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Fwd: OUT NOW: Constructing landscapes of value: Capitalist investment for the acquisition of marginal or unused land—The case of Tanzania
by Michel Bauwens 26 Oct '14

26 Oct '14

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: <andreas.exner(a)aon.at> Date: Sun, Oct 26, 2014 at 4:02 PM Subject: OUT NOW: Constructing landscapes of value: Capitalist investment for the acquisition of marginal or unused land—The case of Tanzania To: Andreas Exner <andreas.exner(a)aon.at> Dear collegues We are glad to inform you of our new publication on land classification approaches in Tanzania, as seen in relation to attempts for commercial use. See the pdf attached, you can download copies for free until 14th Dec. here: http://www.sciencedirect.com/ science/article/pii/ S0264837714002191 <http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264837714002191> best, Andreas *When interested in our work, read also* : Exner, A., Lauk, C., Zittel W. (2014): " *Sold Futures? The Global Availability of Metals and Economic Growth at the Peripheries: Distribution and Regulation in a Degrowth Perspective* ." ANTIPODE. Article first published online: 22 JUN 2014, DOI: 10.1111/anti.12107 http://onlinelibrary.wiley. com/doi/10.1111/anti.12107/ abstract <http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/anti.12107/abstract> Exner, A. (2013): " *Degrowth and Demonetization: On the Limits of a Non-Capitalist Market Economy* ", CAPITALISM, NATURE, SOCIALISM. DOI: 10.1080/10455752.2014.882963, Published online: 05 Feb 2014 http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10455752.2014.882963#.VEy4V1fTySo -- Check out the Commons Transition Plan here at: http://en.wiki.floksociety.org/w/Research_Plan 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: WEA online conference now open - Greece and austerity policies
by Michel Bauwens 24 Oct '14

24 Oct '14

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: World Economics Association <info(a)worldeconomicsassociation.org> Date: Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 10:33 PM Subject: WEA online conference now open - Greece and austerity policies To: Michel <michel(a)p2pfoundation.net> Is this email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser <http://us3.campaign-archive2.com/?u=fc8acbfd9af76573d1ecc3b8a&id=da1cb25541…> . <http://worldeconomicsassociation.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fc8acbfd…> Greece and austerity policies: Where next for its economy and society? an online WEA conference *Visit the conference site here <http://here>* http://greececonference2014.worldeconomicsassociation.org/ <http://worldeconomicsassociation.us3.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=fc8acbf…> You are invited *to leave comments on the individual papers listed below* or on the conference as a whole *here <http://worldeconomicsassociation.us3.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=fc8acbf…>.* *THE PAPERS * *There is no future for the peripheral countries inside the Eurozone <http://worldeconomicsassociation.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fc8acbfd…> Yiannis Tolios* The profound economic crisis gave explosive rise to core problems of the EMU structure. Dominant Eurozone elites attempt to avert the collapse of the tenuous euro – structure, by preserving its neoliberal ‘psyche’ unharmed, with austerity policies and construction of … More › <http://worldeconomicsassociation.us3.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=fc8acbf…> *Greek economy as a failure of capitalist patriarchy and the choice of dystopia <http://worldeconomicsassociation.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fc8acbfd…> Irene Sotiropoulou* The paper uses feminist theory to analyse the political economic phenomenon which has been termed “crisis” since fall 2008 onwards. The purpose of the paper is to investigate if and how the “crisis” is a response to either conscious and … More › <http://worldeconomicsassociation.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fc8acbfd…> *A New Economic Governance Model for Greece in the 21st Century <http://worldeconomicsassociation.us3.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=fc8acbf…> * *Constantine E. Passaris* The mission and mandate of economic governance in Greece and its accompanying institutional architecture requires a re-alignment in order to conform to the realities of the new global economy of the 21st century. Two recent events, one foundational and the …More › <http://worldeconomicsassociation.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fc8acbfd…> *Understanding Narratives of Crisis in Contemporary Greece: History and the Illegi <http://worldeconomicsassociation.us3.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=fc8acbf…>timacy of Austerity <http://worldeconomicsassociation.us3.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=fc8acbf…> * *Nicholas Manganas * In this paper I argue that any future economic recovery in Greece will require a deep understanding of the fault lines of contemporary Greece and the long-standing historical narratives which sustain and fuel the modern Greek state. The tension between …More › <http://worldeconomicsassociation.us3.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=fc8acbf…> *An Interpretation of the current Crisis in Greece and the Need of a radically different Perspective <http://worldeconomicsassociation.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fc8acbfd…> George Liodakis* Based on a Marxist methodology, this paper argues that the current crisis in Greece, part and parcel of the exacerbated global crisis of capitalism, is due to an over- accumulation of capital and is necessarily manifested as a more general …More › <http://worldeconomicsassociation.us3.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=fc8acbf…> *Austerity and social dialogue in Greece: the consequences of Greek Memoranda on social partners’ dialogue <http://worldeconomicsassociation.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fc8acbfd…> * *Theodore Koutroukis and Spyros Roukanas* Aim of this paper is to criticize the impact of joint EC-ECB-IMF Programmes on the Greek industrial relation system, using an analysis of the institutional changes in the labour market and the social dialogue procedures. The paper examines a series …More › <http://worldeconomicsassociation.us3.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=fc8acbf…> *Financial political power and the role of the Institute of International Finance in the Greek debt restructuring <http://worldeconomicsassociation.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fc8acbfd…> * *Manolis Kalaitzake * Much has been written about Greece and the largest debt restructuring in history that occurred as part of the Eurozone crisis in 2012. Nevertheless, little attention has been paid to the precise role of the financial industry representative, the Institute …More › <http://worldeconomicsassociation.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fc8acbfd…> *Investors vs. Greece: The Greek ‘Haircut’ and Investor Arbitration under BITs <http://worldeconomicsassociation.us3.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=fc8acbf…> Ioannis Glinavos* Since 2012 a large number of foreign investors have been exploring legal avenues in order to challenge the Greek Haircut in investment arbitrations. This development follows the decision by Greece to trigger Collective Action Clauses (CAC) that were added to …More › <http://worldeconomicsassociation.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fc8acbfd…> *Greece’s economic strategy and Eurozone crisis: TAVA <http://worldeconomicsassociation.us3.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=fc8acbf…> * *Gary Dymski and Stefanos Ioannou* This paper explores the elements of economic strategy for a national government taking office in Greece under the constraints imposed by Eurozone membership, even while hoping to transcend and transform those constraints. We first review some of the empirical and More › <http://worldeconomicsassociation.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fc8acbfd…> *Financialization: The AIDS of economic system <http://worldeconomicsassociation.us3.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=fc8acbf…> Juan Pablo Durán Ortiz* Epistemologically the economic system can be understood through two approaches: biology and physics. The biological approach has been used to illustrate financialization, which is the process of reorienting all the economic resources from real production to the speculative market. This …More › <http://worldeconomicsassociation.us3.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=fc8acbf…> *Stabilization cocktails for a Eurozone Crisis-Solving Framework <http://worldeconomicsassociation.us3.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=fc8acbf…> * *Bruno-Pierre Carrier* As of late 2014, the Eurozone still has yet to enter a path of sustained recovery which brings dismal conditions to many European citizens, especially in the periphery. Optimum Currency Area theory can be used to analyze single currency areas, …More › <http://worldeconomicsassociation.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fc8acbfd…> *Blood, Strawberries: Accumulation by Dispossession and Austere Violence against Migrant Workers in Greece <http://worldeconomicsassociation.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fc8acbfd…> Anna Carastathis* Rendered vulnerable to hyper-exploitation through the process of precarious migration, migrant workers are coerced and disciplined by systemically violent means by the state, the para- state, and capital. However, the conditions facing migrant workers are mystified by racist discourses that …More › <http://worldeconomicsassociation.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fc8acbfd…> *The Sudan and the IMF, a Policy with Disastrous Consequences <http://worldeconomicsassociation.us3.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=fc8acbf…>* *Ali Abdalla Ali* ------------------------------ *Dear WEA member,* The WEA is not owned, financed and controlled by billionaires. It is a professional organization and as such depends on its financing from its members. It has three categories of voluntary membership fees. If you choose one, you will be helping the WEA maintain and expand its operations. 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Fwd: The Map - How To Out Your Local Economy
by Michel Bauwens 24 Oct '14

24 Oct '14

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: John Rogers <info(a)valueforpeople.co.uk> Date: Sat, Oct 25, 2014 at 1:28 AM Subject: The Map - How To Out Your Local Economy To: John Rogers <info(a)valueforpeople.co.uk> <http://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.lulu.com%2Fshop%2Fjohn-roger…> „The Map - How To Out Your Local Economy“ by John Rogers is now exclusively available as an e-Book at the following stores: Lulu http://www.lulu.com/shop/john-rogers/the-map-how-to-out-your-local-economy/… Kobo http://store.kobobooks.com/en-US/ebook/the-map-how-to-out-your-local-economy Amazon UK http://www.amazon.co.uk/Map-How-Your-Local-Economy-ebook/dp/B00O145YSE/ref=… Amazon USA http://www.amazon.com/Map-How-Your-Local-Economy-ebook/dp/B00O145YSE/ref=sr… <http://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FMap-How-Your-Lo…> Barnes & Noble http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-map-how-to-out-your-local-economy-john-… Itunes https://itunes.apple.com/gb/book/the-map/id921857515?mt=11 <http://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.lulu.com%2Fshop%2Fjohn-roger…> Thankyou for your support. -- John Rogers Value for People - training and consulting for local currencies http://bit.ly/Currency_Consult http://bit.ly/John_Rogers_Goodreads Skype: jroger01 Tel: +49 (0)6667 918769 (Germany) -- Check out the Commons Transition Plan here at: http://en.wiki.floksociety.org/w/Research_Plan 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: STWR recent content
by Michel Bauwens 23 Oct '14

23 Oct '14

On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 11:35 AM, Rajesh Makwana <Rajesh(a)stwr.org> wrote: > Dear friends, > > I am sharing some of STWR's recent content with you in case it is of > interest: > > *The coming financial crisis: a harbinger of world renewal? > As the prospect of global financial crisis beckons once again, > will our elected leaders finally accept the need for an entirely new > economic approach that breaks away from the primacy of growth and profit – > or will their hand be forced by a resurgence of mass public protest? > http://www.sharing.org/information-centre/blogs/coming-financial-crisis-har… > > * The return of Occupy London: this time it’s truly political > Occupy is back in London, UK, with a renewed focus on politics and > an ambitious vision: to galvanise a mass movement for real democracy and > establish a huge People's Assembly to debate a list of specific demands for > radical political reform. > http://www.sharing.org/information-centre/blogs/return-occupy-london-time-i… > > > * Challenging corporate power in a not-for-profit world > As businesses increasingly embrace a not-for-profit culture, an > end to overconsumption on a finite planet could finally be in sight. But > given the huge lobbying power of vested interests, it will remain > impossible to create a truly sustainable world until the illegitimate power > of corporations is held in check. > http://www.sharing.org/information-centre/articles/challenging-corporate-po… > > > *'Change through sharing': STWR interviewed by WeltenWandel.tv > As part of a series of filmed conversations on the theme of > ‘Change through Sharing’, STWR’s director Rajesh Makwana was interviewed > earlier this year about the political implications of global economic > sharing for a world in crisis. > http://www.sharing.org/information-centre/news/stwr-video-interview-weltenw… > > > With best wishes, > > Rajesh > > Rajesh Makwana > Director > Share The World's Resources > P.O. 52662 > London > United Kingdom > N7 8UX > > P: +44 (0) 20 7609 3034 > E: rajesh(a)sharing.org > W: www.sharing.org > F: www.facebook.com/ShareTheWorldsResources > T: www.twitter.com/global_sharing_ > > > -- Check out the Commons Transition Plan here at: http://en.wiki.floksociety.org/w/Research_Plan 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: Time Warner Cable's Advertised $89.99 Triple Play: Now $190.77. What the F@$#X$!?
by Michel Bauwens 23 Oct '14

23 Oct '14

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Bruce Kushnick <bruce(a)newnetworks.com> Date: Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 11:30 AM Subject: Time Warner Cable's Advertised $89.99 Triple Play: Now $190.77. What the F@$#X$!? To: *And See Ars Technica: * *http://arstechnica.com/business/2014/10/90-time-warner-cable-bill-becomes-190-after-two-years/ <http://arstechnica.com/business/2014/10/90-time-warner-cable-bill-becomes-1…>* ================= * Time Warner Cable's Advertised $89.99 Triple Play: Now $190.77. What the F@$$##X$$$!!???* *http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bruce-kushnick/time-warner-cables-advert_b_6009364.html <http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bruce-kushnick/time-warner-cables-advert_b_60…>* *From: **"The Book of Broken Promises: $400 Billion Broadband Scandal & Free the Net" <http://newnetworks.com/bookofbrokenpromises.htm> * This is my October 2014 Time Warner "Triple Play" bill. When I signed up, less than two years ago, it was advertised at $89.99 and today, less than two years later, the actual price is 110% more -- now $190.77.* Click for Full Size <http://newnetworks.com/timewarnermarkup2014.htm>*. http://newnetworks.com/timewarnermarkup2014.htm [image: 2014-10-19-timewarnersmall.png] <http://images.huffingtonpost.com/2014-10-19-timewarnersmall.png> Fact is -- you can never, ever get the advertised price because it doesn't include many of the fixed costs, like the set top box, not to mention it is littered with pass-throughs of the company's taxes and fees, including the cable franchise fees. To add insult to injury, there are a bunch of garbage, made up charges, and let us not forget the increases on all services -- the 'Internet modem' fee went up 140%. Not to mention I was overcharged as the Universal Service Fund calculation is wrong by $.07 -- not in my favor. I know most of you reading this 'feel my pain'. *Why Are We Putting Up with This?* *How Do They Abuse Thee? Let Me Count the Ways: * *To read the rest of this article: * http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bruce-kushnick/time-warner-cables-advert_b_60… ------------------------------ <http://www.avast.com/> This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus <http://www.avast.com/> protection is active. -- Check out the Commons Transition Plan here at: http://en.wiki.floksociety.org/w/Research_Plan 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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Reflections on Slavoj Žižek’s book "Absolute Recoil: Towards a New Foundation of Dialectical Materialism“
by Christian Fuchs 21 Oct '14

21 Oct '14

Fuchs, Christian. 2014. The dialectic: Not just the absolute recoil, but the world’s living fire that extinguishes and kindles itself. Reflections on Slavoj Žižek’s version of dialectical philosophy in “Absolute recoil. Towards a new foundation of dialectical materialism“. tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique 12 (2): 848-875. http://triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/article/view/640 Abstract Slavoj Žižek shows in his book "Absolute Recoil" (and previous Hegelian works such as "Less than Nothing") the importance of repeating Hegel’s dialectical philosophy in contemporary capitalism. Žižek contributes especially to a reconceptualisation of dialectical logic and based on it the dialectic of history. The reflections in this paper stress that the dialectic is only the absolute recoil, a sublation that posits its own presuppositions, by working as a living fire that extinguishes and kindles itself. I point out that a new foundation of dialectical materialism needs a proper Heraclitusian foundation. I discuss Žižek’s version of the dialectic that stresses the absolute recoil and the logic of retroactivity and point out its implications for the concept of history as well as Žižek’s own theoretical ambiguities that oscillate between postmodern relativism and mechanical materialism. I argue that Žižek’s version of the dialectic should be brought into a dialogue with the dialectical philosophies of the German Marxists Hans Heinz Holz and Herbert Hörz. Žižek’s achievement is that he helps keeping alive the fire of dialectical materialism in the 21st century. Such a dialectical fire is needed for a proper revolutionary theory.

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Walter Benjamin and the media today: A talk by Jaeho Kang (CAMRI Seminar, Oct 29)
by Christian Fuchs 21 Oct '14

21 Oct '14

Phantasmagoria of Urban Spectacle: Walter Benjamin and Media Theory Today Jaeho Kang Wed, Oct 29, 14:00 University of Westminster Harrow Campus Room A7.01 Registration is possible per email to christian.fuchs(a)uti.at until Oct 27 http://www.westminster.ac.uk/camri/research-seminars/phantasmagoria-of-urba… Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) is one of the most original and perceptive German literary and cultural critics, but his unique insight into the profound impact of the media on modernity has received a good deal less attention. Based on his book 'Walter Benjamin and the Media: The Spectacle of Modernity' (2014), Jaeho Kang will talk about Benjamin’s critical and provocative writings on the intersection between media and modern experience with particular reference to phantasmagoria, aesthetic public space, and urban spectacle. In so doing, he will clarify Benjamin’s distinctive and enduring contribution to contemporary media studies. Before joining SOAS in 2012, Jaeho Kang taught as Assistant Professor in the Department of Media Studies and Film at the New School in New York (2005-2012) and was the Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow in the Institut für Sozialforschung at the University of Frankfurt (2004-2005). He received his PhD in sociology from the University of Cambridge (2003). He has tried to bring theoretical contributions of critical theory to the development of East Asian media and cultural studies and published a number of articles on critical theory of media and political communication in English, Korean, German, and Portuguese. His research has recently focused more attention on the East Asian context of media culture with particular reference to media spectacle, urban space and screen culture. The book 'Walter Benjamin and the Media: The Spectacle of Modernity' (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2014) came out in summer 2014.

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Fwd: Michel, I need your help and I need it now.
by Michel Bauwens 20 Oct '14

20 Oct '14

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Rabbi Michael Lerner <rabbilerner.tikkun(a)gmail.com> Date: Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 4:53 AM Subject: Michel, I need your help and I need it now. To: Michelsub2004(a)gmail.com Rabbi Michael Lerner 951 Cragmont Ave. Berkeley, CA 94708 *I need your help and I need it now.* Join or Donate Now! <http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=Qo%2BJqAm5hePdzFKWZA6%2BmH63qB…> Dear Michel, I understand if you feel deeply troubled by what has been happening in the United States and around the world this past year. I know I do. But I also have a lot to be grateful for in my personal life—my son finished writing his first book (on a phenomenology of hope with a special focus on Martin Buber) and my grandchildren are flourishing into wonderful pre-adolescents. And I’m very proud to tell you that four weeks ago Tikkun magazine received the “Magazine of the Year Award” from the Religion Newswriters Association, reminding the public at large of the high quality of our magazine. And I’m proud that we were among the cosponsors of the Great Climate March in New York City. A Tikkun and Network of Spiritual Progressives contingent marched in it, and I loved being there with 400,000 demonstrators-- so many caring and joyous people! Yet despite these achievements, the political developments in the United States, Israel, Palestine, Iraq, and Syria have been so upsetting that they have interfered with my sleep and the writing I had planned for the year. I have been so upset by the outrageous behavior of ISIS and the simplistic response of the West (“let’s bomb them and then see what happens”), which threatens to deepen the mess we in the United States helped to create with our last invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan. This after a summer in which Israelis, understandably fearful from the daily bombing attempts that sent them (often several times a day) into air raid shelters to avoid the missiles beings launched by Hamas, allowed themselves to forget the (if they ever really understood) the horrible conditions that the Occupation has imposed on Palestinians and the hunger and poverty that their seven year blockade of Gaza has imposed on Gazans (with the resulting attitude of "if we are going to perish, lets do it by fighting back" that was propagated by the leadership of Hamas). While most Americans rallied around Israel, forgetting that Israel had broken off peace negotiations with the non-violence-enforcing Palestinian Authority in the West Bank, and the American Jewish community told itself Israel "had no alternative," we at Tikkun were speaking out to remind people that there really is an alternative: to end the Occupation of the West Bank, and with generous and caring terms (that show real respect for the humanity of the Palestinians) to make peace with the Palestinian people rather than beat them into submission. (I've specified those terms in the Winter 2014 issue of Tikkun and more fully in my book *Embracing Israel/Palestine*). And as if this wasn't bad enough, the Right wing in the US may be on the verge of capturing both houses of Congress, a response in part to the racism that has been systematically directed at President Obama, in part to Obama's failure to fight for a coherent alternative to the militarism, hatred of immigrants (he deported more "illegals" than any previous president), and ethos of selfishness and materialism that are endemic in the competitive marketplace and that are championed by a corporate-dominated culture and a Supreme Court that has struck down every legislative attempt to restrain the ability of the rich to shape elections and defacto buy themselves the best Congress that their wealth can buy. Reading the New York Times these days can leave one feeling heartbroken and powerless. Yet, times like these call us to open our hearts in empathy to all beings and take a stand for love, kindness, and generosity ). Times like these call us to push beyond our sense of despair to engage in work that promotes a new worldview—one that inspires us to move beyond our limited belief of what is realistic to imagine and work toward what is desirable. And they call for an alternative that we at Tikkun and our Tikkun Community, also known as the interfaith and secular humanist and atheist-welcoming Network of Spiritual Progressives has been developing. But to keep that alternative alive, we need your support! We at Tikkun have some very important ideas about how to change the dominance of the militarists, the cheerleaders for the 1%, and the voices of cynicism and despair, but I worry that you, Michel, and others may have gotten so exhausted by the suffering in the world that you might no longer recognize how important it is to keep Tikkun’s voice strong by making a generous donation now, even if you already donated this year or rejoined our Network of Spiritual Progressives. I want to highlight some of our great work to help you recognize how important our work is and to inspire you to support us yet again with a tax-deductible donation. 1. We have been leading workshops on “Grieving and Mourning What’s Happening in Israel and Palestine and Learning to Communicate Across Differences” in response to requests from folks throughout the country. This is what some have said about these trainings: “It was a powerful, life changing workshop yesterday” or from another: “I actually feel a sense of spaciousness and hope that I can have these conversations in a more productive way.” We are now working with students on university campuses who have been trying to challenge the policy of Hillel Foundations which will not allow Jewish speakers who are critical of Israeli policies, and we are finding that despite the near-universal control of the Jewish media by the pro-Netanyahu forces, there are growing numbers of younger Jews who understand that Israel's policies are actually fostering anti-Semitism rather than protecting Jews from the irrational hatreds that led to previous pogroms and genocide against us. Tikkun is speaking to that generation (but they are mostly not yet in a position to financially help Tikkun survive). 2. We have been leading “Trainings for Transformative Activists” in which participants learn how to unify fractured, local, social change groups behind a shared vision of a caring society and the Tikkun/NSP idea of* "A New Bottom Line" (namely: our social, economic, and political institutions would be judged efficient, rational, and productive to the extent that they maximize love, caring, kindness, generosity, and environmentally sustainable and ethical behavior, helping us to treat other human beings as ends in themselves rather than solely as means to our own ends). Such a society would help us respond to nature with awe, wonder, and radical amazement, enabling us to make the difficult changes necessary to sustain our planet*. People have never heard progressives talk this way, and when they hear it, they love it. *Articulating what we are for, not just what we are against, would greatly help progressives*. The next such training will take place in Brooklyn, N.Y. on Thursday and Friday, Nov.13 and 14th. Cat Zavis, the executive director of the NSP-Network of Spiritual Progressives will be sending you an email about that in the next seven days. 3. We have organized conference calls for Tikkun subscribers and NSP members to talk with leading thinkers and activists (most recently with Uri Avnery, an Israeli peace activist and former member of the Knesset, and Sami Awad, a Palestinian peace activist and director of the Holy Land Trust). We will be doing similar calls every month starting later this fall. 4. Cat Zavis has been strategizing with chapter leaders to revitalize our international network, energize members, and provide the support necessary to sustain their work. Would you be willing to help create a local chapter of NSP? Cat can help: email her at Cat(a)spiritualprogressives.org. And she is creating task forces in which professionals use the idea of The New Bottom Line to re-envision how their professions would function in a caring society—and then work to transform their workplaces accordingly! Are you a professional who might be interested in engaging fellow professionals in this creative work of envisioning what your profession might look like if people were being rewarded for their capacity to generate more caring, environmentally sensitive, ethical, and generosity-oriented consciousness in the world? Or do you have friends or contacts who might be interested in that kind of activity. If so, contact Cat(a)spiritualprogressives.org. 5. Tikkun and the Tikkun Daily blog have expanded their writer base, drawing in brilliant new younger writers and increasing interfaith diversity. But this, like our other activities, can only be sustained with your financial help. 6. We’ve drawn national attention and recognition for the amazing quality of the print edition of Tikkun. We’ve reported on the exciting new frameworks and projects that could lead us toward opening our borders, ending deportation, ending mass incarceration, ending predatory cycles of debt, and rethinking the relation between identity politics and class struggle. And we’ve opened readers’ eyes to some radical ideas and interfaith discussions about God (not the “big man in heaven”). Our publisher (Duke University Press) doesn’t allow us to share the full versions of these articles freely online, so to get them you have to sign up for a print or online subscription (which is free with membership in the NSP). 7. We’ve been in the forefront of showing what a real solution to the Israel/Palestine struggle could look like. I was honored to have my article on how I am mourning for an Israel that seems to be murdering Judaism and Jewish values picked up by Salon.com and by CNN, which gave me a solid interview seen by millions of people around the world. Our prophetic and provocative High Holiday supplement (“For Our Sins”) was reprinted on “The Daily Beast” and read by millions of young people around the world. Many Jews, Christians, Buddhists, Hindus, and Muslims have responded warmly, saying the love-oriented Judaism I’ve advocated has given them new hope. We understand that to be pro-Israel one must be pro-Palestine and to be pro-Palestine one must also be pro-Israel because there will be no sustainable solution that doesn’t meet the needs for security, justice, and respect of both peoples. And while Tikkun emerged from the Jewish world, if you look at the magazine you'll see that we are also deeply interfaith (and secular humanist welcoming), and that we present some of the most cutting edge ideas in American politics (for example our forthcoming issues calling for the abolition of debt, just as we've called for a phasing out of national borders and a comprehensive global project to save the environment). The narrow pragmatism of the Democrats has not led to inspiring the growth of a liberal and progressive consciousness in America--what is needed is precisely the visionary and prophetic voices that we promote in Tikkun and in the NSP!! 8. And of course, we continue to promote and champion our Domestic and Global Marshall Plan <http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=%2FOwXrlJhDLy99oEHxBS4M363qBSc…> and our Environmental and Social Responsibility Amendment to the U.S. Constitution <http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=Nt31bF3r53WEQx60C1X8eX63qBScFk…>. Our petition for the amendment received thousands of signatures <http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=s7CaZsTOiyVTM%2FtGShJ%2B1n63qB…> on MoveOn.org and was discussed widely at the Great Climate March. Tikkun is one of the very few voices in the progressive world that provide an alternative vision to that of the Right. The big picture is this: the message of our economy, which rewards selfishness and materialism, is reinforced by media that increasingly validate “looking out for number one” and the need for endless economic growth. This message is further amplified by our culture, which sees “success” as measured primarily in terms of how much money or power one accumulates. What gets rewarded in the economy--a "look out for number one" and "don't trust others because all they care about is themselves" consciousness, which is then dramatically reinforced by the media with its daily drumming into our heads that people are all about getting power and money for themselves--inevitably seeps into the consciousness of people in their private lives and in their relationships. All of this generates a population that is increasingly cynical, resigned to living in a world without idealism or hope, and increasingly unable to sustain long-term relationships. This creates loneliness in many people’s lives. People are desperate for a sense of meaning and purpose that transcends the selfishness and materialism of the competitive marketplace, and in their attempts to find a community that feels nurturing, many turn to fundamentalist religion or secular nationalist extremism. And indeed they momentarily find in these communities some real caring people who treat them with the respect that they never get in the rest of their lives. But there is an unfortunate cost to all this: they then learn to accept the notion that some “other” is the cause of their despair, and that “other” is then demeaned or even murdered. If you understand this, you understand that a long term strategy to undermine the extremists can't rely on bombing them into sanity, but must instead address the underlying and legitimate needs for respect, caring, love, and economic and political security that then drive them into communities that offer some of this but at the expense of adopting hateful attitudes toward those outside these communities. Our vision of a new bottom line with a solid commitment to non-violence, empathy and genuine caring for all (not just a narrow community of the "saved" or "elect" or nationalist fanatics who exist in almost every nation state in the world) is a step toward providing an alternative framework of meaning and purpose in life, and a way to address the needs that have led so many people into irrational and even hateful political, religious or social movements. . There are thousands of wonderful social change groups, many of which do valuable work on a single issue or with a local focus, and we do our best to highlight these groups and celebrate their accomplishments. But the deeper truth is that unless these groups build more vibrant and lasting coalitions strengthened by a shared worldview, and unless they succeed in creating a sense of loving, caring communities, people will continue to turn to fundamentalist groups, and more sweeping change will remain out of reach. Right-wing Americans, massively aided by the media they mostly control, have focused on shaping the dominant discourse. Meanwhile many liberal groups have adopted some of the key assumptions of the Right, imagining that if they steer clear of class struggle and progressive worldviews and instead focus narrowly on specific reforms they will win greater support. As a result, U.S. policies have moved markedly to the right over the past thirty years. We need a unifying alternative vision—not a series of complaints about what is wrong, but a positive view of the world we really want. And that is precisely what makes Tikkun and the NSP so unique--because In both Tikkun and our Network of Spiritual Progressives, we address the underlying psycho-spiritual crisis in people’s lives and provide an alternative vision of the world most people actually want but don't dare articulate for fear that they will be dismissed as "unrealistic" or "utopian." Yet it is precisely that kind of a vision that is the only hope for regenerating a social movement capable of providing a viable and powerful alternative to the Right, to the fundamentalists (both in the US and around the world), and ot the passivity-generating cynical columnists and talking heads who deaden political life with their supposedly intellectual distancing from the suffering of humanity and the increasing destruction of the life support system of our planet. . Many liberals and progressives are already motivated by a concern about this underlying crisis, but they rarely name it, instead framing their goals through a narrow language of political “rights” and economic “entitlements,” while ceding the underlying values language to the Right. Our framework provides the language and vision that could give liberal and progressive forces a new energy. Here’s the challenge: given that our work focuses on society-transforming consciousness change and long-term solutions rather than short-term fixes, we have more difficulty securing donations and funding than more narrowly targeted social change organizations do. *To sustain our work we need people who already love and appreciate our work—including you Michel!—to step up and contribute.** So, will you please help us by making a tax-deductible contribution (even if you already are a member of the Network of Spiritual Progressives or have already donated to Tikkun this year)?* You can do so online by clicking here <http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=CKOzSpwDncL0ykiLbyksMH63qBScFk…>, by sending your check to Tikkun at 2342 Shattuck Ave., #1200, Berkeley, CA 94704, or by calling 510-644-1200 between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. Pacific Time during the work week. Honestly, we have no one else to turn to for this support, so we beg you to stretch beyond what you would normally find comfortable donating. Could you afford to donate $30 a month? or $20 a month? or $10 a month?--we can arrange that to be deducted from your credit card if you go to our web page or if you call our office 510 644 1200 between 9 am and 5 p.m. Pacific Daytlight Time (soon to be Pacific Standard Time when the clock changes in early November). <http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=iRikx9Lrf0msMGHJW%2FHtwn63qBSc…>*CLICK HERE TO SUPPORT TIKKUN <http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=MqSAJgPmKyTGxOkrXFlE%2B363qBSc…>* Whether or not you donate, let me take this moment to send my blessings to you for a coming year of physical, psychological, and spiritual health—a year in which you are nourished with love and a sense of fulfillment and meaning to your life, and a year in which we all see major advances toward a world of love, generosity, social and economic justice, environmental sanity, and peace. Rabbi Michael Lerner rabbilerner.tikkun(a)gmail.com (Yes, I'm really here, I look at every person who donates to Tikkun or the NSP or subscribes to the magazine, and really honestly and deeply appreciate it--because I can only keep going when I know there are people like you willing to stretch to donate something to keep this venture alive-- and though you are not the only one receiving this, you are the one I have to rely on, because as Rabbi Hillel said, "If I am not for myself, who will be for me, but if I am only for myself, what am I, and IF NOT NOW, WHEN?"--so please help us out, and if you really can't, chances are you know someone who can, or you or someone you know can put us in their will for a bequest when they die, or you know people who would love Tikkun if you'd buy them a gift subscription for the Winter holidays of Christmas, Chanukah, Kwanzaa, or just plain secular winter holiday--and no, they don't have to be Jewish to find a huge number of articles that will speak to them--just read our home page at www.tikkun.org to remind yourself of how broad our vision is, and how much it would appeal to many people you know). P.S. Please don't write to me to tell me why you can't afford to give anything. I'll assume that you have the best of intentions, even if you don't donate. But I'm sure there is someone you know who could afford to donate--so why don't you reach out to them and convince them to donate! And by the way, I hate to have to be asking you, but on the other hand, I also accept the Jewish tradition's position on this question: that giving you the opportunity to make a serious contribution to healing and transforming our world by supporting the only internationally distributed magazine that has that healing and transformation as its explicit goal (the very word 'tikkun' means healing and transformation) is a good deed, so I'm not supposed to be embarrassed at asking you for this help, even though I am a bit embarrassed. *If you are receiving this email and have already responded to my letter to you in the mail, I apologize for the duplicate message and thank you! * ------------------------------ web: www.tikkun.org <http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=cn7QSR6SbP7%2BZoFrQOcvrX63qBSc…> email: info(a)spiritualprogressives.org *Click here to unsubscribe* <http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=sdVFcR9t5fQj4wl4N4qV4n63qBScFk…> ------------------------------ Copyright © 2014 Tikkun® / Network of Spiritual Progressives®. 2342 Shattuck Avenue, #1200 Berkeley, CA 94704 510-644-1200 Fax 510-644-1255 [image: empowered by Salsa] <http://www.salsalabs.com/?email> -- Check out the Commons Transition Plan here at: http://en.wiki.floksociety.org/w/Research_Plan 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
by Michel Bauwens 20 Oct '14

20 Oct '14

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Vasilis Kostakis <kostakis.b(a)gmail.com> Date: Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 1:27 PM Subject: Re: P2P articles by vasilis kostakis 1) http://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/article/view/561 2) http://triplec.at/index.php/tripleC/article/view/606 3) http://triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/article/view/463 4) http://triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/article/view/484; in Spanish: endefensadelsl.org/pdf/parodia_de_los_comunes.pdf 5) http://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/2613/2479

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Help us spread the news about our new p2p book!
by Michel Bauwens 18 Oct '14

18 Oct '14

dear friends, we would very much appreciate if you could spread the news about our new p2p book for palgrave/macmillan, it is expensive, we fought for 3 months to get the price down to one third, but it is also available in print with an author's discount of 40% and available as a free draft version online, Michel ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Stacco Troncoso <Staccotroncoso(a)guerrillatranslation.com> Date: Sun, Oct 19, 2014 at 4:13 AM Subject: Fwd: PGA: P2P Foundation #1 To: Michel Bauwens <michel(a)p2pfoundation.net> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Post Growth Alliance <alliance(a)postgrowth.org> Date: Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 12:04 AM Subject: PGA: P2P Foundation #1 To: Stacco <staccotroncoso(a)guerrillatranslation.com> Dear Stacco, Here is the latest content from the Post Growth Alliance that we'd love you to help distribute! Please share or retweet the following content directly from the Facebook post <http://postgrowth.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=dcc08996cc57fb1c3f5af62…> and Twitter post <http://postgrowth.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=dcc08996cc57fb1c3f5af62…>, or copy and paste the text from below into your social media profiles. Feel free to customize the messages to suit your audiences, and remember to retype in the names of groups that have been highlighted using the '@' symbol. This content has been submitted by the P2P Foundation, https://www.facebook.com/P2PFoundation, https://twitter.com/P2P_Foundation <http://postgrowth.us2.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=dcc08996cc57fb1c3f5af6…> . *Facebook Content* Peer-to-peer infrastructures are becoming the general conditions for work, economy, and society. A new book by the @p2p foundation, titled “Network Society and Future Scenarios for a Collaborative Economy”, aims to contribute to the dialogue for post-capitalist construction, and discuss how another world is possible. “We’re building the world we want, within the confines of the world we want to transcend” say the authors, “considering peer production as a social advancement within capitalism but with various post-capitalistic aspects in need of protection, enforcement, stimulation and connection with progressive social movements.” http://tinyurl.com/ldl3e7r @P2P Foundation @Shareable #postgrowthalliance #commons #p2p #networksociety #collaboration #sustainability #peerproduction #opensource Image credit: @lifesized (James Burke) *Twitter Content* Four future scenarios 4 a #collaborative <http://postgrowth.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=dcc08996cc57fb1c3f5af62…> economy http://tinyurl.com/ldl3e7r <http://postgrowth.us2.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=dcc08996cc57fb1c3f5af6…> h/t @P2P_Foundation <http://postgrowth.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=dcc08996cc57fb1c3f5af62…> @mbauwens <http://postgrowth.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=dcc08996cc57fb1c3f5af62…> #P2P <http://postgrowth.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=dcc08996cc57fb1c3f5af62…> pic.twitter.com/4FUoCohILc <http://postgrowth.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=dcc08996cc57fb1c3f5af62…> To use the image above in your organization's Facebook or Twitter post, right click on the image and select 'Save Image As...'. Save the file to your desktop and give it the file name you'd like people to see when they scroll over it on your Facebook page. You are now ready to upload it to your organization's Facebook page or tweet directly. To submit content to this service, please read the PGA Content Sharing Service Information <http://postgrowth.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=dcc08996cc57fb1c3f5af62…> before submitting using the PGA Content Sharing Service Submission Template <http://postgrowth.us2.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=dcc08996cc57fb1c3f5af6…>. unsubscribe from this list <http://postgrowth.us2.list-manage.com/unsubscribe?u=dcc08996cc57fb1c3f5af62…> update subscription preferences <http://postgrowth.us2.list-manage2.com/profile?u=dcc08996cc57fb1c3f5af62ec&…> This email was sent to staccotroncoso(a)guerrillatranslation.com *why did I get this?* <http://postgrowth.us2.list-manage.com/about?u=dcc08996cc57fb1c3f5af62ec&id=…> unsubscribe from this list <http://postgrowth.us2.list-manage.com/unsubscribe?u=dcc08996cc57fb1c3f5af62…> update subscription preferences <http://postgrowth.us2.list-manage2.com/profile?u=dcc08996cc57fb1c3f5af62ec&…> Post Growth Institute · 1250 Siskiyou Boulevard · Ashland, OR 97520 · USA [image: Email Marketing Powered by MailChimp] <http://www.mailchimp.com/monkey-rewards/?utm_source=freemium_newsletter&utm…> -- Check out the Commons Transition Plan here at: http://en.wiki.floksociety.org/w/Research_Plan 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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