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

10 Mar '26

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

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Rereading Marx in the Age of Digital Capitalism
by Christian Fuchs 28 Oct '19

28 Oct '19

Fuchs, Christian. 2019. Rereading Marx in the Age of Digital Capitalism. London: Pluto Press. Introduction: http://fuchs.uti.at/books/rereading-marx-in-the-age-of-digital-capitalism/ Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32YXLWXaHMY&feature=youtu.be "Fuchs rereads Marx in the present, in that tangle of explosive contradictions, indicating with clarity and force the necessary path of theoretical militancy today" – Antonio Negri, author of “Political Descartes: Reason, Ideology and the Bourgeois Project” “Christian Fuchs is the world’s foremost Marxist analyst of contemporary capitalist media" - Jodi Dean, author of “The Communist Horizon” The ‘end of history’ has not taken place. Ideological andeconomic crisis and the status quo of neoliberal capitalism since 2008 demand a renewed engagement with Marx. But if we are to effectively resist capitalism we must truly understand Marx: Marxism today must theorise how communication technologies, media representation and digitalisation have come to define contemporary capitalism. There is an urgent need for critical, Marxian-inspired knowledge as a foundation for changing the world and the way we communicate from digital capitalism towards communicative socialism and digital communism. "Rereading Marx in the Age of Digital Capitalism" does exactly this. Delving into Marx’s most influential works, such as Capital, The Grundrisse, Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts, The German Ideology and The Communist Manifesto, Christian Fuchs draws out Marx’s concepts of machinery, technology, communication and ideology, all of which anticipate major themes of the digital age. A concise and coherent work of Marxist media and communication theory, the book ultimately demonstrates the relevance of Marx to an age of digital and communicative capitalism. Table of Contents 1. Introduction: Rereading Marx in the Age of Digital Capitalism 2. Rereading Marx’s ‘Capital’ in the Information Age 3. Rereading Marx as Critical Sociologist of Technology 4. Rereading Marx as Critical Theorist of Communication 5. Rereading Marx in the Age of Digital Capitalism: The Case of Industry 4.0 and the Industrial Internet as the Digital German Ideology 6. Rereading Marx in the Age of Digital Capitalism: Reflections on Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri’s Book ‘Assembly’ 7. Conclusion

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Fwd: Farewell to the WSF? (GTN Discussions)
by Michel Bauwens 24 Oct '19

24 Oct '19

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Great Transition Network <gtnetwork(a)greattransition.org> Date: Wed, Oct 23, 2019 at 11:36 PM Subject: Farewell to the WSF? (GTN Discussions) To: <michelsub2004(a)gmail.com> >From Roberto Savio [utopia(a)robertosavio.info] ---------------------------------------------------------- IS THERE A FUTURE FOR THE WORLD SOCIAL FORUM? A response to the discussion from Roberto Savio In the insightful comments in this month’s discussion, there was broad agreement about the importance and impact of the World Social Forum. The WSF opened a utopian laboratory (to quote Thomas Ponniah), and the impact was felt worldwide. But this was never under contention. That hundreds of thousands of people paid travel fares and participation fees to take part in a meeting where they shared their hopes and dreams was unprecedented—and was beyond what we had envisioned in the early planning meetings. When it comes to the reasons for the decline of the WSF, that unanimity falls apart. Some point to the internal tensions, political bickering, and lack of inclusive democracy; others to the tension between social movements and NGOs. Others point to cultural conflicts (e.g., between the Anglo world and the Latin world), the decentralization of having a multiplicity of workshops, often on the same subject, like in a fair; or the difficulties that travel and costs posed for less-funded organizations. What is impressive is that all points are legitimate. But where there is again unanimity is on the International Council, which is clearly considered not up to the task for the consolidation and growth of the movement. The original Organizing Committee saw the IC’s role as facilitating, rather than steering. Perhaps for this reason, the IC was not structured as a real place for debate (interventions were rarely allowed to be more than three minutes). And the IC never hired someone like a rapporteur, who could record decisions to be passed on to the following IC or those who were not on the IC at all. We must also remember that at every IC meeting, the majority of participants were new. So each meeting ended up starting with discussions on points on which there was already a consensus. But every attempt to give more structure to the IC was rebuffed by those who saw organization as synonymous with bureaucratization. As Francine Mestrum notes, “Horizontalism and the fear of hierarchies are very justified. But those should not make accountability impossible.” Such accountability depends on communication. No transmission was done from one forum to the following one. The panels repeated themselves and each other at every forum, without any input from ones prior. And as forums were held in different locations, participants were often completely different. I was involved in the Communication Commission from the start. We were just a small group, and in the IC, information technology was considered a job restricted to professionals. The difference between information and communication was not clear. I remember that in an IC meeting in Mexico, we asked every member of the IC to provide us with ten names of journalists in their country so that we could organize a WSF information network. Only four did so! In my personal view, one of the main causes of the decline of the WSF is that it became an endogamic movement, not one accountable to the outside. Rita Freire touches on this point, and Sally Burch proposes an Internet WSF, using the modern technology for sharing and inclusion. It is true that when the Forum started, social media and the Internet did not have the reach they do today. But my point is that if we opened a process of communication and participation, the WSF could have kept its function as a utopian laboratory, while enabling many new organizations and activist to join the process. Not many had the financial resources to travel to a forum, and communication would have kept them in the loop. But communication is a culture, not the use of technical means. And I am afraid that this culture was sorely missing in the IC. In their comments, everybody, in one way or another, points to the need for the survival of the WSF to bring together the new movements that the success of globalization has created. But, in the present formula, all of those movements have to come physically to the Forum to do so. That makes the WSF increasingly obsolete. Linking political actors means much more than just a few conversations. The WSF needs to be able to distribute papers with proposal for action. Without this, how can we work with others? By asking them to join the IC? This would be a sure-fire way to bore people with bureaucratization, as intellectual and important organizations have often done. The IC must be reduced in size, have real and transparent rules, and accept its role as a steering body, responsible for the contents of the Forum, and for its connection to the world of institutions, organizations, and militants worldwide. Many commenters referenced how drastically the world has changed since 2000. Globalization has lost credibility and is defended only by the defenders of the status quo. Nobody today defends the idea that the “rising tide” of the market will lift all boats. The anxiety of those left out has fostered the rise of the likes of Trump, Orban, Bolsonaro, etc. In 2017, the 500 richest people on the planet became, collectively, $1 trillion richer than in the year before. In four years, they will have increased their wealth, with an amount equivalent to the budget of the United States. This is clearly unsustainable. Our world comes from a string of events, all based on greed, a main engine of history. First, the fall of Berlin Wall was seen as the end of history, as capitalism would now unify the world. The Washington Consensus offered a manifesto and a blueprint: everything that did not create profits was a waste. Ideologies were abandoned for pragmatism, which was itself an ideology. Conservative heads of state like US president Ronald Reagan and UK prime minister Margaret Thatcher had been working against multilateralism, social justice, and solidarity since the early 80s; the leaders of social democratic parties, like UK Labour’s Tony Blair, furthered that legacy. Blair’s Third Way replaced social democracy’s ambitions with resignation: as nobody can stop globalization, let us work to give it a human face. Then came the financial crisis of 2008, which ushered in twenty years of fear after twenty years of greed. Before that crisis, only France had a right wing, xenophobic, and nationalist party. Such parties blossomed across the US and Europe, with the exception of Portugal. The aftermath of war in Iraq, Syria, and Libya has created a migration crisis, and in the immigrants fleeing the destruction of their countries, xenophobic forces found their scapegoat. During all this time, the WSF followed a clearly insufficient formula. Let us meet, let us discuss, let us share, in self-referential meetings, with no relation with the political process, and without any practice of communication. Its participants were, by large majority, taking part in those political debates. But when in the WSF, they had to abstain from any political activity. It was very much like a church event: one met with like-minded people, shared experiences and hopes, to act on upon returning to their normal life. But in their normal life, they found plenty of actors engaged in action. And as the reactions to greed and fear, then social injustice, then climate change, were creating new meeting points, the WSF become an antiquated, outdated formula, which required money to participate, because it required your physical presence, in meetings for discussion, and no place for action. Try to bring Greta Thunberg to this dimension. I am convinced that unless we take radical steps toward updating the WSF, with space or mechanisms for interacting with the outside world, and some space or mechanism for some level of political action, the WSF will continue to dwindle and eventually die. The Talmudists of the WSF will say no, that to do so means possible divisions in the WSF, reducing its plurality and unity. But the present trend is ominous. A new formula can be found, and I think the contributions to this debate are a clear proof that there is enough knowledge, vision, and experience to be able to do so. We will know, in this fractured and splintered world, quite soon what is the future of the WSF. In a world without values, its new identity could be to bring back a debate on the values, which have kept wars and conflicts away. Peace, social justice, solidarity, transparency, participation, etc. The values that neoliberal globalization has eliminated, which are found in the constitutions of so many countries, would be today a powerful bridge. The WSF, as a holistic organization, could engage in a such debate, with all those that reject the results of this self-destructing capitalism, with its set of values coming from greed and fear. ---------------------------------------------------------- Hit reply to post a comment on the GT Network Read all comments (or reply) here <https://greattransition.org/gtn-discussions/farewell-to-the-wsf#3052> Note: Expect a delay between posting and receiving your comment Need help? 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Fwd: Advancing a democratic economy, from healthcare anchors to energy utilities
by Michel Bauwens 23 Oct '19

23 Oct '19

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: The Democracy Collaborative <press(a)democracycollaborative.org> Date: Wed, Oct 23, 2019 at 5:05 PM Subject: Advancing a democratic economy, from healthcare anchors to energy utilities To: <michelsub2004(a)gmail.com> News and Updates from The Democracy Collaborative Dear Colleague, Earlier this month, *The New York Times * <https://community-wealth.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e51d2c7d40bc9992…>featured an article <https://community-wealth.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e51d2c7d40bc9992…> about the work of The Democracy Collaborative’s Healthcare Anchor Network <https://community-wealth.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e51d2c7d40bc9992…> (HAN), highlighting how this growing collaboration of 45 health systems is shifting the healthcare field to invest in addressing one of the root causes of poor health: economic insecurity. The article features quotes from myself and Director of Healthcare Engagement David Zuckerman, as well as leading voices in the field and local residents at the heart of these anchor strategies. The work of HAN was also recently featured by Grantmakers in Health <https://community-wealth.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e51d2c7d40bc9992…> and in an op-ed in *OtherWords* <https://community-wealth.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e51d2c7d40bc9992…>. Later this winter, HAN will be collaborating on *Modern Healthcare’s *Social Determinants of Health Symposium <https://community-wealth.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e51d2c7d40bc9992…>, which brings together many of those working on drawing the connections between systemic inequity and health outcomes. The symposium will take place on December 3rd in Detroit, Michigan. Learn more about the symposium agenda and speakers <https://community-wealth.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e51d2c7d40bc9992…>, and register here <https://community-wealth.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e51d2c7d40bc9992…> . I am pleased to announce two new TDC fellows: Dominic T. Moulden <https://community-wealth.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e51d2c7d40bc9992…> joins as a Senior Fellow for Community Organizing & the Democratic Economy in the African and Latinx Diaspora <https://community-wealth.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e51d2c7d40bc9992…>. Dominic, who brings a deep history of community organizing in Washington, DC, will help to map the existing landscape of community organizing groups and enterprise developers who are advancing the movement for a democratic economy. This information will help to inform us on how best to support the growth of a democratic economy from the perspective of the grassroots. Dr. Obery Hendricks joins as a Senior Fellow for Faith, Power, and the Democratic Economy <https://community-wealth.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e51d2c7d40bc9992…>, and will advance our work around engaging faith leaders, and outlining the role that religion, faith, and theology can play in shifting the public’s moral imagination about the political economy. In September, The Democracy Collaborative co-sponsored this year’s The World Transformed festival, which occurs alongside the UK Labour Party’s annual conference. Among the panels TDC helped support were several on community wealth building as well as a panel on municipalism featuring Kali Akuno, Debbie Bookchin, Frans Bieckmann, Elif Sarican, and Osman Baydemir. We also co-hosted an event with local Councillors and others interested in community wealth building, which included Shadow Secretary of State for Local Government and Communities Andrew Gwynne, North of Tyne Mayor Jamie Driscoll, Islington Cabinet Member Asima Shaikh, Preston City Council Leader Matthew Brown, and Sarah McKinley, TDC’s Director of European Programs. During their conference, the Labour Party announced a number of exciting new policies, many related to TDC’s work on democratizing ownership and control. Read a piece from Research Director Thomas Hanna and Policy Associate Peter Gowan on Labour’s backing the concept of Universal Basic Services in *Tribune Magazine* <https://community-wealth.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e51d2c7d40bc9992…>*. *On this side of the Atlantic, Senator and Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders recently released a plan for “Corporate Accountability and Democracy” which includes a proposal for Democratic Employee Ownership Funds. Read more below and in *The Washington Post* <https://community-wealth.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e51d2c7d40bc9992…>*, **Vox* <https://community-wealth.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e51d2c7d40bc9992…>*, **The Guardian* <https://community-wealth.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e51d2c7d40bc9992…>*, **CNN* <https://community-wealth.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e51d2c7d40bc9992…>*, **the New Republic* <https://community-wealth.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e51d2c7d40bc9992…>*, **the Huffington Post* <https://community-wealth.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e51d2c7d40bc9992…>*, *and *Jacobin* <https://community-wealth.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e51d2c7d40bc9992…>*. * The recent power outage crisis in California⁠—due in part to PG&E’s failure to maintain adequate and safe infrastructure⁠—has highlighted the many shortcomings of profit-driven, investor-owned utilities. Co-Manager of Climate & Energy Programs Johanna Bozuwa recently published a piece in *The Nation* <https://community-wealth.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e51d2c7d40bc9992…> outlining the need for a new energy model based on public and community ownership, a resilient grid, and renewable energy. Read more about the opportunity for public ownership in response to energy crises like the PG&E shutoff in *Vice* <https://community-wealth.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e51d2c7d40bc9992…> and *In These Times <https://community-wealth.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e51d2c7d40bc9992…>* . Sincerely, Ted Howard President and Co-Founder, The Democracy Collaborative <https://community-wealth.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e51d2c7d40bc9992…> Share <https://community-wealth.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e51d2c7d40bc9992…> <https://community-wealth.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e51d2c7d40bc9992…> Tweet <https://community-wealth.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e51d2c7d40bc9992…> <http://us2.forward-to-friend.com/forward?u=e51d2c7d40bc9992285e71110&id=1e8…> Forward <http://us2.forward-to-friend.com/forward?u=e51d2c7d40bc9992285e71110&id=1e8…> TDC & CWB in the News - The Fifty by Fifty blog published two new articles, one exploring the business lifecycle <https://community-wealth.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e51d2c7d40bc9992…> and the different times to think about converting to employee ownership, and the next on barriers in the existing SBA loan requirements <https://community-wealth.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e51d2c7d40bc9992…> that can hinder the development of worker cooperatives. - President and Co-Founder Ted Howard was recently quoted in *The Guardian* <https://community-wealth.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e51d2c7d40bc9992…>, noting the opportunity that universities have as they open new locations or redevelop their campuses. “[The university],” he shares, “has got to take account of the kind of neighbour it is, and how it uses its economic strength to creatively help solve problems in the community where it’s going to be based.” - California recently passed legislation to enable the establishment of public banks, making it the second state to do so. Read more coverage in the *Los Angeles Times* <https://community-wealth.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e51d2c7d40bc9992…> and learn more about public banking in the Elements of the Democratic Economy series <https://community-wealth.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e51d2c7d40bc9992…> and on The Next System Podcast <https://community-wealth.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e51d2c7d40bc9992…> . - Last month, The Democracy Collaborative released a paper with UK-based groups Just Treatment and Global Justice Now on the opportunity for democratic public ownership in the pharmaceutical sector <https://community-wealth.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e51d2c7d40bc9992…>. Subsequently, the Labour Party announced that it was moving forward on its version of this proposal, with Jeremy Corbyn calling for "a new, publicly-owned generic drugs manufacturer to supply cheaper medicines to our NHS." Read more in *The Guardian * <https://community-wealth.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e51d2c7d40bc9992…>and *Jacobin* <https://community-wealth.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e51d2c7d40bc9992…>*. * - The Next System Project’s recent proposal around the creation of a US Green Infrastructure Bank, which would provide the finance needed to catalyze a just transition, was featured in *openDemocracy* <https://community-wealth.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e51d2c7d40bc9992…> *.* Learn more about the proposal in our recommended reads section below. New from The Democracy Collaborative *Infographic: Democratic Employee Ownership Funds* <https://community-wealth.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e51d2c7d40bc9992…> <https://community-wealth.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e51d2c7d40bc9992…> <https://community-wealth.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e51d2c7d40bc9992…> Senator and Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders recently released a plan for Corporate Accountability and Democracy which includes a proposal for Democratic Employee Ownership Funds. Such funds would require large companies to issue shares into worker-controlled funds – an idea proposed by The Next System Project’s Peter Gowan and Common Wealth’s Mathew Lawrence in this report. <https://community-wealth.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e51d2c7d40bc9992…> This new infographic provides further information on how such a fund, referred to as Inclusive Ownership Funds in the UK, could work. Learn More <https://community-wealth.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e51d2c7d40bc9992…> *Survey: Are you involved in a re-municipalization campaign?* <https://community-wealth.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e51d2c7d40bc9992…> <https://community-wealth.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e51d2c7d40bc9992…> Over the next few years, The Democracy Collaborative will serve as a US hub for a global project on re-municipalization. The project, hosted at the University of Glasgow in Scotland, aims to explore the potential of, and growing movement for, returning services and utilities that have been privatized to public ownership. An important element of the project is a survey to better understand past and present efforts around re-municipalization. If you have been involved in such a campaign, we invite you to take the survey, which is available in multiple languages. Learn More <https://community-wealth.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e51d2c7d40bc9992…> Featured Video & Audio <https://community-wealth.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e51d2c7d40bc9992…> *Democratizing power in rural America through electric co-ops* <https://community-wealth.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e51d2c7d40bc9992…> This episode of the Next System Podcast features Johanna Bozuwa in conversation with Nikita Perumal from Kentuckians for the Commonwealth and Chris Woolery from the Mountain Association for Community Economic Development about the New Economy Coalition’s toolkit on rural electric cooperatives <https://community-wealth.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e51d2c7d40bc9992…>. Listen here <https://community-wealth.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e51d2c7d40bc9992…> . <https://community-wealth.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e51d2c7d40bc9992…> *How to Make a Democratic Economy* <https://community-wealth.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e51d2c7d40bc9992…> Democracy Collaborative President and Co-Founder Ted Howard and Executive Vice President Marjorie Kelly join the Laura Flanders Show to discuss their new book, *The Making of a Democratic Economy. *Watch here <https://community-wealth.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e51d2c7d40bc9992…> or listen to the podcast episode here <https://community-wealth.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e51d2c7d40bc9992…> . Recommended Reads <https://community-wealth.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e51d2c7d40bc9992…> *New Report: A Green Investment Bank* <https://community-wealth.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e51d2c7d40bc9992…> Democratized finance will be key to executing a green and just transition away from fossil fuels. This new report from The Next System Project proposes the creation of a green infrastructure bank that can catalyze a Green New Deal and the transition to a more ecologically sustainable future that would otherwise be impossible under the short-term, high-return regime of private finance. The proposal explains how the bank would be structured to meet triple bottom line goals of facilitating the green and just transition, financial sustainability, and democratic decision-making. Read more here <https://community-wealth.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e51d2c7d40bc9992…> . <https://community-wealth.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e51d2c7d40bc9992…> *Racially Exclusionary Housing in the Bay Area* <https://community-wealth.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e51d2c7d40bc9992…> This report from the Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society at UC Berkeley discusses the historic roots of racialized housing inequality in the San Francisco Bay Area. The report outlines how state policy from the 1850s to the present codifies segregation and displacement, from violent dispossession to exclusionary real estate practices. The report makes the case that the current housing crisis is not natural, but the result of purposeful policy and tactics, and calls on readers to reimagine the role that local jurisdictions can play in reversing these trends. Read more here <https://community-wealth.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e51d2c7d40bc9992…>. Featured Website <https://community-wealth.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e51d2c7d40bc9992…> *Greater Boston Anti-Displacement Toolkit* <https://community-wealth.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e51d2c7d40bc9992…> Funded by the Surdna Foundation and a project of GreenRoots, the Everett Community Health Partnership (ECHP), Research Action Design (RAD), and MIT CoLab, this set of multimedia toolkits provides resources that organizers and residents can use to fight displacement in their communities. While geared towards Boston residents, the toolkit’s activities, how-to guides, facilitation plans, and other resources can be adapted to other geographies. 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Fwd: Farewell to the World Social Forum?
by Michel Bauwens 23 Oct '19

23 Oct '19

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Re: [P2P-F] The Optics of the Commons: an invitation for reflection and transformation
by Michel Bauwens 21 Oct '19

21 Oct '19

this is a really great and unique series of short commons talks by representatives of marginalized communities, and what the commons means for them, made in brazil by the Institut Procomun, STRONGLY RECOMMENDED: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fay4LtN9ksk&list=PLz53SY9iZdF55YaAXY2S-kVlp… On Sun, Sep 29, 2019 at 12:05 AM Georgia Nicolau <georgia.nicolau(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > >> On Sat, Sep 28, 2019 at 4:05 AM Georgia Nicolau < >> georgia.nicolau(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> >>> *"The commons is what gives meaning to our existence" Kum'tum >>> Akroá-Gamella, from the Akroá-Gamella people, state of Maranhão, northeast >>> of Brazil.* >>> >>> >>> >>> We believe that the commons, in its multiple perspectives, is an >>> essential kaleidoscope concept for facing this historic moment of >>> hopelessness, in Brazil and in the world. >>> >>> >>> The Optics of the Commons series brings together sixteen short episodes >>> featuring voices and ideas from young experts and activists. In the videos, >>> they address different perspectives on living and making communities based >>> on a diversity of studies, practices and experiences. Seen together, the >>> approaches produce inspiring resonances. >>> Taking inspiration from these words, the Procomum Institute >>> <https://www.procomum.org/the-institute-procomum/?lang=en> invites >>> everyone to reflect and question our ways of existing, living and building >>> relationships. >>> >>> Watch and share! Let's talk about how together we can dream - and build- >>> other possible futures. *All videos have english subtitles*. >>> >>> "I look at the commons from the perspective of the black people, who >>> have always been separated from the State and capital” Bianca Santana, >>> writer, journalist and researcher defines the Commons as the goods shared >>> by certain communities, their experiences and resistances. >>> >>> Click here to watch the full video >>> <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7a7emZKVF4w&list=PLz53SY9iZdF55YaAXY2S-kVlp…> >>> >>> The occupation of public spaces, conflicts and the construction of >>> public policies that prioritize cities for people are themes and strategies >>> raised by Marcio Black, cultural producer, political scientist and member >>> of the Black System Collective, to interpret the Commons. >>> >>> Click here to watch the full video >>> <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fay4LtN9ksk&list=PLz53SY9iZdF55YaAXY2S-kVlp…> >>> >>> “The commons is what gives meaning to our existence,” shares Kum'tum >>> Akroá-Gamella, a member of the Akroá-Gamella people, indigenous from >>> Northeast of Brazil. For him, we are living a crisis that endangers the >>> very existence of the planet because of practices that are part of a >>> certain ideology of progress. Ancestral knowledge and a new way of seeing >>> and understanding nature defines the commons for Kum'tum. >>> >>> >>> Click here to watch the full video >>> <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgUDk-cELTM&list=PLz53SY9iZdF55YaAXY2S-kVlp…> >>> >>> It is through the exchange, encounter and strengthening of autonomous >>> experiences of traditional communities and spaces of resistance throughout >>> Brazil and Latin America that the Collective Etinerâncias believes that the >>> commons moves and is present. >>> >>> Click here to watch the full video >>> <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEl1XEafyao> >>> >>> “The commons means a production focused on sharing and a permanent cycle >>> of learning and distribution,” says João Brant, associate at the Procomum >>> Institute and consultant in the areas of communication and cultural >>> policies. >>> >>> Click here to watch the full video >>> <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqH6DvAKgF4&list=PLz53SY9iZdF55YaAXY2S-kVlp…> >>> >>> Abundance of water, soil and fresh air are common natural goods, but >>> there are limitations placed by private property, for example. These >>> reflections accompany and define the commons for Cinthia Mendonça, artist, >>> researcher and director of Silo - Arte e Latitude Rural. >>> >>> Click here to watch the full video >>> <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IX5cpQYzAEU&list=PLz53SY9iZdF55YaAXY2S-kVlp…> >>> >>> What struggles, conflicts and constructions fit the definition of >>> commons? Does natural goods define it in its complexity? The value of the >>> commons to Jean Tible, professor of political science at USP- University of >>> São Paulo. >>> Click here to watch the full video >>> <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPxrIKgkMog&list=PLz53SY9iZdF55YaAXY2S-kVlp…> >>> >>> "The commons has to do with practices, relationships, territories and >>> has to do with people, collective subjects," says Tica Moreno, a member of >>> SOF (Sempreviva Feminist Organization), Master in Humanities and Social >>> Sciences at the Federal University of ABC and PhD in Sociology by USP. >>> >>> Click here to watch the full video >>> <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PsLmCCFn58&list=PLz53SY9iZdF55YaAXY2S-kVlp…> >>> >>> The commons, for those who come from the peripheries, is in the daily >>> encounter and the plurality of actions. It surpasses the limits, the >>> margins and defies the walls that prevent the construction of a more >>> democratic and fair city. This is one of the commons perspectives for >>> Mariana Belmont, journalist and member of the Imargem collective. >>> >>> >>> Click here to watch the full video >>> <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDe7LvrVCxs&list=PLz53SY9iZdF55YaAXY2S-kVlp…> >>> >>> “You can't have the commons where there is inequality. You can't have >>> the commons where there is oppression,” says Juliana Gonçalves, journalist >>> and human rights activist. For her, it is from the micro to the macro, from >>> the margins to the center that practices and knowledges that make up the >>> commons are constructed and replicated. >>> >>> Click here to watch the full video >>> <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fa1WeSs5ETc&list=PLz53SY9iZdF55YaAXY2S-kVlp…> >>> >>> What values do we exchange daily? How do they affect us? What connects >>> us and what makes us divide spaces? How do we create cultures for the >>> commons? Thiago Carrapatoso is a journalist and master of the Center for >>> Curatorial Studies (CCS) at Bard College, and presents commons from other >>> perspectives on the bodies, values and cultural impositions. >>> >>> Click here to watch the full video >>> <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7JyuLjdGv8&list=PLz53SY9iZdF55YaAXY2S-kVlp…> >>> >>> How is the commons presented in contemporary struggles? In resistances, >>> existences - in the countryside and in the city. In cooperative relations >>> and the confrontation with capitalism. Alana Moraes, an anthropologist and >>> doctoral student at the Museu Nacional-UFRJ, presents perspectives that >>> define and confront the commons. >>> >>> Click here to watch the full video >>> <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjyK3IyXCEc&list=PLz53SY9iZdF55YaAXY2S-kVlp…> >>> >>> “The commons is what endures, that is perpetuated for centuries. It is >>> in the transversality between art, science, technology and ancestry”. >>> Ricardo Brazileiro, computer scientist, master in Media, Interaction and >>> Creative Systems for the Internet of Things, defends living in networks, >>> occupying territories, spaces, free technologies and the sacred as >>> opportunities for the commons. >>> >>> Click here to watch the full video >>> <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgDE-0OWM8k&list=PLz53SY9iZdF55YaAXY2S-kVlp…> >>> >>> Knowledge, culture and science belong to everyone and belong to no one >>> at the same time. Henrique Parra, sociologist and activist, professor of >>> social sciences at the Federal University of São Paulo, explains the set of >>> distinct political principles, practices and meanings that define the >>> commons. >>> >>> >>> Click here to watch the full video >>> <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LC-T-OvQ5CM&list=PLz53SY9iZdF55YaAXY2S-kVlp…> >>> >>> Constantly learning and unlearning, being with people and building with >>> them, finding commonality in differences is what motivates Georgia Nicolau, >>> director of the Procomum Institute. >>> >>> Click here to watch the full video >>> <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3u6FNlCO2Xs&list=PLz53SY9iZdF55YaAXY2S-kVlp…> >>> >>> The commons is the place of the in between, it is the crossroads, the >>> dialogue and the convergence. A political device of social transformation. >>> Rodrigo Savazoni, from the Procomum Institute, sees the commons as >>> construction, possibility and practice. >>> >>> Click here to watch the full video >>> <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bS5_dTVh11c&list=PLz53SY9iZdF55YaAXY2S-kVlp…> >>> [image: Facebook] <http://www.facebook.com/institutoprocomum> >>> [image: Instagram] <http://instagram.com/procomum> >>> [image: Website] <http://procomum.org> >>> *Copyright © 2019 Instituto Procomum, All rights reserved.* >>> You are receiving this email because you opted in via our website. >>> >>> *Our mailing address is:* >>> Instituto Procomum >>> R. 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Christian Fuchs - new book: Nationalism on the Internet: Critical Theory and Ideology in the Age of Social Media and Fake News
by Christian Fuchs 21 Oct '19

21 Oct '19

Christian Fuchs. 2020. Nationalism on the Internet: Critical Theory and Ideology in the Age of Social Media and Fake News. New York: Routledge. http://fuchs.uti.at/books/nationalism-on-the-internet/ (including reading sample/introduction) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y25je5XtUcQ In this timely book, critical theorist Christian Fuchs asks: What is nationalism and what is the role of social media in the communication of nationalist ideology? Advancing an applied Marxist theory of nationalism, Fuchs explores nationalist discourse in the world of contemporary digital capitalism that is shaped by social media, big data, fake news, targeted advertising, bots, algorithmic politics, and a high-speed online attention economy. The book develops a critical theory of nationalism that is grounded in the works of Karl Marx, Rosa Luxemburg, and Eric J. Hobsbawm.

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What_You_Should_Read_To_Understand_the_Commons
by Michel Bauwens 15 Oct '19

15 Oct '19

dear friends, this was done upon request of Evi Swinnen, our P2P Foundation chairperson and co-initiator of the School of Commons in the Flanders, which took off recently generating high interest. As we are moving to chaotic times, a longer term historical frame can help us maintain, the longer term optimism of the will, while we have to make do with the more short-term pessimism of the intellect. These books should help you make sense of the coming chaotic transition, and to see the light at the end of the tunnel. The commons-bases society that has learned to live within ecological and thermo-dynamic constraints <is> coming, but its birth won't be easy. The good news is that we have done this more than once in our common history. The annotated bibliography will have 3 parts, this is just the first one, generating a contextual understanding for a better understanding of the place of the commons in human history. I really think you should make time in your life, to read these specific books. https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/What_You_Should_Read_To_Understand_the_Commo… -- 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: Conference: GOING DIGITAL What is the Future of Business and Labour?
by Michel Bauwens 15 Oct '19

15 Oct '19

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: World Economics Association <info(a)worldeconomicsassociation.org> Date: Mon, Oct 14, 2019 at 10:52 PM Subject: Conference: GOING DIGITAL What is the Future of Business and Labour? To: <michel(a)p2pfoundation.net> GOING DIGITAL What is the Future of Business and Labour? *a WEA online conference * 11th November to 9th December, 2019 The objective of this conference, led by Prof. Maria Alejandra Madi and Dr. Małgorzata Dereniowska, is to discuss recent contributions to the understanding of digital economy and its consequences for business trends and labour challenges. The conference also focuses on bridging the gap between different economic theoretical approaches and the practical applications of artificial intelligence and machine learning. Related topics include law, ethics, safety, and governance. For more details and how to submit a paper and register for the conference click here <https://worldeconomicsassociation.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fc8acbf…> . *Please support the WEA by paying a membership fee <https://worldeconomicsassociation.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fc8acbf…> or making a small donation <https://worldeconomicsassociation.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fc8acbf…>. * <https://worldeconomicsassociation.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fc8acbf…> [image: Twitter] <https://worldeconomicsassociation.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fc8acbf…> [image: Facebook] <https://worldeconomicsassociation.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fc8acbf…> [image: Website] <https://worldeconomicsassociation.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fc8acbf…> *Copyright © 2019 World Economics Association, All rights reserved.* You joined the WEA via our website and/or made a voluntary donation to WEA *Our mailing address is:* World Economics Association 12 Maurice Road Bristol, BS6 5BZ United Kingdom Add us to your address book <https://worldeconomicsassociation.us3.list-manage.com/vcard?u=fc8acbfd9af76…> Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences <https://worldeconomicsassociation.us3.list-manage.com/profile?u=fc8acbfd9af…> or unsubscribe from this list <https://worldeconomicsassociation.us3.list-manage.com/unsubscribe?u=fc8acbf…>. -- 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: Google Archipelago Has Been Released!
by Michel Bauwens 10 Oct '19

10 Oct '19

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Michael Rectenwald <Michael.rectenwald(a)nyu.edu> Date: Wed, Oct 9, 2019 at 9:00 PM Subject: Google Archipelago Has Been Released! To: <michelsub2004(a)gmail.com> Now Available! Google Archipelago The Digital Gulag and the Simulation of Freedom Get your copy from Amazon.com, or a signed copy from the Apogee Bookstore on MichaelRectenwald.com. Apogee Bookstore, Now Available! *Google Archipelago**The Digital Gulag and the Simulation of Freedom* *Get your copy from **Amazon.com* <http://event.a1e0.squarespace-mail.com/?ref=I2UAAMp-uGJI87aEcGW1tN4UjnzD837…>*, or a signed copy from the **Apogee Bookstore* <http://event.a1e0.squarespace-mail.com/?ref=I2UAADWpQ-mtqoBkgzTSfY4CW6dGQdl…>* on **MichaelRectenwald.com* <http://event.a1e0.squarespace-mail.com/?ref=I2UAANjxfQc_pUQ8f7be2hCR1U_0PRq…> *.* <http://event.a1e0.squarespace-mail.com/?ref=I2UAAMp-uGJI87aEcGW1tN4UjnzD837…> <http://event.a1e0.squarespace-mail.com/?ref=I2UAADWpQ-mtqoBkgzTSfY4CW6dGQdl…> Apogee Bookstore, Tunnel Blvd., Pittsburgh and New York, U.S. Unsubscribe <http://event.a1e0.squarespace-mail.com/?ref=I2UAAFYvzd2V_KDL5_8jdKL0JeaiECk…> <http://event.a1e0.squarespace-mail.com/?ref=I2UAABGLfLEOJqVq7LfaEmeLAJ_3QAU…> -- 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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