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Fw: Fw: Info
by Natalie Golovin 10 Mar '26

10 Mar '26

Mark: You and your compatriots on P2P view the world from revisionism. Go ahead and keep looking through your microscope-provided by your "teachers." Or take the time and read some very old documented evidence available at a library near you= but you may need to stay there awhile on microfiche. -----Original Message----- From: Mark Janssen Sent: Sunday, October 23, 2011 4:39 PM To: P2P Foundation mailing list Subject: Re: [P2P-F] Fw: Info On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 10:32 AM, Natalie Golovin <10natalie(a)cox.net> wrote: > The European Tribes treated the Natives no worse than they treated each > other. Whoa. You should really stop talking. You have NO idea what you're talking about. How about forced acculturation, not allowing them to speak their own language (which hold the record of their own history), confined them under threat of violent force into reservations, among other things. But, really, that's probably not even the worst of it -- the worst of it is that for reasons they couldn't ever understand is why you were doing all of these cruel things when they were willing to share it it all with you. Why, when they handed out their hand to be friends, you chopped it off. Remember, they're the ones who gave us Thanksgiving which is still "celebrated" in this nation today. Read the reports made of making first contact with the Native peoples here. You really should read up before propagating the attitudes of conquest. Sorry.... marcos _______________________________________________ P2P Foundation - Mailing list http://www.p2pfoundation.net https://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation

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Fwd: [commoning] Fwd: Towards a Contemplative Commons, August 2017/ Potsdam, Germany
by Michel Bauwens 31 May '17

31 May '17

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Silke Helfrich via Commoning <commoning(a)lists.commons-institut.org> Date: Tue, May 30, 2017 at 12:31 AM Subject: [commoning] Fwd: Towards a Contemplative Commons, August 2017/ Potsdam, Germany To: "cern(a)lists.communityeconomies.org" <cern(a)lists.communityeconomies.org>, Aktive <commonin-aktive(a)lists.commons-institut.org>, COMMONING LIste engl < commoning(a)lists.commons-institut.org> I am happy to share this Call for Proposals with you; we might see in Potsdam. All the best Silke Helfrich Commons Strategies Group -------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: A Formal Invitation Datum: Mon, 29 May 2017 09:32:17 -0700 Von: Zachary Walsh <zachary.walsh(a)cst.edu> <zachary.walsh(a)cst.edu> An: silke.helfrich(a)gmx.de Dear Mrs. Helfrich, I hope you are doing well. It is my pleasure to send you this formal invitation to an upcoming workshop called Towards a Contemplative Commons, hosted at the Institute for Sustainability Studies in Potsdam, Germany, August 14-15, 2017. Please accept the enclosed invitation, and regard the attached CFP for more details on the workshop’s contents. We would also greatly appreciate if you distributed the attached flyer within your networks. http://www.iass-potsdam.de/de/content/workshop-towards-contemplative-commons Thank you for your consideration. I look forward to an RSVP at your earliest convenience. Sincerely, Zack Walsh _______________________________________________ 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: Pixelache 2017 festival: Local and Decentralised
by Dante-Gabryell Monson 29 May '17

29 May '17

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Pixelache Helsinki <office(a)pixelache.ac> Date: Mon, May 29, 2017 at 4:04 PM Subject: Pixelache 2017 festival: Local and Decentralised Local & Decentralised - Pixelache Festival, 22nd - 24h.9.2017 in Suvilahti Is this email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser <http://mailchi.mp/dfeec77256a5/pixealche-2017-festival-local-and-decentrali…>. Local & Decentralised Pixelache Festival 22-24.9.2017 After the 2015 festival that travelled through Living Spaces, and the 2016 festival delving deep into Interfaces for Empathy, Pixelache festival 2017 now gathers stories of Local & Decentralised governance. Tapping into the shift from centralised capital-based economies to decentralised peer-based resource distribution, we offer the festival as a meeting point for local initiatives to share their experiences. Local and decentralised governance seems to happen when collective design and a tangible group effort come together. In order to materialize the Local & Decentralised theme itself, Suvilahti hosts a model construction site built by teams who realise the main venue of the festival from 15.9 to 21.9, during the Recycling Olympic Games 2017. These new spatial configurations will emerge among with pre-existing DIY areas, such as the skate-park area, to create fluid activity and discussion places for the festival. Oranssi ry, the empowering youth organisation takes an important role as festival partner, hosting pre-festival events and festival activities in their premises starting from 18.9. Furthermore, permanent Suvilahti tenants' and Pixelache members' contributions form a significant part of the main program. Major developments of decentralization can and do occur: currency, energy, resources, and feelings are being decentralised and distributed. These developments bring about problems that cannot be solved on a purely conceptual level; they need to be embodied and lived through for a shift to yet different models. Thus fear of the unforeseen and unpredictable must also be addressed. How is it possible to express a multiplicity of will, is the present practice of a State effective enough to convey it? Often the movements towards local and decentralised structures are related to privatisation in economical models; how can diverse collective interest meet on economical terms? Can we be local and decentralised and yet be connected globally, micro-organisms breathing within a vast complex macro system? >From the festival activities stories emerge that depict how governance functions between civil society, individual initiatives and government, and also how citizens themselves coagulate into structures where governance happens locally, and where we can come to terms with inefficiencies, passivity, interests, time, jargon. Local & Decentralised festival does not let you down, it will be your local event to differentiate consensus from silence: talking of ecological issues, promoting visual culture as a shield against pessimism, presenting how democracy benefits from digital media -or not, playing games to prove that we are as connected as we are, offering workshops to learn again the pleasure of learning things together, finding music and contemporary art that make sense more than science, and divulging science as creative as drama. The festival is free entrance and suitable for families. Soon more information at festival.pixelache.ac <http://pixelache.us4.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=d008242ccaa382fc8689a70…> *CONTACT FESTIVAL DIRECTORS * Egle Oddo, egle(a)pixelache.ac --- tel: +358 451110119 <+358%2045%201110119> Mikko Laajola, mikko(a)pixelache.ac *Pixelache Helsinki Office* www.pixelache.ac <http://pixelache.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d008242ccaa382fc8689a70f…> *VENUES, PLACES AND SCHEDULE* *--- Pre-festival activities in Suvilahti and Central Helsinki* At skate-park, construction of Decentralised venue: from 15 to 21.9.2017 At Oranssi building 11, workshops: from 18 to 21.9.2017 At Muu ry, exhibition Pixelache and Koelse 15 years: opening day 21.9.2017 *--- Local & Decentralised festival program in Suvilahti* At skate park, Decentralised festival venue: from 22.9 to 24.9.2017 At Oranssi building from 22.9 to 24.9.2017 Local & Decentralised festival is supported by Ministry of Education and Culture <http://pixelache.us4.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=d008242ccaa382fc8689a70…>, by City of Helsinki <http://pixelache.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d008242ccaa382fc8689a70f…>, and Svenska kulturfonden <http://pixelache.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d008242ccaa382fc8689a70f…> . Graphic design by artist Carolina Sandell. Photos by Nabb ja Teeri, courtesy of the artists. follow on Twitter <https://www.twitter.com/pixelache/> | friend on Facebook <#m_-7722651656283673300_> | forward to a friend <http://us4.forward-to-friend.com/forward?u=d008242ccaa382fc8689a70f1&id=542…> *Copyright © 2017 Pixelache Helsinki, All rights reserved.* *Our mailing address *office(a)pixelache.ac <http://pixelache.us4.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=d008242ccaa382fc8689a70…> Local & Decentralised: festival.pixelache.ac <http://pixelache.us4.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=d008242ccaa382fc8689a70…> *Information in Finnish <http://pixelache.us4.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=d008242ccaa382fc8689a70…>* Pixelache Helsinki · Kaasutehtaankatu 1, Rakennus/Building 7 · Helsinki 00540 · Finland [image: Email Marketing Powered by MailChimp] <http://www.mailchimp.com/monkey-rewards/?utm_source=freemium_newsletter&utm…>

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Re: [P2P-F] FW: Emailing: US nuclear regulators greatly underestimate potential for nuclear disaster Nuclear spent fuel fire could force millions of people to relocate -- ScienceDaily.htm
by Michel Bauwens 27 May '17

27 May '17

Princeton University, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. "US nuclear regulators greatly underestimate potential for nuclear disaster: Nuclear spent fuel fire could force millions of people to relocate." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 25 May 2017. <www.sciencedaily.com/ releases/2017/05/170525141544.htm>. On Fri, May 26, 2017 at 10:36 PM, Hazel Henderson < hazel.henderson(a)ethicalmarkets.com> wrote: > Hi Julie :Please post this on our daily RSS feed and on our Earth > Systems Science , Reforming Global Finance and SRI News pages, thanks, > > > > Hazel > > > > *HAZEL HENDERSON, D.Sc.Hon., FRSA* > > > > *President, Ethical Markets Media; Author, Mapping the Global Transition > to the Solar Age* > > *Hazel.Henderson(a)ethicalmarkets.com <Hazel.Henderson(a)ethicalmarkets.com>* > > > > *Watch our TV series on EthicalMarkets.tv <http://ethicalmarkets.tv/> and > available for global distribution at Films.com <http://www.films.com/>.* > > *Sign our Pledge a**t** www.ethicmarkgems.com > <http://www.ethicmarkgems.com/> **to never purchase mined gems!* > > *Read the 2017 **Green Transition Scoreboard > <http://www.ethicalmarkets.com/2015/04/21/green-transitions-scoreboard-april…>**® > report and watch the 3-intro **video <http://youtu.be/kGDKQlTfSO8>**.* > > > > > > *[image: emm signature block just graphics 9-10-14]* > > > > *Ethical Markets Media (USA & Brazil)* > > *St. Augustine, FL 32084 904.829.3140* > > *EthicalMarkets.com, HazelHenderson.com* > > *EthicalMarkets.tv, EthicalBiomimicryFinance.com* > > > > > > > > *From:* Hazel Henderson > *Sent:* Friday, May 26, 2017 8:47 AM > *To:* Hazel Henderson <hazel.henderson(a)ethicalmarkets.com> > *Subject:* Emailing: US nuclear regulators greatly underestimate > potential for nuclear disaster Nuclear spent fuel fire could force millions > of people to relocate -- ScienceDaily.htm > > > > [image: ScienceDaily] <https://www.sciencedaily.com/> > ------------------------------ > > Your source for the latest research news > > Mobile Follow Subscribe > > *Breaking News <https://www.sciencedaily.com/breaking/>:* > > - Extreme Jupiter Weather and Magnetic Fields > <https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/05/170525145844.htm> > - Why Sumatra Earthquake Was So Severe > <https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/05/170525141547.htm> > - Significant Potential for U.S. Nuclear Disaster > <https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/05/170525141544.htm> > - Collapsing Star Gives Birth to a Black Hole > <https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/05/170525141532.htm> > - Strange Quantum Property Turns On and Off > <https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/05/170525141541.htm> > - Jupiter: Surprisingly Exotic > <https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/05/170525141538.htm> > - Bus-Sized Fossil Marine Reptile > <https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/05/170525125617.htm> > - Monkeys Learn to Call Like Babies Learn to ... > <https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/05/170525123055.htm> > - Hunter-Gatherers and Farmers Intimately Linked > <https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/05/170525123052.htm> > - Two-Headed Worms Coded for Regeneration > <https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/05/170523124219.htm> > > Follow all of ScienceDaily's *latest research news > <https://www.sciencedaily.com/news/>* and *top science headlines > <https://www.sciencedaily.com/news/top/science/>*! > > Science News > > from research organizations > ------------------------------ > US nuclear regulators greatly underestimate potential for nuclear disaster Nuclear > spent fuel fire could force millions of people to relocate > > *Date:* > > May 25, 2017 > > *Source:* > > Princeton University, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International > Affairs > > *Summary:* > > The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission relied on faulty analysis to justify > its refusal to adopt a critical measure for protecting Americans from > nuclear-waste fires at dozens of reactor sites around the country, > according to a recent article. Radioactivity from such a fire could force > approximately 8 million people to relocate and result in $2 trillion in > damages. > > *Share:* > > *FULL STORY* > ------------------------------ > > [image: > https://www.sciencedaily.com/images/2017/05/170525141544_1_540x360.jpg] > > This image captures the spread of radioactivity from a hypothetical fire > in a high-density spent-fuel pool at the Peach Bottom Nuclear Power Plant > in Pennsylvania. Based on the guidance from the US Environmental Protection > Agency and the experience from the Chernobyl and Fukushima accidents, > populations in the red and orange areas would have to be relocated for many > years, and many in the yellow area would relocate voluntarily. In this > scenario, which is based on real weather patterns that occurred in July > 2015, four major cities would be contaminated (New York City, Philadelphia, > Baltimore and Washington, D.C.), resulting in the displacement of millions > of people. > > *Credit: Photo courtesy of Michael Schoeppner, Princeton University, > Program on Science and Global Security* > > [image: > https://www.sciencedaily.com/images/2017/05/170525141544_1_900x600.jpg] > > This image captures the spread of radioactivity from a hypothetical fire > in a high-density spent-fuel pool at the Peach Bottom Nuclear Power Plant > in Pennsylvania. Based on the guidance from the US Environmental Protection > Agency and the experience from the Chernobyl and Fukushima accidents, > populations in the red and orange areas would have to be relocated for many > years, and many in the yellow area would relocate voluntarily. In this > scenario, which is based on real weather patterns that occurred in July > 2015, four major cities would be contaminated (New York City, Philadelphia, > Baltimore and Washington, D.C.), resulting in the displacement of millions > of people. > > *Credit: Photo courtesy of Michael Schoeppner, Princeton University, > Program on Science and Global Security* > > Close > > The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) relied on faulty analysis to > justify its refusal to adopt a critical measure for protecting Americans > from the occurrence of a catastrophic nuclear-waste fire at any one of > dozens of reactor sites around the country, according to an article in the > May 26 issue of *Science* magazine. Fallout from such a fire could be > considerably larger than the radioactive emissions from the 2011 Fukushima > accident in Japan. > > Published by researchers from Princeton University and the Union of > Concerned Scientists, the article argues that NRC inaction leaves the > public at high risk from fires in spent-nuclear-fuel cooling pools at > reactor sites. The pools -- water-filled basins that store and cool used > radioactive fuel rods -- are so densely packed with nuclear waste that a > fire could release enough radioactive material to contaminate an area twice > the size of New Jersey. On average, radioactivity from such an accident > could force approximately 8 million people to relocate and result in $2 > trillion in damages. > > These catastrophic consequences, which could be triggered by a large > earthquake or a terrorist attack, could be largely avoided by regulatory > measures that the NRC refuses to implement. Using a biased regulatory > analysis, the agency excluded the possibility of an act of terrorism as > well as the potential for damage from a fire beyond 50 miles of a plant. > Failing to account for these and other factors led the NRC to significantly > underestimate the destruction such a disaster could cause. > > "The NRC has been pressured by the nuclear industry, directly and through > Congress, to low-ball the potential consequences of a fire because of > concerns that increased costs could result in shutting down more nuclear > power plants," said paper co-author Frank von Hippel, a senior research > physicist at Princeton's Program on Science and Global Security (SGS), > based at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. > "Unfortunately, if there is no public outcry about this dangerous > situation, the NRC will continue to bend to the industry's wishes." > > Von Hippel's co-authors are Michael Schoeppner, a former postdoctoral > researcher at Princeton's SGS, and Edwin Lyman, a senior scientist at the > Union of Concerned Scientists. > > Spent-fuel pools were brought into the spotlight following the March 2011 > nuclear disaster in Fukushima, Japan. A 9.0-magnitude earthquake caused a > tsunami that struck the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, disabling > the electrical systems necessary for cooling the reactor cores. This led to > core meltdowns at three of the six reactors at the facility, hydrogen > explosions, and a release of radioactive material. > > "The Fukushima accident could have been a hundred times worse had there > been a loss of the water covering the spent fuel in pools associated with > each reactor," von Hippel said. "That almost happened at Fukushima in Unit > 4." > > In the aftermath of the Fukushima disaster, the NRC considered proposals > for new safety requirements at U.S. plants. One was a measure prohibiting > plant owners from densely packing spent-fuel pools, requiring them to > expedite transfer of all spent fuel that has cooled in pools for at least > five years to dry storage casks, which are inherently safer. Densely packed > pools are highly vulnerable to catching fire and releasing huge amounts of > radioactive material into the atmosphere. > > The NRC analysis found that a fire in a spent-fuel pool at an average > nuclear reactor site would cause $125 billion in damages, while expedited > transfer of spent fuel to dry casks could reduce radioactive releases from > pool fires by 99 percent. However, the agency decided the possibility of > such a fire is so unlikely that it could not justify requiring plant owners > to pay the estimated cost of $50 million per pool. > > The NRC cost-benefit analysis assumed there would be no consequences from > radioactive contamination beyond 50 miles from a fire. It also assumed that > all contaminated areas could be effectively cleaned up within a year. Both > of these assumptions are inconsistent with experience after the Chernobyl > and Fukushima accidents. > > In two previous articles, von Hippel and Schoeppner released figures that > correct for these and other errors and omissions. They found that millions > of residents in surrounding communities would have to relocate for years, > resulting in total damages of $2 trillion -- nearly 20 times the NRC's > result. Considering the nuclear industry is only legally liable for $13.6 > billion, thanks to the Price Anderson Act of 1957, U.S. taxpayers would > have to cover the remaining costs. > > The authors point out that if the NRC does not take action to reduce this > danger, Congress has the authority to fix the problem. Moreover, the > authors suggest that states that provide subsidies to uneconomical nuclear > reactors within their borders could also play a constructive role by making > those subsidies available only for plants that agreed to carry out > expedited transfer of spent fuel. > > "In far too many instances, the NRC has used flawed analysis to justify > inaction, leaving millions of Americans at risk of a radiological release > that could contaminate their homes and destroy their livelihoods," said > Lyman. "It is time for the NRC to employ sound science and common-sense > policy judgments in its decision-making process." > ------------------------------ > > *Story Source:* > > Materials > <http://wws.princeton.edu/news-and-events/news/item/us-nuclear-regulators-gr…> > provided by *Princeton University, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and > International Affairs* <http://wws.princeton.edu>. Original written by B. > Rose Kelly. *Note: Content may be edited for style and length.* > ------------------------------ > > *Journal Reference*: > > 1. Frank Von Hippel, Michael Schoeppner and Edwin Lyman. *Nuclear > safety regulation in the post-Fukushima era*. *Science*, 2017 > ------------------------------ > > *Cite This Page*: > > - MLA > <https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/05/170525141544.htm#citation_mla> > - APA > <https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/05/170525141544.htm#citation_apa> > - Chicago > <https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/05/170525141544.htm#citation_chi…> > > Princeton University, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International > Affairs. "US nuclear regulators greatly underestimate potential for nuclear > disaster: Nuclear spent fuel fire could force millions of people to > relocate." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 25 May 2017. <www.sciencedaily.com/ > releases/2017/05/170525141544.htm>. > > Princeton University, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International > Affairs. (2017, May 25). US nuclear regulators greatly underestimate > potential for nuclear disaster: Nuclear spent fuel fire could force > millions of people to relocate. *ScienceDaily*. Retrieved May 26, 2017 > from www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/05/170525141544.htm > > Princeton University, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International > Affairs. "US nuclear regulators greatly underestimate potential for nuclear > disaster: Nuclear spent fuel fire could force millions of people to > relocate." 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by Michel Bauwens 24 May '17

24 May '17

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Frédéric Sultan via Commoning <commoning(a)lists.commons-institut.org> Date: Wed, May 24, 2017 at 4:57 PM Subject: [commoning] New Videos Explore the Political Potential of the Commons To: commoning(a)lists.commons-institut.org, wsf2016(a)lists.p2pfoundation.net Dear friends The video “Les communs dans l’espace politique,” (Commons in the political space) is online :http://wiki.remixthecommons.o rg/index.php?title=Les_communs_dans_l’espace_politique Within the collection of 16 interviews made at the WSF at Montreal last summer. And David Bollier has made a post on his blog on it: New Videos Explore the Political Potential of the Commons http://www.bollier.org/blog/new-videos-explore-political-potential-commons According to David: > "The overview video is no introduction to the commons, but a > wonderfully insightful set of advanced commentaries about the > political and strategic promise of the commons paradigm today. > > The overview video (“Les communs dans l’espace politique,” with > English [and Spannish] subtitles as needed) is striking in its focus > on frontier developments: the emerging political alliances of > commoners with conventional movements, ideas about how commons should > interact with state power, and ways in which commons thinking is > entering policy debate and the general culture." > The complete collection of 16 interviews is available at : http://wiki.remixthecommons.org/index.php?title=Commons_Space (each in its original language). Each video will be progressively completed with its transcript in the original language and with translations when it is or will be available. If you want to contribute to this work of publication/translation, please let us know by email or create your account in the website. Thank you very much for your contribution in advance. Some screenings are already planned in Quebec with some of the speakers (schedule to follow). If you want to organize yours locally, we can provide HD files with embedded subtitles (En, Es, Fr). Do not hesitate to invent other uses of this collection as part of your own political, cultural and educational activities and please share the results with us. Best Alain and Fred Remix the commons http://remixthecommons.org _______________________________________________ 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: We're building resources for immigrant communities!
by Michel Bauwens 23 May '17

23 May '17

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Ricardo S. Nuñez <ricardo(a)theselc.org> Date: Tue, May 23, 2017 at 10:50 PM Subject: We're building resources for immigrant communities! To: Michel Bauwens <michel(a)p2pfoundation.net> Michel -- May marks our annual *People Powered Economies membership campaign*. During the month of May, we're sharing stories about how our work at the Sustainable Economies Law Center is building more just, resilient communities. If you ever wondered how your donations were making an impact or why you should become a supporter of our work <https://theselc.nationbuilder.com/people_powered_selc?e=ed92f4e250cb217994e…>, *read on to learn about our partnership with Prospera building resources for immigrant-owned cooperatives! *If you like what you read,* please join us today <https://theselc.nationbuilder.com/people_powered_selc?e=5af0fb96cc323505133…>!* ------------------------------ * <https://theselc.nationbuilder.com/people_powered_selc?e=ed92f4e250cb217994e…>*[image: Claudia, Karla, Laura, and Itzel of Prospera]Claudia, Karla, Laura, and Itzel of Prospera *Prospera is the only nonprofit in the U.S. that focuses solely on developing and launching cooperative businesses owned by Latina immigrant women*. Worker cooperatives have a long history as a strategy for economic self-sufficiency, especially for low-income communities and communities of color. For immigrant communities, worker-owned cooperatives create economic stability and self-determination in a climate that is increasingly hostile to immigrant workers. Since 1995, Prospera has been supporting immigrant-owned cooperatives that, on average, have tripled worker’s individual incomes, enabled workers to build assets by increasing their initial investments 22 times over, *built* community leadership, and rewarded workers based on their labor contribution - not their financial contribution. Founded in 1995, Prospera has been partnering with Latina entrepreneurs to build cooperatively owned businesses. But when they were looking to support their entrepreneurs with a flat business structure that would meet the needs of their member, they hit a wall. Some immigrant-owned cooperatives with old, hierarchical management and governance structures were seeing a rise in internal conflict, putting members at risk. That’s when Prospera reached out to the Sustainable Economies Law Center. “The Law Center is an important ally for the Latina immigrant entrepreneurs that Prospera partners with. They provide much needed legal support for cooperatives and we are excited to be expanding our collaboration. That way, many more aspiring immigrant coop owners can access reliable legal support, especially in the current anti-immigrant climate.” - Maria Rogers Pascual, Executive Director, Prospera. Last year, the Law Center partnered with Prospera to support their cooperative business incubation program. Our Executive Director, Janelle Orsi, worked in conversation with the founding members of a paleteria cooperative to create an operating agreement that responded to their specific values, circumstances, and the needs of the business itself. The tool that was developed: a cartoon operating agreement <http://www.theselc.org/r?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.co-oplaw.org%2Flegal-tools%2Fca…> that helped explain complex legal issues in an accessible, culturally relevant way. This type of tool could only have been created through a collaborative, client-centered relationship, and is now on our website to download for free <http://www.theselc.org/r?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.co-oplaw.org%2Flegal-tools%2Fca…> ! This is what we do at the Sustainable Economies Law Center: we build replicable, accessible, and culturally relevant materials for each client and community we work with. *But we can’t do this without your financial support.* Become a Member <http://www.theselc.org/people_powered_selc?e=5af0fb96cc323505133b237ae4b828…> of the Law Center or make a one-time contribution <http://www.theselc.org/give?e=5af0fb96cc323505133b237ae4b8287128238f30&utm_…> today and support our efforts with Prospera and immigrant communities across the country as we: - Create more Spanish and Tagalog language legal tools; - Host free, Spanish-language cooperative legal advice sessions; - Facilitate Spanish and Tagalog workshops on how to start and run worker-owned enterprises; - Interview existing immigrant cooperatives to assess legal, business, and financial needs; and - Recruit and train Spanish-speaking legal professionals to be part of a cooperative attorneys network. *Will you join me and the Law Center as we build resources for immigrant communities?* [image: Join Us Today] <http://people_powered_selc> *10% of everything we raise during this month will be shared with our solidarity partners, the Alipato Project <http://www.theselc.org/r?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.alipatoproject.org%2F&e=5af0fb…> and Prospera <http://www.theselc.org/r?u=http%3A%2F%2Fprosperacoops.org%2F&e=5af0fb96cc32…>, who are **helping us create more just and resilient communities.* [image: Sustainable Economies Law Center] With appreciation, Ricardo Nuñez Director of Economic Democracy http://www.theselc.org/ <http://www.theselc.org/?e=5af0fb96cc323505133b237ae4b8287128238f30&utm_sour…> -=-=- Sustainable Economies Law Center · 2323 Broadway, #203, Oakland, CA 94612, United States This email was sent to michel(a)p2pfoundation.net. To stop receiving emails, click here <http://www.theselc.org/unsubscribe?e=5af0fb96cc323505133b237ae4b8287128238f…>. You can also keep up with Ricardo S. Nuñez on Twitter <http://www.theselc.org/r?u=http%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2FMulengaRicardo&e=5af0…>. -=-=- Created with NationBuilder <http://www.theselc.org/r?u=http%3A%2F%2Fnationbuilder.com&e=5af0fb96cc32350…>, software for leaders. -- 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: [xnet-news] Master's Degree on Technopolitics at Universitat Pompeu Fabra
by Michel Bauwens 23 May '17

23 May '17

dear Vasilis, it would be great if the p2p lab could announce this on our blog, Michel ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Simona Levi Xnet <simona(a)xnet-x.net> Date: Tue, May 23, 2017 at 11:23 PM Subject: [xnet-news] Master's Degree on Technopolitics at Universitat Pompeu Fabra To: Dear friends, Sorry for crossposting. First deadline, this why we insist :). I send you this information for your students or colleagues and mailing list Spanish speaking that could be interested in a Master's Degree to update their skills in the context of the social transformation. The first deadline for inscription is the *12nd of June*, so, if you found it interesting, we very much apreciate if you help us to disseminate the info. It is quite urgent :). Information below in English and Spanish. Many thanks, Simona ---- Simona Levi and Xnet organize *MASTER'S DEGREE IN FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS, TECNOPOLITICS AND DIGITAL CULTURE* at Universitat Pompeu Fabra. The idea is to train active agents to work with new models of strategic action, versatile actors who can bring into being new forms of organisation and initiatives, who are able to work with them and lead sectors that transform, and are in the process of being transformed. The Master’s Degree is to be offered in Barcelona in the coming academic year. It will be taught in Spanish and is more geared to action than to academic reflection and technological innovation. No prior technological knowledge is required, and its aim is precisely to help academic institutions, professionals and organisations to resituate themselves and adapt to present-day conditions. The Master’s Degree in Civil Rights, Technopolitics and Digital Culture is designed for public administrators, researchers and academics in political science, the social sciences and the humanities, journalists, lawyers, political officeholders, entrepreneurs, economists, activists and managers in the third sector and in organisations undergoing transformation, as well as executive staff in organisations and institutions promoting programmes of participation, online networking, social responsibility and political influence. * "MASTER'S DEGREE IN FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS, TECNOPOLITICS AND DIGITAL CULTURE"* *WEBSITE:* http://www.barcelonaschoolofmanagement.upf.edu/en/master-degree- social-rights-tecnopolitics-digital-culture Pre-enrolment is now open: http://www.barcelonaschoolofmanagement. upf.edu/en/master-degree-social-rights-tecnopolitics-digital-culture *PROGRAMME* *1. Democracy, Technopolitics and Action* * Network Democracy: initiative, technopolitics and governance* - Neuropolitics and Network Society - Collective intelligence, participation and organisation - New policy and false positives - Achievements and myths of e-democracy. - What's the Internet and how is it ruled - History of hacking *2. The future of civil rights in the digital age. Theory for the initiative.* - Brief history of fear and intolerance - Freedom of expression and right to information - Use and abuse of the right to honour - Patents and struggles for the control of health - Global files and global file sharing - Big Data - Open Access – Open Science - Privacy, security vs. mass internet surveillance *3. Economics: entrepreneurship and innovation from the perspective of commons and networks* - The economy of the commons - Blockchain and P2P financial structures - Citizen control of financial flows - Shared economy and its perversions - The future of work *4. New forms of Communication, Information and Journalism* - Journalism, power and manipulation - Big Data and data Sovereignty - Investigative journalism in the digital age - Leaks and whistleblowers - Social networks, impact and censorship *TOOLS* For the organisation and action, personal safety and data protection, information search and monitoring, data management and visualization, democratic participation. TEACHERS, EXPERTS AND CASES OF STUDY http://www.barcelonaschoolofmanagement.upf.edu/sites/default/files/ 2017-cv-web-bio-profesorado-es.pdf (Spanish) ------ Simona Levi + XNET dirige el Máster Derechos Civiles, Tecnopolítica y Cultura Digital en la Universidad Pompeu Fabra de Barcelona (inicio octubre 2017). El Máster en *Derechos Civiles, Tecnopolítica y Cultura Digital (Bienes Comunes, Democracia y Comunicación en la era de la información)* va dirigido a la formación de agentes activos en los nuevos modelos de acción estratégica. Actores polivalentes que lleven a cabo nuevas formas de organización y acción y lideren sectores transformadores y en transformación. El programa, que se realizará en Barcelona el próximo curso, se impartirá en castellano y no requiere conocimientos tecnológicos previos ya que justamente tiene por objetivo situarse en el escenario actual. Se dirige a gestores públicos, investigadores y académicos de politología, ciencias sociales y humanidades, periodistas, abogados, cuadros políticos, profesionales, emprendedores, informáticos, economistas, activistas y gestores del tercer sector y de organizaciones en procesos de transformación. También a directivos en organizaciones e instituciones que impulsen programas de participación, trabajo en red, responsabilidad social e incidencia política. Las preinscripciones ya están abiertas. *Si os parece interesante, os rogamos nos ayudéis en la difusión.* *WEB* http://www.barcelonaschoolofmanagement.upf.edu/es/master-derechos- civiles-tecnopolitica-cultura-digital *GRANDES LÍNEAS DE LOS TEMAS TRATADOS* [Todos los temas aquí: http://www.barcelonaschoolofmanagement. upf.edu/es/master-derechos-civiles-tecnopolitica-cultura- digital/plan-de-estudios ] ACCIÓN, TECNOPOLÍTICA Y DEMOCRACIA - Neuropolítica y sociedad red - Inteligencia colectiva y participación - Nueva política y falsos positivos - Logros y mitos de la e-democracia - Qué es Internet y cómo se gobierna - History of hacking DEVENIR DE LOS DERECHOS EN LA ERA DIGITAL. TEORÍA PARA LA ACCIÓN - Historia del miedo y del cercamiento a la vida - Libertad de Expresión y Derecho a la Información - Uso y abuso del derecho al honor - Patentes y luchas por el control de la salud - Los archivos globales y el intercambio global de archivos - Big Data - Open Access – Open Science - Privacidad, seguridad vs vigilancia masiva ECONOMÍA, EMPRENDIMIENTO E INNOVACIÓN DESDE LA PERSPECTIVA DE LAS REDES - La economía de los commons - Blockchain y estructuras financieras P2P - Control ciudadano de los flujos financieros - Shared economy y sus perversiones - El futuro del trabajo NUEVAS FORMAS DE COMUNICACIÓN, INFORMACIÓN Y PERIODISMO - Periodismo, poder y manipulación - El Big Data y la soberanía de datos - Periodismo de investigación en la era digital - Filtraciones, alertadores y whistleblowers - Redes sociales, impacto y censura HERRAMIENTAS Herramientas para la organización, la intervención, la seguridad personal online y la protección, búsqueda y monitorización de información, la gestión y visualización de datos, la participación democrática. *PROFESORES, EXPERTOS Y CASOS DE ESTUDIO* http://www.barcelonaschoolofmanagement.upf.edu/sites/default/files/ 2017-cv-web-bio-profesorado-es.pdf ----- XNET https://xnet-x.net/en/ https://twitter.com/X_net_ https://www.facebook.com/RedX.Net ----- If you do not want to receive more email from this list please click the next link and send the email letting the subject or body untouched. 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Digital Needs and the Commons under Informational Capitalism
by Christian Fuchs 23 May '17

23 May '17

Digital Needs and the Commons under Informational Capitalism A WIAS research seminar with talks by Sebastian Sevignani and Benjamin Birkinbine Tue, June 6, 18:00-20:00 309 Regent Street, W1B 2HW, London Boardroom Organised by the Westminster Institute for Advanced Studies (WIAS) Registration: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/digital-needs-and-the-commons-under-informat… How can we define informational “needs?” What type of information is necessary for human development, survival, and social progress? What is in this context the role of the information commons and digital commons? In what ways does capitalism restrict the fulfillment of these needs? In this seminar, Dr. Sebastian Sevignani reflects on what needs are, how they develop, and offers proposals for what informational needs might be. Dr. Benjamin Birkinbine focuses specifically on the informational commons as one way to provide for such needs, while highlighting the contradictions that these movements face under capitalism. The overall goal for this discussion is to work toward a critical theory of needs under informational capitalism. Benjamin J Birkinbine is Assistant Professor of Media Studies at University of Nevada, Reno. Whilst based at WIAS as international research fellow, he works towards a critical theory of the digital commons. Sebastian Sevignani is Assistant Professor at the Department for General Sociology and Sociological Theory, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena. As WIAS international research fellow he works on foundations of a theory of digital needs. For updates, subscribe to WIAS-newsletter: https://www.westminster.ac.uk/newsletter

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Fwd: Excellent reflection: Notes from an emergency
by Michel Bauwens 22 May '17

22 May '17

a must read on fighting the feudal internet ------ Forwarded message ---------- From: Brian K Murphy <brian(a)radicalroad.com> Date: Mon, May 22, 2017 at 6:07 PM Subject: Excellent reflection: Notes from an emergency To: B Murphy <brian(a)radicalroad.com> Notes From An Emergency Maciej Cegłowski |* Idle Words* | 17th May 2017 *{This is the text version of a talk I gave on May 10, 2017, at the re:publica <https://re-publica.com/en/dub16/page/republica-2017-berlin> conference in Berlin}* The good part about naming a talk in 2017 ‘Notes from an Emergency’ is that there are so many directions to take it. The emergency I want to talk about is the rise of a vigorous ethnic nationalism in Europe and America. This nationalism makes skillful use of online tools, tools that we believed inherently promoted freedom, to advance an authoritarian agenda. Depending on where you live, the rise of this new right wing might be nothing new. In the United States, our moment of shock came last November, with the election of Donald Trump. The final outcome of that election was: 65.8 million for Clinton 63.0 million for Trump This was the second time in sixteen years that the candidate with fewer votes won the American Presidency. There is a bug in the operating system of our democracy, one of the many ways that slavery still casts its shadow over American politics. But however tenuously elected, Trump is in the White House, and our crisis has become your crisis. Not just because America is a superpower, or because the forces that brought Trump to power are gaining ground in Europe, but because the Internet is an American Internet. Facebook is the dominant social network in Europe, with 349 million monthly active users. Google has something like 94% of market share for search in Germany. The servers of Europe are littered with the bodies of dead and dying social media sites. The few holdouts that still exist, like Xing <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XING>, are being crushed by their American rivals. In their online life, Europeans have become completely dependent on companies headquartered in the United States. And so Trump is in charge in America, and America has all your data. This leaves you in a very exposed position. US residents enjoy some measure of legal protection against the American government. Even if you think our intelligence agencies are evil, they're a lawful evil. They have to follow laws and procedures, and the people in those agencies take them seriously. But there are no such protections for non-Americans outside the United States. The NSA would have to go to court to spy on me; they can spy on you anytime they feel like it. This is an astonishing state of affairs. I can’t imagine a world where Europe would let itself become reliant on American cheese, or where Germans could only drink Coors Light. In the past, Europe has shown that it's capable of identifying a vital interest and moving to protect it. When American aerospace companies were on the point of driving foreign rivals out of business, European governments formed the Airbus consortium <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airbus>, which now successfully competes with Boeing. A giant part of the EU budget goes to subsidize farming <https://europa.eu/european-union/topics/agriculture_en>, not because farming is the best use of resources in a first-world economy, but because farms are important to national security, to the landscape, to national identity, social stability, and a shared sense of who we are. But when it comes to the Internet, Europe doesn't put up a fight. It has ceded the ground entirely to American corporations. And now those corporations have to deal with Trump. How hard do you think they'll work to defend European interests? The Feudal Internet The status quo in May 2017 looks like this: There are five Internet companies—Apple, Google, Microsoft, Amazon and Facebook. Together they have a market capitalization just under 3 trillion dollars. Bruce Schneier has called this arrangement the feudal Internet <https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/10/the_battle_for_1.html>. Part of this concentration is due to network effects, but a lot of it is driven by the problem of security. If you want to work online with any measure of convenience and safety, you must choose a feudal lord who is big enough to protect you. These five companies compete and coexist in complex ways. Apple and Google have a duopoly in smartphone operating systems. Android has 82% of the handset market <https://www.theverge.com/2017/2/16/14634656/android-ios-market-share-blackb…>, iOS has 18%. Google and Facebook are on their way to a duopoly in online advertising. Over half of the revenue <http://fortune.com/2017/01/04/google-facebook-ad-industry/> in that lucrative ($70B+) industry goes to them, and the two companies between them are capturing all of the growth (16% a year). Apple and Microsoft have a duopoly in desktop operating systems. The balance is something like nine to one in favor of Windows <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_systems#Desktop_and_…>, not counting the three or four people who use Linux on the desktop, all of whom are probably at this conference. Three companies, Amazon, Microsoft and Google, dominate cloud computing. AWS has 57% adoption <https://rcpmag.com/articles/2017/04/01/aws.aspx>, Azure has 34%. Google has 15%. Outside of China and Russia, Facebook and LinkedIn are the only social networks at scale. LinkedIn has been able to survive by selling itself to Microsoft. And outside of Russia and China, Google is the world’s search engine <https://www.statista.com/statistics/220534/googles-share-of-search-market-i…>. That is the state of the feudal Internet, leaving aside the court jester, Twitter, who plays an important but ancillary role as a kind of worldwide chat room. Google in particular has come close to realizing our nightmare scenario from 1998, a vertically integrated Internet controlled by a single monopoly player. Google runs its own physical network, builds phone handsets, develops a laptop and phone operating system, makes the world’s most widely-used browser, runs a private DNS system, PKI certificate authority, has photographed nearly all the public spaces in the world, and stores much of the world’s email. But because it is run by more sympathetic founders than Bill Gates, because it builds better software than early Microsoft did, and because it built up a lot of social capital during its early “don't be evil" period, we’ve given it a pass. Security It's not clear that anyone can secure large data collections over time. The asymmetry between offense and defense may be too great. If defense at scale is possible, the only way to do it is by pouring millions of dollars into hiring the best people to defend it. Data breaches at the highest levels have shown us that the threats are real and ongoing. And for every breach we know about, there are many silent ones that we won't learn about for years. A successful defense, however, just increases the risk. Pile up enough treasure behind the castle walls and you'll eventually attract someone who can climb them. The feudal system makes the Internet more brittle, ensuring that when a breach finally comes, it will be disastrous. Each of the big five companies, with the important exception of Apple, has made aggressive user surveillance central to its business model. This is a dilemma of the feudal internet. We seek protection from these companies because they can offer us security. But their business model is to make us more vulnerable, by getting us to surrender more of the details of our lives to their servers, and to put more faith in the algorithms they train on our observed behavior. These algorithms work well, and despite attempts to convince us otherwise, it’s clear they work just as well in politics as in commerce. So in our eagerness to find safety online, we've given this feudal Internet the power to change our offline world in unanticipated and scary ways. Globalism These big five companies operate on a global scale, and partly because they created the industries they now dominate, they enjoy a very lax regulatory regime. Everywhere outside the United States and EU, they are immune to government oversight, and within the United Statesl the last two administrations have played them with a light touch. The only meaningful attempt to regulate surveillance capitalism has come out of the European Union. Thanks to their size and reach, the companies have become adept at stonewalling governments and evading attempts at regulation or oversight. In many cases, this evasion is noble. You don’t want Bahrain or Poland to be able to subpoena Facebook and get the names of people organizing a protest rally. In other cases, it’s purely self-serving. Uber has made a sport of evading all authority, foreign and domestic, in order to grow. Good or bad, the lesson these companies have drawn is the same: they need only be accountable to themselves. But their software and algorithms affect the lives of billions of people. Decisions about how this software works are not under any kind of democratic control. In the best case, they are being made by idealistic young people in California with imperfect knowledge of life in a faraway place like Germany. In the worst case, they are simply being read out of a black-box algorithm trained on God knows what data. This is a very colonial mentality! In fact, it’s what we fought our American War of Independence over, a sense of grievance that decisions that affected us were being made by strangers across the ocean. Today we're returning the favor to all of Europe. Facebook, for example, has only one manager in Germany <https://digiday.com/media/german-publishers-facebook/> to deal with every publisher in the country. One! The company that is dismantling the news industry in Germany doesn’t even care enough to send a proper team to manage the demolition. Denmark has gone so far as to appoint an ambassador <https://thenextweb.com/eu/2017/02/24/denmark-appointing-ambassador-big-tech/> to the giant tech companies, an unsettling but pragmatic acknowledgement of the power relationship that exists between the countries of Europe and Silicon Valley. So one question (speaking now as an EU citizen): how did we let this happen? We used to matter! We used to be the ones doing the colonizing! We used to be a contender! How is it that some dopey kid in Palo Alto gets to decide the political future of the European Union based on what they learned at big data boot camp? Did we lose a war? The lack of accountability isn’t just troubling from a philosophical perspective. It’s dangerous in a political climate where people are pushing back at the very idea of globalization. There's no industry more globalized than tech, and no industry more vulnerable to a potential backlash. China and Russia show us that the Internet need not be a world-wide web, that it can be subverted and appropriated by the state. By creating a political toolkit for authoritarian movements, the American tech giants may be putting their own future at risk. Irreality Given this scary state of the world, with ecological collapse just over the horizon, and a population sharpening its pitchforks, an important question is how this globalized, unaccountable tech industry sees its goals. What does it want? What will all the profits be invested in? What is the plan? The honest answer is: rocket ships and immortality. I wish I was kidding. The best minds in Silicon Valley are preoccupied with a science fiction future they consider it their manifest destiny to build. Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk are racing each other to Mars. Musk gets most of the press, but Bezos now sells $1B in Amazon stock a year <http://www.reuters.com/article/us-space-bezos-idUSKBN1772ZQ> to fund Blue Origin. Investors have put over $8 billion into space companies <http://fortune.com/2017/02/20/space-startups-travel-satellites/> over the past five years, as part of a push to export our problems here on Earth into the rest of the Solar System. As happy as I am to see Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos fired into space, this does not seem to be worth the collapse of representative government. Our cohort of tech founders is feeling the chill breath of mortality as they drift into middle age. And so part of what is driving this push into space is a more general preoccupation with ‘existential risk’. Musk is persuaded that we’re living in a simulation, and he or a fellow true believer has hired programmers <http://www.businessinsider.de/tech-billionaires-want-to-break-humans-out-of…> to try to hack it. Peter Thiel, our most unfortunate German import, has built a survival retreat for himself in New Zealand <http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/01/30/doomsday-prep-for-the-super-ri…>. Sam Altman hoards gold in Big Sur <http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/10/10/sam-altmans-manifest-destiny>. OpenAI, a religious cult thinly disguised as a research institution, has received $1B in funding <http://www.vcpost.com/articles/112005/20151213/elon-musks-open-reached-1-bi…> to forestall the robot rebellion. The biggest existential risk, of course, is death, so a lot of money is going to make sure that our big idea men don’t expire before the world has been received the full measure of their genius. Google Ventures founded the very secretive life extension startup Calico <https://www.technologyreview.com/s/603087/googles-long-strange-life-span-tr…>, with $1.5B dollars in funding. Google loses $4B a year on its various “moon shots”, which include life extension. They employ Ray Kurzweil, who believes we’re still on track for immortality by 2045 <https://www.inverse.com/article/29010-singularity-2029-sexy>. Larry Ellison has put $370M to anti-aging research <http://www.cnbc.com/2017/03/27/anti-aging-technology-larry-ellison-peter-th…>, as anybody would want to live in a world with an immortal Larry Ellison. Our plutocrats are eager to make death an opt-out experience. Now, I’m no fan of death. I don't like the time commitment, or the permanence. A number of people I love are dead and it has strained our relationship. But at the same time, I’m not convinced that a civilization that is struggling to cure male-pattern baldness <http://www.businessinsider.de/samumed-wants-to-regenerate-hair-bone-cartila…> is ready to take on the Grim Reaper. If we’re going to worry about existential risk, I would rather we start by addressing the two existential risks that are indisputably real—nuclear war and global climate change—and working our way up from there. But real problems are messy. Tech culture prefers to solve harder, more abstract problems that haven't been sullied by contact with reality. So they worry about how to give Mars an earth-like climate, rather than how to give Earth an earth-like climate. They debate how to make a morally benevolent God-like AI, rather than figuring out how to put ethical guard rails around the more pedestrian AI they are introducing into every area of people's lives. The tech industry enjoys tearing down flawed institutions, but refuses to put work into mending them. Their runaway apparatus of surveillance and manipulation earns them a fortune while damaging everything it touches. And all they can think about is the cool toys they’ll get to spend the profits on. The message that’s not getting through to Silicon Valley is one that your mother taught you when you were two: you don’t get to play with the new toys until you clean up the mess you made. The circumstances that have given the tech industry all this power will not last long. There is a limited time in which our small caste of tech nerds will have the power to make decisions that shape the world. By wasting the talents and the energies of our brightest people on fantasy role play, we are ceding the future to a more practical group of successors, some truly scary people who will take our tools and use them to advance a very different agenda. To recap: the Internet has centralized into a very few hands. We have an extremely lucrative apparatus of social control, and it's being run by chuckleheads. The American government is also being run by chuckleheads. The question everybody worries about is, what happens when these two groups of chuckleheads join forces? The Winter For many Americans, the election was a moment of profound shock. It wasn’t just Trump's policies that scared us. It was the fact that this unserious, cruel, vacant human being had been handed the power of the American presidency. Scariest to me was how little changed. No one in the press or in social media had the courage to say "we fucked up." Pundits who were stunned by the election result still made confident predictions about what would happen next, as if they had any claim to predictive power. After the election both Facebook and Google looked at the mountains of data they had collected on everyone, looked at the threats the Trump Administration was making—to deport 11 million people, to ban Muslims from entering the country—and said to themselves, "we got this.” The people who did worry were tech workers. For a moment, we saw some political daylight appear between the hundreds of thousands of people who work in the tech sector, and the small clique of billionaires who run it. While the latter filed in to a famously awkward meeting <https://www.theverge.com/2016/12/20/14022284/trump-tech-summit-silicon-vall…> with Trump and his children at the top of his golden tower, the former began organizing in opposition, including signing a simple but powerful pledge <http://neveragain.tech/> to resign rather than help Trump fulfill one of his key campaign promises: barring Muslims from the United States. This pledge was a small gesture, but it represented the first collective action by tech workers around a political agenda that went beyond technology policy, and the first time I had ever seen tech workers come out in open defiance of management. A forest of new organizations sprung up. I started one, too, called Tech Solidarity, and started traveling around the country and holding meetings with tech workers in big cities. I had no idea what I was doing, other than trying to use a small window of time to organize and mobilize our sleepy industry. That feeling of momentum continued through when Trump took office. The Women's March <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Women%27s_March> in January brought five million people out onto the streets. America is not used to mass protests. To see the streets of our major cities fill with families, immigrants, in many cases moms and daughters and grandmothers marching together, that was a sight to take your breath away. Hard on the heels of it came the travel ban, an executive order astonishing not just in its cruelty—families were split at airports; in one case a mom was not allowed to breastfeed her baby <http://www.scarymommy.com/immigration-ban-separates-breastfeeding-11-month-…>—but in its ineptitude. For a week or two lawyers were camped out at airports, working frantically, sleeping little, with spontaneous efforts to bring them supplies, get them funding, to do anything to help. We held a rally in San Francisco <https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/06/business/trump-travel-ban-apple-google-f…> that raised thirty thousand dollars from a room of a hundred people. Some of the organizations we were helping couldn’t even attend, they were too busy at the airport. It didn’t matter. The tech companies did all they could to not get involved. Facebook has a special 'safety check <https://www.facebook.com/about/safetycheck/>' feature for exactly this kind of situation, but never thought of turning it on at airports. Public statements out of Silicon Valley were so insipid as to be comical <https://venturebeat.com/2017/01/29/amazon-apple-facebook-google-microsoft-n…>. Employees, however, were electrified. It looked like not only visitors but permanent residents would be barred from the United States. Google employees staged a walkout <https://www.theverge.com/google/2017/1/30/14446466/google-immigration-prote…> with the support of their management; Facebook (not wishing to be left behind) had its own internal protest a couple of days later, but kept it a secret. Every time the employees pushed, management relented <https://www.buzzfeed.com/blakemontgomery/mark-zuckerberg-trump-immigration?…>. Suddenly top executives were going on the record against the travel ban. People briefly even got mad at Elon Musk <https://www.buzzfeed.com/priya/people-are-canceling-tesla-orders-because-el…>, normally a darling of the tech industry, for his failure to resign from the President’s advisory council. The silent majority of tech employees had begun to mobilize. And then... nothing happened. This tech workforce, which had gotten a taste of its own power, whose smallest efforts at collective action had produced immediate results, who had seen just how much sway they held, went back to work. The worst of Trump’s travel ban was blocked by the court, and we moved on. With the initial shock of Trump in office gone, we now move from crisis to crisis, but without a plan or a shared positive goal. The American discomfort with prolonged, open disagreement has set in. When I started trying to organize people in November, my theory was that tech workers were the only group that had leverage over the tech giants. My reasoning went like this: being monopolies or near-monopolies, these companies are impervious to public pressure. Boycotts won't work, since opting out of a site like Google means opting out of much of modern life. Several of these companies are structured (unusually for American corporations) in such a way that the board can't control the majority of votes. At Google and Facebook, for example, the ultimate say goes to the founders. And since Google and Facebook are the major online publishing outlets, it's unlikely that the press would ever criticize them, even if journalists were capable of that kind of sustained attention. So that leaves just one point of leverage: employees. Tech workers are hard to find, expensive to hire, take a long time to train, and can have their pick of jobs. Tech companies are small compared to other industries, relying heavily on automation. If even a few dozen workers on an ops team acted in concert, they would have the power to shut down a tech giant like Google. All they had to do was organize around a shared agenda. Workers seemed receptive to the argument, but confused about how they could make collective action a reality. Trade unions in the United States have been under attack for decades. There is almost no union culture in technology. Our tech workers are passive and fatalistic. So here I am in Europe, wondering, what on Earth can we do? And I keep coming back to this idea of connecting the tech industry to reality. Bringing its benefits to more people, and bringing the power to make decisions to more people. Closing the Loop After Communism collapsed in Poland, I started visiting the country every eight months or so. Even in the darkest period of the 1990’s, it was striking to see people's material standard of living improve. Suddenly people had cars, phones, appliances. These gains were uneven but broad. Even farmers and retirees, though they were the hardest hit, had access to consumer goods that weren’t available before. You could see the change in homes and in public spaces. It was no longer necessary for office workers in Kraków to change their shirts at lunchtime because of soot in the air. The tap water in Warsaw went from light brown to a pleasant pale yellow. For all the looting, corruption, and inefficiency of privatization, enough of the new wealth got through that the overall standard of living went up. Living standards in Poland in 2010 had more than doubled <http://ec.europa.eu/economy_finance/graphs/2014-10-06_poland_success_story_…> from 1990. In the same time period, in the United States, I’ve seen a whole lot of nothing. Despite fabulous technical progress, practically all of it pioneered in our country, there’s been a singular failure to connect <http://www.epi.org/files/charts/img/5527.png> our fabulous prosperity with the average person. A study just out shows that for the median male worker in the United States, the highest lifetime wages came if you entered the workforce in 1967 <https://fguvenendotcom.files.wordpress.com/2014/04/gks_lifetime_history_201…>. That is astonishing. People born in 1942 had better lifetime earnings prospects than people entering the workforce today. You can see this failure to connect with your own eyes even in a rich place like Silicon Valley. There are homeless encampments across the street from Facebook headquarters <https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/mar/31/facebook-campus-homeless-te…>. California has a larger GDP than France <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_between_U.S._states_and_countries_…>, and at the same time has the highest poverty rate in America <https://www.forbes.com/sites/chuckdevore/2016/09/28/why-does-california-hav…>, adjusted for cost of living. Not only did the tech sector fail to build up the communities around it, but it’s left people worse off than before, by pricing them out of the places they grew up. Walk the length of Market Street (watch your step!) in San Francisco and count the shuttered store fronts. Take Caltrain down to San Jose, and see if you can believe that it is the richest city in the United States <http://www.techtimes.com/articles/103831/20151106/san-jose-california-is-no…>, per capita. The massive increase in wealth has not connected with a meaningful way with average people’s lives even in the heart of tech country, let alone in the forgotten corners of the country. The people who run Silicon Valley identify with progressive values. They’re not bad people. They worry about these problems just like we do; they want to help. So why the failure to do anything? Like T.S. Eliot wrote <https://allpoetry.com/The-Hollow-Men>: Between the idea And the reality Between the motion And the act Falls the Shadow As I said earlier, the tech industry hates messy problems. We'd rather dream up new problems we can solve from scratch. One reason nothing happens is a culture of tax evasion. There’s a folk belief in American business that if you pay full taxes, you’re not doing your fiduciary duty, and your board will fire you. Apple now has a quarter trillion dollars offshore <http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/05/09/apple-borrowing-billions-while-sittin…> that it refuses to put into direct productive use in the United States. Apple boasts that its products are designed in California—they will sell you a $300 book <https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MLXF2LL/A/designed-by-apple-in-californi…> called *Designed By Apple In California*. But they do their damndest to make sure that California never sees a penny of their overseas profits. You in the EU are all too familiar <http://fortune.com/2016/03/11/apple-google-taxes-eu/> with this brand of tax evasion. Google, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft have all been under investigation or in court on charges of evading European taxes. Another reason good intentions don't translate is that capitalism, especially venture capital, doesn’t work very well when there is vast wealth inequality. The richest 20 people in tech <http://www.computerworlduk.com/galleries/careers/the-thirty-richest-techies…> control a fortune of half a trillion dollars in personal wealth, more than the GDP of Sweden. This small subculture of wealthy technophiles promotes investment into luxury goods for rich people, or into “mom as a service” types of companies that cater to spoiled workaholics in the tech industry. And so we end up with things like a $120M juice squeezer <https://arstechnica.com/business/2017/04/juicero-teardown-hints-at-a-very-e…>, or three startups competing to deliver organic baby food <https://techcrunch.com/2017/04/12/little-spoon-is-a-baby-food-delivery-serv…>. Silicon Valley brings us the worst of two economic systems: the inefficiency of a command economy coupled with the remorselessness of laissez-faire liberalism. One reason it’s been difficult to organize workers in the tech industry is that people have a hard time separating good intentions from results. But we have to be cold-blooded about this. Tech companies are run by a feckless leadership accountable to no one, creating a toolkit for authoritarianism while hypnotized by science-fiction fantasy. There are two things we have to do immediately. The first is to stop the accelerating process of tracking and surveillance before it can do any more harm to our institutions. The danger facing us is not Orwell, but Huxley. The combo of data collection and machine learning is too good at catering to human nature, seducing us and appealing to our worst instincts. We have to put controls on it. The algorithms are amoral; to make them behave morally will require active intervention. The second thing we need is accountability. I don’t mean that I want Mark Zuckerberg’s head on a pike, though I certainly wouldn't throw it out of my hotel room if I found it there. I mean some mechanism for people whose lives are being brought online to have a say in that process, and an honest debate about its tradeoffs. I’m here today because I believe the best chance to do this is in Europe. The American government is not functional right now, and the process of regulatory capture is too far gone to expect any regulations limiting the tech giants from either party. American tech workers have the power to change things, but not the desire. Only Europe has the clout and the independence to regulate these companies. You can already point to regulatory successes, like forcing Facebook to implement hard delete on user accounts. That feature was added with a lot of grumbling, but because of the way Facebook organizes its data, they had to make it work the same for all users. So a European regulation led to a victory for privacy worldwide. We can do this again. Here are some specific regulations I would like to see the EU impose: - A strict 30 day time limit on storing behavioral data. - The right to opt out of data collection while continuing to use services. - A ban on the sale or transfer of behavioral data, including to third-party ad networks. - A requirement that advertising be targeted strictly to content, not users. With these rules in place, we would still have Google and Facebook, and they would still make a little bit of money. But we would gain some breathing room. These reforms would knock the legs out from underground political ad campaigns like we saw in Brexit, and in voter suppression efforts in the US election. They would give publishers relief in an advertising market that is currently siphoning all their earnings to Facebook and Google. And they would remove some of the incentive for consumer surveillance. The other thing I hope to see in Europe is a unionized workforce at every major tech company. Unionized workers could demand features like ephemeral group messaging at Facebook, a travel mode for social media, a truly secure Android phone, or the re-imposition of the wall between Gmail and DoubleClick data. They could demand human oversight over machine learning algorithms. They could demand non-cooperation with Trump. And I will say selfishly, if you can unionize here, it will help us unionize over there. If nothing else, we need your help and we need you to keep the pressure on the tech companies, the Trump Administration, and your own politicians and journalists, so that the disaster that happened in the United States doesn't repeat itself in Germany. You have elections coming soon. Please learn from what happened to us. Please stay safe. And please regulate, regulate, regulate this industry, while you can. Thank you. ••••••••••••• -- *Click here for Peter's recent writings* <https://www.dropbox.com/s/o8s52g2y905rq6w/WatermanGmailSignaturePanel%20%20…> -- 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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Book launch - "Knowledge in the Age of Digital Capitalism" (Mariano Zukerfeld)
by Christian Fuchs 22 May '17

22 May '17

Book launch - "Knowledge in the Age of Digital Capitalism" (Mariano Zukerfeld) Friday, May 26 18:00, Room UG.04 University of Westminster 309 Regent St, W1B 2HW London Organised by Westminster Institute for Advanced Studies and University of Westminster Press "Knowledge in the Age of Digital Capitalism" by Mariano Zukerfeld is a new open book published by the University of Westminster. It is the second volume in the Critical Digital & Social Media Studies-book series edited by Christian Fuchs. In this launch event, Mariano Zukerfeld, currently research fellow at the Westminster Institute for Advanced Studies, will present the foundations of the book: It oulines a critical approach for analysing the role and contradictions of knowledge in digital capitalism. Zukerfeld terms this approach "cognitive materialism". Registration: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/capitalist-piracy-creative-industries-free-k…

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