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Fwd: [Networkedlabour] Fwd: <nettime> Launch of Project on Online Tracking: Trackography
by Michel Bauwens 11 Jan '15

11 Jan '15

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Orsan Senalp <orsan1234(a)gmail.com> Date: Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 12:33 AM Subject: [Networkedlabour] Fwd: <nettime> Launch of Project on Online Tracking: Trackography To: networkedlabour(a)lists.contrast.org Begin forwarded message: *Resent-From:* nettime(a)kein.org *From:* Kaustubh Srikanth <kaustubh(a)houndbee.com> *Date:* 5 Jan 2015 15:07:23 GMT+1 *Resent-To:* Nettime <nettime-l(a)kein.org> *To:* nettime-l(a)kein.org *Subject:* *<nettime> Launch of Project on Online Tracking: Trackography* -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi and happy new year! Hope you are well and that 2015 is an amazing year for all. Tactical Tech is excited to inform you that we recently launched our new project on online tracking, "Trackography", at the 31st Chaos Communication Congress (31c3): http://events.ccc.de/congress/2014/Fahrplan/events/6299.html Trackography is part of our MyShadow project (https://myshadow.org) and aims to increase global transparency about the data collection industry. Please learn more about the project here: https://myshadow.org/trackography and explore Trackography through the following link: https://trackography.org/ Our open source project illustrates which companies track us when we read the news online, where our data travels to and how our data is handled everytime we access a media website within a period of time. In particular, when we access media websites Trackography shows: 1. the companies that track us 2. the countries which host the servers of these media websites 3. the countries which host the servers of tracking companies 4. the countries which own the network infrastructure required to access the servers of media websites and tracking companies 5. information about how some of the prevailing tracking companies handle our data The global data industry has been very opaque until now. We have developed Trackography to not only increase transparency about the data collection industry, but to also start a discussion on unseen and unconsented data collection and on the politics of data. Learn how to help us track the trackers here: https://myshadow.org/trackography-help-us-track-trackers You can also view our updates on all new results we collect on Twitter @trackography_ Please pass this on to your networks and do not hesitate to contact us with any questions at trackmap(a)tacticaltech.org. Feedback is also always welcome! :) Thanks. All the best, - -K - -- Kaustubh Srikanth kaustubh(a)houndbee.com pgp: 0x3B93943537F74F9C pgp fingerprint = 181C BF27 2D81 91ED 3A93 1C35 3B93 9435 37F7 4F9C jabber: kaustubh(a)houndbee.com twitter: @houndbee A digital signature may be attached to this e-mail, you need openPGP software to verify it. See: http://tinyurl.com/openpgp-manual -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJUqpqaAAoJEDtE2Ik2TfV77OEH/RZkdHKysumwB/S4D1aKDN6r Nds9VY3ZRfq/7AdlB8Y/ZFQoWhUKSgtFs2eTRt0S+G/KAj/RO86RnoHn6nHiPeJE 2bzHengNVhsml0nv9lmthpV8CBUEqFb6RXTTdRWNlL8QSMIG1AcCJ8luvJ0i7Dp2 bKtbVRLwYT9DF3cHRGA7vwvVCuCmGQVLnCV17TMVuos3CcN/gnt4Tld6ly+BA9rK BdF2yZE0DT6suuCK5k73t9wintoFOz0l/rZsZJ3hq7pyHwHzkRKCUx2Ak7h8zYMR 7jzaRMbl9lfdDfNINiXQ5gaR0TYL1tD/Vm5oV27sVbmcsylKzgfmQBOIeT5sAjg= =2Awu -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime(a)kein.org _______________________________________________ NetworkedLabour mailing list NetworkedLabour(a)lists.contrast.org http://lists.contrast.org/mailman/listinfo/networkedlabour -- 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: you are an utterly amazing person -- no shit!
by Michel Bauwens 11 Jan '15

11 Jan '15

Thanks Bob!! ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Robert Steele <robert.david.steele.vivas(a)gmail.com> Date: Sun, Jan 11, 2015 at 12:39 AM Subject: you are an utterly amazing person -- no shit! To: Michel Bauwens <michel(a)p2pfoundation.net> Michel Bauwens: YouTube (15:46) MindMap Everything Open and Free <http://www.phibetaiota.net/2015/01/michel-bauwens-mindmap-everything-open-a…> *ROBERT STEELE:* Single most useful video I have watched in the past decade. -- 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: [Newsletter] Leave It in the Ground at Tromsø International Film Festival (among others)
by Michel Bauwens 11 Jan '15

11 Jan '15

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Oliver Ressler <oliver(a)ressler.at> Date: Sun, Jan 11, 2015 at 4:24 AM Subject: [Newsletter] Leave It in the Ground at Tromsø International Film Festival (among others) To: newsletter(a)ressler.at *Leave It in the Ground* A film by Oliver Ressler 18 min., 2013 Screening at Tromsø International Film Festival 2015 (TIFF) in Norway as part of the program *Beyond Horizons* at Verdensteateret in Tromsø¸, followed by a debate at KulturHuset, Verkstedet, Tromsø. Wednesday, 14 January 2015, 1 PM. Further details: http://tiff.no/program/2015/beyond-horizons Exhibitions of *Leave It in the Ground*: "€œThe Plundering"€œ, Lentos Kunstmuseum <http://www.lentos.at/html/en/2895.aspx>, Linz (A), ongoing till 01.02.2015 (solo exhibition O. Ressler) "œBeyond Horizons"€ , Atelier Nord ANX <http://ateliernord.no/anx/beyond-horizons/?lang=en>, Oslo (N), 15.01. – 08.02.2015 "€œWaterscapes: The Politics of Water"€ , Pohang City Museum of Art, Pohang (KR), 15.01. – 29.03.2015 "€œLeave it in the Ground"€ , NBK – Neuer Berliner Kunstverein <http://www.nbk.org/en/ausstellungen/vorschau.html>, Berlin (D), 27.02. – 24.04.2015 (solo exhibition O. Ressler) In recent years, countless extreme weather events clearly indicate that climate change is not only a future phenomenon but is already taking place. Some effects of global warming—€”desertification, more frequent droughts, less frequent but more intense precipitation, lower crop yields—€”inflame existing social conflicts. In the Global South, climate change aggravates the crises of poverty, violence, and unrest that result from the legacies of colonialism and neoliberal capitalism. This vicious circle fuels humanitarian crises and civil wars that amplify political, economic and environmental disasters. Despite clear warnings, the ruling powers do not have a political agenda with a serious strategy to reduce use of fossil fuels, the main cause of global warming. A fossil-fuel fundamentalism seems to dominate throughout the globe. Recently, some of Norway'€™s politicians have advocated extracting petroleum in one of the largest fish and aquatic life spawning grounds on the planet, the sea encircling the Lofoten archipelago. The deepwater drilling would have unpredictable effects on the fish populations and some of the world'€™s cleanest waters. With the idyllic landscapes of the Lofoten archipelago as its background, *Leave It in the Ground* describes the climate crisis not as a technical and scientific problem, but as a political problem. The film discusses how ecological and humanitarian disasters caused through global warming might topple old orders and open up possibilities that could lead to long-term social and political transformations, both positive and negative. Further details and film excerpt: http://www.ressler.at/leave_it_in_the_ground/ _______________________________________________ Ressler_newsletter mailing list newsletter(a)ressler.at http://mailman.mediainvent.at/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ressler_newsletter -- 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] Free Libre Open Access working class self-learning
by Michel Bauwens 10 Jan '15

10 Jan '15

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Orsan Senalp <orsan1234(a)gmail.com> Date: Sat, Jan 10, 2015 at 10:25 PM Subject: [Networkedlabour] Free Libre Open Access working class self-learning To: networkedlabour(a)lists.contrast.org, CRITICAL-LABOUR-STUDIES(a)jiscmail.ac.uk Dear friend we are looking for your contributions in any form. Especially content and teaching wise. Our plan is to work with worker owned cooperatives, as well as independant unions to base this work on a solid worker' economies -using barter and fair cryptocurrency systems currently being developed- to coordinate compansations for the labour of comrades who will be working with us on the further development of this free access education system aiming to reach most precarious segments of the working classes. In solidarity, Örsan .... https://gnunion.wordpress.com/gnuniversity/ First semester courses are set for the launch on May First 2015! Join the team, self-organise activity, offer courses, support our projects, spread the word! Global Networked Labour University is a Free Libre and Open Source Remote Education System, designed for empowerment of workers, independent labour unionists, community members and organisers via study-circles, self-training, exchange and strategy sessions. Besides, we have been preparing high qulaity licence, masters, and doctorate level free access programs which will be delivered by dedicated and experienced trainers, using Floss platforms like Big Blue Button, Meet.Jitsi, Talky as well as others. The system will include self-organised face to face sessions by and for workers, hackers, designers, artists, peers producers, and commoners. Join our team, organise p2p and worker to worker trainings, conferences, debates, exchange and strategy meetings, to share your knowledge with workers and others. If you are union or community organiser, trainer, or having teaching and pedagogical experience combined with practical or theoretlcal expertise knowledge on any topic, from physics to action design, coding to art, that you can give it a remote-course format and deliver it online, please do not hesitate to get in touch with us! If you wish to support GNUnion and the free, libre and open access projects we have been developing for precarious or unemployed working people as oursleves, please do so by using the information here: https://gnunion.wordpress.com/p2psolidarityfunding/ Below programs are currently being designed and developed, and trial semester is scheduled to be kicked off as of May First 2015. *MODULE I: * *Social media, online networking for organisers, shop stewards and union activists* - Introduction - Stronger ties with online networking - Tools for cybermeetings and webinars - Bottom up publishing & sharing - Translation and interpretation - Participation/Openness/Security - An Example Download de PDF versie in het Nederlands <http://www.tie-netherlands.nl/sites/default/files/Eindversie_Brochure_Socia…> Türkçe çervirisini PDF olarak indiriniz <http://www.scribd.com/doc/186317646/YEN%C4%B0-SOSYAL-MEDYA-Tabandan-ve-gucl…> <http://www.tie-netherlands.nl/sites/default/files/Eindversie_Brochure_Socia…> Download the PDF version in Spanish <http://networg.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/broch-spaans-opmaak.pdf> Download the PDF version in English <http://www.scribd.com/doc/186317384/New-Social-Media-Transnational-Informat…> Wiki: Online collaborative version of the self-training material <http://tie.wikia.com/wiki/Transnational_Information_Exchange_Wiki> Presentation I: A Social Media Approach for International Solidarity <http://prezi.com/rsyk-eqenf0a/a-social-media-approach-for-international-sol…> Presentation II: Social media and online networking guide for shop steewards and union activists <http://prezi.com/4tnvm8jkkdmq/social-media-and-online-networking-for-shop-s…> *Schedule: in progress, plan is to start online courses on May 1st, 2015* *Module II (Project in progress):* *Floss Cirriculum on P2P, Commons and Global Political Economy Program – Licence and Master’s Level degree course material for workers * *Call for Contributors:* We are inviting peer producers and commoners alike to join us to peer produce a commons knowledge resource that will include text books, articles, audio, video and other sorts of digital material that will help us to address and broaden the needed dialogue between critical social theories on p2p, commons and global political economy on the other, and the political and cultural praxis towards emancipatory commons transitions that will allow humanity to go beyond the vision promised by capitalisms, while avoiding the worse like fascisms and wars to dominate the planet and destroy more lives. Believeing that it became by now cyristal clear that the humanity is passing through yet another world historical passage of which one side is dark and fearful: Deepening systemic crises, serious threats of regional and global wars, normalisation of extreme right and religious fundamentalisms, as well as natural and human disasters, all caused by the current mode of production. Yet the other side is bright and hopeful: Where the emergence of the new become clear in the realities and practices of the p2p and the commons, which by now proven themselves as not only concepts but also practices that they are bearing ‘the seeds of the new’ potential forms to constitute, what Marx referred as the ‘associated mode of production’ -more then one and a half century ago; while they also promise possibility for creation of what Kropotkin and Buchkin thought as ‘communal mutual aid society’ -in the previous century, yet to be created and consolidated collectively by painful efforts and struggle. Therefore encouraging all those who are interested and can contribute in this special collaborative project through which we want to develop structured and systematic pool of pedagogical material as base for free access self- and floss- high level remote emancipatory education activities orgniased by anyone who wishes. In order to make an entry please register to the P2P-Foundation’s wiki page and make sure that your entries comes under the relevant section, and you applied a similar format used for the materials placed on the wiki before you. Let’ s join efforts and enrich this pool of emancipatory knowledge and analyses, that can be useful for understanding and the changing the word through commons assertive and constructive actions for fair, just, peaceful and beautiful world where life, equality, freedom, and joy can flourish and thrive for a commons humanity. *Project wiki: * http://p2pfoundation.net/Bibliography_for_the_Global_Political_Economy *Contact us:* For any questions and support you can send an email at: networkedlabour [at] networg [dot] nl *Time table:* January 2015, setting initial format and making initial entries, informal call for contributors and suppporters for seed funding. February 2015, completin first set of material entries for all sections and subsections. March-May 2015, Completing the webspace with working and tested BigBlueButton, Jitsi, and Talky spaces for the first round of lectures and events. _______________________________________________ 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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Contribute to the P2P Foundation 2015 Calendar
by Kevin Flanagan 10 Jan '15

10 Jan '15

Hello, We would like to invite you to add any events you are involved in to our wiki Calendar for 2015. http://p2pfoundation.net/P2P_Foundation_Calendar_2015 Hopefully this can grow into a useful resource. Many Thanks Kevin

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Fwd: [Commoning] Roarmag article on FairCoop
by Michel Bauwens 10 Jan '15

10 Jan '15

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Orsan Senalp <orsan1234(a)gmail.com> Date: Sat, Jan 10, 2015 at 5:08 PM Subject: [Commoning] Roarmag article on FairCoop To: networkedlabour(a)lists.contrast.org, nettime-l(a)mail.kein.org, commoning < commoning(a)lists.wissensallmende.de>, transcollab(a)lists.so36.net A very nice article about Faircoop just published on Roarmag, reposted here on Social Network Unionism: http://snuproject.wordpress.com/2015/01/09/faircoop-as-creative-constructio… Örsan _______________________________________________ Commoning mailing list Commoning(a)lists.wissensallmende.de http://lists.wissensallmende.de/mailman/listinfo/commoning -- 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: [opennetcoalition] #CharlieHebdo: No To Securitarian Instrumentalisation
by Michel Bauwens 10 Jan '15

10 Jan '15

hi Kevin, given the context , thanks for publishing this on the blog as well! ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: La Quadrature du Net <contact(a)laquadrature.net> Date: Sat, Jan 10, 2015 at 2:25 AM Subject: [opennetcoalition] #CharlieHebdo: No To Securitarian Instrumentalisation To: opennetcoalition(a)laquadrature.net Themes: TERRORISM, SECURITY, CHARLIE HEBDO La Quadrature du Net – For immediate release Permanent link: https://www.laquadrature.net/en/charliehebdo-no-to-securitarian-instrumenta… #CharlieHebdo: No To Securitarian Instrumentalisation *** Paris, 9 January, 2015 — Without even waiting for the end of investigations on the despicable attack against Charlie Hebdo on January 7th, the government is set on increasing counter-terrorist arsenal, first by notifying [1] Brussels the decree implementing “terrorists” or child pornography websites blockade but also by announcing [2] new counter-terrorism measures. La Quadrature du Net calls on citizens to reject this absurd escalation and show determination in defending the freedom of expression and information. *** The attack against Charlie Hebdo's team is a terrible reminder that freedom of speech is a value that must be defended as a foundation for our democracy. The victims of the attack, journalists, policemen or visitors gave their lives for what is no only a symbol but the first of civil rights in a democracy. The great popular emotion that sparked spontaneously in favor of freedom of speech and in memory of the victims is a sign of hope which shows the ability of French citizens (and of the whole world) to defend these values we hold dear: freedom of speech, freedom of information, respect of the rule of law and the democratic ideal. This is why La Quadrature du Net warns solemnly the French government led by Prime Minister Manuel Valls against any attempt of political recovery of this terrible event by the establishment of new emergency laws. Since 1986, every terrorist act has been followed by a counter-terrorism law, which always lead to undermine fundamental freedoms under the pretext of more security. Today, the last counter-terrorism law adopted in November 2014 [3] has not even been implemented, but the government is already announced new measures, without taking the time to assess the efficiency of current provisions. In the aftermath of the attack against Charlie Hebdo, the French government notified the European Commission of the imminent publication of the decrees implementing the LOPPSI law, allowing the administrative blockade (without the intervention of a judge) of websites advocating or provoking terrorism. Against all the informed analysis that point to the ineffectiveness of those measures and their intrusiveness of civil liberties, and without any clear link between this week's attack and online communications. The government answers to an attack on civil rights with another restriction of freedom of expression and the rule of law. What a bad tribute to pay to those who gave their lives for freedom of speech... La Quadrature du Net calls on the European Commission to proceed with its assessment of the harmful consequences of this decree on website blocking. We also urge the French government to abandon new legislations restricting civil rights, and citizens to continue voicing their commitment to freedom of speech by marking their refusal of these dangerous measures. To answer to terror with the restrictions of civil rights and the rule of law is an endless trap. It betrays our democratic ideals and betrays all those in the world and in France who died for rights and freedoms. * References * 1. http://www.nextinpact.com/news/91674-le-blocage-administratif-sites-terrori… [FR] 2. http://www.lefigaro.fr/politique/le-scan/citations/2015/01/09/25002-2015010… [FR] 3. https://www.laquadrature.net/en/terrorism-bill-the-french-senate-adopts-the… ** About La Quadrature du Net ** La Quadrature du Net is an advocacy group that defends the rights and freedoms of citizens on the Internet. More specifically, it advocates for the adaptation of French and European legislations to respect the founding principles of the Internet, most notably the free circulation of knowledge. In addition to its advocacy work, the group also aims to foster a better understanding of legislative processes among citizens. Through specific and pertinent information and tools, La Quadrature du Net hopes to encourage citizens' participation in the public debate on rights and freedoms in the digital age. La Quadrature du Net is supported by French, European and international NGOs including the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Open Society Institute and Privacy International. List of supporting organisations: https://www.laquadrature.net/en/they-support-la-quadrature-du-net ** Press contact and press room ** contact(a)laquadrature.net, +33 (0)972 294 426 https://www.laquadrature.net/en/press-room _______________________________________________ Opennetcoalition mailing list Opennetcoalition(a)laquadrature.net https://laquadrature.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/opennetcoalition -- 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] Fwd: Critical Labour Studies symposium 2015 - programme
by Michel Bauwens 09 Jan '15

09 Jan '15

dear Kevin, a potential announcement for our blog, Michel ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: peter waterman <peterwaterman1936(a)gmail.com> Date: Fri, Jan 9, 2015 at 8:11 PM Subject: [Networkedlabour] Fwd: Critical Labour Studies symposium 2015 - programme To: "<networkedlabour(a)lists.contrast.org>" < networkedlabour(a)lists.contrast.org> 1. 2014. From Coldwar Communism to the Global Justice Movement: Itinerary of a Long-Distance Internationalist. http://www.into-ebooks.com/book/from_coldwar_communism _to_the_global_emancipatory_movement/ <http://www.into-ebooks.com/book/from_coldwar_communism_to_the_global_emanci…> (Free). 2. 2014. Interface Journal Special (Co-Editor), December 2014. 'Social Movement Internationalisms'. (Free). <http://www.interfacejournal.net/current/> * <http://www.interfacejournal.net/current/>* 3. 2014. 'The Networked Internationalism of Labour's Others', in Jai Sen (ed), Peter Waterman (co-ed), The Movement of Movements: <http://www.into-ebooks.com/book/the_movements_of_movements/>Struggles for Other Worlds (Part I). <http://www.into-ebooks.com/book/the_movements_of_movements/> (10 Euros). 4. 2012. EBook: Recovering Internationalism <http://www.into-ebooks.com/book/recovering_internationalism/>. [A compilation of papers from the new millenium. Now free in two download formats] 5. 2013. EBook (co-editor), February 2013: World Social Forum: Critical Explorations http://www.into-ebooks.com/book/world_social_forum/ 6. 2012. Interface Journal Special (co-editor), November 2012: *For the Global Emancipation of Labour <http://www.interfacejournal.net/current/>* 7. 2005-? <http://interfacejournal.nuim.ie/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/Interf…> Ongoing. Blog: http://www.unionbook.org/profile/peterwaterman.???. Needed: a Global Labour Charter Movement (2005-Now!) <http://interfacejournal.nuim.ie/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/Interf…> 8. 2011. Under, Against, Beyond: Labour and Social Movements Confront a Globalised, Informatised Capitalism <http://www.into-ebooks.com/book/under-against-beyond/>(2011) (c. 1,000 pages of Working Papers, free, from the 1980's-90's). ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Jane Holgate <j.holgate(a)leeds.ac.uk> Date: Fri, Jan 9, 2015 at 5:51 AM Subject: Critical Labour Studies symposium 2015 - programme To: CRITICAL-LABOUR-STUDIES(a)jiscmail.ac.uk Dear colleagues Please find the attached programme for *Critical Labour Studies * *11^th Annual Symposium* *28^th February - 1^st March 2014* *Ruskin College, Ruskin Hall, Oxford, **OX3 9BZ* I do hope that you will be able to attend. Please circulate it to anyone you think may be interested. *Critical Labour Studies*is now in its 11^th year and over that time we have brought to bring together researchers and activists to discuss key features of work and employment from a radical and labour-focused perspective. It has been successful in creating links between the activities of trade unionists, activists, universities, and researchers, allowing a broad and critical debate to emerge. Through *Critical Labour Studies*we have developed an open working group and discussion forum that engages with many of the challenges facing researchers and trade unionists within the current environment of work and employment and we have done this without institutional support or financial backing. However, we do need a little money to continue to exist – to pay for the website and to hold our annual conferences and to be able to support contributors to the conference who do not have institutional (or personal) resources on which to draw. As such we are asking *Critical Labour Studies*supporters to agree to an annual membership and where possible to also consider making a donation. If you wish *Critical Labour Studies* to continue holding its annual symposium and acting as an important link between practitioners/activists in the labour movement and academia then we would ask you to considered making a contribution to ensure our continuing existence (details below - and attached). http://criticallabourstudies.org.uk/site/ With best wishes Jane *To donate to Critical Labour Studies you can either make an annual standing order or a monthly donation of £10, £20, £50 or £100 or an amount of your choice.* *Please make your donation through your bank using the following details:* ·*Payment to: CLS* ·*Payment from: your name* ·*Sort code: 08-60-01* ·*Account number: 20237918* ** ** ** -- Professor Jane Holgate Professor of Work and Employment Relations Work and Employment Relations Division Leeds University Business School 31 Lyddon Terrace (room 2.05) University of Leeds LS2 9JT email: j.holgate(a)leeds.ac.uk Mobile: 07960 798399 _______________________________________________ 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] From Agamben to Zizek: Sign the Appeal "Change Greece – Change Europe – Change4all"
by Michel Bauwens 09 Jan '15

09 Jan '15

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Fwd: [Networkedlabour] The Gradual Transformation of British Labour Attitudes on Israel/Palestine
by Michel Bauwens 09 Jan '15

09 Jan '15

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: peter waterman <peterwaterman1936(a)gmail.com> Date: Fri, Jan 9, 2015 at 5:42 AM Subject: [Networkedlabour] The Gradual Transformation of British Labour Attitudes on Israel/Palestine To: WSFDiscuss List <WorldSocialForum-Discuss(a)openspaceforum.net>, 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>, "CRITICAL-LABOUR-STUDIES(a)jiscmail.ac.uk" < CRITICAL-LABOUR-STUDIES(a)jiscmail.ac.uk>, "< networkedlabour(a)lists.contrast.org>" <networkedlabour(a)lists.contrast.org>, Dan Gallin <gli(a)iprolink.ch>, Asbjørn Wahl <Asbjorn.Wahl(a)velferdsstaten.no>, Kim Scipes <kimscipes(a)earthlink.net> Middle East Monitor - The Latest from the Middle East <https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/index.php> [image: Israel detained 1,266 Palestinian children in 2014] <https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/news/middle-east/16079-israel-detained-12…> Thursday, January 08 2015 About Us <https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/about-us>Community Guidelines <https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/community>Contact Us <https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/contact-us>Events <https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/palestine-events>Palestine Book Awards <http://www.palestinebookawards.com>Middle East In London <https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/culture> Back Monthly Guest Writers <https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/articles/guest-writers> Palestine and the British trade unions Palestine and the British trade unions Stephen Bell Thursday, 01 January 2015 06:30 9 19 9 37 [image: Stephen Bell] Stephen Bell MEMO's important book "The Battle for Public Opinion in Europe" analysed changing perspectives in Europe towards the Palestinian struggle. A look at the trade unions in Britain reveals that a similar process is underway. Given that these bodies are the largest social movement in the country, with approximately 7 million members, the change is not unimportant. On closer examination, the policy shift is particularly notable. Strong support for Zionism and the Israeli state characterised the union position for almost the whole of the 20th Century. Equally, from its earliest days, the Labour Party, funded by the trade unions, was the strongest supporter of the Zionist project amongst British political parties. In his authoritative study, "The British left and Zionism", Paul Kelemen wrote: "In August 1917, two and a half months before the Balfour Declaration committed Britain to support the setting up of a 'Jewish home' in Palestine, the Labour Party took the first step to adopting a new near identical policy in its War Aims Memorandum. The document drafted by a subcommittee of the party's executive included a proposal that Palestine should be set free from Turkish rule in order that this country may form a Free State under international guarantee, to which such of the Jewish people as desire to do so may return and work at their own salvation." (p12) This policy was endorsed by the Labour Party conference in December 1917, shortly after the Balfour Declaration. It may be thought that this was simply the work of politicians. Not so, for the trade unions registered 90 per cent of the vote at the conference. In addition, there were prominent trade union leaders at the heart of Labour's leadership, such as Arthur Henderson and Ernest Bevin, who had a direct part in framing policy on Palestine. The "socialist" case for this support was not so surprising. Most of the parties of the Second International had come to accept the supposedly progressive argument for colonialism. The imperial bargain for this acceptance was the tolerance by the ruling class of trade union and socialist party agitation on domestic matters; colonial super-profits, meanwhile, allowed for concessions at home to be funded. The Zionist project was seen as a logical extension of the civilising mission of European society. This could also be presented conveniently in labour movement circles as a particularly progressive example. The pioneers amongst the Jewish settlers in Palestine were drawn from the Israeli Labour Party, a sister of its namesake in Britain. The organisation of the labour market in the settlements was under the control of the Histadrut, the trade union centre of the Zionists. Even Zionism's discriminatory practices were presented in a progressive light. The Jewish National Fund, for example, permitted land leases for "the cultivation of the holding only with Jewish labour." The Histadrut made sure that its role was to ensure that this policy was enforced. This was presented as preventing labour from being undercut, and raising living standards for all workers. The labour movement in Britain believed in the advanced nature of Zionism over Arab or Palestinian nationalism. The Palestinian rebellion of 1936 was not supported. The assumption was that there could not be a conflict of interest between Arab and Jewish workers. Instead, it was argued by Harold Laski that the source of the problem came from "the effendi and such trouble makers as the Grand Mufti." (Kelemen p31) A small minority, including Stafford Cripps, Michael Foot and the British Communist Party, opposed this view. The dominant position was expressed most strongly in 1939 when Labour's Front Bench opposed the Cabinet White Paper, which sought a Palestinian state in ten years and a limitation on Jewish immigration for five years. At the 1939 Labour conference this opposition was endorsed with only two votes registered against. The position at the end of the Second World War was hardly more favourable. The statement adopted at the 1944 Labour Party conference read: "...there is surely neither hope nor meaning in a 'Jewish National Home', unless we are prepared to let Jews, if they wish, enter this tiny land in such numbers as to become a majority. There was a strong case for this before the War. There is an irrefutable case now, after the unspeakable atrocities of the cold and calculated German Nazi plan to kill all Jews in Europe... let the Arabs be encouraged to move out as the Jews move in." This can only have been carried at the conference because the trade unions voted for it. It is obvious that the experience of the British labour movement was also reinforced by the impact of the Holocaust. Sections of the armed forces were involved directly in liberating the Nazi concentration camps, along with Russia's Red Army from the East. It is impossible to imagine the effect that this had upon those who experienced it, but it meant that the case for a sovereign Jewish state became absolutely conclusive in the eyes of many progressives. The late Tony Benn had an outstanding record in supporting the movements for colonial freedom from the 1950s. Yet as a former member of the wartime Royal Air Force, he could not let go of his support for the Israeli government until Israel's invasion of Lebanon in 1982, and the resultant expulsion of the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the massacres at Sabra and Shatila. Critics of Israel on the left were effectively silenced when the government of the USSR became the first government in the world to recognise the nascent State of Israel in 1948. Stalin may well have regarded the foundation of Israel as a blow to British imperialism but, in truth, its conflict with Britain was purely momentary. The damage to the Palestinian people because of the Soviet government's position is of another order. A large section of the international anti-colonial movement was disorientated by Moscow's move. In these circumstances, there was no effective support for the Palestinians from the international, or British, labour movement. It took Stalin's death, the Egyptian victory at Suez in 1956 and the subsequent turning to the USSR by Nasser before the left within the labour movement became more supportive of the Palestinians. However, this support would definitely have been a minority inside the labour movement in Britain, Europe and North America. When I first started arguing the case for the Palestinians in 1973, as an activist in the Transport and General Workers' Union, the position was seen by other union members as very threatening. The image of the Palestinians being presented then was based on aircraft hijackings and the Black September operation at the Munich Olympics in 1972. Obviously, the Israeli government position was more or less supported by the labour movement in the 1967 and 1973 wars. The TUC Congress carried motions of support for Israel in 1967 and 1976. A first shift may well have begun when the UN General Assembly debated the issue after 22 years of treating the Palestinians as purely a refugee problem. Yasser Arafat's 1974 address to the UN and the subsequent majority vote for Palestinian self-determination and national independence was an important change in international perception of the issue. As has often been the way, the Conservative Party proved to be more adept at recognising the significance of this development for British commercial interests in the Middle East. Reginald Maudling, then Shadow Foreign Secretary for the Tories, told parliament in 1975 that the PLO "is the voice of Palestinians." Margaret Thatcher's government voted for the European Community declaration in 1979 which supported the Palestinian "right to self-determination". Labour leader James Callaghan opposed this in parliament, and suggested that the Palestinians should be placed under Jordanian jurisdiction. Between 1974 and 1981 there were only 3 resolutions placed before the Labour Party conference on the Middle East. Two these were from Poale Zion, a Marxist-Zionist movement. Out of the 268 Labour MPs in the 1979 intake, 140 were members of Labour Friends of Israel. George Galloway and Ken Livingstone were exceptions amongst Labour politicians at the time in their readiness to support the Palestinians. Without doubt, Israel's 1982 invasion of Lebanon had a big impact. At the TUC Congress that year a motion from the Fire Brigades' Union (FBU) deplored the invasion and supported Palestinian self-determination. Despite General Council opposition this was carried. Two weeks later 46 emergency motions critical of Israel were placed before the Labour Party conference. A National Executive Council statement was carried, which was broadly critical of the Likud government and supportive of the Israeli Labour Party call for a judicial enquiry into the Sabra and Shatila massacres. Further, the conference also carried two radical resolutions: from Dundee East came the call for an independent, sovereign Palestinian state, without making this conditional upon Israel's "security". The other, from Norwood, demanded recognition of the PLO and supported the establishment of a democratic secular state in Palestine. A number of union conferences also passed pro-Palestinian resolutions: the National Association of Local Government Officers (NALGO), the FBU, the Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers-Technical, Administrative and Supervisory Section (AUEW/TASS), the Society of Graphical and Allied Trades (SOGAT 82), the National Union of Public Employees (NUPE) and the National Union of Teachers (NUT). This was a growing influence, but still a minority. My own experience was probably more typical. At the 1990 Union of Communication Workers conference (UCW), a motion was debated in support of the Palestinians. The left delegates supported the motion strongly in debate, but received only about 10 per cent of the vote. In many ways, the issue was subject to a left/right divide inside the labour movement. Neil Kinnock, Tony Blair and Gordon Brown were (and remain) all enthusiastic supporters of Israel and carried much support with them. The Oslo process generally slowed down the debate inside the British labour movement. The assumption was that this process gave some parity to the Palestinians; that it brought them into a political process and away from violence; and that it had an independent state guaranteed at the end. The grinding inertia of the process did not really create much disillusion within the labour movement until the eruption of the Second Intifada in 2000. The media coverage renewed interest, with some unions increasing their involvement in the Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC). A major fillip occurred through the growth of the anti-war movement against the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Palestinian slogans were raised and speakers referred constantly to the Palestinians at mass public demonstrations. Of great significance was that the trade unions broke with the Blair government on this issue. The TUC General Council voted on two occasions against the Iraq war. A new generation of union leaders had reached positions of authority after the rise of Bennism. These leaders were also influenced by the growing diversity of multi-cultural Britain, with its impact on workplace union organisation. An anti-imperialist sentiment achieved a majority position inside much of the trade union movement. The shift from opposition to the Iraq war to support for Palestine became hardened with each failure of Israel's aggressive policy: in Lebanon in 2006, Operation Cast Lead against Gaza in 2008/9, and the attack upon the Freedom Flotilla's Mavi Marmara in 2010. The TUC Congress was marked by a series of pro-Palestinian motions: in 2009 from the FBU, with a General Council statement, and in 2010 a composite motion from the Transport Salaried Staffs' Association (TSSA)/the GMB/Unison/the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS)/the FBU. In 2011 there was another composite from Unite and the PCS and in 2012 the CWU submitted a motion. An emergency motion from the General Council condemned Israel's summer 2014 war in Gaza and the events in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem. The size of this shift was conveyed by Martin Bright in an article in the Jewish Chronicle on 14 September, 2012: "Supporters of Israel are losing the battle of ideas in the UK. This has probably been true for some time if only they would admit it. But after this year's TUC conference there is no longer any question about it, on the left least... When David Taub was appointed as Israel's ambassador to the UK he made it his personal mission to reach out to the trade union movement. But they have no intention of listening... this motion was passed unanimously. The consensus in large swathes of the left is quite simply this: Israel is the oppressor and the Palestinians, the oppressed..." Earlier, in 2010, the Reut Institute published a document "Building a Political Firewall against the Assault on Israel's legitimacy". The document represented a very serious attempt to analyse the growing strength of the Palestinian solidarity movement in all its key features. Its conclusions were chilling for supporters of the Israeli government: "The TUC comprises 58 affiliated unions representing nearly seven million people. With a constituency of this size, and given the relative political prominence of trade unions within British society, a trade union brace of PSC-led campaigns can substantially impact the British mainstream." (p39) The authors of the document could not avoid a conclusion which looked decidedly like sour grapes. "The PSC's work in the trade union arena is a particularly potent example of the ability of a relatively marginal advocacy organisation to make a substantial impact." (p36) The shift in the union and labour movement on Palestine is extremely clear when the whole history of the relationship is examined. Moreover, this becomes even clearer when the relatively conservative character of the unions is taken into account. It is extremely difficult to win a policy change of this magnitude inside the British trade unions. It takes a great deal of time and effort to achieve. That same conservative character means that it is going to be extremely difficult to overturn a change once won. A powerful platform for Palestinian solidarity has been secured. It is up to all trade unionists to ensure that this is henceforth delivered effectively. *The author is head of policy at the Communications Workers Union (CWU) in the United Kingdom* 1. 2014. From Coldwar Communism to the Global Justice Movement: Itinerary of a Long-Distance Internationalist. http://www.into-ebooks.com/book/from_coldwar_communism _to_the_global_emancipatory_movement/ <http://www.into-ebooks.com/book/from_coldwar_communism_to_the_global_emanci…> (Free). 2. 2014. Interface Journal Special (Co-Editor), December 2014. 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Under, Against, Beyond: Labour and Social Movements Confront a Globalised, Informatised Capitalism <http://www.into-ebooks.com/book/under-against-beyond/>(2011) (c. 1,000 pages of Working Papers, free, from the 1980's-90's). _______________________________________________ NetworkedLabour mailing list NetworkedLabour(a)lists.contrast.org http://lists.contrast.org/mailman/listinfo/networkedlabour -- Check out the Commons Transition Plan here at: http://en.wiki.floksociety.org/w/Research_Plan P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation>Updates: http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/

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