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Re: [P2P-F] My interview in el Mundo newspaper
by Michel Bauwens 24 May '14

24 May '14

will spread, good work stacco! On Sat, May 24, 2014 at 9:25 AM, Stacco Troncoso <staccotroncoso(a)gmail.com>wrote: > Feel free to share. They didn't cut out as much as I feared (they kept the > part about solidarity mechanisms) but they framed my answers.... well, not > the way I would have, but it's a good contrast to the lady from Peers. > > http://www.elmundo.es/economia/2014/05/24/537f52c522601d8e218b457b.html > > I do have the full version and will publish that eventually somewhere > (including the Spanish blog, when we have it up). I'll ask Bernado he if > wants to publish the "uncut" version on the FLOK blog. > -- > - Stacco Troncoso <http://about.me/staccotroncoso> > > -- *Please note an intrusion wiped out my inbox on February 8; I have no record of previous communication, proposals, etc ..* 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] <nettime> Consensus within the Bay Area elites?
by Michel Bauwens 24 May '14

24 May '14

I recommend that everyone reads Brian Holmes' analysis of the current situation, and my response / questions ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Michel Bauwens <michel(a)p2pfoundation.net> Date: Fri, May 23, 2014 at 7:43 PM Subject: Re: [Networkedlabour] <nettime> Consensus within the Bay Area elites? To: "networkedlabour(a)lists.contrast.org" <networkedlabour(a)lists.contrast.org>, Jaap van Till <vantill(a)gmail.com> Cc: Brian Holmes <bhcontinentaldrift(a)gmail.com> Very interesting contribution, from Brian, as usual <g> I copy Jaap as he just made a presentation about the euro-asiatic corridor that Brian is referring to. I see two issues that need to be covered. I share Brian's view of the possibility of a new kondratieff wave, which I called some years ago, the 'the high road to p2p' (high, because, even though it is capitalist, it would be more smoothly creating p2p infrastructures in a context of growth and redistribution, rather than low: bottom-up survivalist p2p in the context of global dislocation); such a high road, I argued then, would necessarily incorporate both green and p2p/distributed elements; however, it is important that such k-wave growth would require at the same time deep structural reforms, of the kind undertaken by roosevelt in the 30s and by european post-war govt's after WWII (and now we would need this type of reconfiguration: http://p2pfoundation.net/Russia_and_the_Next_Long_Wave) Yet, we see nothing on this sort. This could mean that the scenario would be that following the 1873 meltdown, not a consistent growth, but a long series of enduring crisis, ultmately leading to world war and the russian revolution; but the difference is, there are now much more serious problems to deal with: energy and resource crisis, climate change, soil depletion and so much more grave social crisis. What this would mean is that, all the potential for growth that we see (smart cities, internet of things, etc ..) may actually not be able to be used by capitalism for a growth wave. So my question to you Brian is: what makes you so sure that this wave of growth is indeed coming ? The second issue is: do you see Brian, the broad restructuring that is also taken place from the bottom up ? Yes, indeed, most of the p2p economy is indeed subsumed to capitalism, but, there is a huge wave of bottom up innovation, mobilisation and re-invention, on the scale of the labor movement in the latter half of the 19th cy. If you see it (I do, as I document it every day), how is this impacting your assessment of capitalist strategies. I would question any analysis that is exclusively focused on the internal dynamics of the capital class, and neglects the counter-movements and counter-restructurings that are taking place. Just for info, if Brian has not seen it, the Commons Transition Plan we have crafted here in Ecuador, http://en.wiki.floksociety.org/w/Research_Plan, with the ToC at bottom. Though the actual effect of this plan will be limited in Ecuador, it is significant that it has been commissioned, and that a global commons-oriented movement of movements is emerging from which it is derived and which is looking at it. Lots of the proposals I made a few years ago (the commons-based reciprocity license, the alliance and chamber of the commons, the global coalition of the commons), are now being taking seriously and the subject of actual experimentation on the ground, along with the thousands of other p2p/sharing/commons experimentations and projects (I'm not talkng about the business sharing economy here). Nearly every aspect of the bottom-up p2p economy (from urban gardening to co-working to rural hackerspaces) is growing exponentially, along with its capitalist similes .. (this is factually documented, I'm not just saying this, though of course, it is easier for emergent phenomena to grow exponentially). So my second question is: how do the new social movements affect capitalist scenarios ? My hypothesis is: the next k-wave may well not be coming, and with a perfect storm of really grave issues risking to coalesce say by 2030, we may need an integrated alternative, much faster than we expect. Michel 2 Background on the FLOK Project<http://en.wiki.floksociety.org/w/Research_Plan#Background_on_the_FLOK_Proje…> 3 The Framing of the Proposal<http://en.wiki.floksociety.org/w/Research_Plan#The_Framing_of_the_Proposal> - 3.1 The Three Value Models and the transition to a Social Knowledge Economy<http://en.wiki.floksociety.org/w/Research_Plan#The_Three_Value_Models_and_t…> - 3.1.1 The first model: 'Classic' Cognitive Capitalism based on IP extraction<http://en.wiki.floksociety.org/w/Research_Plan#The_first_model:_.27Classic.…> - 3.1.2 The second model: Netarchical Capitalism based on the control of networked platforms<http://en.wiki.floksociety.org/w/Research_Plan#The_second_model:_Netarchica…> - 3.1.2.1 The Value Crisis under conditions of netarchical capitalism<http://en.wiki.floksociety.org/w/Research_Plan#The_Value_Crisis_under_condi…> - 3.1.3 Towards a third model: a mature 'civic' peer-to-peer economy<http://en.wiki.floksociety.org/w/Research_Plan#Towards_a_third_model:_a_mat…> - 3.1.3.1 Solving the value crisis through a social knowledge economy<http://en.wiki.floksociety.org/w/Research_Plan#Solving_the_value_crisis_thr…> - 3.2 Four Technology Regimes<http://en.wiki.floksociety.org/w/Research_Plan#Four_Technology_Regimes> - 3.2.1 Netarchical Capitalism as a technological regime: peer to peer front end, hierarchical back-end<http://en.wiki.floksociety.org/w/Research_Plan#Netarchical_Capitalism_as_a_…> - 3.2.2 Distributed Capitalism as a technological regime: the commodification of everything<http://en.wiki.floksociety.org/w/Research_Plan#Distributed_Capitalism_as_a_…> - 3.2.3 Resilience Community Platforms Designed for Re-Localization<http://en.wiki.floksociety.org/w/Research_Plan#Resilience_Community_Platfor…> - 3.2.4 The Global Commons Scenario as the desired alternative<http://en.wiki.floksociety.org/w/Research_Plan#The_Global_Commons_Scenario_…> - 3.3 Cognitive/Netarchical Capitalism vs. an Open-Commons based Knowledge Society<http://en.wiki.floksociety.org/w/Research_Plan#Cognitive.2FNetarchical_Capi…> - 3.3.1 The Socio-Economic Implications of a Social Knowledge Economy<http://en.wiki.floksociety.org/w/Research_Plan#The_Socio-Economic_Implicati…> - 3.3.2 Discussion: IP and patents impede and slow down innovation<http://en.wiki.floksociety.org/w/Research_Plan#Discussion:_IP_and_patents_i…> - 3.3.2.1 Intellectual property rights and their supposed role in cognitive capitalism<http://en.wiki.floksociety.org/w/Research_Plan#Intellectual_property_rights…> - 3.3.2.2 A synopsis of empirical evidence on the effect of exclusive intellectual property regimes on innovation and productivity<http://en.wiki.floksociety.org/w/Research_Plan#A_synopsis_of_empirical_evid…> - 3.3.3 Discussion: the role of Indigenous Peoples and (Neo)Traditional Knowledge<http://en.wiki.floksociety.org/w/Research_Plan#Discussion:_the_role_of_Indi…> - 3.3.3.1 Arguments for the specific role of (neo)-traditional knowledge and peoples in a social knowledge transition<http://en.wiki.floksociety.org/w/Research_Plan#Arguments_for_the_specific_r…> - 3.3.3.2 The potential role of commons-based reciprocity licenses to protect traditional knowledge<http://en.wiki.floksociety.org/w/Research_Plan#The_potential_role_of_common…> - 3.3.4 Discussion: Gender Aspects<http://en.wiki.floksociety.org/w/Research_Plan#Discussion:_Gender_Aspects> - 3.4 Introducing the new configuration between State, Civil Society and the Market<http://en.wiki.floksociety.org/w/Research_Plan#Introducing_the_new_configur…> - 3.4.1 What can we learn from the already existing social knowledge economy<http://en.wiki.floksociety.org/w/Research_Plan#What_can_we_learn_from_the_a…> - 3.4.2 The new configuration<http://en.wiki.floksociety.org/w/Research_Plan#The_new_configuration> - 3.4.3 Why is this a post-capitalist scenario?<http://en.wiki.floksociety.org/w/Research_Plan#Why_is_this_a_post-capitalis…> - 3.4.4 Discussion: The role of the capitalist sector<http://en.wiki.floksociety.org/w/Research_Plan#Discussion:_The_role_of_the_…> - 3.5 A description of the new triarchy of the Partner State, the Ethical Economy and a Commons-based Civil Society<http://en.wiki.floksociety.org/w/Research_Plan#A_description_of_the_new_tri…> - 3.5.1 The concept of the partner state and the commonification of public services<http://en.wiki.floksociety.org/w/Research_Plan#The_concept_of_the_partner_s…> - 3.5.2 The Ethical Economy<http://en.wiki.floksociety.org/w/Research_Plan#The_Ethical_Economy> - 3.5.2.1 Discussion: Material and Immaterial Infrastructural Requirements for the Ethical Economy<http://en.wiki.floksociety.org/w/Research_Plan#Discussion:_Material_and_Imm…> - 3.5.3 The Commons-Based Civil Society<http://en.wiki.floksociety.org/w/Research_Plan#The_Commons-Based_Civil_Soci…> - 3.6 Beyond the market, beyond planning ?<http://en.wiki.floksociety.org/w/Research_Plan#Beyond_the_market.2C_beyond_…> - 3.6.1 The key role of Commons-Based Reciprocity Licenses<http://en.wiki.floksociety.org/w/Research_Plan#The_key_role_of_Commons-Base…> - 3.6.2 Mutual coordination mechanisms in the new 'ethical' enterpreneurial coalitions: Cybersin redux ?<http://en.wiki.floksociety.org/w/Research_Plan#Mutual_coordination_mechanis…> - 3.7 The historical and present importance of mutualization in times of increasing resource scarcity<http://en.wiki.floksociety.org/w/Research_Plan#The_historical_and_present_i…> - 3.7.1 Discussion: The issue of eco-system sustainability<http://en.wiki.floksociety.org/w/Research_Plan#Discussion:_The_issue_of_eco…> - 3.7.1.1 Why innovation should be located in open design communities<http://en.wiki.floksociety.org/w/Research_Plan#Why_innovation_should_be_loc…> - 3.7.1.2 The role of 'idle-sourcing' and the sharing economy<http://en.wiki.floksociety.org/w/Research_Plan#The_role_of_.27idle-sourcing…> - 3.8 A historical opportunity: The Convergence of Material/Technical P2P Infrastructures, Digital/Immaterial Commons, and Commons-Oriented Governance and Ownership Models<http://en.wiki.floksociety.org/w/Research_Plan#A_historical_opportunity:_Th…> - 3.9 Elements of Idealized and Integrative Full Transition Plan to a mature Social Knowledge Economy<http://en.wiki.floksociety.org/w/Research_Plan#Elements_of_Idealized_and_In…> - 3.9.1 Analysis<http://en.wiki.floksociety.org/w/Research_Plan#Analysis> - 3.9.1.1 1. Under conditions of proprietary (industrial) capitalism<http://en.wiki.floksociety.org/w/Research_Plan#1._Under_conditions_of_propr…> - 3.9.1.2 2. Under conditions of emerging peer production under the domination of financial and 'cognitive', 'netarchical' capitalism<http://en.wiki.floksociety.org/w/Research_Plan#2._Under_conditions_of_emerg…> - 3.9.1.3 3. Under conditions of strong peer production under civic dominance<http://en.wiki.floksociety.org/w/Research_Plan#3._Under_conditions_of_stron…> - 3.9.2 Transition Dynamic<http://en.wiki.floksociety.org/w/Research_Plan#Transition_Dynamic> - 3.9.2.1 The State<http://en.wiki.floksociety.org/w/Research_Plan#The_State> - 3.9.2.2 The Ethical Economy<http://en.wiki.floksociety.org/w/Research_Plan#The_Ethical_Economy_2> - 3.9.2.3 The Commons Sector<http://en.wiki.floksociety.org/w/Research_Plan#The_Commons_Sector> - 3.10 Political reconstruction of social movements in a conjuncture of post-industrial transformation<http://en.wiki.floksociety.org/w/Research_Plan#Political_reconstruction_of_…> On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 7:13 PM, Örsan Şenalp <orsan1234(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Flawless translation of some concerns I deeply share by Brian Holmes, > thanks Brian for putting it forward! passing it the the > networkedlabour list: > > Orsan > > On 23 May 2014 07:47, Brian Holmes <bhcontinentaldrift(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > > In 2008, a fellow named Mark Leonard published what was probably the most > > useful book of the year, entitled "What does China think?" With great > > concision he went through the country's think tanks, one by one, with a > five > > or six page summary of the people, the problematics and the major > statements > > issuing from each. The book begins with the idealism of China's New > Left. It > > ends with generals plotting grand strategy (of which, for them, military > > strategy is only a small part). > > > > On this list, with all our collective knowledge, contacts and capacities > to > > learn, we ought to do a similar analysis of the tech companies in the Bay > > Area (and perhaps other major technology development hubs). How do the > > network elites see the future? How do they believe they can direct the > > global development forces which are already managed, day in day out, by > the > > computational routines embedded in their products? What are their > politics > > and geopolitics? And how do they "think" via cables, software, devices > and > > infrastructure design? A deep and detailed understanding of what is being > > discussed by such elites today would be far more useful than the > superficial > > critique so commonly produced on the blogosphere and conference circuit > (let > > alone the bickering that Felix denounced). > > > > As some of you know, I'm convinced that for better and for worse there > will > > be a new economic growth wave rising in the next few years, in response > to > > the current dead-end and generalized climate of fear and uncertainty. > This > > is common sense among corporate elites, so they are quite interested in > the > > subject. Following a suggestion by Örsan Şenalp, I have been looking at > the > > latest writings of Jeremy Rifkin, an American tech and business guru who > has > > set up shop in the EU and advises European governments, particularly > > Germany. I am listening right now to the talk he gave in the Google > authors > > series. I recommend it. Beyond the deflatable hype about the "zero > marginal > > cost" of production in a totally networked p2p economy, it is clear that > > tech elites and the governmental sectors they have in their pockets > foresee > > an intensification and systematization of the wired and wireless economy, > > based on the multiplication and interconnection of microprocessors and > > analytic software apps (that's the famous "Internet of Things," hats off > to > > Rob van Kranenburg for proposing to study its philosophy). Major economic > > and social consequences can in effect be expected from this > interconnection. > > > > On the one hand, you're a thing: everything you do on the networks is > > tracked, surveilled, compiled, analyzed. Fair enough, on nettime we've > had > > that aspect covered for years. On the other hand, every humble material > > thing is an entity in a network ontology: and far beyond the > > one-size-fits-all fantasy of ubquitous RFID chips, what's emerging is a > new > > logistics system for global distribution of energy, raw materials and > > manufactures (some of it is already built and operational). You can also > > throw in a new generation of assembly-lines robotics (including > industrial > > maker-bots) and a new personal transport system (the driverless car, in > > which Google itself is so deeply invested). As Florian Cramer pointed > out in > > a reply to Van Kranenburg, this kind of pervasively networked system not > > only opens up tremendous possibilities of horizontal cooperation (between > > persons, businesses and institutions) but also, huge security holes like > the > > Heartbleed OpenSSL disaster: so the networked elites are very interested > in > > how to govern the system they are creating. > > > > Think a little bit about the Heartbleed-type problem, to the 10th power. > The > > infamous book by Eric Schmidt and Jared what's-his-name, the Washington > > security goon, is no accident. In American history, we lived through the > > capitalist development of the giant mass-production corporation, > epitomized > > by the Ford Motor Co., from 1900 to 1940; and then, after those kinds of > > productive forces issued in the most devastating war imaiginable, we > lived > > through the government orchestrated systematization of mass production, > in > > the postwar "Fordist" period from 1945 to 1973. There is a dialectic > here: > > the initial development of a productive system is followed by a major > cisis; > > then that productive system is reworked, rationalized and integrated to a > > social order (or at least, the capitalist version thereof). > > > > Under the long shadows of 9/11 and the 2008 crisis, the Bay Area elites, > > whether at Google, Cisco, HP or Apple, seem to be moving toward a fragile > > and probably untenable consensus that "something similar" will happen > again. > > In other words, somehow, somehow, the US will find a social and > governmental > > synthesis that allows techno-economic development to be guided by and for > > giant US corporations. And somehow (this is where the "thinking" gets > > extremely magical) this synthesis will be libertarian, user-friendly, > > horizontal, wild-west, and so forth. > > > > As for Rifkin, he represents a more pragmatic East Coast version of the > > Californian Ideology (and he actually grew up in Chicago). Like many > > so-called progressive American intellectuals, he found a better reception > > for his ideas in Europe, where, since the days of Bernstein and early > German > > social democracy, a left ideology is considered a necessary mask on > > capitalist development. Rifkin's ideas about the smart electric grid and > the > > Internet of Things now appeal to both the German and the Chinese > > governments. They appear to believe that recent technological > developments > > can be fused into a new productive order, manifested in the extension of > > railways lines and development corridors across the entire Eurasian > landmass > > (the giant free-trade/logistics project that the Chinese call "The New > Silk > > Road"). They want to put German hi-tech, European consumption, and Asian > > manufacturing capacity together, and mitigate climate change along the > way. > > > > The green capitalism widely denounced on the eco-anarchist left coalesces > > here, in the concept of a Euro-Sinic (or perhaps, Euro-Sinical) > production > > system whose green ideology would cover massive Chinese infrastructure > > investments, with Germany replacing the US as the key banker and > > technological and scientific partner. This perspective thinks big, on the > > scale of Eurasia. The aim is to use capitalist modenization to guide the > > largest part of the world's population through the devastating first > half of > > the twenty-first century, as inequalities grow worse and climate change > > takes hold. Of course the Euro-Sinical program itself will accelerate > those > > same contradictions... > > > > How do the Bay Area elites situate themselves within this emerging > > world-picture? What is their consensus, and where does it fall apart? Who > > has the greatest power to set the agendas? And to what degree do these > tech > > elites remain unconscious and merely reactive? I do not claim to know the > > answers, certainly not in the necessary detail. The facile "critique" of > > this or that form of evil-doing is definitely blocking us from even > grasping > > how Google thinks, and how Apple-Cisco-HP-etc thinks, and how they get > > together and think with BofA and Wells Fargo and Citi and the NSA and the > > DoD and so forth. > > > > In short, I see two mistakes, dear nettimers. One is failing to see that > the > > Bay Area elites and their interlocutors are fully engaged in the titanic > > project of imagining, designing and governing a pervasively networked > social > > system on a global scale. The second one is the failure to see that they > are > > not alone, and that similar problems are being dealt with by potentially > > more organized and more powerful forces, who do not think in purely > > communicational and financial terms, but instead deal also with > large-scale > > industry. > > > > best, Brian > > > > > > # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission > > # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, > > # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets > > # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l > > # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime(a)kein.org > _______________________________________________ > NetworkedLabour mailing list > NetworkedLabour(a)lists.contrast.org > http://lists.contrast.org/mailman/listinfo/networkedlabour > -- *Please note an intrusion wiped out my inbox on February 8; I have no record of previous communication, proposals, etc ..* 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/ -- *Please note an intrusion wiped out my inbox on February 8; I have no record of previous communication, proposals, etc ..* 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] Report on the creative workshop on new tools for collaboration
by Michel Bauwens 22 May '14

22 May '14

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Orsan Senalp <orsan1234(a)gmail.com> Date: Thu, May 22, 2014 at 11:23 AM Subject: [Networkedlabour] Report on the creative workshop on new tools for collaboration To: "networkedlabour(a)lists.contrast.org" <networkedlabour(a)lists.contrast.org > On May 6th and 8th, the P2Pvalue development team organized participative workshops on collaborative tools in la Tabacalera <http://latabacalera.net/> to identify the needs, desires and difficulties of Common-Based Peer Production (CBPP) communities. These workshops were facilitated by Carolina García <https://www.linkedin.com/in/holacarol>and Antonio Tapiador<http://www.p2pvalue.eu/people/atd> . http://p2pvalue.eu/blog/report-creative-workshop-new-tools-collaboration _______________________________________________ NetworkedLabour mailing list NetworkedLabour(a)lists.contrast.org http://lists.contrast.org/mailman/listinfo/networkedlabour -- *Please note an intrusion wiped out my inbox on February 8; I have no record of previous communication, proposals, etc ..* P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation>Updates: http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/

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Fwd: [Networkedlabour] Fwd: New Forms of Worker Organisation: The Syndicalist and Autonomist Restoration of Class
by Michel Bauwens 22 May '14

22 May '14

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Örsan Şenalp <orsan1234(a)gmail.com> Date: Thu, May 22, 2014 at 9:04 AM Subject: [Networkedlabour] Fwd: New Forms of Worker Organisation: The Syndicalist and Autonomist Restoration of Class To: "networkedlabour(a)lists.contrast.org" <networkedlabour(a)lists.contrast.org > thanks Peter! passing it here on the Newl.. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: peter waterman <peterwaterman1936(a)gmail.com> Date: 22 May 2014 15:55 Subject: New Forms of Worker Organisation: The Syndicalist and Autonomist Restoration of Class To: CRITICAL-LABOUR-STUDIES(a)jiscmail.ac.uk, Debate is a listserve that attempts to promote information and analyses of interest to the independent left in South and Southern Africa <debate-list(a)fahamu.org>, WSFDiscuss List <WorldSocialForum-Discuss(a)openspaceforum.net>, Örsan Şenalp < orsan1234(a)gmail.com>, rc-44(a)googlegroups.com, Ronaldo Munck < ronnie.munck(a)dcu.ie>, Marco Berlinguer <marco.berlinguer(a)gmail.com>, Walton Pantland <waltonp(a)gmail.com> New Forms of Worker Organization The Syndicalist and Autonomist Restoration of Class Struggle Unionism Edited by Immanuel Ness Foreword by Staughton Lynd PRICE $24.95 ISBN 978-1-60486-956-9 PAGE COUNT 320 SIZE 9 x 6 FORMAT Paperback PUBLICATION DATE 07/14 DISTRIBUTED BY Independent Publishers Group (312) 337-0747 www.ipgbook.com DISTRIBUTED IN THE UK/EUROPE BY Turnaround Publisher Services Ltd t: 020 8829 3000 orders(a)turnaround-uk.com ° PM PRESS ° P.O. Box 23912 • Oakland, CA 94623 www.pmpress.org info(a)pmpress.org (510) 658-3906 Bureaucratic labor unions are under assault throughout the world. Most unions have surrendered the achievements of the mid-twentieth century, when the working class was a militant force for change throughout the world. The decline of labor unions has exposed workers throughout the world to capitalist absolutism, where trade unions are unable to defend workers’ interests. As unions implode and weaken, workers are independently forming their own unions, rooted in the tradition of syndicalism and autonomism—and unions rooted in the tradition of self-directed action are auguring a new period of class struggle throughout the world. In Africa, Asia, the Americas, and Europe, workers are rejecting leaders and forming authentic class-struggle unions rooted in sabotage, direct action, and striking to achieve concrete gains. This is the first book to compile workers struggles on a global basis, examining the formation and expansion of radical unions in the Global South and Global North. The tangible evidence marshaled in this book serves as a handbook for understanding the formidable obstacles and concrete opportunities for workers challenging neoliberal capitalism, even as the unions of the old decline and disappear. Contributors include Au Loong-Yu, Bai Ruixue, Arup K. Sen, Shawn Hattingh, Piotr Bizyukov and Irina Olimpieva, Genese M. Sodikoff, Aviva Chomsky, Dario Bursztyn, Gabriel Kuhn, Erik Forman, Steven Manicastri, and Jack Kirkpatrick. ABOUT THE EDITOR Immanuel Ness is a political economist who specializes in labor unions and professor of Political Science at City University of New York. He is editor of WorkingUSA: The Journal of Labor and Society and author of numerous works including Guest Workers and Resistance to U.S. Corporate Despotism. He was a worker and union organizer in the food, maintenance, and publishing industries. ABOUT STAUGHTON LYND Staughton Lynd taught American history at Spelman College and Yale University. He was director of Freedom Schools in the 1964 Mississippi Freedom Summer. An early leader of the movement against the Vietnam War, he was blacklisted and unable to continue as an academic. He then became a lawyer, and in this capacity has assisted rank-and-file workers and prisoners for the past thirty years. He has written, edited, or coedited with his wife Alice Lynd more than a dozen books. ACCOLADES “As the U.S. labor movement conducts its latest, frantic search for ‘new ideas,’ there is no better source of radical thinking on improved modes of union functioning than the diverse contributors to this timely collection. New Forms of Worker Organization vividly describes what workers in Africa, Asia, South America, and Europe have done to make their unions more effective. Let’s hope that these compelling case studies of rank-and-file struggle and bottom up change lead to more of the same where it’s needed the most, among those of us ‘born in the USA!’” —Steve Early, former organizer for the Communications Workers of America and author of Save Our Union: Dispatches from a Movement in Distress -- 1. *EBook, November 2012: Recovering Internationalism <http://www.into-ebooks.com/book/recovering_internationalism/>. [A compilation of papers from the new millenium. Now free in two download formats] <http://www.into-ebooks.com/book/world_social_forum/> <http://www.into-ebooks.com/book/world_social_forum/>* 2. *EBook (co-editor), February 2013: World Social Forum: Critical Explorations http://www.into-ebooks.com/book/world_social_forum/ <http://www.into-ebooks.com/book/world_social_forum/> * 3. *Interface Journal Special (co-editor), November 2012: For the Global Emancipation of Labour <http://www.interfacejournal.net/current/>* 4. *Blog: http://www.unionbook.org/profile/peterwaterman. <http://www.unionbook.org/profile/peterwaterman.> * 5. *Interface Journal Special (Co-Editor) Social Movement Internationalisms. See Call for Papers <http://www.interfacejournal.net/>, (Deadline: May 1, 2014). * 6. *Needed: a Global Labour Charter Movement (2005-Now!) <http://interfacejournal.nuim.ie/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/Interf…>* 7. *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.* 8. *Google Scholar Citation Index:* *http://scholar.google.com.pe/citations?user=e0e6Qa4AAAAJ <http://scholar.google.com.pe/citations?user=e0e6Qa4AAAAJ> * - _______________________________________________ NetworkedLabour mailing list NetworkedLabour(a)lists.contrast.org http://lists.contrast.org/mailman/listinfo/networkedlabour -- *Please note an intrusion wiped out my inbox on February 8; I have no record of previous communication, proposals, etc ..* 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: Sovereignty In Action June 20~26th 2014 "Little Big Horn~Montana"
by Michel Bauwens 22 May '14

22 May '14

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Robert Mark O'Brien <mobprods(a)gmail.com> Date: Thu, May 22, 2014 at 8:45 AM Subject: Re: Sovereignty In Action June 20~26th 2014 "Little Big Horn~Montana" To: Mushin MW <mushinmw(a)gmail.com> Cc: "(Harriet) Jerusha Korim" <harriet(a)capecool.org>, Alan Yelsey < alan(a)kvsstudio.com>, Allen Schreiber <arossschreiber(a)hotmail.com>, "Bob (Robert) Williams" <robert.roto55(a)gmail.com>, Chris Belcher < cbelcher(a)alchymedia.com>, Chris Rowland <bluewarriorinc(a)gmail.com>, Dallas Chief Eagle <dchiefe(a)gwtc.net>, "Diane H. Messer" <enviroadvocate(a)aol.com>, Doug Grandt <answerthecall(a)mac.com>, "Galen L. Drapeau" <galenann(a)itctel.com>, Gali Sanchez <virginiaabenaki(a)gmail.com>, Greg O'Neill <goneill51(a)gmail.com>, Helene Finidori <hfinidori(a)yahoo.com>, Javier Livas <javierlivas(a)mac.com>, Joe Hill <jhill3915(a)gmail.com>, Justin Songhawk <jsonghawk(a)gmail.com>, Kevin Locke <LOCKEKEVIN(a)aol.com>, Lakota John <Lakotajohn(a)gmail.com>, Maggie Kao <maggie.kao(a)sierraclub.org>, Michel Bauwens < michel(a)p2pfoundation.net>, Paul Burley <pdburley(a)gmail.com>, Shelley Bance < shelley-b(a)earthlink.net>, Steve Brady <sandcreek(a)rangeweb.net>, "Tony (Anthony) Smith" <anthonysmithfilm(a)gmail.com>, Tony Brave <tbrave(a)gwtc.net>, Wizipan <akicita(a)gmail.com> Dear Reject and Protect participants. I hope this finds you all happy and well. Just want to make sure you saw the video of the American Indian perspective of the XL Pipeline. http://vimeo.com/93385789 On another note, while taping in DC last month, I shared my screenplay "The Journey Home." It's a really cool and timely story about a Lakota Warrior who returns to complete the circle of life in a world sickened by greed and degradation. It's all told on the website. www.osmvoices.com If you would stop by and visit - then share the link with family, friends and colleagues I would be most grateful. We're trying to build a team! So you are most welcome to walk with us! Thanks for all you do. Be well, Mark Mark O'Brien *Human Dimensions TV* <http://www.humandtv.com> The Journey Home <http://www.osmvoices.com> 202.306.2826 On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 4:28 PM, Robert Mark O'Brien <mobprods(a)gmail.com>wrote: > http://vimeo.com/93385789 > > All the best, > > Mark O'Brien > > > > On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 3:38 PM, Mushin MW <mushinmw(a)gmail.com> wrote: > >> *CIA, Friends & Hunting Party for NEXT Big Game,* >> >> I attended the "Cowboy Indian Alliance" in Washington D.C. through the >> invitation of my kola "Chief Keith Horse Looking" from Rosebud Reservation >> who has had a phenomenal role with my brother Chief Mel Lone Hill, Oglala >> Lakota Treaty Chief, and Lakota Nation Horse Chief. Chief Lone Hill was in >> the hospital on April 26th during the gathering in Washington D.C. Neil >> Young's<http://revolution-news.com/neil-young-blasts-harper-policies-re-albertas-oi…>simple statement *"It's >> time to end fossil fuels"* is the end game in this global environmental >> worldwide movement. Employment is a false distraction; humans are now >> replaceable with technological cyborgs who don't even require talking to. >> A renewable energy policy actually produces full employment, because it >> requires re-inventing the industrial age role, standards and practices. >> While we are it lets double the current recommended minimum wage to $22.20 >> or what you say $33.30. The resistance of the energy industry in this >> current global economy is overwhelming to even consider because they are >> facing off with the factual scientific reality of climate change requiring >> writing off $30 trillion in current discovered oil and coal reserves that >> need to be capped off immediately in a planetary emergence. >> >> On Sunday I spoke personally with many of you that I met through this CIA >> Notion. May 4th was the 44th anniversary of KSU and OHIO. I am enclosing >> "Flaming Man & Man in the Mirror" by Andrew James Campbell that explains >> how KSU has been a PTSD event in my life. >> >> Mushin is wearing the WWII hat; I don't know this other character? >> >> [image: Inline image 1] >> >> I walked away with two invitations in mind regarding the CIA: >> >> *"1st Nation News"* is a radical notion for a superstation channel that >> has been a dream of in the Maka Si Tomni adventure since 2007. What is >> missing in "Sovereignty in Action" by diverse spontaneous indigenous >> networks interfacing global conversations is solidarity in bundling our >> creative resources at a grass root level in a "Peace Through Unity" >> movement. In the underbelly of this mass manufactured media of consent >> called American Patriocracy, there is a boiling global outrage and >> indignation for the current socio eco fin politic corporate human >> indignities, injustice, inequality, racism, discrimination and coercive >> deceptive corporate powers dehumanizing American and global citizenry into >> robotic transactional configurations based in obedience to the elite fiat >> dollar. Our children are in debtors prison for eternity, worst off then >> before the American revolution, and politician's want us to trust them with >> blind obedience to insanity? >> >> We believe this is the moment for a grass rooted "1st Nation News >> Renaissance Channel" reporting clearly the "Tragedy of the American >> Commons" that is a EcoFin virus of elite narrow minded self interests that >> has infected the entire world. Simultaneously, there is an emergent "Wise >> Third Wave Renaissance Integrating Our Humanness on the Landscape as a new >> Child Centric Horizon in the Globalization Process of Learning." >> >> Maka Si Tomni Institute is collaborating the Lakota Ancient Native >> Scientific Life Ways with new awareness's in cognitive understandings in >> general systems disrupting the 2,500 year swept along historic mistake of >> changelessness in western representational historic institutional >> discourses. We are on the verge of breaking through the resistance with >> spectacular shocking revelations regarding how our indigene ancestors lived >> in love, meaningful balance and intuitive creativity adaptational in a >> biological spirit-sense of becoming human beings in dynamic temporal >> autopoieitc realization valuing legitimacy in coexistence with the web of >> life. >> >> Today, technological innovations, mass economic global markets demanding >> our obedience, and coercive deceptive leaders in rhetorical corporate wars >> are literally de-humanizing our P2P human experience offering us a cyborg >> mechanistic future in consumptive market bullsh$t where humans are a >> burden, and for that matter, no longer needed. You want to get a job in >> the future? Become a cyborg robot for a corporation, ask to work for food, >> it is the future in the next gilded age unless we change it. >> >> Noam Chomsky, MIT Linguistic Professor and Global Whistle Blower on >> America going back to the 1960's Civil Rights and Viet Nam Era recently >> said indigenous peoples worldwide are leading the mass grass rooted >> movement today reclaiming the earth for future generations.<http://revolution-news.com/noam-chomsky-indigenous-people-lead/>We are all indigene, Latin meaning self creating, and no matter what the >> unit of your ancestral pathway, your at least a couple of million years old >> in this current moment. A pretty cool reflection to reframe the mistakes in >> the last 2,500 years. >> >> Our future peace comes through the unity in appreciative P2P solidarity >> of sovereignty in action as human beings. There is no savior, corporation, >> government or judge to assist us in this new configuration of learning. If >> anything feeling into the authentic "Quiet Desperation"<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKynMiu_SnE>of the Lakota Oyate; our spirit-senses of fighting for the children lives >> of tomorrow is a joyful concern, and a creative collapsing opportunity in >> the midst of this dehumanizing culture of death requiring us to forgive the >> mistaken ignorance in non violent civil disobedience. >> >> The real kicker today is I have a four year old grand daughter Julia who >> says "Grandpa you take care of the small problems, I'll take care of the >> big ones." She is committed and that my friends is the truth about all of >> our children. They have had enough and are ready to invent a new world >> together. >> >> *Maka Si Tomni Institute* >> >> I am Lakota. "The Lakota Paradigm"<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nysi8S8R1Uo>is a way of seeing and being in balance with the web of life including the >> Milky way. "Thoughts About the Lakota" Part I<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIr-5Pcgz9M>and Part >> II <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmSniIXX6cU> explains our collective >> breakdown and current confrontation with USA governance: common laws >> created corporate monopolies since the 1823 Chief John Marshall Supreme >> Court decision in "Johnson versus M'Intosh" forbidding American Natives >> from ever being involved in any commercial land transactions in the future. >> Don Javier Livas, International Attorney, MBA Cybernetician, living in >> Monterrey Mexico, and today released a series of 25 three minute videos >> entitled "Management Cybernetics & Social Physics"<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwOy_vSaU0I&list=UUgJG4Pbg6b7w2Vdqdwx7mmg&f…>responding to leading edge MIT's Alex "Sandy" Pentland's discoveries in >> large data behavioral studies in societies. "Cybernetics is like air." If >> you want to start on video 24 and 25 you will pick up on Don Javier's >> commitment to the Lakota Oyate notion of Wolakota. >> >> Today, this pattern of corporate plutocracies is more powerful than any >> king, queen or pope ever imagined. The agrarian common law and political >> madness today is a coercive deceptive patriarchal deception empowering "The >> Corporation"<http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=Canadian+documentary+The+Corporation&FO…>to have more due process in judicial common law than the citizenry in >> American courts. If we are serious about changing the current >> directionality of "business as usual" than we must be serious about >> changing the law empowering the patronizing political leadership in >> America's governance of corporations creating unsustainable externalities >> and denying their accountability in current unintended consequences we are >> experiencing as a society. >> >> I am committed to building a grass rooted "1st Nation News Channel" as a >> the next "Earth Superstation" discerning bullsh$t from the "truth of >> reality" form the common man's point of agrarian justice and dignity in >> living in realization. What are we afraid of being shot, killed or >> arrested? Death is looking like a Mona Lisa in this upcoming hell fire and >> high water event on horizon. If we do not take immediate adequate effective >> actions in creating a mutually agreed to "Service Science Economy" as >> global ethical citizens, the children of tomorrow will literally hate us >> for being cowards and failing to make the change in designing a graceful >> legitimacy in coexistence with the web of life we all love.. >> >> If your interested in joining as a founding member in a 60 person hunting >> party team? Sign up to "The Order of Earth" weekly scheduled one hour >> conference call. The weekly one hour call can be negotiated by >> participants. I have set up the first call for Tuesday May 13, 2014 at >> 10:00AM EST and 7:00AM PST USA. >> >> Register Here >> <http://myaccount.maestroconference.com/conference/register/QL8X7QR30VQORKKV> >> >> >> >> *Invite to CIA June 21st to June 26th 2014 Little Big Horn Lakota >> Sovereignty IN Action. *Chief Mel Lone Hill is leading the 21st "Lakota >> Horse Nation" memorial ride from Ashland MT to Little Big Horn National >> Park from June 21st to June 26th. The hollow ground of the American >> Natives is honored this year<http://www.nps.gov/libi/indian-memorial-at-little-bighorn.htm>and The Chief has requested me to serve as a "Whip Man" to make this year's >> ride a controlled public media event. Chief Mel Lone Hill is the grandson >> of the American Indian Grandfather Chief Frank Fools Crow<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Fools_Crow>who was a leader in the >> 1973 Wounded Knee confrontation, activist for Native American Freedom of >> Religion Act in 1978, and today the UN Declaration of Indigenous Rights >> started with Grandpa Fools Crow request for help from the UN during the >> 1973 Wounded Knee event. >> >> A little known story that will be of special interest to the CIA Nebraska >> families is Grandpa Fools Crow became a brother to Nebraska Governor Robert >> Crosby in 1953. I guess the Governor commented on the beautiful full >> dress bonnet Fools Crow was wearing, and Fools Crow took off the bonnet and >> gave it to Governor Crosby as a gift. On September 29th 2010 Chief Mel >> Lone Hill<http://www.lakotacountrytimes.com/news/2010-09-29/Front_Page/War_Bonnet_Com…>had the bonnet returned and has recently passed it on to his son Chief >> Jason Lone Hill. Part of the public event during this upcoming 21st Little >> Big Horn Sovereignty In Action Peace Through Unity gathering will celebrate >> the continuance of the prayers of grandpa's Fools Crow's vision for all >> peoples heath, happiness and prosperity as star children in a living >> universe. >> >> Now one of the most amazing intrinsic intellectual assets in the Lakota >> heritage is there control of media, pictures and cameras. On October 27th >> 2000, I was invited by my Lakota uncle Bill Center in Denver CO to attend >> the first minting of a gold Buffalo Native American coin at the Denver >> mint. In the midst of every major news channel Bill had requested me to >> stand up and tell everyone to turn off all the camera's for the prayer. >> The room went from a noisy buzzing and background chattering to absolute >> silence and attentiveness to prayer. You had to be there to experience the >> shift, meaning and blessing in the room. In a sense that is what we >> imagine this year's 21st Lakota Horse Nation Gathering to really be about. >> >> Little Big Horn in 2014 is offering us the opportunity in this creative >> collapsing disaster of XL Pipe Line, to confront America's future Tar Sands >> in the coal removal in the Powder River Basin in Montana, and bring >> attention to the recently NASA funded study of the waterfall collapse from >> the melting of the Arctic Cap. This report is like discovering their is an >> astroid about to strike the planet in any moment and game over. To come >> together in solidarity with all American Natives in a new covenant of >> wolakota: peace and friendship without the greed for power, inequality or >> injustice in designing a future world together. >> >> President Obama wants to pray he's invited. The President can leave >> behind all the Washington D.C. Corporate Paparazzi of political theater and >> populist nonsensical punditry throwing red meat around like we are living >> in the Roman Coliseum with Gladiators. It's time to bury the arrogant >> deceptive aggressions and resolve once and for all the Indian issue in >> America as 'a' human right to dignity and negotiated order as equals, not >> patronized prisoners confined to prison of war camps called reservations. >> It is time to have a public transparent conversation with the American >> people and indigenous peoples from around the world about consumption, >> raping Mother Earth and insane political theater of elite power mechanisms >> in governance. >> >> The American Indians, like the Canadians, are 1st Nation Peoples and >> landlords of Turtle Island. There is a Mayan Condor Prophecy that claims >> all the tribes in the Americas will unite and bring forth a new beginning >> in learning on earth. The Lakota Nation victory was not only the hollow >> ground of Greasy Grass battle at Little Big Horn, they also won the 1868Treaty Violations in the USA Supreme Court, and refused the financial >> settlement offered for the Black Hills. The issue is not ownership of >> property rather the sovereign right of human dignity for the Lakota Nation >> to exercise freely its customary manner of Scientific Life Ways as a free >> sovereign people. Maybe a passionate desire of all American's today as a >> citizenry? Instead of fearing the fragility in the creative collapsing >> opportunities, its time to become brothers and sisters committing to caring >> for all the children in the future as proprietors of earth as a living >> humanity. >> >> “The Red Nation will rise again and it shall be a blessing for a world >> longing for light. I see a time of seven generations when all the colors >> of mankind will gather under the Sacred Tree of Life and the whole Earth >> will become one circle again. In that day, there will be those among the >> Lakota who will carry knowledge and understanding of unity among all living >> things and the young white ones will come to my people and ask for this >> wisdom. I salute the light within your eyes where the whole universe >> dwells. For when you are at the center within you and I am in that place >> within me, we shall be one.” >> >> Crazy Horse, four days before he died. >> >> >> *Closing Note:* >> >> >> My grand daughter Julia said "Grandpa when I am five years old, I'll be >> ready to ride a horse." On D-Day June 6th 2014 she turns five and she >> wants to ride a rainbow horse. Believe it or not, its possibility, you add >> artistic coloring to the ride. Instead of protesting its time to convene >> those ready to lead us into designing a new future together. This is a >> moment in history to grab the bull by the horns using the CIA as hunters >> for the next big game. Who knows maybe we can get a whole bunch of cowboys >> interested in herding cats<http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=cowboys+herding+cats&FORM=VIRE3#view=de…>to join our upcoming parade into Little Big Horn Montana. We >> are the real Rodeo! <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eW9W9NfKIs> >> >> >> If interested in participating please get in touch, >> >> Mushin >> >> Cell 303-520-6866 >> >> Skype orderofearth_patric >> >> >> *A few classic references to consider:* >> >> >> *"Madness at the Gates of the City: The Myth of American Innocence" *by >> Barry Spector (2010) is really a must read for every American citizen to >> begin to understand the Christian Puritanical Paranoia of the devil always >> needing an "other" in an eternal conflict. First it was the Indian, then >> the African slaves, then the Spanish Mexicans, then socialists and >> communists world wars. Today the current "Christian Prosperity Theology" >> says the "other" is all the "poor" worldwide. If you are poor, you are >> consider stupid, ignorant, lazy and evil. The remedy is simple find Jesus >> and work harder. >> >> >> A recent example of Plutocracy C21 Capital Demand for Obedience in Our >> Society: The political inequality in corporate wages of the knowledge >> worker bees has decreased since 1970, while worker productivity has sky >> rocketed by Americans. If the minimum wage had stayed current with >> productive gains in the corporate economy since 1970, the average worker >> today starting off at Wal-Mart would be earning over $22 per hour. In >> America we aren't dead and we have more in common goodness as a society >> than any of this punditry bullsh$t dividing us. We won WWII because we had >> the capacity as people to re-tool, re-configure, re-frame our attitudes, >> behaviors and activities instantly and unite in solidarity to meet the >> challenge of the day. It's time to do it again for earth and all its >> people. >> >> >> >> To succeed in competitive America today we teach our children to be >> criminals because literally having ethical human compassion for the poor is >> consider a political crime. At the end of WWII our debt to GNP was 160% and >> the wealthy were taxed over 90% on their income and still made a bundle of >> money building a middle class. Today we have trillion dollar wars and the >> rich get tax cuts, while the middle class experienced the AIG ruinous >> management of pension funds. Professional unions are considered the >> criminal problem in an increasing right to work a part time job and no >> benefits (Wal-Mart). The financial predatory chaos in bank's "too big to >> fail" are getting $83 billion in subsidies per year, while poor folks in a >> due process police state face three strikes and your out serving life term >> jail sentences. The 1% elite are the criminals and have destroyed the >> middle class in America, and now blaming the poor for being evil. >> >> >> As the baby boomer generation we need to wake up and take to street with >> Neil Young's courageous voice. Stop using fossil fuels right now and let's >> get it on with a new energy policy within the next 12 months. Call Wall >> Street out and demand the energy industry to right off $30 trillion in oil >> and coal that has been discovered, that can never be burned. Unless you >> want to intentionally commit suicide. Every child in K-12 education can >> learn to plant a tree in the next school year as a practical ecological >> knowing learning event discovering how interdependent we are and counting >> our sister trees as part of a living census of happiness and well being. >> While we are it let kids become responsible for powering up their 5th >> generative mobile wave computing devices with "solar power" off grid not 60 >> hertz copper lines with 189% inefficiency and begin to lead the "Quantum >> Disentanglement." Make it the new fad in "Occupy Earth Movement" and the >> cool thing to do. This simple autopoietic learning with a mobile device is >> equal to planting a tree in mitigation of the carbon industrial age. >> >> >> The wealthy elite in America have side lined over $32+ trillion in >> capital in off shore banking since the 2008 worldwide recession. We don't >> have a money problem or climate problem, we do have a distribution problem >> and servant leader breakdown in bringing forth a C21 participative >> democracy in anew business ontology as virtuous global citizens. This >> current political paranoid legal freeze in Washington D.C. is about to >> cause a global crises in capital, finance and igniting militant conflicts >> for resource wars that make WWII look like a picnic. Today "Good >> Criminals" are actually better than the "Bad Politicians" leading this ship >> of fools. President Obama's populist excuses are over. The President needs >> to earn his trust by leading with a set of balls the size of planets. >> >> >> Our resolution and manner of negotiated order is simple "STOP IT."<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-Tej0297wk> >> It appears we are ready in America to have 'a' woman become President in >> 2016 and solve this "Tale of Two Brains"<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxtUH_bHBxs>where men love the "nothing box" and women have the capacity to wire >> together the social ramifications of everything to everything emotionally. >> Now, Hillary Clinton and Elizabeth Warren as anew kind of ticket out of the >> birthing shute, and add Shelia Bair as the "Treasury Secretary"<http://www.newswise.com/articles/former-fdic-chair-sheila-bair-to-discuss-c…>to reign in the "Bulls >> by the Horns on Wall Street"<https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13259882-bull-by-the-horns> (Shelia >> Bair is a Republican) and let's see FOX News deal paid punditry deal with >> this media crises as the 2014 and 2016 election cycle as these "Three >> Mouseketeers" confront market expectations where the "Federal Reserve"<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7X3uac0lzw>responsibility for our current fiat financial crises is wrung out in public >> conversations. >> >> >> While we are it, every time FOX NEWS or the Congress brings up the Libyan >> 2012 Benghazi attack? Let's respond with our own investigative reporting >> into regressive neo liberal capitalism's atrocities in every >> administration. A few of my favorites are: September 4th 1970 KSU >> police brutality in civil non violent protesting, Nixon's Secretary of >> State (still living) involvement in Chile's Pinochet killings of over 3,000 >> citizens following coup with his finger prints all over it, and the last >> but not least favorite is King George's neo con C21 Iraq Weapons of Mass >> Destruction with Darth Vader leading the charge on the Meet the Press. >> >> >> Where is the compassionate action plan to reign in too big to fail >> banking institution's in America receiving a $83 billion subsidy every >> year? Where is the innovative ideal planning in social security as a state >> of the art communitarian resource for our public financed innovations in >> corporate plutocracies claiming they invented breakthrough innovations on >> their own? Where is the trans formative interactive ideal design plan to >> support community banking and neighborhood revitalization with full >> employment in redesigning the industrial age? This current situation is >> like Jimmy Steward confronting Mr Potter in "Its a Wonderful Life" and it >> actually turns out that insurance policies in credit default swaps are >> worth more than human lives. It is time to literally kill the algorithms >> in current Hedge Fund managers that don't care about people, enterprise or >> Nation States. >> >> >> *Stand Off with US Supreme Court Common Law Bullsh$t* >> >> >> "Ending Poverty" <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pktOXJr1vOQ> is a >> confrontation with this notion of 1492 Manifest Destiny's patronizing >> elitism in governance and is well documented by Nobel Laureates in the >> documentary provided in the above link. A few additional documentaries to >> assist in understanding the predicament watch: Patriocracy<http://www.patriocracymovie.com/>, >> Climate Refugees<http://www.sundance.org/nowplaying/film/climate-refugees/>, >> HOME <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MaPe6i2iQ4> or THRIVE<http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=you+tube+movie+thrive&FORM=VIRE1#view=d…> >> . >> >> >> NARF retired lawyer and now Professor Walter Echo~Hawk's<http://walterechohawk.com/>two classic presentations on American Native Legal battles is well >> documented in *"The Courts of the Conquerer: 10 Worst Indian Law Cases >> ever Decided" <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_the_Courts_of_the_Conqueror>*and "IN >> THE LIGHT OF JUSTICE: UN Declaration of Rights of Indigenous Peoples."<http://www.c-span.org/video/?315496-1/book-discussion-light-justice> This two volume set of American Native Law provides a basis for >> understanding how the common law within the present universal business code >> and policies of transactional configurations in global business. To >> implement these new standards is a direct confrontation with the >> plutocratic monopolistic neo liberal capitalistic scheme created by Chief >> Justice John Marshall in US Supreme Court decision of "Johnson versus >> M'Intosh"<http://www.lpbr.net/2013/07/buying-american-from-indians-johnson-v.html>that basically created a monopoly for corporate monarch's forbidding >> American Natives from ever negotiating any commercial land transactions on >> their own behalf as owners. The declaration by this Chief Justice is >> "fierce savages, whose occupation is war." >> >> >> This is the lie at the core of colonialism's battles that riddled our >> foundational conversations of our democracy from the "Declaration of >> Independence" to the framework of congressional debates by the founding >> fathers. The ideological warfare between Thomas Jefferson's Republican >> notion and Alexander Hamilton's Federalist notions creating the First >> American Bank is being played out in full bloom in the Washington D.C. >> Consensus Group with the IMF and World bank involvement. Chief John >> Marshall adopted the Federalist view of Hamilton and Jefferson's Republican >> view of the "Rights of Free Citizenry" was violated from the very beginning >> of our Republic. Today we hear a "Criminal Rancher Bundy" claim of the >> Federalist view and Neo Con Racist's standing off with our Republic with >> rifles claiming they are standing their ground. There would be no ground >> for any of these idiots if without the blood of veterans fighting for a >> republic in human history. This Bundy Tribe borders on collective >> psychosis in civil appreciative inquiry and dialog. According to the >> paranoid Christian prosperity theology if Jesus was alive, he would be >> packing a gun leading this insanity. >> >> >> This single 1823 decision was riddled with criminal intent where the >> Chief Justice should have recused himself from the case due to family land >> holdings involved in the litigation. If we fast forward to today's United >> Nation's Declaration of Rights for Indigenous Peoples that have human >> dignity and the right to contest injustice in this Manifest Destiny >> Doctrine where *"The Corporations"* (Bad Apples) are now running the >> mercantile monarch of neo liberal banking security finance system >> worldwide. I am surrounded by Native American Veterans who live with the >> terrorism of the Viet Nam Era and tyranny notion of "Bad Company"<http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=bad+company+song&FORM=VIRE5#view=detail…> where >> today President Obama's Drone War video gaming professional Army should not >> even be armed with water pistols, much less stinger missiles. President >> Obama's executions are like watching King George on steroids and ignoring >> the fact that future war is our enemy. Count me in the real fight to end >> war with WWII, Viet Nam Veterans who have smelt the smoke of apocalypse in >> weapons of mass destruction and are now "Veterans for Peace" committed to >> reign in control of coercive deceptive arrogance of American military power >> as the solution. Nobody I know as a veteran signed on to protect, preserve >> and provide an elite monarchy of corporations to destroy democracy in >> America. >> >> >> Maka Si Tomni Institute is committed to forming an 'American Native >> Advocacy Group Action Political Committee' demanding the USA Supreme Court >> to redress the 1823 ruling in the "Light of Justice" in today's world. >> Indigenous peoples must have an equal seat in designing a future together >> at the security councils and corporate board rooms in this post modern >> world. Negotiated order is a P2P manner of appreciative inquiry and dialog >> where the parties seeking mutual agreement have equality and neither party >> is subservient to the other, especially in designing agrarian law serving >> the children of tomorrow as a humanity. The transparent public conversation >> requires a dignity and respect for legitimacy in coexistence for one >> another's existing niche experiences as the fundamental ethical basis of >> reaching a mutual agreed to negotiated order. This is true in familial >> relations, villages, enterprises and Nations. One party can no demand the >> other at the outset of a conversation to agree to only converse in agrarian >> common lawlessness as the only power in decision making. Our assessment is >> this 1823 Supreme Court Case is going to make "Brown versus The Board of >> Education" a footnote in future American history books. >> >> >> If we Change the Common Agrarian Lawlessness of Manifest Destiny that has >> created this pervasive denied distrust in current institutional discourses? >> This new and improved CIA becomes a clearing for learning in solidarity. We >> will change our citizenry into virtuous change agents in a mood of joyful >> concern igniting the spirit-sense of entrepreneurialism instantly in >> America as servant leaders in Climate Change Solutions, Dignity for the >> Rights of Man in Democracies Worldwide, and creation of 'a' CO*OP Clearing >> for Learning in Our Mutual Liberation as a Third Wave Renaissance embracing >> the antifragility <http://fooledbyrandomness.com/prologue.pdf> in the >> beauty, wonder and servant leadership caring for the children of tomorrow. >> >> >> In our humanness we have much more in common than any of these political >> distractions by the paid pundits in the mass minded media organizations >> dividing us as American Global Citizenry. Our current pain point is >> allowing our intrinsic intellectual assets as a democracy to be handled by >> lawyers in corporate plutocracies that do not care about people, companies >> or Nations. The current system is designed to serve greed for power >> regardless of hell or high water in the unintended consequences of >> de-humanizing human beings into robotic consuming idiots like a plague >> destroying and raping Mother Earth. >> >> >> *Lakota Paradigm Star Knowledge* >> >> >> *"The Sacred Sphere:Exploring Sacred Concepts and Cosmic Consciousness >> Through Universal Symbolism"*<http://www.amazon.com/dp/1592984061/?tag=mh0b-20&hvadid=3488381239&ref=pd_s…>by Paul Burley (2012) starts off by revealing the oral reverence of the >> "White Buffalo Calf Woman" to the Lakota Oyate over 7,000 years ago. Paul >> Burley, a professional civil engineer, was doing environmental highway >> studies and discovered an ancient medicine circle that led him into >> discovering four ancient sacred medicine circles surrounding the Black >> Hills of South Dakota that constituted a sovereign Lakota Nation territory >> in the customary manners of the Lakota Oceti Sakowin ~ Seven Council Fires, >> prior to western contact. This circular sphere is the largest sacred >> circle in geometry in the world's history. The circle is a 550 mile radius >> of the Black Hills containing 16 current BIA Tribal governments, with >> approximately 140,000 tribal members living in prisoner of war camps known >> as reservations. >> >> >> The most interesting and breakthrough in knowledge making events is the >> Lakota Star Knowledge was first revealed in 1976 in a Federal Court case, >> where the oral traditional understanding was accepted into Federal Court. >> As Jhon Goes In Center's presentation points to in "The Lakota Paradigm" >> through the Lakota history of Amos Bad Heart in 1890, Star Knowledge has >> always led the Lakota Society social interactive ceremonies in the manner >> of customary relations. >> >> >> This treatise goes on to incorporate symbolism throughout the world into >> a new breakthrough understanding of universal symbolism in every unit of >> humanity pathways in knowledge making activities and conservation of >> humanness in history. >> >> >> Paul Burley went further as a 3rd party explorer in cognitive science.. >> >> "Stonehenge: As Above So Below" just released reveals an amazing >> coherent correlation in the star knowledge of two ancient civilizations. >> You need to buy the book to experience the shock and awe of the we(i)sdom >> continuums synchrony ecological knowing in the Milky Way. Surprises are on >> the way so stay tuned! >> >> A Note Recently sent from Paul Burley from the United Kingdom! >> >> Excerpt from: >> 'Stonehenge: As Above, So Below' Acknowledgements >> >> Never look back >> >> Face the wind >> >> Head up >> >> Move forward >> >> >> As always my first debt of gratitude is to you, the reader. The journey >> is long. It is not easy. Thank you for walking with me. The road is not >> so difficult when we walk together. Courage, Generosity, Fortitude, Wi >> sdom. >> >> >> Acquiring these four things is like grasping atstraws. I cannot make the >> wind >> >> stop so I can take the straws easily. However, if I pay attention, and >> listen, I may be prepared when the wind blows the straws toward me. The >> wind is >> >> powerful whenever I visit Pine Ridge and Rosebud Reservations. For some >> >> reason I am fortunate to catch some straw each time before I leave for h >> ome. >> >> The wind is very powerful. >> >> >> I am grateful for good friends at Pine Ridge and Rosebud—Becky Chief Eagl >> e, Dallas ChiefEagle, Mel Lone Hill, Jhon Goes In >> >> Center, Victor Douville, Duane Hollow Horn Bear, Stanley Red Bird Jr, Ja >> vier Livas, Andrew James Campbell, Mushin, and others who have entered my >> >> >> life. I will always be indebted to Everett Poor Thunder. I began to expe >> rience >> >> real courage, generosity, fortitude and wisdom the first day we met. Ever >> ett and everyone else have shown me perhaps the most important thing a >> >> man can have, something to be kept close to the heart at all times. It is >> the >> >> straw of humility. *Wopila heca yelo **.* >> >> *M**i**ta**kuy**e * *oyasin .* >> >> All my relatives >> >> Paul Burley >> >> *February 2014* >> >> >> >> >> >> > > > -- > Robert Mark O'Brien > *Human Dimensions* *TV* > *The Journey Home* > 202-306-2826 > -- Robert Mark O'Brien *Human Dimensions* *TV* *The Journey Home* 202-306-2826 -- *Please note an intrusion wiped out my inbox on February 8; I have no record of previous communication, proposals, etc ..* 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] [commoning] Socialist Licences
by Michel Bauwens 22 May '14

22 May '14

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Jakob Rigi <rigij(a)ceu.hu> Date: Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 9:55 AM Subject: Re: [Networkedlabour] [commoning] [P2P-F] Socialist Licences To: restakis(a)gmail.com, networkedlabour(a)lists.contrast.org, michel(a)p2pfoundation.net Hi all, I call your attention to my critique of PPL and related project for cooperatives, published in tripleC. best Jakob ttripleC 12(1): 390-404, 2014 CC: Creative Commons License, 2014. The Coming Revolution of Peer Production and Revolution- ary Cooperative. A Response to Michel Bauwens, Vasilis Kostakis and Stefan Meretz Jakob Rigi Central European University; rigij(a)ceu.hu Abstract: This article agrees with Meretz (2014) that the peer producing cooperatives which are pro- posed by Bauwens & Kostakis (2014) will become parts and parcels of the capitalist economy. Fur- ther, it argues that the so called Peer Production Licenses (PPL), originally designed by Dmitry Kleiner (2010), which is the basis of their proposal is a rent seeking instrument. Contra Bauwens & Kostakis, it argues that, from the perspectives of both reform and revolution, GPL is profoundly anti-capitalist. The article critiques Meretz`s understanding of exchange and reciprocity, on the one hand, and his under- estimation of GPL`s communist aspect, on the other. On the positive side, the article, explicating the communist nature of GPL-oriented peer production, speculates about the general contours of a socie- ty where peer production is the dominant mode of production. The technological basis of this society, the article suggests, will be digital copying and automation. Spatially, it will be based on localities that transcend the current division between the city and country, synthesising agriculture with industrial, affective and symbolic production. The rise of a globally unified revolutionary social struggle which adopts peer production as its platform is indispensible for the transformation of capitalism into such a society. A global network of revolutionary peer producing cooperatives which break with market and reduce their relations to it to an absolutely unavoidable necessary minimum can be a significant com- ponent of this social struggle. The building of these revolutionary cooperatives requires a massive exodus from the city to the country. Keywords: Peer Production,Cooperatives,Revolutionary Struggle,Communism, Exodus From the City . >>> Michel Bauwens <michel(a)p2pfoundation.net> 04/19/14 12:35 PM >>> see inline On Sat, Apr 19, 2014 at 4:09 AM, Christian Siefkes <christian(a)siefkes.net>wrote: > Hi Michel and all, > > better a late reply than none at all, I guess... > > On 04/06/2014 02:20 AM, Michel Bauwens wrote: > > ok, let me restate it then once again: > > > > you say <commercial usage is generally forbidden> > > > > the CBRL, would say, <commercial usage is generally encouraged, unless > there > > is zero reciprocity>; hope you get it this time, it's really not that > > difficult to understand; reading ability should be sufficient. We are not > > talking about equivalent exchange or equivalent reciprocity, requiring > > lengthly and complicated negotations; we are simply talking of moving > from > > equivalent exchange to the recognition of participation in a reciprocal > economy. > > Well, I'm talking about the PPL, not about your fictitious CBRL which I > don't know. Other licenses might or might not deserve the same criticism, > but without knowing them I cannot say. And if I understand you correctly, > the CBRL doesn't even exist yet? > fair remark, indeed, I would say the PPL is just the first of a new type of license; the PPL can be adapted, changed etc .. so the key is to focus on the reciprocity requirements > > > once again, the PPL is just an instance of the CBRL; so all > not-for-profit > > entities (not to be confused with nonprofit) are allowed, and all the > > players who respect reciprocity > > How exactly does the "reciprocity" you talk about differ from capitalist > "exchange"? > essentially, capitalist exchange is based on supply and demand dynamics and class power; reciprocity is based on ethical principles of fairness; the community itself can determine what that means in a specific context, see http://p2pfoundation.net/Reciprocity and the definition there: *Balanced or Symmetrical reciprocity occurs when someone gives to someone else, expecting a fair and tangible return at some undefined future date. It is a very informal system of exchange. The expectation that the giver will be repaid is based on trust and social consequences* my FLOK colleague writes: John Restakis (in ch. 6 of Humanizing the Economy<http://p2pfoundation.net/Humanizing_the_Economy> ): "Reciprocity is the social mechanism that makes associational life possible. It is the foundation of social life. In its elements, reciprocity is a system of voluntary exchange between individuals based on the understanding that the giving of a favour by one will in future be reciprocated either to the giver or to someone else. A simple example is the loan of a lawn mower by one neighbour - call him Frank, to another – say, Fred. Frank makes the loan on the assumption that at some later date Fred will return the favour. If Fred does not, the basis of reciprocity falls apart. No more loaning of the lawnmower to Fred. Moreover Fred’s non-reciprocity, if it continues, becomes reputational. Others will stop extending favours to Fred also. So willingness to reciprocate is a basic signal of the sociability of an individual. Taken to an extreme, the complete unwillingness of an individual to reciprocate is tantamount to severing the bonds between themselves and other people. Reciprocity is thus a social relation that contains within itself potent emotional and even spiritual dimensions. These elements account for an entirely different set of motivations within individuals than behaviour in the classical sense of “maximizing one’s utility” as a consumer. Reciprocity animates a vast range of economic activities that rest on the sharing and reinforcement of attitudes and values that are interpersonal and constitute essential bonds between the individual and the human community. What is exchanged in reciprocal transactions are not merely particular goods, services and favours, but more fundamentally the expression of good will and the assurance that one is prepared to help others. It is the foundation of trust. Consequently, the practice of reciprocity has profound social ramifications and entails a clear moral element. Reciprocity is a key for understanding how the institutions of society work. But it is also an economic principle with wholly distinct characteristics that embody social as opposed to merely commercial attributes. When reciprocity finds economic expression in the exchange of goods and services to people and communities it is the social economy that results. Examples range from the provision of burial services through the creation of friendly societies in the 1800s to the promotion of neighborhood safety through organizations like Neighborhood Watch today. Finally, reciprocity is egalitarian – it presupposes a direct relationship of equality between the individuals involved. It is very different from altruism where the giver may have no relation to the receiver and where there is a clear asymmetry of power, as is the case with charity." > > Specifically, in the PPL I see nothing beyond "if you want to use this > commercially and are not a coop, negotiate the terms of exchange with us, > the license owners". That's business as usual in capitalism -- if two > persons or entities want to trade, they negotiate terms. That doesn't > challenge capitalism, it confirms it. > > Again, I understand that other not-yet-existent licenses might approach > that > situation in a different way and maybe I would be much happier with their > approach. But without knowing them it's impossible to say. > the difference is in who is doing the negotiating in capitalism, between two firms based on their market power in this case, by a community with ethical enterpreneurial coalition, based on their values and need for fairness / reciprocity > > > Since you fully accept the > > subsumption of free software to capitalism, this can only be construed as > > progress, compared to what you are advocating (i.e. no change to > capitalism > > at all, I am of course not talking about your unpracticed dreams for a > pure > > and perfect p2p society; for the record, i like dreams and utopias). > > Stop laying words in my mouth please, none of this is true. I agree that > every phase of transition will be imperfect and contradictory. Indeed I > would claim that what you call "subsumption of free software to capitalism" > is an expression of those contractions, i.e. the fact that the new cannot > emerge "pure" without being touched by and involved with the old. Also, you > might notice that the "subsumption" goes both ways, since many companies > contribute lots of money and development time to free software projects. So > capitalist companies benefit from peer production, but peer production > benefits from them too. > i'm not laying words in your mouth, just pointing out the general passivity of the oekonux view to the existing situation ... between the perfect ideals and the existing situation, there is no path forward but waiting .. > > Your "pure", "socialist" scheme would destroy that messy but often mutually > beneficial interaction, replacing it with the usual "lets negotiate until > both sides feel they can do no better" model of capitalism. > nothing pure about what I propose, it's a pragmatic hack to improve the present and create counter-economic accumulation for the commons, to create livelihoods for commoners, and give power to the ethical economy; unless you propose something different than the current situation of subsumption, it's the only thing that can change it; the proposal combines non-capitalist market dynamics, with commons dynamics, and with material stigmergy on a non-capitalist and non-market basis. The PPL doesn't change much for the capitalist, they negotiate IP and licenses everyday, but it changes a lot for the ethical economy and the commons, since it creates autonomous livelihoods and relatively independent cooperative coalitions > > > you can't just wait for the end of the market, in a accomodationist or > > attentist way; and you can't just abolish it by fiat; you have to create > the > > conditions for: 1) replacing capitalist markets with post-capitalist > markets > > and 2) replace market and planning with peer to peer coordination. > > (2) is fine for me and I agree with it. But I don't really see how the PPL > contributes to that goal -- certainly not more than the GPL and other > licenses for knowledge and information we already have. It would be > interesting to develop and experiment with new forms of managing physical > commons (in addition to and beyond knowledge commons), but the PPL make no > contributions in that regards. > The PPL combined with the cooperative coalition creates the condition for material coordination, something not possible with the GPL alone, which only creates immaterial coordination .. > > (1) sounds about as meaningful as saying "replacing market capitalism with > post-market capitalism". Capitalism cannot exist without markets, of > course. > And while markets existed without before capitalism and might well exist > after it, capitalism is the only economic system known where markets are > "total", i.e. most people cannot survive without participation in market > transactions. That was never the case before capitalism, where markets were > used for luxury goods and exchange of surplus produce, but most people's > lives didn't depend on them, since most production and distribution was > organized in other ways. > agreed, and in fact, you seem to agree with me to say that non-total markets are different from total-market-capitalism, that is the essential point > > I don't mind the idea of post-capitalist, non-total markets, but I'm more > interested in institutions that might eliminate the "totalitarianism" of > markets, i.e. that ensure that people can get by, and have a good life, > without having to buy and sell in the market. Which, for most people, means > having to sell themselves (their own labor power), since they have nothing > else to sell. > and this is essentially what my proposal addresses, pragmatically : 1) it reinforces the commons 2) create autonomous livelihoods for commoners which they don't have now 3) moves markets outside of capitalism 4) creates a new sphere of material coordination outside of markets and planning .. what the scheme does is exactly what you want, it eliminates the totalitarianism of the current market form, again, it's not the only thing that is necessary, it's part of integrative approach for a vision of how the different pieces may fit together, http://en.wiki.floksociety.org/w/Research_Plan > Best regards > Christian > > -- > > |--------- Dr. Christian Siefkes --------- christian(a)siefkes.net --------- > | Homepage: http://www.siefkes.net/ | Blog: > http://www.keimform.de/ > | Wie Produktion zur Nebensache wurde: > www.keimform.de/2013/freie-quellen-1/ > | Why Production No Longer Worries Us: > www.keimform.de/2013/free-sources-1/ > |------------------------------------------- OpenPGP Key ID: 0x346452D8 -- > For most of the past two centuries, the Left has been identified with > science and against obscurantism; we have believed that rational thought > and the fearless analysis of objective reality (both natural and social) > are incisive tools for combating the mystifications promoted by the > powerful -- not to mention being desirable human ends in their own > right. The recent turn of many "progressive" or "leftist" academic > humanists and social scientists toward one or another form of epistemic > relativism betrays this worthy heritage and undermines the already fragile > prospects for progressive social critique. > -- Alan D. Sokal, A Physicist Experiments With Cultural Studies > > > _______________________________________________ > NetworkedLabour mailing list > NetworkedLabour(a)lists.contrast.org > http://lists.contrast.org/mailman/listinfo/networkedlabour > > -- *Please note an intrusion wiped out my inbox on February 8; I have no record of previous communication, proposals, etc ..* 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/ _______________________________________________ NetworkedLabour mailing list NetworkedLabour(a)lists.contrast.org http://lists.contrast.org/mailman/listinfo/networkedlabour -- *Please note an intrusion wiped out my inbox on February 8; I have no record of previous communication, proposals, etc ..* 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: Correction: New Article by Bill McKibben in Rolling Stone
by Michel Bauwens 22 May '14

22 May '14

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Charlie Furman - 350.org <350(a)350.org> Date: Wed, May 21, 2014 at 7:43 PM Subject: Correction: New Article by Bill McKibben in Rolling Stone To: Bauwens Michel <michelsub2004(a)gmail.com> Friends, We just sent you the wrong email by mistake. The email from Bill McKibben that was recently sent out about his new *Rolling Stone* article was meant to only go to people in the United States. Sorry about that! Our apologies for any confusion. But it might be a good mistake -- wherever you are in the world, Bill's new article is a crucial piece of reading at a unique moment in history. You can (and should) read it here: act.350.org/signup/readytomarch<http://act.350.org/signup/readytomarch?t=1&akid=4632.360134.I7xFQW> In the coming weeks and months, we'll be working with all of you to plan bold climate action -- action we'll take in solidarity with our friends in New York who are marching this September. Look for an email about that very soon! Thanks for your understanding, and for being part of this big, beautiful movement. Onward, Charlie ------------------------------ 350.org <http://350.org?akid=4632.360134.I7xFQW> is building a global climate movement. Become a sustaining donor to keep this movement strong and growing. <https://act.350.org/donate/build/?akid=4632.360134.I7xFQW> You can update your contact information here<https://act.350.org/login/?next=/me/update/&t=2&akid=4632.360134.I7xFQW>, or if you're 100% sure you never want to hear from 350.org again you can click here to unsubscribe.<http://act.350.org/cms/unsubscribe/unsubscribe/?t=3&akid=4632.360134.I7xFQW> -- *Please note an intrusion wiped out my inbox on February 8; I have no record of previous communication, proposals, etc ..* 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: [climate trade union] Exciting times
by Michel Bauwens 21 May '14

21 May '14

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Anna <anna(a)shsh.co.uk> Date: Wed, May 21, 2014 at 12:06 PM Subject: Fwd: [climate trade union] Exciting times To: Michel Bauwens <michel(a)p2pfoundation.net> Begin forwarded message: *From:* Jonathan <findjonathan(a)hotmail.com> *Date:* 21 May 2014 16:11:24 BST *To:* ccctu ccctu <climate-change-trade-union-network(a)googlegroups.com> *Subject:* *[climate trade union] Exciting times* *Reply-To:* findjonathan(a)hotmail.com Here is a link to Bill McKibben writing in Rolling Stone, calling people to join what he is sure will be the largest climate march in history in New York City on the weekend of 20/21 September. http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/a-call-to-arms-an-invitation-to-d… Among the eloquent things Bill says is: "Sometimes in the past, trade unionists have fought against environmentalists – but unions in health care, mass transit, higher education, domestic work and building services are all beginning to organize for September, fully aware that there are no jobs on a dead planet. Energy-sector unions see the jobs potential in massive solar installation and a "just transition" off fossil fuels. Here's a banner I know you'll see in the streets of New York: CLIMATE/JOBS. TWO CRISES, ONE SOLUTION." The International TUC has also just launched a global Unions 4 Climate campaign. They start with three slogans: Building Workers Power There are no jobs on a dead planet Climate Action = Jobs Growth. You can sign up here: http://act.equaltimes.org/unions4climate -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Climate Trade Union" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to climate-change-trade-union-network+unsubscribe(a)googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to climate-change-trade-union-network(a)googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/climate-change-trade-union-network. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- *Please note an intrusion wiped out my inbox on February 8; I have no record of previous communication, proposals, etc ..* 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: New article by me in Rolling Stone
by Michel Bauwens 21 May '14

21 May '14

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Bill McKibben - 350.org <350(a)350.org> Date: Wed, May 21, 2014 at 10:16 AM Subject: New article by me in Rolling Stone To: Bauwens Michel <michelsub2004(a)gmail.com> Dear Friends, Earlier this spring the chaplain at Harvard joined students sitting-in outside the Harvard president’s office to demand climate action. He took the bullhorn for a minute, and thanked the organizers for “giving me the chance to be the person who I purport to be—a person who gives a damn.” We’re all going to get that chance Sept. 20 and 21, *when the biggest demonstration in the history of the climate movement takes place in New York City.* We need you there, *you and everyone you can think of to bring.* Here’s the somewhat more formal invitation<http://act.350.org/signup/readytomarch?t=1&akid=4629.360134.FYUJwo>that I wrote out, for the current issue of Rolling Stone. Please share it<http://act.350.org/signup/readytomarch?t=2&akid=4629.360134.FYUJwo>—it’s the most important call we’ll send you this year. And if you're ready to say you'll be there, RSVP on Facebook here.<http://act.350.org/go/5246?t=3&akid=4629.360134.FYUJwo> UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has summoned the world’s leaders to the city in late September to consult about climate change. Because we think those leaders have done a lousy job, and because we’re tired of fancy words and ready for real action, we’re going to go to New York too, in our thousands and tens of thousands. Marching doesn’t solve anything by itself. But movements can shift political power—in fact, little else ever does. *We need to show just how big and unified our movement has grown*, from the environmental justice advocates fighting fossil fuel pollution in our communities to the students demanding divestment on our campuses, from the scientists who have seen their warnings so far ignored to the clergy now showing real moral leadership. If you’re wondering how to react to the devastating news that the Antarctic is melting out of control: New York. If you’re scared like I am by the pictures of the fire and drought across the West: New York. If you’re feeling like it’s time to change the trajectory of this planet: we’ll see you in New York. *Sept. 20/21. Tell everyone. <http://act.350.org/signup/readytomarch?t=4&akid=4629.360134.FYUJwo> * Bill McKibben ------------------------------ 350.org <http://350.org?akid=4629.360134.FYUJwo> is building a global climate movement. Become a sustaining donor to keep this movement strong and growing. <https://act.350.org/donate/build/?akid=4629.360134.FYUJwo> You can update your contact information here<https://act.350.org/login/?next=/me/update/&t=5&akid=4629.360134.FYUJwo>, or if you're 100% sure you never want to hear from 350.org again you can click here to unsubscribe.<http://act.350.org/cms/unsubscribe/unsubscribe/?t=6&akid=4629.360134.FYUJwo> -- *Please note an intrusion wiped out my inbox on February 8; I have no record of previous communication, proposals, etc ..* 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] Fw: Dalla Costa Archive open by May 19, 2014
by Michel Bauwens 21 May '14

21 May '14

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Pat Cuninghame <pgcuninghame(a)yahoo.co.uk> Date: Tue, May 20, 2014 at 12:33 AM Subject: [Networkedlabour] Fw: Dalla Costa Archive open by May 19, 2014 To: aut-op-sy <aut-op-sy(a)lists.resist.ca>, Emiliana Armano < emi_armano(a)yahoo.it>, Annalisa Murgia <annalisa.murgia(a)unitn.it>, Claudio Albertani <claudio.albertani(a)gmail.com>, Alberto Toscano < a.toscano(a)gold.ac.uk>, Ben Trott <b.j.trott(a)gmail.com>, Gigi Roggero < conricerca(a)hotmail.com>, Dario Azzellini <dario(a)azzellini.net>, Dagmar Diesner <dagmardiesner(a)gmail.com>, Alessia Eugenio < alessia.dieugenio(a)hotmail.it>, Calderón Eligio <elicar(a)correo.xoc.uam.mx>, Eduardo Barrera Herrera <eduamerica2000(a)yahoo.com>, Fabian Tompsett < fabian(a)unpopular.org.uk>, As Guero <asguero(a)gmail.com>, Christian Garland < christiangarland(a)hotmail.com>, Davide Grasso <davidegrasso80(a)gmail.com>, David Harvie <david.harvie(a)gmail.com>, Augusto Illuminati < augustoilluminati(a)virgilio.it>, Immanuel Ness <manny.ness(a)gmail.com>, Info Aut <news(a)infoaut.org>, InfoFree Flow <iff(a)anche.no>, Immigrati Autorganizzati Milano <ciilombardia(a)gmail.com>, Jason Mc Gimsey < j.mcgimsey(a)gmail.com>, Jeff Juris <jeffjuris(a)yahoo.com>, Jim Fleming < jim(a)autonomedia.org>, Alex Kakafikas <ak_g4(a)yahoo.com>, Keir Milburn < keir.milburn(a)gmail.com>, Lara Maestripieri <lara.maestripieri(a)polimi.it>, S Mosala <sikho.azania(a)gmail.com>, Guiomar Rovira <ondina_peraire(a)yahoo.com>, La Mujer Obrera <centromayapan(a)mujerobrera.org>, Oakland Commune < bayofrage(a)gmail.com>, Alexei Penzin <penzhouse(a)mail.ru>, Renata Solleiro Muñoz UAM-I estorg <renata.solleirom(a)gmail.com>, Enrico Riboni < enrico.abele(a)gmail.com>, social movements list < SOCIAL-MOVEMENTS(a)listserv.heanet.ie>, networkedlabourlist < networkedlabour(a)lists.contrast.org>, Ariel Salleh <ariel.salleh(a)uni-jena.de>, August Spies <classwaru(a)gmail.com>, Feminismos Nuestroamericanos Área Colectiva <sororidad2010(a)hotmail.com>, Emanuele Toscano < emanuele.toscano76(a)gmail.com>, Silvia Federici <silvia.federici(a)hofstra.edu>, George Caffentzis <gcaffentz(a)aol.com>, La Sexta Trabajadores < aaoc2010(a)gmail.com>, Uriel Zavala <suer16(a)hotmail.com>, Steve Wright < steve.wright58(a)optusnet.com.au>, Youngsu Won <labour97(a)gmail.com>, Mujeres YlaSexta <mujeresyla6a(a)yahoo.com.mx>, YoSoy Internacional < yosoy132internacionalmesa15(a)gmail.com>, Myk Zeitlin < mykzeitlin(a)googlemail.com>, Massimo De Angelis <m.deangelis(a)ntlworld.com>, Massimo Modonesi <modonesi(a)hotmail.com> On Monday, 19 May 2014, 10:29, "Cleaver, Harry M" < hmcleave(a)austin.utexas.edu> wrote: English version below. The following text is the same as that attached to this email. NB: a downloadable (pdf) listing of the materials in the archive can be obtained through the link to the Padova library given below. My personal thanks to Mariarosa for making all this material available in an accessible manner. I am looking forward to visiting the library and doing research there. *Comunicato* Ai firmatari dell’appello perché l’archivio donato dalla prof. Mariarosa Dalla Costa alla Biblioteca Civica del Comune di Padova fosse al più presto aperto al pubblico. Cari colleghi, ho il piacere di comunicarvi che l’ “Archivio di Lotta Femminista per il salario al lavoro domestico. Donazione Mariarosa Dalla Costa”, dotato di inventario analitico, sarà aperto al pubblico dal 19 maggio 2014. Tale inventario si troverà in forma cartacea presso la sala di consultazione della sezione storica della Biblioteca Civica e nella pagina web della stessa Biblioteca Civica alla voce “Archivi<http://www.padovanet.it/dettaglio.jsp?tasstipo=C&tassidpadre=85&tassid=95&i…> ”. Si auspica di poter prossimamente rendere consultabili in rete anche i documenti. L’archivio contiene: documenti di Lotta Femminista e della rete dei Comitati e Gruppi per il Salario al Lavoro Domestico a livello nazionale e internazionale; documenti di altri movimenti femministi in Italia e in altri paesi; documenti di altri movimenti italiani ed esteri. Prevalentemente sono materiali degli anni ’70, ma altri giungono fino ai giorni nostri. Complessivamente migliaia di materiali in forma cartacea o multimediale. Attualmente è possibile consultare l’archivio il lunedì e il giovedì ore 8,30-17,30 (ma occorre richiedere i documenti che si vogliono visionare entro le ore 13) recandosi alla Biblioteca Civica presso il Centro Culturale Altinate/San Gaetano, Via Altinate 71. Per informazioni: tel. 049 820 4811 fax 049 820 4804 email: biblioteca.civica(a)comune.padova.it Ringrazio sentitamente tutti quelli che hanno dato il loro sostegno per la buona conclusione di questa vicenda e in particolare i proff. Harry Cleaver e Massimiliano Tomba la cui generosa cooperazione è stata cruciale. Mariarosa Dalla Costa (mariarosa.dallacosta(a)unipd.it) ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. *Announcement* To all of you who supported the Appeal that the Archive given by Prof. Mariarosa Dalla Costa to the Civic Library of the City Hall of Padua be made available to the public without further delay. Dear Colleagues, I am glad to inform you that the “Archive of Lotta Femminista for wages for housework. Donation by Mariarosa Dalla Costa” – complete with a descriptive inventory – will be open to the public by May 19, 2014*.* This inventory will be available in paper form in the room reserved for consultation in the history section of the Civic Library. To facilitate preparations for on-site research*,* it will also be available in “Archivi<http://www.padovanet.it/dettaglio.jsp?tasstipo=C&tassidpadre=85&tassid=95&i…>” through the Civic Library's webpage. We hope it will also be possible in the near future to examine the documents directly on the web. The Archive contains: documents of Lotta Femminista and of the network Wages for Housework at the national and international level; documents of other feminist movements in Italy and in other countries; documents of other movements in Italy and in other countries. These materials are mainly from the 1970s but some are more recent. In total, there are thousands of items, including both paper documents and multimedia recordings. It will be possible to consult the Archive on Monday and Thursday from 8:30 to 17:30 at the Civic Library, Centro Culturale Altinate/San Gaetano, Via Altinate 71 (but you have to request the documents you want to see before 13:00). For information: tel. 049 820 4811 fax 049 820 4804 email: biblioteca.civica(a)comune.padova.it I want to give my heartfelt thanks to all those who have contributed to the successful conclusion of this question. In particular, I thank Professors Harry Cleaver and Massimiliano Tomba whose generous cooperation has been crucial. Mariarosa Dalla Costa (mariarosa.dallacosta(a)unipd.it) _______________________________________________ NetworkedLabour mailing list NetworkedLabour(a)lists.contrast.org http://lists.contrast.org/mailman/listinfo/networkedlabour -- *Please note an intrusion wiped out my inbox on February 8; I have no record of previous communication, proposals, etc ..* 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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