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Fwd: [commoning] The Future After Fukushima > event + interview with Japan's leading social thinker
by Michel Bauwens 10 Mar '16

10 Mar '16

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Krystian Woznicki <kw(a)berlinergazette.de> Date: Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 3:23 PM Subject: [commoning] The Future After Fukushima > event + interview with Japan's leading social thinker To: commoning(a)lists.commons-institut.org Hello commoners, in the context of the TACIT FUTURES project the Berliner Gazette invites you reflect once again the consequences of the Fukushima incident, that shocked the world on March 11, 2011 – almost exactly five years ago. Our Berlin event on March 19 presents the documentary film "Tell the Prime Minister" by Japan's leading social thinker Eiji Oguma as a starting point for discussion about common futures and the future as commons. An interview with Eiji Oguma about those issues and the politicization of Japan after 3/11 in particular was just published by openDemocracy, a German version of the protocol is available on Berliner Gazette. Scroll down to read all the info, or visit the websites now: TACIT FUTURES event with Eiji Oguma: http://bit.ly/21Zh2xc TACIT FUTURES interview with Eiji Oguma: https://www.opendemocracy.net/eiji-oguma-krystian-woznicki/japan-after-japan Kind regards, Krystian -- Japan after Japan Post-Fukushima social movements, the rebirth of history and tacit futures. An interview by Krystian Woznicki with Eiji Oguma openDemocracy.org, 9 March 2016 [1] After 200 years of relentless growth and rampant acceleration industrialized countries seem to have reached an end point. After living under near constant mobilization with one foot in tomorrow land we are sensing limits all over the place. From limited natural resources to our limited capabilities in handling larger than life technologies (e.g. nuclear power). Some call it "peak everything" (Heinberg). Others refer to it as "after future" (Berrardi). In other words: 200 years after the "futurist turn" (Sloterdijk) almost everything that was launched in the name of gloomy progress reaches an ideological and operational deadend. Take Japan as an example. Since the 1980s it has represented the future like no other country on this planet. Now it is deeply burdened by all projects, all movements and all the policies that created its futuristic appeal: toxic waste, mountains of national debt, ideological shipwreck. At this juncture a decision is needed: Could the future begin anew after all the burdens are left behind? – although hardly anyone can imagine when that will be. Or does the future begin in the here and now? – this place and time, where we are potentially able to envision another place and another time. As the historian Eiji Oguma suggests, the most important insight of the moment is: "We can't go back to the 1980s". Naturally, people are still struggling with what this implies. Looking at it from a global perspective, two things seem clear. Firstly: a new tale of the future cannot be implanted top down. Not again. It must emerge bottom-up. Secondly: we should not abandon the future only because "it has failed us" (Berrardi). We should not wait until the mess, which the production of futures has created so far, has been cleaned up. As a political vehicle, the future is way too important. In that sense the Berliner Gazette project TACIT FUTURES [2] proposes: rather than having arrived after the future, we are at a crucial turning point in the production of futures. On March 19 at the event "TACIT FUTURES: Japan after Japan" [3] Berliner Gazette presents "Tell the Prime Minister" by Eiji Oguma as a starting point for discussion about common futures and the future as commons. It is a documentary film about post-Fukushima social movements in Japan and depicts an unprecedented mobilization, which, lasting until today, the film documents as a historical event in progress. The product of an almost boundless collaboration, the film is composed of footage by numerous independent and amateur filmmakers who granted Oguma access to their footage. Footage that captures intimately and authentically a multiplicity of dynamics and faces, actions and testimonials from within the movement. It is a cinematic experiment that comes to terms with the social experiment that is under way in Japan today. Further information here. [4] Krystian Woznicki (KW): How did the authorities and social systems in Japan manage to suppress social movements and protest until the post-3/11-uprisings? Could you explain the vacuum of a public political sphere in Japan and the kind of governance that helped create that vacuum? Eiji Oguma (EO): I read one blog by a participant in the anti-nuclear movement after the Fukushima incident. He was an activist in the 1970’s and had stopped until the incident occurred. He said in his blog, “Now is the time we have to do demo. Japan was a country people did not need to do demo from 1970s to 2011, when people could get good jobs without any protest.” “To be honest, I was active until the early 1970s but it was activity for self-satisfaction and self-liberation. We did not feel any crisis in Japanese society for real.” I think it would explain your question. Japan was the country where, “people do not need to protest”. However, as a sociologist and historian, I know Japan was not “all middle class society” even in the 1980s when “Japan as number one” was a buzzword. Less than 20% of the work force in Japan in the 1980s worked at middle or big sized corporations which were so well known in western countries thanks to the power of Japanese exports. The Japanese government supplied subsidies, public works (mainly construction), and protection (mainly for agriculture) for the people who worked in domestic industries in local areas in exchange for demanding their votes for LDP, the conservative ruling party. The Japanese government contained any social problems by deploying such a cycle: economic growth through exports, increase of tax income, provision of subsidies and public works for the weaker parts of Japan, tax reduction for city businessmen and their families, an increase of consumption, and economic growth. In this situation, LDP managed to maintain power while containing social movements. From the 1970’s to the 2000’s, social movements rose in Japan mainly due to problems that emerged on the peripheries of society, for example, amongst Korean minorities, Okinawans, or in segregated downtown areas. Japan enjoyed such stability and prosperity as only a developed country in Asia’s “factory of the world” could expect, until the end of the Cold War when China entered the world economy and started to take the place of Japan. After that, the stagnation of the Japanese economy began. This stagnation broke the cycle in the 1980s. The Japanese government tried to prolong the cycle, but this led to a huge budget deficit. In 2000, the government started cutting subsidies and public works. It had already caused instability and anxiety in society long before the Fukushima incident. KW: How did the sudden outburst of post-3/11-uprisings find new, unexpected and unscripted forms of social protest to fill the vacuum? How were those new forms of protest perceived by the general public? How did the authorities react? EO: The Fukushima incident was only a trigger of the new social movements. In these 20 years, Japan has experienced a stagnant economy, a 15% reduction of the average annual income of employees, an increase in precarious jobs which occupy 40% of total employment nowadays, atomization and isolation caused by globalization and IT technology, the huge budget deficit bequeathed by policy dysfunction, and lack of transparency in political decision making. LDP lost power and was defeated by DPJ in the elections of 2009. These factors all existed before the Fukushima incident. According to my research, many activists of the social movements after the Fukushima incident are members of what can be described as the “cognitive precariat”, who have been highly educated but are unable to enjoy reasonable employment prospects. They are skilled in IT, design, illustration, music, event organizing. They are totally different from the traditional activists who used to report back to established trade unions or leftist parties. For example, my documentary recorded 8 interviewees. The four males include the Prime Minister at that time, a hospital worker, a young entrepreneur who is now CEO of a childcare goods trading company, an artist/anarchist. The four females are a Fukushima refugee housewife who lived at a 1.5km distance from the nuclear plant, a young shop clerk, a Dutch woman who is working at a US-affiliated company, the leader of an organizing group of the movement. Except for the housewife from Fukushima, all of them represent diversity and the change of Japanese society. The prime minister is a former civil movement activist in the 1970s who was affiliated to the DPJ. The hospital worker has a Ph.D. but could not get academic jobs. The young entrepreneur is independent from the big traditional corporations. The anarchist is a part-time lecturer and contemporary artist who plays music. The Dutch woman represents the effect of globalization, the shop clerk graduated from art school, the woman activist was an illustrator. You may imagine what kind of movement they would create between them. The movements after Fukushima were full of illustration, music, organizing, knowledge, skilled in IT-use. I think the character and features of these movements were similar to contemporary global democratic movements throughout the world. At first, people in established sectors, especially the Japanese mass media could not understand what was happening. Japanese mass media had had no similar experience of having to cover huge social movements for the previous 30 years. They had connections with labor unions and leftist parties but no contacts or skills to help them report on these new movements. At first they ignored the movements, then portrayed them as strange outsiders or a cultural fad. Japanese mass media actually failed to report on the movements at all until the activists finally met up with the Prime Minister. They were too entrenched in the social structure of the1980s and had no framework to understand the new situation. However, and I hate to say it, reactions from the authorities and the people in mainstream sectors, especially the more elderly among them had the same reaction as the mass media at the time. KW: What are the rules for protest in Japan? Why does the police try to partition the mass of protesters into small packages and keeps them lined up in a narrow row on the street as if making space for the cars (although traffic is suspended)? Why do protesters willingly obey? Has there been any modification to that practise since 3/11? EO: I guess ‘the rules’ might seem strange to western European people. However, demonstrations are actually prohibited in Singapore or Malaysia, of course in North Korea. But the level of democratization in Japan regarding permission for social movements is roughly average for that in all East Asian countries. Japanese police are strict in keeping social order, including traffic control. Since the 1970’s they have focused on keeping “Japan a clean, neat, safe society“ which many foreign tourists say they prefer. After 11 March, social movements tried to break “the rule” at first, but met the heavy police response I describe in the film. The activists finally noticed that such an effort might cause endanger the movements of ordinary participants in a way that would be harmful to the movement. They changed their approach to activities and succeeded in mobilising 200 thousand people to gather in front of the Prime Minister’s office in the summer of 2012. I remember that the activists said, “We have to proceed one step at a time.“ But I don’t think you can really characterise the people struggling in that situation as “willingly obedient“. KW: Did the post-3/11-movements inspire new policies in Japan? Did they have an impact on formal politics? EO: The answer must be ‘Yes’ and ‘No’. Regarding my role in the meeting with activists and the Prime Minister which is recorded in this film, I was a mediator. I have been a participant in the movement since April 2011 as an ordinary activist who became one because I realized it held the prospect of changing society. Although I attended the meetings of organizers, I did not give any advice because I felt that was not my role and that they were skilled in mobilizing people. At the high point of the mobilisation, in July 2012 when 200 thousand people gathered in front of the Prime Minister’s office, I told the organizers I could introduce politicians to them, including Mr. Kan who was the Prime Minister at the time of the disaster. Many of the activists knew my face as a regular participant. But they did not know I was a professor. However, they accepted my offer because they needed to have good contacts and I have established a certain credibility among them as a modest, but regular participant. The administration and activists asked me to attend the meeting as a mediator, but I did not speak in the meeting because I trusted these people to be the skilful activists I knew they were. After the meeting, DPJ administration declared an abolition of nuclear energy until 2040. I know the decision was made not only because of pressure from the movement, but also because it was a political opportunity. The DPJ administration failed to cope with the nuclear disaster and lost support at that point. And the election for party leader, as it happened, was booked for September 2012. Although Mr. Kan had already resigned from the role of prime minister at that time, he had changed his opinion on nuclear energy as a result of his experience of nuclear disaster. The DPJ and the prime minister desperately needed to improve their popularity and votes from among Mr. Kan‘s faction in the party’s leadership elections. That was because Mr. Kan and his faction, whom I made a point of introducing to the activists, still had some influence over the DPJ administration. Most of the 54 nuclear reactors in Japan were built before the 1990s, when GDP and electricity demand peaked. This means that most of the nuclear reactors will have reached the end of their lives by 2040. In May 2012, all of the nuclear reactors had stopped production, but there was no shortage of electricity supply. I thought that political decision by DPJ was a reasonable one. To sum up, it was a combination of new movements and old politics that contributed to the decision to abolish nuclear energy. I knew that the meeting was only a kind of political ritual, but the ritual was a mechanism for social progress. Myself, a professor, ordinary participant and mediator at one and the same time, might have been one tiny factor in that process of change. KW: For many observers the year 2011 marks a unique moment in history, because around the globe various societies experienced breakthroughs – from the revolution in Egypt to the post-3/11-uprisings in Japan. Alain Badiou speaks of the "rebirth of history". What is the perception of the international situation from the point of view of the protest movements in Japan? EO: Have a look at the woman who blows the horn in the demonstration which was recorded in the later part of the film. She has graduated from a university in the arts, and made her debut as a Manga writer. However, the Manga industry is so exploitative that she gave up writing Manga. Then she became a planning manager in the development department of a big stationery company. But the hard work made her ill and after she married her business colleague, she quitted her job. After the Fukushima incident, she joined the anti-nuclear movement and took her place as a designer of flags and placards. She divorced her husband when he opposed her participation in the movement. Now she is working as a part-time librarian in a university and continuing to be active in the post-2011 movements. Her face in the film seems full of anger, liberation, anxiety, and sadness. Anger against what? Liberation from what? Maybe nuclear disaster could have brought a death and a reincarnation to her social life. I think she represents all the instability and vitality of the world’s global movements since 2011, and human being in a time of historic change. KW: The "rebirth of history" has created the potential for inventing new narratives of the future. How did this incident give rise to future narratives that are emerging bottom-up rather than top down? What kind of new, bottom-up and democratic visions of the future have emerged? EO: Specifically in Japan, "we can't go back to the 80s" means a departure from stable, organized, wealthy society such as we had when “Japan was number one“. However, the top-down form of politics does not work any more, not only for social movements, but also in wider politics. Regarding Japan, LDP which represents the established sectors in Japan has lost over 80% of its party members since 1991 due to the reduced budget for public construction works, economic stagnation, the ageing and depopulating of local society, the decline of religions, and the atomization of the people. LDP seems to be trying to capture floating votes by appealing to rightist-oriented slogans similar to the manoeuvres of many eastern European administrations. But I think it shows that even LDP cannot live without bottom-up support. It shows also that social movements could have some impact on the political situation. I am not in the position to predict future because I am not a fortune-teller. However, as a sociologist and historian, the contemporary situation is on the move and dependent on something not yet certain. In the world we live in now, even dictatorship would not last long without some form of bottom-up democracy. The German version of this contribution is available under the title "Wiedergeburt der Zukunft" [5]. -- The screening of “Tell the Prime Minister” is followed by a talk with Eiji Oguma, who is one of the most important social thinkers and social historians in Japan. He is a professor of Historical Sociology at Keio University in Tokyo and the author of various books including “Democracy and patriots: Postwar Japanese Nationalism and the Public” (2004), “A Genealogy of Self-images of ‘Japanese’” (2002) and “The Boundaries of ‘Japanese’” (2014). “Tell the Prime Minister” is his first film. This project is a cooperation between Berliner Gazette [6], SUPERMARKT [7], and Takemura Juku [8] in the context of the “Tacit Futures” project by Berliner Gazette. The TACIT FUTURES project has been launched in collaboration with transmediale with the program “Diving into Snowden Archives” at House of World Cultures, February 4 and 5. The Berliner Gazette is now working on a special section in its online newspaper. Around 40 reports, essays and interviews will be published throughout the year. Creative types of all sorts will get a chance to speak about the key questions relating to TACIT FUTURES. All texts will be contributed on a voluntary basis and published under a Creative Commons license. In parallel, the Berliner Gazette will organize more than 20 meet-ups, serving as the project’s cooperative platforms for dialogue about ideas and projects. Moreover, the Berliner Gazette plans to organize various partner-events. The TACIT FUTURES project will culminate in the international Berliner Gazette conference scheduled for October 27-29, 2016 in Berlin. Please spread the word about! We truly hope, that there will be a way to wire our ambitions and to embark upon a fruitful exchange. Links 1. https://www.opendemocracy.net/eiji-oguma-krystian-woznicki/japan-after-japan 2. http://berlinergazette.de/feuilleton/jahresthemen/2016-tacit-futures/ 3. http://bit.ly/21Zh2xc 4. http://www.uplink.co.jp/kanteimae/index_en.php 5. http://berlinergazette.de/wiedergeburt-der-zukunft-in-japan 6. http://berlinergazette.de 7. http://supermarkt-berlin.net 8. http://takemurajuku.com -- ------------------------------------------------- TACIT FUTURES | BERLINER GAZETTE ANNUAL PROJECT 2016 VISIONS FOR THE DEMOCRATIC CONTROL OF MOVEMENTS BY HUMANS AND BITS ALIKE TACIT FUTURES: Essays and Interviews (in German) http://berlinergazette.de/feuilleton/jahresthemen/2016-tacit-futures/ TACIT FUTURES: Diving into Snowden Archives | Panel + Workshops transmediale, Berlin, 4.-5.2.2016 http://2016.transmediale.de/de/content/tacit-futures-diving-into-the-snowde… TACIT FUTURES: Japan after Japan | Film screening + discussion Supermarkt, Berlin, 19.3.2016 http://bit.ly/1QRcHub TACIT FUTURES: BG annual conference | Workshops, Performances, Talks Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, 27.-29.10.2016 TACIT FUTURES: Documents of BG's annual project Photos: https://www.flickr.com/photos/berlinergazette/albums/72157662038932563 Videos: https://vimeo.com/album/3785772 Audios: https://soundcloud.com/berliner-gazette/sets/tacit-futures ------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Commoning mailing list Commons-Institut e.V. 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Fwd: [NetworkedLabour] Monetary materialities of peer-produced knowledge
by Michel Bauwens 08 Mar '16

08 Mar '16

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: fabian(a)fabiant.eu <fabian(a)fabiant.eu> Date: Tue, Mar 8, 2016 at 6:19 PM Subject: [NetworkedLabour] Monetary materialities of peer-produced knowledge To: "<networkedlabour(a)lists.contrast.org>" < networkedlabour(a)lists.contrast.org> Hi all, Check "Monetary materialities of peer-produced knowledge: the case of Wikipedia and Its Tensions with Paid Labour <http://triplec.at.dd29412.kasserver.com/index.php/tripleC/article/view/694>" (Arwid Lund and Juhana Venäläinen 2016) In some ways interesting, but although they mention Federico and Caffentzis, I don't think they really understand the concept of the Social Factory developed by the Italian Marxist Autonomists. LIkewise it would have been useful if they at least recognised the discussion by Karl Kautsky in *The Social Revolution and, On the Morrow of the Social Revolution*. London: Twentieth Century Press. (1903) where he suggests that intellectual property creation will anarchic wilst material production will be communist. all the best Fabian _______________________________________________ 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: Regenerative Practice, or ‘whakapapa’
by Michel Bauwens 08 Mar '16

08 Mar '16

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Fwd: [NetworkedLabour] 3/21/16 SF Forum: The Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) , Journalists & Democratic Communication Rights And The TPP Threat To Our Media and Rights On The Internet
by Michel Bauwens 08 Mar '16

08 Mar '16

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Steve Zeltzer <lvpsf(a)igc.org> Date: Tue, Mar 8, 2016 at 12:23 AM Subject: [NetworkedLabour] 3/21/16 SF Forum: The Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) , Journalists & Democratic Communication Rights And The TPP Threat To Our Media and Rights On The Internet To: networkedlabour(a)lists.contrast.org 3/21/16 SF Forum: The Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) , Journalists & Democratic Communication Rights And The TPP Threat To Our Media and Rights On The Internet Pacific Media Workers Guild Educational Forum The Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) , Journalists & Democratic Communication Rights And The TPP Threat To Our Media and Rights On The Internet Monday March 21, 2016 7:00 PM Bernal Library Community Room 500 Cortland St. San Francisco Speakers: Maira Sutton, Electronic Frontier Foundation Global Policy Analyst She has covered the topic extensively for the EFF Richard Knee, freelance journalist, First Amendment activist and Pacific Media Workers Guild Legislative and Political Committee Chair Contained within the legal rules of the TPP are sections that would seriously put into jeopardy the rights of reporters and the press. These are just a few of its most dangerous pieces: • Compel ISPs to take down websites without any sort of court order, just like SOPA. • Extend the US’s copyright regime to require copyrights stand for life plus 70 years, preventing anyone from using works that belong in the public domain. • Criminalize whistleblowing by extending trade secrets laws without any mandatory exemptions for whistleblowers or investigative journalists. • End anonymity online by forcing every domain name to be associated with a real name and address. • Make it illegal to unlock, modify, or generally tinker with a device you own. • Export the US’s broken copyright policies to the rest of the world without expanding any of the free speech protections, like fair use. These rules would become US law if the TPP is passed by the Congress. This educational forum will look address how the TPP would threaten our democratic rights and how it would harm the rights of the American people to get the information that they need from a free press. Sponsored by the Pacific Media Workers Guild (PMWG, The News Guild-CWA Local 39521) For more information on the forum (415) 421-6833 www.mediaworkers.org _______________________________________________ NetworkedLabour mailing list NetworkedLabour(a)lists.contrast.org http://lists.contrast.org/mailman/listinfo/networkedlabour -- Check out the Commons Transition Plan here at: http://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: [bgcon] DiEM25 > Assembly in Rome > Transparency in Europe Now!
by Michel Bauwens 08 Mar '16

08 Mar '16

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Krystian Woznicki <kw(a)berlinergazette.de> Date: Tue, Mar 8, 2016 at 3:07 AM Subject: [bgcon] DiEM25 > Assembly in Rome > Transparency in Europe Now! To: digi-yards(a)berlinergazette.de Hi, remember that one very simple, but radical, idea: to democratise Europe? Well, the DiEM25 initiative, that embarks upon this project invites everybody, who is interested to join to an assembly, which will take place in Rome – 23 March 2016. Below please find more information about it. Here also a text that Berliner Gazette published in response to the inaugural assembly in Berlin, and which is now available in English on "openDemocracy": https://opendemocracy.net/can-europe-make-it/alexander-karschnia/we-are-bui… Kind regards, Krystian ---- DiEM25 Assembly: Transparency in Europe Now! Dear Member, As Europeans, we are too often forced to choose between two dreadful options: retreat into the cocoon of our nation-states, or surrender to the Brussels democracy-free zone. But we know an alternative exists, and you have joined DiEM25 to participate to its simple yet radical objective: to democratise Europe by 2025 at the latest. It is now time for our first pan-European Campaign TRANSPARENCY IN EUROPE NOW!, which will aim at demanding that all EU-level decision-making be exposed to European citizens’ gaze. We shall demand that meetings of the European Council, ECOFIN, Eurogroup, FTT, ESM etc. become accessible to Europeans. Additionally, we plan to expose the opacity of decision-making processes that have a capacity to ban democracy for a very, very long time (e.g. the current TTiP negotiations). We cordially invite you to the DiEM25 Assembly: Transparency in Europe Now! ( http://diem25.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=06ed765fa2e2171473ae3c592&…) which will take place in Rome – 23 March 2016. This event is organised together with European Alternatives ( http://diem25.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=06ed765fa2e2171473ae3c592&…) , Piroetta ( http://diem25.us10.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=06ed765fa2e2171473ae3c592…) and Talk Real ( http://diem25.us10.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=06ed765fa2e2171473ae3c592…) and will mark the launch of this campaign and simultaneously launch the DiEM25 movement in Italy. Here’s how y ou can take part: * Attend in person. Tickets are limited, so reserve yours ( http://diem25.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=06ed765fa2e2171473ae3c592&…) and come to Rome on March 23rd (Piazza Manfredo Fanti, 47) ( http://diem25.us10.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=06ed765fa2e2171473ae3c592…) to contribute with your voice to this crucial conversation. For those who are already asking: there will be a possibility of volunteering at the event, but please give us the time to work through our current backlog of volunteer emails first... * Watch the livestream - we will send out the link in time. * Participate in the online discussions - while the forum at diem25.org is not ready yet (apologies…), members like you have created many places of discussion on Facebook, Reddit, Consider.it and blogs. * Share the news ( http://diem25.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=06ed765fa2e2171473ae3c592&…) about the event and prepare blog posts, videos, viral images and the like on the topic of transparency and democratic accountability, which we can distribute from March 23rd onwards. Let us make it impossible to ignore us! * Support the event by making a donation ( http://diem25.us10.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=06ed765fa2e2171473ae3c592…) : donations will be used to cover the cost of the event, including live streaming and simultaneous translations in order to open the conversation to the widest possible audience. If costs are covered, anything extra will be invested in DiEM25’s next events. For any additional information, check out the “Democracy in Europe” event website ( http://diem25.us10.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=06ed765fa2e2171473ae3c592…) or email us at democracy.europe(a)gmail.com (mailto:[email protected] ) We warmly thank you for your support, everyone can help! We look forward to seeing you in Rome. Carpe DiEM25! -- ------------------------------------------------- TACIT FUTURES | BERLINER GAZETTE ANNUAL PROJECT 2016 VISIONS FOR THE DEMOCRATIC CONTROL OF MOVEMENTS BY HUMANS AND BITS ALIKE TACIT FUTURES: Essays and Interviews (in German) http://berlinergazette.de/feuilleton/jahresthemen/2016-tacit-futures/ TACIT FUTURES: Diving into Snowden Archives | Panel + Workshops transmediale, Berlin, 4.-5.2.2016 http://2016.transmediale.de/de/content/tacit-futures-diving-into-the-snowde… TACIT FUTURES: Japan after Japan | Film screening + discussion Supermarkt, Berlin, 19.3.2016 http://bit.ly/1QRcHub TACIT FUTURES: BG annual conference | Workshops, Performances, Talks Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, 27.-29.10.2016 TACIT FUTURES: Documents of BG's annual project Photos: https://www.flickr.com/photos/berlinergazette/albums/72157662038932563 Videos: https://vimeo.com/album/3785772 Audios: https://soundcloud.com/berliner-gazette/sets/tacit-futures ------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Digi-yards_berlinergazette.de mailing list digi-yards(a)berlinergazette.de https://ml06.ispgateway.de/mailman/listinfo/digi-yards_berlinergazette.de -- 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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Re: [P2P-F] [commoning] Global Marshall Plan and the Global Commons Rising: Who will be hacking who towards, at, around and beyond Montreal (or beyond the WSF in general)
by Orsan 07 Mar '16

07 Mar '16

James thank you, you are very kind. Same goes for the other names in the previous emails; all of them are also very kind, nice, and good people, as much I could meet or know them (mostly from emails though). As I just replied to Miguel (in commons e-list) though things I tried to state is not about any specific individual, more about power structures and the agency. > On 6 mrt. 2016, at 20:59, jbquilligan3(a)charter.net wrote: > > Orsan, your logic leads to fallacious assumptions, but I appreciate the work you are doing and encourage you to stay on the path. > > ----------------------------------------- > > From: "Orsan" > To: > Cc: "networkedlabour(a)lists.contrast.org", "WorldSocialForum-Discuss(a)openspaceforum.net", "squares", "transcollab(a)lists.so36.net", "commoning(a)lists.commons-institut.org", "p2p-foundation(a)lists.ourproject.org" > Sent: Sun, 6 Mar 2016 18:52:37 +0100 > Subject: Re: [commoning] Global Marshall Plan and the Global Commons Rising: Who will be hacking who towards, at, around and beyond Montreal (or beyond the WSF in general) > > James, thank you for your answer, though we can never know the details of such high level interactions, exactly this makes it highly problematic. > > Since I have never had the chance to get so close to princes, princesses, presidents, CEOs, so on and so first I can only have certain assumptions about your environment, relationships with elements of what we call ruling classes. In your case this certain group or class, fraction, can only be represented by certain terms like transnational 'productive capital' agency, or their historical block. This makes you on the eyes looking at this conversation from progressive, left side at most a good agent of the 'left'. This is the best case for you, but even this has made very degenerative impact on the ethics of the struggles for the good in general. > > you might ask, how; although I am sure you know well what I mean; I will try to demonstrate with one example what these kind of under cover relationships knitted with state and corporate wealth and from top down. > > I would not even go Jones the truth seeker everybody knows about, but this (probably a cousin of Sara Horowitz of Free Lancers Union) guy studied and delivered a systemic network analysis would definitely feed in extreme right wing success in the US, we have been watching some how with out any surprise: I am talking about David Horowitz and his http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/default.asp > > Here is a video entry from him: > http://youtu.be/gghYKKwkWz4 > And one of his terrible performances: > http://youtu.be/8q6afrpaMck > > This is not to justify my claims at all, but just to share an example of outcome for such hidden affairs and interactions that infects progressive politics, and divides them actually- these things are never being talked about openly because of the money relations -you have also involved- hidden in the dark. > > Since your position is interlocking left and progressive transformative powers to a global capitalist agenda (from where we look it appears as this - even though in reality you might claim injecting left wing agenda to global capitalist circles) and since you personally is an active class agency of capital in this context no one can criticize what you have done. You have done what you had to do. > > Big question is addressed here to those who needed to be accountable to the rest of the people in these lists, as well as broader 98%; since the impact their action has been can not be measurable. In order to provide really ethically clean ground for alternative, associated, commons, peer, or solidarity, economy, or New Economy, or next economy, what ever; the left and progressives has to develop their own open power and accountability maps themselves; better then having conservative option... > > Naming Silke since she gave the first reaction -to probably your blog post taken from GMP blog. Silke, shares a seat in 'Commons Strategies Club' (made up three white person from north initially later added a Latin American representative to balance the rest); with David Bolier and Michel Bauwens, Silke had been playing a very important second tier role towards the grassrootization of the common's vision -as it was negotiated at a higher state you have introduced to them as you claim; so I will go continue on that thread. > > So as for the context I hope it got more clear now what I meant; for those who didn't really get what is all this about: So it is not about GMP, or commons at all, but it is about anti-p2p, close, and forbidden affairs between top level agency of capital and high society of activism. > > I am hoping more reactions from those others probably you introduced to the topic: Susan George of the Global contract who is known as grand nanny of alter-globalization activists who also led groups like ATTAC, TNI, and others; and Chico Whitaker, founder of the WSF and grand dad of social justice activism; who also occupies many other positions and seats, including Wikileaks advisory board. > > Any further I will not ask more about your current engagement or plans on the global commons; having my own guesses kept with me; still would be very much interested to hear about them to get a more clear version of the story out in the open. Actually, just proposed (to a group of people who are organizing Commons and solidarity economy related activities in Montreal) to have an open space discussion on power and commons, in a truly open assembly format. That would be really interesting to have this conversation openly from here to there. > > Sincerely, > Orsan > > > > > > > > On 5 mrt. 2016, at 22:00, jbquilligan3(a)charter.net wrote: > > Orsan, I headed up this effort in the US for several years. I also worked in Amman for Prince El Hassan for a long time promoting the Global Marshall Plan. > > What I can tell you is that there is not much that is tangible behind this movement. It's popular in Germany and Austria, which have fond memories of the original US Marshall Plan for Europe, but has never generated much interest elsewhere. In fact, the title 'Global Marshall Plan' is often associated with the US and turns off people across most of the world. I have a lot of personal experience in that regard. > > Since the Global Marshall Plan started about 15 years ago, it has not accomplished anything substantial. It has a lot of members, has held numerous conferences and has published some materials, but little else. It has never had any policy impact. > > Global Marshall Plan is a brand name which has allowed a handful of people to collect speakers fees and publish some books. What I observed and experienced was several of its leaders jockeying for position as King of the Hill. It became clear to me that all the German leaders of this movement, including Finkbeinner and Rademacher, were out for their own personal financial gain and influence. > > As an economist who worked for the Brandt Commission on a new approach to the international economy (see the report, North-South: A Programme for Survival, 1980; or go to Brandt 21 Forum), I was deeply disappointed that the Global Marshall Plan was remiss in covering key issues, such as the reorganization of the global monetary system. I know that the Brand Report was flawed, and I have written extensively about that; but no organization since then has done anything as bold as the Brandt Report. > > Organizers of the GMP like to say that Al Gore was the originator of the Global Marshall Plan, because he called for such an initiative in his book, Earth in the Balance. While I was working with the Brandt Commission, I did a lot of research on this and found a lot of documentation that the name dates back at least to the mid-1960s, during the U Thant era at the United Nations. > > In any case, I was the one who brought the idea of the commons to the Global Marshall Plan. We even published materials about introducing the commons into the global agenda for a new kind of economic, social and environmental approach. After I left the GMP, I don't believe the organizers pursued the commons idea much further. Frankly, I don't believe they understood the meaning of the commons and couldn't see how it would generate them much money. > > There is still a vital need to create an international organization for the commons. I don't see anyone really doing this with the insight and scale that is necessary. There is a lot of educating going on, but little genuine organizing at the international level. > > James B. Quilligan > > ----------------------------------------- > > From: "Orsan" > To: "squares" > Cc: > Sent: Sat, 5 Mar 2016 19:59:29 +0100 > Subject: [commoning] Global Marshall Plan and the Global Commons Rising: Who will be hacking who towards, at, around and beyond Montreal (or beyond the WSF in general) > > The below Wikipedia items are explaining what the hack is Global Marshall Plan initiative and Global Marshall Plan operation -initiated by interesting names, including those we were told being radical-progressives: > > "The idea of a “Global Marshall Plan” was first published in 1990 by U.S. politician, entrepreneur and environmentalist Al Gore in his book “Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit”. The choice of name deliberately recalls the historical Marshall Plan after the Second World War (officially: European Recovery Program), a symbol for hope, solidarity and peace. > The idea of a Global Marshall Plan was not new but had already been endorsed in the 1990s by personalities from a variety of sectors: Kofi Annan, Al Gore, Hans Küng, Susan George, Mikhail Gorbachov, His Royal Highness Prince El Hassan bin Talal of Jordan, George Soros, Lutz Wicke, Georg Winter and many others (Global Contract). As early as the beginning of the 1990s an ecological Marshall Plan was established by prominent personalities such as journalist Franz Alt and German Green politician Joscka Fisher. Along with many other supporters, they called for the establishment of an eco-social market economy, 100 billion DM put towards the environment every year and a Kerosin tax." > > [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Marshall_Plan_Initiative] > > And > > The Global Marshall Plan is a plan first devised by former American Vice-President Al Gore in his bestselling book Earth in the Balance, which gives specific ideas on how to save the global environment. > Gore states: "The model of the Marshall Plan can be of great help. For example, a Global Marshall Plan must focus on strategic goals and emphasize actions and programs that are likely to remove the bottlenecks presently inhibiting the healthy functioning of the global economy. The new global economy must be an inclusive system that does not leave entire regions behind. The new plan will require the wealthy nations to allocate money for transferring environmentally helpful technologies to the Third World and to help impoverished nations achieve a stable population and a new pattern of sustainable economic progress. To work, however, any such effort will also require wealthy nations to make a transition themselves that will be in some ways more wrenching than that of the Third World." > > Source: Earth in the Balance, page 297-301 > > Global Marshall Plan: Five strategic goals "In my view, five strategic goals must direct and inform our efforts to save the global environment": > > stabilizing of world population > the rapid development of environmentally appropriate technologies > a comprehensive change in the economic "rules of the road" by which we measure the impact of our decisions on the environment > negotiation & approval of a new generation of international agreements > a cooperative plan for educating the world's citizens about our global environment. > The idea is based on the post-WWII Marshall Plan that saw the United States send billions of dollars to European nations to rebuild their war shattered economies. > > In order to further the idea of a GMP and to coordinate the various initiatives, NGOs, scientists, activists and groups in the field of development cooperation and global social justice the Global Marshall Plan Initiative was founded by members of the Club of Rome, the Club of Budapest, the Eco-Social Forum Europe, ATTAC and other organisations in Frankfurt, Germany in 2003. The two main objectives are to find new ways and sources of financing in development cooperation, predominantly pursuing the Millennium Development Goals of the UN and the worldwide propagation of the eco-social market economy, which is considered to be one of today's key strategies of initiative. The *Green Marshall Plan* is a policy initiative developed by Canadian greens Constantine Kritsonis and Craig Hubley. It offers a basis for global central banks to *bail out the planet* by creating new money to pay for green infrastructure. See: http://nb.referata.com/w/index.php?title=Green_Marshall_Plan&action=edit > > [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Marshall_Plan] > > ..... > > and this is a blog post from GMP: > > "Global Commons Global Discourse on the Rise > > From blogs to international conferences, Global Commons gains momentum > > Beyond the initiative of the Global Marshall Plan Foundation for a Coalition for the Global Commons (the CGC coordination group and discussion can be found here), champions of the Global Commons are going public and spreading awareness for this new global perspective. > > Silke Helfrich and Jörg Haas have started a "Commons Blog" on Wordpress, an Open Source Software that embodies the practicality of the Global Commons concept. In it there is information on the commons, on-going discourse, literature and stories on the commons meant to provoke thought and hopefully prompt action. > > In the latest posts on the Commons Blog, one of the Coalition for the Global Commons’ partners, Chico Whitaker, founder of the World Social Forum (WSF), was mentioned in a report on his speech to the latest WSF international conference. For the remainder of the conference the commons discussion was concentrated and passionate and to be labelled “a discourse on vision, around which the political discourse is reorganized ”. The immediate result was the creation of “Commons Sites” available in the four official languages of the WSF (Portuguese, Spanish, English, French), and meant to make the Commons a more tangible theme, while also giving a platform for various projects and initiatives dealing with commons issues. (The full posting, in German, can be found here.) > > In October, we had the privilege of receiving Chico at a meeting for the Coalition for the Global Commons in Hude, where participants (for the most part leaders of international organizations) came together to find better means of collaborating on a large network basis. During the intense three days of small meetings, Mr. Whitaker made a pledge regarding his personal commitment to the Global Commons, one of which was to further promote the concept at the World Social Forum. Indeed he kept true to his word. > > > To the WSF Manifesto pela recuperação dos bens comuns da humanidade (manifesto for the recuperation fo the common goods of humanity)." > > ... > > I am not thinking of the next system, not Morozov's critics of solutionism, not platform cooperativism,... Right now I am just thinking of the movie Snow Piercing... Especially the final scene; when our guy finally reached at the locomotive and found the responsible enemy head! Just before smashing him, the enemy reveals the truth saying that there always be direct line between the back of the wagon (being where the spiritual leader of insurrection reside) and the locomotive, in order to balance the life and ecosystem in the train, and avoid the 'train crash'. In this movie train is a closed system; there are no fractions, one counter part at the end of the train and at the locomotive. Real world is different.. > > In my opinion, looking at the information networks of the f..ing GMP, it makes much more sense why the support for national capital, and extreme right, fascism and authoritarianism backed by it increases since the 80s and 90s; and we reached at the peak of facism and approached at another world war; in the name of avoiding the train crash (as Susan George used to say); also I know got why the racist and 'paranoiac' arguments that claim that left and 'liberal' progressives are the same thing with the mystified NWO. > > Anyway, doesn't matter anymore; but who ever served to these goals and stranded together with the ruling class' agendas, should know that they have very much of a blood in their hand. No matter their intention was, who well they thought their action and alliance with the evil, one or other side of the global fractions of pathological capitalist classes has triggered more and more violence since 2000s. > > It is time to stand up on own feet and unite against the ruling class as a whole (or asshahole)! > > Remember that force may or may not be with you, but doesn't matter! It can not go worse then this... > > Today it is about living or not living. > >

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Ordinaryism: An Alternative to Accelerationism. Part 2 - Exit versus Voice: Freedom, Reasoning and Skepticism
by furtherfield 07 Mar '16

07 Mar '16

Hi P2P crew, Some on here may be interested in accelerationism, so here's a link to Robert Jackson's latest article on Furtherfield, and --- sorry for any cross posting. Ordinaryism: An Alternative to Accelerationism. Part 2 - Exit versus Voice: Freedom, Reasoning and Skepticism. Robert Jackson continues with a second journey into the realms of Accelerationism and Ordinaryism. Having articulated how Accelerationism merges Enlightenment principles in a supposed age of automation, Jackson interrogates its philosophical roots by suggesting that the core motivation behind its key approach embraces skepticism (even if the explicit method is to reject skepticism in favour of increasing applications of knowledge) - whereas what Ordinaryism suggests (following Cavell) is that skepticism cannot be refuted nor endorsed, only inhabited as a salient vulnerable conditon. The political implications of this division are telling and can be extrapolated through the freedom to Exit (inhuman acceleration) versus the freedom to find ones Voice (Ordinary appeal). http://www.furtherfield.org/features/articles/ordinaryism-alternative-accel… Wishing you well. marc <http://homebrewindustrialrevolution.wordpress.com>

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Fwd: Why Chimpanzee-Testing in Medicine Had to End
by Michel Bauwens 07 Mar '16

07 Mar '16

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Jonathan Latham <jrlatham(a)bioscienceresource.org> Date: Mon, Mar 7, 2016 at 7:59 AM Subject: Why Chimpanzee-Testing in Medicine Had to End To: bsr-PROJECT-ELIST1(a)gn.apc.org Dear Friends and Colleagues Published today (Mon, March 7th 2016) by *Independent Science News* *Why Chimpanzee-Testing in Medicine Had to End* by John Pippin, MD http://www.independentsciencenews.org/health/why-chimpanzee-testing-in-medi… *Synopsis*: The recent decision of the US National Institutes of Health to end chimpanzee testing and move US chimps to a sanctuary in Texas was based on good science, says John Pippin, MD and former animal researcher. The differences between chimpanzees and humans were too great for chimpanzee experiments to have much value. Consequently, medical funding was being wasted, treatments were not moving forward, and sometimes patients were dying. Sharing of this article or this email is encouraged and greatly appreciated. Yours sincerely, thank you, and apologies for cross posting. Jonathan Jonathan Latham, PhD Executive Director The Bioscience Resource Project Ithaca, NY 14850 USA www.independentsciencenews.org and www.bioscienceresource.org jrlatham(a)bioscienceresource.org Skype: jonathanlatham2 Tel: 1-607-319-0279 “The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country.”—Edward Bernays, Propaganda _______________________________________________ BSR-project-elist1 mailing list Info and options: http://mailman.gn.apc.org/mailman/listinfo/bsr-project-elist1 To unsubscribe, email bsr-project-elist1-unsubscribe(a)gn.apc.org -- 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] Towards a new anti-capitalist politics
by Michel Bauwens 07 Mar '16

07 Mar '16

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Orsan Senalp <orsan1234(a)gmail.com> Date: Mon, Mar 7, 2016 at 3:41 PM Subject: [NetworkedLabour] Towards a new anti-capitalist politics To: Nw Labour discuss <networkedlabour(a)lists.contrast.org> by Jerome Roos Humanity finds itself at an inflexion point. On the one hand, global capitalism is producing and aggravating a series of existential crises that may well undermine the very preconditions for a dignified human life—or *any* form of human life—on this planet. On the other, the only political force that could possibly do something to counter this inexorable drive towards catastrophe—the international left—has long since been run into the ground by a four-decade neoliberal offensive, leaving its social base fragmented and atomized, its organizational structures in tatters. https://roarmag.org/magazine/anti-capitalist-politics-21st-century/ _______________________________________________ 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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Re: [P2P-F] [commoning] Global Marshall Plan and the Global Commons Rising: Who will be hacking who towards, at, around and beyond Montreal (or beyond the WSF in general)
by Orsan 06 Mar '16

06 Mar '16

James, thank you for your answer, though we can never know the details of such high level interactions, exactly this makes it highly problematic. Since I have never had the chance to get so close to princes, princesses, presidents, CEOs, so on and so first I can only have certain assumptions about your environment, relationships with elements of what we call ruling classes. In your case this certain group or class, fraction, can only be represented by certain terms like transnational 'productive capital' agency, or their historical block. This makes you on the eyes looking at this conversation from progressive, left side at most a good agent of the 'left'. This is the best case for you, but even this has made very degenerative impact on the ethics of the struggles for the good in general. you might ask, how; although I am sure you know well what I mean; I will try to demonstrate with one example what these kind of under cover relationships knitted with state and corporate wealth and from top down. I would not even go Jones the truth seeker everybody knows about, but this (probably a cousin of Sara Horowitz of Free Lancers Union) guy studied and delivered a systemic network analysis would definitely feed in extreme right wing success in the US, we have been watching some how with out any surprise: I am talking about David Horowitz and his http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/default.asp Here is a video entry from him: http://youtu.be/gghYKKwkWz4 And one of his terrible performances: http://youtu.be/8q6afrpaMck This is not to justify my claims at all, but just to share an example of outcome for such hidden affairs and interactions that infects progressive politics, and divides them actually- these things are never being talked about openly because of the money relations -you have also involved- hidden in the dark. Since your position is interlocking left and progressive transformative powers to a global capitalist agenda (from where we look it appears as this - even though in reality you might claim injecting left wing agenda to global capitalist circles) and since you personally is an active class agency of capital in this context no one can criticize what you have done. You have done what you had to do. Big question is addressed here to those who needed to be accountable to the rest of the people in these lists, as well as broader 98%; since the impact their action has been can not be measurable. In order to provide really ethically clean ground for alternative, associated, commons, peer, or solidarity, economy, or New Economy, or next economy, what ever; the left and progressives has to develop their own open power and accountability maps themselves; better then having conservative option... Naming Silke since she gave the first reaction -to probably your blog post taken from GMP blog. Silke, shares a seat in 'Commons Strategies Club' (made up three white person from north initially later added a Latin American representative to balance the rest); with David Bolier and Michel Bauwens, Silke had been playing a very important second tier role towards the grassrootization of the common's vision -as it was negotiated at a higher state you have introduced to them as you claim; so I will go continue on that thread. So as for the context I hope it got more clear now what I meant; for those who didn't really get what is all this about: So it is not about GMP, or commons at all, but it is about anti-p2p, close, and forbidden affairs between top level agency of capital and high society of activism. I am hoping more reactions from those others probably you introduced to the topic: Susan George of the Global contract who is known as grand nanny of alter-globalization activists who also led groups like ATTAC, TNI, and others; and Chico Whitaker, founder of the WSF and grand dad of social justice activism; who also occupies many other positions and seats, including Wikileaks advisory board. Any further I will not ask more about your current engagement or plans on the global commons; having my own guesses kept with me; still would be very much interested to hear about them to get a more clear version of the story out in the open. Actually, just proposed (to a group of people who are organizing Commons and solidarity economy related activities in Montreal) to have an open space discussion on power and commons, in a truly open assembly format. That would be really interesting to have this conversation openly from here to there. Sincerely, Orsan > On 5 mrt. 2016, at 22:00, jbquilligan3(a)charter.net wrote: > > Orsan, I headed up this effort in the US for several years. I also worked in Amman for Prince El Hassan for a long time promoting the Global Marshall Plan. > > What I can tell you is that there is not much that is tangible behind this movement. It's popular in Germany and Austria, which have fond memories of the original US Marshall Plan for Europe, but has never generated much interest elsewhere. In fact, the title 'Global Marshall Plan' is often associated with the US and turns off people across most of the world. I have a lot of personal experience in that regard. > > Since the Global Marshall Plan started about 15 years ago, it has not accomplished anything substantial. It has a lot of members, has held numerous conferences and has published some materials, but little else. It has never had any policy impact. > > Global Marshall Plan is a brand name which has allowed a handful of people to collect speakers fees and publish some books. What I observed and experienced was several of its leaders jockeying for position as King of the Hill. It became clear to me that all the German leaders of this movement, including Finkbeinner and Rademacher, were out for their own personal financial gain and influence. > > As an economist who worked for the Brandt Commission on a new approach to the international economy (see the report, North-South: A Programme for Survival, 1980; or go to Brandt 21 Forum), I was deeply disappointed that the Global Marshall Plan was remiss in covering key issues, such as the reorganization of the global monetary system. I know that the Brand Report was flawed, and I have written extensively about that; but no organization since then has done anything as bold as the Brandt Report. > > Organizers of the GMP like to say that Al Gore was the originator of the Global Marshall Plan, because he called for such an initiative in his book, Earth in the Balance. While I was working with the Brandt Commission, I did a lot of research on this and found a lot of documentation that the name dates back at least to the mid-1960s, during the U Thant era at the United Nations. > > In any case, I was the one who brought the idea of the commons to the Global Marshall Plan. We even published materials about introducing the commons into the global agenda for a new kind of economic, social and environmental approach. After I left the GMP, I don't believe the organizers pursued the commons idea much further. Frankly, I don't believe they understood the meaning of the commons and couldn't see how it would generate them much money. > > There is still a vital need to create an international organization for the commons. I don't see anyone really doing this with the insight and scale that is necessary. There is a lot of educating going on, but little genuine organizing at the international level. > > James B. Quilligan > > ----------------------------------------- > > From: "Orsan" > To: "squares" > Cc: > Sent: Sat, 5 Mar 2016 19:59:29 +0100 > Subject: [commoning] Global Marshall Plan and the Global Commons Rising: Who will be hacking who towards, at, around and beyond Montreal (or beyond the WSF in general) > > The below Wikipedia items are explaining what the hack is Global Marshall Plan initiative and Global Marshall Plan operation -initiated by interesting names, including those we were told being radical-progressives: > > "The idea of a “Global Marshall Plan” was first published in 1990 by U.S. politician, entrepreneur and environmentalist Al Gore in his book “Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit”. The choice of name deliberately recalls the historical Marshall Plan after the Second World War (officially: European Recovery Program), a symbol for hope, solidarity and peace. > The idea of a Global Marshall Plan was not new but had already been endorsed in the 1990s by personalities from a variety of sectors: Kofi Annan, Al Gore, Hans Küng, Susan George, Mikhail Gorbachov, His Royal Highness Prince El Hassan bin Talal of Jordan, George Soros, Lutz Wicke, Georg Winter and many others (Global Contract). As early as the beginning of the 1990s an ecological Marshall Plan was established by prominent personalities such as journalist Franz Alt and German Green politician Joscka Fisher. Along with many other supporters, they called for the establishment of an eco-social market economy, 100 billion DM put towards the environment every year and a Kerosin tax." > > [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Marshall_Plan_Initiative] > > And > > The Global Marshall Plan is a plan first devised by former American Vice-President Al Gore in his bestselling book Earth in the Balance, which gives specific ideas on how to save the global environment. > Gore states: "The model of the Marshall Plan can be of great help. For example, a Global Marshall Plan must focus on strategic goals and emphasize actions and programs that are likely to remove the bottlenecks presently inhibiting the healthy functioning of the global economy. The new global economy must be an inclusive system that does not leave entire regions behind. The new plan will require the wealthy nations to allocate money for transferring environmentally helpful technologies to the Third World and to help impoverished nations achieve a stable population and a new pattern of sustainable economic progress. To work, however, any such effort will also require wealthy nations to make a transition themselves that will be in some ways more wrenching than that of the Third World." > > Source: Earth in the Balance, page 297-301 > > Global Marshall Plan: Five strategic goals "In my view, five strategic goals must direct and inform our efforts to save the global environment": > > stabilizing of world population > the rapid development of environmentally appropriate technologies > a comprehensive change in the economic "rules of the road" by which we measure the impact of our decisions on the environment > negotiation & approval of a new generation of international agreements > a cooperative plan for educating the world's citizens about our global environment. > The idea is based on the post-WWII Marshall Plan that saw the United States send billions of dollars to European nations to rebuild their war shattered economies. > > In order to further the idea of a GMP and to coordinate the various initiatives, NGOs, scientists, activists and groups in the field of development cooperation and global social justice the Global Marshall Plan Initiative was founded by members of the Club of Rome, the Club of Budapest, the Eco-Social Forum Europe, ATTAC and other organisations in Frankfurt, Germany in 2003. The two main objectives are to find new ways and sources of financing in development cooperation, predominantly pursuing the Millennium Development Goals of the UN and the worldwide propagation of the eco-social market economy, which is considered to be one of today's key strategies of initiative. The *Green Marshall Plan* is a policy initiative developed by Canadian greens Constantine Kritsonis and Craig Hubley. It offers a basis for global central banks to *bail out the planet* by creating new money to pay for green infrastructure. See: http://nb.referata.com/w/index.php?title=Green_Marshall_Plan&action=edit > > [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Marshall_Plan] > > ..... > > and this is a blog post from GMP: > > "Global Commons Global Discourse on the Rise > > From blogs to international conferences, Global Commons gains momentum > > Beyond the initiative of the Global Marshall Plan Foundation for a Coalition for the Global Commons (the CGC coordination group and discussion can be found here), champions of the Global Commons are going public and spreading awareness for this new global perspective. > > Silke Helfrich and Jörg Haas have started a "Commons Blog" on Wordpress, an Open Source Software that embodies the practicality of the Global Commons concept. In it there is information on the commons, on-going discourse, literature and stories on the commons meant to provoke thought and hopefully prompt action. > > In the latest posts on the Commons Blog, one of the Coalition for the Global Commons’ partners, Chico Whitaker, founder of the World Social Forum (WSF), was mentioned in a report on his speech to the latest WSF international conference. For the remainder of the conference the commons discussion was concentrated and passionate and to be labelled “a discourse on vision, around which the political discourse is reorganized ”. The immediate result was the creation of “Commons Sites” available in the four official languages of the WSF (Portuguese, Spanish, English, French), and meant to make the Commons a more tangible theme, while also giving a platform for various projects and initiatives dealing with commons issues. (The full posting, in German, can be found here.) > > In October, we had the privilege of receiving Chico at a meeting for the Coalition for the Global Commons in Hude, where participants (for the most part leaders of international organizations) came together to find better means of collaborating on a large network basis. During the intense three days of small meetings, Mr. Whitaker made a pledge regarding his personal commitment to the Global Commons, one of which was to further promote the concept at the World Social Forum. Indeed he kept true to his word. > > > To the WSF Manifesto pela recuperação dos bens comuns da humanidade (manifesto for the recuperation fo the common goods of humanity)." > > ... > > I am not thinking of the next system, not Morozov's critics of solutionism, not platform cooperativism,... Right now I am just thinking of the movie Snow Piercing... Especially the final scene; when our guy finally reached at the locomotive and found the responsible enemy head! Just before smashing him, the enemy reveals the truth saying that there always be direct line between the back of the wagon (being where the spiritual leader of insurrection reside) and the locomotive, in order to balance the life and ecosystem in the train, and avoid the 'train crash'. In this movie train is a closed system; there are no fractions, one counter part at the end of the train and at the locomotive. Real world is different.. > > In my opinion, looking at the information networks of the f..ing GMP, it makes much more sense why the support for national capital, and extreme right, fascism and authoritarianism backed by it increases since the 80s and 90s; and we reached at the peak of facism and approached at another world war; in the name of avoiding the train crash (as Susan George used to say); also I know got why the racist and 'paranoiac' arguments that claim that left and 'liberal' progressives are the same thing with the mystified NWO. > > Anyway, doesn't matter anymore; but who ever served to these goals and stranded together with the ruling class' agendas, should know that they have very much of a blood in their hand. No matter their intention was, who well they thought their action and alliance with the evil, one or other side of the global fractions of pathological capitalist classes has triggered more and more violence since 2000s. > > It is time to stand up on own feet and unite against the ruling class as a whole (or asshahole)! > > Remember that force may or may not be with you, but doesn't matter! It can not go worse then this... > > Today it is about living or not living. > >

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