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

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: Outlier Ventures Daily Brief - Issue #122
by Michel Bauwens 30 Apr '18

30 Apr '18

fyi: " Matthew Pirkowski has been exploring the link between morality and economic theory. Just like people approximately 200 years ago societies had to adapt to Capitalism by letting go of agrarian and mercantilist assumptions, today we might have to let go assumptions from the industrial era to make room for the economic potential of the Information Age. “Distributed Valerism” removes concerns about the centralized management of ownership and instead focuses on value representation, storage and transactions while including aspects of game theory and behavioural economics in novel ways. Blockchain can influence our current system because it allows us to capture and facilitate diverse sets of human values and human values by decreasing transactional friction and enforcing elements of game theory on massively scale. This is likely to increase over wealth creation, fair distribution and stabilize our political and financial systems. The concept of money even though taken for granted, tends to be ambiguous amongst humans due to it’s abstract nature. Fundamentally, the article questions the notion of whether Distributed Ledger Technologies alter the way humans perceive money and the concept of value representation. " ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Outlier Ventures Research <outlier-ventures(a)getrevue.co> Date: Mon, Apr 30, 2018 at 6:11 PM Subject: Outlier Ventures Daily Brief - Issue #122 To: michelsub2004(a)gmail.com Welcome back ! UNICEF Australia recently launched a Hope Page project that uses browser based mining [image: Outlier Ventures Daily Brief] <http://em.getrevue.co/mpss/c/HAE/1EoYAA/t.2h2/C4eBxAvySRy1w1IbtfX_2Q/h0/MKb…> Outlier Ventures Daily Brief <http://em.getrevue.co/mpss/c/HAE/1EoYAA/t.2h2/C4eBxAvySRy1w1IbtfX_2Q/h1/MKb…> April 30 · Issue #122 · View online <http://em.getrevue.co/mpss/c/HAE/1EoYAA/t.2h2/C4eBxAvySRy1w1IbtfX_2Q/h2/YIs…> 3 Things You Need To Know From The Convergence Ecosystem ------------------------------ Welcome back ! UNICEF Australia recently launched a Hope Page <http://em.getrevue.co/mpss/c/HAE/1EoYAA/t.2h2/C4eBxAvySRy1w1IbtfX_2Q/h3/3SP…> project that uses browser based mining to donate tokens towards crucial supplies such as vaccines. +1 for innovation. Today we explore a UK based energy giant’s entry into blockchain enabled energy trades, decentralised exchanges and the rise of distributed valerism. ------------------------------ <http://em.getrevue.co/mpss/c/HAE/1EoYAA/t.2h2/C4eBxAvySRy1w1IbtfX_2Q/h4/noS…>1. UK energy supplier Centrica to trial blockchain technology <http://em.getrevue.co/mpss/c/HAE/1EoYAA/t.2h2/C4eBxAvySRy1w1IbtfX_2Q/h5/noS…> www.reuters.com <http://em.getrevue.co/mpss/c/HAE/1EoYAA/t.2h2/C4eBxAvySRy1w1IbtfX_2Q/h6/B1K…> – Share <http://em.getrevue.co/mpss/c/HAE/1EoYAA/t.2h2/C4eBxAvySRy1w1IbtfX_2Q/h7/B1K…> It seems like “energy trading” is all set to see the same kind of competition the BaaS (blockchains as a service) space has been witnessing. Another industry where incumbents have detected potential, deployed solutions and begun scaling. In its latest instance, British energy supplier Centrica has announced that they will launch a local energy market trial later this year. The firm has claimed that the trial will be the largest blockchain trial to date in Britain carried by one of the big energy providers. The trial run will see over 200 houses and independent businesses make energy-related transactions in a peer to peer format. The energy giant will be working with US Based startup LO3 energy which had earlier secured an undisclosed round of funding from Centrica’s innovation arm. The utility of a blockchain for settlement of energy-related transactions in peer to peer environments allows industry players to reduce cost overheads in grid management while scaling points of production. Another step to a more energy efficient future. <http://em.getrevue.co/mpss/c/HAE/1EoYAA/t.2h2/C4eBxAvySRy1w1IbtfX_2Q/h8/xU8…>2. Decentralised Exchanges: What’s the point? <http://em.getrevue.co/mpss/c/HAE/1EoYAA/t.2h2/C4eBxAvySRy1w1IbtfX_2Q/h9/xU8…> medium.com <http://em.getrevue.co/mpss/c/HAE/1EoYAA/t.2h2/C4eBxAvySRy1w1IbtfX_2Q/h10/cT…> – Share <http://em.getrevue.co/mpss/c/HAE/1EoYAA/t.2h2/C4eBxAvySRy1w1IbtfX_2Q/h11/cT…> To create a stronger bridge between the token economy, and the rest of the global economy, it will be important that the frictions listed in part one of this series are addressed. The decentralised liquidity problem has been a major pain point since the introduction of some of the earliest decentralised cryptocurrency exchanges, such as EtherDelta. Today the issue persists, but with more and more attention being paid to the token economy, more problems have surfaced. To address these issues, many startups have set out to develop their own solutions, not just for liquidity, but also to address UX/UI, custodianship and other infrastructural issues in the space. Following up from part one <http://em.getrevue.co/mpss/c/HAE/1EoYAA/t.2h2/C4eBxAvySRy1w1IbtfX_2Q/h12/xU…>in his series, Shaquile Noor <http://em.getrevue.co/mpss/c/HAE/1EoYAA/t.2h2/C4eBxAvySRy1w1IbtfX_2Q/h13/xU…> runs over some of the key ways that problems within the decentralised exchange market are being addressed. The series has set out to demonstrate how more collaborative approaches towards innovation in the space could increase both the scale and rate of adoption in the token economy. <http://em.getrevue.co/mpss/c/HAE/1EoYAA/t.2h2/C4eBxAvySRy1w1IbtfX_2Q/h14/mv…>3. Crypto Beyond Capitalism: The Rise of Distributed Valerism <http://em.getrevue.co/mpss/c/HAE/1EoYAA/t.2h2/C4eBxAvySRy1w1IbtfX_2Q/h15/mv…> hackernoon.com <http://em.getrevue.co/mpss/c/HAE/1EoYAA/t.2h2/C4eBxAvySRy1w1IbtfX_2Q/h16/dm…> – Share <http://em.getrevue.co/mpss/c/HAE/1EoYAA/t.2h2/C4eBxAvySRy1w1IbtfX_2Q/h17/dm…> Matthew Pirkowski has been exploring the link between morality and economic theory. Just like people approximately 200 years ago societies had to adapt to Capitalism by letting go of agrarian and mercantilist assumptions, today we might have to let go assumptions from the industrial era to make room for the economic potential of the Information Age. “Distributed Valerism” removes concerns about the centralized management of ownership and instead focuses on value representation, storage and transactions while including aspects of game theory and behavioural economics in novel ways. Blockchain can influence our current system because it allows us to capture and facilitate diverse sets of human values and human values by decreasing transactional friction and enforcing elements of game theory on massively scale. This is likely to increase over wealth creation, fair distribution and stabilize our political and financial systems. The concept of money even though taken for granted, tends to be ambiguous amongst humans due to it’s abstract nature. Fundamentally, the article questions the notion of whether Distributed Ledger Technologies alter the way humans perceive money and the concept of value representation. Give it a read here. <http://em.getrevue.co/mpss/c/HAE/1EoYAA/t.2h2/C4eBxAvySRy1w1IbtfX_2Q/h18/mv…> Tweet Of The Day [image: Nic Carter] <http://em.getrevue.co/mpss/c/HAE/1EoYAA/t.2h2/C4eBxAvySRy1w1IbtfX_2Q/h19/VE…> Nic Carter <http://em.getrevue.co/mpss/c/HAE/1EoYAA/t.2h2/C4eBxAvySRy1w1IbtfX_2Q/h20/VE…> @nic__carter <http://em.getrevue.co/mpss/c/HAE/1EoYAA/t.2h2/C4eBxAvySRy1w1IbtfX_2Q/h21/VE…> <http://em.getrevue.co/mpss/c/HAE/1EoYAA/t.2h2/C4eBxAvySRy1w1IbtfX_2Q/h22/VE…> Something fun I realized recently: Bitcoin in 2017 processed over $1b on-chain per day on average, with the most conservative estimates. 7:01 PM - 29 Apr 2018 Did you enjoy this issue? 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Fwd: Being of Use
by Michel Bauwens 29 Apr '18

29 Apr '18

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: jaycousins <thatcousinsboy(a)gmail.com> Date: Sun, Apr 29, 2018 at 2:28 PM Subject: Being of Use To: michelsub2004(a)gmail.com Dear friends, I hope this finds you well. In light of last years post (Ruin and Rebirth), it seems like I'm destined to continuously cycle through a reinvention of self. So please forgive my vulnerability. *<<* = a reflection on this year. A caterpillar chewing on the leaves of the year long past, pooping out nutritious tidbits. *>* = A call for more opportunities on proven ground. Seeking to prolong the cocoon of security, while I work out what I wish to become. *<<* Last year it was my pleasure to work with a wonderful grass roots organisation in Sri Lanka. Yarl IT Hub <http://mail01.tinyletterapp.com/jaycousins/being-of-use/11470321-medium.com…>. Their growth and community impact - bringing IT, Open Source Tech, and Entrepreneurship to a Rural community recovering from over 2 decades of civil war is truly inspirational. I wrote up my impressions here for those of you who're interested. Any help amplifying their project is greatly appreciated, too often our attention is focused on what sucks, we need to hear more stories of people doing great things with love and care. This is one such story. Please read and share widely. <http://mail01.tinyletterapp.com/jaycousins/being-of-use/11470321-medium.com…> For those of you in the startup community, or responsible for building labs and ecosystems, I took a deep dive into Sri Lanka's Startup Ecosystem exploring what obstacles and opportunities lie in this space. <http://mail01.tinyletterapp.com/jaycousins/being-of-use/11470325-medium.com…> Many of the insights are a broader critique of existing challenges within the Startup culture, which prevent many innovations from taking place and create a very narrow band of "novel" ideas that make it to market. For those of you who wonder how we end up with shit like the Juiceroo - this may offer you some ideas to reflect upon. I got a bit carried away - it's a bit long. So here's a PDF <http://mail01.tinyletterapp.com/jaycousins/being-of-use/11470329-drive.goog…> for your ebook reader etc. Sri Lanka is in a high energy phase right now, and it's a great time to get involved. *>* This year I'm being pulled in many directions as usual, trying to navigate that narrow crossover point between money and meaning. I really enjoyed the work I did last year, and the feedback I've had from Yarl IT hub has been very favourable. So I'm looking for more work in the following areas: Collaborating with Local Community Builders to support both Leaders and General Community, helping them to grow and develop their skills in Creativity, Entrepreneurship, and Personal Confidence. Working with Innovation Ecosystem Builders, to address critical blocks and obstacles in the path of innovations and Entrepreneurs. *If you know of any communities/companies/organisations that would benefit from my combination of creativity, entrepreneurial experience and systems thinking please let me know. * The above request relates to the ongoing challenge of personal security, which pulls me away from projects which I would prefer to focus on and engage in. This was one of the critical insights from my Sri Lankan research, perhaps most visible to me because it was and remains a concern I have myself. We are pulled in two directions. On one hand the need to provide security for those we love, and on the other drawn to explore opportunities to meet our collective needs. (this is compounded by the sheer volume and scale of ideas and opportunities from Personal Cooling Systems <http://mail01.tinyletterapp.com/jaycousins/being-of-use/11470333-www.instag…> at one end of scale to how to enable Universal Basic Service <http://mail01.tinyletterapp.com/jaycousins/being-of-use/11470337-blog.p2pfo…> through distributed currency at the other). An idea that sticks with me is to somehow align the needs of security and opportunity. That the 2 forces should be aligned, that Entrepreneurs and Inventors have the security to explore. But the Opportunities they explore should create greater security for all. I want to be secure, I want to be free to explore opportunities to Improve our collective quality of life. I want to increase our chances of thriving. So as well as the above propositions of how I can be of Value. I'd like to open up the question to those of you who each contain another perspective or point of view of me. I have numerous ideas of what I could offer (eg. a patreon account where I share ideas freely and patrons vote on where I devote my time and energy) but I can only ever see myself through my own lens, my Potential Usefulness exists in the space between myself and the world. Value is created at the point a need is met, and it would be foolish to anticipate your needs, especially when seeking to meet my own. So I humbly request your feedback. *How can I be of Value or Service to you or someone you know?* Thanks in advance. Jx My Newsletter <http://tinyletter.com/jaycousins> by jaycousins 80 filey road Scarborough, United Kingdom <https://maps.google.com/?q=80+filey+road+Scarborough,+++United+Kingdom&entr…> Sent to michelsub2004(a)gmail.com <#m_5603981005901364478_> — Unsubscribe <http://tinyletter.com/jaycousins/unsub?c=7397b39d-c055-4ccb-92f0-cadb192fab…> * Delivered by * [image: TinyLetter] <http://www.tinyletter.com> -- 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: Symbiotic Earth - Australian Premiere on Thursday 3 May 2018 from 6:45pm at Melbourne School of Design, University of Melbourne
by Michel Bauwens 18 Apr '18

18 Apr '18

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Daryl Taylor <taylor.daryl.r(a)gmail.com> Date: Tue, Apr 17, 2018 at 9:53 PM Subject: Symbiotic Earth - Australian Premiere on Thursday 3 May 2018 from 6:45pm at Melbourne School of Design, University of Melbourne To: Daryl Taylor <taylor.daryl.r(a)gmail.com> *‘**This splendid film gives us insights into Lynn Margulis’ prolific career; and into the woman, whose vitality explodes across the screen with the force of a slow-motion supernova. I was by no means the only person who came away feeling I’d just witnessed a fifth force of nature.’ ~ **Science writer Margaret Wertheim* *Hi Everyone* The Thrive Research Hub and BioCultural Futures are excited to be hosting the Australian Premiere of *Symbiotic Earth *from 6:45pm on Thursday 3 May 2018 in the spacious Basement Theatre of the iconic Melbourne School of Design at the University of Melbourne. Please come along and please also invite your friends, family and colleagues, as this stunning biopic of the extraordinary woman who single handedly revolutionised our understanding of life and living systems, is not to be missed. We have made the event *free* to encourage greater participation. Please circulate via your email groups and social media networks. Book your seats on-line at Trybooking: https://www.trybooking.com/boo k/event?eid=368420& The *Symbiotic Earth* *Press Release* is attached below for distribution. Thank you in advance for your assistance in helping us promote this event and Lynn Margulis' revolutionary understanding of who we are and how we came into being. *Cheers, Daryl* *Symbiotic Earth* - Australian Premiere - *Free Screening *on * Thursday 3 May 2018* from *6:45pm* at Melbourne School of Design, University of Melbourne - book tickets at https://www.trybooking.com/boo k/event?eid=368420& *Read Science writer Margaret Wertheim’s preview screening review at: * *https://www.margaretwertheim.com/new-blog/2017/9/4/symbiotic-earth-a-glorious-film-about-lynn-margulis* <https://www.margaretwertheim.com/new-blog/2017/9/4/symbiotic-earth-a-glorio…> *From the Press Release:* *Symbiotic Earth* is the story of a scientific rebel. A model of female empowerment, Lynn Margulis fought the male establishment and, through her persistence, triumphed. As a young scientist in the 1960s, Margulis was ridiculed when she articulated a theory that symbiosis was a key driver of evolution. Instead of the mechanistic view that life evolved solely through random genetic mutations and competition, she presented a symbiotic narrative in which bacteria joined together to create the complex cells that formed animals, plants, and all other organisms. The idea that all of life is deeply interconnected and collaborative has radical implications for how we look at and understand our selves, our species, our relationships, our kin, sex, death, resilience, adaptability, regenerativity, ecology, evolution, our changing environment and our climate. *Global Premiere Screenings:* There have been three other *Symbiotic Earth* Global Premiere screenings: *Oxford University* Large Lecture Theatre, Sherrington Building Sherrington, Oxford 0X1 3PT United Kingdom Presented by Voices from Oxford Sponsors: Chelsea Green Publishing and Dan Sackett Post screening discussion with filmmaker John Feldman and physiologist and evolution scientist Denis Noble, author of The Music of Life. *Natural Science Museum of Barcelona* Carrer de Leonardo da Vinci, 4-6 08019 Barcelona, Spain (with Spanish subtitles) Presented by Ricardo Guerrero, microbiologist, academic director of the Academia Europaea-Barcelona Knowledge Hub Post screening Question and Answer session with filmmaker John Feldman *David Brower Center* 2150 Allston Way Berkeley, CA 94704 USA Presented by Bioneers and the David Brower Center Post screening discussion with filmmaker John Feldman and author and systems theorist Fritjof Capra. -- 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: P2P&Inovação - Economia Solidaria
by Michel Bauwens 18 Apr '18

18 Apr '18

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: clovis <clovismlima(a)gmail.com> Date: 2018-04-18 3:17 GMT+02:00 Subject: P2P&Inovação - Economia Solidaria To: A revista P2P&Inovação fará numero especial sobre Economia Solidaria em setembro, em homenagem a Paul Singer. A coordenacao editorial deste numero sera feita com o professor de economia da UFSC, Armando Lisboa, que trabalha com redes de economia solidaria, agricultura familiar e agroecologia. Serão aceitos artigos ate 30 de agosto. http://revista.ibict.br/p2p -- 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: Zooetics+ Symposium at MIT, April 27 - 28
by Michel Bauwens 18 Apr '18

18 Apr '18

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Gediminas Urbonas <urbonas(a)mit.edu> Date: Wed, Apr 18, 2018 at 4:28 AM Subject: Zooetics+ Symposium at MIT, April 27 - 28 To: Gediminas Urbonas <urbonas(a)mit.edu> Dear friends and colleagues, We are delighted to send you this invite to the Zooetics+ Symposium that commences April 27-28, 2018 at MIT. The Zooetics+ Symposium will discuss the habits of thought associated with cybernetics and the transition towards new thinking, inspired by sympoietics. The Zooetics+ invites renowned scholars, artists, philosophers, scientists, anthropologists and cultural theorists to address cohabitation of human and other forms of life as an urgent issue that unfolds through a variety of discourses: indigenous and vernacular knowledge, posthumanism, and human-animal studies, among others. Zooetics+ proposes re-imagining the role of ecosystemic thinking and artistic imagination in this context. Please find the Symposium description in the link below: http://act.mit.edu/projects-and-events/events/public-programs/international- symposium-on-zooetics/ Zooetics+ is part of ACT’s program recognizing the 50th anniversary of the founding of the renowned MIT’s Center for Advanced Visual Studies (CAVS), a predecessor to ACT. The Symposium is free and open for public (registration is required though). You are welcome to share this opportunity with your colleagues and students. Looking forward seeing you at Zooetics+ Symposium at MIT! best wishes, Nomeda & Gediminas GU / *谷* * Gediminas Urbonas Associate Professor MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology School of Architecture and Planning * --- MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology (ACT) ACT Cube 20 Ames Street <https://maps.google.com/?q=20+Ames+Street&entry=gmail&source=g>, E15-001, Cambridge, MA 02142 The Zooetics+ Symposium commences Friday, April 27, 2018 with the sessions “What Does Ecosystemic Thinking Mean Today” and “Knowledge Production Through Making and Living with Other Species,” discussing the habits of thought associated with cybernetics and the transition towards new thinking, inspired by sympoietics. The day will be finalized with a session speculating on what non-human imagination could look like in the session “The Radical Imagination: Toward Overcoming the Human.” On Saturday, April 28, the program will explore further devices for ecosystemic thinking, discussing relevant artistic methods and practices in the panel “Artistic Intelligence, Speculation, Prototypes, Fiction.” “Creating Indigenous Futures” will be explored through bringing Indigenous values together with science and technology. The need for other, alternative vantage points—of species, of time, of traditions, of beings will be addressed in the session “Futures of Symbiotic Assemblages: Multi-naturalism, Monoculture Resistance and “The Permanent Decolonization of Thought.” The symposium will conclude with a roundtable and launch of a new artistic research program “Sympoiesis: New Research, New Pedagogy, and New Publishing in Radical Inter-disciplinarity.” Zooetics+ will be accompanied by a program of performances and installations by Juan Pérez Agirregoikoa, Allora and Calzadilla, Rasa Smite and Raitis Smits, Rikke Luther and NODE Berlin/Oslo. *Detailed Schedule and Description of Program Sessions:* *FRIDAY, APRIL 27* *9:30 AM Registration* *10:00 AM Opening Protocol by Erin Genia* *10:15 AM Introduction to Zooetics+ Nomeda & Gediminas Urbonas* *10:30 AM–12:00 PM What Does Ecosystemic Thinking Mean Today? *Genealogy, impact and legacy of ecosystematic thought since the dawn of cybernetics. How have the infrastructures changed today since the publication of “Limits to Growth” or “Whole Earth Catalogue”? What tools are there to attune ourselves to perceive the interconnections of natural and man-made systems and to be able to make ethical, political, aesthetic decisions? This session is engaged with the question of how to transition from the habits of thought associated with cybernetics towards new thinking… perhaps sympoietics? Cary Wolfe and Sophia Roosth Respondent: Lars Bang Larsen *12:00 PM–1:30 PM Lunch break and Banner Tow Flight by Juan Pérez Agirregoikoa* *1:30 PM–3:00 PM Knowledge Production Through Making and Living with Other Species* Visions for species equality. Conviviality. Accessing other-than-human ways of knowing. 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Re: [P2P-F] Fwd: Lula for beginners - Pablo Gentili (English, French and Arabic) (Theodoros Karyotis)
by Michel Bauwens 17 Apr '18

17 Apr '18

> > Thanks for your reply, > I think both are true, i.e. Lula composed in many ways with neoliberal realities, and its extrativist logic, but at the same time, realized significant redistribution effects, to the degree he was successfull, he had enormous support from the urban poor, which started diminishing when the compromises (and the objective situation) became such, that post-lula governments started delivering less and less, but from what I saw during my 3 long trips in brazil, he was overwhelmingly popular with the urban poor, and what killed the PT was their increasing passivity, the resistance to Lula and PT did not come from the urban poor, but from the middle classes, with some exceptions there were no massive anti-lula movements from the poor and working class Michel > Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2018 10:57:34 +0300 > From: Theodoros Karyotis <tkaryotis(a)gmail.com> > To: P2P Foundation mailing list <p2p-foundation(a)lists.ourproject.org> > Subject: Re: [P2P-F] Fwd: Lula for beginners - Pablo Gentili (English, > French and Arabic) > Message-ID: > <CAOf1KnhdbgFxnQ9P7UtXe4sSZ7o+wvwzeUx9fvxjeHF-vH4eeA@mail. > gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > I could not possibly justify Lula's persecution by the reactionary new > government, but the above text seems quite unbalanced. > > According to Raul Zibechi's book "The New Brazil: Regional Imperialism and > the New Democracy" (a very thoroughly researched and documented book, which > I recommend: https://www.akpress.org/newbrazil.html) Lula continued and > expanded the imperialist policies of Brazil in Latin America, pushing > aggressively neoliberal restructuring, unnecessary mega-infrastrustructure > (through the Brazilian Development Bank), commodifying and extractivist > policies and military intervention throughout the region. Like China, > Brazil is in constant need of economic expansion to appease its population > and prevent social collapse. The poor's welfare was not based on a fairer > redistribution, but on imperialist expansion and capitalist restructuring. > If we take what Zibechi says at face value, Brazil's "economic miracle" is > not any different than that of China, the USA, or any other aggressively > capitalist country. > > This is not to justify the right-wing coup d'etat, however let's not forget > that Lula's policies were fiercely resisted by the indigenous and the urban > poor. > > > > > autonomias.net > twitter.com/TebeoTeo > ------------------------------------------------------------ > ------------------------------------------------------- > ...buscar y saber reconocer quién y qué, en medio del infierno, no es > infierno, y hacer que dure, y dejarle espacio... > > On 16 April 2018 at 23:14, Michel Bauwens <michel(a)p2pfoundation.net> > wrote: > > > excellent text on the role of Lula, > > > > Michel > > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > > From: Pablo Gentili - CLACSO <pgentili(a)clacso.edu.ar> > > Date: Mon, Apr 16, 2018 at 5:51 PM > > Subject: Lula for beginners - Pablo Gentili (English, French and Arabic) > > To: > > > > > > Dear > > friends, > > > > > > > > I send you below and in annex the brief article "*Lula for beginners*", > > which was published a few days ago in the Argentine newspaper *Página > 12*. > > > > The text was translated into English > > > > and Portuguese and published in various media. A colleague friend has > > translated it into Arabic > > and French > > . I also send them in the annex. > > > > *The article can be published freely. If you think it's worth it, I thank > > you very much for disseminating it.* > > > > A warm greeting, > > > > > > Pablo Gentili > > CLACSO > > > > > > ---------------- > > > > Lula for beginners > > A parallel between Brazil's history and the story of its most charismatic > > leader > > 09 April 2018 > > Article > > > > The forces that shaped modern Brazil made the rise of a figure such as > > Lula da Silva all but inevitable. Conditions in Brazil today mean his > > imprisonment is certainly not the end of this chapter in the nation's > > story. Pablo Gentili, Executive Secretary of the Latin American Council > of > > Social Sciences (CLACSO), analyses the parallel between Brazil's history > > and the story of its most charismatic leader. > > > > > > Authors > > Pablo Gentili <https://www.tni.org/en/profile/pablo-gentili> > > > > [image: Lula, Ricardo Stuckert (CLACSO)] > > Lula, Ricardo Stuckert / Photo credit CLACSO > > > > > > “Brazil is not for beginners,” Tom Jobim asserted with his ruthless > poetic > > style. > > > > Attempting to understand a country such as Brazil requires an immense > > capacity for sociological imagination. Today’s Brazil retains the > > historical marks that shaped its social genesis. Brazil is reliving the > > past, day after day, in the arrogance of the elites, the persistence of > > structures of slavery, and the systematic disregard for democracy and the > > rights of most of its inhabitants, who have been transformed into aliens > > within a nation and without a homeland. > > > > Brazil's history has been shaped by brute force and garlanded with > > indulgent narratives that have attempted to explain the unexplainable. In > > short, even if nothing works, *Dios y la alegría son brasileños* (God and > > joyfulness are Brazilians): What more could anybody ask for? > > > > Brazil is a country whose independence was proclaimed by a prince, the > son > > of the king of Portugal, who declared himself “constitutional Emperor” > and > > perpetual defender of the nation. It is an independent country that was > > born as an empire--an empire that remains today ruled by its owners. > > > > Thus, democracy has been an exceptionality in Brazilian history. Lacking > > political and social democracy, Brazil invented so-called “racial > > democracy”, a doctrinaire fiction that could have served to build the > > pretence of an egalitarian society, but which became the myth that > conceals > > an institutional racism that transforms millions of humans beings into > > subjects of disdain and exclusion. In the nation with the world’s > > second-largest black population, history is written by whites, power and > > wealth are amassed by whites, and opportunities are always seized by > > whites. The white population, composed of those who live indifferent to > > violence and the segregation of many silenced, invisible, and abandoned > > citizens: the poor, the black, the peasant, the indigenous, the raped > women > > and girls, the homeless, the landless, the people without names and > without > > rights. > > > > Brazil is a continental country with a history plagued by coups and > > plagued with lies. When in 1964 the military overthrew João Goulart, a > > democratically elected president, they promised to restore constitutional > > order in just one day. The regime remained in power for 21 years. The > first > > editorial of O Globo (Brazil’s main daily paper) after the coup > proclaimed > > a “resurgent democracy.” > > > > And democracy re-emerged, indeed, but only two decades later and based on > > legislation that demanded collective forgetting of and impunity for > > military crimes. No one would be judged. No one convicted. Power was > > delegated, without any popular vote, to an indirectly elected president > who > > died before taking office, thus transferring the mandate to an > > expressionless and grey landowner who was also a mediocre poet and the > > feudal heir to one of the country’s most impoverished regions. Democracy > > wanted to resurface, but could not. > > > > The first presidential elections since 1960 would be held only in 1989. > > For almost 30 years Brazil had just managed to live on the margins of > > representative democracy. The elites, however, claimed that the period of > > dictatorial exception was a true economic “miracle”, by which a nation > able > > to grow more than 30 percent in just one year could be transformed at the > > same time into one of the most unjust and unequal societies on the > planet. > > The rupture > > > > Brazilian history since the 1990s is more or less common knowledge. > First, > > Fernando Collor defeated Lula in a presidential election with support > from > > the Rede Globo media conglomerate. Collor was impeached and removed, and > > Itamar Franco assumed as president, who did almost nothing in office, > > although he was good-natured (and liked to be photographed beside young > > women without underwear, which made many think he was a good president). > > Itamar was succeeded by the prince of sociologists, Fernando Henrique > > Cardoso, who also defeated Lula and demanded that those who knew his > > academic past forget everything he had written before being elected. In > > 1998, Lula was again defeated by Fernando Henrique, who, besides pushing > > forward a plan for privatisations, never reversed, and in some cases > > worsened, the already deteriorating living conditions of the poor. During > > his two terms, poverty grew or remained stable. By 2002 31,8 percent of > the > > population lived in poverty. That year, Lula finally won the presidential > > election. > > > > The decline of the Cardoso government meant the exhaustion, or at least > > the profound deterioration, of a model of accumulation and domination > that > > had prevailed since the democratic transition. Despite the crisis of the > > regime, Brazil’s elites hoped that Lula would not mean a threat to their > > corrupt and selfish interests. They had reasons for such hope. Lula, a > > former metalworker leader, had written a letter to the Brazilian people > in > > which he promised not to threaten the wealth and properties of the rich, > > but to develop instead a programme of social inclusion that would be > > beneficial for the whole country. The elites believed Lula’s pledge > either > > because they had no other choice or because they thought that they > finally > > had defeated him. We may never know, but we do know that the former > leader > > of the metalworkers’ union was true to his word and developed an > > unprecedented programme of social reforms, with exceptional results. > > > > Poverty dropped significantly, falling by 73 percent in 12 years. > > So-called chronic poverty fell from almost ten to one percent. Income > > levels increased across all social sectors. The income of the richest > grew > > 23 percent, while for the poorest, the increase was 84 percent. Brazil > > ceased to be included in the humiliating Map of Hunger published by the > > Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), expanding > > opportunities and welfare conditions hitherto unimaginable for the > > country's poorest sectors. > > > > But the great social, educational and economic indicators, and ultimately > > the excellent social performance of his government, was not what endowed > > Lula with immense recognition and approval. What transformed him into a > > real myth, leading to a sort of personality cult and great popular > > admiration, was the founding nature that his mandate had acquired. The > poor > > might not interpret social or economic conditions with the theoretical > > tools and the cryptic data used by intellectuals, but they are not less > > subtle or insightful when it comes to understanding their own social > > reality. > > > > The poor know, for instance, that income has to do with their abilities > > and welfare opportunities. Thus, they operationalise such knowledge based > > on very specific indicators. For example, having access to more and > better > > educational levels, accessing credit that would allow them to buy a house > > or basic consumer goods, have electricity, sanitation, drinking water > and – > > when they exaggerate their welfare aspirations – travel to visit their > > loved ones by plane. > > > > All this, which constitutes an inventory of basic rights and > opportunities > > in any modern republic, had never been accessible to millions of > > Brazilians. Lula's government, and subsequently Dilma Rousseff, his > > successor, offered for the first time an effective opportunity for > > self-recognition as citizens to a huge contingent of people who had been > > despised, discarded and humiliated by the elites that pretended to ignore > > their existence as subjects of rights, or simply as human beings with > > unsatisfied basic needs. > > > > Lula came to repair such historic injustice and he did it with a huge > > capacity for management and the exercise of strong political leadership, > > bot inside and outside the country. > > > > Lula's overwhelming strength took the indolent and ignorant elites by > > surprise. They had assumed that a metalworker with no university > education > > would fail in his efforts to direct the destiny of the tenth economic > power > > on the planet. > > > > Within a decade, Lula and Dilma reduced the housing deficit that affected > > the poorer sectors of the population by 53 percent . They built more than > > 1,700,000 dignified housing units, universalised access to electricity > (in > > a country with immense inequality in the provision of energy services), > > significantly increased the percentage of households with access to > water, > > doubled the number of university students, and built more universities > and > > technical schools than ever before in the history of the country until > > 2002. All these policies were the result of putting the poor at the > centre > > of the national budgetary priorities, especially benefiting rural people, > > women, youth, the indigenous and black population. > > > > If one tries to understand Brazil from the perspective of an Argentine > > analyst, even taking into account huge differences and historical > > specificities, one could say that the role assumed by Lula can be better > > compared to that of Juan Domingo Perón in the 1940s, rather than the role > > played by Néstor Kirchner in the decade that followed the crisis of 2001. > > President Kirchner assumed an exceptional responsibility in undertaking > the > > foundation of a republic built on pillars of equality, human rights and > > social justice. He did it with a great capacity for public management, > > governing a country in ruins, but taking as a reference an idea and a > > historical trajectory (Perón’s project) that he believed should be > > recovered or refounded. > > > > But Lula is different. Lula is a founder. He is the great democratic > > architect of a Brazil that never existed. > > > > For us, Argentines, the powerful and forceful slogan that states that > "the > > homeland is the other" (“*la patria es el **otro*”) is the emotional > > synthesis of a decade of achievements that we have conquered > collectively; > > a synthesis that acquires a sense and a referentiality in a common past > > that vividly embodies the need to build a new present. It is a past that > is > > projected and mirrored in the great democratic leaders of our national > > history (Hipólito Yrigoyen, Juan Domingo Perón, Evita Perón, Héctor > > Campora, Raúl Alfonsín), as well as in the victims of the dictatorship > and > > in our heroic mothers and grandmothers (*Madres and Abuelas de Plaza de > > Mayo*). It is the possible future that faces a real past. > > Later… > > > > Brazil did not have the same past as Argentina or anything comparable to > > it. Only half a century later than Argentina, Brazil fulfilled the > mandate > > often assigned to popular governments in Latin America: to install, build > > and defend a republican, modernising and democratic order, against the > > predatory barbarism imposed by backwards-looking elites who seem > nostalgic > > for the Middle Ages. > > > > Lula founded a republican Brazil. He is a leader who is unwilling to > > accept that there cannot be room for everyone in a country of equals and > a > > leader who, openly and without hypocritical remorse, is not afraid to > > declare his confident that everyone can live better, that the poor should > > eat well, live well, send their children to universities, and own the > > houses in which they live. Lula has no aspirations to become another > > fashionable hippie preaching against consumerism. He knows that the poor > > are essential players in realising the possibility of a dignified life, > > beyond simple false promises. > > > > Why did Judge Sérgio Moro imprison Lula Moro without any proof other than > > his personal conviction? Because it has been the strategy that the > > (unproductive and predatory) financial powers, the great communicational > > monopoly that is the Globo Network, and conservative political sectors > > (including former President Fernando Henrique Cardoso) have found to end > > what they believe is an unacceptable precedent that would challenge that > > selfish and petty Brazil structured around privileges rooted in the > > country’s history. They do not accept Lula’s return to power. They > believed > > that the coup against Dilma Rousseff would sink him forever. They were > > wrong. Now they believe that by imprisoning him he will be silenced. They > > are wrong, again. > > > > They want to put an end to the stubborn and persistent metallurgist union > > leader who seems to be never willing to surrender and hand over the > weapons > > of dignity, trust in politics and confidence in the value of popular > > mobilisations. But they also want to kill all the Lulas to come. They > want > > to end what they see as a fatal virus against their privileges and > corrupt > > impunity: the possibility that many may think that if a metalworker > without > > formal schooling, a poor migrant from the impoverished Northeast region, > > could govern the country, others like him might also do so. > > > > They are imprisoning Lula, but they imprison an idea. They seek to > > imprison the future. They will fail. There will be no jail space for the > > multitude of free men and women, who continue to struggle to build a > future > > that belongs to them, that nobody can take away > > > > . > > > > > > *Pablo Gentili* is executive secretary of the Latin American Council of > > Social Sciences, CLACSO, and professor at the State University of Rio de > > Janeiro, UERJ. > > > > > > > > -- > > > > *Pablo Gentili* > > Secretario Ejecutivo, CLACSO > > (+5411) 4304-9145 / 4304-9505 > > Twitter: @_CLACSO > > Facebook: www.facebook.com/CLACSO.Oficial/ > > Twitter: @pablogentili > > Facebook: www.facebook.com/contrapuntos.elpais.pablogentili/ > > www.clacso.org > > > > *CLACSO es una red internacional creada en 1967 con estatus asociativo en > > la UNESCO. 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Fwd: Lula for beginners - Pablo Gentili (English, French and Arabic)
by Michel Bauwens 17 Apr '18

17 Apr '18

excellent text on the role of Lula, Michel ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Pablo Gentili - CLACSO <pgentili(a)clacso.edu.ar> Date: Mon, Apr 16, 2018 at 5:51 PM Subject: Lula for beginners - Pablo Gentili (English, French and Arabic) To: Dear friends, I send you below and in annex the brief article "*Lula for beginners*", which was published a few days ago in the Argentine newspaper *Página 12*. The text was translated into English and Portuguese and published in various media. A colleague friend has translated it into Arabic and French . I also send them in the annex. *The article can be published freely. If you think it's worth it, I thank you very much for disseminating it.* A warm greeting, Pablo Gentili CLACSO ---------------- Lula for beginners A parallel between Brazil's history and the story of its most charismatic leader 09 April 2018 Article The forces that shaped modern Brazil made the rise of a figure such as Lula da Silva all but inevitable. Conditions in Brazil today mean his imprisonment is certainly not the end of this chapter in the nation's story. Pablo Gentili, Executive Secretary of the Latin American Council of Social Sciences (CLACSO), analyses the parallel between Brazil's history and the story of its most charismatic leader. Authors Pablo Gentili <https://www.tni.org/en/profile/pablo-gentili> [image: Lula, Ricardo Stuckert (CLACSO)] Lula, Ricardo Stuckert / Photo credit CLACSO “Brazil is not for beginners,” Tom Jobim asserted with his ruthless poetic style. Attempting to understand a country such as Brazil requires an immense capacity for sociological imagination. Today’s Brazil retains the historical marks that shaped its social genesis. Brazil is reliving the past, day after day, in the arrogance of the elites, the persistence of structures of slavery, and the systematic disregard for democracy and the rights of most of its inhabitants, who have been transformed into aliens within a nation and without a homeland. Brazil's history has been shaped by brute force and garlanded with indulgent narratives that have attempted to explain the unexplainable. In short, even if nothing works, *Dios y la alegría son brasileños* (God and joyfulness are Brazilians): What more could anybody ask for? Brazil is a country whose independence was proclaimed by a prince, the son of the king of Portugal, who declared himself “constitutional Emperor” and perpetual defender of the nation. It is an independent country that was born as an empire--an empire that remains today ruled by its owners. Thus, democracy has been an exceptionality in Brazilian history. Lacking political and social democracy, Brazil invented so-called “racial democracy”, a doctrinaire fiction that could have served to build the pretence of an egalitarian society, but which became the myth that conceals an institutional racism that transforms millions of humans beings into subjects of disdain and exclusion. In the nation with the world’s second-largest black population, history is written by whites, power and wealth are amassed by whites, and opportunities are always seized by whites. The white population, composed of those who live indifferent to violence and the segregation of many silenced, invisible, and abandoned citizens: the poor, the black, the peasant, the indigenous, the raped women and girls, the homeless, the landless, the people without names and without rights. Brazil is a continental country with a history plagued by coups and plagued with lies. When in 1964 the military overthrew João Goulart, a democratically elected president, they promised to restore constitutional order in just one day. The regime remained in power for 21 years. The first editorial of O Globo (Brazil’s main daily paper) after the coup proclaimed a “resurgent democracy.” And democracy re-emerged, indeed, but only two decades later and based on legislation that demanded collective forgetting of and impunity for military crimes. No one would be judged. No one convicted. Power was delegated, without any popular vote, to an indirectly elected president who died before taking office, thus transferring the mandate to an expressionless and grey landowner who was also a mediocre poet and the feudal heir to one of the country’s most impoverished regions. Democracy wanted to resurface, but could not. The first presidential elections since 1960 would be held only in 1989. For almost 30 years Brazil had just managed to live on the margins of representative democracy. The elites, however, claimed that the period of dictatorial exception was a true economic “miracle”, by which a nation able to grow more than 30 percent in just one year could be transformed at the same time into one of the most unjust and unequal societies on the planet. The rupture Brazilian history since the 1990s is more or less common knowledge. First, Fernando Collor defeated Lula in a presidential election with support from the Rede Globo media conglomerate. Collor was impeached and removed, and Itamar Franco assumed as president, who did almost nothing in office, although he was good-natured (and liked to be photographed beside young women without underwear, which made many think he was a good president). Itamar was succeeded by the prince of sociologists, Fernando Henrique Cardoso, who also defeated Lula and demanded that those who knew his academic past forget everything he had written before being elected. In 1998, Lula was again defeated by Fernando Henrique, who, besides pushing forward a plan for privatisations, never reversed, and in some cases worsened, the already deteriorating living conditions of the poor. During his two terms, poverty grew or remained stable. By 2002 31,8 percent of the population lived in poverty. That year, Lula finally won the presidential election. The decline of the Cardoso government meant the exhaustion, or at least the profound deterioration, of a model of accumulation and domination that had prevailed since the democratic transition. Despite the crisis of the regime, Brazil’s elites hoped that Lula would not mean a threat to their corrupt and selfish interests. They had reasons for such hope. Lula, a former metalworker leader, had written a letter to the Brazilian people in which he promised not to threaten the wealth and properties of the rich, but to develop instead a programme of social inclusion that would be beneficial for the whole country. The elites believed Lula’s pledge either because they had no other choice or because they thought that they finally had defeated him. We may never know, but we do know that the former leader of the metalworkers’ union was true to his word and developed an unprecedented programme of social reforms, with exceptional results. Poverty dropped significantly, falling by 73 percent in 12 years. So-called chronic poverty fell from almost ten to one percent. Income levels increased across all social sectors. The income of the richest grew 23 percent, while for the poorest, the increase was 84 percent. Brazil ceased to be included in the humiliating Map of Hunger published by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), expanding opportunities and welfare conditions hitherto unimaginable for the country's poorest sectors. But the great social, educational and economic indicators, and ultimately the excellent social performance of his government, was not what endowed Lula with immense recognition and approval. What transformed him into a real myth, leading to a sort of personality cult and great popular admiration, was the founding nature that his mandate had acquired. The poor might not interpret social or economic conditions with the theoretical tools and the cryptic data used by intellectuals, but they are not less subtle or insightful when it comes to understanding their own social reality. The poor know, for instance, that income has to do with their abilities and welfare opportunities. Thus, they operationalise such knowledge based on very specific indicators. For example, having access to more and better educational levels, accessing credit that would allow them to buy a house or basic consumer goods, have electricity, sanitation, drinking water and – when they exaggerate their welfare aspirations – travel to visit their loved ones by plane. All this, which constitutes an inventory of basic rights and opportunities in any modern republic, had never been accessible to millions of Brazilians. Lula's government, and subsequently Dilma Rousseff, his successor, offered for the first time an effective opportunity for self-recognition as citizens to a huge contingent of people who had been despised, discarded and humiliated by the elites that pretended to ignore their existence as subjects of rights, or simply as human beings with unsatisfied basic needs. Lula came to repair such historic injustice and he did it with a huge capacity for management and the exercise of strong political leadership, bot inside and outside the country. Lula's overwhelming strength took the indolent and ignorant elites by surprise. They had assumed that a metalworker with no university education would fail in his efforts to direct the destiny of the tenth economic power on the planet. Within a decade, Lula and Dilma reduced the housing deficit that affected the poorer sectors of the population by 53 percent . They built more than 1,700,000 dignified housing units, universalised access to electricity (in a country with immense inequality in the provision of energy services), significantly increased the percentage of households with access to water, doubled the number of university students, and built more universities and technical schools than ever before in the history of the country until 2002. All these policies were the result of putting the poor at the centre of the national budgetary priorities, especially benefiting rural people, women, youth, the indigenous and black population. If one tries to understand Brazil from the perspective of an Argentine analyst, even taking into account huge differences and historical specificities, one could say that the role assumed by Lula can be better compared to that of Juan Domingo Perón in the 1940s, rather than the role played by Néstor Kirchner in the decade that followed the crisis of 2001. President Kirchner assumed an exceptional responsibility in undertaking the foundation of a republic built on pillars of equality, human rights and social justice. He did it with a great capacity for public management, governing a country in ruins, but taking as a reference an idea and a historical trajectory (Perón’s project) that he believed should be recovered or refounded. But Lula is different. Lula is a founder. He is the great democratic architect of a Brazil that never existed. For us, Argentines, the powerful and forceful slogan that states that "the homeland is the other" (“*la patria es el **otro*”) is the emotional synthesis of a decade of achievements that we have conquered collectively; a synthesis that acquires a sense and a referentiality in a common past that vividly embodies the need to build a new present. It is a past that is projected and mirrored in the great democratic leaders of our national history (Hipólito Yrigoyen, Juan Domingo Perón, Evita Perón, Héctor Campora, Raúl Alfonsín), as well as in the victims of the dictatorship and in our heroic mothers and grandmothers (*Madres and Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo*). It is the possible future that faces a real past. Later… Brazil did not have the same past as Argentina or anything comparable to it. Only half a century later than Argentina, Brazil fulfilled the mandate often assigned to popular governments in Latin America: to install, build and defend a republican, modernising and democratic order, against the predatory barbarism imposed by backwards-looking elites who seem nostalgic for the Middle Ages. Lula founded a republican Brazil. He is a leader who is unwilling to accept that there cannot be room for everyone in a country of equals and a leader who, openly and without hypocritical remorse, is not afraid to declare his confident that everyone can live better, that the poor should eat well, live well, send their children to universities, and own the houses in which they live. Lula has no aspirations to become another fashionable hippie preaching against consumerism. He knows that the poor are essential players in realising the possibility of a dignified life, beyond simple false promises. Why did Judge Sérgio Moro imprison Lula Moro without any proof other than his personal conviction? Because it has been the strategy that the (unproductive and predatory) financial powers, the great communicational monopoly that is the Globo Network, and conservative political sectors (including former President Fernando Henrique Cardoso) have found to end what they believe is an unacceptable precedent that would challenge that selfish and petty Brazil structured around privileges rooted in the country’s history. They do not accept Lula’s return to power. They believed that the coup against Dilma Rousseff would sink him forever. They were wrong. Now they believe that by imprisoning him he will be silenced. They are wrong, again. They want to put an end to the stubborn and persistent metallurgist union leader who seems to be never willing to surrender and hand over the weapons of dignity, trust in politics and confidence in the value of popular mobilisations. But they also want to kill all the Lulas to come. They want to end what they see as a fatal virus against their privileges and corrupt impunity: the possibility that many may think that if a metalworker without formal schooling, a poor migrant from the impoverished Northeast region, could govern the country, others like him might also do so. They are imprisoning Lula, but they imprison an idea. They seek to imprison the future. They will fail. There will be no jail space for the multitude of free men and women, who continue to struggle to build a future that belongs to them, that nobody can take away . *Pablo Gentili* is executive secretary of the Latin American Council of Social Sciences, CLACSO, and professor at the State University of Rio de Janeiro, UERJ. -- *Pablo Gentili* Secretario Ejecutivo, CLACSO (+5411) 4304-9145 / 4304-9505 Twitter: @_CLACSO Facebook: www.facebook.com/CLACSO.Oficial/ Twitter: @pablogentili Facebook: www.facebook.com/contrapuntos.elpais.pablogentili/ www.clacso.org *CLACSO es una red internacional creada en 1967 con estatus asociativo en la UNESCO. Reúne más de 620 centros de investigación y posgrado en ciencias sociales y humanidades de 47 países en los cinco continentes.* www.clacso.org.ar/conferencia2018/ *Por favor, considere el medio ambiente antes de imprimir este e-mail. 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Fwd: Call for Papers: Social Solidarity Economy and the Commons: Envisioning Sustainable and Post-capitalist Futures, Lisbon, Portugal, 21-23 November 2018
by Michel Bauwens 17 Apr '18

17 Apr '18

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Ana Margarida Esteves <anamargarida.esteves(a)gmail.com> Date: Tue, Apr 17, 2018 at 7:27 AM Subject: Fwd: Call for Papers: Social Solidarity Economy and the Commons: Envisioning Sustainable and Post-capitalist Futures, Lisbon, Portugal, 21-23 November 2018 To: Sophie Bloemen <sophie(a)commonsnetwork.eu>, David Hammerstein < david(a)davidhammerstein.org>, Michel Bauwens <michel(a)p2pfoundation.net>, Alex Pazaitis <alex.pazaitis(a)gmail.com> Dear friends and colleagues, Please find in the attached files a Call for Papers (in English and Portuguese) for a conference on the relationship between Social Solidarity Economy and the Commons that will be held in Lisbon, Portugal on November 21-23/2018. It would be great if you could forward this CfP to your networks. Apologies for cross-posting. Best Regards, Ana Margarida Esteves Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL), Centro de Estudos Internacionais, Lisboa, Portugal ______ Caros colegas, Envio-vos em anexo uma "Call", em Português e Inglês, para uma conferência sobre Economia Social Solidária e Bens Comuns, que terá lugar no ISCTE-IUL de 21 a 23 de Novembro de 2018. Espero contar com a vossa presença e agradeço que difundam a informação. Cumprimentos, Ana Margarida Esteves Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL), Centro de Estudos Internacionais, Lisboa, Portugal -- 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: Civicist's First Post: The Zuckularity
by Michel Bauwens 11 Apr '18

11 Apr '18

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Civic Hall <info(a)civichall.org> Date: Tue, Apr 10, 2018 at 3:46 PM Subject: Civicist's First Post: The Zuckularity To: Michel <michelsub2004(a)gmail.com> Tech and politics collide at congressional scale today; we get sucked down the black hole of Zuckerberg takes; questions someone should ask Congress April 10, 2018 <https://civichall.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=784ac4a90c07e1e7ebbf294…> [image: First Post] <https://civichall.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=784ac4a90c07e1e7ebbf294…> *Micah L. Sifry* *The Zuckularity** - Today, the Boy King testifies before Congress, starting with the Senate Judiciary Committee at 2:15ET. According to Facebook CEO *Mark Zuckerberg*'s pre-released testimony <https://civichall.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=784ac4a90c07e1e7ebbf294…> that he plans to give the House Committee on Energy and Commerce tomorrow, he's going to focus on the steps the company is taking to address the abilities of third-parties to access the profile data of millions of Facebook users and to make it harder for Russians and others to spread disinformation across the site. Not covered: what Facebook employees embedded with the Trump campaign actually did, the use of Facebook's targeting tools to discriminate against minorities, its targeting of children, its anti-competitive penchant of buying upstart platforms that threaten its dominance, the use of its platform to incite genocidal violence in places like Myanmar and now we learn Sri Lanka <https://civichall.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=784ac4a90c07e1e7ebbf294…>, etc. - *Franklin Foer* writes for The Atlantic <https://civichall.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=784ac4a90c07e1e7ebbf294…> that Zuckerberg's testimony will mark the day "Silicon Valley no longer floats above the world." He adds, "One of the salutary benefits of this backlash is that it stands to dent the culture of the company. It creates a new expectation that its employees should be more questioning, less thoughtless about human beings. The congressional flaying will show that there’s, at the very least, a social price to be paid for creating such a careless product." - Flaying? Let's lower our expectations a little. If only appearing before Congress meant something like what Foer writes. The odds of any member of the committee understanding what Zuckerberg means when he says, per his written testimony, that "we're restricting more APIs like groups and events" are nil. Here's Senator *Dianne Feinstein* (D-CA), getting ready to flay Zuckerberg <https://civichall.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=784ac4a90c07e1e7ebbf294…> after she met privately with him as he made the rounds on the Hill yesterday: "He's a very nice young man. He's very young. And he has 27,000 employees. And it's - that's amazing. He's obviously smart. He obviously knows what he's doing and he has a very pleasant personality. He's not hard-edged in any way that I saw." - Of all the great questions for Zuckerberg prepared by Privacy International <https://civichall.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=784ac4a90c07e1e7ebbf294…>, this one could genuinely cut through a lot of the BS: "You post regularly on Facebook yourself. Is your personal data protected beyond the level available to everyone else? Are you 1 of the 87million people whose data has been accessed by Cambridge Analytica - if not, what was it that kept your data safe?" Even a dimwitted Member of Congress like Feinstein could ask it. - Technosociologist* Zeynep Tufekci* wisely advises not focusing on what questions Congress asks Zuckerberg <https://civichall.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=784ac4a90c07e1e7ebbf294…>, and instead urges it to take action to force platform companies to get meaningful informed consent from their users, to put time limits on how long they hold user data, and to also regulate how they use aggregated data. - A question I wish someone would ask Members of Congress: Will you stop using Facebook to hold formerly public events like town-hall meetings? If not, why are you forcing your constituents to give their personal information to a private corporation in order to interact with you? - Considering the role of private foundations in America as one of the last sources of theoretically countervailing power in an age of massive media and economic concentration, this is big news: The Social Science Research Council announced yesterday that it is partnering with Facebook and a group of seven major foundations to develop and fund independent research on the social network's impact on society, starting with elections. Here's the statement <https://civichall.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=784ac4a90c07e1e7ebbf294…> from Facebook VP of communications and public policy, *Elliot Schrage*, and director of research, *David Ginsberg*. "The focus will be entirely forward-looking," aiming to understand Facebook's impact on upcoming elections, "and to inform our future product and policy decisions," they write. A commission made of "respected academic experts" will develop and oversee the research agenda and independently select grantees whose work will be funded by the foundations. "When appropriate," the researchers will also be given access to "privacy-protected data from Facebook." - Here's SSRC president *Alondra Nelson* on the new initiative <https://civichall.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=784ac4a90c07e1e7ebbf294…>. She notes, "SSRC-appointed review committees will actively engage with technologists, advocates, and ethicists to develop 21st century academic standards for anonymized digital data use—with particular emphasis on the potential impacts on vulnerable groups by the dynamics the initiative studies. While Facebook and the users of its data are bound by the data access and privacy laws where they operate, the SSRC will have no qualms about withdrawing from this initiative should we deem it necessary." - Not stated: whether the commission or its researchers will be able to audit Facebook's algorithms, to determine, for example, if the voter megaphone tool is actually being shown to all voters neutrally. Microsoft Research's *Tarton Gillespie* also points out that researchers need to study Facebook's engineers, design choices, business model and user policies <https://civichall.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=784ac4a90c07e1e7ebbf294…>, not just the data. - The foundations backing the SSRC-Facebook effort are the Hewlett Foundation, Sloan Foundation, Charles Koch Foundation, Democracy Fund, Knight Foundation, Arnold Foundation, and Omidyar Network. One of these things is not like the others, one of these things just doesn't belong, as the song goes. While six of those foundations do a lot of credible work focused on broadly advancing democracy in America, Koch, himself a former member of the John Birch Society, funds many things, including advancing white supremacy, neoConfederate academics, and broad attacks on voting rights and civil rights, as this recent report from UnKochMyCampus details <https://civichall.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=784ac4a90c07e1e7ebbf294…> . - "Zuckerberg's dilemmas are not the dilemmas of a corporation but the dilemmas of a king," write <https://civichall.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=784ac4a90c07e1e7ebbf294…> *Henry Farrell, Margaret Levi and Tim O'Reilly* in Vox. Gee, could he be the king of a country called Facebookistan? - Buried deep in this recently released interview of Zuckerberg <https://civichall.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=784ac4a90c07e1e7ebbf294…> by Freakonomics writer *Stephen Dubner* is this fascinating admission: "There’s interesting research now that shows that the average American has fewer than three close friends who they would turn to in a crisis. So one of the questions that I asked inside our company, and I started a team to work on this is, 'Well, can we build some products or services that make it so that the average person has one more close friend?'” - Also this statement from the same interview is worth meditating on: "One of the interesting challenges that you find running a company or a community at scale [*running a community at scale?!*] is there are people who want things that are completely conflicting. So there are certain people who want us to share more information, and then there are a lot of people who really don’t. For some of these social decisions that we have to make, I find that the right place to be is when you’re getting yelled at from both sides equally." Paging *Jay Rosen*? - *Robinson Meyer* of The Atlantic talked to Mark Zuckerberg and didn't learn anything new <https://civichall.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=784ac4a90c07e1e7ebbf294…>, other than the unsurprising fact that the embattled CEO isn't planning to leave the company he started. - Last week a group of civil society organizations in Myanmar wrote an open letter to Zuckerberg complaining of how poorly the company has responded to the rise of sectarian violence there, and he responded with a personal email, *Kevin Roose and Paul Mozur* report <https://civichall.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=784ac4a90c07e1e7ebbf294…> for The New York Times. “It’s great that he’s engaging personally with this, but the stuff he’s talking about is really not that much different from what they’ve been saying for the past few years,” said *Jes Petersen*, the chief executive of Phandeeyar, the innovation lab that organized the letter to Zuckerberg. To everyone's credit, the exchange is now public and the groups are pressing the company to do a lot more to address the problem. - Here are some important questions <https://civichall.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=784ac4a90c07e1e7ebbf294…> from election law expert *Rick Hasen* on the challenges Facebook will face with its new promise to increase the transparency of election-related ads. - If you still don't understand how Facebook's ad targeting system can allow outside advertisers to glean incredibly personal information from people sent to them via Facebook, read *Michael Jones*, the former chief technology advocate for Google, explaining the nuts-and-bolts <https://civichall.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=784ac4a90c07e1e7ebbf294…> to *James Fallows* of The Atlantic. - Some big institutional investors want Facebook to replace Zuck as chairman, *Jen McGregor *reports for The Washington Post <https://civichall.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=784ac4a90c07e1e7ebbf294…> . - In case you were worried that former Clinton pollster *Mark Penn *wasn't still stupid, here he is opining for CBS Marketwatch <https://civichall.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=784ac4a90c07e1e7ebbf294…> that "I do not believe that the Facebook issues in any way compromised the 2016 U.S. presidential election. It’s unclear whether Cambridge Analytica did much, if anything, for the Trump campaign." - In other news, maybe it's time we paid a bit more attention to stuff like this <https://civichall.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=784ac4a90c07e1e7ebbf294…> ? - Oh, and perhaps a big deal <https://civichall.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=784ac4a90c07e1e7ebbf294…> ? - *Media matters*: Voters in so-called news deserts—place with minimal newspaper subscriptions, print or online—voted for Donald Trump in 2016 in higher-than expected numbers, Politico's *Shawn Musgrave and Matthew Nussbaum* report <https://civichall.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=784ac4a90c07e1e7ebbf294…>. In effect, they suggest that Trump's reliance on social media served him best in places where news consumers were least likely to have independent media habits providing factual correctives. - Related: Crack investigative journalists *Julia Angwin and Jeff Larson* are leaving ProPublica <https://civichall.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=784ac4a90c07e1e7ebbf294…> to try to scale up more "tech-driven investigations" by building their own newsroom. Godspeed! - Attend: Organizing 2.0 is holding its annual conference this Friday and Saturday in NYC. Register here. <https://civichall.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=784ac4a90c07e1e7ebbf294…> - *Hat tip to *Mark Pesce* for the term <https://civichall.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=784ac4a90c07e1e7ebbf294…>. We promise, dear readers, to pay more attention to other topics in future days. 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