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Re: [P2P-F] [WSF-Discuss] [NetworkedLabour] Greet the WEF founder, counterpart of the WSF, prof. Schwab the lead 'Social Entrepreneur'
by Orsan 19 Sep '15

19 Sep '15

Good point Tord, and partly one can agree. If not read Kees van der Pijl's The Discipline of Western Supremacy, and Assange book on Google, and last piece Peter shared they are recommended urgently, as complimentary to left perspectives you find unconvincing as some of those presented in Challenging the Empires. > So I think one should be aware of that the way movements use the concepts are important and make people aware of possible differences and conflicts rather than believing that what is important is to find out which outside forces has been supporting which concepts. The left did this for many years concerning the concept environment seeing it as imposed from outside to divert the revolutionary struggle from the important social issues. Partly this was probably true and yet so extremely misleading and a way to marginalize the left rather then confronting capitalism wherever needed. this above, has been too long of a story, without clarification took us from 1999 Seattle to 2009-10 eve of 2011. That discursive battle in, out, next, bottom, and down of global governance institutions.. almost all of them are lost, as you might observed. from anti privatizations, to environment, from human rights, to gender issues, with the arrival of 2008 crisis.Ii am not going to go deep into concrete examples of internal power games and exploitations so on in 'movements' if you like to call them so, some others call it third / NGO sector, as if it is an industry (which it is) all are subject to systemic assimilation of capital and broader ruling class, one can call it, hacking. to turn the tide however, as Peter recently shared a paper from, even one dedicated and freed hacker person, who understands the structures, how they formed and transform, influence and get influenced, can make an impact -without almost no structural developmental funding- can create an emancipatory impact at an unforeseeable magnitude. It is I believe, about independence, character, skills, dedication, and courage. If a group of such, or better a class of such, people emerges out of existing and rotten sectors no one can estimates what is the chance for the win. Moulding the thoughts linked to the above ideas preparing the below workshop for Chaos Computer Congress. It is WSF of hackers, will take place in Hamburg at the end of December. During an hour long event to think of the concepts, principles, and methodology developed by Bogdanov in Tektology as daily practical-analytic guideline that can be easily understood, and used for everyone, activist, worker, citizen; in order to get a broader vision on complexities, to see, grasp and hack any thing surrounding them, material or conceptual. With the hope that it can be useful for anyone suffering and struggling with life destroyed a bit more everyday by the ruling classes. "T[hack]tology and the Hacker-Classes: Construction of the Emancipatory Subject, Subject of the Emancipatory Construction Abstract Organization and re-organisation of 'things'; means and relations of production, mental and manual labour, identities and personalities, law and violence, peace and war, information and communication,understanding of the life and the universe.. has been dominated actively by the rulers of societies, and since several centuries it is the capital’s point of view, albeit unevenly, that has been leading such domination systematically. In order to turn the tide, this meta-structure, or general capitalist system, needs to be replaced or assimilated by emancipatory global organizational structure that is re-described and re-built by and for the ruled and oppressed classes and peoples. Lecture brings forward the argument about the Tektologist nature of the hacker-classes, claiming that Bogdanov's Tektology provides an hand book that lays down universal guidelines and principles to accomplish the above task. It provides basic and universal concepts, methods and tools to de- and re-construct virtually anything, material and mental, and make it better from, the labour point of view. Further on the lecture reflects upon the triangular class struggle going on at the dusk of 21st century, dividing the hacker classes to three contending fronts: Those aligning with the ruling classes, those side lining with the ruled and oppressed, and those who hack for themselves -the new ruling class candidates. Tektological Hacking, from this perspective, is seen as a practise od universal science of organization, Tektology, with or without being aware of it. And those who have the skills and talent to hack the constructed things in the universe, at any level or field, from labour point of view, in Tektologically conscious way, are / will be potential catalyzers of emancipation of labour and nature from capital and ruling classes; steering the civilization based on inequality, exploitation, injustice, and destruction of nature to an end."

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Re: [P2P-F] [WSF-Discuss] [NetworkedLabour] Greet the WEF founder, counterpart of the WSF, prof. Schwab the lead 'Social Entrepreneur'
by Anna Harris 19 Sep '15

19 Sep '15

Can someone please explain the term 'truly Israeli' price which Paola Manduca introduced, and has been repeated by Tord? Thanks Anna > On 19 Sep 2015, at 16:52, Tord Björk <tord.bjork(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > I am concerned about several of Orsans contributions on the list recently and especially some of the follow up comments. > > Firstly there is a lack of understanding how concepts come about seeing them as introduced from outside from some far away place which we cannot influence. This focus upon some other influencing us is at the same time putting out of the picture actual power relations inside the movement and how these power relations are shaped by social and other relations in daily life. It becomes more important to tell the world all the acronyms and institutions we know about the mass produced concepts imposed upon us to show off how important we are knowing all these foreign actors and thinkers - WEF, Bilderberg, Trilateral commission, Roundtable of European Industrialists, ICC (International Chamber of Commerce), WBCSD (World Business Council for Sustainable development) to name a few. > > Some of these concepts are clearly there to destroy the understanding of popular movements as independent historical actors like NGO. But this concept was not developed by some business interests , it was instead shaped in the UN system as a negation of the only real actors, the states equally being nations. It was no conspiracy as such but a result of the situational context after WWII when movements were weak and states strong. Later market actors have become stronger and the concept is even more useful to split up the understanding of politik as a singular reducing it to the liberal understanding that is no such thing a society, only contracts between individuals and thus no such thing as politik, only politics in plural were NGOs can compete on markets for funding or attention in different regard if they split up the struggle in useful forms or content. To try to avoid specific concepts due to claiming the correct defintion of the word can sometimes be contraproductive, int he 1980s NGOs served in many Latin SAmerican countries the only form of organization that could resist and undermine the dictatorships and thus it was useful at the time. > > Social entrepreneur and the growing popularity of focusing upon what EU calls social economy is of course to b questioned. But it is not only imposed from above. In my small town in Southern Sweden it was used by the people high school movement, a more than 150 year institution built by popular movements to democratize society and seen in the light of the cooperative movement with the same back ground. Cooperatives are still seen as crucial for social change eg direct cooperation between farmers and consumers etc. At the same time cooperatives has been questioned from the very first time they appeared, at least of they were not fully independent, see Marx criticism of the Gotha program. In Sweden it has been regularly a way to divert movement from questioning the whole way the society os organized and giving them a role as evolutionary "prefigurative" movement builders in a powerless corner of society, certainly not imposed upon the movement from some Business think tank but from inside the movement itself as way to move forward when mass mobilization is lacking support. > > It may be true that today the speed and amount of new concept we have to relate to can be seen as troublesome, but only if we start to focus more upon what all these think tank says and less on what democratic social movements carry forward. There is today less of to some degree independent popular movement able to build their own political culture as mass media and project funding destroys understanding of society as a whole. Yet the kind of concepts Orsan criticises are temporary nad lack profound support in most cases, to try to learn them all is a struggle in vain. > > The idea to understand what politics is about instead of looking for the origin of concepts is to "follow the money". This simplistic way ends sometimes up in the kind of misleading argument that we can understand what WEF and social entreprenuerhip is about by knowing that WEF has been funded by something called a "truly Israeli" price. We are then told that here we have to find out more. > > The way the book Challening empires, the htiherto most seminal book on WSF, was quite strongly structured in a way were the most severe criticism against WSF was from some parts of the left arguing that were the money comes from tells what WSF is about. Ford Foundation was a main example. This kind of reasoning is limited. It may hold more important value than the criticism against WEF, like when Marx claimed cooperatives had to be independent to be of any use for the working class and not state funded. But in terms of WSF it was a simplistic argument that carried very little weight as no alternatives were shown that could be seen as without problems. > > So I think one should be aware of that the way movements use the concepts are important and make people aware of possible differences and conflicts rather than believing that what is important is to find out which outside forces has been supporting which concepts. The left did this for many years concerning the concept environment seeing it as imposed from outside to divert the revolutionary struggle from the important social issues. Partly this was probably true and yet so extremely misleading and a way to marginalize the left rather then confronting capitalism wherever needed. > > Tord Björk > >> On Sat, Sep 19, 2015 at 11:11 AM, Paola Manduca <paolamanduca(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> there is a say in my country..follow the money... >> >> the capital for establishing the WEF is from a "truly Israeli" price. >> liberal or illiberal is not the point >> >> who decides and what is proposed and where the info goes are the points. On these one would like to know better >> >> stay well >> >> >> >> >> >>> On Sat, Sep 19, 2015 at 11:05 AM, Orsan <orsan1234(a)gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> My point is, while I heard about the term 'social entrepreneurship' first time in my life towards the end of 2000s, after the crisis; the dr. strangelove, founding father of the top level elitist gathering of Davos, against which WSF is launched, has been building his family foundation to dedicate efforts to spread the word of 'social entrepreneurship' from mountain summit to down. Schwab Foundation is a satellite completing non-profit, social enterprise, had introduced the concept to the mortals like you an me. >>> >>> The publication of Empire, by Negri and the other guy, in 1999, emergence of micro credit networks, the spread of the idea of radical democratic entrepreneurship becomes a hype in parallel to WSF. Then formation of ideas around p2p, commons production, so on, surrounded by this concept which has been propagated from the most top and linked through the grassroots by the work of funded agencies, NGOs under the term that is becoming hype after 2008 crisis. >>> >>> One can not avoid to see how the global agendas are set, the concepts are spread, clash and get connected around the middle classes that are losing ground, and most talented of those form start-ups, entrepreneur communities, like co-working spaces so on so forth, and the rest are pushed to real desperation. >>> >>> Orsan >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>> On 19 sep. 2015, at 08:22, Anna Harris <anna(a)shsh.co.uk> wrote: >>>> >>>> Orsan, >>>> >>>> What are you trying to say with this bio of Schwab? >>>> >>>> Anna >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>> On 19 Sep 2015, at 00:33, Orsan <orsan1234(a)gmail.com> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Klaus Schwab, Founder and Executive Chairman >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Professor Klaus Schwab is the Founder and Executive Chairman of the World Economic Forum, an independent, impartial, not-for-profit Foundation committed to improving the state of the world. Since its inception in 1971, the Forum has become the world’s foremost multistakeholder organization and has been a driver for reconciliation efforts in different parts of the world, as well as the catalyst of numerous public-private partnerships and international initiatives. See the history page for more information. >>>>> >>>>> In 1998, Klaus Schwab and his wife Hilde created the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship, which seeks to identify, recognize and disseminate initiatives in social entrepreneurship that have significantly improved people’s lives and have the potential to be replicated on a global scale. The Foundation supports a network of 200 social entrepreneurs around the world. >>>>> >>>>> In 2004, Klaus Schwab established, with the financial contribution he received as part of the Dan David Prize, a new foundation: the Forum of Young Global Leaders (targeted at leaders below 40 years of age); and, in 2011, he created the Global Shapers Community (targeted at potential leaders between the ages of 20 and 30). The purpose of these two foundations is to integrate young people as a strong voice for the future into global decision-making processes and to stimulate young people to engage in concrete projects that address social problems. >>>>> >>>>> Under the leadership of Klaus Schwab, the World Economic Forum also established communities providing the best expertise and knowledge for problem-solving. Among those communities is the Network of Global Agenda Councils, comprising more than 1,500 of the most knowledgeable and relevant experts related to over 80 global, regional and industry challenges. >>>>> >>>>> The activities of the World Economic Forum comprise meetings that are exclusively organized for its different communities and initiatives in line with its mission of improving the state of the world. In the same context, it also conducts research and produces reports. >>>>> >>>>> The Forum employs more than 500 people, with its headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, and additional offices in New York, Beijing and Tokyo. >>>>> >>>>> Professor Klaus Schwab holds two doctoral degrees, one in mechanical engineering and one in economics and social sciences. He spent a year at Harvard University and went on to be the youngest professor at the University of Geneva. He has received numerous international and national honours. >>>>> >>>>> Klaus and Hilde Schwab were married in 1971. He has always followed, outside his work in the above foundations, a broad range of academic, cultural and public service interests. He enjoys sports and is a regular participant of the Engadin Cross-country Ski Marathon. The Schwabs have two children and two grandchildren. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> NetworkedLabour mailing list >>>>> NetworkedLabour(a)lists.contrast.org >>>>> http://lists.contrast.org/mailman/listinfo/networkedlabour >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> ** WSFDiscuss is an open and unmoderated forum for the exchange of information and views on the experience, practise, and theory of the World Social Forum at any level (local, national, regional, and global) and on related social and political movements and issues. 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Fwd: Corporate Leadership Ethics
by Michel Bauwens 19 Sep '15

19 Sep '15

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Bob Reuschlein <bobreuschlein(a)gmail.com> Date: Sat, Sep 19, 2015 at 6:27 AM Subject: Corporate Leadership Ethics To: Link to send or tweet to others by: https://bobreuschlein.wordpress.com/2015/09/18/corporate-leadership-ethics/ *Corporate Leadership Ethics* By Professor Robert Reuschlein *Leadership Responsibilities* “From everyone who has been given much, much will be demanded; and from the one who has been entrusted with much, much more will be asked” (Luke 12:48 <http://biblia.com/bible/esv/Luke%2012.48>). Some time around 1990 boards of directors of major corporations changed their hiring practices for CEOs, chief executive officers. Instead of looking around and determining fair pay levels like in previous practice, they began paying an extra 20% in an effort to hire the very best. Unfortunately this began an upward spiral in executive salaries that took pay levels from 120 times the average employee in 1980 to 700 times the average employee around the year 2000. In fact, Bill Moyers reported back then that the average Fortune 500 CEO was making $37 million to the average employee of $38,000 in those companies, approximately 1000 to 1. Ever since then the average top 1% income person had widened the gap from the other 99% considerably, consuming almost 100% of all income increases since the 2008 recession. In fact it truly is the 99% who are being exploited by the top 1%: when you look at the average top 5% income in 1979 and compare it to the top 5% minus the top 1% in 2007, the average for the next 4% in 2007 is lower than the top 5% average in 1979. So the elites are exploiting even the near elites. *History* Ever since the 1981 Reagan tax cuts richly rewarded the top 1% much more than the average person by cutting the top income tax rate from 70% down to 28%, income inequality has been steadily getting worse in America. One economist, Justin Farley, had found than the top tax rate does robustly inversely correlate with income inequality in America over the last century. While the average Reagan income tax cut was 25%, this 60% tax cut for the rich meant the average person got a much smaller tax rate cut than 25% since the rich pay nearly half the income tax revenue. Since the seventies, average people have experienced no net income increases, while the top 1% has seen their incomes quadruple from 1979 to 2007 according to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office. And it has gotten worse since then. Reagan was a lobbyist for General Electric, the number one nuclear weapons contractor during the Cold War; hence the heavy shadow of empire and the military industrial complex has to take the major blame for our current circumstances (see Infact report circa 1980s for details then). The new debt of the twelve years of Reagan Bush was equal to the military spending of those years, three trillion dollars each by my own calculations (not adjusted for inflation since 1992). *Ethics* The failure of the corporate elite to check themselves in this period represents an abdication of their fiduciary responsibility to their shareholders, as most CEOs recommend who should be added to the boards of directors of large corporations. It is in fact an example of crony capitalism. Unlike the current corrupt Supreme Court and judiciary, an honest judiciary might well find in favor of a class action lawsuit that addressed these CEOs and their boards to retake this extorted income and restore the shareholders of these corporations who have been systematically exploited by this large scale class warfare against the rest of us by these CEOs and their cronies. In the major banks, this lack of ethical responsibility lead to loan officers giving mortgages out to poor risks in the housing boom of the Bush years. The greatest housing booms were in the same states with the greatest military buildups. These same states are the most corrupt in the country, because high military spending increases crime nationally and regionally. Hence the military buildup multiplied the conditions for the 2008 banking implosion that resulted from lack of oversight by the regulatory agencies. Empires create crime and power corrupts, with alienation and low ethics as explained here: https://www.academia.edu/4862977/CRIME_and_the_Military_1989-1999_3p._1999 Professor Robert Reuschlein, Dr. Peace, Real Economy Institute, Madison,Wisconsin CONTACT: bobreuschlein(a)gmail.com INFO: www.realeconomy.com MESSAGE: 608-230-6640 -- 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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Greet the WEF founder, counterpart of the WSF, prof. Schwab the lead 'Social Entrepreneur'
by Orsan 19 Sep '15

19 Sep '15

Klaus Schwab, Founder and Executive Chairman Professor Klaus Schwab is the Founder and Executive Chairman of the World Economic Forum, an independent, impartial, not-for-profit Foundation committed to improving the state of the world. Since its inception in 1971, the Forum has become the world’s foremost multistakeholder organization and has been a driver for reconciliation efforts in different parts of the world, as well as the catalyst of numerous public-private partnerships and international initiatives. See the history page for more information. In 1998, Klaus Schwab and his wife Hilde created the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship, which seeks to identify, recognize and disseminate initiatives in social entrepreneurship that have significantly improved people’s lives and have the potential to be replicated on a global scale. The Foundation supports a network of 200 social entrepreneurs around the world. In 2004, Klaus Schwab established, with the financial contribution he received as part of the Dan David Prize, a new foundation: the Forum of Young Global Leaders (targeted at leaders below 40 years of age); and, in 2011, he created the Global Shapers Community (targeted at potential leaders between the ages of 20 and 30). The purpose of these two foundations is to integrate young people as a strong voice for the future into global decision-making processes and to stimulate young people to engage in concrete projects that address social problems. Under the leadership of Klaus Schwab, the World Economic Forum also established communities providing the best expertise and knowledge for problem-solving. Among those communities is the Network of Global Agenda Councils, comprising more than 1,500 of the most knowledgeable and relevant experts related to over 80 global, regional and industry challenges. The activities of the World Economic Forum comprise meetings that are exclusively organized for its different communities and initiatives in line with its mission of improving the state of the world. In the same context, it also conducts research and produces reports. The Forum employs more than 500 people, with its headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, and additional offices in New York, Beijing and Tokyo. Professor Klaus Schwab holds two doctoral degrees, one in mechanical engineering and one in economics and social sciences. He spent a year at Harvard University and went on to be the youngest professor at the University of Geneva. He has received numerous international and national honours. Klaus and Hilde Schwab were married in 1971. He has always followed, outside his work in the above foundations, a broad range of academic, cultural and public service interests. He enjoys sports and is a regular participant of the Engadin Cross-country Ski Marathon. The Schwabs have two children and two grandchildren.

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Re: [P2P-F] [Debate-List] Must-Read Piece by Assange on Communications, Empire and, of course, the US One!
by Orsan 19 Sep '15

19 Sep '15

What about lack of interest from Left academic, Marxists, anarchists, institutional actors, parties, NGOs, who stayed behind in supporting Assange, why they did not use the millions worth findings to question, research, and more important publicize such documentation massively unleashing and revealing the truth? These files and cables are intelligence commons, belongs to people, can free humanity; where has been those who claim to be the representing millions of workers, consumers, citizens... > On 18 sep. 2015, at 16:53, peter waterman <peterwaterman1936(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > Strongly argued piece by Assange, which greatly increases my respect for him. > > Highly original, I would think. > > To be widely spread (particularly to members of the US International Studies Association?) > > Regret I couldn't paste in the piece itself: > > http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/32096-what-wikileaks-teaches… > > Enjoy! > > PeterW > > -- > Recent publications > > 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/ (Free). 2. 2014. Interface Journal Special (Co-Editor), December 2014. 'Social Movement Internationalisms'. (Free).3. 2014. with Laurence Cox, ‘Movement Internationalism/s’, Interface: a Journal for and about Social Movements. (Editorial), Vol. 6 (2), pp. 1–12. 4. 2014. ‘The International Labour Movement in, Against and Beyond, the Globalized and Informatized Cage of Capitalism and Bureaucracy. (Interview). Interface: a Journal for and about Social Movements. Vol. 6 (2), pp. 35-58. 5. 2014. 'The Networked Internationalism of Labour's Others', in Jai Sen (ed), Peter Waterman (co-ed), The Movement of Movements: Struggles for Other Worlds (Part I). (10 Euros). 6. 2015. Waterman, Peter. ‘Beyond Labourism, Development and Decent Work’. Global Labour Journal, 2015, 6(2), pp. 246-50. > > More publications, click [////] > -- > To view previous posts, create a Google account with your current email and log in using gmail to access the archives. > https://accounts.google.com/newaccount?hl=en > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "debate-list(a)fahamu.org" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to debate-list+unsubscribe(a)fahamu.org. > To post to this group, send email to debate-list(a)fahamu.org. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/a/fahamu.org/group/debate-list/.

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Save me Robin: Is this new 'New Economy' the one there is a coop-corporate-corporatist coalition built by a fraction of global ruling class?
by Orsan Senalp 17 Sep '15

17 Sep '15

Building a New Economy (en castellano AQUI) Faircoin is a cooperative version of Bitcoin integrated via FairCoop into a net of coops and crowdfunding. It will be a key tool in a sustainaable economy free from state and bank control. …..the point is to hack the foreign exchange market by inserting the cooperation virus as a tool for global economic justice….. One of the priority objectives of FairCoop is to build a new global economic system based on cooperation, ethics, solidarity and justice in our economic relations. With FairCoop we plan to build an autonomous economic system over the current system, and for that we picture a set of free economic tools to use in order to generate new social dynamics. We explain in detail below, first here’s some news on how Faircoin is already being used: Extending the seeds of FairCoop through Europe | BERLIN, OPORTO, LISBON, MADRID… After Barcelona and London last month FairCoop has also been presented in Berlin, Lisbon, Porto and Madrid. The first date of the month was in the German capital on April 8 in Agora Collective (http://agoracollective.org) a co-working space that facilitates creative ways to exchange, develop and innovate with a social background. There, individual attendees and members of different groups were very interested in the project for unifying collaborative initiatives in economy and technological development, with Faircoin as crypto-currency spearhead. The result of this meeting, was the start of creating a local node in Berlin. May every week be FairCoin Week! The following presentations were in Portugal: the first in Lisbon on April 18 in RDA69 (https://rda69.wordpress.com/ ) and the second in Porto on April 25 in SEE. Lisbon The presentation was attended, among others by the Collective 1,000,101 and ReCo – Rede Cooperation – Aldeia das Amoreiras. Attendees at this presentation were excited about the principles and values promoted by FairCoop and therfe was an interesting discussion on technological issues concerning both crypto currencies and Faircoin as commons issues plus other tools that are being developed and will soon be available for use. A result of this presentation is the node that is being built in the Portuguese capital. Continuing in Portugal, a week after the meeting took place in Oporto, a city that already has an active node. There was much interest among attendees in common tools being developed in FairCoop and how to introduce them on a global scale. Faircoin again generated a rich debate both for its technological innovation and its extensive and diverse possibilities. FairCoin expansion in Greece, La Directa Newspaper-AUG 7, 2015 Our next presentation was in Madrid in the MediaLab Prado (medialab-prado.es) a national laboratory for production, research and dissemination of cultural projects exploring new forms of experimentation and collaborative learning with emerging digital networks. The event – broadcast by streaming through spanishrevolution.tv– was well attended and FairCoop integration projects and the social solidarity currency economy generated great interest . The next day stakeholders were met up again in the Tabacalera space to coordinate and start to implement the Madrid node. >From the provisional ecosystem council to the Open Ecosystem Assembly SEPT 16, 2015 we will soon be communicating more news! We’re building a series of coins and resources that play complementary roles, instead of trying to get a single currency to fit all needs at once. To do this, we are focusing on the following : Faircoin for the value storage role, starting now and with the long term objective of using it as a price reference. Faircredit, a worldwide mutual credit system as a means of exchange of goods and services, supported by Faircoin. And the following resources: Fairfunds: Faircoin funds for donations to various types of projects. The Global South Fund will be used for local collective empowerment projects at various levels, while the Commons Fund and the Technology Infrastructure Fund will fund global projects, which may also include globally coordinated networks of local projects. Fairsavings as a source of Faircoin savings for those members who aren’t security experts. Fairmarket, FairCoop’s virtual market that will allow members to use Faircredit, and anyone to use Faircoin. Fairbag as a resource to support backup encrypted savings and wallet management for advanced users who want to keep their savings in case of an emergency. Coopfunding as a permanent platform to raise donations in any Faircoin-convertible currency, which feed the Fairfunds. These, together with other projects presently in discussion which will be announced and launched in the near future, will serve to build the fundamentals of the FairCoop economic system. This system is meant to be fractal, i.e., from the experience in the root platform it can be moved and replicated to different regional and local scales around the globe, with interoperability at different levels for the entire FairCoop ecosystem. Next, we will explain the plan’s three phases as we envision them. 1st phase: Increase Faircoin price and prioritize savings, in order to increase capital of FairFunds The key concept for understanding the project’s potential to generate economic resources is the market cap, or market capitalization, which equals the amount of existing coins times the value of one unit. Some of the activists promoting this project bought large quantities of Faircoin at a very reduced price with the intention of redistributing to FairFunds projects and revalue by generating real value in a cooperative way through FairCoop. As explained on the Funds page, a primary goal of this phase is for Global South collectives and important pro-commons projects to receive Faircoin capital which could be useful to their development, together with the free knowledge resources and other types of support they will find in the social network (link). That is, to generate exactly the opposite dynamic as with that of the global financial power, which devalues people’s goods in order to keep their resources. Initiatives to prioritize at this stage will be: – FairSaving. FairCoop’s multi-signature digital wallet, which forces a minimum saving period of 6 months. – FairCoop wallet. Linked p2p multi-sig wallet. – FairBag. FairCoop wallet service that will allow a trustworthy encrypted backup which can be recovered in an emergency situation. – FairFunds. At the starting phase, it is important to spread the word and get projects to begin joining and feeding the various funds. In this sense we already have Coopfunding (link) for crowdfunding campaigns for FairFunds, exchangeable for Faircoins. Coopfunding will soon have a mixed option: 50% grant + 50% Fairsavings. PROUDLY POWERED BY THE EARTH’S FAIR COOPERATIVE English Español Français Català 简体中文 Deutsch Italiano Ελληνικα Português 2nd phase: Economic activity: moving products and services all around (December 2014 – December 2015) In this second phase, when the market cap reaches an amount that makes Faircoin generate commercial interest, and while the growth curve of this market cap becomes more moderate, it will grow in importance, creating economic activity both among FairCoop members and worldwide. Its important to understand that the community’s ability to purchase products and services depends on the total market cap of the currency it holds, and therefore trade expansion depends largely on the success of the cryptocurrency vehicle used as a store of value. The projects to be prioritized in this phase will be: – FairFunds: This will be the time to start distributing funds in the form of already-available Faircoin capital, to support participation of projects in the coop’s economic activity during the first year, and to be used freely from the second year on. – FairCredit: Global mutual loan system, supported by Faircoin, the currency to promote its use for production and consumption in the FairCoop ecosystem. – FairMarket: Virtual market that will accept Faircoin and FairCredit, allowing FairCoop members to open their shops with the technological support of the entire platform. – Other projects underway related to generating an autonomous banking system, and facilitating exchange processing tools and the ability to exchange other currencies to Faircoin and FairCredit. Support us! Join our free and cooperative co-financing 3rd phase: A fair economic system consolidated worldwide (January 2016 – ……..) This third phase, of course still further ahead, will be characterized by the consolidation of the ecosystem and its expansion to as many levels as possible. It is important to note that for this to happen, the value of Faircoin should consolidate so it can serve as a reference value, allowing us to stop depending on the prices drawn by fiat currencies. This may be the most difficult priority to achieve. In order to generate the reference value, it will be necessary to create very broad collaboration dynamics among many different people who can build large cooperative networks to defend the value of Faircoin as a benchmark of our ecosystem. Regarding other FairCoop objectives, we will try to increasingly multiply the cooperation and solidarity dynamics in every sense, leveraging the shared knowledge and the projects implemented at FairCoop, as well as the collectives that were part of it. It will be, at the end of the day, about spreading the seeds for cooperation, common good and fair economy so they can expand to as many corners of planet Earth as possible Extendiendo la semilla de FairCoop por Europa | BERLIN · LISBOA · OPORTO · MADRID Tras Barcelona y Londres, este último mes FairCoop ha sido presentado también en Berlin, Lisboa, Oporto y Madrid. La primera cita del mes se dio en la capital alemana el 8 de Abril en Agora Collective (http://agoracollective.org) un espacio de coworking que facilita formas creativas de intercambio, desarrollo e innovación con un trasfondo social. Allí, asistentes individuales y miembros de diferentes colectivos se mostraron muy interesados en el proyecto como aglutinador de iniciativas de economía colaborativa y el desarrollo tecnológico que conlleva la cryptomoneda Faircoin como punta de lanza. Fruto de este encuentro, quedó abierto el proceso de creación de un nodo local en Berlín. La siguientes presentaciones fueron en Portugal: la primera en Lisboa el 18 de Abril en RDA69 (https://rda69.wordpress.com/) y la segunda en Oporto el 25 de Abril en SEDE. A la presentación de Lisboa asistieron, entre otras, el Colectivo1000101 y la ReCo – Rede Cooperar – Aldeia das Amoreiras. Los asistentes a esta presentación se mostraron entusiasmados con los principios y valores que promueve FairCoop y se generó un interesante debate sobre cuestiones tecnológicas tanto referidas a criptomonedas y Faircoin como a cuestiones relacionadas con el procomún y otras herramientas que se están desarrollando y que pronto podrán utilizarse. Resultado de esta presentación es el nodo que se está empezando a crear en la capital portuguesa. Continuando en Portugal, una semana después la cita se dio en Oporto, ciudad que ya posee un nodo activo. Allí los asistentes se interesaron mucho sobre las herramientas del común que se están desarrollando en FairCoop y cómo introducirlas a escala global. De nuevo Faircoin volvió a generar un rico debate tanto por su novedad tecnológica como por sus amplias y diversas posibilidades. Nuestra última presentación fue en Madrid el pasado 30 de abril en el MediaLab Prado (medialab-prado.es) un laboratorio ciudadano de producción, investigación y difusión de proyectos culturales que explora nuevas formas de experimentación y aprendizaje colaborativo surgidas de las redes digitales. El evento – retransmitido por streaming a través de spanishrevolution.tv– estuvo muy concurrido y la integración de FairCoop con proyectos de economía solidaria y monedas sociales generó gran interés. Al día siguiente los interesados se dieron cita nuevamente en el espacio Tabacalera para coordinarse y empezar a poner en marcha el nodo de Madrid. ¡En breve se irán comunicando más noticias!… SHARE: Click to email this to a friend (Opens in new window)Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window)1Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)1Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window)Click to share on Google+ (Opens in new window)1Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)1Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window)Click to share on Pocket (Opens in new window)Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window) RELATED 'Robin Hood' fugitive to Kick-start Post Capitalism? In "anarchist" #faircoop.. Occupying free economy with Anti-money.. #faircoin In "anarchist" The Amazing Story of a Cryptocurrency that could save Greece (and Maybe the World) In "anarchist"

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Fwd: [commoning] FW: (New publication) Communication for the Commons: Revisiting Participation and Environment
by Michel Bauwens 17 Sep '15

17 Sep '15

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Becky Lentz <roberta.lentz(a)mcgill.ca> Date: Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 8:12 AM Subject: [commoning] FW: (New publication) Communication for the Commons: Revisiting Participation and Environment To: commoning(a)lists.commons-institut.org This might be of interest to some…. >The International Environmental Communication Association has released a >new >publication. >------------- >https://theieca.org/conference/coce-2013-uppsala/conference-proceedings >------------ >*/Communication for the Commons: Revisiting Participation and >Environment/* >[1] is an anthology of selected papers from the 2013 Conference on >Communication and Environment that was held in Uppsala, Sweden. > >The book is a 35MB PDF download [2] and it is free for all. Enjoy and >spread >the word. If this kind of research is interesting to you, please consider >joining IECA. >https://theieca.org/ > >ーーーーーーーーーーー >Table of contents: > >*PAPERS* > > * *Post Rio Communication Styles for Deliberation - between > individualization and collective action* by Pernille Almlund, Jesper >Holm > * *A Voice in the Wilderness: Cultural Barriers to Land Use Planning as > Deliberative Democracy* by Matthew Hoffman > * *Participation, learning and sustainable fisheries: the case of > co-management at lake Vättern, Sweden* by Cecilia Lundholm, Christian > Stöhr, Beatrice Crona > * *Joint Forest Management in India: A Case Study of East Sikkim, >India* by > Paulami Banerjee > * *Water Policy by Public Design on the Texas Coast* by Chara J. Ragland > * *Process Literacy Across Shifting Rhetorical Frameworks in Internal > Coalition Maintenance* by Deborah Cox Callister > * *The Value of Environment in the Controversy Over Antibacterial >Silver: >A > Swedish Case Study* by Max Boholm, Rickard Arvidsson > * *Biosphere Reserves, a Matter of Communication Processes, Developing > Models for Sustainability: Environmental Communication Processes with > Different* > * *Expressions that Either Formulate Opportunities or Form > Possibilities* by Kristina Börebäck > * *Developing an Ecotourism Foundation in Indonesian National Parks* by > Adriana Salas > * *A Comparative Study Evaluating Conservation Education in Indonesian > Provinces: Hinduism in Bali versus Islam in East Kalimantan* by Bianca > Ramirez > * *Supporting Water Governance and Climate Change Adaptation Through > Systemic Praxis* by Chris Blackmore, Ray Ison, Kevin Collins > * *The North American Model of Wildlife Conservation: Can It Move Beyond > Just Hunting?* by Andrea M. Feldpausch-Parker, Israel D. Parker > * *ImagineNATIVE 2012: Film Festival Eco-imaginations and Practices* by > Salma Monani, Miranda Brady > * *A Contradictory Approach to the Right of Public Access: Exploring > Relational Factors in the Case of Agritourism* by Elvira Caselunghe, > Hanna Ljunggren Bergeå > * *Struggles for Water in Colombia: Communication and the Participation >of > Citizens* by Valeria Llano-Arias > * *Flows, Locomotion, and the Wild West: Mobile Participation through >North > Dakota’s Oil Boom* by Brian Cozen > * *Hydrofracking in the News: How Media Coverage of Hydraulic Fracturing > Shapes Public Discourse About Emerging Energy Technologies in the > U.S.* by Katelind M. Batill, Andrea Feldpausch-Parker > * *Re-imaging the Commons as “the Green Economy”* by Joanna Boehnert > * *Can Stakeholders Hold the Commons? English as the Global Language of > Capitalism and that of Sustainability: Contradictions and Potentials* >by > M. Cristina Caimotto > * *Revisiting Participation: Who Matters* by Chara J. Ragland, Adrienne > Strubb > * *Participation in Environmental Communication: Culture, Nature, and > Literature* by Maris Sõrmus > * *Your Place, My Place, or Some Place More Exciting: Pro-Creative > Possibilities for Environmental Communication Scholarship* by James G. > Cantrill > * *Mountains and Handrails: Risk, Meaning, and Responsibility in Three > National Parks* by Laura N. Rickard > * *Apocalyptic Framing and Conservative Action: Discourses of Climate >Change > Communicated in Swedish Mass Media, 2006-2009* by Jonas Anshelm, >Martin > Hultman > * *Climate News Across Media Platforms: A Comparative Analysis of >Climate > Change Communication on Different News Platforms* by Mikkel Fugl >Eskjær > * *Overcoming the Issue Attention Cycle: Four Possible Ingredients of a > Successful Climate Movement* by Neil Stenhouse, Susanna Priest > * *Experiential Programs for Educators: A Case Study on Coastal Policy > Communication in Cebu, Philippines* by David W. Knight, Arren M. > Allegretti > * *Learning in the Beat: What Influences Environmental Journalists’ > Perception of Knowledge?* by Bruno Takahashi, Edson Tandoc, Jr. > * *Putting the U in Carbon Capture and Storage: Performances of Rupture > within the CCS Scientific Community* by Danielle Endres, Brian Cozen, > Megan O’Byrne, Andrea Feldpausch-Parker > * *Articulating Resistance to Nuclear Power: Local Tactics and Strategic > Connections in a Nuclear Construction Financing Controversy* by >William > J. Kinsella, Ashley R. Kelly. Meagan Kittle Autry > * *Proof Of Power: An Exploration Of Clashing Evidence-Based Claims In >The > A.N.W.R. Oil Drilling Debate* by Jessica R. Moyer > * *Meta-learning in the U.K. Environmental Movement: Culture Change >Theories > and Their Pedagogical Implications* by Callum McGregor > * *Social Media and Environmental Activism in China: Enacting Social >Change > on Wild Public Screens* by Kevin Michael DeLuca, Elizabeth Brunner > * *Negotiating the End of the World in Climate Change Rhetoric: Climate > Skepticism, Science, and Arguments* by Emma Frances Bloomfield, >Randall > A. Lake > * *Masculinity and Making Do: Outdoor Recreation’s Risky Rhetoric* by > Samantha Senda-Cook > * *“The Closer the Better”: Possibilities and Limitations with Frontline > Management. Lessons from the Majella National Park, Italy* by Serena > Cinque, Annelie Sjölander-Lindqvist > * *Promoting Sustainable Transportation across Campus Communities using >the > Transtheoretical Model of Change* by Norbert Mundorf, Colleen A. >Redding, > Tat Fu, Andrea Paiva, Leslie Brick, James O. Prochaska > * *The Visual Rhetoric of Climate Change Documentaries: Aerial Shots and > Interviews* by Helen Hughes > *The Ghost of Dr. Mesmer or the Illusionary World of Fantastic >Claims* by > Dominique M. Richard > * *Distrust as a Tool in an Environmental Conflict* by Marie-Ève Maillé, > Johanne Saint-Charles > * *“Blue is the New Green”: Neoliberal Logic and the Co-optation of > Environmental Justice Discourses in the Pennsylvania Fracking Debate* >by > Katherine Cruger, Michael Finewood > * *Citizen-Sourcing and Reframing Environmental Discourse: An Analysis >of > Frances Moore Lappé’s EcoMind* by Emilie O. Falc > * *Eco-Jokes and Their Relation to the UnCO2nscious: Larry David’s “Curb > Global Warming” Campaign and Other Environmental Comedies* by Xinghua > Li > * *Policy Issues Dominate U.S. Environmental News: A Content Analysis of > Seven U.S. Newspapers’ Coverage of Environmental Issues from > 1970-2010* by Susan Grantham, Edward T. Vieira, Jr. > * *Assessing the Cognitive Autonomy of Audiences Towards Environmental >Media > Messages* by Pierre Fastrez, Coralie Meurice, Thierry De Smedt, Julie > Matagne > >*POSTERS* > > * *Press Coverage and Framing of Climate Change Issues in Nigeria: A >Boost > or Constraint for Participation Opportunities?* by Herbert E. Batta, > Ashong C. Ashong, Abdullahi S. Bashir > * *Participatory Art Exhibitions: Public Pedagogy and Global Climate > Change* by Andrew Bieler > * *The Green Economy: Discourse and Problem Map* by Joanna Boehnert > * *Nature Incorporated: the Commons in a Spreadsheet* by Mark Brown > * *Paradise and poverty: How Cultural Identity Supports Environmental > Journalism in Jamaica and Nepal* by Elizabeth Burch > * *Communicating New Perspectives of the Commons Through Art* by Darlene > Farris-LaBar > * *Blowin’ in the Wind: How Collaborative Governance Communication > Can **Reduce Wind Power Siting Disputes in the United States* by Susan > Grantham > * *Credibility at Stake? “Clean, green” New Zealand in the News* by > Florian M. Kaefer > * *The Carrot or the Stick Approach? Effective Delivery of Behavioural > Changes Towards Energy Conservation and the Use of Renewable Energy in > Local Communities* by Josephine I. Mmojieje > * *Hunting Elk on YouTube: An Ecocritical Perspective on the >Nature-Human > Relationship in User-Generated Media* by Cecilia Mörner, Ulrika >Olausson > * *Media’s Role in Informing Public Opinion on Environmental Health >Risk: > Motivating Health Informed Policy?* by Linda J. Pfeiffer, Eun Jeong >Koh > * *Crossing Borders: Immigration and Agriculture in the Press* by Jean >P. > Retzinger > * *Communicating Adaptation to Climate Change in Thailand: Communication > Concepts for Practical Adaptation* by Sukanya Sereeonchai > * *Mediated participation: The Case of Belo Monte Supporters and the > Movimento Gota D’Água Dialogue on the Internet* by Vivian Paes > Barretto Smith > * *An Urban Environmental Handbook* by Stinne Storm Folving > * *Environmental Observatories and Citizens Participation: Virtual >Public > Arenas?* by María Ángela Torres Kremers > * *Politics, Logistics and Natural Resources: Cornerstones of the > Sustainability Concept in Local Level Communication* by Anne-Marie > Tuomala, Heimo Tuomala _______________________________________________ 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: FROM I TO WE - Project and Exhibition Launch - 18th Sept 2015
by Michel Bauwens 17 Sep '15

17 Sep '15

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Susanne Bosch <susbosch(a)web.de> Date: Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 3:00 PM Subject: FROM I TO WE - Project and Exhibition Launch - 18th Sept 2015 To: Jo Lewis I Inspirational Homes <Jo(a)inspirationalhomes.ie> *Project and Exhibition Launch* *FROM I TO WE* *Foto Ch. Mackey 2015* *An Artist in Residency Project by Susanne Bosch* *Interim Reception on Culture Night* *Friday 18th September at 4-8 pm* *Exhibition open until Saturday 3rd October* *at Leitrim Sculpture Centre, Manorhamilton* *FROM I TO WE* is the exploration of the landscape of human connectedness and collective action of inhabitants of Manorhamilton and surroundings. Bosch takes a strong interest in the resilience of local communities through collective action. The artist explores the question of recognising interdependence and living together as an art of cohabitation out of conviction but also based on the insight of urgent necessity. *‘*Meitheal*‘* describes the old Irish tradition where people in rural communities gathered together to help each other. Reciprocity and acting as one team is generating a huge level of camaraderie and friendship. *FROM I TO WE* uses formats such as public conversations, collective songwriting, tracing public space and a multi-media installation to engage with site and public. It is based on co-creation and recognising significant local talents and expertise as well as ideas and visions. *https://fromitoweproject.wordpress.com/* <https://fromitoweproject.wordpress.com/> *Bio* *Susanne Bosch* is an artist, art based researcher and teaches. She works predominantly in public and on long-term questions, which tackle creative arguments around the ideas of democracy. Works include among other things issues around money, migration, surviving, work, societal visions and participation models. Since 2012 she explores exclusively sustainable living and working models. She formally uses site- and situation-specific interventions, installations, video, drawing, audio, dialogic work, in addition formats such as writing, speaking, listening, workshops, seminars and Open Space conferences. Susanne works internationally on exhibitions and projects. She is currently research fellow in a Collaborative Arts Partnership Programme (CAPP), a transnational partnership on collaborative arts funded by Creative Europe and is part of the Think Tank Team of the *Monday Foundation, Art and Society* in Germany. She achieved a PhD about participatory public artwork in 2012. From 2007-2012, she developed and led the Art in Public master programme at the University of Ulster in Belfast together with artist Dan Shipsides.www.susannebosch.de Light refreshments will be served, everyone welcome. Exhibition supported by the Arts Council and Leitrim County Council. Leitrim Sculpture Centre New Line Manorhamilton Co Leitrim Ionad Dealbhóireachta, Cluainín, Co. Liatroim info(a)leitrimsculpturecentre.ie www.leitrimsculpturecentre.ie Telephone: 071 985 5098 LSC acknowledge the financial support of the Arts Council. -- 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: Chamber of Commons
by Michel Bauwens 16 Sep '15

16 Sep '15

thanks for spreading the word: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Steve Ediger <steveediger(a)gmail.com> Date: Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 4:06 AM Subject: Chamber of Commons http://www.chamberofcommons.us/ Hello, A small number of us have been working together since our Cooperation2015 Conference on the Chamber of Commons idea that Michel (Bauwens) put on the table in his closing keynote. We're please to announce a major historical event on Saturday, October 10, 2015, 9:30am-5:00pm -- Invitation to create a Chamber of Commons <http://chamberofcommons.us>. Please join us as we discuss the meaning of the commons to us and use that as a basis for an action planning workshop to plan the creation of Chicago's first Chamber of Commons dedicated to developing, protecting and celebrating the commons. As we do this in Chicago, other events will be hosted globally with the intent of celebrating commons throughout the world. Please take a look at our site, Invitation to create a Chamber of Commons <http://chamberofcommons.us/> and register for the event here <http://ica.site-ym.com/events/event_details.asp?id=678247> Steve Ediger 773-920-7350 (google voice) 505-426-7088 (mobile) ᐧ -- 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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SYRIZA Government Programme
by george dafermos 15 Sep '15

15 Sep '15

The commons and peer production occupy a strategic role in the (new) government programme that SYRIZA released today: http://www.syriza.gr/programma_syriza201509.pdf Indicatively, in the context of the productive transformation of the economy, SYRIZA commits itself to developing a productive model "aimed at strengthening those organizational models of production making use of high technology in order to support peer production. The increase in the rate of peer production activities is one of our central growth goals. For that reason, we promote those models of production which are based on all kinds of common goods, both material and immaterial, with the aim of achieving: - the greatest possible level of access to common goods - the greatest possible satisfaction of the individual needs and desires of every worker" (p.101). -G.

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