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Fwd: [NetworkedLabour] Fwd: [WSF-Discuss] What Does the HDP (People’s Democracy Party), in Turkey, Stand For?
by Michel Bauwens 27 Jun '15

27 Jun '15

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Örsan Şenalp <orsan1234(a)gmail.com> Date: Mon, Jun 8, 2015 at 3:42 PM Subject: [NetworkedLabour] Fwd: [WSF-Discuss] What Does the HDP (People’s Democracy Party), in Turkey, Stand For? To: "networkedlabour(a)lists.contrast.org" <networkedlabour(a)lists.contrast.org > a piece thinking of HDP - Syriza - Podemos in one line: -------- Doorgestuurd bericht -------- Onderwerp: [WSF-Discuss] What Does the HDP (People’s Democracy Party), in Turkey, Stand For? Datum: Mon, 8 Jun 2015 12:23:27 +0530 Van: Sukla Sen <sukla.sen(a)gmail.com> Antwoord-naar: Discussion list about the WSF <worldsocialforum-discuss(a)openspaceforum.net> Aan: foil-l(a)insaf.net [This well informed write-up had been penned, obviously, before the outcome of the parliamentary poll was out.] http://scroll.in/article/732412/turkey-gets-a-taste-for-european-style-radi… Turkey gets a taste for European-style radicalism ahead of election With plans to shake up democracy, it's no wonder the HDP is being compared to Syriza and Podemos. Omer Tekdemir, The Conversation · Yesterday · 08:30 pm The election taking place in Turkey on June 7 is an important turning point for the country’s political system. A central issue in this contest is whether more power should be transferred from the Turkish parliament to the president – as is hoped by incumbent Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Standing against Erdoğan’s ruling AKP (Justice and Development Party) is a new party called the HDP (People’s Democracy Party). This was formed out of a collection of 36 once independent members of parliament. What is the HDP? The HDP has emerged as a radical democratic project, built on the foundations laid by pro-Kurdish political parties (from HEP to the BDP). It seeks to challenge the established order, aiming to radically transform the AKP’s neo-liberal and conservative understanding of democracy with a so-called passive revolution. For many, it is Turkey’s equivalent to Greece’s Syriza and Spain’s Podemos political parties and social movements. The HDP manifesto for the parliamentary election calls for bringing humanity back into politics. There is a strong emphasis on equal rights for women, LGBT people and workers and on social security for all. There are plans to increase the minimum wage, tackle youth unemployment and provide everyone with a basic package of free water and electricity. The party also emphasises free healthcare and education as well as peace – including by ending trade embargoes against Armenia. When it comes to the EU, the HDP says it would pursue full membership “within the scope of our principles” – suggesting that like Syriza in Greece, the party has some scepticism about neo-liberal aspects of the union by offering an alternative EU project. Significantly, the party would also shift the state away from religion and promote freedom of belief, ending the requirement for all children to have a religious education and abolishing the government’s Directorate of Religious Affairs – the body the oversees the practice of Islam in Turkey. The HDP also has bold ideas about Kurdistan. Turkish politics has, for 30 years, been characterised by the battle between the PKK (Kurdistan Worker’s Party) and the Turkish armed forces. Over this time, 40,000 people have died and three million have been displaced as the PKK fought for a separate, “free” Kurdistan. The HDP’s view is that Kurdish rights are more likely to be achieved by radically reforming Turkish democracy. It wants to decentralise Turkish politics, setting up regional assemblies to ensure that all “ethnic identities” have the right to self governance. A transnational movement The rise of the HDP comes as the radical left is sweeping to power elsewhere in Europe, seeking to give a voice to the voiceless. The best known is of course Syriza in Greece, which won the February 2015 election by offering an alternative to established politics. Most recently, in Spain, left-wing collective Podemos won 15 seats in Andalusia’s regional parliament – its first serious election since it secured five seats in the European parliament and joined the European new left. Podemos has its roots in protest movements and later became connected to anti-austerity social movements. The HDP has links with these groups and is continuing the transnational trend on the periphery of the EU. Yiannas Bournous, a member of Syriza’s central committee, attended the HDP’s election rally in İzmir a few weeks before polling day and a Syriza delegation visited Kobanê in 2014 to show the party’s support for the Kurds there. On top of its political heritage, the HDP also has links with the serhıldan (the Kurdish intifada), Kurdish street movement and the more recent, Occupy Gezi movement. Like its European counterparts, the HDP is seeking to bring greater democratic power to citizens, giving them a greater say in the issues that affect them, from the environment, individual rights such as abortion and employment security. Then there is young, charismatic co-chairman Selahattin Demirtaş – who won 9.8% of the votes cast in Turkey’s presidential election of August 2014. He has been compared to Syriza leader Alexis Tsipras and Podemos leader Pablo Iglesias. Demirtaş is popular among not only his own party but many groups who feel ostracised by the Turkish political structure, which is dominated by the centre right and centre left – from Alevis, Christians and Jews to ethnic minorities such as Georgians, Arabs, Turkmens, Albanians and Lazs. Even as Turkey seeks to emulate the EU by evolving into a modern, neo-liberal society, these groups are often the most excluded and alienated members of society. They do not have a particularly high public profile and are not represented by the mainstream parties. The HDP has thrived by building an allegiance between the Kurdish movement and other social and political democratic forces struggling against this exclusion. Just as Syriza and Podemos have appealed to the people who feel forgotten by their governments, the HDP is doing the same through offering a new model of life with a radical plural democratic political project. Success may be harder for this new player though. It stands little chance of getting into government but if it can pass the (extremely high) election threshold of 10% of the national vote, it can win a place in parliament and begin to have an influence over the democratic direction of the country. This article was originally published on The Conversation. _______________________________________________ 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: another EM from Ian Angus
by Michel Bauwens 27 Jun '15

27 Jun '15

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Rasigan Maharajh <rasigan(a)ieri.org.za> Date: Mon, Jun 8, 2015 at 3:54 PM Ernest Mandel on productivism, limits to growth, and socialist human development <http://climateandcapitalism.com/2015/06/07/ernest-mandel-on-productivism-li…> *A forgotten comment by a noted Marxist, on our collective responsibility to preserve natural wealth so that future generations can survive and flower.* ------------------------------ *It’s often said that socialists are latecomers to environmentalism, that until the 1990s, Marxists ignored or rejected the concerns raised by environmentalists. There’s some justice to that criticism, but there were important exceptions.* *I recently came across a the following passage in *Long Waves of Capitalist Development*, a 1980 book based on lectures that the noted Belgian Marxist Ernest Mandel gave at the University of Cambridge in 1978. I haven’t seen it quoted anywhere else.* *Whatever weaknesses there may have been in the response of the organized left at the time, it is clear that Mandel was giving careful thought to environmental issues: this remarkable passage could easily be included in a 21st century statement of ecosocialist views and aims, without change. * ------------------------------ [image: Ernest Mandel] <http://climateandcapitalism.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/06/Ernest-M…> Ernest Mandel We socialists and Marxists do not share the irresponsible “productivist” credo of the 1950s and 1960s. Many social criticisms of that credo are amply justified. One has not necessarily to accept the predictions of unavoidable absolute scarcity of energy and raw materials of the Club of Rome type in order to understand that there is a collective responsibility for the present generation of humanity to transmit to future generations an environment and a stock of natural wealth that constitute the necessary precondition for the survival and flowering of human civilization. Neither has one to accept the impoverishing implications of permanent asceticism and austerity, so alien to the basic spirit of Marxism, which is one of enjoyment of life and infinite enrichment of human potentialities, in order to understand that the endlessly growing output of an endless variety of more and more useless commodities (increasingly, outright harmful commodities, harmful both to the environment and to the healthy development of the individual) does not correspond to a socialist ideal. Such an output simply expresses the needs and greeds of capital to realize bigger and bigger amounts of surplus value, embodied in an endlessly growing mountain of commodities. But the rejection of the capitalist consumption pattern, combined with a no less resolute rejection of capitalist technology, should base itself from a socialist point of view on a vigorous struggle for alternative technologies that will extend, not restrict, the emancipatory potential of machinery (i.e., the possibility of freeing all human beings from the burden of mechanical, mutilating, non-creative labor, of facilitating rich development of the human personality for all individuals on the basis of satisfaction of all their basic material needs). We are convinced that once that satisfaction is assured in a society where the incentives for personal enrichment, greed, and competitive behavior are withering away, further “growth” will be centered around needs of “nonmaterial” production, (i.e., the development of richer social relations). Moral and psychological needs will supersede the tendency to acquire and accumulate more material goods. However “impopular” these beliefs may appear in the light of present-day fashions, we believe in the growing capacities of human intelligence, human science, human progress, human self-realization (including self-control), and human freedom, without in any way subordinating the defense of such freedoms (in the first place, freedom from want, but also freedom of thought, of creation, of political and social action) to any paternalistic instance supposedly capable of securing them for mankind. From: Ernest Mandel. *Long Waves of Capitalist Development: The Marxist Interpretation*. Cambridge University Press, London, 1980. pp 103-5. Paragraph breaks added for onscreen readability. An expanded edition was published by Verso in 1995. -- *Rasigan Maharajh, PhD.* Chief Director: *Institute for Economic Research on Innovation*, Tshwane University of Technology, RSA. Nodal Head: Department of Science and Technology and National Research Foundation *Centre of Excellence in Scientometrics and Science, Technology and Innovation Policy*, RSA. Associate Research Fellow: *Tellus Institute*, Boston, USA. Chairperson: Southern Africa Node of the *Millennium Project*, RSA. Postal Address: 159 Nana Sita Street, Pretoria CBD, 0002, Tshwane, Gauteng, South Africa Phone: +27 12 3823073 www.ieri.org.za www.tellus.org www.sampnode.org.za -- 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: [commoning] "Equality Without Equivalence: an anthropology of the common"
by Michel Bauwens 27 Jun '15

27 Jun '15

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Miguel Said Vieira <msv(a)dev.full.nom.br> Date: Sat, Jun 27, 2015 at 5:06 AM Subject: [commoning] "Equality Without Equivalence: an anthropology of the common" To: commoning(a)lists.commons-institut.org Folks, I don't know if you've heard this -- it's an interesting (speculative, provocative) lecture on commons, from an anthropological perspective. "Equality Without Equivalence: an anthropology of the common", by Harry Walker http://www.lse.ac.uk/newsAndMedia/videoAndAudio/channels/publicLecturesAndE… What would individualism and equality look like if detached from their > foundations in a logic of equivalence? > He suggests that the "problem" is not individualism, but rather equivalence -- the equivalence between commodities, central to capitalism, but also the equivalence between people that is implied in western notions of egalitarianism and justice. Although his approach to commons is rooted in Peruvian-Amazonian ethnographic fieldwork, it is quite related to Negri's. Abraços from Brazil. All best, Miguel S Vieira _______________________________________________ Commoning mailing list Commons-Institut e.V. Germany Commoning(a)lists.commons-institut.org https://lists.schokokeks.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/commoning -- 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: Decent Work special issue
by Michel Bauwens 26 Jun '15

26 Jun '15

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Orsan Senalp <orsan1234(a)gmail.com> Date: Mon, Jun 8, 2015 at 8:21 PM Subject: [NetworkedLabour] Fwd: Decent Work special issue To: Networked Labour <networkedlabour(a)lists.contrast.org> Begin forwarded message: *From:* Dr Phoebe Moore <pvm.doc(a)GMAIL.COM> *Date:* 8 Jun 2015 15:14:16 GMT+2 *To:* CRITICAL-LABOUR-STUDIES(a)JISCMAIL.AC.UK *Subject:* *Decent Work special issue* *Reply-To:* Dr Phoebe Moore <pvm.doc(a)GMAIL.COM> Please see the new Special Issue <https://escarpmentpress.org/globallabour/issue/view/246> in the Global Labour Journal 'The Future and Praxis of Decent Work' that I acted as Lead Guest Editor for. It’s the result of 2.5 years of finding the best pieces for this and the organisation of two events at Kassel University’s International Centre for Development and Decent Work, and European Workshops in International Studies in Izmir last year. Do enjoy. In the introduction I make the point that ‘decency' cannot be understood as identical to ‘dignity’. By looking at the history of the formation and the trajectory of mandate shifts of the International Labour Organisation we see that decency becomes, possibly, the highest level we can now expect in workplaces. The articles provide analysis in the context of Indonesia, Italy, India, South Korea, Macedonia *Vol. 6, No. 2 (2015) Special Issue: 'The Future and Praxis of Decent Work'* <https://escarpmentpress.org/globallabour/issue/view/246> Lead guest editor Phoebe Moore (Middlesex University) *with co-editors Charles Dannreuther (Leeds University), Christian Möllmann (Kassel University International Centre for Development and Decent Work), Conor Cradden (Lausanne) * *Guest editors' introduction*: *The Future and Praxis of Decent Work* <https://escarpmentpress.org/globallabour/article/view/2634/2423> by Phoebe Moore with Charles Dannreuther, Christian Möllmann *Articles* *Felix Hauf *'The Paradoxes of Decent Work in Context: A Cultural Political Economy Perspective' *Martina Lavagnini, Antonella Mennella* 'The Latest Italian Labour Market Rreforms in the Perspective of Decent Work Basic-Relations-Fairness Proposal' *Jamie Morgan, Wendy Olsen* 'The Absence of Decent Work: The Continued Development of Forced and Unfree Labour in India' *Rafael Peels, Marialaura Fino* 'Pushed out the Door, Back in through the Window: The Role of the ILO in EU and US Trade Agreements in Facilitating the Decent Work Agenda' *Dragan Tevdovski *'Decent Work Diagnostics for a Western Balkan Country Stuck in the Neo-liberal Doctrine: The Case of the Republic of Macedonia' *Lore Van den Putte* 'Involving Civil Society in the Implementation of Social Provisions in Trade Agreements: Comparing the US and EU Approach in the Case of South Korea' *Reviews* *Anita Chan *review of Kevin Gray (2015) Labour and Development in East Asia: Social Forces and Passive Revolution *Janet Munakamwe *review of Costello, C. and Freedland, M. (eds.) (2014) Migrants at Work: Immigration and Vulnerability in Labour Law *Khalid Nadvi *review of Rossi, A., Luinstra, A. and Pickles, J. (eds.) (2014) Towards Better Work: Understanding Labour in Apparel Global Value Chains *Global Issues* The Future and Praxis of Decent Work, Peter Waterman, Dave Spooner * Dr Phoebe V Moore Senior Lecturer in International Relations* * School of Law Middlesex University London NW4 4BT * _______________________________________________ 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: My new Techcrunch article: "The Future Of Algorithmic Personalization"
by Michel Bauwens 26 Jun '15

26 Jun '15

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Jarno Mikael Koponen <jarno.koponen(a)gmail.com> Date: Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 4:21 AM Subject: My new Techcrunch article: "The Future Of Algorithmic Personalization" To: Michel Bauwens <michel(a)p2pfoundation.net> Hi Michel, I hope you're well! Your work on creating digital alternatives keeps inspiring me, both professionally and personally. Thought you might find this interesting/thought-provoking. My new story "The Future Of Algorithmic Personalization" just out on Techcrunch: http://techcrunch.com/2015/06/25/the-future-of-algorithmic-personalization/ "Because of the personalization gaps and internal paradox, personalization remains unfulfilling and incomplete. It leaves us with a feeling that it serves someone else’s interests better than our own... There are three design and development paths that would help personalization to serve us better as unique individuals." "There’s no objectivity (nor should there be claims of objectivity) in the realm of personalization. We shape the algorithms and the algorithms shape us continuously. To serve us better, personalization algorithms should be able understand our subjective way of seeing connections and meanings around us." "Personalization as a concept derives from the world of industrial mass production and marketing. Maybe, in order to mark a new era of algorithmically assisted decision-making — and to emphasize the importance of personal agency — we should talk about choice algorithms instead of personalization algorithms. Who would build such choice algorithms for us?" All feedback welcome, many thanks! -Jarno M., https://twitter.com/ilparone -- 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: Shared IP
by Michel Bauwens 25 Jun '15

25 Jun '15

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Bob Haugen <bob.haugen(a)gmail.com> Date: Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 5:05 PM Subject: Re: Shared IP To: James Hazard <james.g.hazard(a)gmail.com> Value Equations are one of the key concepts that (as far as I know) originated in Sensorica. They are democratic agreements on how to distribute income from collaborative work. I think they are a key element of governance. Not sure if they belong in a license, but they were mentioned in Michel's accounting page cited below, and are related to . They have been implemented in software, in a working prototype stage. You can read about the software here: https://speakerdeck.com/player/a9a3be6149594d2491286f1888286d89# https://speakerdeck.com/player/24d2c288ecc64262a55b3fc539f90564# And some of the background here (the links in the slides do not work in speakerdeck, unfortunately): http://valuenetwork.referata.com/wiki/The_Value_Equation#Background Note that the software does not yet implement all of the ideas in the background discussions. Enspiral does things quite differently, as do other groups. Lots of conversations are going on about these topics now, for example: https://github.com/open-app/holodex/issues/61

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Fwd: commons transition interview
by Michel Bauwens 25 Jun '15

25 Jun '15

via Stacco: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Stacco Troncoso <staccotroncoso(a)gmail.com> Date: Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 5:32 PM Subject: URGENT: Post promo (copy and paste) To: Michel Bauwens <michel(a)p2pfoundation.net> "Politicizing the Commons, is researching their roots and genealogy. If the law leaves so little room for the Commons today, it is because we forgot where they came from. Yet, this type of organization and management of resources existed long before modern industrial capitalism practices. We must reconnect with this tradition and rewrite this forgotten chapter in our economic history." Michel Bauwens, a pioneer of the P2P movement lays the conceptual foundations of a production system that would serve as an alternative to industrial capitalism. http://bit.ly/1LmV8v2 -- 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: love nest cryptoequity plan
by Michel Bauwens 24 Jun '15

24 Jun '15

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Joel Dietz <joel(a)swarmcorp.com> Date: Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 1:45 AM Subject: love nest cryptoequity plan To: Michel Bauwens <michel(a)p2pfoundation.net>, Marcus Baron < marcusleonbaron(a)gmail.com>, Primavera De Filippi <pdefilippi(a)gmail.com>, Eric Smalls <ericsmalls24(a)gmail.com>, Steve Omohundro < steveomohundro(a)gmail.com>, Flavia Cymbalista i'm of the opinion that common living spaces are one key ingredient in the rebirth of the commons. looking for founding members. videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGoRILUzOlQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyxZqTMPkkg -- ○ swarm joel dietz @fractastical <http://www.twitter.com/fractastical> swarm.fund <https://www.swarm.fund/> -- 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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Spreading intro videos on p2p
by Michel Bauwens 24 Jun '15

24 Jun '15

thanks for eventually specially spreading this new series of intro videos on the peer to peer dynamics: Over the last ten years, the P2P Foundation has produced a sizeable body of material, both original and curated, but none of it is specifically designed as an introduction for newcomers and people who are not so familiar with the P2P approach. Hence Irma Wilson‘s proposal, during a trip which FutureSharp helped organize in South Africa in the two first weeks of June 2015, to produce a number of short videos. With Irma’s assistance, and the help of filmmaker Michel Taljaard, we produced four videos which are being serialised here in the P2P Foundation Blog and which will be compiled in a forthcoming Commons Transition Article. This first video answers the question, what is peer to peer? http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/a-introduction-to-the-basic-p2p-ideas-part-1-… -- 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] FW: Free ebook by Lawrence Grossberg
by Michel Bauwens 23 Jun '15

23 Jun '15

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Ursula Huws <ursulahuws(a)analyticaresearch.co.uk> Date: Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 8:29 PM Subject: [NetworkedLabour] FW: Free ebook by Lawrence Grossberg To: "<networkedlabour(a)lists.contrast.org>" < networkedlabour(a)lists.contrast.org> Any interest? Ursula *From:* Lawrence and Wishart [mailto:[email protected]] *Sent:* 23 June 2015 14:02 *To:* analytica(a)dial.pipex.com *Subject:* Free ebook by Lawrence Grossberg Problems reading this email? View in a browser <http://www.emailhosts.com/[email protected]> LW HOME PAGE <http://www.emailhosts.com/ct/ctcount.php?key=022272250125987900003144> LW JOURNALS <http://www.emailhosts.com/ct/ctcount.php?key=022272260125987900003144> SOUNDINGS <http://www.emailhosts.com/ct/ctcount.php?key=022272270125987900003144> Out now: Free ebookWe All Want to Change the World <http://www.emailhosts.com/ct/ctcount.php?key=022272280125987900003144> Lawrence Grossberg This online book is a continuation of Lawrence Grossberg's analysis of changing popular and political cultures of the United States during the last fifty years. He poses the 'paradox of the left': despite the many people involved in a great variety of counterforces, the 'left' seems unable to create a broad, visible and effective movement for change. Somewhere between a popular polemic and an academic critique, in this book Grossberg argues for more humble and convivial forms of unities in difference, whether as intellectual conversations or political movements. *Lawrence Grossberg <http://www.emailhosts.com/ct/ctcount.php?key=022272290125987900003144> *is the Morris Davis Distinguished Professor of Communication Studies and Cultural Studies at the University of North Carolina. *More information/free download* <http://www.emailhosts.com/ct/ctcount.php?key=022272280125987900003144> *Event TONIGHT Demo: Solidarity with Greece <http://www.emailhosts.com/ct/ctcount.php?key=022272300125987900003144>* *Tuesday 23 June 2015, 6.30pm * Trafalgar Square (National Gallery), London WC2N 5DN. Facebook event <http://www.emailhosts.com/ct/ctcount.php?key=022272300125987900003144> Take part in the European week of action for Greece! <http://www.emailhosts.com/ct/ctcount.php?key=022272310125987900003144> Join us on Trafalgar Square *TONIGHT* and please also circulate the Facebook Event <http://www.emailhosts.com/ct/ctcount.php?key=022272320125987900003144> as widely as possible. Jubilee Debt Campaign <http://www.emailhosts.com/ct/ctcount.php?key=022272330125987900003144> is finalising a petition that will be circulated on the day and online. Please bring your own placards with support for Greece and debt-struggle slogans such as ‘*Break the chains of Greece's debt!*’ *Other eventsLeeds Taking SoundingsLabour’s election failure: What should be done?Thursday 16 July 2015, 6pm * Broadcasting Place (opposite The Fenton), Leeds LS2 9EN *Michael Rustin* will develop the arguments set out in ‘Reflections on the 2015 General Election’ <http://www.emailhosts.com/ct/ctcount.php?key=022272340125987900003144> and on the lessons that need to be drawn from this failure. This will be in the light of the analysis set out in the *Kilburn Manifesto* <http://www.emailhosts.com/ct/ctcount.php?key=022272350125987900003144>. Free event. For more details, contact Matthew Caygill: m.caygill(a)leedsbeckett.ac.uk See also the Leeds Taking Soundings blog <http://www.emailhosts.com/ct/ctcount.php?key=022272360125987900003144> and facebook page <http://www.emailhosts.com/ct/ctcount.php?key=022272370125987900003144> . June 2015 Follow L&W on Twitter: @lw_books <http://www.emailhosts.com/ct/ctcount.php?key=022272380125987900003144> ------------------------------ REFER A FRIEND If you would like to send this newsletter to a friend please click the link below and complete the form. Refer a Friend <http://www.emailhosts.com/[email protected]> ------------------------------ ------------------------------ UNSUBSCRIBE INFORMATION This email was sent to analytica(a)dial.pipex.com, by Lawrence & Wishart News. Opt-out of any future messages here. <http://www.emailhosts.com/[email protected]…> We will respect your decision to receive no further emails from us. ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ 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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