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Fwd: [CommonGood] Fw: Save the date! The WSFTE will take place 25th-28th of June 2020 in Barcelona
by Michel Bauwens 26 Sep '19

26 Sep '19

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Birgit Daiber <bir.dai(a)hotmail.com> Date: Thu, Sep 26, 2019 at 4:52 PM Subject: [CommonGood] Fw: Save the date! The WSFTE will take place 25th-28th of June 2020 in Barcelona To: commongood(a)listi.jpberlin.de <commongood(a)listi.jpberlin.de> Dear Friends and colleagues, here's the announcement for the WSF 2020 in Barcelona: ------------------------------ *From:* web(a)transformadora.org <web(a)transformadora.org> *Sent:* Thursday, September 26, 2019 11:35 AM *To:* bir.dai(a)hotmail.com <bir.dai(a)hotmail.com> *Subject:* Save the date! The WSFTE will take place 25th-28th of June 2020 in Barcelona Save the date! The WSFTE will take place 25th-28th of June 2020 in Barcelona The World Social Forum of Transformative Economies will take place from the 25th to the 28th of June 2020 in Barcelona. The decision was taken by the members of Barcelona’s local convergence group, the hosts of the event, which is made up of activists from various transformative economies sectors (feminist economies, food sovereignty and agroecology, the commons, the social and solidarity economy, and fair trade and ethical finance, amongst others). The dates were chosen taking into account the calendar of international events in which the organizations of the Coordination Committee, which promotes the process at an international level, take part. The aim was that these activities would not clash with others, in order to favor the participation of as many people as possible. With a nine-month calendar, the members of the local Barcelona convergence group and the members of the Coordination Committee are already organizing themselves in different working commissions, to take charge of tasks such as logistics, Forum contents, communications, and the welcome of the international participants who will come to Barcelona to take part in the event. The aim is to make the WSFTE a diverse event, with broad representation from all five continents and the maximum number of different collectives, such as farm workers, indigenous people, squatters’ movements, LGBTI people, feminist movements, spiritual movements, youth movements, labour unions and also people working in education, digital economies, and alternative media, amongst others. The idea is to boost awareness of the transformative economies projects that already exist and which prove that there is an alternative to the capitalist model, in addition to building connections between agencies, organizations and networks around the world. Another goal is to make the WSFTE a beneficial space for the connection and convergence between the different transformative economies movements, and to define a common global agenda regarding transformative economies, in addition to a collective commitment and specific agreements to ensure the continuation of the movement beyond the convergence process. To reach these goals, the WSFTE will include a program based on different roadmaps with activities such as workshops, talks, cultural program, creative spaces, virtual participation and areas for children, amongst others. Dona't de baixa d'aquest butlletí <https://transformadora.org/es/newsletter/confirm/remove/93/bulletin_in_engl…> _______________________________________________ CommonGood Mailingliste JPBerlin - Politischer Provider CommonGood(a)listi.jpberlin.de https://listi.jpberlin.de/mailman/listinfo/commongood -- 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: The Climate Strike - What an Amazing Day!
by Michel Bauwens 21 Sep '19

21 Sep '19

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Tikkun & the Network of Spiritual Progressives < cat(a)spiritualprogressives.org> Date: Sat, Sep 21, 2019 at 8:00 AM Subject: The Climate Strike - What an Amazing Day! To: Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004(a)gmail.com> *We need your support to bring the kind of analyses and information *Tikkun* provides. **Click here <https://default.salsalabs.org/Tce43483d-07c4-4855-b90f-ae36f784ceea/c02a818…> to make a tax-deductible contribution.* Climate March - What an Amazing and Inspiring Day Image courtesy of Cat Zavis Today we at Tikkun and many spiritual progressives around the world joined the worldwide Climate Strike, in San Francisco and many other locations led and organized by Youth vs. Apocalypse. The organizers brilliantly linked issues of climate justice and migrant justice, political ineptitude and the call for a Green New Deal, corporate profit and fair wages and environmental destruction, and the separation of children at our borders and wars and climate devastation. In San Francisco, we were joined by thousands of people of all races, ages, genders, ethnicities, and religions – led by youth, marching in unity to save the planet. It was a spectacular and inspiring day. Along the march we stopped at Nancy Pelosi and Diane Feinstein’s offices, demanding that they support a Green New Deal; Bank of America, challenging their investments in fossil fuels that destroy indigenous communities; Amazon, demanding they stop cooperating with ICE and pay their workers fair wages; Black Rock, telling them to stop funding companies that are burning the Amazon rainforest (with the chant – “Black Rock, Black Rock, How much do you earn, For murdering our children as the Amazon burns?”); PG&E for their negligence that has caused massive fires, paying executives and stockholders millions of dollars and fighting against renewable energy; and ICE because of their family separation policy, including placing children in cages, when many are fleeing due to weather disasters. It ended with speeches by children of all ages, some as young as 5, and elders, from near and far. We were inspired and hopeful. If you were there at one of these events, send us a note about your experiences! As you know, we believe that these kinds of demonstrations are important as one part of a strategy, and they also need to be linked to a larger strategy and a vision of the world we want. When these two are joined, real transformation will ensue. Today we are feeling hopeful!! Hope you are too. Rabbi Michael Lerner & Cat Zavis *Click below to share this article on the platform of your choice!* * <https://default.salsalabs.org/T43145af5-eb55-4670-88e4-120522b3f24d/c02a818…> <https://default.salsalabs.org/T4ba3e527-7543-4876-a5ad-007079eb3f31/c02a818…>* *Please click here <https://default.salsalabs.org/T38914e99-ff63-4e5b-8ac4-b0e9156cd257/c02a818…> to support independent media by making **a tax-deductible contribution.* Contact Us *Tikkun* & the Network of Spiritual Progressives 2342 Shattuck Ave #1200 Berkeley, California 94704 (510) 644-1200 magazine(a)tikkun.org Unsubscribe <https://tikkun.salsalabs.org/manage-your-subscription?eId=d0a2a959-bee5-47c…> -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net Connect: http://p2pfoundation.ning.com; Discuss: http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation Updates: http://del.icio.us/mbauwens; http://friendfeed.com/mbauwens; http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens

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Fwd: Patterning Instinct news
by Michel Bauwens 17 Sep '19

17 Sep '19

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Jeremy Lent <jeremy(a)jeremylent.com> Date: Tue, Sep 17, 2019 at 2:01 PM Subject: Patterning Instinct news To: Michel <michelsub2004(a)gmail.com> Recent articles, talks and news View this email in your browser <https://mailchi.mp/0c0c30fa85f8/patterning-instinct-news-2155321?e=706ecc72…> <https://jeremylent.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ca3f163a7a35137b9c600…> The Future Is Up for Grabs Dear Michel, Do you recently feel a touch of dread as you read the news? The Amazon and Arctic ablaze. Xenophobic and racist rhetoric becoming mainstream. Our leaders seemingly helpless or unwilling to respond. Does it feel to you like our society is unraveling? That may be the case, but it doesn't mean that all is lost. On the contrary, theory of change suggests this is exactly the time when new and radical ideas have an outsize impact. I invite you to read an article I wrote last week explaining why this is so: "As Society Unravels, the Future Is Up for Grabs. <https://jeremylent.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ca3f163a7a35137b9c600…> " As our political leaders fail, grassroots leadership becomes even more important. That means you and me. On *Friday, September 20*, millions of people around the world will take part in a Global Climate Strike <https://jeremylent.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ca3f163a7a35137b9c600…>, which may be one of the biggest coordinated grassroots demonstrations in history. I urge you to join in and add your voice to the call for transforming our society's destructive ways. I've come to believe that the most promising alternative path for our future is an *Ecological Civilization*: a shift in the underlying foundation of our civilization from wealth accumulation to one that is life-affirming. if you live in the SF Bay Area, please join me in an Ecological Civilization Salon <https://jeremylent.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ca3f163a7a35137b9c600…> at *Civana House *in San Francisco, on *October 3*. If you can't make it to the salon, I've written about an Ecological Civilization here <https://jeremylent.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ca3f163a7a35137b9c600…>; and you can listen to an interview <https://jeremylent.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ca3f163a7a35137b9c600…> I gave recently on the topic, or watch this talk <https://jeremylent.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ca3f163a7a35137b9c600…> I delivered this summer at a conference in the UK (*From 52:25–1:35:00*). And, for those interested to explore more, I recommend the book *Abundant Earth: Toward an Ecological Civilization* <https://jeremylent.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ca3f163a7a35137b9c600…>by Eileen Crist. You can listen to my recent interview with her here <https://jeremylent.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ca3f163a7a35137b9c600…> . I hope you'll be on the streets with me for a flourishing future this Friday! Jeremy BUY THE PATTERNING INSTINCT <https://jeremylent.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ca3f163a7a35137b9c600…> BUY THE AUDIBLE EDITION <https://jeremylent.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ca3f163a7a35137b9c600…> ARTICLE <https://jeremylent.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ca3f163a7a35137b9c600…> *As Society Unravels, the Future Is Up for Grabs* <https://jeremylent.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ca3f163a7a35137b9c600…> *September 12, 2019* *As civilization faces an existential crisis, our leaders demonstrate their inability to respond. Theory of change shows that now is the time for radically new ideas to transform society before it’s too late.* *[Read more] * <https://jeremylent.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ca3f163a7a35137b9c600…> UPCOMING EVENT *SALON Living into an Ecological Civilization <https://jeremylent.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ca3f163a7a35137b9c600…>* Thursday, October 3, 2019 7:00–9:00 p.m. Civana House 711 Scott Street, San Francisco, CA 94117 *Presentation with Q&A Small group reflection | Large group discussion* *Register here* <https://jeremylent.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ca3f163a7a35137b9c600…> PRESENTATION <https://jeremylent.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ca3f163a7a35137b9c600…> Jeremy presents at the AECB Conference, Oxford, June 2019 Toward an Ecological Civilization: Vision and Principles. NOTE: JEREMY'S TALK BEGINS AT 52:25 FEATURED INTERVIEWS <https://jeremylent.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ca3f163a7a35137b9c600…> *Interview: * <https://jeremylent.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ca3f163a7a35137b9c600…>*Awakin.org <https://jeremylent.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ca3f163a7a35137b9c600…>* *A wide-ranging interview moderated by Terry Patten, where Jeremy discusses his own personal path of transformation.* May 18, 2019 | 1 hr 33 min <https://jeremylent.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ca3f163a7a35137b9c600…> *Ben Adam-Smith interviews Jeremy on Transitioning to an Ecological Civilization* <https://jeremylent.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ca3f163a7a35137b9c600…> *We discuss why and how we need to transform the fundamentals of our civilization.* June 14, 2019 | 38 min <https://jeremylent.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ca3f163a7a35137b9c600…> *Interview: Jeremy interviews Eileen Crist on Restoring Abundant Earth.* <https://jeremylent.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ca3f163a7a35137b9c600…> *Jeremy discusses with Eileen her recent book, Abundant Earth: Toward an Ecological Civilization, and explores some of the major obstacles to be overcome to change the direction of our current civilization.* July 18, 2019 | 1 hr 10 min BUY THE PATTERNING INSTINCT <https://jeremylent.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ca3f163a7a35137b9c600…> <https://jeremylent.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ca3f163a7a35137b9c600…> <https://jeremylent.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ca3f163a7a35137b9c600…> <https://jeremylent.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ca3f163a7a35137b9c600…> *Copyright © 2019 Liology Institute, All rights reserved.* Your are receiving this email because I believe you'll be interested, or you signed up for my newsletter. *Our mailing address is:* Liology Institute P.O. Box 9613 Berkeley, California 94709 Add us to your address book <https://jeremylent.us13.list-manage.com/vcard?u=ca3f163a7a35137b9c600dcba&i…> Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences <https://jeremylent.us13.list-manage.com/profile?u=ca3f163a7a35137b9c600dcba…> or unsubscribe from this list <https://jeremylent.us13.list-manage.com/unsubscribe?u=ca3f163a7a35137b9c600…>. [image: Email Marketing Powered by Mailchimp] <http://www.mailchimp.com/monkey-rewards/?utm_source=freemium_newsletter&utm…> -- 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: Call for makers - Brussels Maker Faire 2019
by Michel Bauwens 17 Sep '19

17 Sep '19

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Maker Faire Brussels <makers(a)makerfaire.brussels> Date: Tue, Sep 17, 2019 at 10:52 AM Subject: Call for makers - Brussels Maker Faire 2019 To: <michelsub2004(a)gmail.com> Call for makers - Brussels Maker Faire 2019 [image: Facebook] <http://www.facebook.com/Maker-Faire-Brussels-116316043078075> [image: Instagram] <https://brussels.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=cb62805cbb10a93807a391a4…> [image: Website] <https://brussels.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=cb62805cbb10a93807a391a4…> *Get started for the Maker Faire Brussels 2019!* Nederlands versie hieronder. English version below. 🔧 🔨 ⚙ APPEL AUX MAKERS ⚙ 🔧 🔨 *La Maker Faire débarque à Bruxelles, les 6 et 7 décembre.* L’événement phare du mouvement des Makers, qui essaime partout dans le monde, vient se poser en grande première à Bruxelles, dans les espaces de Usquare, le nouveau pôle de développement de la Capitale. Vous êtes bricoleur.euse.s, inventeur.euse.s, designers, codeur.euse.s, artistes, créateur.rice.s, gamers, youtubers, ingénieur.e.s, rêveur.euse.s… Makers professionnel.le.s ou amateur.rice.s, adultes ou enfants, étudiant.e.s ou retraité.e.s, tous les profils sont les bienvenus.Vous souhaitez participer à la Brussels Maker Faire en tant qu’exposant.e ? Encadrer un atelier ? Proposer une animation ? Intervenir sur scène pour présenter un projet en cours ? C’est possible et c’est gratuit ! La seule condition ? Proposer un projet, le faire soi-même et avoir envie de le partager avec un public curieux et passionné. *DO IT* ! (yourself) : envoyez votre candidature en remplissant le formulaire « Appel aux Makers » avant le 15 octobre 2019 via *ce lien <https://brussels.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=cb62805cbb10a93807a391a4…>* . Vous ne souhaitez pas être exposant.e mais contribuer autrement au mouvement des Makers ? Partagez cette information à votre réseau ! Une aide en quelques clics sera un grand coup de pouce pour le mouvement. Et si vous souhaitez nous aider avec quelques clics de plus, un kit de communication est à votre disposition. [ajouter lien kit de communication] NB : L’inscription ne garantit pas une participation en tant qu’exposant.e à la Brussels Maker Faire 2019. Un comité de sélection se réunira pour sélectionner les projets. Vous serez informé.e de la suite donnée à votre candidature par mail. Et dans tous les cas, vous êtes invité.e à venir rencontrer les Makers les 6 et 7 décembre 2019 ! La Maker Faire Brussels est co-produite par Creative Brussels et VO Citizen. S'inscrire <https://brussels.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=cb62805cbb10a93807a391a4…> 🔧 🔨 ⚙ OPROEP VOOR MAKERS ⚙ 🔧 🔨 *Maker Faire strijkt op 6 en 7 december neer in Brussel.* Het belangrijkste evenement van de Makers-beweging, die zich over de hele wereld aan het uitbreiden is, vindt voor het eerst plaats in Brussel, meer bepaald in Usquare, dé nieuwe pool op het vlak van onze hoofdstedelijke ontwikkeling. Bent u (m/v) klusser, uitvinder, designer, codeur, kunstenaar, maker, gamer, youtuber, ingenieur, dromer ...? Wees welkom! Professioneel maker of amateur, volwassene of kind, student of met pensioen? Wie of wat u ook bent, wees welkom! Wilt u als exposant deelnemen aan Brussels Maker Faire? Een workshop begeleiden? Een activiteit voorstellen? Het publiek laten kennismaken met een lopend project? Het kan, en het is gratis! De enige voorwaarde: een project voorstellen, het zelf doen en zin hebben om het te delen met een nieuwgierig en gepassioneerd publiek. *DO IT!* (yourself): Om u kandidaat te stellen, moet u het formulier ‘Oproep aan makers’ invullen en indienen voor 15 oktober 2019. U vindt het via deze link <https://brussels.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=cb62805cbb10a93807a391a4…> . Wilt u geen exposant zijn maar op een andere manier bijdragen aan de Makers-beweging? Deel deze link met uw netwerk! Het kost maar enkele kliks, maar kan de beweging enorm vooruithelpen. En als u ons wil helpen met enkele extra kliks, ligt er ook een communicatiekit voor u klaar! [toevoegen: link naar communicatiekit] NB: Uw inschrijving biedt geen garantie voor deelname als exposant(e) op Brussels Maker Faire 2019. Een comité zal de projecten selecteren. Wij houden u per mail op de hoogte over het gevolg dat aan uw kandidatuur werd gegeven. U bent hoe dan ook van harte welkom om kennis te maken met de Makers op 6 en 7 december 2019! Maker Faire Brussels is een coproductie van Creative Brussels en VO Citizen. Registreren <https://brussels.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=cb62805cbb10a93807a391a4…> 🔧 🔨 ⚙ CALL FOR MAKERS ⚙ 🔧 🔨 *Maker Faire arrives in Brussels on 6 and 7 December.* The flagship event of the Makers movement, which is spreading to all corners of the world, is taking place for the first time in Brussels, in the Usquare areas, the capital's new development hub. DIY enthusiast, inventor, designer, coder, artist, creator, gamer, Youtuber, engineer, dreamer,... professional or amateur Makers, adults or children, students or retired people – whatever your profile, you are more than welcome to attend this event. Would you like to participate in the Brussels Maker Faire as an exhibitor? Lead a workshop? Propose an activity? Step on stage to present an ongoing project? There is nothing to stop you and it is completely free as well! The sole condition? Propose a project, do it yourself and be willing to share it with a curious and enthusiastic audience. *DO IT !* (yourself) : send your application by filling in the "Call for Makers" form before 15 October 2019 using this link <https://brussels.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=cb62805cbb10a93807a391a4…> . You do not want to be an exhibitor but would like to contribute in another way to the Makers' movement? Share this information with your network! Providing support with a few mouse clicks will be a huge encouragement for the movement. And if you want to help us with a few more clicks, a communication kit is also available. [ajouter lien kit de communication] NB: Registration does not guarantee parti cipation as an exhibitor in the Brussels Maker Faire 2019. A selection committee will meet to select the projects. An e-mail will be sent to you to inform you of the outcome of your application. And in any case, you are invited to come along and meet the Makers on December 6 and 7, 2019! Maker Faire Brussels jointly produced by Creative Brussels and VO Citizen. Sign up <https://brussels.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=cb62805cbb10a93807a391a4…> <https://brussels.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=cb62805cbb10a93807a391a4…> <https://brussels.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=cb62805cbb10a93807a391a4…> [image: Facebook page] <https://brussels.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=cb62805cbb10a93807a391a4…> [image: Instagram page] <https://brussels.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=cb62805cbb10a93807a391a4…> [image: Website] <https://brussels.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=cb62805cbb10a93807a391a4…> *Copyright © 2019 Maker Faire Brussels, All rights reserved.* Maker Faire Brussels | makers(a)makerfaire.brussels Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences <https://brussels.us4.list-manage.com/profile?u=cb62805cbb10a93807a391a4b&id…> or unsubscribe from this list <https://brussels.us4.list-manage.com/unsubscribe?u=cb62805cbb10a93807a391a4…> . -- 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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important new commons policy book: Manifesto for Sharing Public Wealth
by Michel Bauwens 17 Sep '19

17 Sep '19

<https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Manifesto_for_Sharing_Public_Wealth#mw-head> <https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Manifesto_for_Sharing_Public_Wealth#p-search> https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Manifesto_for_Sharing_Public_Wealth ** Book: Plunder of the Commons: A Manifesto for Sharing Public Wealth. By Guy Standing. Penguin / Pelican Books, 2019* URL = https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/308/308407/plunder-of-the-commons/978014199… Description[edit <https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/index.php?title=Manifesto_for_Sharing_Public…> ] Guy Standing: "In the 12th and 13th centuries, civil strife over loss of the commons led to the Charter of the Forest of November 1217, in which commoners’ rights were asserted and reparations assured. Today, we need a new Charter for reviving the commons and for compensating the commoners – you and me – for loss of our commons. In my new book, Plunder of the Commons: A Manifesto for Sharing Public Wealth, a 44-Article Charter of the Commons <https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Charter_of_the_Commons> is presented. Readers will have their own priorities. But what we should demand is that every Party going into the next General Election should present their variant of a Commons Charter. Articles 43 and 44 of the proposed Charter are crucial. The starting point is that private interests have obtained part of the commons or are using them for pecuniary advantage. As such they owe the commoners compensation. As commoners we are equal, and so the compensation should be equal for all. We might call this the Commons Equality Principle <https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Commons_Equality_Principle>. What complicates that principle is that the commons belong not just to current generations, but to those who follow us as well. This leads to what is known as the Hartwick Rule of Inter-Generational Equity <https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Hartwick_Rule_of_Inter-Generational_Equity>. Revenue raised from the sale or use of common resources must only be paid out if that does not deplete what is available for future generations. This requires us to distinquish between exhaustible (non-renewable) commons, such as oil and minerals, non-exhaustible (renewable), like land, water, air, skyline and ideas, and replenishable commons, such as forests. What is proposed is that levies be made on all uses of our commons, with the proceeds used to compensate the commoners, as a matter of social justice. If government were allowed to decide on how the resultant revenue were spent, almost certainly the equality principle would be sacrificed. So, the next step should be the establishment of a Permanent Commons Fund <https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Permanent_Commons_Fund>, into which the levies would be placed and reinvested. With the range of levies potentially available, such a Fund could be built up fairly quickly. Here three derivative rules should apply. The Fund would have to respect the rule that investments would be made only in sphere that did no harm to the commons, or the environment; they should not jeopardise the future commons. Revenue gained from investment of the levies on exhaustible common resources should be treated as a capital asset, respecting the Hartwick Rule. That means that only the net return should be distributed to today’s commoners. This is the principle that has guided the Norwegian Oil Fund, which has been built up from levies on use of its North Sea oil. Its annual return from investments has exceeded 6%, its net return has been over 4%. So, to maintain the capital, each year it disburses 4% of the Fund. Such has been the Fund’s growth that technically every Norwegian is a millionaire Third, the Commons Fund could treat levies on non-exhaustible and replenishable commons as revenue for compensating current commoners, because similar revenue could be raised next year and into the future. In short, the Fund could be built up with primary revenue from the levies and secondary revenue from its investments. And 4% of the money from the exhaustible commons combined with, say, 80% of that from non-exhaustible resources and somewhat less from those deemed replenishable (allowing scope for replenishment) could be paid out as Common Dividends to all commoners, equally, as a fundamental economic right. In effect, what this proposal amounts to is an environmental fiscal policy as well as a route to social justice, involving a shift from taxing income from labour to taxing private wealth and misuse of our commons, and in the process modestly building a new income distribution system based on economic security." ( https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/oureconomy/plunder-commons-compensate-comm… ?) -- 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: Discovery Theory U Workshop - Leadership and intelligence from the emerging future
by Michel Bauwens 14 Sep '19

14 Sep '19

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Vincent De Waele <vincent.dewaele(a)gmail.com> Date: Fri, Sep 13, 2019 at 11:51 AM Subject: Discovery Theory U Workshop - Leadership and intelligence from the emerging future To: <michelsub2004(a)gmail.com> Leadership and intelligence from the emerging future. Discover a methodology of deep change that connects us to our profound source of creativity, both at individual and collective level. *Discovery Theory U Workshop - Leadership and intelligence from the emerging future* Today we talk a lot about new leadership, co-creation, collective intelligence, and emerging future. Some major questions are underpinning these thoughts: - What is the jump in the level of thinking that leaders need to undertake to bring about new solutions? - What are the new leadership capacities that are needed to avoid to fall in the “same old” and reproduce the same results that we don’t want? - How can we discover our deepest purpose? - How can we engage in a deep co-creation process and draw from collective wisdom? - What are the voices of resistance that are keeping us from reaching a higher level of thinking and acting? *Theory U* Theory U is a methodology and a process of deep change that connects us to our profound source of creativity, both at the individual and collective level. With the support of rich and diverse practices, Theory U can help us move away from past patterns and unwanted behaviors, and consciously connect to a purposeful source of creativity and to the new that wants to emerge. 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Fwd: Now on TC: our new edugame Troll Factory teaches you how fake news is spread - and why
by Michel Bauwens 14 Sep '19

14 Sep '19

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Jarno Mikael Koponen <jarno.koponen(a)gmail.com> Date: Sat, Sep 14, 2019 at 2:42 PM Subject: Now on TC: our new edugame Troll Factory teaches you how fake news is spread - and why To: <michel(a)p2pfoundation.net> Hi Michel, Hope this finds you well. Thought this might be interesting: We have here at Yle developed an online game Troll Factory that turns people into professional online trolls in order to help them learn about information wars. You can play the game here: https://trollfactory.yle.fi/ TechCrunch just wrote about the game: This game uses troll tactics to teach critical thinking https://techcrunch.com/2019/09/13/this-game-uses-troll-tactics-to-teach-cri… And: https://twitter.com/ilparone/status/1172491208821788673?s=20 Feel free to share! And would love to hear your thoughts! -Jarno M. Jarno M. Koponen Head of AI & Personalization, Yle News Lab E: jarno.koponen(a)yle.fi W: +358401290074 L: https://fi.linkedin.com/in/jarnokoponen T: https://twitter.com/ilparone Yle News and Current Affairs Yle, The Finnish Broadcasting Company -- 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: [P2P Foundation - Commons Transition Network WorkGroup] Commons Transition Culture 7-Step Process
by Michel Bauwens 10 Sep '19

10 Sep '19

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Daniel Pinchbeck (Loomio) <notifications(a)loomio.org> Date: Thu, Aug 8, 2019 at 4:51 PM Subject: [P2P Foundation - Commons Transition Network WorkGroup] Commons Transition Culture 7-Step Process To: <michelsub2004(a)gmail.com> [image: Daniel Pinchbeck] *Daniel Pinchbeck* commented in: Commons Transition Culture 7-Step Process <https://www.loomio.org/d/JCowQBHS/comment/2059190?membership_token=SScEKezZ…> A Five Act black comedy about the end of the world ------------------------------ My first play! ------------------------------ “Just as the caterpillar becomes the butterfly, the individual will undergo complete metamorphosis within a new solid- state matrix. Our synapses will link up with the totality of information and we will become like demi-gods, knowing everything, creating new imperishable bodies out of steel, silicon, and rewritten genetic code.” - Deep Zero Recently I did something I have wanted to do all my life. I wrote my first play. The title of this five-act drama is Deep Zero. I am delighted to share it with you. Deep Zero is set at Exstazia, a massive transformational festival, in the near future. Most of the action takes place at a camp organized by members of the globetrotting elite where they come together annually to explore spirituality, psychedelics, art, music, and community in a pristine desert. During this particular gathering, unfortunately, the characters discover that global ecological catastrophe has accelerated. Within a few months, the world will be entirely transformed. Faced with that knowledge, what choices will they make as individuals? Who will be saved? Perhaps this sounds serious, but Deep Zero is a surreal black comedy. I was inspired by Kubrick’s Dr Strangelove and Edgar Allen Poe’s The Masque of the Red Death, as well as the modernist plays of Witkiewicz. If you know my past work, you can probably guess that Deep Zero is also an exploration of ideas in dramatic form. One of the characters is a transhumanist philosopher who argues for the Simulation Hypothesis: the idea that this universe is actually a mathematical model running in an alien supercomputer. Another is an activist with Annihilation Revolution, a decentralized radical movement. Another protagonist is building a “moon shot” technology to save the world by sucking carbon out of the atmosphere. As a newbie to the dramatic world, I am not sure what I do with this play now that it exists. Of course I would love to see it given staged readings and performed. I am also working on a screenplay adaptation of it that will be significantly different, with a more upbeat culmination. If you want to organize a reading of Deep Zero, please write to me. Also, if you have ideas about what I can do with it, or criticisms and possible improvements, those are all fun for me to hear. Just don’t be mean. I am publishing it now in the lead up to this year’s Burning Man festival. While Deep Zero is set at an imaginary event, I borrowed a number of Burning Man memes and tropes. Another fun thing I did recently was appear on Duncan Trussell’s Family Hour ( https://danielpinchbeck.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=3ca3862889fa9a480… <https://danielpinchbeck.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=3ca3862889fa9a480…> ), speaking about my recently released book The Occult Control System, on aliens, UFOS, Rudolf Steiner, and much more. Give it a listen! We also discussed When Plants Dream ( https://danielpinchbeck.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=3ca3862889fa9a480… <https://danielpinchbeck.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=3ca3862889fa9a480…> ), my new book on the global spread of ayahuasca, coauthored with Sophia Rokhlin, which comes out in September from Watkins Books. 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Key essay on the history of the market-commons relationships
by Michel Bauwens 08 Sep '19

08 Sep '19

I very strongly recommend ths as a absolute must-read. It is entirely aligned with my own conclusions and consistent with the books and essays I have read on this part of medieval history: ** Article: Capitalism and the Commons. By Adam Arvidsson.Theory, Culture & Society, 2019* URL = https://www.academia.edu/40231280/CAPITALISM_AND_THE_COMMONS? Contents [hide <https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Capitalism_and_the_Commons#> ] - 1 Abstract <https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Capitalism_and_the_Commons#Abstract> - 2 Contents <https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Capitalism_and_the_Commons#Contents> - 3 Excerpts <https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Capitalism_and_the_Commons#Excerpts> - 3.1 Author's Summary <https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Capitalism_and_the_Commons#Author.27s_Summary> Abstract[edit <https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/index.php?title=Capitalism_and_the_Commons&a…> ] "This article investigates the potential role of the commons in the future transformation of digital capitalism by comparing it to the role of the commons in the transition to capitalism. In medieval and early modern Europe the commons supported gradual social and technological innovation as well as a new civil society organized around the combination of commons-based petty production and new ideals of freedom and equality. Today the new commons generated by the global real subsumption of ordinary life processes are supporting similar forms of commons-based petty production. After positioning the new petty producers within the framework of the crisis of digital capitalism, the article concludes by extrapolating a number of hypothetical scenarios for their role in its future transformation." Contents[edit <https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/index.php?title=Capitalism_and_the_Commons&a…> ] "The paper divides in four sections. - After some background and a preliminary definition of key concepts (like ‘capitalism’ and ‘commons’), - I revisit the role of the commons in the development and crisis of European feudalism. - The following section seeks to untangle the complicated relation between modern capitalism and the commons, and identify the specific role of the commons in contemporary digital capitalism. - The fourth section suggests that the socialized nature of the digital commons is driving a revitalization of forms of commons- based petty production similar to those that contributed to undermining the feudal order in the 13th and 14th centuries, and draws up a number of hypothetical scenarios for the possible future transformation of digital capitalism that might result from this." Excerpts[edit <https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/index.php?title=Capitalism_and_the_Commons&a…> ] See: 1. Medieval Commons <https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Medieval_Commons> 2. Markets and Commons <https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Markets_and_Commons> 3. Anti-Markets <https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Anti-Markets> 4. Markets without Capitalism‎ <https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Markets_without_Capitalism> Author's Summary[edit <https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/index.php?title=Capitalism_and_the_Commons&a…> ] Adam Arvidsson: " What is the role of the commons in the future of digital capitalism? What scenarios do the growing economic and cultural significance of digital commons like Free an Open Source Software, Commons Based Peer Production and, lately, blockchain technologies entail? This essay suggest that as well as a significant source of resistance to capitalism, the digital commons also support new forms of market oriented ‘petty production’ (to use Marx’ term). In many ways, this is similar to the role that the commons - rural and urban - played in the crisis of feudalism in the European Late Middle Ages. Then as now, the commons were a powerful source of alternative lifestyles and social movements. They were also crucial to the development of a new market society that became a source of significant technological, institutional and cultural innovation, laying the foundation for a new capitalist mode of production. In the last section of the paper, I speculate on whether the digital commons can support a similar process of market-driven social transformation, and on how this might change the nature of digital capitalism in the decades to come. *I have chosen the experience of European feudalism in the 12th to 14th centuries as my main point of comparison*, rather than the ‘original accumulation’ of the long sixteenth century, and the Polanyian Great Transformation of the industrial revolution, which have been the most important historical references for contemporary scholarship on the anti-capitalist commons. This is not to suggest that we are in a new Middle Age, as Umberto Eco famously did in the 1970s (Eco, 1977), but rather to highlight the possible role of commons-based market actors in driving social change." -- 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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Re: [P2P-F] Farewell to the WSF? (GTN Discussions)
by Michel Bauwens 08 Sep '19

08 Sep '19

thanks! On Sun, Sep 8, 2019 at 1:54 AM jose ramos <actionforesight(a)gmail.com> wrote: > https://eprints.qut.edu.au/40986/ > > On Sat, 7 Sep. 2019, 10:36 pm Michel Bauwens, <michelsub2004(a)gmail.com> > wrote: > >> and do you have a link to the last chapter, or the phd ? >> >> On Fri, Sep 6, 2019 at 3:32 PM jose ramos <actionforesight(a)gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> Only a phd :) >>> >>> Last chapter laid it out >>> >>> >>> >>> On Fri, 6 Sep. 2019, 9:58 pm Michel Bauwens, <michelsub2004(a)gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> have you written anything specific on this, dear Jose, i.e. >>>> >>>> <its really the end of horizontalism as a credible organizing >>>> strategy, adbusters to occupy failed. WSF did a lot but as this article >>>> shows it waisted an opportunity. > >>>> >>>> On Fri, Sep 6, 2019 at 8:16 AM jose ramos <actionforesight(a)gmail.com> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> it's a solid analysis. I came to the same conclusions in my 2010 >>>>> thesis :( >>>>> >>>>> the evolution of the idea should be for a shared platform for >>>>> coordinated / strategic action. >>>>> >>>>> its really the end of horizontalism as a credible organizing strategy, >>>>> adbusters to occupy failed. WSF did a lot but as this article shows it >>>>> waisted an opportunity. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Thu, Sep 5, 2019 at 9:08 PM Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004(a)gmail.com> >>>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> ---------- Forwarded message --------- >>>>>> From: Great Transition Network <gtnetwork(a)greattransition.org> >>>>>> Date: Wed, Sep 4, 2019 at 10:10 PM >>>>>> Subject: Farewell to the WSF? (GTN Discussions) >>>>>> To: <michelsub2004(a)gmail.com> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> From Roberto Savio [utopia(a)robertosavio.info] >>>>>> ---------------------------------------------------------- >>>>>> >>>>>> *[Per Paul's email, reproduced below, we are kicking off this month's >>>>>> discussion with a response from longtime member of the WSF International >>>>>> Concil Roberto Savio. We look forward to your contributions. -- JC] * >>>>>> *Farewell to the World Social Forum?* >>>>>> Roberto Savio >>>>>> Opening reflections for a GTN forum, 9/3/19 >>>>>> >>>>>> * LOOKING BACK* >>>>>> The first World Social Forum in 2001 ushered in the new century with >>>>>> a bold affirmation: “Another world is possible.” That gathering in Porto >>>>>> Alegre, Brazil, stood as an alternative and a challenge to the World >>>>>> Economic Forum, held at the same time an ocean away in the snowy Alps of >>>>>> Davos, Switzerland. A venue for power elites to set the course of world >>>>>> development, the WEF was then, and remains now, the symbol for global >>>>>> finance, unchecked capitalism, and the control of politics by multinational >>>>>> corporations. >>>>>> >>>>>> The WSF, by contrast, was created as an arena for the grassroots to >>>>>> gain a voice. The idea emerged from a 1999 visit to Paris by two Brazilian >>>>>> activists, Oded Grajew, who was working on corporate social responsibility, >>>>>> and Chico Whitaker, the executive secretary of the Commission of Justice >>>>>> and Peace, an initiative of the Brazilian Catholic Church. Incensed by the >>>>>> ubiquitous, uncritical news coverage of Davos, they met with Bernard >>>>>> Cassen, editor of *Le Monde Diplomatique*, who encouraged them to >>>>>> organize a counter-Davos in the Global South. With support from the >>>>>> government of Rio Grande do Sul, a committee of eight Brazilian >>>>>> organizations launched the first WSF. The expectation was that about 3,000 >>>>>> people attend (the same as Davos), but instead 20,000 activists from around >>>>>> the world came to Porto Alegre to organize and share their visions for six >>>>>> days. >>>>>> >>>>>> WSF annual meetings enjoyed great success, invariably drawing close >>>>>> to 100,000 participants (even as high as 150,000 in 2005). Eventually, the >>>>>> meetings moved out of Latin America, first to Mumbai in 2004, where 20,000 >>>>>> Dalits participated, then to Caracas, Nairobi, Dakar, Tunis, and Montreal. >>>>>> Along the way, two other streams—Regional Social Forums and Thematic Social >>>>>> Forums—were created to complement the annual central gathering, and local >>>>>> Forums were held in many countries. Cumulatively, the WSF has brought >>>>>> together millions of people willing to pay their travel and lodging costs >>>>>> to share their experiences and collective dreams for a better world. >>>>>> >>>>>> WSF’s Charter of Principles, drafted by the organizing committee of >>>>>> the first Forum and adopted at the event itself, reflected these dreams. >>>>>> The Charter presents a vision of deeply interconnected civil society groups >>>>>> collaborating to create new alternatives to neoliberal capitalism rooted in >>>>>> “human rights, the practices of real democracy, participatory democracy, >>>>>> peaceful relations, in equality and solidarity, among people, ethnicities, >>>>>> genders and peoples.” >>>>>> >>>>>> Yet, the “how” of realizing any vision was hamstrung from the start. >>>>>> The Charter’s first principle describes the WSF as an “open meeting place,” >>>>>> which, as interpreted by the Brazilian founders, precluded it from taking >>>>>> stances on pressing world crises. This resistance to collective political >>>>>> action relegated the WSF to a self-referential place of debate, rather than >>>>>> a body capable of taking real action in the international arena. >>>>>> >>>>>> It didn’t have to be this way. Indeed, the 2002 European Social Forum >>>>>> called for mass protest against the looming US invasion of Iraq, and the >>>>>> subsequent 2003 Forum played a major role in organizing the day of action >>>>>> the following month with 15 million protesters in the streets of 800 cities >>>>>> on all continents—the largest demonstration in history at the time. >>>>>> However, the WSF’s core organizers, who were not interested in this path, >>>>>> held sway, a phenomenon inextricable from the democratic deficit that has >>>>>> always dogged the Forum. >>>>>> >>>>>> Indeed, the WSF has never had a democratically elected leadership. >>>>>> After the first gathering, the Brazilian host committee convened a meeting >>>>>> in Sao Paolo to discuss how best to carry the WSF forward. They invited >>>>>> numerous international organizations, and on the second day of the meeting >>>>>> appointed us all as the International Council. Several important >>>>>> organizations, not interested in this meeting, were left off the council, >>>>>> and those who did attend were predominately from Europe and the Americas. >>>>>> In the ensuing years, efforts to change the composition created as many >>>>>> problems as they solved. Many organizations wanted to be represented on the >>>>>> Council, but due to vague criteria for evaluating their representativeness >>>>>> and strength, the Council soon became a long list of names (most inactive), >>>>>> with the roster of participants changing with every Council meeting. >>>>>> Despite repeated requests from participating organizations, the Brazilian >>>>>> founders have refused to revisit the Charter, defending it as an immutable >>>>>> text rather than a document of a particular historical moment. >>>>>> >>>>>> *AT A CROSSROADS* >>>>>> The future of the WSF remains uncertain. Out of a misguided fear of >>>>>> division, the Brazilian founders have thwarted efforts to allow the WSF to >>>>>> issue political declarations, establish spokespeople, and reevaluate the >>>>>> principle of horizontality, which eschews representative decision-making >>>>>> structures, as the basis for governance. Perhaps most significantly, they >>>>>> have resisted calls to transcend the WSF’s original mission as a venue for >>>>>> discussion and become a space for organizing. With WSF spokespeople >>>>>> forbidden, the media stopped coming, since they had no interlocutors. Even >>>>>> broad declarations that would not cause schism, like condemnation of wars >>>>>> or appeals for climate action, have been prohibited. As a result, the WSF >>>>>> has become akin to a personal growth retreat where participants come away >>>>>> with renewed individual strength, but without any impact on the world. >>>>>> >>>>>> Because of its inability to adapt, and thereby act, the WSF has lost >>>>>> an opportunity to influence how the public understands the crises the world >>>>>> faces, a vacuum that has been filled by the resurgent right-wing. In 2001, >>>>>> globalization’s critics emerged mainly on the left, pointing out how >>>>>> market-driven globalization runs roughshod over workers and the >>>>>> environment. Since then, as the WSF has floundered and social democratic >>>>>> parties have bought into the governing neoliberal consensus, the right has >>>>>> managed to capitalize on the broad and growing hostility to globalization, >>>>>> rooted especially in the feeling of being left behind experienced by >>>>>> working-class people. Prior to the US financial crisis of 2008 and the >>>>>> European sovereign bond crisis of 2009, the National Front in France was >>>>>> the only established right-wing party in the West. Since then, with a >>>>>> decade of economic chaos and brutal austerity, right-wing parties have >>>>>> blossomed everywhere. >>>>>> >>>>>> The unsettling rise of the anti-globalization right has scrambled >>>>>> many political assumptions and alliances. At the start of the WSF, our >>>>>> enemies were the international financial institutions, such as the >>>>>> International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. Now, these institutions >>>>>> support reducing income inequality and increasing public investment. The >>>>>> World Trade Organization, the infamous target of massive protests in 1999, >>>>>> was our enemy as well, for skewing the rules of global trade toward >>>>>> multinational corporations; now, US president Donald Trump is trying to >>>>>> dismantle it for having any rules at all. We criticized the European >>>>>> Commission for its free market commitment, and lack of social action: now >>>>>> we have to defend the idea of a United Europe against nationalism, >>>>>> xenophobia, and populism. These forces have upended and transformed global >>>>>> political dynamics. Those fighting globalization and multilateralism, using >>>>>> our diagnosis, are now the right-wing forces. >>>>>> >>>>>> * LOOKING AHEAD* >>>>>> Is there, then, a future for the World Social Forum? Logistically, >>>>>> the outlook is not good. Right-wing Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro, an >>>>>> ally of authoritarian strongmen around the world, has announced that he >>>>>> will forbid any support for the Forum, putting its future at grave risk. >>>>>> Holding a forum of such size requires significant financial support, and a >>>>>> government at least willing to grant visas to participants from across the >>>>>> globe. The vibrant Brazilian civil society groups of 2001 are now >>>>>> struggling for survival. >>>>>> >>>>>> Indeed, right-wing governments around the world attack global civil >>>>>> society as a competitor or an enemy. In Italy, Interior Minister Matteo >>>>>> Salvini has been pushing to eliminate the tax status of nonprofits. Like >>>>>> Salvini in Italy, Trump in the US, Viktor Orban in Hungary, Narendra Modi >>>>>> in India, and Shinzo Abe in Japan, among others, are unwilling to hear the >>>>>> voice of civil society. Their escalating assault on civil society might >>>>>> spell the formal end of the World Social Forum, although the WSF’s refusal >>>>>> to evolve with the times left the organization vulnerable to such assaults. >>>>>> >>>>>> If the World Social Forum does fade away as an actor on the global >>>>>> stage, we can take many valuable lessons from its history as we mount new >>>>>> initiatives for a “movement of movements.” First, we need to support civil >>>>>> society unity. Boaventura de Sousa Santos, the Portuguese anthropologist >>>>>> and a leading participant in the WSF, stresses the importance of >>>>>> “translation” between movement streams. Women’s organizations focus on >>>>>> patriarchy, indigenous organizations on colonial exploitation, human rights >>>>>> organizations on justice, and environmental organizations on >>>>>> sustainability. Building mutual understanding, trust, and a basis for >>>>>> collective work requires a process of translation and interpretation of >>>>>> different priorities, embedding them in a holistic framework. >>>>>> >>>>>> Any initiative to build transnational movement coordination must >>>>>> address this challenge. While it is easier to build a mass action against a >>>>>> common enemy, nurturing a common movement culture requires a process of >>>>>> sustained dialogue. The WSF was instrumental in creating awareness of the >>>>>> need for a holistic approach to fight, under the same rubric, climate >>>>>> change, unchecked finance, social injustice, and ecological degradation. >>>>>> Building on that experience with how the issues intersect is critical to a >>>>>> viable global movement. The WSF has made possible alliances among the >>>>>> social movements, which got their legitimacy by fighting the system, and >>>>>> the myriad NGOs, which got theirs from the agenda of the United Nations. >>>>>> This is certainly a significant historical contribution, enabling the next >>>>>> phase in the evolution of global civil society. >>>>>> >>>>>> Second, we need to balance movement horizontalism and organizational >>>>>> structure. For the vast majority of participants in cutting-edge >>>>>> progressive movements over the past half-century, the notion of a political >>>>>> party, or any such organization, has been linked to oppressive power, >>>>>> corruption, and lack of legitimacy. This suspicion of organization, >>>>>> reflected in the core ideology of the WSF, has contributed to its lack of >>>>>> action. >>>>>> >>>>>> This tendency to reject verticality out of fear of its association >>>>>> with oppression poses a major challenge to the formation of a global >>>>>> movement: those who would be, in principle, its largest constituency will >>>>>> question overarching organizational structures. Based on historical >>>>>> experience, they fear the generation of unhealthy structures of power, the >>>>>> corruption of ideals, and the lack of real participation. Nevertheless, >>>>>> coordination is essential for a diverse global movement to develop >>>>>> sufficient coherence. The task is to find legitimate forms of collective >>>>>> organization that balance the tension between the commitments to both unity >>>>>> and pluralism. >>>>>> >>>>>> Third, a global movement effort must navigate a new media landscape. >>>>>> The Internet has changed the character of political participation. Space >>>>>> has shrunk, and time has become fluid and compressed. Social media has >>>>>> become more important than conventional media. Indeed, it was essential, >>>>>> for example, to the election of Bolsonaro in Brazil and Salvini in Italy, >>>>>> as well as Brexit in the UK. US newspapers have a daily run of 62 million >>>>>> copies (ten million from quality papers like the *Wall Street >>>>>> Journal*, *New York Times*, and *Washington Post*), while Trump >>>>>> tweets to as many followers. Contemporary communications technology, while >>>>>> used to sow confusion and abuse by the right, must be central to >>>>>> transnational mobilization campaigns fostering awareness and solidarity. >>>>>> >>>>>> Political apathy among potential allies remains as great a challenge >>>>>> as the right-wing surge. This is not a new phenomenon. The triumphant >>>>>> pronouncements of the end of ideology and history three decades ago helped >>>>>> mute explicit debate on the long-term vision for society. Instead, the >>>>>> technocrats of the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, and the US >>>>>> Treasury foisted the Washington Consensus on the rest of the world: >>>>>> financial deregulation, trade liberalization, privatization, and fiscal >>>>>> austerity. The benefits of globalization would lift all boats; curb >>>>>> nonproductive social costs; privatize health and more; and globalize trade, >>>>>> finance, and industry. Center-left parties across the West resigned >>>>>> themselves to this brave new world. “Third Way” leaders like British Prime >>>>>> Minister Tony Blair argued that since corporate globalization was >>>>>> inevitable, progressives could, at best, give it a human face. In the >>>>>> absence of a real alternative to the dominant paradigm, the left lost its >>>>>> constituency. The wreckage left behind by neoliberal governments has become >>>>>> the engine for the populist and xenophobic forces from across the globe. >>>>>> >>>>>> Looking ahead, to build a viable political formation for a Great >>>>>> Transition, we must find a banner under which people can rally. Climate >>>>>> action has increasingly served this function, with the youthfulness of the >>>>>> climate movement a reason for hope. The climate strike movement, led by >>>>>> Swedish student Greta Thunberg, has engaged tens of thousands of students >>>>>> worldwide and shown that the fight for a better world is on. These new >>>>>> young activists, many of whom have probably never heard of the WSF, do not >>>>>> pretend to come with a pre-made platform; they simply ask the system to >>>>>> listen to scientists. The lack of a full vision allows them to avoid many >>>>>> of the WSF’s problems, yet still underscore how the system has exhausted >>>>>> its viability in the face of spiraling crises. >>>>>> >>>>>> Millions of people across the globe are engaged at the grassroots >>>>>> level, hundreds of times more than related to the WSF. The great challenge >>>>>> is to connect with those working to change the present dire trends, making >>>>>> clear that we are not part of the same elite structures and, indeed, share >>>>>> the same enemy. The historic preconditions undergird the possibility of >>>>>> such a project, our visions of another world give it a direction, and the >>>>>> growing restlessness of countless ordinary people is a hopeful harbinger. >>>>>> >>>>>> Can we find the modes of communication and alliance to galvanize the >>>>>> global movement and propel it forward? I do not see much value in a >>>>>> coalition of organizations and militants who meet merely to discuss among >>>>>> themselves. Collective action is necessary for counterbalancing the decline >>>>>> of democracy, increasing civic participation, and keeping values and >>>>>> visions at the forefront. In the WSF, the debate about moving in this >>>>>> direction has been going for quite some time, but has repeatedly run up >>>>>> against the intransigence of the founders. >>>>>> >>>>>> It would be a mistake to lose the WSF’s impressive history and >>>>>> convening authority. But we need to recreate it in order to reflect the >>>>>> present barbarized. Will we be able to reform WSF, and if this is not >>>>>> possible, create an alternative? Citizens have become more aware of the >>>>>> need for change than they were when we first met in Porto Alegre many years >>>>>> ago. But they are also more divided, some taking the reactionary path of >>>>>> following authoritarian leaders, some the progressive path of social >>>>>> justice, participation, transparency, and cooperation. As the conventional >>>>>> system destabilizes and loses legitimacy, giving life to a revamped WSF—or >>>>>> creating a new platform—might be easier than the challenge of launching the >>>>>> process eighteen years ago. Still, realizing the next phase will take new >>>>>> leaders, wide participation, and recognition of the need for new >>>>>> structures. In these times, this is a tall order. >>>>>> >>>>>> ********************************************************************* >>>>>> >>>>>> Tuesday, September 3, 2019 >>>>>> >>>>>> From Paul Raskin [praskin(a)tellus.org] >>>>>> ------------------------------ >>>>>> >>>>>> Dear GTN, >>>>>> >>>>>> Since 2001, the World Social Forum has served as civil society’s >>>>>> answer to the World Economic Forum, the annual powwow in Davos of the >>>>>> masters of the neoliberal universe. Over the years, the WSF has brought >>>>>> together hundreds of thousands of activists to meet, network, and >>>>>> reenergize commitments. It has stood as a tangible expression of the >>>>>> diffuse but vibrant “alter globalization” community, and a source of hope >>>>>> for the emergence of a systemic global movement. >>>>>> >>>>>> At the same time, the WSF has mirrored the movement’s immaturity. >>>>>> Most significantly, the disabling fragmentation within civil society has >>>>>> been reflected in the forest of separate tents that spring up at Forums, >>>>>> each devoted to specific issues and grievances, with little exploration of >>>>>> common visions, positions, and coordination mechanisms. More prosaically, >>>>>> the logistical chaos that has plagued Forums and frustrated attendees >>>>>> symbolizes the underdeveloped organizational capacity of the “movement of >>>>>> movements.” >>>>>> >>>>>> Now, as these deficits take their toll and the times change, the WSF >>>>>> seems to be losing momentum and relevance. So it’s timely to critically >>>>>> reflect on its achievements and whether the WSF, itself, needs a Great >>>>>> Transition. >>>>>> >>>>>> Our September GTN Discussion—*FAREWELL TO THE WORLD SOCIAL FORUM?*—takes >>>>>> up the challenge. >>>>>> (Please organize your comments as responses to one or more of the >>>>>> following topics.) >>>>>> >>>>>> *Looking Back* >>>>>> *What has been the historic significance of the WSF? In what ways has >>>>>> its strategy of providing a neutral gathering space advanced (or curtailed) >>>>>> the “movement of movements”? * >>>>>> >>>>>> *At a Crossroads* >>>>>> *Does the WSF retain its vitality as a beacon of “another world,” or >>>>>> is it losing momentum? Has its unbending commitment to radical pluralism >>>>>> sacrificed movement unity? * >>>>>> >>>>>> *Looking Ahead* >>>>>> *Should the WSF continue to operate as an open space? Seek to >>>>>> reinvent itself as a collective force for political action? Or should >>>>>> attention shift to fresh initiatives for building a coherent global >>>>>> movement?* >>>>>> >>>>>> Roberto Savio, founder of Inter Press Service (IPS) and longtime >>>>>> member of the WSF International Council, opens the debate. His essay can be >>>>>> found here >>>>>> <https://greattransition.org/images/Savio-Farewell-WSF.pdf> . I look >>>>>> forward to your comments, whether brief or extended (but less than 1,200 >>>>>> words). >>>>>> >>>>>> The discussion will go through Wednesday, October 2, when Roberto >>>>>> will have an opportunity to respond. Per usual, we will then create a >>>>>> public GTI Forum that samples a range of perspectives raised in the >>>>>> internal GTN discussion. >>>>>> >>>>>> Over to you, >>>>>> Paul >>>>>> ---------------------------------------------------------- >>>>>> 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#3033> >>>>>> Note: Expect a delay between posting and receiving your comment >>>>>> Need help? 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