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Fwd: [Networkedlabour] Social (network) unionism by Tiziana Terranova
by Michel Bauwens 18 Oct '14

18 Oct '14

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Orsan <orsan1234(a)gmail.com> Date: Sat, Oct 18, 2014 at 5:57 AM Subject: [Networkedlabour] Social (network) unionism by Tiziana Terranova To: "<networkedlabour(a)lists.contrast.org>" < networkedlabour(a)lists.contrast.org> *Social unionism and digital labor in the transnational space of European austerity* Over the past few years, European social movements have struggled to find new ways of cooperating and connecting in order to oppose the verticalization of European governance. Following the crash of 2008, in fact, a regime of austerity, that is severe cuts to public spending, has gone together with a remodulation of modes of welfare and work inspired by the German model. This model has seen the massive introduction of part-time, badly paid jobs (the so called *mini-jobs* ) which are part of a system of workfare where the state makes sure that everybody is forced to accept whatever job available through a new capillary control of recipients’ lives. While the European Central Bank like the Federal Reserve has deployed quantitative easing, and inundated the financial system with money, none of this has effectively gone into the creation of new jobs, into expanding credit to consumers and business or to essential public services. The process of complete precarization of labor and increasing accumulation of wealth is thus unfolding along the lines of a geographical and ethnic division of labor which sees the European Union divided between centre and periphery, North and South, East and West with war pressing in on its Eastern and Southern borders. The verticalization of European governance has thus reinforced a whole series of trends: ‘the attack on waged labor, the compression of union rights, the dequalification and privatisation of learning and research, the enclosure of common goods, a new government of labor mobility and the exploitation of migrant labor’ (http://www.autistici.org/strikemeeting/) These considerations are central to the formation of a transnational space of action for social movements aiming to reverse the tide of complete neoliberalization of Europe and opening onto the global level as the only adequate dimension of struggle. At the core of the summer school of the Euronomade free university network which took place in Passignano sul Trasimeno, Italy in September 2014 was the relation between this crucial importance of the geopolitical dimension in the unfolding of financial command over the productive cycle and new forms of unionism. The traditional trade unions have in fact proven themselves completely unable to answer new demands emerging out of a dispersed and individualized workforce which is no longer primarily assembled in factories (or only in the most transient form with high turnover of workers) but, as Stefano Harney has argued, through the expansion of the assembly-line by means of a generalized logistical infrastucture through the whole of society and across all geographical borders. It is in this context that what was once called peer production has become effectively integrated in the *keizen *line of logistics: synaptic labor performed under the mode of forced continous improvement spurred by performance metrics and analytics. (Harney 2014) In a document authored by the Pisa-based Italian collective exploit directed at the usual technology hype of the Internet Festival 2014, the appeal of the mythology of the digital entrepreneurs has also been shown to be fading (eXploit 2014). While the latter continue to espouse the image of the Internet as a revolution induced by free market capitalism able to welcome new ideas and reward them with wealth while promoting social progress, it has in fact produced new monopolies and the progressive deterioriation of working and living conditions for the many. This is evident at all three levels of exploitation enacted by the digital economy as summarized by exploit: the material infrastructure of digital devices which is increasingly under the control of large multinational corporations mining minerals in Africa and able to outsource production where labor is less paid and protected; the immaterial level of software production, web services and crowdsourcing where labor is once again ever more precarious, underpaid and fragmented; and the large market in metadata which extracts value out of the most mundane acts of digital communication. This scenario postulates a ‘extractivist’ model of accumulation where the inorganic, organic and the social strata are put to work, that is commanded and forced to yield surplus value, expressing new challenges and demanding new strategies. As the eXploit collective put it, the collective ‘rewriting of the operating system’ of the digital economy and the ‘breakdown of the rules of the market’ appear as primary condition to reconquer that share of wealth produced by social cooperation but appropriated and controlled by the few. The main challenge of organizing a labor force which unfolds throughout society and according to intermittent times lies in the strong individualisation of cognitive labor: ‘cognitive labor is labor without factories, as fixed place of exploitation and class recomposition which makes more difficult the formation of a class consciousness among cognitive workers. For the same reason’ because of the temporal fusion between time of work and time of life, the old forms of blocking production are obsolete, if not impossible: the time of work is diffuse, not demarcated, and there is no factory as site of direct action’. This is the space of production that traditional trade unions are unable to organize as they have proceeded to become co-managers of the crisis and of the productive process within the boundaries of individual firms (as again in the German model). It is not by chance, maybe, that the only succesful union struggles that have managed to achieve their goals have been those carried out by workers operating in the crucial sector of logistics. IKEA, Amazon and the Italian coop system have been hit by a wave of strikes organized by logistical workers who have been able to deploy the solidarity which emerges out of working physically together in the same space everyday with a succesful reconstruction of the topology of the whole network of valorization. Maybe being aware of being part of the speculative logistical assembly-line of continuous performance improvement is an advantage in this configuration. Research discussed at the summer school about the strike of Amazon logistical workers in Germany have pointed out the importance of the ‘existential’ dimension in triggering participation: the feeling of being a cog in the machine, of not having an input in the process constituted one of the factors which distinguished workers who joined the strike from those who didn’t. As an answer to these challenges, Alberto De Nicola and Biagio Quadrocchi, have proposed to redeploy the tradition of ‘social unionism’ as a way to ‘connect the different experiences of struggle which, within and outside organized unions, oppose the blockage of social conlifct and the pacifying role of traditional forms of union’ (De Nicola and Quattrocchi 2014). The effort goes into thinking of a common name able to account for the ‘proliferation of dispositifs of struggle’ which are reconfiguring the form of the union pointing to the invention of a new ‘form of unionism’. As in the tradition of social unionism, the urgency is how to reconnect various experiences of struggles which have sedimented over the: the experiences of occupation of social spaces and houses, conflicts around a democratic reappropriation of welfare and the diffusion of new mutualisms and forms of organization of autonomous and precarious labor, demand a better connection. The use of the term ‘social unionism’ applied to practices which do not recognize themselves as such is meant to produce a new perspective able to connect these experiences. De Nicola and Quattrocchi deploy the term ‘social’ in social unionism as a means to indicate the level of connection breaking through the dispositifs of ‘confinement’ which have kept these experiences as separate instances. The concept of ‘social unionism’ has been rediscovered in militant milieus at the same time as its first practical implementation was deviced and launched: the ‘social strike’ called for by a network of activists who met for three days in Rome in September 2014 (Italians, but also French, Greek, German, Spain and Portugal) which is going to unfold through a series of events in view of the first official date of November the 15th 2014 (Strike Meeting 2014). The platform of the strike composes all the instances emerging out of the world of ‘work and education, of not-work and social cooperation’. The platform is crucially centered on the demands for a ‘new welfare’ or ‘welfare of the common’: the right to housing, an income unlinked from waged work, a European minimum wage, free access to education, rejection of the subjection of the school and university system to the logic of the enterprise’. The notion of a*commonfare* which would not only guarantee a minimum income, but also able to refound the old institution of welfare around a process of co-production where services are no longer delivered but co-produced is crucial in the domains of health and education provision, but also housing, management of natural resources, and insurance. The social strike proposes to be a permanent experiment of invention and diffusion of forms of strikes that can be practiced also by those who cannot strike according to the traditional model: the unemployed, the precarious, the domestic worker, the crowdworker, the migrant without official documents. It thus aims to redeploy, reconnect and invent all forms of strike: ‘the general strike of waged labor, the strategies of blockages and occupation experimented by precarious workers and urban dwellers, the strike of those who cannot strike, netstrikes, strikes within the spaces of education, the gender strike A kaleidoscope of practices to patiently construct through a series of territorial strike labs’ (Strike Meeting 2014) The social strike launched in September crucially includes the ‘digital strike’ as one of its components. The importance of social networks in organizing, connecting and amplifying various struggles is undeniable, but with the years we have witnessed a growing awareness of the ways in which the social Internet has been reconfigured to become a space which operates according to a logic of security, working often in tandem with mainstream media to marginalize activists. During the BlockBCE event - which was also included in the series of events composing the social strike as permanent mobilization and which saw a rally of activists contesting the meeting of the European Central Bank in Naples, Italy - mainstream media and Facebook for example worked together to marginalize and contain the risk of contagion. This was not an intentional effect, wanted by and aimed for, as much as the result of a kind of automatic logic of security as it permeates both public discourse and communication technologies. The production of ‘toxic narratives’ and ‘order words’ by the media, the construction of activists as violent extremists, the action of police on the ground who pressured citizens and shopkeepers to close and keep indoors for the duration of the rally, are the first side of the double pincer attempting to block the generalization of the social strike, containing it as a kind of contagion. The second side of the pincer is the algorithmic calculation that reinforces and modulates the tendency of social networks to decompose into sub-networks, where most acts of communication fail to expand beyond a close numbers of related contacts and the diffuse sense of surveillance which as even corporate-funded research acknowledges produces a kind of new conformism on the Internet, a fear of ending up in the wrong database (Crawford 2014) . If the rally in Naples against the European Central Bank managed to break the siege that wanted activists to march alone in an empty city to perform a ritualized clash able to provide suitable images for the media by changing route and marching through the city, collecting solidarity and encouragement on the way, other strategies need to be deviced to break the circle that confines the social strike event within social network platforms. The social strike launched in Rome in September has started experimenting with some strategies to break this process of marginalization on the Internet: the design of standardized but customizable images to be used as profile pics on social networks was one such level; the second was the twitter campaign launched on the 10th of october during the strike of students and of the school sector which pushed the hashtag #socialstrike to the rank of second highest trending topic. In the future, as part of the permanent laboratorial character of the social strike, new tactics could be experimented and redeployed: Anonymous-style Denial of Service Attacks, but also experimentation with hyper-popular forms of social network culture such as personality tests, games, viral links factories etc. The digital strike can thus become a new form of strike able to work synergetically with a long-term process of expansion and remodulation of strike tactics in a social unionism framework. The logic of social unionism, linking territorial labs and digital networks, posing together the establishment of long-term sites of elaboration of tactics and strategies, physical and digital action, carries the struggle of labor on that field of indistinction where work and life, digital and physical merge. References Crawford, Kate (2014) “The Anxiety of Big Data.” *The New Inquiry*, 2014. http://thenewinquiry.com/essays/the-anxieties-of-b… <http://thenewinquiry.com/essays/the-anxieties-of-big-data/> De Nicola, Alberto and Biagio Quattrocchi (2014) ‘La torsione neoliberale del sindacato tradizionale e l’immaginazione del ‘sindacalismo sociale’: appunti per una discussione’. In*Euronomade * http://www.euronomade.info/?p=2482 eXploit (2014) ‘Riappropriarsi della rete per una riscrittura collettiva del presente’ http://exploitpisa.org/riappropriarsi-della-rete-per-una-riscrittura-collet… Harney, Stefano (2014)’Istituzioni algoritmiche e capitalism logistico’ in M. Pasquinelli ed. *Gli algoritmi del capitale. Accelerazionismo, macchine della conoscenza e autonomia del comune. *Verona: Ombre Corte. Strike Meeting (2014) ‘Batte il tempo dello sciopero sociale’ http://www.autistici.org/strikemeeting/ _______________________________________________ NetworkedLabour mailing list NetworkedLabour(a)lists.contrast.org http://lists.contrast.org/mailman/listinfo/networkedlabour -- 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: [Networkedlabour] a type of work that both men and women do in Kurdistan
by Michel Bauwens 18 Oct '14

18 Oct '14

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Jakob Rigi <rigij(a)ceu.hu> Date: Sun, Oct 19, 2014 at 1:29 AM Subject: [Networkedlabour] a type of work that both men and women do in Kurdistan To: networkedlabour(a)lists.contrast.org [image: Tahmineh milani's photo.] <https://www.facebook.com/221980407833833/photos/a.236967326335141.62214.221…> Like <https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=557304961066449&set=a.1901914377778…> Like <https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=557304961066449&set=a.1901914377778…> · · Share <https://www.facebook.com/ajax/sharer/?s=2&appid=2305272732&p%5B0%5D=2219804…> >>> peter waterman <peterwaterman1936(a)gmail.com> 10/17/14 6:21 PM >>> Thought-provoking? PeterW ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Brian K. Murphy <brian(a)radicalroad.com> Date: Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 10:08 PM Subject: [WSF-Discuss] Direct action is useless without the masses To: https://www.opendemocracy.net/transformation/daniel-slomka/direct-ac tion-is-useless-without-masses *Direct action is useless without the masses* *Marches may not always bring visible results, but they are crucial for political change. Direct action can't be the work of a small, devoted group. A response to "When marches aren't news, and media stunts fail".* Daniel Slomka 3 October 2014 | openDemocracy Sami Çapulcu's "When marches aren't news, and media stunts fail" (22.8) is an important article, presenting very well the sincere dilemmas of every activist striving for social and political change. It is out of respect and empathy with the writer that I write this response, focusing on their methodological points. It is not new for anyone that we live in the era of information. Recognition of media and-to a growing extent--new media, is a central part of the work of any government, business or NGO. Due to this many organizations have become obsessed with "raising awareness". The main problem with this is that at times raising awareness comes at the expense of actually doing something. The problem is serious. Thousands of people take to the streets, march, protest, raise signs and shout, and at the end of the day go home satisfied with a feeling of catharsis and of "having done something", but in fact, nothing has changed. Awareness has been raised, maybe there has been some media coverage, but the people reached are usually those who already care anyway, and the government avoids addressing the problem. If at the end of the day nothing changes, Sami asks, what use are these protests anyway? Public awareness must be translated into public action, and when there is no action, then visibility is pretty much worthless - direct action is therefore the answer. They write: "Even if you think pressuring the government to improve our world is a good allocation of movement resources (I don't) then history makes it clear that you need the back-up of direct action. Governments profiting from a problem rarely listen to their people unless there's an economic threat." But direct action is itself dependent on public awareness. To take Sami's example of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement (BDS): boycotting is a legitimate way of trying to tackle social and political injustices, but it is useless if it is not implemented on a massive scale. If only a group of several dozens of devoted activists boycott certain products, the financial impact that this boycott has is insignificant. Then the direct action has no meaning. Sami argues that protests don't translate into action or change. How do we solve this? The root of the problem is in the message of the rally. At pro-Palestine rallies, protesters' signs call for a "Free Palestine" and to "Stop killing children". What kind of direct action do these messages call for? What should people do? No action can be extracted from such protest. Even if a person has good will and wishes to join the cause, based on these messages there is no "manual" of what such a person can do. But it does not mean that the protests and rallies are useless. Protests, marches and rallies are not the final product of civic participation - they are a platform that provides public attention and awareness. The organizers of such events must decide what goals they wish to achieve through this platform. The protesters' messages need to be refined. Let's imagine that instead of raising some dozens of signs saying "Free Palestine", protesters gave out hundreds of thousands of leaflets with concrete information about Israeli companies that violate Palestinian human rights, with clear instructions of where their products can be found, and how they can be recognized and avoided. In this case, the impact of the protest would be much stronger. Ideally, this direct action would not only be taken by several devoted individuals, but by a much larger number. This kind of action can only be motivated through greater public awareness. To further understand how public awareness and direct action go together, let's look at two other activist movements: the 269 movement, which aims to reduce the consumption of animal products, and Greenpeace International. At the heart of 269 is a very clear call for action: go vegan. There is no way to miss this message. Since the call for action is so well designed, it is easier for them to raise awareness, usually through an appeal to the moral and emotional. Their campaigns depict pictures of adorable cows and horrifying scenes of animal slaughter. These evoke different emotions in order to raise awareness, then lever it towards a simple task: to stop consuming animal products. Greenpeace's challenge is different. Environmental issues are complex, and their outcomes are rarely visible in the short term. Their awareness-raising and call for action is complex. Just as raising a "Free Palestine" sign does little for the cause, so it is with a tweet like "Stop global warming". How does Greenpeace solve the problem? It divides the overall problem into particular, often local, units, and creates problem-oriented calls for action, calling for public pressure on governments and firms on specific, burning issues, with an emphasis on those that are "doable". The recent successful campaign against the clearance of the Mahan forest in India in favour of a coal mine is a good example. Awareness and calls for action go hand in hand, and the most successful campaigns combine the two. To inspire people to believe in a cause, activists have to focus on doable goals, and give people clear instructions of what actions are being called for. Direct action is necessary, but it must be backed by a mechanism of raising public awareness. Mass participation without a clear action behind it is no good, but neither is extremely limited direct action. _______________________________________________ ** WSFDiscuss is an open and unmoderated forum for the exchange of information and views on the experience, practise, and theory of the World Social Forum at any level (local, national, regional, and global) and on related social and political movements and issues. 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See Call for Papers <http://www.interfacejournal.net/>, (Deadline: May 1, 2014).* 7. *Needed: a Global Labour Charter Movement (2005-Now!) <http://interfacejournal.nuim.ie/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/Interf…>Under, Against, Beyond: Labour and Social Movements Confront a Globalised, Informatised Capitalism <http://www.into-ebooks.com/book/under-against-beyond/>(2011) Almost 1,000 pages of Working Papers, free, from the 1980 <1980>'s-90's.* _______________________________________________ NetworkedLabour mailing list NetworkedLabour(a)lists.contrast.org http://lists.contrast.org/mailman/listinfo/networkedlabour -- 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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Voqal Fund
by Kevin Flanagan 17 Oct '14

17 Oct '14

http://voqal.org/initiatives/voqal-fund/media-ideation-fellowship/ Graduate Fellows will receive a $12,000 stipend and will be expected to complete a project in three months. Candidates must be currently enrolled in a Masters or Ph.D. program, or have received their graduate degree within 12 months of applying for this fellowship. Early Career Fellows will receive a $30,000 stipend and will be expected to complete a project in six months. Candidates must have three-to-five years of work experience and may not be currently enrolled in a graduate program. The fellowship is intended to provide an opportunity to build out an idea or concept that would not be possible to accomplish with a full-time job. Qualifying early career fellows may also be eligible to receive an additional stipend to help offset the cost of personal health insurance.

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Fwd: UCSC Conference
by Michel Bauwens 17 Oct '14

17 Oct '14

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Daniel Araya <daniel.araya(a)icloud.com> Date: Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 10:57 PM Subject: Re: UCSC Conference To: Michel Bauwens <michel(a)p2pfoundation.net> Cc: Kevin Flanagan <kev.flanagan(a)gmail.com> Can I ask you to forward this to the P2P network as well. Info on our upcoming conference (Nov 2015): The Future of Education: Advanced Computing, Ubiqutious Learning, and the Knowledge Economy The digital revolution represents a sea change in the nature of learning and education. Information and communication technologies (ICTs) are transforming academic research and scholarship—introducing an entirely new platform for knowledge and learning. Alongside cloud computing and virtualization, artificial intelligence and high performance computing are now poised to fundamentally reshape the nature and scope of education. Despite this new high-tech environment, there remains significant concern about the capacity of contemporary education systems to adapt to technological innovation. The University of California at Santa Cruz, Common Ground Publishing, and the e-Learning Conference present “The Future of Education” as the special focus for the Eighth International Conference on e-Learning and Innovative Pedagogies. At this conference, participants will discuss the global knowledge economy and changing labor markets, and focus on the need to fundamentally rethink the way technologies can support new pedagogies, new learning environments, and new institutional configurations. http://ubi-learn.com/the-conference/call-for-papers speakers: http://ubi-learn.com/the-conference/program-and-events/plenary-speakers thanks! - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Daniel Araya, PhD Lead Researcher Leadership and Policy National Center for Professional and Research Ethics University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign www.danielaraya.com On Oct 17, 2014, at 11:41 AM, Michel Bauwens <michel(a)p2pfoundation.net> wrote: thanks, and kevin, you can spread both through the research mailing list, Michel On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 10:40 PM, Daniel Araya <daniel.araya(a)icloud.com> wrote: > This one as well: > http://voqal.org/initiatives/voqal-fund/media-ideation-fellowship/ > You might suggest building out the P2P Foundation for the second one. > > *Graduate Fellows* will receive a $12,000 stipend and will be expected to > complete a project in three months. Candidates must be currently enrolled > in a Masters or Ph.D. program, or have received their graduate degree > within 12 months of applying for this fellowship. > > *Early Career Fellows* will receive a $30,000 stipend and will be > expected to complete a project in six months. Candidates must have > three-to-five years of work experience and may not be currently enrolled in > a graduate program. The fellowship is intended to provide an opportunity to > build out an idea or concept that would not be possible to accomplish with > a full-time job. Qualifying early career fellows may also be eligible to > receive an additional stipend to help offset the cost of personal health > insurance. > > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > Daniel Araya, PhD > Lead Researcher > Leadership and Policy > National Center for Professional and Research Ethics > University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign > www.danielaraya.com > > > > > > > > > > > > On Oct 17, 2014, at 11:22 AM, Michel Bauwens <michel(a)p2pfoundation.net> > wrote: > > thanks daniel, > > kevin, anybody in our network who could profit from this ? > > Michel > > On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 10:21 PM, Daniel Araya <daniel.araya(a)icloud.com> > wrote: > >> Just came across this. Only three days left but maybe you can still get >> something to them… >> >> http://www.worldlearning.org/theexchange/advancing-leaders-fellowship/ >> >> >> - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - >> Daniel Araya, PhD >> Lead Researcher >> Leadership and Policy >> National Center for Professional and Research Ethics >> University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign >> www.danielaraya.com >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > > > -- > 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/ > > > -- 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/ -- 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: EMM Update: Celebrating 10 Years!
by Michel Bauwens 17 Oct '14

17 Oct '14

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Hazel Henderson <admin(a)hazelhenderson.com> Date: Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 2:10 AM Subject: EMM Update: Celebrating 10 Years! To: michelsub2004(a)gmail.com [image: EM logo trademark] Dear Advisors, Friends and Colleagues, We are celebrating our 10th Anniversary! Congratulations to Hazel Henderson, Founder and President, for her prescience in founding a media company in 2004 which focuses on the good news about the sustainable, inclusive green transition to the Solar Age, missed by mainstream media and now finally gaining traction. During the past ten years, Ethical Markets' mission has evolved from reporting the good news to continuing Hazel's active hand in reforming markets and metrics while helping accelerate and track the transition to the green economy worldwide. While a challenge to capture all the invaluable work done over the past ten years, read the highlights <http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001RwZwzsxkoqF_lwtb68Y8KVZxUX6R-ihWM9_0xPlt2TfR…> which attest to the depth of leadership Hazel Henderson and Ethical Markets have offered to sustainability, finance and emerging economies. Green bonds added to the $5.7 trillion privately invested in the green economy since 2007 - reported in the Green Transition Scoreboard®. The 2014 mid-year update "Green Bonds Growing Green Infrastructure <http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001RwZwzsxkoqF_lwtb68Y8KVZxUX6R-ihWM9_0xPlt2TfR…>" focuses on the bond markets' addition of green, impact and ESG targeted bond issues. These new bonds provide long-term investment opportunities to pension funds and other institutional investors as global policy makers, corporations and asset managers see demand for investments in infrastructure, environmental, social and human capital being integrated into financial markets. This confirms the green economy is on track to reach $10 trillion in investments by 2020 to effectively scale innovations and reduce costs in green technologies as the world transitions to the Solar Age. Films Media Group, the distributor for Ethical Markets videos to educational markets around the world, has made the third season of the series *Transforming Finance *a featured release in their Fall Business & Economics catalogue. *Ethical Markets 5: Transforming Finance 3.0* <http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001RwZwzsxkoqF_lwtb68Y8KVZxUX6R-ihWM9_0xPlt2TfR…> is described in the catalogue as "a 14-part series where author and visionary economist Hazel Henderson continues Ethical Markets' mission to promote the emergence of a sustainable, green, more ethical and just economy worldwide." The series features discussions between Hazel Henderson and world-renowned experts such as Ellen Brown (Public Banking Institute), Amy Domini (Domini Social Investments), Michael Grunwald (senior correspondent, Time Magazine), Terry Mollner (Ben & Jerry's), Michaela Walsh (Women's World Banking) and many others. The Jury and Council of Board Members of the World CSR Congress ( www.worldcsrcongress.com <http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001RwZwzsxkoqF_lwtb68Y8KVZxUX6R-ihWM9_0xPlt2TfR…> ) will confer on Hazel Henderson the *Global Sustainable Leadership Award* at the World CSR Day (www.worldcsrday.com <http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001RwZwzsxkoqF_lwtb68Y8KVZxUX6R-ihWM9_0xPlt2TfR…> ), February18, 2015, at Taj Lands End, Mumbai. The Award is based on Hazel's "strategic and iconic leadership and contribution to society." The theme for the Congress is Connecting Minds: Creating The Future. *Recent posts from the EMM Team and Advisory Board members. Don't forget - send us your updates:* - Greener Information Age Transforming Energy, Finance And Our Future <http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001RwZwzsxkoqF_lwtb68Y8KVZxUX6R-ihWM9_0xPlt2TfR…> by Hazel Henderson - Hazel Henderson Guest on Conscious Millionaire <http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001RwZwzsxkoqF_lwtb68Y8KVZxUX6R-ihWM9_0xPlt2TfR…> - Hazel Henderson Interview <http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001RwZwzsxkoqF_lwtb68Y8KVZxUX6R-ihWM9_0xPlt2TfR…> at World Future Society 2014 by Susan Sun Nunamaker - Michaela Walsh, EMM Advisory Board member, Interview <http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001RwZwzsxkoqF_lwtb68Y8KVZxUX6R-ihWM9_0xPlt2TfR…> by Amy Duffuor - Quality of Life Indicators in Context <http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001RwZwzsxkoqF_lwtb68Y8KVZxUX6R-ihWM9_0xPlt2TfR…> by Hazel Henderson - Rebalancing the Economy - New book from Green Economics Institute <http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001RwZwzsxkoqF_lwtb68Y8KVZxUX6R-ihWM9_0xPlt2TfR…>edited by Christopher Brook and Miriam Kennet, with contribution by Hazel Henderson - Restoring Trust: In Markets and Politics <http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001RwZwzsxkoqF_lwtb68Y8KVZxUX6R-ihWM9_0xPlt2TfR…> by Hazel Henderson - UN Member States Receive Report on Finance for Sustainable Development <http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001RwZwzsxkoqF_lwtb68Y8KVZxUX6R-ihWM9_0xPlt2TfR…> Commentary by Hazel Henderson *Upcoming Events - Let's connect!* - The UK Family Office Forum <http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001RwZwzsxkoqF_lwtb68Y8KVZxUX6R-ihWM9_0xPlt2TfR…>, Robert Rubinstein, EMM Advisory Board member presenting, London, England, October 21-22 - VERGE 2014 <http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001RwZwzsxkoqF_lwtb68Y8KVZxUX6R-ihWM9_0xPlt2TfR…>, Janine Benyus, EMM Advisory Board member presenting, San Francisco, CA, October 27-30 - SRI Conference on Sustainable, Responsible, Impact Investing <http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001RwZwzsxkoqF_lwtb68Y8KVZxUX6R-ihWM9_0xPlt2TfR…>, founded by EMM Advisory Board member Steve Schueth, Colorado Springs, CO, Nov. 9-11. *Also presenting the EthicMark® Awards!* - Slow Money 2014 Conference <http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001RwZwzsxkoqF_lwtb68Y8KVZxUX6R-ihWM9_0xPlt2TfR…>, Woody Tasch, EMM Advisory Board member presenting, Louisville, KY, November 10-12 - Prototyping the Future Conference & Expo <http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001RwZwzsxkoqF_lwtb68Y8KVZxUX6R-ihWM9_0xPlt2TfR…>, San Leandro, California, November 12th; EMM correspondent, Danielle Lanyard, will be covering the conference. * We are pleased to be media partners with the following:* - Social Venture Network (SVN) Fall Conference <http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001RwZwzsxkoqF_lwtb68Y8KVZxUX6R-ihWM9_0xPlt2TfR…>, Greenwich, CT, October 23-26 - VERGE 2014 <http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001RwZwzsxkoqF_lwtb68Y8KVZxUX6R-ihWM9_0xPlt2TfR…>, San Francisco, CA, October 27-30 - TBLI Europe <http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001RwZwzsxkoqF_lwtb68Y8KVZxUX6R-ihWM9_0xPlt2TfR…>, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, October 28-29 - Innovation Forum: How Business can Tackle Deforestation <http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001RwZwzsxkoqF_lwtb68Y8KVZxUX6R-ihWM9_0xPlt2TfR…>, London, UK, October 28-29 - Renewable Energy Crowdfunding Conference <http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001RwZwzsxkoqF_lwtb68Y8KVZxUX6R-ihWM9_0xPlt2TfR…>, London, UK, October 30 - Sustainable Innovation <http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001RwZwzsxkoqF_lwtb68Y8KVZxUX6R-ihWM9_0xPlt2TfR…>, Copenhagen, Denmark, November 3-4 - Local Futures' "Voices of Hope in a Time of Crisis", <http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001RwZwzsxkoqF_lwtb68Y8KVZxUX6R-ihWM9_0xPlt2TfR…> New York City, November 8 - Innovation Forum: Business & Human Rights <http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001RwZwzsxkoqF_lwtb68Y8KVZxUX6R-ihWM9_0xPlt2TfR…>, London, UK, November 10 - Prototyping the Future Conference & Expo <http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001RwZwzsxkoqF_lwtb68Y8KVZxUX6R-ihWM9_0xPlt2TfR…>, San Leandro, California, November 12th; EMM correspondent, Danielle Lanyard, will be covering the conference. - ISSP Conference <http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001RwZwzsxkoqF_lwtb68Y8KVZxUX6R-ihWM9_0xPlt2TfR…>, Denver, CO, November 12-14 - Advanced Certified Sustainability (CSR) Practitioner Training <http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001RwZwzsxkoqF_lwtb68Y8KVZxUX6R-ihWM9_0xPlt2TfR…>, Atlanta, GA, November 13-14 - Renewable Energy Markets Conference <http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001RwZwzsxkoqF_lwtb68Y8KVZxUX6R-ihWM9_0xPlt2TfR…>, Sacramento, CA, December 2-4 - U.S. Solar Market Insight Conference <http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001RwZwzsxkoqF_lwtb68Y8KVZxUX6R-ihWM9_0xPlt2TfR…>, San Diego, CA, December 8-10 - Wall Street Green Summit <http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001RwZwzsxkoqF_lwtb68Y8KVZxUX6R-ihWM9_0xPlt2TfR…>, New York, NY, March 23, 2015 Warm Regards, Hazel, Rosalinda and the Ethical Markets Team Forward email <http://ui.constantcontact.com/sa/fwtf.jsp?llr=ezgbu6dab&m=1103726943012&ea=…> <http://visitor.constantcontact.com/do?p=un&m=001if_IxxnQXK1FxMu05bDjoQ%3D%3…> This email was sent to michelsub2004(a)gmail.com by admin(a)hazelhenderson.com | Update Profile/Email Address <http://visitor.constantcontact.com/do?p=oo&m=001if_IxxnQXK1FxMu05bDjoQ%3D%3…> | Rapid removal with SafeUnsubscribe <http://visitor.constantcontact.com/do?p=un&m=001if_IxxnQXK1FxMu05bDjoQ%3D%3…>™ | Privacy Policy <http://ui.constantcontact.com/roving/CCPrivacyPolicy.jsp>. <http://www.constantcontact.com/index.jsp?cc=TEM_Basic_206> Ethical Markets Media | PO Box 5190 | Saint Augustine | FL | 32084 -- 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; 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Fwd: Get us in touch with Cat when you can Neal
by Michel Bauwens 17 Oct '14

17 Oct '14

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Cat Johnson <thehouseofcat(a)gmail.com> Hi guys Here's a link to the published piece. Thanks again for taking the time and keep us posted how things are going! http://www.shareable.net/blog/faircoop-using-cryptocurrency-to-bring-econom… Any sharing of the article you can do via social media, email, newsletter etc. is appreciated.

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CfP: The Materiality of the Immaterial: ICTs and the Digital Commons (tripleC Special Issue)
by Vasilis Kostakis 15 Oct '14

15 Oct '14

Call for Papers: The Materiality of the Immaterial: ICTs and the Digital Commons http://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/announcement/view/23 Special issue of tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique ( http://www.triple-c.at) Abstract submission deadline: January 15, 2015 Guest editors: Vasilis Kostakis, Ragnar Nurkse School of Innovation and Governance, Tallinn University of Technology (Estonia), P2P Lab (Greece); Andreas Roos, Human Ecology Division, Lund University (Sweden) With an escalating environmental crisis and an unprecedented increase of ICT diversity and use, it is more crucial than ever to understand the underlying material aspects of the ICT infrastructure. This special issue therefore asks the question: What are the true material and socio-environmental costs of the global ICT infrastructure? In a recent paper (Fuchs 2013) as well as in the book Digital Labour and Karl Marx (Fuchs 2014), Christian Fuchs examined the complex web of production relations and the new division of digital labour that makes possible the vast and cheap ICT infrastructure as we know it. The analysis partly revealed that ICT products and infrastructure can be said to embody slave-like and other extremely harsh conditions that perpetually force mine and assembly workers into conditions of dependency. Expanding this argument, the WWF reported (Reed and Miranda 2007) that mining in the Congo basin poses considerable threats to the local environment in the form of pollution, the loss of biodiversity, and an increased presence of business-as-usual made possible by roads and railways. Thus ICTs can be said to be not at all immaterial because the ICT infrastructure under the given economic conditions can be said to embody as its material foundations slave-like working conditions, various class relations and undesirable environmental consequences. At the same time, the emerging digital commons provide a new and promising platform for social developments, arguably enabled by the progressive dynamics of ICT development. These are predominantly manifested as commons-based peer production, i.e., a new mode of collaborative, social production (Benkler 2006); and grassroots digital fabrication or community-driven makerspaces, i.e., forms of bottom-up, distributed manufacturing. The most well known examples of commons-based peer production are the free/open source software projects and the free encyclopaedia Wikipedia. While these new forms of social organisation are immanent in capitalism, they also have the features to challenge these conditions in a way that might in turn transcend the dominant system (Kostakis and Bauwens 2014). Following this dialectical framing, we would like to call for papers for a special issue of tripleC that will investigate how we can understand and balance the perils and promises of ICTs in order to make way for a just and sustainable paradigm. We seek scholarly articles and commentaries that address any of the following themes and beyond. We also welcome experimental formats, especially photo essays, which address the special issue's theme. Suggested themes Papers that track, measure and/or theorise the scope of the socio-environmental impact of the ICT infrastructure. Papers that track, measure and/or theorise surplus value as both ecological (land), social (labour) and intellectual (patent) in the context of ICTs. Understanding the human organisation of nature in commons-based peer production. Studies of the environmental dimensions of desktop manufacturing technologies (for example, 3D printing or CNC machines) in non-industrial modes of subsistence, e.g. eco-villages or traditional agriculture, as well as in modern towns and mega-cities. Suggestions for and insights into bridging understandings of the socio-economic organisation of the natural commons with the socio-economic organisation of the digital commons drawing on types of organisations in the past and the present that are grounded in theories of the commons. Elaboration of which theoretical approaches can be used for overcoming the conceptual separation of the categories immaterial/material in the digital commons. References Benkler, Yochai. 2006. The wealth of networks: How social production transforms markets and freedom. New Haven: Yale University Press. Fuchs, Christian. 2014. Digital labour and Karl Marx. New York: Routledge. Fuchs, Christian. 2013. Theorising and analysing digital labour: From global value chains to modes of production. The Political Economy of Communication 1 (2): 3-27. http://www.polecom.org/index.php/polecom/article/view/19. Kostakis, Vasilis and Michel Bauwens. 2014. Network society and future scenarios for a collaborative economy. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan. Reed, Erik and Marta Miranda. 2007. Assessment of the mining sector and infrastructure development in the congo basin region. Washington DC: World Wildlife Fund, Macroeconomics for Sustainable Development Program Office, 27. http://awsassets.panda.org/downloads/congobasinmining.pdf Schedule Submission of abstracts (250-300 words) by January 15, 2015 via email to vasileios.kostakis(a)ttu.ee Responses about acceptance/rejection to authors: February 15, 2015. Selected authors will be expected to submit their full documents to tripleC via the online submission system by May 15, 2015: http://triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/about/submissions#onlineSubmissions Expected publication date of the special issue: October 1, 2015. About the journal tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique is an academic open access online journal using a non-commercial Creative Commons license. It is a journal that focuses on information society studies and studies of media, digital media, information and communication in society with a special interest in critical studies in these thematic areas. The journal has a special interest in disseminating articles that focus on the role of information in contemporary capitalist societies. For this task, articles should employ critical theories and/or empirical research inspired by critical theories and/or philosophy and ethics guided by critical thinking as well as relate the analysis to power structures and inequalities of capitalism, especially forms of stratification such as class, racist and other ideologies and capitalist patriarchy. Papers should reflect on how the presented findings contribute to the illumination of conditions that foster or hinder the advancement of a global sustainable and participatory information society. TripleC was founded in 2003 and is edited by Christian Fuchs and Marisol Sandoval.

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Fwd: Institutional CrowdFunding and CrowdCollab Campaign for the 2nd International Networked Labour Seminar
by Örsan Şenalp 13 Oct '14

13 Oct '14

apologies for cross posting.. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Örsan Şenalp <orsan1234(a)gmail.com> Date: 13 October 2014 12:00 Subject: Institutional CrowdFunding and CrowdCollab Campaign for the 2nd International Networked Labour Seminar To: "networkedlabour(a)lists.contrast.org" <networkedlabour(a)lists.contrast.org> Dear NetworkLabour e-list members, This is an appeal for an institutional crowd-funding and p2p collaboration campaign, in order to realising the 2nd International Networked Labour Seminar, in Amsterdam, at around May 2015. Draft proposal for the 2nd event can be seen here: https://titanpad.com/networkedlabour2ndencounterproposal Project will be managed based on open budget and p2p clooaboration principles. Therefore we welcome all kinds of technical, logistical, financial, artistic / design, physical labour, and knowledge contribution, especially from interested local creative communites and cooperatives. Design of the event, its content, form, and list of invitees will be open to supporters and collaborators’ suggestions. Sponsors and the registered collaborators will be able to suggest topics and methodology for the design of the seminar. Estimated budget, participatory tools and mechanisms will be published at http://www.networkedlabour.net/ during the second week of October 2014. If you are interested in collaborating please contact me directly at networg at networg dot nl (networg(a)networg.nl) In solidarity, and collaboration, Örsan Şenalp

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Fwd: [Networkedlabour] David Harvey last night in Amsterdam, on use value, the state, and the 'fetishisation of the organisational form'
by Michel Bauwens 10 Oct '14

10 Oct '14

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Daniel Chavez <chavez(a)tni.org> Date: Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 5:25 PM Subject: [Networkedlabour] David Harvey last night in Amsterdam, on use value, the state, and the 'fetishisation of the organisational form' To: networkedlabour(a)lists.contrast.org My favourite passages of David Harvey’s lecture, last night at De Balie, on the nature and role of the state (including the possibility of a ‘non-capitalist state’) and the plurality of organisational forms: "If you have a choice between a exchange value structure that allows wealth to be sucked out of the masses of the population in return for providing minimum use value, affordable housing, for example, I think you would prefer a system that provides affordable housing for everybody. And that leads us to the question about the role of the state; will the state be the mechanism that secures the primacy of use value over exchange value? Marx was a bit ambiguous about that. His initial response was “well, it should be associated labour, workers getting together and deciding their own system of production under workers’ control…”, as the beginning point for the transition. But then Marx also recognised that in order to build large infrastructures, such as the transport network or the sewage or water supply systems, it would not be enough to have associated labourers getting together and saying “Ok, we are going to build that”. The same idea applies to the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge, an airport, or any other large project. Therefore, we need some kind of apparatus that has the capacity to provide large infrastructure. And I think it is very difficult to imagine an apparatus that doesn’t look something like the state." "I would like, however, also to point out that there’s a tendency in part of the left to marginalise the role of the state. And one thesis I put forward here is that there isn’t such thing as a non-contradictory answer to a contradiction, and that the state itself is full of contradictions. And we can see today how the contradictory aspect of the state is very clear in the expanding power of the oligarchy and the capitalist classes, and the ways they use the state for their own benefit. But there is no reason to think that some form of non-capitalist state couldn’t be designed and implemented." "Although I’m very sympathetic to the decentralised or assembly type of politics, it can only go so far. When you address certain questions referred to the scale of operations, assembly structures don’t really work. I quite like some anarchist proposals, like those developed by Murray Bookchin; I find their ideas very democratic and they suggest good scenarios to imagine how a socialist society might work, but thy are problematic when one tries to move to another scale of what has to be done. For instance, there is a myth about the problem of global warming and how it could be solved by decentralised communities. Actually, be careful what you wish for, because that might make things much worse. So, I think we have to imagine different layers of organisation and action, and for me that is quite obvious." "I also always get a little impatient with those groups in the left that fall in what I'd call the ‘fetishisation of the organisational form’, meaning that they assume that there is only one form of associational form that we can admit and if that is not ‘horizontal’ then we shouldn’t have anything to do with it." _______________________________________________ NetworkedLabour mailing list NetworkedLabour(a)lists.contrast.org http://lists.contrast.org/mailman/listinfo/networkedlabour -- 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: A New Story
by Michel Bauwens 10 Oct '14

10 Oct '14

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: David Braden <d-braden(a)comcast.net> Date: Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 10:15 PM Subject: A New Story I work with an advisory board for Living Systems Institute and we have been working on a "new story" about healing the earth and ending poverty by building new relationships with the living things around us. Here is the latest version: Each of us must do what we can to make our way in the system the way it is. Without that we have nothing to offer the future. But if we humans continue to focus on our individual goals the system will continue its trend toward fewer and fewer niches for people and other living things. Already over 3 billion people live on less than $2 a day. Businesses seek to reduce the cost of labor through mechanization and automation. Industrial economies of scale drive out competition. Monetary wealth concentrates in fewer and fewer hands. In that direction lies all of our worst fears. In that direction there is economic collapse, global warming, extinction of species, disease and violence. Changing direction requires individual human beings to reach out and encourage the participation of the living things around them and creating new niches for people and other living things. It cannot be done remotely. Every interaction is inherently personal. In this direction the system heals itself and produces an abundance for all the species participating, including humans. We have the power to create the kind of world in which we want to live. We will not be able to protest or vote in this change. The change can only occur from the bottom up. Change only occurs when we change the way we interact with the living things around us. Following is a link to 2 articles I wrote for the Mother Earth News. They are suggestions for how any of us can take that first step toward changing directions for all of us. I hope each of you will share these links as widely as possible. This can be the beginning of a new story for humans on this planet. Any comments you might have that could improve the effectiveness of the story are also appreciated. http://www.motherearthnews.com/search.aspx?tags=%22+David+R.+Braden+IV%22#a… -- 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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