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request for 'digital' connections in detroit
by Michel Bauwens 25 Jun '11

25 Jun '11

Detroit Bound<http://groups.google.com/group/building-a-distributed-decentralized-interne…> Isaac Wilder <isaac(a)freenetworkmovement.org> Jun 24 12:23AM -0500 ^<?ui=2&view=bsp&ver=ohhl4rw8mbn4#130c447d2cf43335_digest_top> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello out there in ListLand, I'm Isaac, from the FNF. (www.thefnf.org) I'm going to be in Detroit at the beginning of next week, and I'm hoping to meet with stakeholders in the distributed networks problem space. I know that the Detroit Digital Justice Coalition is doing some amazing work, but I can't find any contact info on their website. If you're in Detroit, and you know of some meetup between Sunday and Wednesday, or you'd like to go get a beer and talk about the future of networks, give me a shout, on or off list. take care, imw -- 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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Former Goldman Sachs executive as next president of the European Central Bank
by Dante-Gabryell Monson 25 Jun '11

25 Jun '11

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/06/23/eu-parliament-draghi-idUSLDE75M0U… * * *BRUSSELS, June 23 | Thu Jun 23, 2011 7:33am EDT* *(Reuters) - * *The European Parliament formally endorsed Italy's Mario Draghi to be the next president of the European Central Bank on Thursday.* *////* *http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario_Draghi* *Draghi was then vice chairman and managing director of Goldman Sachs<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldman_Sachs> International and a member of the firm-wide management committee (2002–2005). A controversy existed on his duties while employed at Goldman Sachs<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldman_Sachs> . Pascal Canfin <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascal_Canfin> (MEP<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Parliament>) asserted Draghi was involved in swaps for European governments, namely Greece <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_sovereign_debt_crisis#Causes>, trying to disguise their countries' economic status.* * * *///* * * *also see, regarding the US :* * * *http://www.bollier.org/fed-goldman-sachs-take-care-each-other* * http://www.quora.com/Why-does-the-Fed-buy-treasury-bonds-through-Goldman-Sa… *

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interesting social good crowdfunding platform
by Michel Bauwens 25 Jun '11

25 Jun '11

Dear Eli, perhaps worth an article for our blog? see http://crewfund.org/whatwedo.aspx -- 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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myth of internet congestion
by Michel Bauwens 25 Jun '11

25 Jun '11

hi sepp, if you have time, mentioning this study would be useful, http://artthreat.net/2011/06/internet-throttling-congestion-net-neutrality-…, as it undercuts the myths of bandwidth scarcity, see http://artthreat.net/2011/06/internet-throttling-congestion-net-neutrality-… 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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Re: [P2P-F] Registration for New Commons Course, starting July 9, 2011
by Michel Bauwens 25 Jun '11

25 Jun '11

Forwarded, tweeted, and facebooked! On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 9:53 AM, Mary Beth Steisslinger < marybeth.steisslinger(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Hello Michel, > > Please share the Common Course info below with others you think may be > interested. > > *Peace,* > mbs > > Mary Beth Steisslinger, MS > Integral Systems Biologist > Global Commons Trust, > Commons Action for the UN > www.globalcommonstrust.org > Commons Learning Alliance > http://www.commonslearning.org/ > marybeth.steisslinger(a)gmail.com > > > > p.s. You can "cc" me or put me on the "reply to:" bar if you'd like, so > people know who to come to with questions. > > > ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ > > ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ > > *Hello Friends Around the World,* >> * >> * >> *We are sending you this email as we thought you might be interested in >> participating in the next Common Course, beginning in early July, 2011. * >> >> >> >> We are putting this out to people we know who are working towards >> sustainability and justice in various fields and in myriad ways, locally, >> regionally, and globally. In general, commons can be defined as the wealth >> of nature and society we inherit or create together and must pass on, >> undiminished or enhanced, to future generations. >> >> Those who are part of the growing commons movement believe our >> contemporary sustainable development and other local to global challenges >> can be traced to the collective difficulties, to date, to manage and >> preserve such resources as forests, oceans, atmosphere, and social commons >> such as the internet, education and cultures. *The commons movement >> provides means to operationalize sustainability and enable engagement, >> transparency, sharing and justice in ways that have not been possible until >> recent times.* >> >> Outreach and development for the Common Course is through the Commons >> Knowledge Alliance and Commons Action for the United Nations. Common >> Courses will soon be available for universities and organizations around the >> world, via creative commons licensing. >> >> You can learn about this free 4 week intensive course, including viewing >> the curriculum, by following the links below. The free course is open to >> anyone and will take about 2-4 hours of your time each week for 4 weeks, 3 >> hrs/wk being average for past participants (including the 1 hour conf call >> or skype call each week). Please share this announcement widely. Another >> course will be offered in September for $25. >> >> Hope to have your participation, >> >> Mary Beth Steisslinger, MS >> >> For the Common Course Team >> >> >> >> >> *The Common Course - an Overview* >> <http://www.commonslearning.org/pluginfile.php/2/course/section/1/Common%20C…>The >> full Common Course Curriculum <http://www.commonslearning.org/pluginfile.php/2/course/section/1/Common%20C…> >> >> *Sponsors*: The Anthroposphere Institute, The Commons Learning Alliance, >> Commons Action for the United Nations >> >> >> *Forma*t: >> 1. Self-study; materials available on-line >> 2. Regular participation in on-line discussion group (request that you >> give input 1-2x/week) >> 3. Participation in 1 hr weekly conference call >> >> >> >> *Academic Directo*r: Leo Burke >> >> >> >> *Online Discussion Facilitators*: Jan Inglis, Mary Beth >> Steisslinger, and Robin Temple >> >> >> >> *Webmaster*: Robin Temple >> *Tuition: Free for a short period of time while international webpayment >> system is being developed* >> >> >> >> *Register here at the Website*: The Commons Campus<http://www.commonslearning.org/> >> >> *Materials*: All text materials will be posted on the website in PDF >> format; audio materials in MP3 format; videos in YouTube format (.flv) >> >> >> >> *Course orientation conference call:* Saturday,* July 9*, 2011. >> >> >> >> This orientation conference call will be the official start of the Common >> Course. >> >> >> >> The orientation call will give you a chance to be introduced to your >> instructors on the Common Course, hear from others who are also >> participating, and ask any technical questions you may have about using this >> online learning platform for the course. You can find instructions about how >> to join the conference call and call-in times here<http://www.commonslearning.org/mod/page/view.php?id=359> >> > >> >> *Topics:* >> >> >> >> *Week I—Introduction to the Commons (July 10-16)* >> >> Overview of the commons, including history, current usage and >> definitions. Major issues facing the commons today. >> >> *Conference call Week I*: July 16 >> >> >> >> >> >> *Week II: The Enclosure of the Commons (July 17-23)* >> >> History of the enclosure process. Current attempts at enclosure, >> privatization, monetization of the commons. >> >> *Conference call Week II*: July 23 >> >> >> >> >> >> *Week III: The Commons and Climate Change (July 24-30)* >> >> The impact of climate change on the commons and the use of commons trusts >> to protect the climate. >> >> *Conference call Week III:* July 30 >> >> >> >> >> >> *Week IV: The Depth and Breadth of the Global Commons: From Philosophy to >> Action (July 31-Aug 6)* >> >> Examining the philosophical underpinnings of the global commons and >> looking at ways of taking effective action to create a sustainable future. >> >> *Conference call Week IV*: Aug 6 >> >> >> Common Course Working Group >> >> globalcommons(a)gmail.com >> *THE COMMONS*, n., gifts of nature and society; the wealth we inherit or >> create together and must pass on, undiminished or enhanced, to our children; >> a sector of the economy that complements and counterweights the corporate >> sector. >> ~ ~ ~ >> >> >> >> -- 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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meltdown 2 (GFC2) : how far away?
by Michel Bauwens 24 Jun '11

24 Jun '11

gloomsday speak here, stuff like this is circulating in financial newsletters: ( http://blog.alexanderhiggins.com/2011/06/17/economists-msm-warn-global-arma… ) Financial experts are warning of a ‘Lehman Moment’ as the European markets are beginning to show signs of unraveling in the wake of the Greek crisis. “The markets have moved from simply pricing in a high probability of a Greek debt default to looking at a scenario of it becoming disorderly and of contagion spreading to other economies like Portugal, like Ireland, and maybe Spain, Italy and Belgium.” a former UK Treasury official told *Bloomberg news*<http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-06-16/europe-s-lehman-moment-looms-as-gr…> . Many European countries and banks currently hold billions in Greek debt, meaning that a Greek default will act like a virus throughout Europe. According to the *Bank for International Settlements<http://www.bis.org/publ/qtrpdf/r_qt1103.htm> *, Spanish banks currently hold $600 million in Greek debt, Italian banks hold $2.6 billion, UK banks hold $3.2 billion, French banks hold $19.8 billion, German banks hold $26.3 billion and other Eurozone countries hold a combined total of around $15.7 billion in Greek debt. US banks also hold $1.8 billion in Greek debt and Japanese banks hold $500 million in Greek debt. The euro has declined by more than 2 percent against the already vastly devalued dollar within the past two days. Equities declined around the world, while corporate bond protection costs soared to their highest level since January. There is now an estimated 78 percent chance that Greece will not pay its debts. Four of Greece’s largest banks have been* downgraded by Standard & Poor’s*<http://www.financialmirror.com/News/Business_and_Finance/23724>, while Moody’s Investors Service *said it may downgrade*<http://www.moodys.com/research/Moodys-places-SocGen-CASA-BNPP-on-review-for…>BNP Paribas SA and two other big French banks owing to the amount of Greek debt they hold. A worldwide market freeze on the scale of that seen in 2008 following the collapse of Lehman is looking increasingly likely. Such a scenario would send shockwaves through currencies, money markets, equities and derivatives globally. The Greek Prime Minister, George Papandreou, is seeking a parliamentary vote on a 78 billion-euro ($110 billion) program of austerity cuts and asset sales. The *EU and the IMF have announced *<http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/d2702e02-980d-11e0-85e9-00144feab49a.html#ax…>that the program must be passed by the end of the month in order that the country can receive “funds disbursement”. Should such a motion not pass, “Armageddon scenarios come into play, which include default and potentially the whole contagion scenario plays out.” Charles Diebel, head of market strategy at Lloyds Bank Corporate Markets in London, wrote in a note to clients yesterday. The Greek people, who are now facing either total collapse of their country’s economy or the fire sale of everything of any value that the country owns, have taken forcefully to the streets in protest. Central Athens has descended into a war zone with ski masked protesters violently provoking police into firing tear gas into crowds of otherwise peaceful protesters. -- 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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self-regulating markets
by Michel Bauwens 24 Jun '11

24 Jun '11

a recent book on the myth of free self-regulating markets, from the University of Chicago of all places: basic thesis: self-regulation is always done for the benefit of the few ... but the larger question is: have their ever been, apart from illegal markets, self-regulated markets? nearly all market activities are incredibly embedded in institutional regulations, norms, etc .. if indeed self-regulated markets are few and far between, then the question is more: what kind of regulations, and who produces and controls the regulations and the regulators, seems pretty clear that since the 80's, under the ethos of self-regulation, there has been a very strong tendency towards regulatory capture .. Michel ** Book: The Illusion of Free Markets. Punishment and the Myth of Natural Order. By Bernard E. Harcourt. Publisher: Harvard University Press, 2011* Description Allan Engler: "In The Illusion of Free Markets: Punishment and the Myth of Natural Order, Harcourt holds that markets will be regulated by governments or by the rich on behalf of themselves. Few markets are actually unregulated. He goes on to make the case that markets directed by dominant players in their private interest result not in greater freedom but in heavier repression. Harcourt begins by examining the Chicago Board of Trade and the New York Stock Exchange. These exchanges are widely viewed as epitomes of the free market, but they are actually self-regulated private monopolies protected by legislation. Their rules are made by member firms and policed by internal committees that determine the methods and time of trading as well as who may participate. As should be expected, the rules favor those who make them. ... It is no revelation to point out that when a few are allowed to make the rules, they will direct markets in their own interests. Nonetheless, in mainstream opinion it is now taken for granted that markets regulated by dominant players are preferable to government regulation. This was not always so. Before the rise of industrial capitalism, industries were self-regulated—by Guilds that were usually dominated by wealthy merchants. Seeing this, political thinkers from the Scholastics to the Enlightenment generally held that governments had a responsibility to intervene to curb speculation, price gouging, and hoarding, to keep the prices of necessities low, to police the quality of goods and services, and to maintain public hygiene. Mainstream economists now teach that support for free markets can be traced back to Adam Smith in the late eighteenth century and Jeremy Bentham in the early nineteenth. Harcourt notes that Smith and Bentham did view self-interest in the market as generally beneficial, but he points out both also wrote of circumstances in which government intervention was clearly required to curb the self-interested power of great merchants and masters. Harcourt also questions the prevailing view that the late nineteenth century was a time of laissez faire policies. While industrial production did expand dramatically, governments played critical roles in the accumulation of capitalist wealth. To expand their countries’ shares of global trade, governments organized and financed shipyards and railway construction. They spent lavishly on navies and armies and colonial wars. Each empire restricted access to captive markets through imperial preferences and tariff walls." ( http://dissidentvoice.org/2011/06/the-illusion-of-free-markets-punishment-a…) History of self-regulation by the rich Allan Engler: "the claim that control of markets should be left to the rich has an historical precedent. Harcourt draws our attention to France before the 1789 revolution and the Physiocrats—so called because they advocated rule by natural laws. Most economic histories now dismiss Physiocrats for having insisted that land alone is the source of exchange value. In France in their time, that was not so controversial: land still was the main source of great wealth. In their time, what distinguished the Physiocrats was the claim that private property and unregulated markets were in accord with laws of nature and that the role of government was to vigorously repress criminal acts against this natural order. Physiocrats held that absolute monarchy, by placing government in the hands of the largest landowners, was the natural form of government. Leading Physiocrats—Francois Quesnay, Samuel Du Pont de Nemours, and Le Mercier de la Riviere—were prominent in the Court of Louis XV. For them it was natural to oppose government restriction on profit-making. They likewise viewed it as natural to advocate repressive policing and onerous penalties for thieves, the idle, the disorderly and anyone else who could interfere with their natural order. Le Mercier, as governor of Martinique—then one of the wealthiest French slave colonies—gained notoriety for his heavy-handed policing which even plantation owners came to believe was provoking disorder among the slave population. Although slavery, landed aristocracies, and absolute monarchies have largely passed into history, the ideology of natural order, freedom for the rich and powerful, and repression for the dispossessed and disaffected still resonates with the very rich and their supporters. That is at the root of the current neo-conservative reaction. Beginning in the 1940s, University of Chicago economists Milton Friedman and Friedrich Hayek, began campaigning to replace liberal-social democratic welfare state policies with old ruling class verities. By the 1970s, they had a powerful constituency: the super-rich. Long hostile to Keynesian policies, and frustrated that domestic profit-making opportunities were decreasing, the wealthy heirs of great family fortunes were smitten by arguments that economic rewards and decisions are best left to the very rich. By the early 1980s, the policies promoted by Chicago School economists and generously financed by corporations and the foundations of wealthy families were adopted by the newly elected conservative governments of Margaret Thatcher in the U.K., Ronald Reagan in the U.S., and Brian Mulroney in Canada. By the late 1980s a Washington Consensus called for the deregulation of markets, cuts to the taxes paid by corporations and the wealthy, privatization of public utilities and cuts to social services. Although some of the advocates of unregulated markets call themselves libertarians, the widening disparities that followed anti-Keynesian policies were accompanied by more repressive state power. Freeing the rich to do as they choose in the markets they dominate, obviously allows them to appropriate more of total income. Among the masses, some may benefit from a trickle down. Of those who are left with less income and employment, some will find comfort in knowing that at least a few have gained more wealth than they can imagine. Others will go on strike, organize boycotts, or participate in unauthorized protests. A few will engage in petty criminality. In countries that have been impoverished, some may lash out with any weapons available. In response or in anticipation, the privileged will demand more aggressive policing, more onerous criminal sanctions and more punitive military actions abroad. Neo-conservatives view repressive violence as a required response to domestic and international criminality. Harcourt makes the case that crime rates are actually related to entitlements, employment opportunities, and income disparities." ( http://dissidentvoice.org/2011/06/the-illusion-of-free-markets-punishment-a…) Example of self-regulation Allan Engler: "Harcourt begins by examining the Chicago Board of Trade and the New York Stock Exchange. These exchanges are widely viewed as epitomes of the free market, but they are actually self-regulated private monopolies protected by legislation. Their rules are made by member firms and policed by internal committees that determine the methods and time of trading as well as who may participate. As should be expected, the rules favor those who make them. The Chicago Board of Trade forbids outsiders from engaging in after-hours trading. However, the insiders who control the Board, when they agree among themselves, can modify the rules, giving themselves opportunities for exceptionally profitable trades. The Chicago Board of Trade and the New York Stock Exchange allow brokerage firms to restrict retail buyers (outsiders) from reselling for periods of thirty to ninety days. “But the same brokerage firms may allow large institutions to dump their stock in the after-market at any time.” In New York, “members of the stock exchange may get together and fix the commission rates on stock transactions of less than $500,000,” but they can “freely negotiate commissions for larger stock transactions”—which they dominate. In Chicago, when parties are in dispute, the Board’s Office of Investigation and Audits may investigate. Where its decisions are challenged, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission may get involved. If disputes are unresolved, the U.S. Attorney’s office can initiate civil or criminal actions. The point is that these “free markets” are minutely regulated, first by the dominant insiders and then by civil and criminal law." ( http://dissidentvoice.org/2011/06/the-illusion-of-free-markets-punishment-a…) -- 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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new bk on common good economics max neef
by Michel Bauwens 24 Jun '11

24 Jun '11

Dear Franco, I would suggest you read and review http://p2pfoundation.net/From_an_Economics_of_Power_and_Greed_to_an_Economi… contact max neef, chile, for book of the week treatment, with recommended excerpts from chapter 5, see review -- 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: Taller sobre crowdfunding en Caceres
by Michel Bauwens 23 Jun '11

23 Jun '11

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Platoniq <info(a)platoniq.net> Date: 2011/6/23 Subject: Taller sobre crowdfunding en Caceres To: michelsub2004(a)gmail.com El taller "Goteo, cultura de la financiación colectiva (crowdfunding)" sigue rodando. Próxima parada: 24 de junio en Cáceres El crowdfunding ha surgido muy recientemente en España y en pocos meses ha demostrado ser una eficaz alternativa de financiación de proyectos. Pero al mismo tiempo tiene efectos secundarios altamente interesantes para el ámbito cultural/social y de TICs, como la generación de comunidades de interés y la capacidad de generar expectativas de forma previa a la presentación final del proyecto. El taller Goteo ofrece información teórica sobre las diferentes tipologías de financiación colectiva, acercando de forma dinámica y atractiva al crowdfunding como estrategia de interés tanto para la financiación como para la difusión y generación de comunidad. La duración del taller es de cuatro horas, que se distribuyen en dos partes: a) exposición del intensivo estudio realizado por Platoniq sobre diferentes tipologías de plataformas, diferenciando microfinanciación, financiación colectiva (crowdfunding) y préstamos p2p. b) parte práctica en la que se experimenta la financiación colectiva de una serie de proyectos reales. Esta parte práctica escenifica en modo “analógico” cómo funciona una plataforma de crowdfunding a través de dinámicas participativas. Gracias a ellas es posible comprobar aspectos clave como pueden ser criterios de evaluación o cómo hacer atractivos proyectos. Para ello se han elaborado herramientas como barómetros de valoración de proyectos a partir de indicadores como el grado de innovación, nivel de proximidad, coherencia, etc., con los que interactuarán los participantes. /////////////////////////////////////////// Cuándo: 24 de junio, de 10:00 a 14:00 horas Dónde: Centro de Conocimiento AldealabC3, edificio Embarcadero. Cáceres Cómo apuntarse: (plazas limitadas) 609 519 493 (coordinadora Chon Muñoz) Organiza: Proyecto Fénix. Factoría de la Innovación/ Ayuntamiento de Cáceres/ Concejalía de Innovación, Fomento y Desarrollo Tecnológico. Con la colaboración del Gabinete del Iniciativa Joven de Extremadura. /////////////////////////////////////////// -> Más sobre el taller: http://youcoop.org/es/goteo/p/5/goteo-workshop-cultura-de-la-microfinanciac… -> Más sobre la cultura del crowdfunding en nuestro colaboratorio: YOUCOOP.ORG http://www.youcoop.org/goteo -> Más sobre contextos en los que ya se ha realizado el taller: 1) CCCB. Barcelona: http://www.cccb.org/es/curs_o_conferencia-i_c_i_econom_a_distribuida-33719 http://www.flickr.com/photos/cccb/sets/72157625471082121/ 2) MATADERO. Madrid: http://www.mataderomadrid.org/ficha/768/goteo-cultura-de-la-financiacion-co… 3) DIA DE LA PERSONA EMPRENDEDORA. BILBAO: http://eutokia.org/2011/05/taller-goteo-platoniq-x-edicion-dia-de-la-person… 4) ESCUELA DE VERANO DE LA RED DE TEATROS. ALMAGRO: http://www.redescueladeverano.es/2011/programa_de_cursos/ficha.php?id=55 Saludos! Platoniq -- If you do not want to receive any more newsletters, http://platoniq.net/lists/?p=unsubscribe&uid=00a3925a16ce8afacbc0cc283ac5a5… To update your preferences and to unsubscribe visit http://platoniq.net/lists/?p=preferences&uid=00a3925a16ce8afacbc0cc283ac5a5… Forward a Message to Someone http://platoniq.net/lists/?p=forward&uid=00a3925a16ce8afacbc0cc283ac5a5d9&m… -- Powered by PHPlist, www.phplist.com -- -- 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: [opennetcoalition] Like in Mexico, Parliaments Must Reject ACTA
by Michel Bauwens 23 Jun '11

23 Jun '11

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: La Quadrature du Net <jz(a)laquadrature.net> Date: Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 7:33 PM Subject: [opennetcoalition] Like in Mexico, Parliaments Must Reject ACTA To: opennetcoalition(a)laquadrature.net La Quadrature du Net - For immediate release Permanent link: http://www.laquadrature.net/en/like-in-mexico-parliaments-must-reject-acta Like in Mexico, Parliaments Must Reject ACTA *** Paris, June 23rd, 2011 - The Mexican Senate approved a resolution calling on the government not to sign the anti-counterfeiting agreement ACTA. La Quadrature calls on French and European Members of Parliament to do the same. *** A few weeks after ACTA was opened to signature1, the resolution2 of the Mexican Senate shows that it refuses the imposition of illegitimate sanctions in the fight against counterfeiting. Such a refusal is essential since ACTA - far from being limited to trade policy - would impose on signatories new sanctions that are ill-defined and extremely large in scope. These sanctions would apply even to not-for-profit infringements of copyright, patents or trademarks3. This vote suggests that even if the Mexican government were to sign ACTA, the Senate would refuse to ratify it. "The vote of the Mexican Senate is a call to reason: you can't negotiate in the back of democratic representatives in the sole interest of some lobbies' outdated models. Let's act so that in France and in the European Union as well, our elected representatives oppose the theft of their legislative competence. Citizens must call on parliamentarians to follow the example of their Mexican counterparts by demanding to national governments and the EU Commission to drop ACTA.", says Jérémie Zimmermann, spokesperson for the citizen advocacy group La Quadrature du Net. * Références * 1. http://www.laquadrature.net/en/acta-ratification-underway-must-be-rejected 2. http://www.senado.gob.mx/index.php?id=9376&lg=61&mn=2&sm=2&ver=sp 3. See our analysis of ACTA, and in particular of the abusive definition of "commercial scale": http://www.laquadrature.net/en/acta-updated-analysis-of-the-final-version ** About la Quadrature du Net ** La Quadrature du Net is an advocacy group that promotes the rights and freedoms of citizens on the Internet. More specifically, it advocates for the adaptation of French and European legislations to respect the founding principles of the Internet, most notably the free circulation of knowledge. In addition to its advocacy work, the group also aims to foster a better understanding of legislative processes among citizens. Through specific and pertinent information and tools, La Quadrature du Net hopes to encourage citizens' participation in the public debate on rights and freedoms in the digital age. La Quadrature du Net is supported by French, European and international NGOs including the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Open Society Institute and Privacy International. List of supporting organisations : http://www.laquadrature.net/en/they-support-squaring-net-la-quadrature-du-n… ** Press contact and press room ** Jérémie Zimmermann, jz(a)laquadrature.net, +33 (0)615 940 675 http://www.laquadrature.net/en/press-room _______________________________________________ Opennetcoalition mailing list Opennetcoalition(a)laquadrature.net http://laquadrature.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/opennetcoalition -- 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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