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Fwd: The Energy 202: No 'unanimity' on Green New Deal, says key House Democrat
by Michel Bauwens 13 Feb '19

13 Feb '19

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Other News <news(a)other-net.info> Date: Tue, Feb 12, 2019 at 8:53 PM Subject: The Energy 202: No 'unanimity' on Green New Deal, says key House Democrat To: <michel(a)p2pfoundation.net> Email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser <https://mailchi.mp/other-net/the-energy-202-no-unanimity-on-green-new-deal-…>. *The Energy 202: No 'unanimity' on Green New Deal, says key House Democrat* *By Dino Grandoni / PowerPost* February 12, 2019 - A pair of prominent Democrats on Thursday released a sweeping and long-awaited measure outlining what they are calling a “Green New Deal.” Invoking President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s years-long effort to drag the country out of the Great Depression, they are calling for nothing short of a top-to-bottom renovation of the U.S. economy in order to halt man-made climate change. Their measure was greeted rapturously by climate activists eager to stop what they see as a looming threat. Immediately, it had the backing of four Democratic senators who have launched bids for the 2020 presidential nomination. It is still early days for the Green New Deal. But fault lines within the Democratic caucus were already visible before the end of the day, with some members urging caution about setting vague and, at times, impossible-to-achieve goals to only fall short. And perhaps most importantly, the plan has yet to get the formal backing of one crucial Democrat: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.). "It will be one of several or maybe many suggestions that we receive,” Pelosi told Politico on Wednesday. “The green dream or whatever they call it, nobody knows what it is, but they’re for it right?” “There’s not unanimity,” said Rep. Raúl Grijalva (D-Ariz.), who backs the Green New Deal proposal and chairs the House Natural Resources Committee. “I’m sure there’s colleagues that feel that should have been more prescriptive than it is. And I’m sure there’s colleagues that feel that we’re providing an issue to the other side.” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), whose star only seems to be rising in the Democratic Party, and Sen. Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), who led the Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming when he was in the House, introduced the measure, a nonbinding resolution, that they say opens the debate on how to craft tangible legislation on an idea that until now essentially served as a campaign slogan. Markey and Ocasio-Cortez are calling for the United States to reduce net greenhouse gas emissions to zero within 10 years and eliminate climate-warming pollution from the transportation sector “as much as is technologically possible." And they want to do so while checking off a number of other progressive goals, like increasing access to housing, health care and education for what they call “frontline” communities, or Americans who are low-income, indigenous and people of color. The proposal advanced by the Democrats is still vague, perhaps in a bid to garner broad support -- Ocasio-Cortez and Markey attracted roughly 60 House members and nine senators as initial co-sponsors. Endorsements from Sens. Cory Booker (D-N.J.), Kirsten Gillibrand (N.Y.), Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), each of whom are running for president, signal the Green New Deal will be an ongoing issue in the 2020 election. Many observers saw Pelosi’s “green dream” comment as dismissive. Before the end of the day, the satirical newspaper The Onion published a story headlined: “Nancy Pelosi Signals Support For Environmental Causes By Placing Green New Deal Directly Into Recycling Bin.” But proponents of the proposal embraced Pelosi’s language. "I think it is a green dream,” Ocasio-Cortez said at a press conference rolling out the Green New Deal. “I don’t consider that to be a dismissive term. I think it’s a great term.” And the speaker was more welcoming of the proposal at her own press conference Thursday morning. “I haven’t seen it," Pelosi said, “but I do know that it’s enthusiastic and we welcome all the enthusiasms that are out there.” Still, Pelosi is charting her own course on climate change with her power as speaker. On that same morning, Pelosi named the Democratic lawmakers who will serve on a new select committee on climate change. She eschewed a request that committee members be required not to take fossil-fuel money. Green New Deal proponents also wanted the committee to embrace that term, but Pelosi ended up naming the committee the "House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis." "The energy industry is complicated," said select committee member and Democratic freshman Rep. Sean Casten (Ill.). He has not endorsed the Green New Deal yet, but of it he added: "The aspiration's beautiful, right? I want to live in a world that has has green jobs. I want to live in a world that has an equitable distribution of resources." Other Democrats expressed more skepticism about slashing carbon emissions that quickly. “I’m not sure a 10-year goal for carbon-free electricity is realistic,” said Sen. Angus King, an independent from Maine who caucuses with the Democrats, adding that he had yet to read the draft. “And I used to be in the renewable power business," he added, referring to his time as a wind-energy executive. King isn’t alone. As the price of wind and solar energy falls due to technological advances, the share of U.S. electricity from renewable sources has grown precipitously to 17 percent in 2017. But few experts think that figure can get to 100 percent anytime soon. “The idea of an all renewable energy economy by 2030 is just unrealistic,” said Ernest Moniz, Barack Obama’s energy secretary. “And putting forward unrealistic goals in my view may impede our progress if it starts to leave behind key constituencies." Sen. Joe Manchin III (D-W.Va.), the ranking member on the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee said he had not read the plan yet. “They never shared it with us until today... I just want to bring everybody together. We have to all settle on the same set of facts." It’s unclear how Democrats plan to proceed. Green New Deal backers envision a series of bills and subsequent programs — similar to the New Deal — that will be taken up by multiple committees and passed over a number of years. Already in the House, the resolution has the backing of Jim McGovern (D-Mass.), the head of the Rules Committee, and Grijalva, its Natural Resources chief. But other committee heads, like Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-N.J.), who spoke in soaring terms just the day before about addressing climate change during a House hearing on the subject, stopped short of a full endorsement. “When it comes to combating climate change, all options need to be on the table," he said. “Yesterday, we had our first hearing on climate change, and that will be the first of many. This plan will be part of our discussion.” Ocasio-Cortez and Markey sought to walk a fine line with their proposal in order to win as much support of it as possible. To court labor groups, for example, court labor groups, which often worry about the effect environmental regulations have on job numbers, the proposal guarantees every American a high-paying job. It also does not include an outright ban on fossil fuels, which some close to the bill see as a concession to moderates. Some environmental activists defend that decision, saying the investments in green energy would make the ban unnecessary. “The fossil fuel industry will not transition willingly and on its own to life-sustaining, renewable practices, because it is determined to trash our planet for its profit no matter the cost,” said Janet Redman, head of Greenpeace USA. The plan also does not explicitly exclude some major forms of low-emissions electricity as some observers worried it would — mainly, nuclear energy and hydropower. “It is an incredibly smart decision to embrace all carbon free technologies that can help us reach our emissions goals,” said Lindsey Walter, an energy policy adviser at the center-left think tank Third Way. Mike DeBonis, Jeff Stein and Paulina Firozi contributed reporting. More on the select climate committee: In addition to Sean Casten, the new members will be Democratic Reps. Kathy Castor (Fla.), who will chair the committee, Ben Ray Luján (N.M.), Suzanne Bonamici (Ore.), Julia Brownley (Calif.), Jared Huffman (Calif.), Mike Levin (Calif.), A. Donald McEachin (Va.) and Joe Neguse (Colo.). Republicans have yet to name their members. Notably missing from the list is Ocasio-Cortez: But she stressed at a news conference it was "not a snub" since she declined to join it. “I will not allow our caucus to be divided up by silly notions of whatever narrative. We are in this together, we are 100 percent in this together,” she said. About those new climate committee members: The nine Democrats on the committee received a combined total of $198,000 in donations from the fossil fuel industry’s political action committees during the midterm elections, HuffPost reports, citing data from the Center for Responsive Politics. Luján received the most of the group, at $117,000 from oil, gas, mining, and utility PACs, which made up 6 percent of the donations he raised. Levin, who has since signed the No Fossil Fuel Money Pledge, received $1,500 from a trade group that lobbies for highway gas stations. Neguse received $1,000, but a spokeswoman for the congressman said he turned down that donation, and said Neguse plans to take the no fossil fuel pledge, per the report. — Remembering John Dingell: John D. Dingell Jr., the longest-serving member of Congress in U.S. history, died at his home in Dearborn, Mich. at the age of 92, The Post's Emma Brown writes. A member of the House from 1955 to 2015, the Democrat chaired the Energy and Commerce Committee several times. He used to define the jurisdiction of the committee by pointing to a photograph of Earth taken from space. Dingell co-wrote the Endangered Species Act and the Marine Mammal Protection Act. He also “became one of conservationists’ prime enemies for his fierce opposition to tightening fuel-efficiency standards,” Brown writes — so much so that in 2008, environmental advocate Henry A. Waxman (D-Calif.) successfully challenged the Detriot-area representative for the Energy and Commerce chairmanship and called him “a determined opponent on clean air, climate change and energy issues.” — Trump speaks with California governor after threat to cut off fire aid: In an interview with the Los Angeles Times and other regional newspapers, the president was asked whether he still believes the government should restrict federal aid to California over its forest management. Trump didn't explicitly repeat his threat, the Times reports. “I told my people, I said we cannot continue to spend billions of dollars, billions and billions of dollars,” he said, adding: “Forest fires are totally preventable. They shouldn’t happen.” He described a call with Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) that followed a tweet last month in which he ordered the Federal Emergency Management Agency to “send no more money” unless “they get their act together.” “He was very respectful as to my point of view,” Trump said about Newsom. “I think he agrees with me. I respect the fact that he called.” — New seismic activity in ANWR paused for winter: Interior Department officials said this week no new seismic testing will occur in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge this winter after questions emerged about how the surveys would affect local polar pear populations and tundra conditions, E&E News reports. The decision was announced at a public meeting in Kaktovik, Alaska. “This week's disclosure came at a time when regulators are seeking public comments on Interior's draft environmental impact statement for drilling in the coastal plain,” per the report. “Interior's decision not to allow seismic surveys this winter means no new data will be gathered on the 1.6-million-acre coastal plain until the ground refreezes next winter.” — Another day, another set of rules rolled back: The Trump administration proposed exempting some lightbulbs from energy efficiency standards, rolling back Obama-era rules increasing the number of lightbulbs required to meet the standards set set to take effect next year. “The proposal would remove three-way bulbs, candle-shaped bulbs used in chandeliers, reflector bulbs used in recessed lighting, and others from having to comply with the new efficiency standards,” Reuters reports. The Energy 202 wrote in August about a document published and later deleted from the Energy Department’s website signaling the change. — PG&E’s wildfire woes: The state’s largest utility says it will shut off power to more areas of service in California during high-risk conditions to try to prevent deadly wildfires. The plan, which PG&E filed with state regulators this week, includes expanding tree clearing, strengthening equipment inspection and installing more weather stations to spot fire risk early, the Wall Street Journal reports. — Venezuela watch: As a result of the U.S. sanctions imposed on Venezuelan oil, there are 21 tankers with 9.6 million barrels of oil that have been stranded off the U.S. Gulf Coast. “Some buyers had purchased the cargoes ahead of U.S. sanctions imposed last week, using the vessels as floating storage,” Reuters reports. “Others weighed how to pay under new rules, according to traders, shippers and data from Refinitiv Eikon.” — How climate change is making hurricanes strengthen faster: New research suggests climate change has made hurricanes in the Atlantic Ocean “considerably worse,” The Post's Chris Mooney and Brady Dennis report. A trend of rapid intensification — where storms quickly strengthen from Category 1 to Category 4 or 5 — has emerged in recent years. “Natural variability cannot explain the magnitude of the observed upward trend,” the researchers wrote in the study published in Nature Communications. “Rapid intensification is exceedingly dangerous because people, they’re not warned adequately, they’re not prepared, many of them don’t evacuate,” Jim Kossin, study author and a hurricane expert with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, told The Post. — Heading to Key West soon? Make sure to pack the right sunscreen. The Key West City Commission voted 6 to 1 this week to ban sunscreens with oxybenzone and octinoxate, two chemicals shown to harm coral reefs, The Post’s Lindsey Bever reports. After Hawaii became the first state to pass a similar ban, Key West voted to ban the sale of these products in the city starting in January 2021. Mayor Teri Johnston said she hopes tourists will follow the ban, too. “I hope it will make consumers more aware and responsible for their actions,” she told The Post in an interview. She wants people to “flip over their sunscreens and look at the ingredients and make wise choices for themselves and their families.” *By Dino Grandoni / PowerPost* <https://other-news.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e397bb7f243b9efb847d5…> <https://other-news.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e397bb7f243b9efb847d5…> <https://other-news.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e397bb7f243b9efb847d5…> The figures speak clearly: we have a deadline of 12 years after which climate change becomes irreversible. The lack of action by governments, corporations and citizens is now dramatic. Othernews has decided to start a specific service on this theme, which will monitor data and events ... and their impact on the economy, society and nature. 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Fwd: A World Political Party: The Time Has Come (GTN Discussion)
by Michel Bauwens 13 Feb '19

13 Feb '19

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Great Transition Network <gtnetwork(a)greattransition.org> Date: Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 5:43 AM Subject: A World Political Party: The Time Has Come (GTN Discussion) To: <michelsub2004(a)gmail.com> >From Heikki Patomäki <heikki.patomaki(a)gmail.com> ------------------------------------------------------- The Time for a World Political Party is now: A Response to Critics Heikki Patomäki In the future, we will see many world political parties (WPPs). The idea of a WPP is generic. While our capacity to envisage our common existence from a planetary perspective and to organize politics accordingly is valuable in itself, I am advocating a particular vision for the form such a party could take. This ambiguity has triggered a number of critical comments, so let me be clear: what I propose is that we establish a democratic socialist world party. At the same time, however, I believe that in a pluralistic and non-Eurocentric world, there will be other simultaneous and substantive ideals around which future politics revolve. What could a democratic socialist world party do under the current institutional and political-economic conditions? As Karl Marx famously said, actors “make their own history, but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected circumstances, but under circumstances existing already, given and transmitted from the past.” Certainly, there have been better world-historical moments for global democratic ideas, such as the end of the two world wars and the 1990s. If anything, the world is now disintegrating, in part as a result of the rise of nationalist populism. This rise has been strongly fueled by the 2008–9 crisis and its consequences, but its deeper causes are related to the process of neoliberalization that started back in the 1970s. Moreover, in spite of many campaigns, it remains the case that there is still no world parliament (or government). Even if the idea of a United Nations Parliamentary Assembly (UNPA) was realized immediately, it would probably give greater voice to members of national parliaments, rather than creating space for anything resembling global political parties proper. No global elections are yet in sight. It is reasonable, at least tentatively, to see the current situation in terms of Karl Polanyi’s double movement, although clearly, history does not simply repeat itself. There is no pendulum of history. Moreover, we cannot go back to what Axel Honneth calls the intellectual fictions of the age of the Industrial Revolution, namely that historical progress is necessary and that it will be carried forward by a particular class with fixed interests. [1] While the working-class movement in England and elsewhere emerged from a variety of real socioeconomic conditions, it was actively nurtured by socialists who believed in its world-historical role. The socioeconomic conditions are different in the twenty-first century. For instance, industrial workers form a declining share of the labor force across advanced industrial countries. Changing realities require new ideas. The idea of transformative global agency is purported to make a wide rational appeal across different social classes: “This is what is reasonable for us to do!” As Richard Falk puts it, “The very adversity of circumstances and the severity of global risks is giving rise to a radical populist consciousness.” In addition to these risks, and the acute sense of injustices and asymmetries of power, there must also be a positive direction. David Christian expresses the positive part of the idea eloquently: the challenge is to construct “a new and inspiring vision of where we humans are today, a vision that can inspire optimism and ambition about the planetary task of building a sustainable future.” Indeed, this is the main aim of my call for a WPP. The making of a collective agency is a process of active and reflexive engagement among the world’s people. The nineteenth-century socialists, believing in their world-historical role, established trade unions, various associations and societies, and labor and socialist parties. The making of a working class shaped the development of industrial capitalism, and also, together with the twentieth-century catastrophes, led to the establishment of dictatorial and often violent single-party socialist regimes across the world. We need to learn from these historical experiences, both the negative and positive lessons they have to offer. We must avoid again being mired in the intellectual fictions of the age of the Industrial Revolution and must acknowledge the diversity of elements that fed into the process of forming the nineteenth-century working class. The majority of these associations, unions, and parties were struggling to democratize society, and often succeeded. Similarly, we can see the emergence of global civil society, along with the possible coalescence of a world political party, as part of a broad process of global transformation. Citizens across the world are disillusioned by national politics. In response to the latest rounds of globalization, many national parties have become post-democratic. Consider the fate of Syriza in Greece, for instance. What happened was not simply an example of Michels’s iron law of oligarchy (which posits that oligarchy is the inevitable fate of all complex organizations). More importantly, the debacle of the summer of 2015 illustrated the power of creditors over debtors in the world economy and the lack of equitable rule of law in worldwide financial relations. During past decades, a large number of countries in the Global South went through similar experiences, instigating the emergence of global debt campaigns in the 1980s and 1990s. Civil society is about associational life and public space. Since Hegel introduced the term into the modern discourse, several different conceptions of civil society have emerged, reflecting different ethical and political aims of public associations. Table 1 summarizes four of conceptions, each of which expresses particular historical discussions and developments. Variations 2 through 4 all contain ideas important for emancipation and increasing social freedom. It is, of course, true that many contemporary civil society organizations are financially dependent on the powers that be, and even those that are not, tend to focus on one or two limited issues. This does not negate the idea that civil society organizations can do important work and foster ideas of global justice and democracy. Moreover, in a good society, the freedom of association must prevail. As Roy Bhaskar puts it, despite the very real weaknesses of civil society, its social virtues remains “a domain of innovation, initiative and enterprise necessary to a dynamic, pluralistic socialist society.” [2] Table 1: Approaches to civil society (www.tinyurl.com/yym2moqw) Broadly, a political party is best seen as an instance of public association. A typical national political party is an association that has achieved the right to nominate candidates in elections and thereby contest and claim the political power of the state. A party has to have a wide program covering multiple complex issues, for its aim is to take part in making laws and budgetary decisions. As commenters point out, a world political party could not claim that role in a world state, simply because no such state exists. But the party itself would constitute a public sphere, and the existing international regimes, or systems of regional and global governance, would provide sites for a public sphere and political actions. The raison d’être of the world party must lie in furthering transformations and various new institutional forms in which the planetary public realm can be organized. For this purpose, consensus opinions among participants will be forged into a program of change, which can also involve direct or indirect participation in elections in different countries and organizations. We can distinguish between three moments of transformative global democratic action: MOMENT 1: Activities within the confines of established institutions. MOMENT 2: Advocacy to transform global institutions and create new ones. MOMENT 3: Participation in the newly formed global institutions. These three moments form a logical order: activities within existing institutions can include advocacy of, and legislation for, global democratic institutions. A grouping of like-minded countries, supported by global civil society and WPPs, can suffice for establishing a new global system of governance. These systems can be functional and yet democratic. Successful attempts at creating institutions of planetary democracy make participation in them possible. Over time, new institutions will become established, and the cycle can continue from MOMENT 1 to MOMENT 2 to MOMENT 3. Each step in the process changes the constellation of forces in global politics and the ways the WPP strategy adapts. There is no end to history; and not all new institutions will have to be planetary in scope. Global institutions can, and in many cases should, increase the contextually overlapping, multi-layered autonomy and social freedom of actors, learning from experiences in an experimental spirit. Since the 1990s, I have been involved in developing and advocating several specific global utopias (or eutopias as I prefer to call them), from a debt arbitration mechanism and global taxes (including a global greenhouse gas tax) to a twenty-first-century version of Keynes’s clearing union. I particularly favor building support for workers’ rights and trade unionization on a planetary scale, both out of solidarity and to increase global aggregate demand. Another key idea is to regulate and maintain aggregate efficient demand on a global scale, which presupposes the coordinated institutionalization of economic policies between nation-states and functional international organizations, coordinated for example through a world parliament. These reforms would be critically important as well for global peace and security, since root causes of conflicts and securitization tend to lie in the sphere of political economy. We need to build a more cooperative and equitable world. The rational tendency of world history is toward green global Keynesianism, which would enable us to achieve democratic control over the mechanisms and processes of the capitalist world economy. Nonetheless, how well any of the proposed institutional arrangements will work is contingent. There are also deeper aims, such as furthering human emancipation and the development of all on the thin layer of life on our fragile planet, all in the wider context of cosmic evolution. This generic aim should, in my view, constitute the key idea of a democratic socialist world party, thereby encouraging a diversity of emancipatory projects across scales from local to cosmic, focusing for instance on the idea of commons. It would be premature to write a detailed program for a WPP before the process leading to its creation has begun; at this point, we can only outline a broad direction. And, to reiterate, there will be many WPPs. Let me conclude this response by outlining three scenarios about the future role of WPPs in global politics: A) A world political party—or a number of them—forms in the near future, proving decisively important in future transformations. B) Transformations emerge mainly from within the existing structures of power (global “gorbachevs” rise in response to crises, resonating with wider societal developments and new ideas); new democratic systems of global governance precipitate the formation of WPPs that assume important functions. C) Current developments lead to a global military and/or ecological catastrophe; a world party assumes leadership and establishes a democratic world state (this is the well-known scenario of W. Warren Wagar in his A Short History of Future); soon, the world party is then challenged by other world political parties, carrying the project of emancipation further, perhaps into new and hitherto unimagined directions. My general anticipation is that WPPs will be in the center stage of future world politics, regardless of which scenario comes to pass. The current system is not sustainable economically, politically, militarily, or ecologically. Of course, I favor Scenario 1. To avoid a catastrophe, or an elite-led development, the time to establish a democratic world political party is indeed now! Reflexively, the democratic socialist world party would recognize a widespread tendency towards post-democratic forms of governance. These oligarchic tendencies would have to be countered by cultivating the republican virtues and courageous participation of its constantly shifting groups of activist members. This is a necessary but not a sufficient condition for ensuring democratic responsiveness and learning. A WPP will be a continuing historical experiment. Heikki Patomäki [1] Axel Honneth, The Idea of Socialism: Toward a Renewal (New York: Wiley, 2016). [2] Roy Dialectic, The Pulse of Freedom (New York: Routledge, 2008), 235. ******************************** ******************************* Thursday, January 3, 2019 >From Paul Raskin <praskin(a)tellus.org> ----- Dear GTN, Our 2018 forums have spotlighted key movement streams (with more in the queue for 2019). We have generated a remarkable compendium of essays and commentary that stands as a unique resource for understanding the vitality and diversity of progressive forces now at play. Significantly, the series affirms the fundamental GT premise that different oppositional paths can lead to a shared conviction: we must urgently act collectively for global transformation.* Yet, the nagging sense persists that the current array of movements remains too fragmented and weak for the task of systemic change. The political culture still lacks an overarching global organizing framework for nurturing synergy, mobilizing the discontented, and spreading new social visions – not to mention serving ultimately as an instrument for attaining public power. What might such a framework look like? The question brings me to our January discussion. Heikki Patomäki offers an answer in his new essay, “A World Political Party: The Time Has Come.” Heikki envisions a World Political Party (WPP) as a transnational association dedicated to democratic principles and processes that, under an umbrella of shared principles and aims, spawns a vast network of semiautonomous nodes at all levels. While noting the high hurdles to establishing a WPP, Heikki points to the deepening world crisis that compels the attempt and makes success plausible; indeed, he believes an important precursor has already been launched. What do you think? Please read the essay at www.greattransition.org/publication/world-political-party, and let us know. Does the idea of a WPP resonate? How would you modify Heikki’s conception? To those of you pursuing other approaches to fostering movement coherence, this would be a terrific time to tell us about them. Since we’re starting late, the discussion will go through Monday, February 4. Over to you, Paul * See the framing paper that kicked off this series at www.greattransition.org/publication/how-do-we-get-there. ------------------------------------------------------- Hit reply to post a comment on the GT Network Read all comments (or reply) at https://greattransition.org/forum/gti-discussions/209-a-world-political-par… Note: Expect a delay between posting and receiving your comment Need help? Email jcohn(a)tellus.org -- 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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an absolute mustread about what is going on in the context of global culture wars
by Michel Bauwens 12 Feb '19

12 Feb '19

https://medium.com/s/world-wide-wtf/memetic-tribes-and-culture-war-2-0-1470… -- 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: PREMIERE of Voice of Nature - The Trial at Court of Appeal in Ghent
by Michel Bauwens 12 Feb '19

12 Feb '19

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: maria lucia cruz correia <mluciacruzcorreia(a)gmail.com> Date: Tue, Feb 12, 2019 at 12:27 PM Subject: PREMIERE of Voice of Nature - The Trial at Court of Appeal in Ghent To: <michelsub2004(a)gmail.com> Voice of Nature - The Trial coming soon in Ghent! It is now almost 2 years since I've left on a field research to Ecuador, the only place in the world *Voice of Nature - The Trial* coming soon in Ghent! It is now almost 2 years since I’ve left on a field research to Ecuador, the only place in the world that acknowledges the rights of nature in the constitution. It has been a long artistic research, mostly focused on possible legal frameworks that allow either to represent non-humans in court or to recognize ecocide. Non of those are being applied yet or envisioned in a near future. *The result of this research is a performance!* We will premiere on the 1st of march in Vooruitkunstcentrum, and we are thankful to present in the context of the festival ‘same same but different’. As a location, we chose the Court of Appeal of Gent (Hof van Beroep), as a statement of activation. As a response to the many legal challenges we face in representing non-humans in a courtroom, more then a year ago, I started my quest to become a guardian of nature. For that, I’ve dedicated daily attention, to perform rituals and embodiments with non-human others. As a result I’ve archived these exercises in a book. The performance in itself will be a proposal for justice, the kind of justice nature needs, imagining a universe of kinship and rites as an embodiment of non-humans. We will propose collective rituals featuring the unknown and the unconscious part of nature in us. History is asking us to become healers, warriors, guardians, keepers, defenders. To speak on behalf of future and past generations. To amplify the voice of nature, animals, plants, rivers, land... We have harmed enough, we have been harmed enough. Enough is enough. Let us stop harming, let us make amends, let us repair the irreparable. Welcome on the 1st of march! https://www.vooruit.be/en/agenda/1178/The_Voice_of_Nature_The_Trial/Maria_L… <https://mluciacruzcorreia.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4c0aa08633c9ad…> As additional information, I would like to mention small achievements, within our collaboration with experts: Hendrik Schoukens, environmental lawyer and scientific researcher at the department of Public, European and International Law of Ghent University. We invited him to imagine ‘an ideal world’, juridically speaking, by proposing a number of important legal alterations to the existing legal framework. Apart from that, there was a sense of emergency to involve law students in the creation of this piece. *As an outcome, the concept of ‘ecocide’ was explicitly for the first time included in the curriculum of law students at Ghent University*. Students are now working on papers concerning ecocide law, rights of nature and indigenous rights. For, if the new generation of lawyers is not fully aware of it, how can we realistically hope for the concept of ecocide to be included into the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court? As a proposal, the piece is looking at restorative justice and therefore we collaborated with Brunilda Pali from the Institute of Criminology Leuven, to discover artistically speaking how to *use restorative justice in order to prevent environmental crimes*,* but also to tackle the fact that if we need to prevent the harm*,* there should be a way to restore ourselves as humans*. In restorative justice, crime is not seen as a break in the law but a violation/harm of people and relationships. It creates obligations to make things right. Its processes are always voluntary, participatory and involve everyone affected. The outcomes are reconciliation, restoration, and reassurance that the harm will not happen again. Voice of nature will be part of the seminar: https://www.law.kuleuven.be/apps/activiteiten/en/portaal/index/view_activit… Very thankful for the artistic team who has been crucial to bring this challenging project together: Dramaturgy *Ingrid Vranken *Performance *Caroline Daish *Systemic Constellation Navigator *Luea Ritter *Research contribution* Sébastien Hendrickx *Sound Design *Joao Bento *Light Design *Vinny Jones * Video *Mark Pozlep *Advise *Jeroen Peeters, Starhawk* Costume Design *Anne-Catherine Kunz *Legal fact checking *Hendrik Schoukens & Juan Auz *Research documentation *Mark Pozlep & Hana Vodeb *Restorative Justice collaborator *Brunilda Pali *Intern* Maíra Wiener *Technician* Alain Decoen *Production* Tineke de Meyer* Co-producers* Vooruit, Kaaitheater, Bunker, Workspacebrussels and Het Theaterfestival (Roel Verniers **prijs** 2017).* Residencies *No Lugar (EC), Center for Creative Ecologies /Tj Demos (US), Artsadmin (UK), BUDA kunstcentrum (BE), WP Zimmer (BE)*. 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Fwd: Two Questions Could Help Save Us From Collapse - PSP Feb 2018
by Michel Bauwens 12 Feb '19

12 Feb '19

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Principled Societies Project <info(a)principledsocietiesproject.org> Date: Tue, Feb 12, 2019 at 4:05 AM Subject: Two Questions Could Help Save Us From Collapse - PSP Feb 2018 To: <michel(a)p2pfoundation.net> Two Questions Could Help Save Us From Collapse Did you read this weeks news <https://PrincipledSocietiesProject.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=02038…> that insects could vanish by the end of the century? If we let that happen, I fear humans will vanish too. In spite of the determined efforts by millions over the last half-century to change course, we're still on the same dangerous trajectory. Perhaps its time to try a different approach. I invite you to read my latest Medium.com article: *"Two Questions Could Help Save Us From Collapse" <https://PrincipledSocietiesProject.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=02038…>* Thanks for your continued interest in Principled Societies Project. If you think there's room for improvement over existing economic, political, and legal systems, please stay in touch. You can help by sharing the new article with friends/colleagues on social media. John Boik, PhD, Founder, Principled Societies Project <https://PrincipledSocietiesProject.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=02038…> <https://PrincipledSocietiesProject.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=02038…> <https://PrincipledSocietiesProject.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=02038…> <https://PrincipledSocietiesProject.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=02038…> *Copyright © 2019 Principled Societies Project, All rights reserved.* You are receiving this (infrequent) newsletter because you opted in at the PrincipledSocietiesProject.org website. *Our mailing address is:* Principled Societies Project PO Box 3174 Pearland, TX 77588 Add us to your address book <https://PrincipledSocietiesProject.us14.list-manage.com/vcard?u=02038e5ba45…> Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences <https://PrincipledSocietiesProject.us14.list-manage.com/profile?u=02038e5ba…> or unsubscribe from this list <https://PrincipledSocietiesProject.us14.list-manage.com/unsubscribe?u=02038…>. [image: Email Marketing Powered by Mailchimp] <http://www.mailchimp.com/monkey-rewards/?utm_source=freemium_newsletter&utm…> -- 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: Invitation to join Solidarity & Sustainability
by Michel Bauwens 12 Feb '19

12 Feb '19

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Solidarity & Sustainability < solidarity-sustainability+noreply(a)googlegroups.com> Date: Tue, Feb 12, 2019 at 6:56 AM Subject: Invitation to join Solidarity & Sustainability To: <michelsub2004(a)gmail.com> Solidarity & Sustainability <https://groups.google.com/d/forum/solidarity-sustainability> Google Groups <https://groups.google.com/d/overview> [image: Logo for Google Groups] <https://groups.google.com/d/overview> Hi Michel Bauwens, Luis T. Gutierrez invited you to join the *Solidarity & Sustainability* <https://groups.google.com/d/forum/solidarity-sustainability> group. Message from Luis T. Gutierrez Greetings! This is an invitation to subscribe to the "Mother Pelican Journal of Solidarity and Sustainability" (http://pelicanweb.org) Current issue: Vol. 15, No. 2, February 2019 ( http://www.pelicanweb.org/solisustv15n02page1.html) The journal is a monthly digest of emerging research and initiatives on global social/ecological justice issues, with especial focus on ecological anthropology, cultural trends, and integral human development. There is also a section on religious patriarchy as it pertains to human relations and an integral ecology: "Meditations on Man and Woman, Humanity and Nature" (http://pelicanweb.org/CCC.TOB.html) Christian ethos, free subscription, published under a Creative Commons license, one email per month with the links to the new pages. Please consider submitting articles. Sincerely, Luis Gutiérrez (the.pelican.web(a)gmail.com) About this group This is the subscription list for "Mother Pelican: A Journal of Solidarity and Sustainability." The journal is a monthly research digest on human solidarity and ecological sustainability issues. It is published under a Creative Commons license. Google Groups allows you to create and participate in online forums and email-based groups with a rich community experience. You can also use your Group to share documents, pictures, calendars, invitations, and other resources. Learn more <https://support.google.com/groups/answer/46601?hl=en> . If you do not wish to be a member of this group or believe this group may contain spam, you can report <https://groups.google.com/d/abuse/YQAAAI6HGjahAAAAlN9oww0AAAD3KRLN2X438g_5x…> the group for abuse. For additional information see our help center <http://support.google.com/groups/bin/answer.py?answer=46601>. Accept this invitation <https://groups.google.com/forum/subscribe?token=AHZ7KVMvLUOHFAsfhFQKhYBe2T8…> If you do not wish to be added to Google Groups in the future you can opt out here <https://groups.google.com/d/optout>. Start <https://groups.google.com/d/creategroup> a new group. Visit <http://support.google.com/groups/bin/answer.py?answer=46601> the help center. -- 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: [bgcon] "Global South Atlantic"
by Michel Bauwens 11 Feb '19

11 Feb '19

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Krystian Woznicki <kw(a)berlinergazette.de> Date: Mon, Feb 11, 2019 at 11:47 AM Subject: [bgcon] "Global South Atlantic" To: <digi-yards(a)berlinergazette.de> Hi, the 'ever less' logics of austerity and right-wing populism are shrinking access to the world – be it at the level of existential resources, social connections or discoursive space. The MORE WORLD initiative intends to counter this trend. In an interview I conducted with the postcolonial scholar Kerry Bystrom argues against 'world shrinkage' by turning to the silenced realities of the South Atlantic. The South Atlantic can be seen as a hidden link between Africa and Latin America. As such it has enabled stories, people and goods to travel in the shadows of globalization. Engendering a different narrative of this epochal process, these ghosts of global geo-culture are cast in a silence that we are challenged to become attuned to. Based on the book “The Global South Atlantic”, edited by Kerry Bystrom and Joseph R. Slaughter, the following interview shows that the silence bundles political energies and imaginaries that can open more access to the world as it is and as it could be. The interview has been published on Mediapart.fr. Read it here: https://bit.ly/2GjaxE5 Re-tweet this: https://twitter.com/berlinergazette/status/1094910273071263744 Stay tuned, Krystian -- -------------------------------------------------------------- BG – Berliner Gazette | since 1999 | http://berlinergazette.de -------------------------------------------------------------- BG’s 20th anniversary project MORE WORLD https://more-world.berlinergazette.de -------------------------------------------------------------- CHALLENGE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE! https://ambient-revolts.berlinergazette.de -------------------------------------------------------------- BG BOOKS OUT NOW @ DP: FUGITIVE BELONGING https://diamondpaper.net/title_27 A FIELD GUIDE TO THE SNOWDEN FILES http://diamondpaper.net/title_26 AFTER THE PLANES http://diamondpaper.net/title_25 -------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Digi-yards_berlinergazette.de mailing list digi-yards(a)berlinergazette.de https://ml06.ispgateway.de/mailman/listinfo/digi-yards_berlinergazette.de -- Check out the Commons Transition Plan here at: http://commonstransition.org P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation>Updates: http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/

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Fwd: Michel Bauwens - new related research
by Michel Bauwens 10 Feb '19

10 Feb '19

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Google Scholar Alerts <scholaralerts-noreply(a)google.com> Date: Sat, Feb 9, 2019 at 12:10 PM Subject: Michel Bauwens - new related research To: <michelsub2004(a)gmail.com> [PDF] The Emergence of Open Construction Systems: A Sustainable Paradigm in the Construction Sector? <http://scholar.google.co.th/scholar_url?url=https://jfsdigital.org/wp-conte…> C Priavolou - Journal of Futures Studies, 2018 This paper discusses how emerging issues in housing construction could revolutionise the building industry. It focuses on commons-based networks of organisations, technologies and users that form a niche practice on the margins of … [image: Twitter] <http://scholar.google.co.th/scholar_share?hl=en&oi=scholaralrt&ss=tw&url=ht…> [image: Facebook] <http://scholar.google.co.th/scholar_share?hl=en&oi=scholaralrt&ss=fb&url=ht…> List my alerts <http://scholar.google.co.th/scholar_alerts?view_op=list_alerts&email_for_op…> Cancel alert <http://scholar.google.co.th/scholar_alerts?view_op=cancel_alert_options&ema…> This alert is sent by Google Scholar. Google Scholar is a service by Google. -- 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: [tripleC] Head of the Westminster School of Media and Communication
by Michel Bauwens 10 Feb '19

10 Feb '19

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Christian Fuchs <christian.fuchs(a)triple-c.at> Date: Sat, Feb 9, 2019 at 1:18 PM Subject: [tripleC] Head of the Westminster School of Media and Communication To: Dear Readers of tripleC, The University of Westminster, where tripleC is edited, is looking for a Head of the newly created School of Media and Communication that is comprised of all of the University's undergraduate and postgraduate programmes/courses in media and communication studies. Please find more information below. Kind regards, Christian Fuchs -- In 1975 the first British undergraduate degree in Media Studies was created at the University of Westminster. Media and Communication Studies at the University has a long and notable history and tradition. The post of Head of School, Westminster School of Media and Communication, is one of four new Head positions in the College of Design, Creative and Digital Industries, and is focused on high-level management of all aspects of learning and teaching in media and communication studies. The new Head of School will have an ambitious vision for studies and how to organise our teaching programmes in media and communication in a contemporary 21st-century information society, in order to advance the next generation of media practitioners, leaders and academics in the field. Application and more information: https://vacancies.westminster.ac.uk/Hrvacancies/default.aspx?id=50052063 Application deadline: March 3 -- Prof. Christian Fuchs Co-Editor of tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique http://www.triple-c.at @fuchschristian christian.fuchs(a)triple-c.at -- 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: FW: In Memoriam Bernard Lietaer
by Michel Bauwens 10 Feb '19

10 Feb '19

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Michael Lewis <lewiscccr(a)shaw.ca> Date: Sat, Feb 9, 2019 at 5:00 PM Subject: FW: In Memoriam Bernard Lietaer To: pat commonfutures <pat.commonfutures(a)phonecoop.coop>, John Restakis < restakis(a)gmail.com>, Kevin Flanagan <kev.flanagan(a)gmail.com>, Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004(a)gmail.com> Thought you guys might want to see this tribute to Bernard. *From: *Kathrin Latsch - MONNETA Newsletter <info(a)monneta.org> *Reply-To: *Kathrin Latsch - MONNETA Newsletter <info(a)monneta.org> *Date: *Saturday, February 9, 2019 at 5:20 AM *To: *<lewiscccr(a)shaw.ca> *Subject: *In Memoriam Bernard Lietaer In Memoriam Bernard Lietaer - Monetary reformer, innovator and pioneer of complementary currencies Trouble reading this email? View it in your browser <https://mailchi.mp/b2884486c408/monneta-newletter-damit-das-geld-uns-allen-…> [image: https://gallery.mailchimp.com/5946820fbb88dd524bd7cc548/images/08845a7e-44a…] <https://monneta.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=5946820fbb88dd524bd7cc54…> Dear friend, [image: https://gallery.mailchimp.com/5946820fbb88dd524bd7cc548/images/a5615b76-141… are mourning for Bernard Lietaer, who died from cancer on February 4th. He was a friend, colleague and mentor to us for many years, who blessed us with extraordinary insights and invaluable inspiration. Not only has the world now lost the person with the most far-reaching knowledge about money, but also a head and heart that knew how to design monetary systems for the benefit of people. He was out to change the world of money for the better. He knew that money is such a powerful instrument that determines not only our economies but also our thinking. His enthusiasm for the topic never faltered because "if there is a single instrument, that can be brought to bear on all issues that we need to address to save mankind, it would be the money system." Fundamental terms like "complementary currency" and "monetary ecosystem" are attributed to him and he kept saying: "Name a problem and I will design a complementary currency to help you solve it." Margrit Kennedy wrote to her friend and co-author of many years: "Your creativity, your inexhaustible ideas on how to design, invent and transform money, simply leave me in awe." Both of them were convinced, that diversity in currency systems would be far superior for the benefit of people, the economy and the planet than our singular money system, in which banks create money by giving loans. He suffered seeing how his ideas failed to be systematically implemented in policy: Despite the many thousand local complementary currencies that were launched in the past decades, he never received substantial recognition within the conventional financial system. "I have lost my illusion that having the solution is what matters. It's absolutely irrelevant." he remarked to us in one of his last comprehensive video-interviews (2016) <https://monneta.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=5946820fbb88dd524bd7cc54…>. And it pained him deeply that Greece never got the chance to issue a national parallel currency. He was convinced, that the Greek people would have been much better off, if they had their own second currency - much like Britain has with the Pound - to be used alongside the Euro. Bernard Lietaer was a great thinker with an unusual bright intellect, enriching the lives of so many people. For us he stands in the line of economist like S. Gesell, J.M. Keynes or N. Georgescu-Roegen. Isaac Newton is quoted saying that we are all standing on the shoulders of giants and hence can look further into the future. On the 7th of February Bernard would have celebrated his 77th birthday. We will always love him and are now standing on his shoulders, to continue his work and built a better world. Stefan Brunnhuber und Kathrin Latsch February 7th, 2019 [image: monneta.org] <https://monneta.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=5946820fbb88dd524bd7cc54…> monneta.org <https://monneta.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=5946820fbb88dd524bd7cc54…> [image: Twitter-Kanal] <https://monneta.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=5946820fbb88dd524bd7cc54…> Twitter-Kanal <https://monneta.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=5946820fbb88dd524bd7cc54…> [image: Video-Vimeo] <https://monneta.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=5946820fbb88dd524bd7cc54…> Video-Vimeo <https://monneta.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=5946820fbb88dd524bd7cc54…> [image: https://gallery.mailchimp.com/5946820fbb88dd524bd7cc548/images/75096b2a-14a…] MONNETA is a charity registered in Germany. Please support our work. *Donate now,* *directly on our website:* [image: https://gallery.mailchimp.com/5946820fbb88dd524bd7cc548/images/8c59bfd1-a81…] [image: https://gallery.mailchimp.com/5946820fbb88dd524bd7cc548/images/972e5b93-915…] *Thank you!* *Kathrin LatschDirector* *More about Bernard Lietaer on MONNETA.org:* *One of his last video interviews* [image: https://gallery.mailchimp.com/5946820fbb88dd524bd7cc548/images/d772b6de-bb0…] Watch on MONNETA.org → <https://monneta.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=5946820fbb88dd524bd7cc54…> *"Money of the Future"* Video feature with interviews from 2009 Watch on MONNETA.org → <https://monneta.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=5946820fbb88dd524bd7cc54…> *Lietaer as a founding member* *of MONNETA* Due to his many years of collaborating with Margrit Kennedy Bernard had been a member of our network from the earliest beginnings Read more → <https://monneta.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=5946820fbb88dd524bd7cc54…> *© 2019 MONNETA gGmbH* *Why did I get this newsletter?* You have entered your email to the subscriber list on the English MONNETA website: www.monneta.org/en or been in contact with Margrit Kenndey, Declan Kennedy or somebody else from the MONNETA team and asked to be updated about our work. 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Please consider to send us your feedback and comments! <[email protected]?subject=Anregungen%20zum%20Newsletter&body=Liebes%20MONNETA%20Team%2C> This email was sent to lewiscccr(a)shaw.ca *why did I get this?* <https://monneta.us10.list-manage.com/about?u=5946820fbb88dd524bd7cc548&id=f…> unsubscribe from this list <https://monneta.us10.list-manage.com/unsubscribe?u=5946820fbb88dd524bd7cc54…> update subscription preferences <https://monneta.us10.list-manage.com/profile?u=5946820fbb88dd524bd7cc548&id…> MONNETA gGmbH · Ginsterweg 5 · Steyerberg 13595 · Germany [image: Email Marketing Powered by Mailchimp] <http://www.mailchimp.com/monkey-rewards/?utm_source=freemium_newsletter&utm…> [image: https://monneta.us10.list-manage.com/track/open.php?u=5946820fbb88dd524bd7c…] -- 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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