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Fwd: From r
by Michel Bauwens 18 May '15

18 May '15

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Kanth, Rajani <rkanth(a)fas.harvard.edu> Date: Mon, May 18, 2015 at 12:18 PM Subject: From r To: "michelsub2004(a)gmail.com" <michelsub2004(a)gmail.com> *The Threat Du Jour* It is, regrettably, a veritable *Age of Extremes*. By now, we all likely know the banal fact that the ‘highest stage’ of Socialism may very well be *Neo-Liberalism.* But what we may not have known is that the ultimate stage of* Capitalism* may actually be an unabashed *Neo-Feudalism.* In fact, why would it stop there? I have always maintained that the Modernist sloganeering of ‘rights’ , the Enlightenment onwards, was specious, in the extreme, *vis a vis* the disempowered strata (inclusive of women). Way things are going, there may be even ‘higher’ stages to come, like the reinvention of *Slavery.* Indeed, ex-colonial world sweatshops that produce for European elite consumption today are but a fig leaf removed from conditions approximating slavery. Leave it to our able US/UK Modernists to rush us back into Antiquity , on rocket-propelled roller skates. I said *Antiquity*: but let us recall that the US brazenly practiced that venerable institution in the* modern *era, not in some antic past, and ‘gave it up’ only by the slimmest of margins. Even today, not all political forces in the US , as is obvious, have ‘given it up’, leastways in their minds. A Nation-wide poll on the issue might well confirm this hunch. So, as with* Capitalism* (of the dominant , Anglo-Am kind) the inspiration for such innovating novelties remains the *fons* *et* *origo* : the * Brutish I*sles, and their far-flung Atlantic/Pacific Progeny. *Yes, as an Indian I call that wretched polity – its ruling elites being the target - the Brutish Isles: what they did to that unfortunate sub-continent, over two centuries, is , in sheer scale, so outrageous that no reparations are ever possible. * *It is not in the ‘playing fields of Eton’, as is fancied, but in the killing fields of Ireland, India, and North America – to say nothing of innumerable other regions across this globe - that the Brits cut their martial teeth.* And yet these imperial polities set themselves up, even in these latter days, as paragons of *human rights.* The *Other* Europeans, today, are largely reduced to being no more than docile or disgruntled camp-followers, having long given up any hope for any real *autonomy* ( with the exception of France, perhaps). So, the wonderful folk who gave us all the cumulative glories of Colonialism, Imperialism, Capitalism, and Neoliberalism, are now about to give us all a taste for something new*: human extinction*. No, this is not hyperbole. Let me explain. I have done a book called the *Post-Human Society*: it waited 20 years to find a publisher. No Anglo-Am publisher would touch it. It now has, at long last, a German imprint. You get it, I’m sure: * anyone who challenges hegemony is a ( branded) pariah(which, incidentally, is fine by me: as a self-sufficing Brahmin, I hardly need, let alone crave, such indifferent company. Borrowing from Kipling: I have a ‘neater, sweeter,’ set of communal norms and ideals, drawn from a ‘cleaner, greener’ civilizational source. The soul, as Emily Dickinson wrote, selects her own society)*. At any rate , I argue there that the US is the bellwether of the *Global 1984 <1984>* to come, constituting an* Amoral* *Society,* across the board: a ‘society’ where the antic distinction between the moral and the immoral is losing both meaning and significance. It is another way of saying that anthropic society- which is based firmly on* morality* – is all set to give up the ghost amongst the Late European formations. It is another heroic Anglo-Am ‘first’ in history, like the Atom Bomb - amongst a few other such deeply merit-laden accomplishments. As always, the *in-house* critics , being no more than a mere *loyal Opposition*, have it all wrong: it is not the fact that the world is being polarized between 0.001 % and All the Rest, in *wealth*, that is at all remarkable. That sells Monsieur Piketty, all over the map, of course: but no more. *Rule by the few* , based on the expropriation of social wealth, is the norm in all predatory societies, the consecrated myths of ‘democracy’ notwithstanding. What is really remarkable is that anthropic society is being , in evolutionary terms, *arrested.* An *amoral society* is not an anthropic society at all, *but a contractual, Eurocentric, rational-legal , entity*, the fitting complement to the* beggar-thy-neighbor* economy. It will harbinger a dire estrangement, and occlusion, of *affective ties and ethical norms* globally, such that a homogenized, standardized, deculturalised, dehumanized, *barbarism* can flourish unchecked by received human propensities. It is also remarkable that Europeans have thought themselves to be possessed of the very acme of* civilization, * at the very instance of adopting the very *Tools of Barbarism* that are now part of the EuroModernist Legacy forced on all, everywhere. I have done a couple of books on that subject (listed below), so I will not trouble to detail it here. No, double-entry bookkeeping, and the compounding of interest, are *not* the momenta of civilization, but simply the unmistakable markers of being, inexorably, on the loping , low road to *Nihilism.* *Materialism *(in its wild, rampant, Anglo-Am vein) is the very antithesis of the *Convivial Moment * that marks the *possibility* of civilization amongst us hominids. The *Convivial promise* is innate in the province of *maternity and child-rearing*, making for a hallowed social space, howsoever brief and circumscribed, free from male violence and aggression. *Indeed, that domain is the real provenance of virtually all of anthropic morality.* Admittedly, that promise, slight as it was, was always severely constrained by the predations of masculinist violence and aggression that *homo heirarchicus *– a more accurate term than the abjectly self-serving ‘*homo sapiens’* - shares, liberally, with Chimpanzees. It is unfortunate that, as a species, we did not take after our worthy Bonobo cousins, instead, who might have served as a far worthier template. For that reason, our few success stories, *simple tribal societies with a matrilineal bent*, soon gave way to dissolution *via* the familiar exit of *empire.* *The Patriarchical male is an Oligarch, and lives (and dies) by an Iron Law of Oligarchy.* It is this ineluctable fact that, at base, vitiates the various feeble attempts at *democracy* (and *pacifism)* –when serious at all in *intent* - that have been tried. It is also that trait that unites US militarism to Afghan tribalism, in the attitude and ideology of primal *machismo*. The tribal Afghan, of course, like his American counterpart , needs no instruction in *violence:* but has not yet learnt to embrace the doctrines of unmitigated *greed* - and will doubtless be taught that elevating social grace at the coming rash of American Universities that will flourish there, soon, if it all unfolds as per plan. But the *Post-Human society* – meaning the *Amoral Society* – is not a *terminus,* by any means: it is but the stepping stone to another , far more egregious climacteric- the *TransHuman Society*, that will not merely arrest evolution but annihilate it altogether. So, mere barbarism is not to be a secure resting place: it will be, in the not-so-distal future, a *universe of androids.* Ask yourself: who today, are the supreme world leaders in arms, in wars, in cloning, in transgenetics, in greed, in desensitisation, in militarism, in nuclear testing, in reckless global destabilization: and the answer is patently *unequivocal.* *The fetishism of technology, in context of a system run wholly on behalf of privateers and profiteers, leaves no other option*: beginning with embedded chips , it will enlarge to all manner of vital displacements - *of the human by the machine*. It might also be instructive, here, *en passant*, to inquire as to just how many years the US and the UK have refrained from active *warfare *– including the planning/preparation of it - in the past two centuries? Not *Pax *Britannica or *Pax *Americana , therefore, but* Bellum* Britannica, *etc.*, may be the more appropriate term. No surprise, really: science, technology, intelligence , are all a colossal waste , indeed become a gathering *threat to their own societies*, if not accompanied by the *positive checks* of anthropic ethics, morality, kinship and community. Given the triumphalist destruction of the latter, under the various *diktats *of EuroModernism – celebrated fatuously as the paraphernalia of ‘freedom’ - all that is left us is domination by a small coterie, a rabid collation of sociopaths and psychopaths who will ‘lead’ us all, assuredly, into a certain, even predictable, damnation. If we let them. *Absit Omen.* REFERENCES R.Kanth, *Breaking With the Enlightenment, *Humanities, 1997 _______, *Against Eurocentrism*, Macmillan, 2005 ________ *The Post-Human Society,( Forthcoming)*, De Gruyter, 2015 *[©RKanth,2015]* -- Check out the Commons Transition Plan here at: http://commonstransition.org 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: Real Economy Lab
by Kevin Carson 18 May '15

18 May '15

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: <team(a)realeconomylab.org> Date: Wed, May 13, 2015 at 12:04 PM Subject: Re: Real Economy Lab To: free.market.anticapitalist(a)gmail.com Hello! Just wondering if you've received our previous note here, and have had a chance to look over our project or consider submitting your organisation's info to the Real Economy Lab. We'd love to have your input in order to place you on our growing map of initiatives that are leading the way towards a more inclusive, equitable, and regenerative future. Here again is a link to the online form, with about 20 questions that should help us to understand your approach and objectives as an important part of the larger shifts underway: http://goo.gl/forms/zGGT0feqw0 Thank you! -- On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 11:19 am, <team(a)realeconomylab.org> team(a)realeconomylab.org wrote: Hello, and welcome to the Real Economy Lab project! We've identified Center for a Stateless Society on our initial map of innovative and influential groups in a growing global movement towards workable, sustainable alternatives to the dominant economic paradigm today. We're very interested in gathering your direct input through a 10 minute online survey to better understand how your organisation operates, how it fits into the larger picture, and how it might both contribute to and benefit from an ongoing process of knowledge sharing and coalition building with related and complementary groups. Please visit this link to complete the form: http://goo.gl/forms/zGGT0feqw0 Results from this survey and parallel research will be mapped and analyzed using cutting-edge graph visualization tools to better understand underlying patterns, trends, themes, common ground, and opportunities for collaboration or exchange. This understanding, in turn, provides a grounds of engagement for anyone to join in constructive dialogue, crowdsource strategy, and experimental convergence processes. Our outputs (minus personal names and contact info) will be available to the public under Creative Commons and Open Database licensing. You can learn more about our approach and try out some interactive demonstrations at realeconomylab.org Questions for us? Just ask! Real Economy Lab is a joint, international effort with representatives from New Economics Foundation, Transition Network, and others. News and updates will be posted regularly to our blog, and if you like we'll include you on very occasional email announcements with important information about the project and opportunities for your further participation. We sincerely thank you for contributing, and look forward to supporting your work. * --The Real Economy Lab team, on behalf of Jules Peck, convener* Sent with @frontapp <http://frontapp.com/?utm_source=sent%20with%20Front&utm_medium=email&utm_ca…> -- Kevin Carson Senior Fellow, Karl Hess Scholar in Social Theory Center for a Stateless Society http://c4ss.org "You have no authority that we are bound to respect" -- John Perry Barlow "We are legion. We never forgive. We never forget. Expect us" -- Anonymous Homebrew Industrial Revolution: A Low-Overhead Manifesto http://homebrewindustrialrevolution.wordpress.com Desktop Regulatory State http://desktopregulatorystate.wordpress.com

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Fwd: [NetworkedLabour] What is Karl Marx? (1913) by Alexander Bogdanov
by Michel Bauwens 17 May '15

17 May '15

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Orsan <orsan1234(a)gmail.com> Date: Sun, May 17, 2015 at 9:14 PM Subject: [NetworkedLabour] What is Karl Marx? (1913) by Alexander Bogdanov To: "<networkedlabour(a)lists.contrast.org>" < networkedlabour(a)lists.contrast.org> .... What did Marx do? *He changed the point of view*. He looked at society from the point of view of those who produce, from the point of view of the working class, and everything turned out to be very different. It turned out that the center of life and development of the society was found there, that this was the Sun on which depended the ways and the movement of human beings, groups and classes. Marx was not a worker; but through the power of his mind he was able to fully understand the position of the worker. And he found out that with this transition everything immediately changed its contours and forms. The powers of things and causes of events were revealed to the human eyes in a way that was not possible from the old point of view. Reality, truth, even the everyday appearance of things changed and became something different, often something opposite to what it was before. Yes, even the way things appear to us! What can be more obvious for a capitalist than the fact that he feeds the worker? Does he not provide the worker with the work and the salary? But for the worker it is no less obvious that they are the ones who feed the capitalists with their labor. And in his discussion of surplus value Marx demonstrated that the first view was an illusion, an appearance that was similar to our everyday perception that Sun moved around Earth, but the second view was the truth. Marx discovered that all human thought and feeling received different direction and were formed differently depending on the class to which these human beings belonged, that is, depending on their position in relation to production. Different interests, habits and experiences lead to different conclusions. What is reasonable for one class is ridiculous for another, and conversely what is just, lawful and normal for one class is injustice and misuse of power for another. What appears as freedom to one class, looks like slavery to another. The ideal of one class causes horror and disgust of another class. Marx summed it up thus: “it is their social existence that determines their consciousness.” Or, in other words, thoughts, aspirations and ideals are determined by the economic situation. It is with the help of this idea that he transformed social science and philosophy. It is on this idea that he founded his great doctrine of the class struggle and its role in the development of society. He studied the path of this development and showed where it leads and which class would create the new organization of production, what this organization would look like and how it would end the division of classes and their long struggle. Marx was not a worker. But it was in the working class that the great teacher found the foothold for his thought, the point of view that allowed him to penetrate the depth of reality and to help him discover his idea. The essence of this idea is the self-consciousness of the working proletariat. That is why Marx more than any other thinker belongs to the proletariat. .... Full text: http://www.versobooks.com/blogs/1951-what-is-karl-marx _______________________________________________ NetworkedLabour mailing list NetworkedLabour(a)lists.contrast.org http://lists.contrast.org/mailman/listinfo/networkedlabour -- Check out the Commons Transition Plan here at: http://commonstransition.org 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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Programme: 5th ICTs & Society Conference
by Christian Fuchs 17 May '15

17 May '15

The 5th ICTs & Society Conference: The Internet and Social Media at a Crossroads: Capitalism or Commonism? Perspectives for Critical Political Economy and Critical Theory. Vienna University of Technology. Vienna, Austria June 3-7, 2015. Programme: http://fuchs.uti.at/wp-content/programme_ict&s5.pdf http://icts-and-society.net/events/5th-icts-and-society-conference/ Given that the information society and the study of information face a world of crisis today and are at a crossroads, also the future of the Internet and social media are in question. The 5th ICTs and Society Conference therefore wants to focus on the questions: What are the main challenges that the Internet and social media are facing in capitalism today? What potentials for an alternative, commonist Internet are there? What are existing hindrances for such an Internet? What is the relationship of power structures, protest movements, societal developments, struggles, radical reforms, etc. to the Internet? How can critical political economy and critical theory best study the Internet and social media today?

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Fwd: WORKSHOP: Living Assemblies - Design Your Silken Self
by Michel Bauwens 17 May '15

17 May '15

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Furtherfield <info(a)furtherfield.org> Date: Fri, May 15, 2015 at 9:33 AM Subject: WORKSHOP: Living Assemblies - Design Your Silken Self To: Michel Bauwens <michel(a)p2pfoundation.net> View e-mail in browser <http://crm.furtherfield.org/civicrm/mailing/view?reset=1&id=48> <http://crm.furtherfield.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=291&…> <http://crm.furtherfield.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=292&…> Living Assemblies - Design Your Silken Self ------------------------------ Sat 6 - Sun 7 June 2015, 10am - 6pm ------------------------------ ‘Living Assemblies’ is a hands-on workshop, led by designer and researcher Veronica Ranner <http://crm.furtherfield.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=293&…>, investigating the coupling of the biological material silk, with digital technologies. This workshop is organised in partnership with The Arts Catalyst <http://crm.furtherfield.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=294&…> in cooperation with Furtherfield <http://crm.furtherfield.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=295&…> . We invite participants (experts in their own field – artists, designers, scientists, writers, technologists, academics, and activists) to join a weekend-long workshop, in which we will experiment with silk and a range of transient materials to imagine potential future applications for combining biological and digital media. *+ More about this event <http://crm.furtherfield.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=292&…>* ------------------------------ Apply to attend the workshops ------------------------------ If you would like to attend the 2-day workshop please send a statement of no more than 100 words and explain why you would like to attend and a brief summary of your background. *Deadline for applications:* 5pm, 18 May 2015 *Please email:* admin(a)artscatalyst.org **Participants must be able to attend the full 2 day workshop** **Please note spaces are limited** Participants are encouraged to bring their own laptops, inspirational materials, tablets and cameras along, to enrich the tool set for story crafting. ------------------------------ Location ------------------------------ Furtherfield Commons Finsbury Gate - Finsbury Park London MAP <http://crm.furtherfield.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=296&…> ------------------------------ Transport ------------------------------ Tube: Manor House, Finsbury Park Buses: 141, 341, 153, 253, 254, 259, 29, 4, N253, N279, N29 Train: Finsbury Park, Harringay, Harringay Green Lanes stations ------------------------------ About Furtherfield ------------------------------ Furtherfield <http://crm.furtherfield.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=297&…> is the UK's leading organisation for arts, technology and social change. Since 1997 Furtherfield has created online and physical spaces and places for people to come together to develop and create critical experimental art and digital technologies on their own terms. Furtherfield Gallery and Commons are based in the heart of London's Finsbury Park. This serves as a hub to connect and activate local and international communities of artists, technologists, thinkers and doers. ------------------------------ *Furtherfield is supported by Haringey Council and Arts Council England through the National Portfolio funding programme.* ------------------------------ <http://crm.furtherfield.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=298&…> Furtherfield <http://crm.furtherfield.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=297&…> - A living, breathing, thriving network for art, technology and social change since 1997 Click here <http://crm.furtherfield.org/civicrm/mailing/optout?reset=1&jid=293&qid=3392…> if you no longer wish to receive this newsletter. McKenzie Pavilion Finsbury Park London, N4 2NQ -- Check out the Commons Transition Plan here at: http://commonstransition.org 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] Cognitive mapping, of the global production networks, from labour points of view
by Michel Bauwens 17 May '15

17 May '15

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Orsan <orsan1234(a)gmail.com> Date: Fri, May 15, 2015 at 10:38 AM Subject: [NetworkedLabour] Cognitive mapping, of the global production networks, from labour points of view To: "<networkedlabour(a)lists.contrast.org>" < networkedlabour(a)lists.contrast.org> Need for a new ProletKult, by McKenzie Wark: http://www.publicseminar.org/2015/05/cogmap/#.VVWvmY4ayrU _______________________________________________ NetworkedLabour mailing list NetworkedLabour(a)lists.contrast.org http://lists.contrast.org/mailman/listinfo/networkedlabour -- Check out the Commons Transition Plan here at: http://commonstransition.org 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: Workers’ Struggles Against the Corporate Offensive
by Michel Bauwens 17 May '15

17 May '15

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: peter waterman <peterwaterman1936(a)gmail.com> Date: Sun, May 17, 2015 at 11:37 AM Subject: [NetworkedLabour] Fwd: Workers’ Struggles Against the Corporate Offensive 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://snuproject.wordpress.com/2015/01/02/1987-e-reader-ed-by-peter-waterm…>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: LeftStreamed <info(a)socialistproject.ca> Date: Sun, May 17, 2015 at 4:53 AM Subject: Workers’ Struggles Against the Corporate Offensive To: pwaterma(a)gmail.com *LeftStreamed — Recorded in Vancouver, 28 April 2015 * Workers’ Struggles Against the Corporate Offensive: <http://www.socialistproject.ca/leftstreamed/ls268.php> Continental Perspectives A Panel discussion of Continental Crucible with Napoleón Gómez Urrutia, Jim Sinclair and Richard Roman. - *Napoleón Gómez Urrutia* is President and General Secretary of the National Union of Mining Metal, Steel and Allied Workers Union of Mexico. He is an Oxford-educated economist, also a member of the executive committee of IndustriALL Global Union, the world's most powerful union organization. He continues to lead his union from exile in Vancouver, Canada. He has suffered years of death threats and legal harassment by the Mexican government and mining companies. He is the author of *Collapse of Dignity*, a book about corporate greed and miners’ struggles in Mexico. - *Jim Sinclair* was President of the B.C. Federation of Labour from 1999 to 2014 and has long been active in international solidarity work. He was the editor of *Crossing the Line: Canada and Free Trade with Mexico* (1992). - *Richard Roman* is co-author with Edur Velasco Arregui of *Continental Crucible* and many articles on workers, unions and the Mexican regime. Click here to view presentation <http://www.socialistproject.ca/leftstreamed/ls268.php> Share on Facebook <http://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.socialistproje…> LeftStreamed YouTube channel <http://www.youtube.com/c/LeftStreamed> If you do not want to receive any more newsletters: Unsubscribe <http://socialistproject.ca/lists/?p=unsubscribe&uid=987d50d80ef35be667df4ee…> If you wish to subscribe: this link <http://socialistproject.ca/lists/?p=subscribe> Forward to a friend: this link <http://socialistproject.ca/lists/?p=forward&uid=987d50d80ef35be667df4ee5baa…> To update your preferences: this link <http://socialistproject.ca/lists/?p=preferences&uid=987d50d80ef35be667df4ee…> powered by phpList <http://www.phplist.com/poweredby?utm_source=download3.0.5&utm_medium=powere…> _______________________________________________ NetworkedLabour mailing list NetworkedLabour(a)lists.contrast.org http://lists.contrast.org/mailman/listinfo/networkedlabour -- Check out the Commons Transition Plan here at: http://commonstransition.org 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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Networked Labour University – Information Bulletin No. 2 [En] | 8-15 May 2015
by Örsan Şenalp 14 May '15

14 May '15

Networked Labour University – Information Bulletin No. 2 [En] | 8-15 May 2015 - NLU Opening Meeting took place on Thursday 7 May 2015 - Occupy your space to test our system, and learn how to build own! - Courses being scheduled and opened for enrolment - NLU receives 1000 FairCoin donation from FairCoop’s campaign ****** 1. NLU Opening Meeting took place on Thursday 7 May 2015 At the opening meeting, it is decided to hold bi-weekly meetings to exchange updates, discuss technical and organisational issues, and coordinate overall platform development process. The date of the next meeting is 21 May at 16:00 CET (UTC+2). Anyone likes to engage and put a brick in the building of NLU cooperative learning platform is more than welcome! Agenda and decisions taken at the opening meeting can be read here: http://networkedlabour.networg.nl/moodle/mod/lti/view.php?id=25 2. Occupy your space to test our system, and learn how to build own! Our e-campus opens its doors to individuals, groups, and communities that are sharing a co-operative and solidarity economy perspective. We invite you all to start experimenting with and exploiting the possibilities: http://networkedlabour.networg.nl/moodle/course/index.php?categoryid=9 Federating Moodle and Big Blue Button and using other plug-ins provided with the Moodle, NLU e-campus platform allows to run feeds from other websites and blogs, host social forums, embed external media, page and other tools (like pads and wikis) and give access to scheduled online classrooms on each spaces created on the e-campus. Together with other design and admin options the overall system becomes a weapon of mass-construction, for networking and organising. NLU e-campus now gives access to individuals, groups and collective projects access to productive and creative collaborative tool-kit that enable users to schedule, assign and execute tasks collectively, to organise strategic exchanges, skill sharing meetings, press conferences, art shows, film screening, reading groups, educative or action oriented events in all forms in one big shared space. The NLU e-campus is organised as for main spaces: the ‘Conference Halls‘ which is devoted to one time large events; the ‘Training Centre‘ which is reserved to various types of classes; the ‘Labour and Trade Unions Forum‘ which is built for the use of labour and union related events and debates; and finally ‘Open Spaces for Collaborations‘, the space created for the use of work groups, collectives, and collaborative -local or global- projects. If you like to reserve a space for your courses, events, or group’s meetings just send us an email and we will help you to create and manage it as you like! (admin email: gnunion(a)networg.nl) 3. Courses being scheduled and opened for enrolment Besides the Study Circle rounds scheduled at 3rd and 10th of June, that were announced in the first bulletin, below classes are now open for the enrolment: Transformative Circles – One (En): Enrolment is open, starting date of the class will be decided with the course moderator (Anna Harrris)http://networkedlabour.networg.nl/moodle/course/index.php?categoryid=6 Crisis of the Global Labour Movement: Threat and Opportunity (En, Es): Enrolment is open, starting date of the class will be decided in conversation with the course tutor (Peter Waterman)http://networkedlabour.networg.nl/moodle/course/index.php?categoryid=8 Skill Sharing for workers on Internet, computers, social media communication and organising (Tr, En): Enrolment is open, sessions will start when sufficient amount of people enrol to the groups (Örsan Şenalp)http://networkedlabour.networg.nl/moodle/course/index.php?categoryid=3 Tektology Reading Group (En): Enrolment is open, sessions will start when sufficient amount of people enrol to the groups (Örsan Şenalp)http://networkedlabour.networg.nl/moodle/course/index.php?categoryid=5 Introduction to the Critique of Global Political Economy (Tr, En):Enrolments is open, courses starts in early September (Gürsan Şenalp)http://networkedlabour.networg.nl/moodle/course/index.php?categoryid=4 Study Circle on Digital Labour (Tr, En, NL): Enrolment is open, courses will start in September (Örsan Şenalp)http://networkedlabour.networg.nl/moodle/course/index.php?categoryid=2 Register and Enrol: http://networkedlabour.networg.nl/moodle/login/signup.php? In order to enrol any classes or to apply for a space for the use of your organisation or groups, first you need to register as NLU user by clicking the above link and filling a short form. Then you will be able to get in touch with the course contact person. Write to admin for support (admin email: gnunion(a)networg.nl) 4. NLU receives 1000 FairCoin donation from FairCoop’s campaign Following its May Day launch, NLU started to accept donations in FairCoin, and the good news is that we did just receive the first donation from our sister cooperative-ecology Faircoop. See FariCoop campaign here: https://fair.coop/faircoop-donates-100-000-faircoins/ And to donate NLU, GNLU related projects via banktransfer you can use our CoopFunding campaign here: https://www.coopfunding.net/en/campaigns/global-networked-labour-union/ In solidarity! Networked Labour University

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Fwd: important request from annemarie (URGENT for Kevin)
by Michel Bauwens 13 May '15

13 May '15

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Annemarie Naylor <annemarie(a)commonfutures.eu> Date: Wed, May 13, 2015 at 1:19 PM Subject: Re: important request from annemarie To: Michel Bauwens <michel(a)p2pfoundation.net>, Kevin Flanagan < kev.flanagan(a)gmail.com> Hi Kevin At the very least, can you please add the partner blurb this AM and confirm anticipated day rates (via email) for any contributions you/Michel might make if we’re successful? Also, if you could let me know your availability over the coming period 3-6 months, I’d be grateful. Without that, I’m somewhat ‘in the dark’ when it comes to pitching what we could do and when on the ground! Many thanks, Annemarie Annemarie Naylor Director, Common Futures T. 07525 236797 E: annemarie(a)commonfutures.eu W: http://www.commonfutures.eu/ Follow me on twitter @commonfutrs 12 Sandford Close, Wivenhoe, Colchester, Essex, CO7 9NP Common Futures is a company limited by guarantee, registered in England no. 8481503 From: Michel Bauwens <michel(a)p2pfoundation.net> Date: Tuesday, 12 May 2015 09:41 To: Kevin Flanagan <kev.flanagan(a)gmail.com>, Annemarie Naylor < annemarie(a)commonfutures.eu> Subject: important request from annemarie kevin, got tweets from annemarie i only saw this morning before leaving rapidly, let's make sure we resond to this, i come home very late after the susana dinner in bcn Michel -- Check out the Commons Transition Plan here at: http://commonstransition.org 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://commonstransition.org 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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Seeking joint applicant for EU-funded research into Co-operative Higher Education
by Joss Winn 11 May '15

11 May '15

I’d like to work with more people on research into co-operative higher education/co-operative universities. There may be people on this list who are interested in this funding opportunity, or perhaps you know someone who would be interested? The EU-funded Marie Curie Individual Fellowships are a way of funding someone (you?) to work with me in Lincoln, UK, for up to two years on a research project that we both define. If this sounds interesting, please read on and get in touch. Details of Fellowship The University of Lincoln and the Co-operative College, UK, wish to support an application for an EU-funded Marie Curie Individual Fellow in the area of ‘co-operative higher education studies’, for example: Co-operative governance of universities; co-operative business models for higher education; employee ownership in tertiary education; trans-national support for co-operative higher education; co-operatives and the ‘free university’ movement; co-operative legislation and tertiary education in national contexts. Individual Fellowships are for researchers of any nationality and working in any research area who have a PhD or at least four years research experience after completing a degree that would qualify them to enter into a doctoral programme. Two types of fellowships are offered by the EU Commission: European Fellowships and Global Fellowships. Researchers must not have been living or working in the UK for more than 12 months in the three years prior to the submission deadline (with exceptions for career restart and reintegration). In 2015 the submission deadline to the EU Commission is 10th September 2015. The main aim of MSCA Individual Fellowships is the career development of the fellows. If successful, the Fellow would be based at the University of Lincoln, UK for up to two years, including a secondment at the Co-operative College in Manchester. The Fellow would be expected to undertake a programme of research which they co-design, including a specific package of support from the University. The living allowance is approx. €5000/month + a family allowance of €500/month where applicable. For further details of the funding scheme, please visit the European Commission’s website. http://ec.europa.eu/research/mariecurieactions/about-msca/actions/if/index_… If you are interested in discussing the possibility of a joint application with the University of Lincoln and Co-operative College, please email Joss Winn (jwinn(a)lincoln.ac.uk<mailto:[email protected]>) or Cilla Ross (cilla(a)co-op.ac.uk<mailto:[email protected]>) including a copy of your CV. Thank you. The University of Lincoln, located in the heart of the city of Lincoln, has established an international reputation based on high student satisfaction, excellent graduate employment and world-class research. The information in this e-mail and any attachments may be confidential. If you have received this email in error please notify the sender immediately and remove it from your system. Do not disclose the contents to another person or take copies. Email is not secure and may contain viruses. The University of Lincoln makes every effort to ensure email is sent without viruses, but cannot guarantee this and recommends recipients take appropriate precautions. The University may monitor email traffic data and content in accordance with its policies and English law. Further information can be found at: http://www.lincoln.ac.uk/legal.

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