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Fwd: Info for the event on the 8th to be shared through your networks
by Michel Bauwens 26 Aug '14

26 Aug '14

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Heike Loeschmann <Loeschmann(a)boell.de> Date: Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 1:15 AM Subject: Info for the event on the 8th to be shared through your networks To: Michel Bauwens <michel(a)p2pfoundation.net> Cc: Joanna Barelkowska <barelkowska(a)boell.de> Friends, After attending a number of events prior and during the Degrowth Conference in Leipzig I will be back in Berlin for a lecture/round table talk on September 8th from 2 pm to 5 pm hosted by the Heinrich Boell Stiftung at Schumannstraße 8, Berlin. In the first half of 2014, three Ecuadorian institutions funded research for a *first integrative transition towards a social knowledge economy* or in other words, a society with an economy oriented around common pools of shareable knowledge. This participatory project produced the *first generic Commons Transition Plan* and* 15+ specific policy proposals* in various domains such as open education, open agriculture, biocommons etc. * Here is the project wiki that feeds you with a lot of information, *(*http://en.wiki.floksociety.org/w/Research_Plan <http://en.wiki.floksociety.org/w/Research_Plan> , *but I will present at first for those who are not having the time to dive deeply into it before. I will elaborate on the project design, the process, the outcome and the future prospects of the laid out plan. I propose to discuss questions such as the following and many more that you feel are pressing related issues: How can we evaluate the encounter between proposals such as the Partner State and the commonification of public services and an actual really existing state? What where the limitations of this first transition experience and what can we learn for the future ? The next iteration of such a commons transition plan will take place in Catalonia in the spring of 2015, where the proposed institutions will be directly civic in nature, and designed to sustain the production of material commons. Despite ist limitations, the FLOK experience may signal a shift towards progressive policies and political coalitions that are no longer focused on statist solutions, but on an orientation towards the Commons. How realistic is such a scenario and can it save Europe from a potential shift to the radical right ?" It would be great if you have time and join. We can arrange for a nice lineup on that day since Jeremy Rifkin is giving a public lecture at the Allianz Forum. We could walk over to the Pariser Platz together after the event. See info below. To arrange the setting for the event and also to have some finger foot after my round and before Rifkins, the Boell Team needs to plan a bit and it would therefore be nice if you just drop a line to Joanna Barelkowska at Barelkowska(a)boell.de to indicate your interest to attend. Thanks and look forward to see you in the 8th. Very best, Michel Allianz Lecture The Zero Marginal Cost Society: The Internet of Things, the Collaborative Commons, and the Eclipse of Capitalism Monday, September 8, 2014 – 6:00 p.m. Jeremy Rifkin Allianz Distinguished Visitor, American Academy in Berlin; Founder and President, The Foundation on Economic Trends; Founder, Third Industrial Revolution; and Author Words of Welcome by Professor Dr. Volker Deville, Head of Representative Office Berlin, Allianz SE Moderated by Reinhard Karger Company Spokesman, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence; and President, German Society for Information Science and Practice Location: Allianz Forum, Pariser Platz 6, 10117 Berlin Please find the official invitation with more detailed information attached. In cooperation with Campus Verlag -- Check out the Commons Transition Plan here at: http://en.wiki.floksociety.org/w/Research_Plan P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation>Updates: http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/

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message on my departure for 3.5 months of lecturing in europe
by Michel Bauwens 25 Aug '14

25 Aug '14

Dear friends, Before I get 3 hours of sleep, an announcement. I am off for 3.5 months of intensive lecturing and touring in Europe, to compensate for my long absense this year, due to my engagement in Ecuador . This trip will bring me, more or less 10 days in Germany: open coop workshop, movement-commons convergence workshop, degrowth (2-6/9), lecture in berlin 8/9 5 days in cloughjordan, Ireland for open everything 10-14/9 7 days in paris: Sept 16 to 23 short stint belgium / amsterdam India / Bangalore 28/9 - oct 2 Marseille, what the flok, oct 3-6 Belgium 7 to 17/10 Milan - Lille - Graz oct 23-27 Greece nov 6 to 15 .. of course, not the complete list .. SEE YOU THERE ? -- Check out the Commons Transition Plan here at: http://en.wiki.floksociety.org/w/Research_Plan P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation>Updates: http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/

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petition to restore the work of of Marx in the common domain
by Andreas Wittel 25 Aug '14

25 Aug '14

sorry for crossposting, please to consider to sign this petition: https://www.change.org/p/lawrence-and-wishart-allow-marx-s-and-engels-s-wri… many thanks, andreas

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updated proposal for the 3 strategic goals of the p2p foundation 2015-2016
by Michel Bauwens 24 Aug '14

24 Aug '14

.*Our three strategic priorities for 2015-2016 are:* - stream 1: *co-creating and catalyzing the alternative eco-system for open and cooperative peer production and reconstruction and economic and social power around the commons* (this includes work on our Commons-Based Reciprocity License <http://p2pfoundation.net/Commons-Based_Reciprocity_License>, Open Cooperativism <http://p2pfoundation.net/Open_Cooperativism> and Phyles <http://p2pfoundation.net/Phyles>, and ethical enterpreneurial coalitions that co-produce commons) - stream 2: *recreating political voice and power, through bottom up Assemblies of the Commons <http://p2pfoundation.net/Main_Page?title=Assemblies_of_the_Commons&action=e…> and Chamber of the Commons <http://p2pfoundation.net/Chamber_of_the_Commons> that put forward social charters, AND through "top-down" progressive coalitions (through existing politics and parties) coalitions around the commons , i.e. 'the politics and policies of the commons', that continue our efforts to implement Commons Transition Plans <http://p2pfoundation.net/Commons_Transition_Plan>*. - stream 3: *creating synergies between cooperative peer production and sustainability, i.e. showing how a transition to the new mode of production, governance and ownership, can solve the ecological / climate crisis* -- Check out the Commons Transition Plan here at: http://en.wiki.floksociety.org/w/Research_Plan P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation>Updates: http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/

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Fwd: Message from our FB fan page
by Michel Bauwens 24 Aug '14

24 Aug '14

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Stacco Troncoso <staccotroncoso(a)gmail.com> Date: 2014-08-20 18:14 GMT+07:00 Subject: Message from our FB fan page To: Michel Bauwens <michel(a)p2pfoundation.net> Eva De Haan <https://www.facebook.com/eva.dehaan.14> 5 August 09:46 Beste medewerkers van P2P, ik postte op jullie account de link voor een workshop en lezing in Nieuwpoort op 29 augustus, georganiseerd door het tijdschrift Oikos. De onderwerpen waar rond gewerkt wordt zijn `transitie´ en `herpolitisering´, twee belangrijke en interessante thema´s. Als jullie dit interessant vinden, zouden jullie de link dan kunnen posten via jullie account? De link zou normaal automatisch moeten verschijnen. Vele groetjes, Eva Hierbij ook de events zelf: https://www.facebook.com/events/804633402894467/?fref=ts https://www.facebook.com/events/323124477838792/?fref=ts -- Check out the Commons Transition Plan here at: http://en.wiki.floksociety.org/w/Research_Plan P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation>Updates: http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/

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Re: [P2P-F] [Members] FW: <nettime> a political, commons-based evaluation of Bitcoin
by Michel Bauwens 24 Aug '14

24 Aug '14

not only are they not ready to embrace it, they are actively hoping to design it out of the online governance systems, the reasoning seems to be: democracy doesn't work, therefore we must abolish it and replace it with technocratic algorithms .. Michel On Sun, Aug 24, 2014 at 11:21 AM, parminder <parminder.js(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > Very useful article. > > Especially the observation, which is quite Castellsian.. > > "Networks which have no counter-measures to maintain equality inevitably > lead in time to a new concentration of resources." > > And the counter-measure to networks, as to free market (and the two do > share some key elements, and therefore presents such a potent force that it > has more or less overwhelmed us today), is in my view. POLITICS. > > Which is the reason that this self willed animal, Network, is so keen to > annihilate politics, and replace it with a version of its own, of networked > politics, like MSism and the such, which is no politics at all, just an > antidote to politics, and will not be needed and disappear the day politics > die. > > But the problem is that; so many who hate and resist the growing power of > the network, are simply not ready to sufficiently embrace politics. That to > me today is the key problem. > > parminder > > > On Sunday 24 August 2014 07:15 AM, michael gurstein wrote: > > An interesting critique of Bitcoins by our JNC colleague Michel Bauwens. > > M > -----Original Message----- > From: nettime-l-bounces(a)mail.kein.org > [mailto:[email protected] <nettime-l-bounces(a)mail.kein.org>] On Behalf Of mp > Sent: Friday, August 22, 2014 12:42 PM > To: a moderated mailing list for net criticism > Subject: <nettime> a political, commons-based evaluation of Bitcoin > > > * In Conclusion > > Despite all the drawbacks mentioned, Bitcoin remains a landmark and pivotal > development, showing that globally scaleable currencies are technically > feasible. It sets the stage for potential commons-based p2p-driven currency > systems and the Bitcoin ledger can become a tool for self-organizing > communities. > > > -------- Original Message -------- > > Could be of interest to this community: > http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/a-political-evaluation-of-bitcoin/2014/08/20 > > > > > # 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 > > > !DSPAM:2676,53f7c7dc308591196237022! > > > _______________________________________________ > Members mailing list > > > > -- Check out the Commons Transition Plan here at: http://en.wiki.floksociety.org/w/Research_Plan P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation>Updates: http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/

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Fwd: David DeGraw
by Michel Bauwens 24 Aug '14

24 Aug '14

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: John La Grou <jl(a)jps.net> Date: Sun, Aug 24, 2014 at 11:25 AM Subject: David DeGraw To: John La Grou <jl(a)jps.net> Exceptionally well-written and well-researched analysis of socioeconomic imbalance 1980-2014 (identical in many respects to 1920-1929). Factoring in offshore wealth, today's imbalance may be even worse than 1929. http://daviddegraw.org/peak-inequality-the-01-and-the-impoverishment-of-soc… "For more historical context and to further demonstrate how corrupt the government and economic system have become; if household income had kept pace with the overall economy since 1970, the current annual median would be $95k, almost double what it presently is. On top of that, it was normal to have only one wage-earner per household in 1970, as compared to two now ...... US citizens have now taken on $12 trillion in personal debt. On average, that’s $50k of debt for every US citizen over the age of 17. Again, it cannot be stated enough, in the current economy under present government policy, it is *impossible* for this debt to be paid off while maintaining the cost of basic necessities. Therefore, overall debt will continue to skyrocket. Even if interest rates on these debts dropped to 0%, as the Federal Reserve has done for a select few of their friends on Wall Street, there is no way for people to earn enough income to keep up with cost of living, let alone pay back their debts. On top of that, the already usurious interest rates on these debts are increasing. In fact, the spark that set off the global financial crisis in the first place is heating up <http://davidstockmanscontracorner.com/signs-of-the-top-subprime-credit-card…> once again ...... The evidence presented in this report thus far makes a very solid *mathematical* case for *significant systemic change*. However, to get a more complete understanding of how corrupt the global economic system is, we also need to factor in wealth that is hidden from public view. Disregarding trillions of dollars in hidden wealth just because the wealthy have the ability to *illegally* hide it is an absolute injustice. It is completely ignoring a critical aspect of what is now the *greatest theft of wealth in human history* ......We now live in a neo-feudal society. The evidence is undeniable. The indentured servant is now the indebted wage slave. A recent scientific study <https://www.princeton.edu/%7Emgilens/Gilens%20homepage%20materials/Gilens%2…> revealed that the United States government is subservient to the whim of the .01%. Political office is now merely a stepping-stone and initiation process that politicians go through to be accepted into the aristocracy. The .01% aristocracy is exactly what the first American Revolution was against. It was Thomas Jefferson’s understanding of the aristocracy’s ability to consolidate wealth and subvert government that led him to believe that *every generation required its own revolution* ...... The need for *significant systemic change* is now a *mathematical fact*. Corruption, greed and economic inequality have reached a peak tipping point. As more people grow aware of the deliberate systemic nature of their unnecessary suffering, exploitation and oppression, there will soon be a critical mass who will insist upon nothing less than absolute revolution. The delusional political class and mainstream media uphold the status quo as if it is insurmountable. In reality, it is highly unstable, unsustainable and collapsing at an increasing rate. " -- ***************************** John La Grouhttp://www.linkedin.com/in/lagrouhttp://lifeboat.com/ex/bios.john.la.gr… -- Check out the Commons Transition Plan here at: http://en.wiki.floksociety.org/w/Research_Plan P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation>Updates: http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/

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Fwd: The End of "Liberal Zionism"
by Michel Bauwens 24 Aug '14

24 Aug '14

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Tikkun <magazine(a)tikkun.org> Date: Sun, Aug 24, 2014 at 12:03 PM Subject: The End of "Liberal Zionism" To: Michelsub2004(a)gmail.com The End of Liberal Zionism Israel’s Move to the Right Challenges Diaspora Jews By ANTONY LERMANAUG. 22, 2014 Continue reading the main story <http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=j9Hum5SZyHd8BUv4XJbcg0iUkyWLOR…> Continue reading the main story <http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=uJXCe9%2BASyJe5We%2BQfv4SEiUky…>Share This Page - EMAIL - FACEBOOK - TWITTER - SAVE - MORE Continue reading the main story <http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=rYbgmjfkxdpyFRZgC5K5akiUkyWLOR…> Continue reading the main story <http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=ETRU6Z8IcFbKu3w0tpDsUUiUkyWLOR…>Continue reading the main story <http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=HnkPd9ZQxHL7hGUgK8d%2Bp0iUkyWL…> <http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=K%2F1SkJNe7oHPyQCbbGr73kiUkyWL…> This story is included with an NYT Opinion subscription. Learn more » <http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=CFy5fOJLJ7VenegLqWMWBEiUkyWLOR…> LONDON — Liberal Zionists are at a crossroads. The original tradition of combining Zionism and liberalism — which meant ending the occupation of the West Bank and Gaza, supporting a Palestinian <http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=KlUkRz3dcL0cx97yTKxch0iUkyWLOR…> state as well as a Jewish state with a permanent Jewish majority, and standing behind Israel <http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=%2Bp51e9TgqBYZolwovKN8v0iUkyWL…>when it was threatened — was well intentioned. But everything liberal Zionists stand for is now in doubt. The decision of Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, to launch a military campaign against Hamas in Gaza has cost the lives, to date, of 64 soldiers and three civilians on the Israeli side, and nearly 2,000 Palestinians, the majority of whom were civilians. “Never do liberal Zionists feel more torn than when Israel is at war,” wrote Jonathan Freedland <http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=acIks531YyZr4JJu3EvIy0iUkyWLOR…>, The Guardian’s opinion editor and a leading British liberal Zionist, for The New York Review of Books last month. He’s not alone. Columnists like Jonathan Chait, Roger Cohen and Thomas L. Friedman have all riffed in recent weeks on the theme that what Israel is doing can’t be reconciled with their humanism. Photo Israeli soldiers in Merkava tanks gather near the border with the Gaza Strip.CreditAbir Sultan/European Pressphoto Agency But it’s not just Gaza, and the latest episode of “shock and awe” militarism. The romantic Zionist ideal, to which Jewish liberals — and I was one, once — subscribed for so many decades, has been tarnished by the reality of modern Israel. The attacks on freedom of speech and human rights organizations in Israel, the land-grabbing settler movement, a growing strain of anti-Arab and anti-immigrant racism, extremist politics, and a powerful, intolerant religious right — this mixture has pushed liberal Zionism to the brink. In the United States, trenchant and incisive criticism of Israeli policies by commentators like Peter Beinart, one of liberal Zionism’s most articulate and prolific voices, is now common. But the critics go only so far — not least to avoid giving succor to anti-Semites, who use the crisis as cover for openly expressing hatred of Jews. In the past, liberal Zionists in the Diaspora found natural allies among the left-wing and secular-liberal parties in Israel, like Labor, Meretz and Shinui. But Israel’s political left is now comatose. Beaten by Menachem Begin in the 1977 national elections, it briefly revived with Yitzhak Rabin and the hopes engendered by the 1993 Oslo Accords. But having clung to the Oslo process long past its sell-by date, the parliamentary left in Israel has become insignificant. Diaspora Jewish politics has also changed. In the 1960s, when I was an enthusiastic young Zionist in England planning to settle on a kibbutz in Israel, some organizations had names virtually identical to Israeli political parties. This identification lasted only as long as the institutions that prevailed in Israel seemed to Diaspora Jews to reflect a liberal Zionist viewpoint. Today, the dominant Diaspora organizations, like the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, the American Jewish Committee and the Anti-Defamation League, as well as a raft of largely self-appointed community leaders, have swung to the right, making unquestioning solidarity with Israel the touchstone of Jewish identity — even though majority Jewish opinion is by no means hawkish. Continue reading the main story <http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=VDmuOFLX6XWb1fJ1MVfjmEiUkyWLOR…> Though squeezed by a more vociferous and entrenched right, liberal Zionists have not given up without a fight. They found ways of pushing back, insisting that their two-state Zionism held out the only hope for an end to the conflict and setting up organizations to promote their outlook. J Street in America and Yachad in Britain, founded in 2008 and 2011 respectively, describe themselves as “pro-Israel and pro-peace” and have attracted significant numbers of people who seek a more critical engagement with Israel. I became an Israeli citizen in 1970, and I am still one today. I worked in the Jewish community in research and philanthropic capacities for 30 years, serving the interests of Jews worldwide. But in the 1980s, I began to rethink my relationship with Israel and Zionism. As recently as 2007, while directing the London-based Institute for Jewish Policy Research, an independent think tank, I still thought that liberal Zionism had a role to play. I believed that by encouraging Diaspora Jews to express reservations about Israeli policy in public, liberal Zionism could influence the Israeli government to change its policies toward the Palestinians. I still understood its dream of Israel as a moral and just cause, but I judged it anachronistic. The only Zionism of any consequence today is xenophobic and exclusionary, a Jewish ethno-nationalism inspired by religious messianism. It is carrying out an open-ended project of national self-realization to be achieved through colonization and purification of the tribe. This mind-set blocks any chance Israel might have to become a full-fledged liberal-democratic state, and offers the Palestinians no path to national self-determination, no justice for their expulsion in 1948, nor for the occupation and the denial of their rights. I came to see the notion that liberal Zionism might reverse, or even just restrain, this nationalist juggernaut as fanciful. I used my position at the think tank to raise questions about Israel’s political path and to initiate a community-wide debate about these issues. Naïve? Probably. I was vilified by the right-wing Jewish establishment, labeled a “self-hating Jew” and faced public calls for me to be sacked. This just confirmed what I already knew about the myopia of Jewish leadership and the intolerance of many British Zionist activists. Photo CreditSébastien Thibault Today, neither the destruction wreaked in Gaza nor the disgraceful antics of the anti-democratic forces that are setting Israel’s political agenda have produced a decisive shift in Jewish Diaspora opinion. Beleaguered liberal Zionists still struggle to reconcile their liberalism with their Zionism, but they are increasingly under pressure from Jewish dissenters on the left, like Jewish Voice for Peace, Jews for Justice for Palestinians and Independent Jewish Voices. Along with many experts, most dissenting groups have long thought that the two-state solution was dead. The collapse of the peace talks being brokered by the American secretary of state, John Kerry, came as no surprise. Then, on July 11, Mr. Netanyahu definitively rejected any possibility of establishing an independent Palestinian state. The Gaza conflict meant, he said, that “there cannot be a situation, under any agreement, in which we relinquish security control of the territory west of the River Jordan” (meaning the West Bank). Continue reading the main story <http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=zrKFftWLmjzc5RFtVnVUukiUkyWLOR…>Continue reading the main story <http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=tQjoY3m0kgdpFNLt1YTylUiUkyWLOR…> Liberal Zionists must now face the reality that the dissenters have recognized for years: A de facto single state already exists; in it, rights for Jews are guaranteed while rights for Palestinians are curtailed. Since liberal Zionists can’t countenance anything but two states, this situation leaves them high and dry. Continue reading the main story <http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=ajwOoK3olRUfhZ0fvFru2UiUkyWLOR…> RECENT COMMENTS dwilday 11 hours ago I think Mr. Lerman's ennui is in part due to a disconnect in his own analysis of the state of liberal Zionism. In order for Israel to... HKGuy 12 hours ago Israel is more liberal than ever. It has all-but recognized gay marriages, gay adoptions, gay partner immigration. Tel Aviv is known as one... Givemeabreak 12 hours ago The problem with this type of argument is not that it is incorrect per se, but that it could equally apply to virtually every other country.... - SEE ALL COMMENTS Liberal Zionists believe that Jewish criticism of Israeli policies is unacceptable without love of Israel. They embrace Israel as the Jewish state. For it to remain so, they insist it must have a Jewish majority in perpetuity. Yet to achieve this inevitably implies policies of exclusion and discrimination. They’re convinced that Israel can be both Jewish and democratic, but they fail to explain how to reconcile God’s supreme authority with the sovereign power of the people. Meanwhile, the self-appointed arbiters of what’s Jewish in the Jewish state — the extreme religious Zionists and the strictly Orthodox, aided and abetted by Jewish racists in the Knesset like Ayelet Shaked, a Jewish Home Party member who recently called for the mothers of Palestinian “snakes” to be killed — are trashing democracy more and more each day. Particularly shocking are the mass arrests — nearly 500 since the beginning of July <http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=6wDvu32436bp4m%2FEy2ce7EiUkyWL…> — of Palestinian Arab citizens of Israel for peacefully protesting, and the sanctions against Arab students at universities for posting pro-Gaza messages on social media. Pushed to the political margins in Israel and increasingly irrelevant in the Diaspora, liberal Zionism not only lacks agency; worse, it provides cover for the supremacist Zionism dominant in Israel today. Liberal Zionists have become an obstacle to the emergence of a Diaspora Jewish movement that could actually be an agent of change. The dissenting left doesn’t have all the answers, but it has the principles upon which solutions must be based. Both liberal Zionism and the left accept the established historical record: Jews forced hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from their homes to make way for the establishment of a Jewish state. But the liberals have concluded that it was an acceptable price others had to pay for the state. The left accepts that an egregious injustice was done. The indivisibility of human, civil and political rights has to take precedence over the dictates of religion and political ideology, in order not to deny either Palestinians or Jews the right to national self-determination. The result, otherwise, will be perpetual conflict. In the repressive one-state reality of today’s Israel, which Mr. Netanyahu clearly wishes to make permanent, we need a joint Israeli-Palestinian movement to attain those rights and the full equality they imply. Only such a movement can lay the groundwork for the necessary compromises that will allow the two peoples’ national cultures to flourish. This aspiration is incompatible with liberal Zionism, and some liberal Zionists appear close to this conclusion, too. As Mr. Freedland put it, liberal Zionists “will have to decide which of their political identities matters more, whether they are first a liberal or first a Zionist.” They should know that Israel is not Judaism. Jewish history did not culminate in the creation of the state of Israel. Regrettably, there is a dearth of Jewish leaders telling Diaspora Jews these truths. The liberal Zionist intelligentsia should embrace this challenge, acknowledge the demise of their brand and use their formidable explanatory skills to build support for a movement to achieve equal rights and self-determination for all in Israel-Palestine. *Antony Lerman, a former director of the Institute for Jewish Policy Research, is the author of “The Making and Unmaking of a Zionist.”* ------------------------------ Click here to unsubscribe <http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=EwW1%2BQiRQWWyhEY9MmGPXEiUkyWL…> if you are having trouble unsubscribing Click here <kay(a)tikkun.org> Copyright 2014 Tikkun Magazine. Tikkun is a registered trademark. 2342 Shattuck Avenue, #1200 Berkeley, CA 94704 510-644-1200 Fax 510-644-1255 [image: empowered by Salsa] <http://www.salsalabs.com/?email> -- Check out the Commons Transition Plan here at: http://en.wiki.floksociety.org/w/Research_Plan P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation>Updates: http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/

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Fwd: [sem.FLOK] bienvenue sur la liste
by Michel Bauwens 24 Aug '14

24 Aug '14

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Frédéric Sultan <fredericsultan(a)gmail.com> Date: 2014-08-24 6:23 GMT+07:00 Subject: [sem.FLOK] bienvenue sur la liste To: semflok(a)bienscommuns.org Bonjour, La liste de discussion rattachée au séminaire FLOK ESS SIEG est opérationnelle. Vous pouvez accéder aux informations et éléments de configurations vous concernant au lien suivant : https://mail.cfcloud.fr/bienscommuns.org/info/semflok Cette discussion n'est pas réservée aux participants et vous pouvez inviter d'autres personnes à y participer. en utilisant le lien suivant: https://mail.cfcloud.fr/bienscommuns.org/review/semflok A bientôt Frédéric Sultan -- Check out the Commons Transition Plan here at: http://en.wiki.floksociety.org/w/Research_Plan P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation>Updates: http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/

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The role of foundations in mass collaboration
by Karl Robillard 23 Aug '14

23 Aug '14

Jim Zemlin talks about the importance of foundations in facilitating collaborative development during his 2014 State of Linux talk. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xk32M7yyUnc His main points: * A neutral home for collection and sharing of resources. * Enable structured investment. * Helping industry understand how to engage with the community. * Shared legal defense. * Shared development infrastructure. * A neutral home for key developers. * Addressing market failures. * Raising awareness (marketing) to bring in more developers and users. * Organize events for face to face meetings and training. * Provide training and certification to help grow the community. In summary: Provide support to developers. -Karl

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