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Fwd: [opennetcoalition] A Move Towards Generalised Internet Surveillance in France?
by Michel Bauwens 05 Dec '13

05 Dec '13

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: La Quadrature du Net <jz(a)laquadrature.net> Date: Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 10:11 AM Subject: [opennetcoalition] A Move Towards Generalised Internet Surveillance in France? To: opennetcoalition(a)laquadrature.net Themes: INTERNET SURVEILLANCE, FRENCH DEFENSE BILL La Quadrature du Net – For immediate release Permanent link: https://www.laquadrature.net/en/a-move-towards-generalised-internet-surveil… A Move Towards Generalised Internet Surveillance in France? *** Paris, 3 December 2013 — Yesterday the 2014-2019 defense bill [1] passed first reading in the French National Assembly. It marks a strong shift towards total online surveillance. If passed, the bill will not only allow live monitoring of everyone's personal and private data but also do so without judicial oversight, as the surveillance will be enabled through administrative request. The bill also turns permanent measures that were only temporary. *** How is it possible that after only a few months of Edward Snowden's revelations [2] the French government proposes a bill so detrimental to our fundamental rights? Article 13 of the bill organises the generalisation of live surveillance of "information and documents processed and stored in the networks", which potentially concerns the data of all citizens. Such surveillance requests can be issued by a wide variety of departments, including the departments of Internal Security and Defense, but also the department of Economy and Finance. The inclusion of such departments exceeds what is required to meet the stated aim of protecting the citizen against incidents of an exceptional seriousness. Indeed, the proposed bill permits these departments to authorise live surveillance of all citizens with the sole stated aim to “prevent […] crime” or the particularly vague “safeguard of essential components of scientific and economic potential of France”. Data collection will not only be done directly via companies providing Internet access (ISPs and telecommunication operators) but also via web hosting operators and online service providers. Despite the gravity and magnitude of this collection, no measure significantly limits their volume. The data collection could be done by installing devices that capture signals and data directly at the operators and hosting companies. The definition of these operators and companies, taken from 2004 Loi pour la confiance dans l'économie numérique [3] (“Act for Trust in the Digital Economy”), cause concerns that the scope of application will be very wide. “Considering the recently uncovered evidence of massive and generalised spying on citizens, the maneuvers of the President and of the government deceive no one. This bill sets up a generalised surveillance regime and risks to destroy once and for all the limited trust between citizens and agencies responsible for security. A vague reference to the needs of the security agencies does not justify such serious infringements to our basic liberty. La Quadrature du Net calls on parliamentarians to reject this infringement to basic rights during the second reading of the text” concludes Philippe Aigrain, cofounder of La Quadrature du Net. * References * 1. http://www.assemblee-nationale.fr/14/dossiers/loi_programmation_militaire_2… 2. https://www.laquadrature.net/en/snowden-and-the-future-of-our-communication… 3. http://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/affichTexte.do?cidTexte=JORFTEXT000000801164&… ** About La Quadrature du Net ** La Quadrature du Net is an advocacy group that defends 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: https://www.laquadrature.net/en/they-support-la-quadrature-du-net ** 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 https://laquadrature.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/opennetcoalition -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation>Updates: http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/

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Fwd: Conflict & Design - 7th Design Triennial
by Michel Bauwens 05 Dec '13

05 Dec '13

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Namahn <mailings(a)namahn.com> Date: Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 9:56 AM Subject: Conflict & Design - 7th Design Triennial To: michelsub2004(a)gmail.com [image: trainings illustration] Dear Michel *Conflict & Design* - the 7th edition of the Design Triennial in Flanders - shows how designers approach conflict situations and the impact their designs can have within our society. The exhibition provides food for thought about how, in the (near) future, we will be obliged to interact with each other and manage our natural resources in fundamentally different ways. In over 60 design concepts, processes, projects and objects, the participating designers provide solutions for all manner of conflicts, from social conflicts between people to conflicts with nature, or for conflict situations resulting from economic situations or from the breakdown of society due to war, disasters, etc. Their goal: to create a better dwelling, working and living climate. Therefore, design in this triennial not only refers to objects: it also includes services, social models, all manner of communication, and numerous other, intangible or tangible processes. The triennial is being curated by Kurt Vanbelleghem. Namahn is represented at the triennial with three pieces: - Our social design project with Roma children from our neighbourhood: “Designing a learning service for marginalised children” - A social design project called “BAM!” for a shopping district in Aalst - A service design project for the social services of the city of Antwerp relating to social isolation of the elderly Full information can be found on the Conflict & Design website<http://www.conflictanddesign.be/en/homepage> . If you would like to attend the opening events, please register here<http://designfusion.be/en/#inschrijven> . Kind regards, ___________________________________________ Joannes Vandermeulen, Namahn, Brussels +32 2 209 08 83 - jv(a)namahn.com design that works for people | namahn.com <http://www.namahn.com> [image: Namahn logo] Grensstraat 21 Rue de la Limite 1210 Brussels Belgium Phone: +32 2 209 08 85 | Fax: +32 2 219 48 88 www.namahn.com info(a)namahn.com You received this mail because you are listed in the Namahn contacts database. If you no longer wish to receive messages from Namahn, please communicate your wish to Pieter Vreede pv(a)namahn.com. This message was sent to *michelsub2004(a)gmail.com <michelsub2004(a)gmail.com>*. YOUR PRIVACY Your privacy is important to us. You may choose to give us personal information, such as your name and address or e-mail address that may be needed, for example, to correspond with you, to process or to provide you with a subscription. It is our intent to let you know how we will use such information. If you tell us that you do not want us to use this information as a basis for further contacts with you, we will respect your wishes. We intend to protect the quality and integrity of your personal information. We will make a sincere effort to respond in a timely manner to your requests to correct inaccuracies in your personal information. To correct inaccuracies in your personal information please return the message containing the inaccuracies to the sender with details of the correction requested. -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation>Updates: http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/

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Fwd: [EASST-Eurograd] New issue of Valuation Studies
by Michel Bauwens 05 Dec '13

05 Dec '13

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: <n.gilbert(a)surrey.ac.uk> Date: Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 8:01 PM Subject: Fwd: [EASST-Eurograd] New issue of Valuation Studies To: members(a)p2pvalue.eu Begin forwarded message: *From: *"eurograd(a)lists.easst.net" <eurograd(a)lists.easst.net> *Subject: **[EASST-Eurograd] New issue of Valuation Studies* *Date: *5 December 2013 09:39:05 GMT+13 *To: *"eurograd(a)lists.easst.net" <eurograd(a)lists.easst.net> *Reply-To: *"eurograd(a)lists.easst.net" <eurograd(a)lists.easst.net> The peer reviewed open access journal Valuation Studies just published its second issue. It contains four items: • An editorial “Valuation Studies and the Spectacle of Valuation” by the editors Fabian Muniesa and Claes-Fredrik Helgesson brings up the topic that valuation is something that people may watch as entertainment, such as in television shows like the Antiques Roadshow, and suggest that there is a voyeuristic pleasure to be had in witnessing valuations being performed. • In “What Is a Good Tomato? A Case of Valuing in Practice” Frank Heuts and Annemarie Mol explore different register of valuing involved in the valuation of tomatoes as well as the importance of care for making tomatoes good. • “Regulating Crisis: A Retrospective Ethnography of the 1982 Latin American Debt Crisis at the New York Federal Reserve Bank” by Julia Elyachar looks at the daily life inside the bank during the crisis and not the least the import of devices and different styles of working and generating knowledge. • The final article, “The Conditional Sink: Counterfactual Display in the Valuation of a Carbon Offsetting”, by Véra Ehrenstein and Fabian Muniesa is a case study of a carbon offsetting reforestation project in the Democratic Republic of Congo and in particular the role of counterfactual valuations in such projects. Web: http://valuationstudies.liu.se Twitter: @Val_Studies Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/ValuationStudies –– Claes-Fredrik Helgesson, Professor Linköping University Department of Thematic Studies - Technology and Social Change Micro-blog: http://twitter.com/cfhelgesson http://www.tema.liu.se/tema-t/medarbetare/helgesson-claes-fredrik?l=en –– _______________________________________________ EASST's Eurograd mailing list Eurograd (at) lists.easst.net Unsubscribe or edit subscription options: http://lists.easst.net/listinfo.cgi/eurograd-easst.net Report abuses of this list to Eurograd-owner(a)lists.easst.net ________________________________________________________________ Professor Nigel Gilbert, ScD, FREng, AcSS, Professor of Sociology, University of Surrey, Guildford GU2 7XH, UK. +44 (0)1483 689173 -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation>Updates: http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/

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Fwd: [Networkedlabour] Fwd: [Squares] Wikileaks, Stratfor, Srdja Popovic, and Occupy Wall Street
by Michel Bauwens 05 Dec '13

05 Dec '13

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Chapullers OrsanS <orsan1234(a)gmail.com> Date: Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 4:31 PM Subject: [Networkedlabour] Fwd: [Squares] Wikileaks, Stratfor, Srdja Popovic, and Occupy Wall Street To: "networkedlabour(a)lists.contrast.org" <networkedlabour(a)lists.contrast.org>, nettime-l(a)mail.kein.org, Discussion list about the WSF < worldsocialforum-discuss(a)openspaceforum.net> Evolving story about Popovic / Otpor / Canvas, Movement.org and Waging Nonviolence. It seems Hammond and Wikiilek's helped massively in unravelling the source of massive conspiracy theory, which has been shadowing the reality of uprisings taking place in recent years and preventıng them to go viral, globally.. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Zoe Alif <zoealif(a)gmail.com> Date: 5 December 2013 21:14 Subject: [Squares] Wikileaks, Stratfor, Srdja Popovic, and Occupy Wall Street To: squares(a)lists.takethesquare.net Below are a series of articles this past week about internationally acclaimed activist, Srdja Popovic, and his involvement with the private intelligence firm Stratfor. Article from Waging NonViolence defending Popovic by Bryan Farrell http://wagingnonviolence.org/2013/11/stratfor-canvas/ Article from Occupy.com investigation of Srdja Popovic by Steve Horne and Carl Gibson http://www.occupy.com/article/exposed-globally-renowned-activist-collaborat… Article from the YesMen defending Popovic and accusing Steve Horne/Carl Gibson of "yellow journalism" http://www.huffingtonpost.com/the-yes-men/how-yellow-journalism-screws-the-… Article from Occupy.com in response to YesMen over the "yellow journalism" accusation http://www.occupy.com/article/how-defending-private-intelligence-firm-colla… If anyone has information about CANVAS or Srdja Popovic, please feel free to contact me at zoealif(a)gmail.com. I am currently writing a blog post on the story. _______________________________________________ n-1 working group: https://n-1.cc/pg/groups/104127/take-the-square-international/ Squares mailing list Squares(a)lists.takethesquare.net for unsubscribe/etc: https://lists.takethesquare.net/mailman/listinfo/squares or Squares-owner(a)lists.takethesquare.net _______________________________________________ NetworkedLabour mailing list NetworkedLabour(a)lists.contrast.org http://lists.contrast.org/mailman/listinfo/networkedlabour -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation>Updates: http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/

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Fwd: [opennetcoalition] Net Neutrality: EU Parliament Must Amend Kroes' Dangerous Proposal
by Michel Bauwens 05 Dec '13

05 Dec '13

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: La Quadrature du Net <jz(a)laquadrature.net> Date: Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 10:57 AM Subject: [opennetcoalition] Net Neutrality: EU Parliament Must Amend Kroes' Dangerous Proposal To: opennetcoalition(a)laquadrature.net Themes: NET NEUTRALITY, EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT, PILAR DEL CASTILLO VERA, NEELIE KROES La Quadrature du Net – For immediate release Permanent link: https://www.laquadrature.net/en/net-neutrality-eu-parliament-must-amend-kro… Net Neutrality: EU Parliament Must Amend Kroes' Dangerous Proposal *** Paris, 5 December 2013 – On Monday 9th December, the rapporteur Pilar del Castillo Vera (EPP - Spain) will present to the “Industry” (ITRE) Committee of the European Parliament her draft report [1] on Neelie Kroes' proposal [2] for a Regulation on the Telecom Package. Citizens must urge [3] MEPs to amend this report in order to accurately define what qualifies as 'specialised services' with 'enhanced' quality of service, and ensure that the Regulation will guarantee a genuine and unconditional Net neutrality principle. *** The proposal for a Regulation on the Telecom Package, issued by Neelie Kroes on September 11th despite vivid criticisms from both outside [4] and inside the Commission [5], pretends to defend the Net neutrality principle by stating in its article 23.5 that “providers of Internet access services shall not restrict the freedoms [of communication] by blocking, slowing down, degrading or discriminating against specific content, applications or services” [6]. Ironically, the proposal actually breaches this principle right before introducing it, allowing in its article 23.2 the provision of “specialised service [...] with an enhanced quality of service" – that is to say services offering prioritization. Although it might be acceptable to prioritize services on private networks as long as they do not unfairly compete with existing Internet services [7], the proposal goes further and reuses this concept to extend it to the Internet as a whole. The Commission thereby aims to give control over such form of discrimination to Internet access providers and big content providers, allowing them to “enter into agreements with each other to transmit the related data volumes [...] with a defined quality of service or dedicated capacity” [8]. Here, prioritization on the Internet would affect billions of communications, people and companies, and would only relies on commercial agreements between dominant actors of the digital economy. In the meantime, smaller new entrants and innovative players would not be able to enter into the same deals and would de facto be deprioritized. Freedom of communication on the Internet's end-to-end architecture would also be severely undermined. The draft report which will be presented on Monday, December 9th by Pilar del Castillo Vera (EPP - Spain) – rapporteur in ITRE, the Committee responsible – will propose the very same provisions, specifying even more clearly that “ the general quality of Internet access” may de facto lawfully be impaired on the basis of “the technology deployed, in order to ensure the delivery of the enhanced quality service” [9]. Citizens must urge MEPs to amend the draft regulation, in particular to better specify the nature and the characteristics of specialised services: - clarifying that a specialised service shall run within closed communications networks, e.g. separately from the Internet access service (according to the definition provided by telecom regulatory authorities); - and guaranteeing that any service functionally identical to services available over the public Internet cannot qualify for enhanced quality of service (so as to ensure the principle of Net neutrality is not bypassed through the development of specialized services). MEPs must also better define Net neutrality (article 23.1) to cover the freedom to connect any hardware to the network (in particular servers so as to promote self-hosting which can play a key role in empowering citizens in relation to their Internet communications), and also set out effective enforcement procedures and sanctions against those who violate the crucial principle of Net neutrality. “Neelie Kroes and the text's rapporteur at the EU Parliament are trying to legitimate prioritizations in favor of dominant Internet companies through an outrageous reversal of the concept of 'specialised services'. Discrimination of Internet services would severely undermine the decentralized architecture that has made the Internet work so well for the past decades. We cannot let telecom operators decide what information we can access and how we can access it without renouncing to the Internet's empowerment and potential for creativity and innovation. Citizens must contact their MEPs and urge them to properly define 'specialised services' so as to ensure that they take place on closed networks and do not unfairly compete with existing Internet services” concluded Félix Tréguer, cofounder of the association La Quadrature du Net. * References * 1. https://laquadrature.net/files/Net%20Neutrality%20-%20Draft%20Report%20ITRE… 2. https://www.laquadrature.net/files/Proposal-Kroes-201309_EN.pdf 3. https://www.laquadrature.net/wiki/How_to_contact_a_MEP 4. As an example, the European Data Protection Supervisor stated in a press release published on November 15th that the Neelie Kroes' proposal devoids “of substance" the Net neutrality principle "because of the almost unlimited right of providers to manage Internet traffic”. Citizen organisations also widely criticized the proposal. 5. A leaked criticism of a draft by EU Commissioner Viviane Redding's services says for example “such limited possibilities of accessing Internet content and services of their choice would run counter to the stated objectives of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights”: http://www.edri.org/NN-negativeopinions 6. Proposal for a Regulation on the single market for electronic communications, Article 23.5: “Within the limits of any contractually agreed data volumes or speeds for Internet access services, providers of Internet access services shall not restrict the freedoms provided for in paragraph 1 by blocking, slowing down, degrading or discriminating against specific content, applications or services, or specific classes thereof, except in cases where it is necessary to apply reasonable traffic management measures. Reasonable traffic management measures shall be transparent, non-discriminatory, proportionate and necessary to: a) implement a legislative provision or a court order, or prevent or impede serious crimes; b) preserve the integrity and security of the network, services provided via this network, and the end-users' terminals; c) prevent the transmission of unsolicited communications to end-users who have given their prior consent to such restrictive measures; d) minimise the effects of temporary or exceptional network congestion provided that equivalent types of traffic are treated equally.” 7. As for the priorization of existing Internet services, La Quadrature du Net takes the view that after the adoption of the Regulation, a reflection should be launched to consider the possibility of allowing priorization of Internet communications, as long as three main conditions are met: - that such Quality of Service be application-agnostic (applied indiscriminately to different online services or applications); - that such Quality of Service be under the full control of the user so as to preserve the key architectural features of the Internet; - that the best-effort Internet be protected from degradation caused by the development of guaranteed QoS, for instance by ensuring a “sufficient quality of service” for the best-effort traffic delivery model (a notion already in use in some EU countries). 8. Proposal for a Regulation on the single market for electronic communications, Article 25.2: “2. End-users shall also be free to agree with either providers of electronic communications to the public or with providers of content, applications and services on the provision of specialised services with an enhanced quality of service. In order to enable the provision of specialised services to end-users, providers of content, applications and services and providers of electronic communications to the public shall be free to enter into agreements with each other to transmit the related data volumes or traffic as specialised services with a defined quality of service or dedicated capacity. The provision of specialised services shall not impair in a recurring or continuous manner the general quality of Internet access services.” 9. Pilar del Castillo draft report on the proposal, amendment 103: “End-users shall also be free to agree with either providers of electronic communications to the public or with providers of content, applications and services on the provision of specialised services with an enhanced quality of service. **Where such agreements are concluded with the provider of Internet access, that provider shall ensure that the enhanced quality service does not impair the general quality of Internet access, except as may be necessary taking into account the state of the art and technology deployed, in order to ensure the delivery of the enhanced quality service **.” (added text is indicated with **) ** About La Quadrature du Net ** La Quadrature du Net is an advocacy group that defends 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: https://www.laquadrature.net/en/they-support-la-quadrature-du-net ** 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 https://laquadrature.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/opennetcoalition -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation>Updates: http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/

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Re: [P2P-F] One-click Micropayment Capability for Volume Solicitations
by Michel Bauwens 05 Dec '13

05 Dec '13

Dear Tom, thanks for the update, unfortunately, the technical community is not our forte, so I copy my hacker friend Jaromil who may know how to spread this appeal, otherwise, if you want to craft an open appeal, we can publish it in the p2p blog and spread it from there, Michel On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 10:58 AM, Tom Crowl <culturalengineer(a)gmail.com>wrote: > *Hello Michel,* > > > *cc: Frank Grant* > > > *attached: One-click Micropayment Capability for Volume Solicitations (and > multiple providers)* > > I want to give you an important update and a decription of a revised and > expanded model for one-click micropayments. Both models present an > opportunity for a stronger voice for the Commons which extends beyond the > micropayment itself. *Its also about the network which needs to arise to > make that possible.* > > This is the neglected element: for the Internet micropayment to be able to > play the role it must the soliciting side must have a single vehicle which > can reach many (or all) users. > > (e.g. A "Save the Whales" solicitation that says "click here to give 25 > cents" needs one 'button'... not a separate button for every paycard) > > This is the problem the Chagora model faces... While I actually believe it > would be better for such a 'transaction landscape' to be universally owned > and governed... with everyone a member or the same 'landscape"... > > Its not very likely that the financial services industry... or apparently > people in general are going to go for that... its not likely that I can get > everyone into a single payment vehicle even if the industry was interested. > There are a lot of paycards out there. > > *However its possible that a solution exists that can allow both many > payment vehicles (see below)... and yet have a core which can become the > avenue for a stronger Commons... *. > > Ironically, the most logical place for this 'core' is in connection to > something like "ClearXChange"... which was set up by Chase, Wells Fargo and > Bank of America... (as yo know not my favorites)... and we are exploring > how it may be best to move this forward... maybe even with something like > ClearXChange itself. > > But I'd like to see some support for the idea that this user 'information > and decision" core entity (even though for a narrow area of info and > decision)... NOT be narrowly controlled... especially by just a few very > large banks. The devil is in the details. > > As you know I've been at this for quite a while. Its been clear to me from > the start that this capability offers an opportunity to build a needed > institution... that will be missed if its neglected. And I don't believe > its gotten that attention it deserves. > > I am seeking a technical co-founder... hopefully with both the needed > expertise in areas I lack... but also perhaps with an understanding of what > I'm trying to do. I'm trying to thread a needle between large private > interests and the public good. If I can place this public network at the > heart of the private transaction landscape... I believe it can be part of a > better balance between public and private interests. > > Maybe I"m wrong... but it seems worth talking about before its too late. > The devil really is in the details. And the public needs to pay attention > to the details. Cause its the details that are killing them. The ideologies > are distractions. *Please support giving the public a role in > development, ownership and governance of this utility.* > > Regards, > > *Tom Crowl* > http://CulturalEngineer.blogspot.com > -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation>Updates: http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/

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Fwd: [+M] Fwd: [EUinCrisis] Council of Europe research shows austerity stripping away human rights
by Michel Bauwens 05 Dec '13

05 Dec '13

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Dante-Gabryell Monson <dante.monson(a)gmail.com> Date: Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 11:54 AM Subject: Fwd: [+M] Fwd: [EUinCrisis] Council of Europe research shows austerity stripping away human rights To: "econowmix(a)googlegroups.com" <econowmix(a)googlegroups.com> found via Dustin... ---------- Doorgestuurde bericht ---------- Van: *Pascoe S* Datum: woensdag 4 december 2013 Onderwerp: [EUinCrisis] Council of Europe research shows austerity stripping away human rights Aan: euincrisis(a)lists.corporateeurope.org Report from the Council of Europe, reported in the EU Observer in Brussels: http://euobserver.com/justice/122338 Austerity stripping away Europe's human rights, watchdog says By Nikolaj Nielsen <http://euobserver.com/search/author/238> BRUSSELS - Austerity measures imposed by international creditors on member states are eroding the social and economic rights of people, says human rights watchdog, the Council of Europe. “The crisis is both a context and a constraint on government policy but some responses to the crisis have created much collateral damage to human rights,” Nils Muiznieks, the commissioner for human rights at the Strasbourg-based watchdog, told reporters on Tuesday (3 December). Muiznieks, who presented a report on safeguarding human rights in times of economic crisis, said cuts in public expenditure and selective tax hikes aimed a curbing public deficits have not achieved their stated aims. Instead, the rights to decent work and adequate standards of living have rolled back, contributing to deepening poverty in Europe. The report notes civil and political rights have also eroded as some governments exclude people on having any say in austerity proposals, provoking large-scale demonstrations. Spain’s new €600,000 fine for civil disobedience The latest twist came over the weekend when Spain backed a draft law on public order that cracks down on civil disobedience. The revised draft, if ratified, means Spaniards can be fined up to €30,000 for insulting a government official, burning a flag, or protesting outside the parliament without a permit. Covering faces or wearing hoods at demonstrations is also an offence. Judges would also be able to impose fines of up to €600,000 for picketing at nuclear plants, airports, or if demonstrators interfere with elections. “This new report of a draft law extending the scope and severity of sanctions against peaceful demonstrators is of serious concern,” said Muiznieks. “When I see a potential fine of up to €600,000, I’d like for someone to convince me that that is a proportionate penalty,” he added. Muiznieks said the proposed measures, tabled last month by Spain’s interior minister Jorge Fernandez Diaz, run counter to the freedom of assembly. “If you don’t let people have their say before, they’ll have their say afterwards in the streets,” he pointed out. The Council of Europe in a report in October slammed the Spanish security troops for their disproportionate use of force against anti-austerity protests. Undercover police officers at the demonstrations are not held accountable for their actions, it says. The European Commission says it is unable to comment on Spain’s new draft law because it is a national issue. “Member states are themselves responsible for the maintenance of law and order and the safeguarding of internal security on their territory,” said Mina Andreeva, the commission’s spokesperson on justice affairs, in an email. She noted that the commission’s powers regarding acts and omissions by member states are limited to overseeing the application of European Union law. But Muiznieks’ says human rights norms have to be respected in economic decision-making, including in national and international responses to the crisis. The report says most national deficits did not result in unsustainable public expenditure from before the crisis but from the public rescue of financial markets. The rescue cost an estimated €4.5 trillion between 2008-11. The economic downturn and historic unemployment rates means the worst affected member states lost out on vital tax revenue streams. The worst affected are children, young people, the disabled, the elderly with low pensions, and many women. “Human rights are not expendable in times of economic hardship but are essential if we want to have a sustained and an inclusive recovery,” said Muiznieks. PDF 1. Spain's draft law on public order (in Spanish)<http://www.interior.gob.es/file/65/65379/65379.pdf> -- Pascoe S Researcher and Campaigner Corporate Europe Observatory Mundo B Rue d'Edimbourg 26 Brussels 1050 Tel: +32 (0) 2 893 0930 Mob: +32 (0) 4 86 85 74 16 http://www.corporateeurope.org/ -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation>Updates: http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/

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Fwd: Our responses to existential threats
by Michel Bauwens 05 Dec '13

05 Dec '13

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Tom Atlee <cii(a)igc.org> Date: Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 12:37 PM Subject: Our responses to existential threats To: Michel Bauwens <michel(a)p2pfoundation.net> Tom Atlee's Co-Intelligence Journal . The Co-Intelligence Symbol . What this message is about: I explore here the diversity of responses - my own Like<https://go.madmimi.com/redirects/1386264682-9d54200ad56eecd03b3e909f48603b7…> Tweet<https://go.madmimi.com/redirects/1386264682-379d9fbb632d092651ce37ddc995172…> Pin<https://go.madmimi.com/redirects/1386264682-dc374525158ff07d248a7b7531795ef…> +1<https://go.madmimi.com/redirects/1386264682-b5d8a9c91d3357f15b4f4460eac442f…> [image: ForestFloor1] Tom Atlee's Co-Intelligence Journal [image: Cii-logo-smaller]<https://go.madmimi.com/redirects/1386264683-84bdf85c42ae53e5b4e0371958e54dd…> . The Co-Intelligence Symbol . *What this message is about: I explore here the diversity of responses - my own and others' - to existential threats like extreme climate change and I offer one way to map and make sense of those responses.* ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Dec 2013-Jan 2014 Co-Intelligence Institute fundraiser progress report: *Funds raised so far: $50* Our target: $20,000 // Percentage of needed funds raised so far: 0% People on our list: 1713 // Days remaining in this fundraiser: 57 Thank you to the first person who donated (before we even announced the fundraiser)! *If you value our work*, please participate with a donation. See the end of this mailing for how to contribute. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Our responses to existential threats<https://go.madmimi.com/redirects/1386264683-94d57aa69f1b9f6c269ce28b85c5ed1…> [image: 220px-Yin_and_Yang.svg] The dance of vulnerability and strength *Note: This essay makes an interesting companion to my earlier essay Crisis Fatigue and the Co-Creation of Positive Possibilities <https://go.madmimi.com/redirects/1386264683-5455ed17b098edba87eb6df4c2a2a80…>.* Dear friends, In my last post I said that in this post I would "discuss some of my own strategies for affirming life in the strange circumstances in which we find ourselves... in the face of the possible end of civilization or of the human race itself." Working on this has turned out to be more complex, interesting, challenging, and productive than I expected - especially since my own responses to our "strange circumstances" have been changing so often, even day to day and hour to hour. It turns out this is not unusual. For example, many studies of Elisabeth Kübler-Ross' five stages of grieving and loss - denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance - note that people can experience these in any order, in any intensity, and for any length of time. For this reason, these supposed "stages" are perhaps more usefully understood as "dimensions" of the grieving process. So it is with our responses to huge existential threats*: We can find ourselves in twenty minutes of intense anger or transcendent peace before moving on to some other response. Or, at the other extreme, we may settle into a routine of activism - or depression - with only minor variations for months or years on end. Such reactions are shaped by internal and external influences unique to each person and situation. In my own case, I have been exploring the dynamics driving our existential threats intensively for over a year while in the last few months I have also been exploring the transformational vision of my friend Miki Kashtan. Miki is a leading practitioner and trainer of Nonviolent Communication who has articulated her worldview in two book manuscripts about which she asked my feedback. Through her and my friend and colleague John Abbe (another NVC practitioner), I've been exploring the personal, social, and evolutionary implications of what I now summarize as "life energy" - that which motivates and guides our choices and actions. This life energy takes many forms, including our needs and desires... our passions and callings... our urges and drives... our values and principles... our dreams and aspirations... our vitality and exuberance... and our feelings about everything that matters to us, everything that is important and precious to us. Our individual and collective life energies are both indelible realities and resources for possibility. I've been imagining what movements and societies would be like that were explicitly and effectively grounded in meeting the needs of that energy by using that energy. This mix of end times explorations and life energy realities and possibilities has proven very intense. I've found myself swinging especially between inspiration and depression, but that's only part of it. I go into states of surrender where "it doesn't matter". Sometimes the idea that "what I do doesn't really matter" is oddly but sweetly liberating - freeing me into quiet tolerance, peaceful appreciation, and relaxed activity. At other times the idea that nothing I do matters weighs me down into hopelessness. On some days I find myself living in a kind of highly conscious denial - totally engaged in a bubble of creative activity *as-if*what I do matters, while remaining quite aware that outside my bubble the existential threats are growing, radiating their toxic nihilism that, by some grace, simply doesn't impinge on my soul. Sometimes I just love what I do and the preciousness of the people and things around me simply because they are expressions of that remarkable life energy which is pulsating in and around me in the moment, regardless of what may happen in the future - a perspective that derives its magic precisely from the imminent impermanence of it all, a view of life already well known to Buddhists, poets, and many people who are dying or have lived through death, among others. In the last two weeks as I tried repeatedly to usefully describe this shifting emotional landscape, I've found myself swinging even more severely between these and other states and responses. That emotional, spiritual, and existential upheaval generated much writing activity but no coherent understanding to lead me beyond the raw messiness of it all. This difficulty was exacerbated by my commitment to hold the whole reality conveyed by the expression "things are getting better and better and worse and worse, faster and faster, simultaneously." Then yesterday morning much of this "mess" came together in an intriguingly coherent (to me) understanding that I will attempt to share here. Our responses to existential threats - a map In the drawing below and the description that follows it, I'll try to summarize what I came to see about our responses to existential threats. [image: ExistentialResponses2] This map is based on four quadrants generated by two axes. The vertical axis ranges from *LIFE ENHANCEMENT* at the top to *LIFE EROSION* at the bottom. It reflects a sense that in the face of gigantic challenges, we can reach into life or turn against it, internally and externally. Our responses in that regard can be placed along this axis. The other axis, the horizontal one, ranges from *LETTING-GO* on the left to *ACTION* at the right, reflecting the extent to which we are attached to the outcomes of what we do. The "Action" end of that axis might also be called "Agency". (I found it hard to choose the right word to describe the right side of the map. But its essence is that we are seeking to have impact of some kind, whereas on the left side we are simply present with reality - in either joyful or depressed ways.) These two axes create the four quadrants, which I've loosely labeled *APPRECIATIVE PRESENCE* in the upper left, *INCLUSIVE CARING ACTION* in the upper right, *ANGER* in the lower right, and *DESPAIR* in the lower left. I think of these as distinct but overlapping energies that tend to characterize our responses to the profound challenge presented by existential threats. Straddling the axes we find other realms of response that contain energies from both of the quadrants near them. Between Appreciative Presence and Inclusive Caring Action, for example, we find *SERVICE*. Between Inclusive Caring Action and Anger we find *CONFRONTATION*. Between Anger and Despair we find *CYNICISM*. And between Despair and Appreciative Presence, we find *WITHDRAWAL*. Join me now for a short tour through those energies and some of their manifestations, moving clockwise around the map starting in the upper left. Exploring this map more deeply First we'll explore *APPRECIATIVE PRESENCE* where we focus on Being, on spiritual matters, on the beauty of the present moment, and on radical acceptance, non-judgment, and humility in the face of Mystery. We experience here a kind of positive surrender, a letting go into a larger, ultimately life-affirming reality. We may have arrived in this state through meditation, through grace, or through the soul-shaking realization of an existential threat. Our radical acceptance may be shaped by some transcendent perspective provided by religion, spiritual experience, or science (for example, the amazing 13.7 billion year "great story of evolution"). We appreciate life and everyone and everything around us as miraculous and precious, because they embody transcendent dimensions while at the same time being profoundly impermanent. At a very physical, scientific level, we may have seen how the complexity of the dynamic systems within which we live - both social and natural - make our coveted outcomes fundamentally uncertain and uncontrollable. In any case, we think things like "whatever will be will be" or "let go, let God" or "whatever happens is the only thing that could have". [image: ExistentialResponses2] Following the map clockwise, we find more action orientation and intentionality in our appreciative state and move into *SERVICE* which manifests as various forms of help. This mode starts off in the left quadrant as charity - especially compassion, lovingkindness, and mindful support - addressing in a personal way the suffering and struggle created by our dysfunctional social systems. As we move further toward the activist side of the map, our service manifests more in community work like facilitating meetings, mapping or developing resources, or participating in gifting, sharing, and support networks. To the extent we retain some of the detachment-from-outcome that characterizes the upper left quadrant, we may be particularly drawn to facilitative and catalytic roles, networking, and spirit-centered activism rather than the more outcome-driven modes present further into the upper right quadrant. The more immersed we become in that upper right mode of *INCLUSIVE CARING ACTION*, the more we identify as change agents seeking to make a positive difference in the world at large, especially seeking to transform social systems that generate widespread suffering, destruction, and existential threats. I see this energy epitomized, for example, by active nonviolent systemic change efforts, especially those guided by systemic thinking about leverage, and by Gandhi's insights about the strategic potency of love, truth, noncooperation, and a positive program - a combination which possessed what he called "soul force". (Gandhi's approach is basic to - and enhanced by - Miki's vision.) My co-intelligence work to "access the wisdom of the whole on behalf of the whole" is in this quadrant, along with all other efforts to "create a world that works for all". There is lots of systemic and cultural creativity going on in this quadrant. I believe most actions there are nonviolent - a connotation carried by the word "inclusive" in the quadrant's name. But sometimes we feel more angry energy, more outrage. Then the defining quality of our response becomes *CONFRONTATION*. We find ourselves engaged in critiques and demonstrations that, although they may not involve physical violence against people, may include angry verbal attacks, an adversarial us-versus-them attitude, and even damage to the property of the people and institutions we see at fault. There's a lot of "speak truth to power" energy here and a call to commitment and courage in battle on behalf of Life, albeit with less love than we find when those calls occur as part of a fully nonviolent effort. When our energies are totally shaped by an intention to dominate and vanquish, we find ourselves fully in the lower right quadrant - *ANGER*. Here we engage in targeted attacks on blameworthy people and institutions. In its rawest forms, the focused energy of anger can manifest as terrorism and a determination to "tear it all down". We seethe: "If you're not outraged, you don't understand what's going on!" Those toxic people, organizations and systems must be stopped or destroyed at all costs. It is us or them. Life and decency depend on our taking them down. But all too often our passionate anger or activist efforts just feel impotent. Impotent passion produces *CYNICISM*. Caught between aggressive and passive impulses, we feel bitterness and develop an actively nihilistic take on life. We make it clear to everyone that the bad in the world is overwhelming and the good is illusory. Our hopelessness here has a disturbed, disturbing vitality to it. In its most extreme forms it can actively suck the life out of other more life-positive responses, which places it squarely on the "Life Erosion" end of the vertical axis. But note that it arises from frustrated caring. If we feel totally impotent and experience crushing hopelessness we find ourselves in *DESPAIR*, in the lower left quadrant. Here we sink into a sad, disconnected, passive energy, giving up, feeling apathetic and depressed. From our perspective the situation is simply too overwhelming, too disastrous, too self-annihilating to bear. Nothing can really be done and all meaning and vitality drain away. Whatever... Despair is the dark manifestation of *WITHDRAWAL* on the "letting-go" side of the horizontal axis. The despair facet of withdrawal manifests as "giving up", resigning ourselves to pained, often awkward indifference. But, in more general terms, withdrawal on this map means simply moving away from the demands of life and away from the attachments that bring pain - especially away from the monumental demands of existential challenges. We can withdraw into entertainment, pleasure, busy-ness, and/or the more confrontable challenges of personal life, home life, and work. If we happen to be in the brighter, upper-left manifestations of withdrawal, we move away from challenge into enjoyment where our "letting go" energy manifests as going with the flow. To the extent we truly engage with life while letting go of outcomes, however, we find ourselves again in the upper left quadrant being an Appreciative Presence. Which bring us full circle. Now, in the middle of this circle, where all of these diverse energies intersect, countering and weakening each other, there's a realm I've labeled *"NORMALCY"*. Most of us live our lives there, held in place by psychological and social forces that conserve the status quo. Many of us live there quite oblivious to the mounting threats around us. As we go about our daily business and bump into bad news about the world, we may drift towards one quadrant or another but we soon find ourselves drawn back by the demands and attractions of normal life. Or we may be caught between simultaneous opposite responses - like despair and activism - that hang us up in status quo behaviors and institutions by default, whether we want to be there or not. The arrows on the fine diagonal lines radiating out from the "Normalcy" circle suggest that the further we depart from "Normalcy" in any given direction, the more we manifest the energy of the quadrant we are moving into. But the psychological and social gravitational pull of "Normalcy" is what we call *DENIAL*. When we're truly in denial - especially when our denial is supported by our social environment...by media, politics, economics, and our friends and family - we seldom venture very far out into any of the quadrants, but stay in the middle doing what we can to maintain a sense that things are "normal", that the familiar status quo is what will continue to exist, so we're sort of going to be ok or at least not horribly worse off (even when somewhere inside us we know that's not true). If we all act like things are normal maybe really horrible stuff won't happen. Hope After writing this, I noticed that I hadn't mentioned hope much in this map. Thinking about this, I realized that hope occurs in different forms playing different roles, depending on where it shows up on the map. In the Appreciative Presence quadrant it shows up as "trust in the universe", a faith that in the larger picture whatever happens makes larger sense. In the Inclusive Caring Action quadrant, it shows up as a belief - however frail - that our actions could make a positive difference. Or we think, along with Czechoslovakia's dissident president Vaclav Havel, that hope is "not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out." When immersed in Anger, of course, we hope the worst for our enemies and the enemies of life, whereas in Cynicism and Despair, we experience hope as a sorry delusion that ultimately abandons those who believe in it, dropping them painfully into the hard hopelessness of cruel reality. Finally, in "Normalcy", hope plays a role as a coping mechanism, a buffer that helps us bear not facing horrible realities and possibilities. We "hope" those situations will get handled by someone somehow, because we don't feel we can put effective attention on them. This is the kind of hope most people seem to long for and hold on to, because there really is too much out there for any one person to deal with, especially with family, bills, a job (if you're lucky), and all the rest of it. In "Normalcy" hope is a way to not have to think about things, which makes it frail when crises continue to impinge ever more intensely on our awareness, forcing us willy nilly out of the seeming security of "Normalcy" into other parts of this response map. So What? There's more to all this of course, even if we take what's here as useful. At the very least it can all be deepened and explored further, and there are probably responses I've overlooked. But this picture covers a wide range of my own responses to existential threats like extreme climate change, as well as most of the responses I see and hear around me. And since I personally find it an interesting way to track my own tendencies as I face the unthinkable, I thought I'd share it on the chance that you, too, might resonate with it. One of its special qualities, for me, is that it gives me a modicum of distance from the whole drama, allowing me the healing equanimity of witnessing my own inner dynamics and realizing they are probably shared by many other people. I might say that my goal with all this is to help myself and others move into the upper quadrants, away from denial, despair and rage into greater life, peace, meaning, and impact. That's clearly a good intention and is for sure part of why I'm sharing it. However, under the influence of Miki Kashtan and others, I also view all these diverse responses as - in themselves - legitimate expressions of life energy and human caring in the face of truly profound challenges. Joanna Macy, in particular, has noted how despair and rage are manifestations of frustrated caring, and that working through them with others can free our caring into positive collective action. This latter understanding can increase our compassion for everyone as we find ourselves and others pulled through these manifestations of frustrated or free-flowing care. So while I think it is good to strive to make things better - something I've done all my life - I am learning that it is also very healthy and necessary to come to terms with What Is, inside and around us - to be real and authentic about what is happening. As we try to move beyond denial by courageously facing disturbing social and environmental realities, we can realize that compassion and empathy - solid pathways to move beyond denial of the *emotional* realities involved in the crises we face - are essential aspects of that evolutionary journey we're all on together. If we can truly do these things well together, we will have enhanced and served life honorably and wisely, regardless of what happens to us and everything we cherish as the future unfolds. And if we happen to be able, at the same time, to play effective roles in helping life on earth find an even more flourishing way to persist in greater harmony, I think that is a true abundance of icing on a very, very big cake we can present to our great great grandchildren and to the living planetary Mother we share. Coheartedly, Tom - Note: Challenges that could trigger "the possible end of civilization or the human race" are what some theorists are calling "existential risks, threats or challenges". I use that concept in this post, especially in the context of possible extreme global heating and climate chaos making earth uninhabitable for us and many other complex organisms. 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Fwd: A very quick favor for Janelle, and THANK YOUUUU in advance!
by Michel Bauwens 05 Dec '13

05 Dec '13

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Janelle Orsi <janelle(a)theselc.org> Date: Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 3:00 PM Subject: A very quick favor for Janelle, and THANK YOUUUU in advance! To: Janelle Orsi <janelle.orsi(a)gmail.com> Hi Friends, The Sustainable Economies Law Center <http://theselc.org/> is participating in one of those fundraisers where we'll get $20,000 from Sungevity<http://www.sungevity.org/gives-back> if we can get enough people to vote for us. Long story short: These funds would make a HUGE difference for SELC right now. SELC is in 5th place and we need to pull ahead fast. *Click here to vote: http://www.sungevity.org/gives-back <http://www.sungevity.org/gives-back>* *While it takes just a few seconds to vote and give SELC 1 point, would you be willing to give us 10 extra points after you vote *by asking for a virtual quote or signing up for OurSungevity? It's a platform that allows you to earn money by referring customers to them. Getting the 10 extra points from a lot of people, realistically, is the only way we can pull ahead. You can always click "unsubscribe" in any email they send you if this is not your thing. I read their "terms and conditions" to make sure. :o) Thank you so much! And please do share this with everyone you know! Janelle -- Janelle Orsi, Executive Director Sustainable Economies Law Center <http://www.theselc.org/> 436 14th Street, Suite 1120, Oakland, CA 94612 (510) 649-9956 *SELC's New Book: Practicing Law in the Sharing Economy <http://apps.americanbar.org/abastore/index.cfm?pid=1620513&section=main&fm=…> (ABA Books 2012)* -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation>Updates: http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/

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Fwd: [P2P-es] Carta Abierta a todos los Trabajadores del Procomún del Mundo
by Michel Bauwens 04 Dec '13

04 Dec '13

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Jorge Gemetto <jorgemet(a)gmail.com> Date: 2013/12/4 Subject: [P2P-es] Carta Abierta a todos los Trabajadores del Procomún del Mundo To: p2p-lang-es(a)lists.ourproject.org Comparto la inspiradora convocatoria que redactó la gente de FLOK Society para contribuir al proceso hacia una economía social del conocimiento en Ecuador: http://floksociety.org/2013/12/04/carta-abierta-a-todos-los-trabajadores-de… Saludos! _______________________________________________ Wiki: http://p2pfoundation.net/Spanish_P2P_WikiSprint Lista https://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-lang-es -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation>Updates: http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/

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