October 2018 - P2P-Foundation - lists.ourproject.org

Fwd: Soft power
by Michel Bauwens 26 Oct '18

26 Oct '18

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Medium <editors-picks(a)medium.com> Date: Fri, Oct 26, 2018 at 1:10 PM Subject: Soft power To: <michel(a)p2pfoundation.net> The power that lurks. Sometimes, power doesn’t announce itself. Or maybe we just haven’t been listening. Whether it’s in the doctor’s office, the classroom, or at work, power can often can be obscured, ignored, or simply go unnoticed. For the final week of Power Trip, our monthly magazine’s October issue, we take a look at the kind of power that lays in wait. The power that lurks <https://medium-a7e301761373.intercom-mail.com/via/e?ob=Exz0DcK8lMNJpZ7gLaKm…> Medium magazine’s October issue Sometimes, power doesn’t announce itself. Or maybe we just haven’t been listening. Whether it’s in the doctor’s office, the classroom, or at work, power can often be obscured, ignored, or simply go unnoticed. For the final week of Power Trip <https://medium-a7e301761373.intercom-mail.com/via/e?ob=Exz0DcK8lMNJpZ7gLaKm…>, our monthly magazine’s October issue, we take a look at the kind of power that lays in wait. Read the stories <https://medium-a7e301761373.intercom-mail.com/via/e?ob=Exz0DcK8lMNJpZ7gLaKm…> <https://medium-a7e301761373.intercom-mail.com/via/e?ob=nIFWw9m7YGZxqmhz5OFv…> Crisis pregnancy centers (CPCs) are quietly taking over. Many appear to offer abortions, even mentioning them outright on their websites. They don’t. The clinics can be hard to distinguish from actual women’s health centers, which offer evidence-based medical advice and care, and outnumber them three to one nationwide. Journalist Maya Kroth visits a CPC in rural Georgia, whose employees try to convince women to opt out of abortions. <https://medium-a7e301761373.intercom-mail.com/via/e?ob=wK3EPhUA43S0r2aprkhS…> “The simple act of saving money, no matter the amount, can empower and motivate you in ways you might not expect.” Writer Kristin Wong makes the case for financial planning, even in the face of an uncertain economic future. Saving is a kind of financial power that comes from within, and Kristin’s tips offer ways to unlock it. One easy step? Ditch the digital shortcuts and pay in cash. <https://medium-a7e301761373.intercom-mail.com/via/e?ob=Dz8WEuisLEWo51n3U1ZO…> Teachers nationwide are finding out that there is, in fact, power in organized labor. Journalist Sarah Jaffe speaks to educators who have gone on strike in West Virginia, Oklahoma, and Arizona, and learns that “rank-and-file teachers who may have thought of the union as a third party that existed to pressure politicians on their behalf have now learned what it is like to experience being the union.” In this case, fighting back means diving in. <https://medium-a7e301761373.intercom-mail.com/via/e?ob=hzeoZHYznBB8Vl39S1Wu…> Knowledge is power. But as far as salaries go, we’re still in the dark. Engineer Jackie Luo is trying to change that. She’s gathered thousands of salaries from tech employees — especially men — and is spilling all the details. Jackie points out that sharing salary information with coworkers isn’t about comparison and competition, but equity: “Fair compensation starts with greater transparency.” Take up the mantle. Upgrade for unlimited reading <https://medium-a7e301761373.intercom-mail.com/via/e?ob=CrbRRDA26VuDSwwNDCTt…> <https://medium-a7e301761373.intercom-mail.com/via/e?ob=ATyiaAmlO2opXKfF7i4k…> <https://medium-a7e301761373.intercom-mail.com/via/e?ob=4byMgUUQ0dtemlEnfwkp…> <https://medium-a7e301761373.intercom-mail.com/via/e?ob=2scTmELM7bb26EIYdo4r…> <https://medium-a7e301761373.intercom-mail.com/via/e?ob=L%2BRfjkqr%2F%2BRjzW…> Sent by Medium <https://medium-a7e301761373.intercom-mail.com/via/e?ob=8Oif54FqnEDk4M%2F%2F…> · 799 Market Street, 5th floor, San Francisco, CA 94103 Unsubscribe <https://medium-a7e301761373.intercom-mail.com/via/e?ob=q6dj0FTbzENSBK62hgnK…> · Help center <https://medium-a7e301761373.intercom-mail.com/via/e?ob=fe%2BCSmDxGoWs20QElr…> · Privacy policy <https://medium-a7e301761373.intercom-mail.com/via/e?ob=1UmveMbC%2B5hvpW1e9v…> <https://medium-a7e301761373.intercom-mail.com/subscriptions/unsubscribe?app…> [image: intercom] -- 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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exceptionally well documented article on cybernetic governance
by Michel Bauwens 25 Oct '18

25 Oct '18

** Article: Res Publica ex Machina: On Neocybernetic Governance and the End of Politics.* by FELIX MASCHEWSKI & ANNA-VERENA NOSTHOFF. Institute of Network Cultures, October, 2018 URL = http://networkcultures.org/longform/2018/10/18/res-publica-ex-machina-on-ne… Contents [hide <https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Neocybernetic_Governance_and_the_End_of_Poli…> ] - 1 Context <https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Neocybernetic_Governance_and_the_End_of_Poli…> - 2 Description <https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Neocybernetic_Governance_and_the_End_of_Poli…> - 3 Examples <https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Neocybernetic_Governance_and_the_End_of_Poli…> - 4 More information <https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Neocybernetic_Governance_and_the_End_of_Poli…> Context[edit <https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/index.php?title=Neocybernetic_Governance_and…> ] by FELIX MASCHEWSKI & ANNA-VERENA NOSTHOFF: "In 2017, Denmark sent the first digital ambassador, Casper Klynge, to Silicon Valley. The aim of this move of ‘techplomacy’ was, as Klynge explained, not simply to distribute greetings notes by the Danish queen. Rather, the intention was to ‘update diplomacy’ based on the recognition that a few tech companies have obviously become much ‘more influential than some nation states’. Klynge framed the new political course in the manner of a well-known old but still utterly contemporary mantra: ‘There is no alternative’. In a similar vein, Denmark’s Foreign Minister Anders Samuelson highlighted the importance of the step as follows: ‘Just as we engage in a diplomatic dialogue with countries, we also need to establish and prioritize comprehensive relations with tech actors, such as Google, Facebook, Apple, and so on. (…) The idea is, we see a lot of companies and new technologies that will in many ways involve and be part of everyday life of citizens in Denmark.' ( http://networkcultures.org/longform/2018/10/18/res-publica-ex-machina-on-ne… ) Description[edit <https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/index.php?title=Neocybernetic_Governance_and…> ] "The idea to implement tech on new political test grounds is ... mirrored by recent digital initiatives which focus more explicitly on the nation-state. The most poignant concepts in this realm include ideas such as ‘algorithmic regulation’, ‘government as a platform’ (Tim O’Reilly), ‘direct technocracy’ viz. ‘info-states’ (Parag Khanna), ‘smart states’ (Beth Noveck), or ‘social physics’ (Alex Pentland), to name a few. It is vital to explore some of these concepts in greater detail and on a more theoretical and philosophical level. What form of politics is implicitly being promoted in this context? As we argue, this question is best examined against the background of an understanding of these concepts as very idiosyncratic reformulations of cybernetic approaches to the political, which date back to the 1960s. We explore how the implicit visions and concepts rearticulate early concepts of cybernetic politics in their insistence on the vitality of feedback structures, in allegedly blending hierarchy with tenets of decentralization, in shifting the focus from the individual to the interrelations between humans, including the social fabric encompassing them and, most importantly, in how far this might raise problems. Subsequently, this rather theoretical perspective will allow us to examine the extent to which such neo-cybernetic concepts promote a rather reduced vision of the political, or politics as such. As we argue, current approaches to ‘smart’ states or cities and their corresponding models of governance mark no entire automation of politics but at least in certain respects, a pragmatic actualization of cybernetic visions of the state against the background of surveillance capitalism. As such, theoretical dispositifs that have emerged from early ideas of cybernetic politics are still marking certain effects." ( http://networkcultures.org/longform/2018/10/18/res-publica-ex-machina-on-ne… ) Examples[edit <https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/index.php?title=Neocybernetic_Governance_and…> ] - ‘algorithmic regulation’, - ‘government as a platform’ (Tim O’Reilly), - ‘direct technocracy’ viz. ‘info-states’ (Parag Khanna), - ‘smart states’ (Beth Noveck), or - ‘social physics’ (Alex Pentland) -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net Connect: http://p2pfoundation.ning.com; Discuss: http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation Updates: http://del.icio.us/mbauwens; http://friendfeed.com/mbauwens; http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens

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Fwd: Free speech on the ropes
by Michel Bauwens 24 Oct '18

24 Oct '18

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Thomas Greco <thg(a)mindspring.com> Date: Wed, Oct 24, 2018 at 9:04 PM Subject: Free speech on the ropes To: Michel <michel(a)p2pfoundation.net> ------------------------------ Is this email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser <https://mailchi.mp/33507a9d2eba/free-speech-on-the-ropes?e=686d597d8c>. *If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.* —George Orwell *What the Arab world needs most is free expression.* * —*Jamal Khashoggi In his famous dystopian novel, *1984*, George Orwell describes a world in which people’s actions and words are closely monitored in order to detect and punish *thoughtcrime <https://beyondmoney.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=3cbee2e1cfc237bcae4ed…>*. It is a world in which the ruling power structure has the means to preempt the expression of any idea or story that might challenge the official narrative of events and reality. Though a little late by Orwell’s reckoning, that world has all but arrived. The development of the internet and the worldwide web brought, for a time, tremendous power to ordinary people to communicate and inform one another directly, bypassing the established news filters and centralized control of information. But in recent years, new corporate megaliths have emerged that have the power to shift control back in favor of “Big Brother.” We have become so dependent upon private corporate media platforms, like Facebook, Twitter, Google and YouTube, that they are able to manipulate our thoughts and behavior. To be banned from those channels means to effectively be banished from participation in political discourse. Corporate power on such a scale inevitably ends up being complicit with political oligarchies in controlling public perceptions and defining “reality.” The hyped-up battle against “fake news” is really a battle against free speech. *Facebook teams up with the “Thought Police” to purge dissenting voices* Facebook’s purging of hundreds of pages and accounts in recent days has been widely reported <https://beyondmoney.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=3cbee2e1cfc237bcae4ed…>. The purges have been done based on allegations of “spam,” and “inauthentic behavior,” or of providing “Russian propaganda.” But there’s much more to it than that. An article in the online journal, Global Research <https://beyondmoney.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=3cbee2e1cfc237bcae4ed…>, describes the arrangement that Facebook made five months ago with the Atlantic Council to, “prevent [their] service from being abused during elections. <https://beyondmoney.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=3cbee2e1cfc237bcae4ed…>” And who is the Atlantic Council? According to the article, the Atlantic Council “is a think tank that is essentially funded by NATO, weapons manufacturers, Middle-Eastern oil-state monarchies, billionaires and different branches of the US military. In short, it has been described as being nothing less than NATO’s unofficial propaganda wing <https://beyondmoney.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=3cbee2e1cfc237bcae4ed…>. The Atlantic Council doesn’t shy away from its political intents across the world, which can be seen solely by looking at who sits on its directors board – the crème de la crème when it comes to US neocons & war criminals <https://beyondmoney.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=3cbee2e1cfc237bcae4ed…>: Henry Kissinger, Condoleezza Rice, Frank Carlucci, James A. Baker, R. George P. Shultz, James Woolsey, Leon Panetta, Colin Powell, Robert Gates, and many more.” The article goes on to say that, “Many of the pages and accounts taken down have been political (often leftist), anti-war, independent journalists and media outlets that are known to go against the grain of mainstream media outlets.” You can read the complete article here <https://beyondmoney.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=3cbee2e1cfc237bcae4ed…> . So, what can we do? *Let’s all dump Facebook, as well as Twitter, YouTube and all the other massive, proprietary, data mining and propaganda platforms.* I know that is not so easy to do, but alternatives do exist, and more of them are emerging every day. Here is a list of 6 Alternatives to Facebook <https://beyondmoney.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=3cbee2e1cfc237bcae4ed…>. This article <https://beyondmoney.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=3cbee2e1cfc237bcae4ed…> provides a list of 11 Facebook alternatives, and Fox News, surprisingly, provides a list of, Secure alternatives to Facebook, Instagram and Twitter <https://beyondmoney.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=3cbee2e1cfc237bcae4ed…>. My search engine, DuckDuckGo, turns up several more. One Facebook alternative that has gotten significant funding support of late is MeWe. A recent article <https://beyondmoney.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=3cbee2e1cfc237bcae4ed…> reports that MeWe has thus far managed to raise $10 million to support its development. The article quotes MeWe <https://beyondmoney.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=3cbee2e1cfc237bcae4ed…> founder and CEO, Mark Weinstein <https://beyondmoney.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=3cbee2e1cfc237bcae4ed…>: "It is clear that the world wants a better social network that treats its member as customers to serve, not data to sell. We've built a social networking experience that has a remarkable suite of features people love and none of the BS. MeWe has no ads, no spyware, no content manipulation, no facial recognition, and no Russians (or anyone) paying to show you fake news." Well, that sounds promising, but time will tell how real it is. ___________________________________ *Jamal Khashoggi’s murder and the U.S./Saudi connection* The sensational case of the murder and dismemberment of Washington Post journalist, Jamal Khashoggi, inside the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul, underlines just how desperate the power elite is to control the narrative and manipulate our perceptions and beliefs. It would be a mistake to view this horrendous atrocity in isolation from the wider geopolitical propaganda campaign, much of it emanating from the U.S. government and their NATO and middle-eastern allies. Two weeks after Khashoggi’s disappearance, The Washington Post published his last editorial <https://beyondmoney.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=3cbee2e1cfc237bcae4ed…>, in which Khashoggi wrote: “Arab governments have been given free rein to continue silencing the media at an increasing rate. There was a time when journalists believed the Internet would liberate information from the censorship and control associated with print media. But these governments, whose very existence relies on the control of information, have aggressively blocked the Internet. They have also arrested local reporters and pressured advertisers to harm the revenue of specific publications.” The reaction of Donald Trump to this affair has been what we would expect. While paying lip service to justice and accountability, he immediately tried to provide cover for the Saudi regime by suggesting that the murder may have been the work of “rogue killers.” <https://beyondmoney.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=3cbee2e1cfc237bcae4ed…> He also made it clear that he would not halt weapon sales to the Saudi government, a clear signal that money trumps “American values,” and belies the myth of the United States as champion of democracy and human rights. But the cozy relationship between Saudi Arabia and the United States goes back way before Trump. Recall that, according to the official report on the 9/11 terror attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, 15 of the 19 terrorists were from Saudi Arabia. Why then did the United States attack Iraq and Afghanistan instead? It is also established fact that the Bush family and the bin Laden family were longtime business associates. Furthermore, according to this article <https://beyondmoney.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=3cbee2e1cfc237bcae4ed…> by Cindy Rodríguez <https://beyondmoney.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=3cbee2e1cfc237bcae4ed…>in the Denver Post, “While all flights were halted following the terrorist attacks, there was one exception made: The White House authorized planes to pick up 140 Saudi nationals, including 24 members of the bin Laden family, living in various cities in the U.S. to bring them back to Saudi Arabia, where they would be safe. They were never interrogated.” # # # follow on Twitter | friend on Facebook <#m_8744820590761039610_> | forward to a friend <http://us7.forward-to-friend.com/forward?u=3cbee2e1cfc237bcae4ed6959&id=a53…> *Copyright © 2018 CIRC, All rights reserved.* You are receiving this email because we have corresponded in the past or you have asked to receive my occasional mailings. *Our mailing address is:* CIRC PO Box 42663 Tucson, AZ 85733 Add us to your address book <https://beyondmoney.us7.list-manage.com/vcard?u=3cbee2e1cfc237bcae4ed6959&i…> [image: Email Marketing Powered by Mailchimp] <http://www.mailchimp.com/monkey-rewards/?utm_source=freemium_newsletter&utm…> unsubscribe from this list <https://beyondmoney.us7.list-manage.com/unsubscribe?u=3cbee2e1cfc237bcae4ed…> | update subscription preferences <https://beyondmoney.us7.list-manage.com/profile?u=3cbee2e1cfc237bcae4ed6959…> -- 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: LAST REMINDER! Campaign closes tomorrow
by Michel Bauwens 22 Oct '18

22 Oct '18

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Julia Suh <julia(a)smallshift.com.au> Date: Mon, Oct 22, 2018 at 2:56 AM Subject: LAST REMINDER! Campaign closes tomorrow To: Julia Suh <julia(a)smallshift.com.au> 1 day left. We are running a crowdfunding campaign to launch DIO (Do-It-Ourselves) public space projects in disadvantaged areas in Sydney's west. Join our campaign and fight for everyone's right to belong. <https://smallshift.us17.list-manage.com/track/click?u=69c4ed2f920de61f36739…> https://youtu.be/2bR_zdLEy7E <https://smallshift.us17.list-manage.com/track/click?u=69c4ed2f920de61f36739…> Dear Colleagues and Friends We are almost there! We are so grateful for the overwhelming support from family, friends, colleagues and fellow change makers dedicated to to improving the lives of others. If you'd like to support us, there is still time. Please click the link below and support us by midnight 23 Oct Tuesday Sydney time, and share this email with 3 of your friends and colleagues who might like to make a difference with us. Thank you for following our journey. With much gratitude, Julia Suh, Director PLEDGE NOW <https://smallshift.us17.list-manage.com/track/click?u=69c4ed2f920de61f36739…> -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net Connect: http://p2pfoundation.ning.com; Discuss: http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation Updates: http://del.icio.us/mbauwens; http://friendfeed.com/mbauwens; http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens

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Fwd: Patterning Instinct news
by Michel Bauwens 20 Oct '18

20 Oct '18

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Jeremy Lent <jeremy(a)jeremylent.com> Date: Fri, Oct 19, 2018 at 9:20 PM Subject: Patterning Instinct news To: Michel <michelsub2004(a)gmail.com> Recent article and upcoming events View this email in your browser <https://mailchi.mp/6dacd0693a3b/patterning-instinct-news-1853961?e=706ecc72…> <https://jeremylent.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ca3f163a7a35137b9c600…> What Would an Ecological Civilization Look Like? Dear Michel, Last week, the UN's climate change task force, the IPCC, put the world on notice that we have just 12 years to turn around our trajectory to global disaster. Without drastic changes, we're well on the way to full-blown climate breakdown, they warn, with unprecedented drought, flooding, and famine. We need, they declare, "rapid, far-reaching and unprecedented changes in all aspects of society.” But what exactly does that mean? Following the IPCC's report, I published an article describing some of the elements of what this might entail, entitled "*We Need an Ecological Civilization Before It's Too Late. <https://jeremylent.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ca3f163a7a35137b9c600…>*" Please read it and share your thoughts with me—and others you think might be interested. If you've read *The Patterning Instinct*, you'll know that in the final chapter I write about the need for a Great Transformation of society, encompassing a transformation of virtually every aspect of human experience: our values, our goals, and our collective behavior. I've come to believe that "Ecological Civilization" may be the best name for what might emerge from this transition: a civilization based on the sustainable health of interconnected living systems. I'll be presenting on the topic of Ecological Civilization with my friend and colleague, David Korten, at the *Parliament of World Religions* <https://jeremylent.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ca3f163a7a35137b9c600…> in Toronto from November 1–7. David has organized four panels on this theme, and we'll be joined in this discussion by luminaries John Cobb and Matthew Fox. In another panel, John and I will be in conversation with Mary Evelyn Tucker on the topic of "*A Grounded Understanding of Harmony for Earth Justice*." I hope to see some of you there! If you're in the San Francisco Bay Area, I invite you to join me at Stanford University's *Contemplation By Design Summit* on *Tuesday, October 30 at 7 p.m*. I'll be giving a talk on *"Cultural Mindfulness: Recognizing How Culture Shapes Our Patterns of Thought"*—and you can register here for free <https://jeremylent.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ca3f163a7a35137b9c600…> . Also, you might enjoy listening to a couple of recent interviews I gave related to this urgent topic: one with Derrick Jensen's Resistance Radio <https://jeremylent.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ca3f163a7a35137b9c600…>, and the other with Joe Brewer from the Center on Applied Cultural Evolution <https://jeremylent.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ca3f163a7a35137b9c600…> . The future is still up for grabs—I urge you to do your part to help move us toward a path of sustainable flourishing, before it's too late! Best regards, Jeremy BUY THE PATTERNING INSTINCT <https://jeremylent.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ca3f163a7a35137b9c600…> BUY THE AUDIBLE EDITION <https://jeremylent.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ca3f163a7a35137b9c600…> ARTICLE <https://jeremylent.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ca3f163a7a35137b9c600…> *We Need an Ecological Civilization Before It's Too Late* <https://jeremylent.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ca3f163a7a35137b9c600…> *October 10, 2018* In the face of climate breakdown and ecological overshoot, we need to restructure the fundamentals of our global cultural/economic system to cultivate an “ecological civilization”: one that prioritizes the health of living systems over short-term wealth production. *[Read more] <https://jeremylent.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ca3f163a7a35137b9c600…> [Resilience] <https://jeremylent.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ca3f163a7a35137b9c600…> [EcoWatch] <https://jeremylent.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ca3f163a7a35137b9c600…> [Common Dreams] <https://jeremylent.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ca3f163a7a35137b9c600…>* FEATURED INTERVIEWS <https://jeremylent.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ca3f163a7a35137b9c600…> Interview: *Resistance Radio* with Derrick Jensen <https://jeremylent.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ca3f163a7a35137b9c600…> *We discuss how do we change the stories of the culture? How do cultures change, and how can we transform things as rapidly as they need to be changed?* September 28, 2018 | 49 min <https://jeremylent.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ca3f163a7a35137b9c600…> Interview: *Beyond the Growth Paradigm *with Joe Brewer <https://jeremylent.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ca3f163a7a35137b9c600…> *Together we explore how to apply insights about the importance of cultural root metaphors to the transformation of our globalized economy in the next few decades.* October 4, 2018 | 1 hr UPCOMING EVENTS <https://jeremylent.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ca3f163a7a35137b9c600…> *Tuesday Oct 30 | 7:00–8:15 pm Stanford University | Contemplation by Design Summit* *Cultural Mindfulness: Recognizing How Culture Shapes Our Patterns of Thought* Jeremy will identify historical foundations of our modern worldview and show how, by becoming mindful of our patterns of thought, we have the potential to redirect them for more beneficial outcomes. Register and more info. <https://jeremylent.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ca3f163a7a35137b9c600…> ------------------------------ <https://jeremylent.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ca3f163a7a35137b9c600…> *Thu Nov 1–Wed Nov 7 2018 Parliament of World Religions | Toronto* Jeremy will take part in two panels during this weeklong conference: *Panel: To Choose Our Common Future | Ecological Civilization Series* *Panel: A Grounded Understanding of Harmony for Earth Justice | Earth Justice Series* Register and more info. <https://jeremylent.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ca3f163a7a35137b9c600…> BUY THE PATTERNING INSTINCT <https://jeremylent.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ca3f163a7a35137b9c600…> <https://jeremylent.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ca3f163a7a35137b9c600…> <https://jeremylent.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ca3f163a7a35137b9c600…> <https://jeremylent.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ca3f163a7a35137b9c600…> *Copyright © 2018 Liology Institute, All rights reserved.* Your are receiving this email because I believe you'll be interested, or you signed up for my newsletter. *Our mailing address is:* Liology Institute P.O. 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Fwd: [bgcon] "Disruption des Journalismus"
by Michel Bauwens 18 Oct '18

18 Oct '18

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Krystian Woznicki <kw(a)berlinergazette.de> Date: Tue, Oct 16, 2018 at 11:07 AM Subject: [bgcon] "Disruption des Journalismus" To: <digi-yards(a)berlinergazette.de> Hi, please note Berliner Gazette's editor-in-chief Magdalena Taube's new book "Disruption des Journalismus" which deals with the digital revolution in the field of media through the lens of "digital natives". It has been just published by Institute of Network Cultures and is available online, as print on demand and in selected bookshops. More info about this German language book please find below. Please spread the word by re-tweeting this: https://twitter.com/INCAmsterdam/status/1016605646547030021 Kind regards, Krystian --- *Disruption des Journalismus* *Medienwandel und Digital Natives* *Magdalena Taube* *About* Today, public interest in journalism seems greater than ever. Buzzwords such as ‘fake news’ or ‘click bait’ indicate that we are dealing with a polarising political issue. Anyone who dares to investigate journalism in this intensified situation also wants to better understand the world in which we are living. After all, journalists play a decisive role in this scenario because they have a strong influence on how we perceive the world. How has their role changed since the advent of the internet? What does it mean that there is both a new generation of readers and a new generation of journalists called digital natives who were born in the 1980s and raised on the internet in the 1990s? Searching for answers, the book paints a multi-layered portrait of the Internet generation. It above all shows one thing: though the far-reaching transformation of media set in motion by digitalization often appears like an uncontrollable force of nature, we can actively shape this process even in our everyday journalistic work. *Author* Magdalena Taube is editor-in-chief of the internet newspaper Berliner Gazette (https://berlinergazette.de) assistant professor of Digital Journalism at the University of Applied Sciences Hanover and lecturer at the Leuphana University, Bard College and the Humboldt University. She is co-editor of numerous anthologies, most recently ‘A Field Guide to the Snowden Files’ (2017). *Colophon* Design and EPUB development: Leonieke van Dipten. Print on Demand. Publisher: Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam, 2018. ISBN: 9789492302243. *Print on Demand* http://networkcultures.org/blog/publication/disruption-des-journalismus/ -- -------------------------------------------------------------- BG – Berliner Gazette | since 1999 | http://berlinergazette.de -------------------------------------------------------------- UPCOMING BG ANNUAL CONFERENCE: AMBIENT REVOLTS – Nov 8-10, 2018https://ambient-revolts.berlinergazette.de -------------------------------------------------------------- DOCU OF LATEST BG PROJECTS: FRIENDLY FIRE – BG Annual Conference 2017 https://berlinergazette.de/friendly-fire SIGNALS – Exhibition of the Snowden Files http://berlinergazette.de/signals -------------------------------------------------------------- BG BOOKS OUT NOW @ DP: FUGITIVE BELONGINGhttps://diamondpaper.net/title_27 A FIELD GUIDE TO THE SNOWDEN FILES http://diamondpaper.net/title_26 AFTER THE PLANEShttp://diamondpaper.net/title_25 -------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ 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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Fwd: Class Struggle Revisited
by Michel Bauwens 18 Oct '18

18 Oct '18

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Paul Raskin <info(a)tellus.org> Date: Thu, Oct 18, 2018 at 8:30 PM Subject: Class Struggle Revisited To: <michelsub2004(a)gmail.com> GTI Bulletin - October 2018 View in browser <https://mailchi.mp/tellus/class-struggle-revisited?e=f39359ac71> <https://tellus.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=200b309cd11b2c2d483d3a050…> *GTI Bulletin October 2018* Dear Friends, Once upon a time, the working class stood at the forefront of struggles for social and economic justice. Pushed to the wall by the capitalist system, the industrial proletariat spawned a mighty movement able to win essential shop-floor concessions and social welfare protections. But this very success, along with harsh neoliberal counterblows and massive economic changes, has undercut the militancy and unity of the labor movement. Is it time, then, to bid farewell to the working class as a core change agent? Not so fast, argues Guy Standing in The Precariat: Today’s Transformative Class? <https://tellus.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=200b309cd11b2c2d483d3a050…> The essay examines the shifting class structure under global capitalism, and finds new bases for hope. Standing argues that the “precariat”—the growing army of workers leading precarious lives of insecure jobs and uncertain futures—could crystallize into a new mass class for spearheading progressive change. It’s an intriguing hypothesis, but not all scholars and activists are sold. A roundtable on Debating the Precariat <https://tellus.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=200b309cd11b2c2d483d3a050…> raises critical questions, and Standing offers a spirited response. Ultimately, forging a global movement for systemic change will take more than revitalizing working-class solidarity. Many social actors and oppositional streams must come together in common cause and shared vision. In the American context, Medea Benjamin’s incredible journey as an activist and organizer has taken her across peace and justice battlegrounds from the 1960s to the present. She talks about her life and times, and the challenges ahead, in Living on the Frontlines of Resistance <https://tellus.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=200b309cd11b2c2d483d3a050…>. Carry it on, Paul Raskin GTI Director Visit us at www.greattransition.org <https://tellus.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=200b309cd11b2c2d483d3a050…> <https://tellus.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=200b309cd11b2c2d483d3a050…> *The Precariat: Today's Transformative Class?* <https://tellus.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=200b309cd11b2c2d483d3a050…> *Guy Standing* Global capitalism is roiling class structure and forging a new mass class of precarious workers. The fight for a universal basic income can help catalyze this “precariat” as a transformative change agent. Read More >> <https://tellus.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=200b309cd11b2c2d483d3a050…> [image: Roundtable earth] <https://tellus.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=200b309cd11b2c2d483d3a050…> *Debating the Precariat* <https://tellus.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=200b309cd11b2c2d483d3a050…> A roundtable on “The Precariat: Today's Transformative Class?,” with a response from the author. Featuring Evelyn Astor, Bill Fletcher, Nancy Folbre, Azfar Khan, Alexandra Köves, George Liodakis, Ronaldo Munck, William I. Robinson, Pritam Singh, Eva-Maria Swidler, and Alison Tate. 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an australian crypto podcast analysis, mark pesce interviews michel bauwens of the p2p foundation
by Michel Bauwens 16 Oct '18

16 Oct '18

OCTOBER 16, 2018 <https://cryptonomics.show/2018/10/16/episode-1-08-cryptopia/> BY MPESCE <https://cryptonomics.show/author/mpesce/> Episode 1.08 CRYPTOPIA Fanatical belief in cryptocurrencies lead to the perfect becoming the enemy of the good. Michel Bauwens <http://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Michel_Bauwens/Full_Bio> takes us on a tour of what’s good. Here at https://cryptonomics.show/2018/10/16/episode-1-08-cryptopia/ -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net Connect: http://p2pfoundation.ning.com; Discuss: http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation Updates: http://del.icio.us/mbauwens; http://friendfeed.com/mbauwens; http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens

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Fwd: Spirit of Global Citizenship | Call for Essays and Works
by Michel Bauwens 16 Oct '18

16 Oct '18

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Kosmos Journal <info(a)kosmosjournal.org> Date: Tue, Oct 16, 2018 at 2:00 PM Subject: Spirit of Global Citizenship | Call for Essays and Works To: <michelsub2004(a)gmail.com> Click here <https://kosmosjournal.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=a2e6f01f29f00e615c1…> to read this newsletter on our website. [image: Kosmos Community Newsletter] Spirit of Global Citizenship | Call for Essays and Works October 16th, 2018 [image: globalpop.jpg]*A developed country is not a place where the poor have cars, it’s where the rich use public transportation.* – Former mayor of Bogota, Colombia, *Enrique Penalosa* *Kosmos Quarterly *Call for Essays and Works Dear Reader, We are preparing the December edition of *Kosmos Quarterly* and hope you will participate by submitting an essay, poem or artwork. We will be exploring what it means to be a Global Citizen. How can we move beyond platitudes and declarations, toward deep systemic transformation – new institutional designs and new ways of being in the world that reflect our highest hopes and respect nature’s boundaries? In what ways can we express the civic values of a global citizen? How are you personally working to embody the changes you wish to see in the world? What projects, models or initiatives give you the greatest sense of hope? We invite you to submit an essay under 1000 words, a poem, or other artwork, on any of these dimensions or in answer to the question: What does ‘global citizenship’ evoke in your heart? *Deadline: November 15, 2018 | **PLEASE REVIEW OUR GUIDELINES HERE* <https://kosmosjournal.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=a2e6f01f29f00e615c1…> Also in this newsletter, we are sharing two more features from the *Quarterly*: the work of Belgian-Beninese photographer Fabrice Monteiro – *The Prophecy*, and our recent *Quarterly* Keynote, *un-pick-apart-able, An Ecology of Food, *by Nora Bateson. *Please note that only Kosmos subscribers <https://kosmosjournal.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=a2e6f01f29f00e615c1…> have access to ALL the great content in Kosmos Quarterly. <https://kosmosjournal.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=a2e6f01f29f00e615c1…>* Global Oneness Day, October 24th | Join *Kosmos* Founder, Nancy Roof for a Special Panel: *Sacred Action* With Barnet Bain, Nancy Roof, Steve Bhaerman and Karen Noe (host) *7:00 to 8:00 pm Pacific* – Click here to find the time in other time zones. <https://kosmosjournal.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=a2e6f01f29f00e615c1…> “Sacred Activism is first going within and then acting from the Divine essence of who we are. We are all capable of accessing the Divine core of our being when we quiet our minds and take deep breaths. It is about being first and then taking action for that peaceful and calm state, which our actions will be far more effective when we act from this state.” *LEARN MORE* <https://kosmosjournal.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=a2e6f01f29f00e615c1…> Global Oneness Day is Online All Day and FREE <https://kosmosjournal.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=a2e6f01f29f00e615c1…>*See the Schedule* <https://kosmosjournal.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=a2e6f01f29f00e615c1…> In the Light | Humanity’s Team *Humanity’s Team* <https://kosmosjournal.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=a2e6f01f29f00e615c1…> is a global spiritual movement whose purpose is to embody the timeless truth of Oneness, which is essential for responding to the world’s most chronic and acute challenges, and vital for creating a sustainable world of peace and harmony. “Oneness is the energy of love that lies within and connects all of life, allowing us to recognize ourselves in everything.” The creation of *Global Oneness Day* <https://kosmosjournal.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=a2e6f01f29f00e615c1…>began as a simple petition drive by Humanity’s Team to obtain 50,000 signatures that could be delivered to the United Nations requesting that the U.N. support the focus on “awakening Oneness”. When members of the Global Council for Humanity’s Team met with the U.N., they presented the signatures and also requested that the U.N. create a Global Oneness Day that people around the world could celebrate. Ambassador Anwarul Chowdhury, who hosted the Humanity’s Team Global Council on behalf of the United Nations, graciously thanked the group for coming, and spoke about the mission, vision and purpose of the United Nations including its focus on solidarity. He said: *“Until there is a sense of solidarity among the peoples of the world all of our efforts for peace and security will go nowhere.”* Ambassador Chowdhury invited Humanity’s Team to create a Global Oneness Day. This October 24, 2018 will mark the ninth celebration of Global Oneness Day. *The Oneness Declaration* I declare: 1. That the message We Are All One, interrelated, interconnected and interdependent, with God/Life/One-another, is the one spiritual message that the world has been waiting for to bring about loving and sustainable answers to humanity’s challenges. 2. That the world does not have to be the way it is – and that individual people can change it, using the power of spiritual citizenship. 3. That humanity is good and has unlimited potential, and that social transformation starts with personal transformation. I therefore recognize the importance of connecting with my Divine Essence and inner wisdom throughout my life’s journey; allowing the finest and the highest levels of human potential to flourish for the benefit of all. 4. That my aspirations support spiritual principles, global ethics and universal values such as respect, justice, peace, dignity, freedom, responsibility and cooperation that underlie this declaration. 5. That human beings need each other to survive on this planet. I recognize that we are all in this together and that community flourishes as we learn about each other and revel in the wonder and beauty of our diversities. I declare that I am playing my part to help to bring about a culture in which we, the peoples of the world, can address our common global concerns in an holistic, positive and transforming way and live together in peace with one another. 6. That Oneness contains All of life – also the parts that we regard as the “other”. I realize that wholeness and togetherness can only be experienced through the recognition of the uniqueness, beauty and purpose of all aspects of life and that this recognition starts with my Self. 7. That I am part of the emerging consciousness that promotes a spirit of openness, enquiry, connection and relationship with myself and the entire universe and who continues to recognize the wonder, beauty and mystery of it all. 8. I support Global Oneness Day that has been established for all of humanity to come together each year as one human family, to discuss, celebrate and experience Oneness with the Divine, each other and all of life. 9. That the time for change is now. *Sign the Declaration <https://kosmosjournal.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=a2e6f01f29f00e615c1…>* un-pick-apart-able | An Ecology of Food By Nora Bateson In the current edition of Kosmos Quarterly “The nourishment of Cezanne’s awkward apples is in the tenderness and alertness they awaken inside us.” ― Jane Hirshfield In the everyday gesture of a parent providing breakfast for a child, the entire future of humanity, and of thousands of other organisms, pivots. Like other animals, the human species is tasked with feeding the next generations. Life is dependent upon this seemingly simple mandate of continuance. Feed the babies. Don’t fail…Bringing a morsel of food to your lips or to the lips of another is an act of intimacy. It is a personal contact point with the seasons and the generations. READ MORE → <https://kosmosjournal.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=a2e6f01f29f00e615c1…> The Prophecy By Fabrice Monteiro In the current edition of Kosmos Quarterly Raised in Africa and trained as an industrial engineer, Fabrice Monteiro travelled to some of the most polluted areas to create these works. The costumes were made from found-objects gathered at each site in collaboration with Senegalese fashion designer, Doulcy. Through his stunning work, Monteiro challenges us to examine issues of fashion, race, consumerism, and exploitation. READ MORE → <https://kosmosjournal.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=a2e6f01f29f00e615c1…> Subscribe to Kosmos Quarterly When you subscribe to the new Kosmos Quarterly, you receive a great e-journal and much more. 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Fwd: Cynthia Travis reviews Deena Metzger's
by Michel Bauwens 15 Oct '18

15 Oct '18

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Tikkun Magazine <miriam(a)tikkun.org> Date: Fri, Oct 12, 2018 at 7:40 PM Subject: Cynthia Travis reviews Deena Metzger's To: <Michelsub2004(a)gmail.com> [image: Tikkun] <http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=zmZNYDvnIfBtZo4TcMnu77TyGoAuc8…> *SUPPORT TIKKUN* <http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=g4G71OfdnUH0lIE6gUzoUrTyGoAuc8…> *GET THE MAGAZINE* <http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=oKldAqF2NttJ2fMpPT8jyLTyGoAuc8…> *ADVERTISE <http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=lStc3f67%2Fegi7gFbYYGbj7TyGoAu…>* *JOIN THE MOVEMENT* <http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=AeqWas1VMQjpC4n8IUvNS7TyGoAuc8…> Cynthia Travis reviews Deena Metzger’s latest novel A Rain of Night Birds October 11, 2018 . You can read this review online at https://www.tikkun.org/nextgen/cynthia-travis-reviews-deena-metzge <http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=PCopnxNTOe41h9CgQBhwHrTyGoAuc8…> r *Book Review for Tikkun* *by Cynthia Travis* *of* *A RAIN OF NIGHT BIRDS* *by Deena Metzger* *Natural Law was here before and will be here after we’re gone.* *Western law was not here then and will not last.* *~ Marie Gladue, Navajo elder* Sometimes a story poses a question that is inescapable, compelling us to yield to its mandate, demanding its rightful place at the magnetic center of our lives. This is because, in the words of a wise friend, it is a story that reminds us who we are. Such is the question at the heart of Deena Metzger’s *A Rain of Night Birds* (Hand to Hand Publishing, 2017): *What are the ways of being that will ensure a viable future for all life?* A cultural shift of incomprehensible magnitude is urgently required in order to deliver us to that future. Sandra Birdswell is a climatologist. She senses the Earth’s shifts and sufferings in her body; sun flares, earthquakes, and wind are kin to her. Because her mother died in childbirth, she has been raised by her father, John Birdswell, a doctor whose years of work in a small hospital on the nearby Navajo reservation have brought him into an unlikely friendship with Diné elder Hosteen Tseda. Sandra’s professor in graduate school, Terrence Green, is the head of the Department of Earth & Environmental Studies. He is a Native American man of mixed origins. All except Hosteen are missing one or both parents and so do not know the full story of where they came from or who they are. Like most of us, they are bereft of the full lineage that might have guided them in perilous times. The book, at first, is a gently sloping floor, a meditation on love and loss, identity and language, permeated by despair for the decimation of the natural world. It is a slope that becomes incrementally steeper and infinitely more slippery as we come to recognize our own heartache as well as our complicity in the unfolding climate crisis that Terrence and Sandra – and we, must grapple with. By accompanying Sandra, Terrence, Hosteen and John in their undoing and eventual ragged remaking, Metzger invites us to tumble into the abyss of our own despair at what our species has done to the Earth and to each other, and to let ourselves be transformed. The bones of the story seem familiar at first, turning us back on ourselves until we come to see, like the characters in the book, that in the context of Gaia’s impending demise, personal questions can no longer be separated from questions of Earth’s distress. Rather, love, loss and identity in the age of the Anthropocene are nested dilemmas that can only be met with the full surrender of everything we thought we knew in order to become trustworthy to Creation once again. The story sends us to the edges of our thinking, exposed to the elements, with nothing to guide us but our broken hearts and our willingness to be dismantled until individual concerns are subsumed – not erased, but contextualized, by the lived understanding of community in the most expanded and comprehensive sense. The characters’ dilemmas are our dilemmas; they show us the way forward, if we are willing to follow their lead: to yield to our Earthling selves and to ‘the beyond’, that is, to intelligences within and beyond ourselves, expressed in their sovereign forms and understood on their terms, not ours, though they may seek to express themselves through us. At the beginning of the book, Sandra recognizes, through intuition and bodily sensation that a solar flare is occurring. Reflecting on the ways that scientific language dilutes the primacy of felt experience, she muses that “Somehow the technical language that had developed to meet the infinitely large or small… took focus away from the thing-in-itself, the astounding and incomprehensible beauty that was revealing itself to her.” She struggles with the language of science because it does not encompass the aliveness of the world nor the passionate devotion to the Earth of scientists like herself and Terrence Green. She is keenly aware that, in its demand for objectivity, certainty, and commercial value, modern language has become a trap, squeezing the miraculous out of life’s complexities by privileging objects over relationships. Logic over soul. Acquisition over accompaniment. In particular, scientific language and protocols, with their zeal for data, leave little room for emotion, reverence or wonder. Sandra helps us see that we have allowed the cult of objects, objectives, objectivity, to hypnotize us so completely that it’s killing us – and yet we remain in its thrall. Throughout the book, as in our waking world, the loss of wonder has resulted in the subjugation of the Earth and the silencing of too many voices. Loss of reverence is at the core of our self-imposed exile from the Natural World. What is being done to women, to children, to indigenous cultures and people of color everywhere is what is being done to the Earth. Assault is assault. Rape is rape. If we allowed awe to shape us, we could not continue as we are, as the writer Jeanette Winterson rightly reminds us: *They say that every snowflake is different. If that were true, how could the world go on? How could we ever get up off our knees? How could we ever recover from the wonder of it? *This is the world that *A Rain of Night Birds* is calling us to: a world of wonder that brings us to our knees. The fact that Sandra senses the Earth’s pain, Her tilts and shifts, makes it impossible for Sandra to live a conventional life, though she tries. After earning her PhD., she takes a job as a consultant to developers who seek to greenwash their activities by having people like Sandra and a handful of Native American consultants help determine the best placement and design for real estate developments on pristine land. It’s an unwinnable challenge, but she does her best because she has realized that buildings, landscaping, streets and infrastructure alter water flow, migrations, wind and weather, so she tells herself that her role could be helpful. A Native American colleague is of similar mind, and one day they take their lunches to the top of a nearby hill. “From the vantage of a full landscape, she saw how one might think differently about placement. An eagle’s perspective as well as the prairie dog’s… The invisible had to be included with the visible.” Her Native colleague tells her, “I need to see where the wind wants to go before I put anything in its way.” Still, the dilemma is not resolvable. Even in-depth study of a fragile area slated for development will not result in abstention, only minor modifications: tract homes and shopping centers will be built that do not respect living systems and cannot protect non-human or even human communities. Driving past vineyards and strip malls, Sandra thinks to herself, “There was no logic for the terrain except human willfulness…. The global transition from we to I was almost complete.” She is forced to recognize that her recommendations are mere palliatives, and recoils at the horror of her participation. “Was the river the same river if it was dammed, damned by the violation of the first laws?” Sandra recognizes that “the rapid metastasis of extraction and manufacture” means that Western culture, by its nature, will never allow a fully co-equal co-existence with the Earth. Soon, she can no longer ignore the disparity between her inner and outer landscapes. She reaches “back in memory and beyond her own memory to the ways the ones who had lived on the land had spoken to the elementals and had been answered… Someone had believed that life was dialogic.” When she goes to study ice melt in the Arctic Circle, Native colleagues help her see that “The Western scientists trusted their instruments more than they trusted their own powers of observation or those of the Indigenous… (but) information is not knowledge.” When science pares complex, interwoven living systems down to mere data, it is impossible to come to deep knowing, especially when most of us do not have deep history or deep roots in a place, and when buildings and machinery obscure our experience. As Sandra muses, “Science has no council of elders to decide what might or might not be explored.” We have lost our indigeneity, our Earth stories and our Earth-memories, and do not have the luxury of time to cultivate these things, or to reinvent them. And yet, it’s curious how synchronized we actually are to Earth’s living rhythms, her inhale and exhale; like the water in the soil, the liquids in our bodies rise and fall twice daily with the moon, like internal tides, no matter how far we might be from the shore. And at one time, we too walked the Earth with feet perfectly suited to all Her varied terrains. In recent times, though, we have lost our *baseline gait*, a term borrowed from the science of wildlife tracking that refers to the prints left by a healthy animal moving in a relaxed manner through her environment. With our shoes and our pavements, our high-rises and cars, we have eliminated the in-built, visceral knowing received directly from the Earth. And because we are being bombarded by information, toxins, and electronic signals coming at us faster than our bodies can process, our brains assemble fragments of information into a distorted composite from which we react rather than respond. Terrence’s soul, too, is sundered by science. Like Sandra, he loves the wind and all sorts of weather. But, as he tells her, his weather station, “doesn’t tell me if the wind is blowing through a pine tree, an alder or a yew. It can’t even tell me if it is blowing through a grove of aspen which anyone would recognize.” As a Native man, what Terrence knows that most of us do not is that story and language are inextricable from place. The illness of our times is that we have severed them. In most Indigenous cultures, life events cannot be understood unless they are explicitly located *somewhere*. The physical landscape is an encyclopedia of occurrences over time. The physical world is a narrative rich in teachings for those who know how to read it. Names, like knowledge, arise in tandem with place as well. But Sandra cannot make sense of her name. Whenever she asks her father about it, he refuses to divulge anything about how she came to be called Sandra. It is the only jagged edge between them. Her preoccupation speaks again to one of Metzger’s concerns with the too-many ways that language is used to erase the realities of the vanquished, of the Earth and of our connection to Her, including through the way we name people, places and things. Language and the erasure of language have become weapons used for silencing – but not because silence is valued in its own right. *A Rain of Night Birds* reminds us of how many, many children’s identities were and still are being erased by forbidding them to speak their native tongue. English is being weaponized in other ways; as author Robert MacFarlane sadly explains, the editors of the Oxford Junior Dictionary have taken it upon themselves to excise certain words that they feel are no longer “relevant to a modern-day childhood. The deletions included *acorn, adder, ash, beech, bluebell, buttercup, catkin… cygnet, dandelion, fern, hazel, heather, heron, ivy, kingfisher, lark, mistletoe, nectar, newt, otter, pasture and willow.* The words introduced to the new edition included *attachment, block-graph, blog, broadband, bullet-point, celebrity, chatroom, committee, cut-and-paste, MP3 player and voice-mail…* the outdoor and the natural being displaced by the indoor and virtual. Children are now… adept ecologists of the technoscape, with numerous terms for file types but few for different trees and creatures. For blackberry, read BlackBerry.” (Robert Macfarlane, *Landmarks*) By tampering with the language of the natural world, we erase ourselves and the future. And so we must rediscover or reinvent the language of the mysterious, epic, living world and our place in it, complementary to Earth’s voice so that, in saving Her from us, we also rescue ourselves. If we are fortunate and sufficiently dedicated, it may be possible to reawaken our sense of Earth-related purpose. This necessarily redefines our understanding of what it means to ‘make a living’. Terrence and Sandra both struggle with this: “Given the causes of climate change, he was thinking, it was ludicrous to expect that the same perpetrators would want to employ people at significant salaries to work more than forty hours a week to remedy that which would mean change… The too familiar goal of making a standard living to support a standard life style continued as if the right to it was carved in stone, notwithstanding that it was entirely contradictory to the evidence in the field.” Making a living is an empty thing unless we are making a living – and livable, world. The foundation of Sandra and Terrence’s relationship is their visceral connection to the Earth. When Sandra leaves her house to go live with Terrence, she realizes “She would miss the land and didn’t know if she had the right to leave it. What were the agreements between them? Would the land where he lived receive her? Would she receive it?” These are questions that we in the West seldom ask ourselves, uprooted as we are; we have forgotten that every speck of the Earth is teeming with sentient life, comprising a sentient whole. In many traditional cultures, a child’s umbilical cord is buried in the place they were born, creating a lifelong connection to that place. Until modern times, the idea of leaving or selling the land of one’s birth was unimaginable. What is *our* agreement with the land? What is our covenant? As Sandra faces the fact that “Something dire and sinister was at work undermining all life,” she wonders “What did the unthinkable imply?” Human folly plays out as it must, but until now this has always happened against the backdrop of Earth’s abiding and unalterable continuity. Now that this fundamental certainty is crumbling, we are seeing that, since Earth’s systems are fractal by nature, so, too, is Her unraveling. We are living in the End Times. The holographic Gordian knot for humans alive today is the unbearable tragedy that life on Earth may no longer be possible in any viable way for us or our descendants. This realization is, in turn, wrapped in the bottomless heartbreak of knowing that we will never experience an intact Earth, however fervently we may long for it. For Native Americans, this sorrow is not new, nor is it abstract. After only 500 years, it is still fresh and infinitely compounded by the fact that at the time of first contact, the balance between humans and Earth was so exquisite that disease was virtually unknown (*1491*, Charles C. Mann). For Terrence especially, the hopeful, hope-crushing inclusion of TEKW (Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Wisdom) in the 2007 IPCC report detailing the looming climate crisis, is unbearable because it is both a belated acknowledgment of essential wisdom and barely a footnote. Terrence muses that “His great grandfather… confronted by today’s issues would have spoken to storm or wind itself, also to eagle, and the spirits would have taught the old man because they would have been in relationship with each other… Yes, this was myth, but it didn’t mean it didn’t happen… myth was a story form of the transmitted teachings and experiences from which, over centuries, his people had built their informed cultures and their lives.” Modernity has discarded the practice of being in conversation with the Natural World, and the mythmaking that arises as a result, with which the tenets of a viable culture are transmitted over time. It takes rigorous discernment, patience and close observation to develop a conversation with the wild. Respect has to be earned, and it requires community – listening together, comparing notes, taking responsibility. The only myth extant now is that unchecked growth is desirable, possible and necessary. What to do? Or, rather, what to undo? How to behave so that things are put right? I sometimes try to imagine what it might be like to reverse the flow of history, to rewind ourselves back to where we came from, back and back until we reach the lifeways that our ancestors once knew. I try to imagine what it would be like to reclaim (if only in our imaginations) our relationships with the original lands that birthed us by returning to the places our ancestors left. For those of us descended from multiple geographies, how would we even choose where to go, and how could we legitimately claim that place of original connection and form an authentic relationship with it? What might we feel? What might the land feel, and the ancestors? Perhaps, by now, the Earth is beyond caring about such particulars and would be grateful for any lived connection, so long as it’s sincere. I have a friend who once dreamed the words “return the people to the land.” But how to accomplish this in a way that restores balance when none of the original relational combinations exist anymore and so cannot be known or repaired? How to remove invasive species, including ourselves, and create a full reclamation when we do not even know of what? Like Sandra and Terrence, I have come to believe that only in surrendering to the grief that takes us apart and strips everything away, can we hope to salvage the essential alliances that keep life going; the partnership between humans and Earth and the reverence engendered by deep knowing that will restore a language with which to speak of it. Terrence and Sandra recognize that they cannot continue living in conventional ways, especially when those ways force them to choose between their professional selves and their Earth-selves. As the story unfolds, we accompany them in the dismantling of their external identities as they realize they must change everything about the way they live: where they sleep, how they express themselves, and how they hold the sorrow that sweeps them away from their habitual lives like a flash flood. In her darkest moments, Sandra begins to see that “holding a field of possibility within which recovery lived” is different from holding out hope because “Hope in any form turns us toward ourselves.” There is no medicine for the illness of grief except grief itself. For Terrence and Sandra there is no sanctuary in the ordinary world, nowhere to turn except toward the mysterious and overwhelming sensations that have engulfed them, the same overwhelming sensations that will engulf us if we allow ourselves to dissolve as they do. The consensual world does not, cannot, understand this process, nor provide a language with any points of reference for it. As Metzger points out: “Illness and symptoms… were markers of breaks in complex relationships that occurred when right relations were askew.” The illness of grief for the Earth is no different. Sandra and Terrence’s only refuge is the sacred spaciousness of Hosteen Tseda’s traditional wisdom and his ability, with the help of Sandra’s father, John Birdswell, to craft a sacred circle to hold them. In a way we can envy Sandra and Terrence their forced surrender to Earth’s wonders and to Her distress; the way this crowds out any other concerns until they must die to their old lives, knowing that initiation, in order to be real, must risk literal death. Everything is at stake, so everything is on the line. If we refuse grief’s call, we will be alone with our madness and its consequences. We must ask ourselves whether we, too, are willing to step away from the tethers of the culture that is killing us. Can we resist its seduction, or shall we remain outside a life of sacred alignment with the Earth’s exquisite complexity and relegate ourselves to the role of longing observer, as we suffer and die along with everything that matters? These are not choices to be made lightly. We’ve worked hard for what we have, distorted though it may be. Our forebears endured great hardship and uncertainty on our behalf, and now we must do likewise for the sake of the future. Until now, most of us have expressed our concern in tamer ways. Until now, it even seemed that occasionally there was progress: though the United States refuses to honor the Paris Accords, other countries remain on board. Perhaps a different president will rejoin the effort. Then again, even if the international community succeeds, even if, as California’s Governor Brown insists, ‘we’ll launch our own damn (weather) satellite’, our efforts are late. Ice melt has outstripped all projections, extinctions are skyrocketing, insect populations are in freefall, extreme weather is intensifying, and reactionary governments are on the rise. In spite of everything, we have somehow developed a taste for the Kool-Aid of denial and paralysis in the face of what’s happening. Are we willing to offer up our comfortably uncomfortable lives for the possibility that there may yet be time to change course? For those of us who are Jewish, a special quandary exists. As my father would have said, it’s time to grab the bull by the tail and face the situation. We are immigrants or children of immigrants, children of the holocaust and the atomic bomb who find ourselves in a mirrored hall of multiplying modern holocausts too numerous to count or respond to. This includes the violence being done in our names in Israel/Palestine, including the violence being perpetrated on the land Herself – bulldozed orchards and abandoned villages, poisoned waterways, lethal levels of ocean pollution and the relentless double-standard of self-protection through subjugation of the perceived Other. As in prewar Europe, Rwanda, Myanmar and too many elsewheres, ecocide foretells genocide. Are we willing to accept the inevitable challenges of simultaneously protecting ourselves, our Palestinian neighbors, and the Earth? These responses require some emotional heavy lifting to handle our personal demons, to sweep out the dusty corners of our individual psyches. It is up to us to unpack and metabolize our collective trauma, and our justifiable terror of the abyss, aware that there is an ever-finer line between our personal anguish and the utterly appropriate panic, depression, rage and despair in the face of the planetary catastrophe unfolding before us. There are no recipes for effective actions to take. No cookie cutters. No instruction manuals. No shortcuts and no guarantees. Only the internal reckoning and the responses that arise from the ashes of that reckoning. Only and above all else our love for the Earth. An unprecedented shift is needed that will reshape us into an entirely different way of being, in an entirely different relationship with the Earth and the non-human world. Everything depends on the decision to step away from the violence of Western culture. The catch is that this cannot be done while participating in it. As Terrence comes to understand, “Western mind was a miasma of denial that entered through the cracks and fissures of his being, like water seeping through rock, undermining the original structure of all things.” Before sitting down to write this, I consulted the I Ching, a 3,000-year-old system of divination based on codified observations about the nature of change and the role of the spirit world in human lives. It is one of the more reliable sources I have found for information from ‘the beyond.’ (*Total I Ching: Myths for Change*, Stephen Karcher). The question I asked was: *What should be the central focus of this book review for maximum impact to change behavior, including my own, in response to the climate crisis?* As sometimes happens, the answer was unnervingly clear: The Context Hexagram (the field we find ourselves in) was #47, Confining/Oppression: *Oppressed, restricted, exhausted, cut off; at the end of your resources… Search within to find the way out… Confining shows an old, dilapidated house or a great open mouth in which a tree is confined… It implies the threat of poverty, exhaustion, being at the end of available resources, unable to meet the challenges presenting themselves. Communication is blocked, indeed deceptive or deceitful…. However this oppression is exactly what teaches you about de, power and virtue, the power to find what is Great and rely on it. It exhausts the old and awakens you from its collective dream. This oppression also teaches the futility of anger and hatred and shows how the Way opens.* The Answering Hexagram (specific response to the question) was #28, Great Traverses: *Great Traverses describes your situation in terms of how to act in a time of crisis… Find what is truly important and organize yourself accordingly. The ridgepole of your house is warped and sagging. The structure of your life is in danger of collapse. But there is a creative force at work in this breakdown. The spirits will help you. This is a very great time… Hold the heart fast and take the risk. *Changing line: Nine at Third* The structure of your life buckles and fails, collapsing under the weight of the transition. There is nothing you can do to brace it up. The Way closes. Accept the change. See it as a sacrifice of the old.* We read, we march, we vote. We recycle, we pray, we meditate. We buy fair trade coffee and ride our bicycles. Perhaps we have solar panels or drive a Prius. And yet somewhere we know, or dread to admit that these things are not sufficient. We teeter on a threshold of change that we have not been willing to cross. Beneath our frenetic creativity lurks a chasm of sorrow for the ways we are complicit, because complicity is a form of authorization, albeit against our will. Never mind that we did not explicitly authorize permanent war, the shooting of unarmed Black people, or the fouling of the water and the air. But what are the alternatives, really, in the ways we live our lives? A few years ago, I decided to live without plastic. That lasted until I sat down at my computer. Picked up the phone. Started my car. Shall we leave our houses? Sleep outside? Run for office? Perhaps, yes to all of these. And…? Maybe, we start with Story and Place. Author Ursula K. Le Guin once said, “If you want to create an unknown reality, tell the story and see what happens.” Peacebuiling pioneer John Paul Lederach tells of how he found a way to work with the violence engulfing Northern Ireland at the time: he told a story. Sitting with partisans from both sides, he asked them to imagine a day several generations hence. It’s late, and a storm is raging outside. A little child climbs onto her grandfather’s knee and begs not to be put off to bed quite yet. “Tell me again, tell me again,” she implores. “How did The Troubles end?” The people in that room were tasked with casting themselves into a future beyond their time and looking back to tell the story of how peace came at last to Northern Ireland. And now here we are, when all will soon be lost, and every dilemma seems intractable. Might we be willing to tell ourselves a story of metamorphosis that meets the magnitude of what we are facing? In the Native American and Indigenous prophesies of what we now call the Americas, doom was foreseen. What to make of this to guide us now? Perhaps it is as it appears: a stark warning seen by Indigenous people across a range of cultures and territory; the echo of a door slamming shut, reverberating down through the centuries. But perhaps, just perhaps, it is an invitation; the beginning of a story that is as yet incomplete. Terrence and Sandra ask themselves, “Is this the end or are we beginning again?” We must ask the same question. There may yet be time to craft a story we can live in that puts things right. But first we must stop doing harm. Then we can undertake the complex process of making amends, of exquisitely careful repair: *tikkun olam *at last? If we succeed, it will usher in what the I Ching calls a whole new cycle of time, one that lifts us out of the Anthropocene and into an epoch as yet unnamed. The Restoracene? The Terramoracene? From the shards of possibility scattered at our feet we can craft a story-vessel that will return us to ourselves, using words that are ripe with anguish and courage. We must emulate Sandra, who “reached out to the world with the balm of her heartbreak.” By entering Terence and Sandra’s story, we take their question to heart: “How could they possibly be well if the Earth was afflicted?” *A Rain of Night Birds* provides a place to begin, or, rather, a jumping off point from which to continue. The new life becomes the story; the story calls forth a new life. Better to die trying than to sacrifice everything on the altar of convenience. Better a fragmentary map that shows us a glimpse of a future with a future, “An eagle’s perspective as well as the prairie dog’s… The invisible… included with the visible,” than an atlas showing only the road to ruin we are already on. Quickly now. We have arrived at the precipice. No turning back. If we take the leap, we will find that Sandra and Terrence, Hosteen and John, are –with us. —- Cynthia Travis is a writer, photographer and documentary film-maker. Her blog, Earth Altar, features Full Moon and New Moon posts about peacebuilding, microbial alliances, earth culture and the wisdom of the breakdown (www.earth-altar.org <http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=m1DUb0YsFuZK3hgZbLDOfNnQC3TaOo…>). Her collection of essays, *Riffs, Rants and Visitations* is forthcoming in 2019. She lives on the Mendocino Coast. Editor's Note: If you like this review (or for that matter anything else you read in Tikkun or from Tikkun on line) please help us continue to bring the unique blend of progressive politics, culture, psychological and intellectual sophistication and spiritual depth --by making what you consider to be a substantial donation to make our work possible. 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