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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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Re: [P2P-F] finally a good diaspora pod ?
by Michel Bauwens 30 Sep '14

30 Sep '14

perhaps you could be our scout layne <g> ? On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 2:12 AM, Layne Hartsell <hartsellml(a)p2pfoundation.net > wrote: > yes, we could slowly test it out and bring it into our social media. > Though FB rules for now! > > On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 9:02 PM, Michel Bauwens <michel(a)p2pfoundation.net> > wrote: > >> at this stage, I would just sent out some scouts, as I'm personally >> committed to fb still (as an outreach medium to reach a lot of people); >> >> I have 5k friends, I'm sure all of us would have a lot more than 10k ! >> >> On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 12:58 AM, Layne Hartsell < >> hartsellml(a)p2pfoundation.net> wrote: >> >>> Yes, and kathyrn and gilstening deepwater seem to be in some kind of >>> movement away from FB, using the intertia of Ello. anybody else know about >>> this? >>> >>> Could P2PF add to this in a significant way? >>> >>> Between all of us, we have perhaps 10,000 FB friends, and then those >>> extend out to 10's of thousands. So, if we got 10% response, I think it >>> would be good. >>> >>> Layne >>> >>> On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 7:45 PM, Michel Bauwens < >>> michel(a)p2pfoundation.net> wrote: >>> >>>> the day we move out of fb, >>>> >>>> would this be a good alternative: >>>> >>>> https://wk3.org/ >>>> >>>> it's diaspora, but the pod seems to be attracting interesting people, >>>> >>>> Michel >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Check out the Commons Transition Plan here at: >>>> http://en.wiki.floksociety.org/w/Research_Plan >>>> >>>> P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - >>>> http://blog.p2pfoundation.net >>>> >>>> <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation>Updates: >>>> http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens >>>> >>>> #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/ >>>> >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> Check out the Commons Transition Plan here at: >> http://en.wiki.floksociety.org/w/Research_Plan >> >> P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net >> >> <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation>Updates: >> http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens >> >> #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/ >> > > -- Check out the Commons Transition Plan here at: http://en.wiki.floksociety.org/w/Research_Plan P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation>Updates: http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/

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Fwd: FW: Climat, féminisme, extractivisme
by Michel Bauwens 30 Sep '14

30 Sep '14

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Francois Houtart <houtart(a)hotmail.com> Date: 2014-10-01 0:55 GMT+07:00 Subject: FW: Climat, féminisme, extractivisme To: "cabohorquez(a)gmail.com" <cabohorquez(a)gmail.com> Pour information. On peut demander au cetri un service régulier. Para su información. Se puede pedir al CETRI este servicio regular. FH François Houtart Profesor en el Instituto de Altos Estudios Nacionales (I.A.E.N.) Tel: (593) (2) 382 99 00 Ext 272 houtart(a)hotmail.com Fundación Pueblo Indio del Ecuador Calle Ruiz de Castilla N. 26-92 y Sosaya 170520 - Quito ECUADOR Tel. (593) (2) 32.12.100 Cel. (593) 09.69.55.06.40 Rue Kelle, 192/6 - B-1150 Bruxelles Tel. 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Re: [P2P-F] finally a good diaspora pod ?
by Michel Bauwens 30 Sep '14

30 Sep '14

at this stage, I would just sent out some scouts, as I'm personally committed to fb still (as an outreach medium to reach a lot of people); I have 5k friends, I'm sure all of us would have a lot more than 10k ! On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 12:58 AM, Layne Hartsell < hartsellml(a)p2pfoundation.net> wrote: > Yes, and kathyrn and gilstening deepwater seem to be in some kind of > movement away from FB, using the intertia of Ello. anybody else know about > this? > > Could P2PF add to this in a significant way? > > Between all of us, we have perhaps 10,000 FB friends, and then those > extend out to 10's of thousands. So, if we got 10% response, I think it > would be good. > > Layne > > On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 7:45 PM, Michel Bauwens <michel(a)p2pfoundation.net> > wrote: > >> the day we move out of fb, >> >> would this be a good alternative: >> >> https://wk3.org/ >> >> it's diaspora, but the pod seems to be attracting interesting people, >> >> Michel >> >> -- >> Check out the Commons Transition Plan here at: >> http://en.wiki.floksociety.org/w/Research_Plan >> >> P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net >> >> <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation>Updates: >> http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens >> >> #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/ >> > > -- Check out the Commons Transition Plan here at: http://en.wiki.floksociety.org/w/Research_Plan P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation>Updates: http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/

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finally a good diaspora pod ?
by Michel Bauwens 30 Sep '14

30 Sep '14

the day we move out of fb, would this be a good alternative: https://wk3.org/ it's diaspora, but the pod seems to be attracting interesting people, Michel -- 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: FW: [IP] Why I Just Asked My Students To Put Their Laptops Away
by Michel Bauwens 30 Sep '14

30 Sep '14

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: anita <anita(a)itforchange.net> Date: Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 8:06 AM Subject: Re: FW: [IP] Why I Just Asked My Students To Put Their Laptops Away To: inclusionroundtable2014(a)googlegroups.com similar to our dilemma :) Begin forwarded message: Why I Just Asked My Students To Put Their Laptops Away By Clay Shirky Sep 9 2014 <https://medium.com/@cshirky/why-i-just-asked-my-students-to-put-their-lapto…> <https://medium.com/@cshirky/why-i-just-asked-my-students-to-put-their-lapto…> I teach theory and practice of social media at NYU, and am an advocate and activist for the free culture movement, so I’m a pretty unlikely candidate for internet censor, but I have just asked the students in my fall seminar to refrain from using laptops, tablets, and phones in class. I came late and reluctantly to this decision — I have been teaching classes about the internet since 1998, and I’ve generally had a laissez-faire attitude towards technology use in the classroom. This was partly because the subject of my classes made technology use feel organic, and when device use went well, it was great. Then there was the competitive aspect — it’s my job to be more interesting than the possible distractions, so a ban felt like cheating. And finally, there’s not wanting to infantilize my students, who are adults, even if young ones — time management is their job, not mine. Despite these rationales, the practical effects of my decision to allow technology use in class grew worse over time. The level of distraction in my classes seemed to grow, even though it was the same professor and largely the same set of topics, taught to a group of students selected using roughly the same criteria every year. The change seemed to correlate more with the rising ubiquity and utility of the devices themselves, rather than any change in me, the students, or the rest of the classroom encounter. Over the years, I’ve noticed that when I do have a specific reason to ask everyone to set aside their devices (‘Lids down’, in the parlance of my department), it’s as if someone has let fresh air into the room. The conversation brightens, and more recently, there is a sense of relief from many of the students. Multi-tasking is cognitively exhausting — when we do it by choice, being asked to stop can come as a welcome change. So this year, I moved from recommending setting aside laptops and phones to requiring it, adding this to the class rules: “Stay focused. (No devices in class, unless the assignment requires it.)” Here’s why I finally switched from ‘allowed unless by request’ to ‘banned unless required’. We’ve known for some time that multi-tasking is bad for the quality of cognitive work, and is especially punishing of the kind of cognitive work we ask of college students. This effect takes place over more than one time frame — even when multi-tasking doesn’t significantly degrade immediate performance, it can have negative long-term effects on “declarative memory”, the kind of focused recall that lets people characterize and use what they learned from earlier studying. (Multi-tasking thus makes the famous “learned it the day before the test, forgot it the day after” effect even more pernicious.) [snip] -- <http://www.ITforChange.net/>*Anita Gurumurthy* | Executive Director IT for Change <http://www.itforchange.net/> (*In special consultative status with the United Nations ECOSOC)* 91-80-26654134 | T:00-91-80-26536890 | Fax 91-80-41461055 Email:[email protected] ------------------------------ * Have you visited: www.gender-is-citizenship.net <http://www.gender-is-citizenship.net> * -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "inclusionroundtable2014" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to inclusionroundtable2014+unsubscribe(a)googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to inclusionroundtable2014(a)googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/inclusionroundtable2014/542A0227.2010206%… <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/inclusionroundtable2014/542A0227.2010206%…> . For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- 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: Join us: "A Faithful Response to Corporate Power" webinar series
by Michel Bauwens 29 Sep '14

29 Sep '14

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Maryknoll Global Concerns <ogc(a)maryknoll.org> Date: Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 4:43 PM Subject: Join us: "A Faithful Response to Corporate Power" webinar series To: michelsub2004(a)gmail.com [image: header image] <http://salsa4.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=TnjDFpmqeIY7c7KCDuWjTF7pLcg…> Dear Michel, [image: corporate globe]In recent decades, and particularly after the Supreme Court ruling on Citizens United, corporations have gained more rights that often trump the common good. The experience of Maryknoll missioners and many people right here at home highlight the everyday struggles of people to feed their families, to have access to clean water and farmland, or to earn fair wages. Meanwhile corporations are increasing their privileges and decreasing their accountability to the broader community. *The Faith Economy Ecology Transformation Working Group is hosting a four-part webinar series* *on corporate power this fall *with faith leaders, experts in the field, and advocates for change. The series will explore how the role of corporations in society has changed over time, what positive alternative forms of corporations exist, and how people of faith can play an active role in confronting corporate power on a local, national, and international scale. *Sign up here!* <http://salsa4.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=C5CYYSoZEXUupwADRyfHxl7pLcg…> *Join us for one or all the webinars. Use one link to sign up. <http://salsa4.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=lVFzKuJvrSs4%2BJU5k4sF9V7pL…>* - *October 1: A Paradigm Shift in the Understanding of Corporations - *David Korten and Prof. Bill Quigley (Loyola University) - * October 15: Alternative Forms of Corporations - *John Duda (Democracy Collaborative), Heather Van Dusen (BLabs), Prof. Ed Lorenz (Alma College) - * November 5: National Campaigns to Diminish Corporate Power - *Robert Weissman (Public Citizen), Mateo Nube (Movement Generation) - * November 19: Taking Action to Address International Corporate Power - *Kirsten Cross (Corporate Accountability International), Melinda St. Louis (Public Citizen-Global Trade Watch) *The Faith Economy Ecology Transformation Working Group **is a loose collaboration of faith-based organizations committed to an equitable world vision in right relationship with God’s Earth and all humanity. Learn more about the Faith Economy Ecology Working Group and read our founding statement **here.* <http://salsa4.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=Ri33FkzrCncjl8iVea3mjF7pLcg…> ------------------------------ *Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns* <http://salsa4.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=SC8W7o%2Fpe02t6Ts%2BVzV%2BW…> 200 New York Avenue, NW Washington DC 20001 You are subscribed to this organization's email list as michelsub2004(a)gmail.com. If you did not subscribe, or would no longer like to receive email updates, unsubscribe here <http://salsa4.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=qavNvTRDUSdrK38GxAPZ%2Bl7pL…>. Note: this will unsubscribe you from *all* MOGC lists. If you would like to be removed from a specific list, please contact ogc(a)maryknoll.org. [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: [Networkedlabour] The Crucial Role of Waterfront (Logistics) Workers in the (International) Boycott Israel Campaign
by Michel Bauwens 29 Sep '14

29 Sep '14

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: peter waterman <peterwaterman1936(a)gmail.com> Date: Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 3:17 PM Subject: [Networkedlabour] The Crucial Role of Waterfront (Logistics) Workers in the (International) Boycott Israel Campaign To: "CRITICAL-LABOUR-STUDIES(a)jiscmail.ac.uk" < 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>, networkedlabour(a)lists.contrast.org *Peter sez:* *An impressive account of the crucial role one part of US labour is playing in the Solidarity with Palestine movement, which has implications for the role international labour (particularly dock and port labour) could play. This has to do with the dependence of a globalised and informatised capitalism on the logisitics industry <http://https://www.itfglobal.org/transport-international/ti35logistics.cfm>. * *This has to do with the equally crucial role played by the Histadrut-founded Zim shipping line in support of the Zionist state.* *Given the error of Salehi in spelling out the acronym 'Cosatu' (which is actually a 'Congress'), I thought he had got it wrong about the role of the state-identified (both pro-US and pro-Israel) Jewish Labour Committee of the USA in the creation of Trade Unions Linking Israel and Palestine. The latter has been energetically promoted internationally by Eric Lee, creator of both LabourStart and UnionBook (though this tulip last flowered late-2013). I then checked up on the individual link between the JLP and TULIP, which turns out to be Stuart Appelbaum <http://http://www.thejewishweek.com/features/new-york-minute/viewing-wiscon…>, though his leadership of the JLP is left (diplomatically?) unmentioned on the TULIP home page (though it can be found on a link on that site). <http://http://www.tuliponline.org/?p=95> * *Now read on...* *https://www.jacobinmag.com/2014/09/the-foes-of-israel/ <https://www.jacobinmag.com/2014/09/the-foes-of-israel/> Jacobin Magazine 9.24.14 Workers Against Israel Nothing is more crucial to the success of BDS than the movement’s relationship with organized labor. by Kumars Salehi* Over the past year, the boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) campaign has finally gained some widespread political attention in the United States: from the American Studies Association <http://www.theasa.net/from_the_editors/item/asa_members_vote_to_endorse_aca…>’s vote to endorse the academic boycott of Israel, to the flurry of student votes for divestment <http://www.bdsmovement.net/2014/fifth-university-of-california-campus-passe…> at the University of California and other US campuses, to the unprecedented <http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/roger-waters-slams-scarlett-johans…> criticism <http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/24/scarlett-johansson-sodastream-stat…> that met Scarlett Johansson when she quit her role as global ambassador for Oxfam so she could continue as global ambassador for SodaStream. Last month’s protests at West Coast ports point not only to the momentum with which BDS has moved forward – more quickly than most activists could have predicted – but also to the possibility of direct action posing an ever graver threat to business as usual for Israel, particularly when organized labor is on board. Until now, no one had ever kept an Israeli cargo ship from unloading for two consecutive days; we blocked the *Zim Piraeus* for four. From Saturday, August 16 to Tuesday, August 19, activists at the Port of Oakland protested Israeli human rights abuses by picketing the berths where the ship intended to offload its cargo. Zim Integrated Shipping Services isn’t just an Israeli shipping company. It’s the largest Israeli shipping company — the tenth largest in the world — and it’s intimately tied <http://www.haaretz.com/business/.premium-1.601829> to the government, which owns a special stake in Zim (known as the “golden share”) and requires that it keep at least eleven ships at all times, to be used by the military in the case of national security emergencies. Founded in 1945 by the Histadrut <http://www.bdsmovement.net/files/2011/02/IJAN-LFP-Histadrut-briefing-illust…> (the main Israeli trade union body) and the Jewish Agency, Zim functioned during the Nakba <http://mondoweiss.net/2013/05/continuous-displacement-palestinian> as the sole <http://www.theshipslist.com/ships/lines/zim.shtml> maritime connection for Zionist colonists and, subsequently, the nascent state of Israel. The Israeli government’s ownership of Zim has given the company monopoly power from the beginning: US loans going towards transportation, for example, would be earmarked for Zim, prompting one member of the Knesset in 1950 to remark <http://books.google.com/books?id=vBWFd4vYxDMC&pg=PA101&dq=zim+recanati+knes…> that he “approve[s] the loan legislation, on condition that there is one law for all, and that all companies are treated equally with [government owned] Zim Shipping…. Zim has privileges which private companies don’t.” Zim was privatized in 2004 when Israel Corp., owned by the Ofer Brothers Group, bought the government’s stake in the company for $115 million <http://www.globes.co.il/en/article-761023>. But the government still retains its “golden share,” which gives it veto power over major share sales or other corporate actions. The Palestinian General Federation of Trade Unions (PGFTU) has called <http://www.usacbi.org/2010/06/pgftu-message-to-san-francisco-bay-area-trade…> on workers worldwide, and Bay Area workers in particular, to refuse to facilitate the commerce of Zim and other Israeli companies as part of BDS. This call was supported by COSATU <http://www.cosatu.org.za/show.php?ID=9229>, the Coalition of South African Trade Unions. US unions have for the most part been slow to respond, due in part to the deep and longstanding influence of the Histadrut and its US counterpart, the Jewish Labor Committee <http://laborforpalestine.net/labor-for-palestine-briefings/the-jewish-labor…> (JLC). Formed as an anti-fascist solidarity group in 1934, the JLC has since the end of World War II taken the most reactionary positions on political (and particularly racial justice) issues, from supporting McCarthyite anti-communist, anti-Semitic witch-hunts in the 1950s, to demonizing the black freedom movement in the sixties, to helping roll back affirmative action policies in the seventies, to supporting the US attacks on Vietnam and Iraq. The organization is primarily concerned, however, with enforcing a pro-Israel line in elite labor and Democratic Party circles, including through its cozy relationship with the AFL-CIO. In 2009, the JLC co-founded the group Trade Unions Linking Israel and Palestine <http://revitalisinglabour.blogspot.com/2009/05/pro-israel-unionists-seek-to…> (TULIP), whose specific purpose is to prevent trade union support for BDS and undermine it where it already exists. Given this political climate, it’s remarkable that this summer’s Block the Boat action in Oakland was able to succeed — and only due to mass community participation and solidarity from the rank and file of the Bay Area dockworkers’ union, the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) Local 10. While the JLC and other Zionist organizations wield great influence over the AFL-CIO, the ILWU actually broke with the AFL-CIO as recently as August 2013. The union’s slogan is “An injury to one is an injury to all,” and their history bears out their commitment to international solidarity. It was a strike <http://www.ilwu.org/death-of-nelson-mandela-recalls-decades-of-ilwu-support…> by Local 10 that kept a South African ship from offloading its cargo for eleven days in 1984. In 1978, Local 10 refused <http://www.ilwu19.com/history/the_ilwu_story/international_solidarity.htm> to load weapons parts that were supposed to be sent to Chile’s brutal military dictatorship. During the Occupy protests, the union refused to work as part of the general strike called for by Occupy Oakland and other activists. Local 10 member Clarence Thomas traces <http://www.workers.org/articles/2014/08/27/west-coast-activists-block-zioni…> the union’s history of honoring direct actions back eighty years: “[w]e’ve respected community picket lines since 1935, when Local 10 workers refused to load metal that was bound for the war machines of fascist Italy and Japan.” Since sympathy strikes are illegal under the anti-labor Taft-Hartley Act, the union leadership itself couldn’t take a position in support of Block the Boat’s community picket. But the sympathies of the rank-and-file are nonetheless clear, nowhere more so than in the 2010 resolution <http://www.labournet.net/docks2/1006/oakland6.html> (adopted by Local 10’s executive board) condemning Israel’s attack on the *Mavi Marmara* and declaring support for the PGFTU call for boycott. That year saw the first successful port action targeting an Israeli ship in 2010, when (in response to Israel’s massacre of nine activists aboard the Gaza aid flotilla *Mavi Marmara*) five hundred activists in Oakland prevented a Zim ship from unloading for a full day. Then as now, the efforts of Oakland’s community in support of the Palestinian liberation movement would not have enjoyed such success without the support of the ILWU rank and file. According to Block the Boat organizer Lara Kiswani, executive director of the Arab Resource and Organizing Center (AROC), part of the reason for the successes of the Bay Area Palestine solidarity work lies in its history of engagement with organized labor: “The Arab and Palestinian community worked for over a decade to establish a relationship to the labor movement in the Bay Area.” Indeed, Block the Boat had initially been planned for August 2, but AROC organizers pushed for it to be rescheduled to August 16 in order to give them time to develop their relationship with the union, as well as to bring out the Palestinian and other Arab leadership that has been central throughout protests against the Gaza massacre. Day after day, AROC and other activists went to the union hall to talk to the workers, to explain why they were carrying out the action, to answer their questions, and to ask for their support, in a continual process of engagement. We also had the support of ILWU members who are community activists around many anti-racist struggles. The most important relationships weren’t with the union leadership, Kiswani says, but with the rank and file, who were supportive throughout the action: “[W]e even received phone calls and emails from ILWU workers providing us with vital information about the ship, its whereabouts and its anticipated departure.” While Block the Boat was originally planned as a one-off, the success of the August 16 action (the *Piraeus* didn’t even attempt to dock) created such momentum that the effort broadened beyond the initial organizing. The community returned every day at 5 am, and then again at 5 pm. Zim tried to wait it out — they even (apparently) tried to fake us out by making for Los Angeles and then doubling back to dock in a different berth, operated by Ports of America (PA). The little cargo Zim managed to offload was, according to sources in the longshoremen’s union, a result of the duplicity of PA, which circumvented our picket by calling in longshoremen to work other ships before transferring them to the *Piraeus*. In 2010, Local 10 was under contract, which guaranteed they would be paid irrespective of their decision to strike. This time, however, they were without a contract, which meant they wouldn’t be paid if they refused to work. Still, every morning and every evening, Local 10 lived up to their values and reputation by refusing to cross our picket line. We were told that, officially, the longshoremen wouldn’t cross because of “unsafe working conditions.” It wasn’t our picket that made the conditions unsafe, but rather, potential police reaction — union members pointed to a 2005 incident in which Oakland police shot workers crossing a picket line with rubber bullets. As long as our picket line was big enough, Local 10 would respect it. The longshoremen kept their word. As midnight approached on Tuesday, August 19, we heard from several sources that those longshoremen who had been manipulated into working the Zim ship were planning to engage in a work slowdown, deliberately minimizing the amount of cargo they unloaded. The insistence of AROC and other activists that the Block the Boat coalition take the time to cultivate a relationship with labor based on trust and respect turned out to be crucial. While some sloppy media reports <http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2014/08/20/israeli-owned-cargo-ship-zim-pi…> alleged that the ship had successfully unloaded its cargo before leaving the Bay, sources told us that only a fraction of the 176 Oakland-bound containers were actually offloaded. One Port of Oakland official claimed 26 had been unloaded; other union sources said 50. These figures remain unconfirmed, but regardless of the exact numbers, as the ship finally left it was clearly <https://twitter.com/mazthespazz/status/502488806948225025> still laden with red containers, while no cargo was loaded onto it. This information has since been confirmed by companies quoted <http://english.al-akhbar.com/node/21391> as saying they’re reconsidering doing business with Zim in the wake of Block the Boat. It would certainly explain why it spent August 20 moored in the Bay instead of taking off immediately. Maybe it was waiting for us to leave before attempting to dock at another berth. At any rate, it wasn’t a decision Zim made lightly: one dockworker told us every twelve hours we delayed the *Piraeus* cost the company $50,000. That figure, too, is still unconfirmed, but what we know for sure is that the lost revenue greatly exceeds the operating costs. After activists in Los Angeles, Tacoma, and Seattle also succeeded in delaying Zim ships, it’s clear that Block the Boat isn’t just a flash in the pan: doing business with Zim can cause significant delays, and customers who don’t want to deal with that will take their business elsewhere. So it appears that, as a BDS tactic, Block the Boat has legs. And it’s no surprise that it was kicked off in the Bay Area, a hotbed of Palestinian and Palestine solidarity activism. University of California Berkeley and University of California Davis, for example, were home to two of the earliest chapters of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), an organization of which I am a member. In 2002, Berkeley hosted the first National SJP Conference. Since then, SJP chapters have been at the vanguard of BDS campaigns (specifically focused on divestment) at universities across the United States. Kiswani, herself one of the co-founders of SJP at Davis, says the strength and vision of pro-Palestinian organizing in the Bay Area is attributable, in part, to the painstaking work of building coalitions across movements: “The organizing that led up to the Block the Boat action in Oakland included the leadership of AROC and that of Arabs and Palestinians,” she told me, “but also involved the leadership of organizers that work on issues of policing, militarization, anti-war, economic, housing, and racial justice.” The growing success of BDS — through divestment initiatives, Block the Boat, or other direct actions — depends on precisely these kinds of relationships. As this action showed, no single relationship is more crucial to the effectiveness of BDS than its relationship to organized labor. BDS isn’t just about isolating Israel. It’s also about normalizing that isolation, so that every dollar Zim loses due to delays or spoiled goods carries with it the threat of much greater losses. Zim is already in dire financial straits, requiring a gigantic restructuring plan <http://www.haaretz.com/business/1.602705> that would, among other things, write off $1.4 billion of the company’s $3.4 billion debt. Israel regards Zim as vital to national security, and not just because of its golden share or those eleven ships. The Israeli government’s ability to preserve its regime of ethnic cleansing and apartheid ultimately depends on its smooth integration into the global capitalist system. Corporations like Zim are lifelines that tie Israel to the “international community” of global trade. The Israeli economy is heavily dependent <http://www.middleeasteye.net/columns/why-bds-movement-can-no-longer-be-igno…> on exports, mostly to the US and Europe: A 2011 meeting of Israeli capitalists concluded that, if government policy doesn’t change dramatically, Israel eventually will face isolation on the order of what ended apartheid South Africa. One of Israel’s largest global industries is the repression industry <http://israelglobalrepression.wordpress.com/>. Israel plays a critical role in supplying repressive regimes — from Pinochet to the Argentinean junta to the South African apartheid government, from the United States to Brazil to India — with the technology, weapons, strategies, and methods of repression that they need to repress their own populations and gain political and economic power through the exploitation of people and land across the globe. However, beyond the war economy, according to the Israel Export Institute, “a worrying picture”: Israeli exports to the US have been declining for five consecutive quarters, falling 7 percent <http://www.globes.co.il/en/article-exports-down-7-in-second-quarter-1000959…> in the second quarter of 2014. The Palestine solidarity movement is moving from strength to strength. The protests of Zim, as the last big solidarity action in the wake of Israel’s counterinsurgency operation in the Gaza Strip, makes clear how ripe the situation is for an escalation of BDS action in the US and worldwide. The keys to escalating BDS lie at the intersections of struggles. The progressive currents in organized labor are in many cases already sympathetic to Palestinians. It’s up to activists to reciprocate by being precise in our work, and ever mindful of the pressures union workers are under and their experience of corporate power. It’s up to everyone who stands in solidarity with Palestinians to make connections. The Zim line imports Israeli-made ammunition <http://truth-out.org/news/item/25844-israeli-company-targeted-by-oakland-bl…> into the US for use by police and the military. The bullets Israel routinely uses to kill Palestinians with impunity are the same bullets the US uses to kill black and brown people from Oakland to Ferguson to Afghanistan. Zim is a key material link between the purveyors and the executors of imperial violence, between racist state repression at home and abroad. This year as last year, SWAT teams and military contractors from around the world convened in Oakland for the annual “Urban Shield” <http://www.commondreams.org/news/2013/10/24/urban-shield-epitome-state-repr…> global training exercise and weapons expo. Like other such events, Israelis feature prominently at Urban Shield, often advertising their wares as field-tested on Palestinians. This year, Urban Shield was met with fierce resistance from a coalition of hundreds of activists, from those organizing against local police brutality and mass incarceration to those organizing against Israeli militarism and apartheid. Oakland won’t be hosting Urban Shield next year <http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Oakland-will-not-host-Urban-Shield-ne…>. And a glance at the Zim Pacific line’s schedule <http://www.zim.com/services/schedules/pages/longterm.aspx?selectService=ZCS…> indicates there will be no Zim ships docking in California — not in the Bay Area, and not in Los Angeles — after the next Oakland Block the Boat action on October 25. That’s what BDS looks like to me. Kumars Salehi is a PhD student in German Studies and a member of UC Berkeley Students for Justice in Palestine. -- 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 -- Check out the Commons Transition Plan here at: http://en.wiki.floksociety.org/w/Research_Plan P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation>Updates: http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/

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Fwd: [Networkedlabour] Call for papers on power and counter-power
by Michel Bauwens 28 Sep '14

28 Sep '14

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Nick Buxton <nick(a)tni.org> Date: Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 8:40 PM Subject: [Networkedlabour] Call for papers on power and counter-power To: networkedlabour(a)lists.contrast.org Dear Networked Labour friends TNI is issuing an open call for papers for our flagship fourth annual *State of Power* report which is launched around the time of Davos at the end of January 2015. The eight best essays will be compiled into a book, accompanied with infographics. The timing is very tight this year, but TNI is happy to accept reworked versions of existing papers/research so it doesn't have to involve starting from scratch. The full call with details on criteria, process, timelines can be found at http://www.tni.org/article/call-papers-tnis-state-power-report and is also copied below. Please circulate this call to colleagues, university departments, other email lists of activist research networks etc etc. We are particularly open to submissions from young scholar activists and from people based in the Global South. Please cc stateofpower(a)tni.org so I can keep track of where the call is circulated. Thanks for your help Nick Buxton Communications Manager/Editor of State of Power *Call for Papers: State of Power * The Transnational Institute (TNI) in the Netherlands is issuing an open call for essays/short papers for its forthcoming *State of Power* report launched in late January 2015 to coincide with the World Economic Forum in Davos. TNI’s annual *State of Power* reports have, since their launch in 2012, become a must-see reference point for citizens, activists and academics concerned with understanding the nature of power in our globalised world. With a mixture of compelling infographics and insightful essays, *State of Power *has examined dimensions of power (economic, political, cultural, social), exposed the key players who control power, and highlighted movements of counter-power seeking to transform our world. *Understanding power* In 2015, TNI is opening up the call to the public, particularly the progressive academic community, in order to pull in the best analysis on power. TNI is keen to interrogate how power is defined, distributed and functions in our globalised world; to expose the often invisible bodies, corporations and others who exercise influence and control over public policy; to understand the mechanisms by which power is both acquired acquired, used, manipulated and maintained; to understand shifts in power, even amongst elites, that provide openings for social movements; and to highlight the growing sources of counter-power, their potential and contradictions, and how they might be supported in advancing social and environmental justice. *Themes* TNI is particularly interested in essays that relate to areas we most closely work on such as corporate impunity, trade and investment policies, land and agrarian issues, resource grabbing, public services, security and civil liberties, social movements and counter-power (see *http://www.tni.org/listing/work-areas <http://www.tni.org/listing/work-areas>)* However we are ultimately interested in the best analysis (whatever the topic) if it approaches power from the critical perspective held by movements engaged in the struggle for social and environmental justice and political transformation. For an idea of the kind of essays we are interested in, please read the essays featured in State of Power 2014: *http://www.tni.org/briefing/state-power-2014 <http://www.tni.org/briefing/state-power-2014>* As timing is tight, TNI is happy to publish reworked versions of previously published material as well as new unpublished essays. *Process* The call is an open one, but TNI has designed a process to feature what we consider the top eight best essays in the main report. The decision on which papers are featured will be decided by an Editorial Panel made up of the current TNI Fellows, the Director and the Communications Manager. The selection process will follow three stages: 1. In the first stage, researchers will be asked to provide abstracts and a short bio. These can be abstracts based on existing papers. 2. Those whose abstracts are chosen will be asked to submit an essay. The top eight essays will be selected for the book by the Editorial Panel 3. The top eight essays will go through a final round of revisions based on feedback by the Editorial Panel, and subject to final copyedit. We hope to feature one essay as an infographic. Essays that do not make the top eight – and are considered good essays by the Editorial Panel - will be available as downloadable PDFs linked from the main report. * Instructions for submission* *Abstracts must be emailed to **stateofpower(a)tni.org <stateofpower(a)tni.org>** by 31 October 2014. Final essays will be due on 1 December 2014.* - *Abstracts/essays must address the issue of power from a critical perspective, seeking to provide useful knowledge and analysis for movements engaged in the struggle for * - *Abstracts/essays can be based on reworked versions of existing or previously published essays/papers* - *TNI particularly welcomes submissions by young scholars and people based in the Global South. Due to resource constraints though, at this point, we can only accept essays in English and can not pay for submissions. * - *Abstracts must be a maximum of 1000 <1000> words. They do not need to be of continuous prose but must capture the main arguments of the essay and can be expanded outlines. Bios should be 200 words. * - *Essay length: 5000 words. Shorter essays are acceptable, but not longer than 5000 words.* - *Style: TNI has five basic criteria for its research and publications that will also be used to assess the abstracts and essays:* - Credible: Well researched and evidence-based - Accessible: Readable by a broad non-specialist audience (in other words please avoid too much academic jargon) - Additional: Adds depth, new insights or detail to existing knowledge/research - Radical: Tackles the structural roots of critical issues - Propositional: Does not just critique, but also where relevant puts forward just alternatives - *Please include an abstract at the top of the paper (maximum 500 words) and add a short bio (150 words)* - *Provide bibliography at end of essay and/or provide endnotes for references, preferably in APA style. Please do not overdo it on the endnotes – use it mainly for referring to facts/evidence that may be surprising, questioned or challenged.* - *Please send as .doc file (not .docx)* - The decision of the Editorial Panel is final. If your abstract or essay is chosen for the book, please be ready to respond to peer reviews and copyediting comments based on the timeline below. *Timeline* *September Call for abstracts/papers* *31 October Deadline for submission of abstracts* *5 November Notification of chosen abstracts for final essays* *1 December Submission of essays* *5 December Notification of chosen essays* *10 December Comments sent to authors* *2 January Final version submitted by author* 9 January Copyedits sent to author for final check/revision *19 January Launch* _______________________________________________ NetworkedLabour mailing list NetworkedLabour(a)lists.contrast.org http://lists.contrast.org/mailman/listinfo/networkedlabour -- Check out the Commons Transition Plan here at: http://en.wiki.floksociety.org/w/Research_Plan P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation>Updates: http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/

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Fwd: Andrius's book excerpt at P2P Foundation Blog
by Michel Bauwens 27 Sep '14

27 Sep '14

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Andrius Kulikauskas <ms(a)ms.lt> Date: Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 11:10 PM Subject: Andrius's book excerpt at P2P Foundation Blog The P2P Foundation Blog has posted an excerpt from my e-book, "The Truth: >From Relative to Absolute": http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/p2p-truth-a-map-of-deepest- values-by-andrius-kulikauskas/2014/09/27 P2P Foundation is a research institute led by Michel Bauwens to document and promote "peer-to-peer" (P2P) practices. It fosters awareness of the nature of our "network society" where each individual can include themselves in human networks and organize new ones as well. http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/about In my guest post, I write about the "deepest values" which I have collected from some 700 people. What is your deepest value, which includes all of your other values? I organized about 30 online groups at Minciu Sodas, each of which centered around an independent thinker and their deepest value. I list some of them in my post. Currently, I'm trying to make a map of deepest values which would make sense of the full variety. I believe that our individual values are personal reference points by which we might realize that all of our circumstances are similar or perhaps identical, in which case we can think of an absolute truth, at least pragmatically. Kevin Flanagan of the P2P Foundation alerted me to perennialism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perennial_philosophy This is the idea that each of the world's religious traditions share a single, universal truth. I think that there is a single, absolute truth which can make sense of each of our individual perspectives and how they all fit together. Our deepest values are the key to each of us. I'm realizing now that perhaps each of them links up our own perspective with a greater perspective. I think that each individual definitely has a personal testimony that is real and needs to be accounted for. I am interested in how different people say the same things. Still, people and religions can at times be right or wrong, and for understandable reasons, when they veer away from their personal testimony. That is why I think it is important to live one's own worldview wholeheartedly rather than learn about other worldviews at arm's length. Truth is a matter of life and not opinion. I believe that those who live wholeheartedly will be able to agree fundamentally as to the truth, regardless of what value they approach the world from and how they express their worldview. Please, I ask us to link to my post and, especially, to leave our comments there! Thank you! and best wishes from the Lithuanian countryside. P.S. I've been coaching Pamela McLean of Dadamac http://www.dadamac.net I look forward to writing about her research into learning from each other and working together in our peer-to-peer society. Andrius Andrius Kulikauskas ms(a)ms.lt +370 607 27 665 http://www.selflearners.net -- 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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