crowdfunding, social impact investing, strategic philanthropy, *and*pooled revenue* to discover institutional frameworks that increase human well-being alongside the exchange of money. Taken together, these movements represent an emerging system of global governance, business, and finance. We can encourage their integration and accelerate the transition to a new world order — one that is much more democratic and robust in the face of tremendous global change. The choice is ours to make. I for one am going to do all I can to speed up the process. Will you? ---------- From: *Tiberius Brastaviceanu* <tiberius.brastaviceanu(a)gmail.com> Date: Wed, May 25, 2011 at 4:22 AM To: coalition(a)googlegroups.com Thanks Joe, I think we actually don't have this choice, convergence is happening. I think that what I call the multitude constructive revolution is a very predictable trend, see my post The Multitude Revolution is a natural, inevitable process<http://multitudeproject.blogspot.com/2011/02/multitude-revolution-is-natura…> . All these movements you identify in your post are manifestations of something very fundamental and powerful: the possibility to add our forces together in a new way, outside of the system (*communication*, *coordination and collaboration*), + the realization that we actually have this possibility (*awakening*), + the undeniable desire of humans to escape control and tyranny (*historical multitude movement = undeniable trend of emancipation of the masses*), all this multiplied by the global economical/financial/political crises we are going through, which create a need for change and shift the attention of the multitude from old processes to new alternatives. keep on writing! -- ---------- From: *Tiberius Brastaviceanu* <tiberius.brastaviceanu(a)gmail.com> Date: Wed, May 25, 2011 at 4:26 AM To: coalition(a)googlegroups.com Forgot something... I am with you Joe! I am busy creating an alternative to the bloody corporation. See SENSORICA <http://www.sensorica.co> and Multitude Innovation<https://sites.google.com/site/multitudeinnovation/home/discovery-network>, follow development on my Discovery Network blog<http://discoverynetwork-tibi.blogspot.com/>. ---------- From: *Joe Brewer* <brewer(a)cognitivepolicyworks.com> Date: Wed, May 25, 2011 at 4:54 AM To: coalition(a)googlegroups.com Tiberius, It's official... I think you rock!!! ;-) Looking forward to playing together more in the days ahead, Joe ---------- From: *paul horan* <paulyesss(a)gmail.com> Date: Wed, May 25, 2011 at 5:44 AM To: coalition(a)googlegroups.com Thanks All, Darren, for getting this conversational ball rolling George, for connecting the dots on both sides of the Mediterranean and reminding us whom we should be serving or at lest helping to serve = "the poorest of the poor" along w/ these good folks "unshakably focused on actions not words" Tim, for sharing Michel Bauwens' take via that link from Pam (powerfully real, live imagery echoing the wise moral from "The Emperor's New Clothes" folk tale : ) Joe, for sharing your views and aspirations (& like Tibi says, "keep on writing!" : ) Mark, for circulating this stuff among more good folks Tibi, for reminding us of the "important pieces of this puzzle" emerging from our naturally attractive human values and guiding the design of of our evolutionary guidance systems including boldly open economic technologies Gabriel, for letting us know about the "huge morale impact" these current activities are generating for you good folks in Mexico Perhaps some of you'll get a kick out of this = http://www.nerdnirvana.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/assange-zuckerberg.jpg >From Love, with paul P. S. = as Michael jokingly shared several weeks ago, "Tibi, for CEO!" ---------- From: *Mark Roest* <marklroest(a)gmail.com> Date: Fri, May 27, 2011 at 9:20 AM To: coalition(a)googlegroups.com, David Alan Foster <dalan(a)me.com>, Sahibou Oumarou <sahibcisse(a)yahoo.com>, Consuelo Griego <consuelogriego(a)gmail.com> I'm in! I've been on this path since 1966, although for a lot of it, I did not know the people answers quite yet. Now they are clear, and Joe and Tiberius, you've collectively nailed the moon-level view! Mark Roest ---------- From: *Lion Kimbro* <lionkimbro(a)gmail.com> Date: Fri, May 27, 2011 at 10:54 PM To: coalition(a)googlegroups.com I would add an additional dimension, that is so-far unmentioned: The spiritual reality. Indeed, in each of the categories listed, there has been an inquiry that has asked, "*Will it be enough*, to change the outer forms of existence?" The Sustainability MovementThere is a further category known as *deep ecology* <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_ecology>. This movement does not ask, "How do we manage Salmon as a resource, so that they don't go extinct and upset our lives," but rather, "How do we know the Salmon as our brother and sister in life?" If we could develop the state of consciousness that can speak publicly and appeal & judge meaningfully from what we privately know in our hearts, then we would be in another place entirely. The Global Justice MovementManfred Max Neef<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manfred_Max_Neef>has rewritten economy in his book on "Barefoot Economics." His 5 principles for the remaking of economic theory -- that (1) the economy is here to serve the people, not the people to serve the economy, that (2) development is about people, and not about objects, that (3) growth is not the same as development, and development does not necessarily require growth, that (4) no economy is possible, in the absence of ecology, that (5) the economy is a subsystem of a larger system -- specifically the biosphere (and hence: permanent growth impossible) -- all rest on one fundamental principle: That nothing can be more important than Life. The World Federalism MovementThe World Federalism Movement is a mirror image of another movement: The linking together of neighbors into tribes, and the assemblies of indigenous cultures. Extraordinary adventures can be had in the ether-worlds of governments, NGOs, and activists, but people at home struggle with their bosses, employees, husbands, and wives. The Tamerans are fond of saying, "There can not be peace in the world as long as there is war in love." The Arthurian legend can warn us that the private sphere is not separate from the political sphere. World powers may federate, but will the people on the ground, who each live in their own separate household, with their own separate car, with their own separate X-Box and playstation? The Federation of Damanhur <http://www.damanhur.org/> and the Tameran <http://tamera.org/index.html>society suggest otherwise. Do they federate? They do <http://gen.ecovillage.org/>. And they have a vision of federation<http://tamera.org/index.php?id=91> . The Corporate Reform MovementThe triple bottom line has been noted; And thank God for that. But do I hear stirrings of a quadruple bottom line<http://revolvethis.com/quadruple_bottom_line>? Are we sims, and as sims, trying to manufacture factories for more happy simming? Or are we something more? How do we align our patterns of work with the powers of dream? What does this mean for the development of the employee who works? How can the personal connect with the work environment? This is another place where the Damanhurians -- champions of * work* *as a spiritual concept*, where people are known to perform many different works in their lifetime -- and excellently in each work at that -- may have something extraordinarily valuable to teach us. The values of art and creativity in parsimony with industriousness and accomplishment. The Open Collaboration MovementThe open collaboration movement as characterized by Free Software and Commons Based Peer Production is amazing. I would pair it with the Art of Hosting <http://www.artofhosting.org/home/>communities, and extraordinary conveners such as Peggy Hollman <http://peggyholman.com/papers/engaging-emergence/>& associates. Open Space Technology <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Space_Technology>opens meaningful collaboration with extraordinary results. In my experience, these techniques are far more powerful when they consciously address the spiritual and the whole environment of the person. They weaken, when they just become about boxing time and "getting-to-know-you" exercises. The Social Finance MovementI do not have as much to say on this one as I would like; But I would like to point to a book: Momo: the Strange Story of the Time Thieves, and the Child Who Brought the Stolen Time Back to Humanity <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Momo_%28novel%29>. As we come up with strategies for making use of communications technologies and micro-fluid transactions to further economize on existing energy, -- may I suggest rethinking our entire perspective towards what is valuable in the first place, and how a community allocates? (If there is even a community in the first place..!) Finally, I remember what Dieter Duhm wrote: "The Change of Inner Structures. Humankind has long believed that it could overcome societal deficiencies through revolutions and reforms, through democracy and conferences, through moral appeals and reason. But obviously, the opposite has occurred. The global war cannot be overcome as long as humans have not overcome their underlying inner structures and patterns of thinking. In both cases, there are the same structures of collective human trauma, originating from thousands of years of war, destruction, displacement and destroyed love. Collective thinking patterns of fear and violence are the foundation of human culture today." It is very similar to something Christopher Eucken wrote in his prediction of the failure of Communism: (paraphrasing:) We have addressed only the outer conditions of man. As long as we do not address the interior reality of the human being, nothing can substantially change. New worlds can always be gamed, until we come to the point where we transform *to no longer game*. Billy Graham makes a similar excellent point in his TED talk, in 1998: http://www.ted.com/talks/billy_graham_on_technology_faith_and_suffering.html I do not request that anybody hop on a 2012 bandwagon, or wave around crystal wands, or sing Kumbayah. Nor do I believe that the world needs to become Christian, as Billy Graham would have us do. These, too, would all, also, be outer changes. I do, however, ask discerning readers to pause, and look deeply at the requirements for inner change in our thinking structures and motives. In particular, though there is no point above for me to attach it to, I would consider what the Tamerans call "The World Power of Sexuality." All of the movements listed above, I support; But I support them as a secondary power. The primary power will be that which is living in people's hearts. It has always been the primary power, and it can never be any other way. Without our intentions, -- if everything is just an accident of technologies and outer conditions -- then there is no hope, because whatever beautiful outcome that may have occurred will just be swept away by the next wave of technology. Only when hearts align and connect of their own free choosing can the beautiful world we hope for be accomplished. Everything else is so much ecological destruction, because the ecology will be stepped on if it means stepping on it to get the piece that the guy next to us won't give us. (And this again reminds me of: *rivalry*.) Teilhard, who we would like to quote, never placed his hope in a global brain, except as a post on the way to a global heart. We cannot afford to confuse (what may be temporary) outcomes with goals<http://www.ghandchi.com/iranscope/Anthology/mm/sandbox.htm> . There, I've said my piece. I wasn't involved before, and I do not usually read this mailing list. It was sheer serendipity that I saw this post. I feel like a stranger out of the blue suddenly protesting an otherwise orderly gathering. But I feel that what I am saying is genuine, relevant, and can be appreciated. Thank you for letting me say my piece. ---------- From: *Joe Brewer* <brewer(a)cognitivepolicyworks.com> Date: Fri, May 27, 2011 at 11:20 PM To: coalition(a)googlegroups.com Hey Lion, Well said... your insights run deep and are a nice addition to the conversation thread so far. What we're seeing emerge can be thought of as a deepening and broadening of social consciousness through the inherent intelligence of newly emerging cultural systems. I find great power in the idea of compassion becoming embodied in human systems, something that has not been central up till now. We can build upon the aspects of human nature that house our empathy by becoming more intentional about our relationships one to another and throughout the world. Lots to unpack here, of course! Joe ---------- From: *paul horan* <paulyesss(a)gmail.com> Date: Sat, May 28, 2011 at 2:14 AM To: coalition(a)googlegroups.com Thanks Lion! I deeply appreciate your views and how you've expressed them. Much obliged for the various links. If Michael Marien used "infoglut" to describe conditions nearly 20 years ago, I wonder what term he'd use for today ... YESSS, let's carefully turn our interior lives inside out and boldly liberate our most heartfelt aspirations! paul ---------- From: *Mark Roest* <marklroest(a)gmail.com> Date: Sat, May 28, 2011 at 6:35 AM To: coalition(a)googlegroups.com Cc: Bill Veltrop <billveltrop(a)comcast.net>, Consuelo Griego < consuelogriego(a)gmail.com> Hello Lion, Well Come! You have written well and boldly. Let's concept-map these, so we can share how they relate to each other, with people who have not yet thought them through. I would suggest that you check out the Stanford Medical School's CCARES program, developed with His Holiness the Dalai Lama, and others who study in his tradition. It became a curriculum for encouraging compassion and altruism that has so far been deployed to over 2000 schools in the U.S.! It will fit well with your thoughts. Also, check out the Monterey Institute for Social Architecture <www.*misa*.ws/> and its regional transformation program. I will attempt to bridge between their work, CotW, and the next spiral of entrepreneurship. Regards, Mark Roest

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Fwd: [fcf_discussion] Lessig's keynote at e-G8 with subtitles in English and Spanish
by Michel Bauwens 28 May '11

28 May '11

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: ChaTo (Carlos Alberto Alejandro CASTILLO Ocaranza) <chato(a)chato.cl> Date: Sat, May 28, 2011 at 5:18 PM Subject: [fcf_discussion] Lessig's keynote at e-G8 with subtitles in English and Spanish To: fcforum_discussion(a)list.fcforum.net Lessig's keynote at e-G8 with subtitles in English and Spanish http://www.universalsubtitles.org/en/videos/C6wmjKWrZwlP/info/ Other languages can be easily added. Cheers, -- *ChaTo (Carlos Castillo) <http://www.chato.cl/>* *Let's connect! · LinkedIn <http://www.linkedin.com/in/chato> · Facebook<http://www.facebook.com/chato/>· Twitter <http://twitter.com/chatox>* ----- +info http://list.fcforum.net/wws/info/fcforum_discussion ---- -- 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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architecting future cities
by Michel Bauwens 28 May '11

28 May '11

http://bfi.org/news-events/architecting-future-june-8-10-new-york-city *Thursday June 9th, from 2-4pm* *Urban Solution Sets - Visionary Strategies for the Future of Cities:* As a result of reviewing entries through the unique lens of the Buckminster Fuller Challenge <http://challenge.bfi.org/> criteria, we have been able to identify extraordinary examples of comprehensive, integrated strategies that address the urban environment. What has emerged is a pattern of relationships across these urban solutions that imply a level of corporation and synergy not being discussed, taught or practiced. For this event we will be bringing together urban educators, artists, planners and developers to explore the notion of urban solution sets as a framework to consider advancement around practices that impact the generation/regeneration of our cities. Location: *Center for Architecture, AIA <http://cfa.aiany.org/>*, 536 LaGuardia Place New York, NY 10012 map<http://maps.google.com/maps/place?hl=en&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.&biw=1827&bih…>T -- 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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grassroots mapping
by Michel Bauwens 28 May '11

28 May '11

hi sepp, this seems worth presenting to our audience, see http://grassrootsmapping.org/P2P-GE -- 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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p2p foundation wins ars electronica award for chokepoint project
by Michel Bauwens 28 May '11

28 May '11

http://new.aec.at/prix/en/gewinner/#digital-communities Congratulations to james and chris and other co-creators of the choke point project, for winning the ars electronica award, James/Chris, can you also announce this on our blog, and can you also do a separate posting on our use of Frappr? 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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direct peering of networks
by Michel Bauwens 28 May '11

28 May '11

hi sepp, this might be of interest to our audience? see: Topic: The Missing Link: Dedicated End-to-End 10Gbps Optical Lightpaths for Clusters, Grids, and Clouds<http://groups.google.com/group/building-a-distributed-decentralized-interne…> Venessa Miemis <venessamiemis(a)gmail.com> May 25 04:03AM -0700 ^<?ui=2&view=bsp&ver=ohhl4rw8mbn4#13029caa201414ba_digest_top> [Over the past several weeks there has been a lot of exciting developments in the R&E network community at the Spring Internet 2 meeting and more recently at the Terena meeting in Prague about new Internet architectures built around GOLEs – GLIF Open Lightpath Exchanges. There is a growing consensus amongst most of the major R&E networks that we need to move away from traditional hierarchical networks to GOLEs enabling the direct peering of networks, institutions and/or researchers. This is primarily being driven by the data demands of global collaborative research. GOLEs enable a policy free interconnection with no bandwidth constraints or blocking between the connecting parties and therefore research is not constrained by policy or bandwidth issues as on traditional networks. GOLEs are also important for the R&E networks in the new research intensive nations like Brazil, China, South Africa, Korea, etc. In the future networks and researchers of these nations will be far less dependent on having to transit intermediary networks by peering directly with networks or institutions in designated host nations. The CANARIE UCLP (User Controlled LightPaths) and more recently Internet 2’s OS3E service are intended to allow institutions, or even researchers to establish their own private networks for specific VOs or communities of interest who can interconnect at these GOLEs. There is no question that GOLEs are going to challenge traditional business models for R&E networking, but the first priority must be to enable the needs of the researchers themselves in the exponential growth of data driven science. Here are 2 excellent slide presentations explaining this explosion of data driven science and why we need GOLES – BSA] The Missing Link: Dedicated End-to-End 10Gbps Optical Lightpaths for Clusters, Grids, and Clouds Dr Larry Smarr http://lsmarr.calit2.net/presentations?slideshow=8084045 Dynamically Provisioned Networks as a Substrate for Science David Foster CERN https://lhcone.web.cern.ch/node/75 -- 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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athina's wikileaks study
by Michel Bauwens 28 May '11

28 May '11

" I discuss the interface between hierarchy and networks, such as activist networks against states and global institutions, in order to examine the interfaces between emotion and affect, as the expressive (Shaviro 2010:2) causes and the driving engine behind revolts and uprisings." see http://works.bepress.com/athina_karatzogianni/10/ Hi Athina, would you have some quotes on the above, for publication in the p2p blog? 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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