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Fw: Fw: Info
by Natalie Golovin 10 Mar '26

10 Mar '26

Mark: You and your compatriots on P2P view the world from revisionism. Go ahead and keep looking through your microscope-provided by your "teachers." Or take the time and read some very old documented evidence available at a library near you= but you may need to stay there awhile on microfiche. -----Original Message----- From: Mark Janssen Sent: Sunday, October 23, 2011 4:39 PM To: P2P Foundation mailing list Subject: Re: [P2P-F] Fw: Info On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 10:32 AM, Natalie Golovin <10natalie(a)cox.net> wrote: > The European Tribes treated the Natives no worse than they treated each > other. Whoa. You should really stop talking. You have NO idea what you're talking about. How about forced acculturation, not allowing them to speak their own language (which hold the record of their own history), confined them under threat of violent force into reservations, among other things. But, really, that's probably not even the worst of it -- the worst of it is that for reasons they couldn't ever understand is why you were doing all of these cruel things when they were willing to share it it all with you. Why, when they handed out their hand to be friends, you chopped it off. Remember, they're the ones who gave us Thanksgiving which is still "celebrated" in this nation today. Read the reports made of making first contact with the Native peoples here. You really should read up before propagating the attitudes of conquest. Sorry.... marcos _______________________________________________ P2P Foundation - Mailing list http://www.p2pfoundation.net https://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation

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New paper on Bitcoin from a Commons-oriented perspective
by Vasilis Kostakis 30 Jun '14

30 Jun '14

A reflection just published at the open access journal tripleC: The paper: http://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/article/view/606 <http://matslats.net/whither-crypto-revolution> Thank you for sharing! (twitter: https://twitter.com/p2p_lab/status/483508895261134848 ) -- Dr. Vasilis Kostakis Research Fellow Ragnar Nurkse School of Innovation and Governance Research Director P2P Lab: http://p2plab.org

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Fwd: Banking on Shared Value | Shared Value Initiative
by Michel Bauwens 30 Jun '14

30 Jun '14

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: David Week (Assai) <dew(a)assai.com.au> http://sharedvalue.org/banking-shared-value <http://sharedvalue.org/banking-shared-value?utm_campaign=SVinBanking0626201…> In the wake of the financial crisis, banks have been under fire from all fronts. While the industry continues to struggle economically, society’s growing suspicion of banks’ intentions is resulting in tighter and more complex regulation. Meanwhile, competition is coming from unexpected places and clients are increasingly demanding financial products and services that deliver more than just financial returns. Faced with this confluence of factors, banks have responded with CSR and sustainability initiatives—but they haven’t been enough. According to the new FSG report, "Banking on Shared Value <http://sharedvalue.org/resources/banking-shared-value>," banks are leaving value on the table. The potential to create shared value through retail, commercial and investment banking is enormous. And the banks that realize this potential will recast their role in society through a lens of mutual opportunity: an opportunity for banks to increase long-term profitability, and an opportunity for society to leverage the unique financial capabilities of banks to drive progress. This new approach will enable banks to capitalize on new opportunities and leverage their biggest asset—their core business—to address some of the world’s toughest challenges. -- *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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a little informal assessment of the flok on the day before my departure
by Michel Bauwens 29 Jun '14

29 Jun '14

dear friends, I am leaving Ecuador tomorrow after a rich but difficult experience with many up and downs ... (one of the downs being is that we are leaving the country with still 2.5 months of salary due); though the summit was a success in terms of its own dynamic, we discovered that the president of the country didn't even know of the existence of the FLOK, and the one of our funding ministers even blocked his officials of attending until one day before the summit .. 15 attempts to talk with our two funding ministers about a supposedly strategic effort went unheeded .. nevertheless, there are also good sides: one is that lower level officials, those that feel the need to remain faithful to the ideals of the civic revolution, are enthusiastic and are working on pilot projects; the other is a number of civic movements intent on continuing the effort such as our friends at Diabluma and the associated rural-urban coalition; amongst the most inspiring efforts is that of Mario Andino, the mayor of Sigchos, the third poorest district in Ecuador, who just bought a 2,200 ha. domain to experiment with open agriculture, and that is at least partially a direct result of our interventions, this will happen with our without the government ... and then we leave a cultural and political legacy in terms of the ideas; here is a sample reaction that I received, and that makes me very happy: ".I know you have had good and bad moments here, but I truly believe that you leave a relevant and unforgettable way of thinking in my community. I personally have seen how my vision of reality has changed based on your ideas, knowledge and will to change things...Farewell my friend...I´m sure that wherever you go, you will make the difference that humanity desperately needs... " Then of course there is the legacy of the flok as the first ever effort to craft a integrated commons transition program, legitimized even if imperfectly supported by a nation state, which makes it a geo-political event; we are already talking with a large cooperative group, 2-3 cities, and a rural hub elsewhere in the world, to do local flok processes; and the flok as a open and participatory method to craft policy, which is getting interest from other governments in the region .. So this is life, sometimes we do a seeming huge step forwards, only to fall back, and even as we may be disappointing in the short term, we have planted a seed that may bear more fruit than we expected later on Goodbye to Ecuador then, or perhaps just hasta luego, as it is a most spectacular country ... let the hundred flowers bloom, here and elsewhere in the world, we certainly would love to return to Sigchos and help the mayor, the assembly of the people and the population as a model locale for commons-oriented practices and transitions. After all , it is a mini-Ecuador with four climate zones .. With thanks of all the flok team members, volunteers, and the local citizens who supported us; special mention to Fabien and his team at Allianza Solidaria, the most inspiring project so far, Michel Bauwens, Quito, June 30, 2014 -- *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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Fan-Based_Peer_Production_of_Virtual_Celebrities
by Michel Bauwens 29 Jun '14

29 Jun '14

http://p2pfoundation.net/Fan-Based_Peer_Production_of_Virtual_Celebrities this is an absolute must-see kevin, can you publish this on our blog, you will see that the video has a embed code (click on share), and a strange URL . Michel -- *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: [WSF-Discuss] Jeremy Brecher - 'Climate Protection : The New Insurgency'
by Michel Bauwens 29 Jun '14

29 Jun '14

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Örsan Şenalp <orsan1234(a)gmail.com> Date: Sat, Jun 28, 2014 at 9:01 AM Subject: [Networkedlabour] Fwd: [WSF-Discuss] Jeremy Brecher - 'Climate Protection : The New Insurgency' To: "networkedlabour(a)lists.contrast.org" <networkedlabour(a)lists.contrast.org > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Jai Sen <jai.sen(a)cacim.net> Date: 28 June 2014 14:08 Subject: [WSF-Discuss] Jeremy Brecher - 'Climate Protection : The New Insurgency' To: Post WSFDiscuss <WorldSocialForum-Discuss(a)openspaceforum.net>, Post Social Movements Riseup <social-movements(a)lists.riseup.net>, Post CJN! <cjn(a)lists.riseup.net>, Post India Climate Justice <indiaclimatejustice(a)googlegroups.com>, Post WRI Cape Town 2014 <southafrica2014conference(a)lists.wri-irg.org> Cc: Jai Sen <jai.sen(a)cacim.net>, Richard Falk <rfalk(a)princeton.edu> Saturday, 28 June 2014 Resisting the War on Mother Earth, Reclaiming Our Home Continuing my posts in solidarity with the theme workshops on Resisting the War on Mother Earth, Reclaiming Our Home at the War Resisters’ International Conference taking place in Cape Town next week (July 4-8; http://wri-irg.org/southafrica2014) here is a classic essay by Jeremy Brecher that looks at what ‘needs to be done’ in the emerging context of climate-change-that-is-war – and that, the author argues, is already happening – and crucially, the moral and political principle underlying such action : “Protecting our climate requires more than lobbying and more than “civil disobedience.” It requires a new understanding of how we [can] relate to the law–and how can enforce it ourselves when governments fail. “When 30 climate protestors from 18 countries protested drilling at an Arctic oil platform operated by Gazprom, they represented the people of the world taking a symbolic stand against climate destruction, the corporate climate destroyers, and the governments that back them. But the action of the Arctic 30 may be prophetic of something more : The emergence of a global insurgency that challenges the very legitimacy of those who are destroying our planet. “Insurgencies are social movements, but movements of a special type : They reject current rulers’ claims to legitimate authority. Insurgencies often develop from movements that initially make no direct challenge to established authority but eventually conclude that one is necessary to realize their objectives. To effectively protect the earth’s climate and our species’ future, the climate protection movement may have to become such an insurgency.” For a full presentation, see the Foreign Policy In Focus report, "A Nonviolent Insurgency for Climate Protection? Richard Falk, a US American professor emeritus of international law and the UN Special Rapporteur on "the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967”, has the following comment on the full report : “I have just read your full discussion paper, ‘Global Nonviolent Law-Enforcing Insurgency..’. It is an exceptionally valuable contribution to thought, feeling, and action on this greatest challenge that has ever confronted humanity as a whole, and points to the biological vulnerability of the multiple fragmentations (state sovereignty, identity politics, nationalism, etc.) that structurally and ideologically inhibit the capacity to address the most urgent collective action problems. “Along these lines, the one area that you might consider adding some observations, that is, if you share my assessment is this : The failure to respond to the climate change challenge so far suggests a rather weak species will to survive. In other words, the human species seems vulnerable from this bio-political perspective that has not been previously at risk except possibly in relation to nuclear weaponry, and the evidence there is also not encouraging.” In my understanding, the arguments put forward by Jeremy Brecher in this paper and that underlie it – and, as above, as developed in his full report - provide a vital basis for the fundamental discussions that we need to have today of what we need to do in the world that we live in : At the WRI Conference in Cape Town, and elsewhere. JS (As added information, Jeremy Brecher has now expanded his arguments into a book due out later this year, presently titled ‘Climate Insurgency : Taking Charge Of Our Planet’.) Climate Protection : The New Insurgency Faced with the failure of conventional lobbying, the climate protection movement is now turning to mass civil disobedience—but we can take it further still. By Jeremy Brecher, December 10, 2013. This article is a joint publication of Foreign Policy In Focus and TruthOut. For a longer presentation, see the Foreign Policy In Focus report, “A Nonviolent Insurgency for Climate Protection?“ - http://fpif.org/nonviolent-insurgency-climate-protection/ When 30 climate protestors from 18 countries protested drilling at an Arctic oil platform operated by Gazprom, they represented the people of the world taking a symbolic stand against climate destruction, the corporate climate destroyers, and the governments that back them. But the action of the Arctic 30 may be prophetic of something more: The emergence of a global insurgency that challenges the very legitimacy of those who are destroying our planet. The 2013 Fifth Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change confirmed that humans are destroying the earth’s climate. But it also revealed something even more alarming: Twenty-five years of human effort to protect the climate have failed even to slow the forces that are destroying it. On the contrary, the rate of increase in carbon emissions from burning fossil fuels tripled between the release of the first IPCC report in 1988 and today. Scientists and climate protection advocates once expected that rational leaders and institutions would respond appropriately to the common threat of climate change. As Bill McKibben said of Jim Hansen and himself, “I think he thought, as did I, if we get this set of facts out in front of everybody, they’re so powerful — overwhelming — that people will do what needs to be done.” It didn’t work. Those who are fighting to save the climate need a new strategy. One such strategy to consider is a global nonviolent law-enforcing insurgency. A nonviolent insurgency Insurgencies are social movements, but movements of a special type: They reject current rulers’ claims to legitimate authority. Insurgencies often develop from movements that initially make no direct challenge to established authority but eventually conclude that one is necessary to realize their objectives. To effectively protect the earth’s climate and our species’ future, the climate protection movement may have to become such an insurgency. The term “insurgency” is generally associated with an armed rebellion against an established government. Its aim may be to overthrow the existing government, but it may also aim to change it or simply to protect people against it. Whatever its means and ends, the hallmark of such an insurgency is to deny the legitimacy of established state authority and to assert the legitimacy of its own actions. A nonviolent insurgency pursues similar objectives by different means. Like an armed insurgency, it does not accept the limits on its action imposed by the powers-that-be. But unlike an armed insurgency, it eschews violence and instead expresses power by mobilizing people for various forms of nonviolent mass action. After closely following the massive strikes, general strikes, street battles, peasant revolts, and military mutinies of the Russian Revolution of 1905 that forced the czar to grant a constitution, Mohandas (not yet dubbed “Mahatma”) Gandhi concluded, “Even the most powerful cannot rule without the cooperation of the ruled.” Shortly thereafter he launched his first civil disobedience campaign, proclaiming “We too can resort to the Russian remedy against tyranny.” The powers responsible for climate change could not rule for a day without the acquiescence of those whose lives and future they are destroying. They are only able to continue their destructive course because others enable or acquiesce in it. It is the ordinary activity of people — going to work, paying taxes, buying products, obeying government officials, staying off private property — that continually re-creates the power of the powerful. A nonviolent climate insurgency can be powerful if it withdraws that cooperation from the powers-that-be. Why a law-enforcing insurgency? Faced with the failure of conventional lobbying and political “pressure group” activity, much of the climate protection movement is now turning to mass civil disobedience, as witnessed by the campaigns against the Keystone XL pipeline, mountaintop removal coal mining, coal-fired power plants, and Arctic oil drilling. Such civil disobedience, while generally recognizing the legitimacy of the law, refuses to obey it in specific instances. Civil disobedience represents moral protest, but it does not in itself challenge the legal validity of the government or other institutions against which it is directed. Rather, it claims that the obligation to oppose their immoral actions — whether discriminating against a class of people or conducting an immoral war or destroying the climate — is more binding on individuals than the normal duty to obey the law. A law-enforcing insurgency goes a step further. It declares a set of laws and policies themselves illegal and sets out to establish law through nonviolent self-help. Such insurgents view those who they are disobeying as merely persons claiming to represent legitimate authority — but who are themselves violating the law under what’s known as “color of law,” or the false pretense of authority. So “civil disobedience” is actually obedience to law and a form of law enforcement. Social movements that engage in civil disobedience often draw strength from the claim that their actions are not only moral, but that they represent an effort to enforce fundamental legal and constitutional principles flouted by the authorities they are disobeying. And they strengthen a movement’s appeal to the public by presenting its action not as wanton law breaking but as an effort to rectify governments and institutions that are themselves in violation of the law. For the civil rights movement, the constitution’s guarantee of equal rights meant that sit-inners and freedom riders were not criminals but rather upholders of constitutional law. For the struggle against apartheid, racism was a violation of internationally guaranteed human rights. For war resisters from Vietnam to Iraq, the national and international laws forbidding war crimes defined civil disobedience not as interference with legal, democratic governments but rather as a legal obligation of citizens. For the activists of Solidarity, the nonviolent revolution that overthrew Communism in Poland was not criminal sedition but an effort to implement the international human and labor rights law ratified by their own government. These examples seem paradoxical. On the one hand, the movement participants appear to be resisting the constituted law and the officials charged with implementing it. On the other, they are claiming to act on the basis of law — in fact to be implementing the law themselves against the opposition of lawless states. Law professor and historian James Gray Pope has developed a concept of “constitutional insurgency” to understand such cases. A constitutional insurgency, or what might be called a “law-enforcing insurgency,” is a social movement that rejects current constitutional doctrine but that “rather than repudiating the Constitution altogether, draws on it for inspiration and justification.” Pope detailed how the American labor movement long insisted that the right to strike was protected by the 13th amendment to the constitution, which forbade any form of “involuntary servitude.” Injunctions to limit strikes were therefore unconstitutional. Although courts disregarded this claim, the radical Industrial Workers of the World told its members to “disobey and treat with contempt all judicial injunctions,” and the “normally staid” American Federation of Labor maintained that a worker confronted with an unconstitutional injunction had an imperative duty to “refuse obedience and to take whatever consequences may ensue.” Why climate destruction is illegal The Justinian Code, issued by the Roman Emperor in 535 A.D., defined the concept of res communes (common things): “By the law of nature these things are common to mankind — the air, running water, the sea and consequently the shores of the sea.” The right of fishing in the sea from the shore “belongs to all men.” Based on the Justinian Code’s protection of res communes, governments around the world have long served as trustees for rights held in common by the people. In U.S. law this role is defined by the public trust doctrine, under which the government serves as public trustee on behalf of present and future generations. Even if the state holds title, the public is the “beneficial owner.” As trustee, the state has a “fiduciary duty” to the owner — a legal duty to act solely in the owners’ interest with “the highest duty of care.” The principle is recognized today in both common law and civil law systems in countries ranging from South Africa to the Philippines and from the United States to India. On Mother’s Day, 2011, the youth organization Kids vs. Global Warming organized the “iMatter March” of young people in 160 communities in 45 countries, including the United States, Russia, Brazil, New Zealand, and Great Britain. Concurrently, the Atmospheric Trust Litigation Project brought suits and petitions on behalf of young people in all 50 U.S. states to require the federal and state governments to fulfill their obligation to protect the atmosphere as a common property. Speaking to one of the rallies, 16-year-old Alec Loorz, founder of Kids v. Global Warming and lead plaintiff in the Federal lawsuit, said: Today, I and other fellow young people are suing the government, for handing over our future to unjust fossil fuel industries, and ignoring the right of our children to inherit the planet that has sustained all of civilization. The government has a legal responsibility to protect the future for our children. So we are demanding that they recognize the atmosphere as a commons that needs to be preserved, and commit to a plan to reduce emissions to a safe level. Loorz concluded: “The plaintiffs and petitioners on all the cases are young people. We are standing up for our future.” A trustee has “an active duty of vigilance to ‘prevent decay or waste’ to the asset,” according to University of Oregon law professor Mary Christina Wood, whose new book Nature’s Trust: Environmental Law for a New Age lays out the legal basis for the suits. “Waste” means “permanently damage.” If the asset is wasted in the interest of one generation of beneficiaries over future generations, it is in effect an act of “generational theft.” Although so far the courts have turned down most of these atmospheric public trust suits, the decisions are being appealed. On October 3, 2013, the Supreme Court of Alaska became the first state supreme court to hear such an appeal. A global climate insurgency Compelling as the logic of the atmospheric public trust argument may be, it is easy to imagine that many U.S. courts will refuse to force governments to meet such obligations. In a brief to dismiss the Kansas suit, lawyers called the claim “a child’s wish for a better world,” which is not something a court can do much about. The sad fact is that virtually all the governments on earth — and their legal systems — are deeply corrupted by the very forces that gain from destroying the global commons. They exercise illegitimate power without regard to their obligations to those they claim to represent, let alone to the common rights beneficiaries of other lands and future generations to whom they also owe “the highest duty of care.” But protecting the atmosphere is not just a matter for governments. Indeed, it is the failure of governments to protect the public trust that is currently prompting the climate-protection movement to turn to mass civil disobedience. Looked at from the perspective of the public trust doctrine, these actions are far from lawless. Indeed, they embody the effort of people around the world to assert their right and responsibility to protect the public trust. They represent people stepping in to provide law enforcement where corrupt and illegitimate governments have failed to meet their responsibility to do so. When the climate protection movement uses nonviolent direct action to protect the public trust, it is often confronted by government officials acting under color of law to perpetuate climate destruction. The Arctic 30 were held at gunpoint, for example, and charged with piracy. Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said, “Concern for the environment must not cover up unlawful actions.” A law-enforcing climate insurgency will answer: Concern for oil company profits must not cover up unlawful government complicity in destroying the atmospheric public trust. Jeremy Brecher is co-founder and core team member of the Labor Network for Sustainability. He is the author of more than a dozen books on labor and social movements and has received five regional Emmy awards for his documentary film work. An updated edition of his labor history Strike! (PM Press 2014) will include a new chapter on the working class mini-revolts of the 21st century. _______________________________________________ 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: Connecting the dots: hackers, settlers, anarchists
by Michel Bauwens 28 Jun '14

28 Jun '14

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: FreeLab - Laboratorium Wolności <freelab(a)riseup.net> Date: Sat, Jun 28, 2014 at 12:53 PM Subject: Connecting the dots: hackers, settlers, anarchists -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Dear friends, BETTER DOWNLOAD PAGE HERE: https://archive.org/details/ConnectingTheDotsBeta3 Based upon the talk, given a week ago in Oslo Hackeriet, I developed an article, which is the first synthetic result of my travel throughout Norway. This is also the mental framework for my plans for the summer 2015, wchich are taking quite interesting shape right as you read it. http://freelab2014.wordpress.com/2014/06/28/connecting-the-dots-hackers-set… Have a nice reading. I hope you will post a lot of comments and remarks there. Best greetings from Svartlamon, Trondheim Petros - -- Petros At FreeLab http://freelab.org.pl https://n4rky.me/profile/petros #FreeLab @irc.freenode.net Twitter/Identi.ca: FreeLabPL -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Icedove - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJTrwEfAAoJEFbQvvEIc20okL4P/3lDvpm0YZgKwV7DmdovcqpP NLp+Bc0TEpoOEc/nWyZP8il0OFkkqBseFVGhg/7/8fXQKhArnFpikWk2jSPAUsyF Qt9Y3zTDgp+hfvfcHpLZMRj6VeaE50JQAKWfnp28dzAM/FAGb7J+AjXkhn3Lkjh2 rJXk5BySVqJk72BhHjQmTRqDgU8SiayueJusP0DFe4ZT3m7vJYQq/xT/UW4+dYXR 5XW8Z5hC2ZOCZDXagX8jMVgKWiTheC6NOsCuxug1RzdLHbUHxp6l/AemPFM+ly6H +PupF9PZz8nmsKVbgP2KsGfwLVa6uImtsfOn5erMmUuFbyOvPrmxtLOZzg8bVPUT FsjI7xkUg3vJFp56qYJqO85RuyqwvI+mDDsLROgRjK6LI4kIkzy0+Bfw6cLJH3OV ooDYvlcoAOXeGK93MeuKnTwwiDSfV9WZyXSkX7ZGeCHRO2YyOtF3866q/xKtvf4d xXqtD9+ynxc62xI3dtOcy3pWWag5Lp7CR1sBlb8JxvZqY3hWCPEkHuOInwEb/o1T fhZE9gFhpW3+BW2KVxwTDg35ar/95cdwy2/FXZLnlUUH7JLLlZqHhXgnfWo2EudA 68hvKk3Ql+NPf0B68uWljG9mPLBv2uAOZ6AaQADLVx8P3LzdOo6kpCwOLer8V4ct rlABNjm6utRKcayKZdAM =VKPu -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- *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] new initiative 'SAYS-US'
by Michel Bauwens 28 Jun '14

28 Jun '14

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Örsan Şenalp <orsan1234(a)gmail.com> Date: Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 4:20 PM Subject: [Networkedlabour] new initiative 'SAYS-US' To: "networkedlabour(a)lists.contrast.org" <networkedlabour(a)lists.contrast.org > SAYS-US is a new initative taken by Frank Kashner, who recently joined the list. Thanks Frank and welcome to the list. Frank and I did meet and talk about this really interesting webspace initiative and decided to collaborate on developing it further. We had several skype calls to think how to network and organize around the idea. Below is the text from the front page of the saysus.net . It is quite a complementary project, to another really interesting project recently launched: by NetwzerkIT, the labourleaks.org Both are collaborative efforts need your support, and solidarity of any kind. here is the text "SAYSUS Voice to the voiceless! Power to the powerless! >From anonymous complaint to coordinated action. Says who? Says Us! ———————————————- A Psychological Initiative Self-expression enhances psychological well-being Dialogue increases relatedness and caring Assertion of shared need builds a sense of efficacy and solidarity Social action diminishes isolation, helplessness, and hopelessness Conflict, conducted collaboratively, brings hope and change —————————————————– A Political Initiative There are already struggles everywhere – for justice, equality, and freedom People need ways to safely voice their complaints and needs We need “eyes” and “ears” to see and hear them In every institution, school, company, neighborhood, family People can be empowered to learn, speak, fight, and win Against bullying and oppressive individuals and institutions To serve others and to change institutions, including governments Online tools and mechanisms can help If we build the tools, people will use them We will learn from each other as we proceed ——————————————- Flow Anonymous complaints can identify problems Shared complaints can lead to action Action can lead to solving problems Repeat Small successes can lead to bigger efforts Links A proposal to create tools for change A most useful site “what ever happened to jobvent?” from Yahoo Answers An example of Southbay content that was on the jobvent site and was removed Draft requirements for says-us web site and mobile application Says Us homepage: http://saysus.net/" in solidarity, Orsan _______________________________________________ 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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Re: [P2P-F] Connecting the dots: hackers, settlers, anarchists
by Michel Bauwens 28 Jun '14

28 Jun '14

great work petros! On Sat, Jun 28, 2014 at 5:23 AM, FreeLab - Laboratorium Wolności < freelab(a)riseup.net> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Dear friends, > > Based upon the talk, given a week ago in Oslo Hackeriet, I developed > an article, which is the first synthetic result of my travel > throughout Norway. > This is also the mental framework for my plans for the summer 2015, > wchich are taking quite interesting shape right as you read it. > > > http://freelab2014.wordpress.com/2014/06/28/connecting-the-dots-hackers-set… > > Have a nice reading. I hope you will post a lot of comments and > remarks there. > > Best greetings from Svartlamon, Trondheim > > Petros > - -- > Petros At FreeLab > http://freelab.org.pl https://n4rky.me/profile/petros > #FreeLab @irc.freenode.net Twitter/Identi.ca: FreeLabPL > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Icedove - http://www.enigmail.net/ > > iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJTrpeYAAoJEFbQvvEIc20ooD8P/1C2lC6ekBQZE8+ZLYRxuJhD > FtQp1vO6H6qzEohDVFOoWmric0fUvQtjQFlR+0cDaVYMXJkUq16uSavOnAQuZMU0 > H9tp3VDoN0xU8362QyAv1a5HxzN4fOU6TAOHP6XLpEBfW2O+Sx86P6xnfm7p7c/6 > FYpe9qeeBP51TVTKlfhhThU35CAnwklQEF0SLc941HO88AXiRf+Uw5QN6Bq3KYJv > oDeUsQQ65l45EhZ/6jTn3mfhsNrJO4xd5T5h5H7fWvKo68YVY9dGIOp0+1dztV5R > mWuBUPrQ00fq/eGuyeXUxbnKBD5TshYx7auGn1RnzceXTmzQI2OrzUVK44EJArXD > qW+LqdpOeejRthcAcj3ctskN3cBNk4838ph69oHyi77N5bMr5EuyMW1SDKGEE2PV > ss9ZgyV8Vx5CGuOmWET8FHh5WF9AIg10m8qF0IyZLkVp4LVIWNgkydrEZ9WT7zdU > ymu+d7Dp0Ahm+prH6hecHmuD5K4IDGiAJNJtbu8tOowXHwLHHFGXDEp9eDhFWKgC > OZLyUA26dZiFt3pZu7/biSRyUbAVKM3HcpdZKhv5HgSs3f4L40OlEb9AUfJWQ71O > vomKjYz0Bdn1T735fKyZHIKKS4pI9b8VQagNy6cTck0wqLFXXsEr1DV9OKb6/lfY > /3kvAUO20ZmhkZF/pB+J > =nv36 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > -- *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] Rethinking Labour as a Network-Movement
by Michel Bauwens 27 Jun '14

27 Jun '14

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Örsan Şenalp <orsan1234(a)gmail.com> Date: Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 11:37 AM Subject: [Networkedlabour] Rethinking Labour as a Network-Movement To: "networkedlabour(a)lists.contrast.org" <networkedlabour(a)lists.contrast.org>, CRITICAL-LABOUR-STUDIES(a)jiscmail.ac.uk new blog-post, worthy to share here: http://snuproject.wordpress.com/2014/06/20/rethinking-labour-as-a-network-m… Very recently valuable and concrete reflections are being published, filling in the public understanding of the nature and dynamics of the most-recent social and emancipatory uprisings, known also as Global Revolution. The recent articles written by Bernardo Gutiérrez <http://www.tni.org/article/network-movements-and-new-social-atmosphere> and Rodrigo Nunes <http://www.metamute.org/editorial/books/organisation-organisationless-colle…>, both involved in the 15M, Occupy, Gezi, and Brazilian uprisings and were systematically putting their self-reflections together in wider framework of a collaborative action-research network also named as Global Revolution <http://www.uoc.edu/portal/en/sala-de-premsa/actualitat/noticies/2013/notici…>, are highly informative and pedagogic. They explain masterfully why transnational ‘organization’ of the global ‘revolution’ is qualitatively different then what we have understood from traditional use of the concepts of ‘organization’ and ‘revolution’. Another important resource was produced by Adrià Rodriguez <http://www.slideshare.net/AdriRodriguez1?utm_campaign=profiletracking&utm_m…> who have also been very active in 15M, as well as other ‘network movements’ since 201-11, and linked to the Global Revolution Research Network. I have been involved -though more directly- in Occupy, Take The Square and Gezi movements/networks, as well, and also linked to Bernardo, Rodrigo and Adria online, while on the other hand was trying to develop a new understanding of the emergent new labour class movement. My work at Social Network Unionism <http://snuproject.wordpress.com/>and Networked Labour <http://www.networkedlabour.net/> blog/networks have been heavily owing to the previous work done by people like Peter Waterman, Hilary Wainwright, Marco Berlinguer, Mayo Fuster and others they have been collaborating around the Networked Politics <http://www.networked-politics.info/> initiative. Below papers and reports are ones that I published on various digital spaces since 2011 uprisings. Now it seems worthy to put them together in a chronological order and reproduce once more: May 2014, Transnational networks of radical labour research and (h)activism <http://snuproject.wordpress.com/2014/06/13/in-the-making-of-a-global-workin…> March 2013, Another World Now! The coming of the Transnational Revolutions and the Networked Prince <http://snuproject.wordpress.com/2014/06/13/another-world-now-2/> February 2013, Global unionism: the peer to peer model <http://newunionism.wordpress.com/2013/02/20/global-unionism-the-p2p-model/> October 2012, The Dramatic Rise of Peer-to-Peer Communication within the emancipatory movements <http://snuproject.wordpress.com/2014/06/13/the-dramatic-rise-of-peer-to-pee…> August 2012, Organizing, P2P Networking, and Mapping of the Production Process by the Workers: an Argument for a ‘New Unionism 2.0′ <http://snuproject.wordpress.com/2011/12/08/organizing-social-networking-and…> August 2011, Global class warfare and the rEvolutionary working-class agency <http://www.networkedlabour.net/2014/06/global-class-warfare-and-the-p2p-rev…> Though I was not directly linked to, nor collaborated with the work done around the Global Revolution research collaboration, since I simply was not aware of it during the heavy tempo of practice of actively, socially and politically making use of the social networking technologies that enabled and aggregated the new collective political practices. However being part of the same praxis, of such network-movements, and reading these recent publications, I have come to realise that there has been remarkable overlapping and similarity between my approach and Global Revolution research-action, especially when when it comes to thinking of the new ontology and epistemology of the emerging p2p networked-movements. _______________________________________________ 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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