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Fwd: [Future Normals Webinar] Zoom link for the final Webinar 7, today at 11am PDT
by Michel Bauwens 13 Aug '20

13 Aug '20

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Anneloes Smitsman <anneloes(a)earthwisecentre.org> Date: Wed, Aug 12, 2020 at 10:41 PM Subject: [Future Normals Webinar] Zoom link for the final Webinar 7, today at 11am PDT To: <michelsub2004(a)gmail.com> Zoom information for joining your Future Normals Webinar 7 today‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ View in Web Browser <http://email.c.kajabimail.net/c/eJwdkEtPhDAYRX8N3RiaPmlZdAESjdGNmohhM-njY-j…> [image: Tipping Point System Logo] <http://email.c.kajabimail.net/c/eJwdzrtuhDAQheGnwU2ENb7BUriAoEip8wArYw94Nlw…> [image: Register for the Leadership Quest Webinar: March 16th at 10am PDT] <http://email.c.kajabimail.net/c/eJwdzjtOxDAUheHVxA0a68aPOC5cJERI1Cxg5MfNxIO…> Future Normals - Webinar 7 Warm greetings Michel, Herewith a gentle reminder of our 7th and final webinar in the Future Normals Series, Today* at 11am PDT* (20.00pm CET). The topic for this webinar is: Old Certainties versus New Uncertainties >>> Transformational Competencies & Systemic Resiliencies. *ZOOM DETAILS* Please find included here below the zoom link for joining Webinar 7 of this series. - WHEN: *Wednesday August** 12th at 11.00am PDT* (14.00pm EDT, 20.00pm CEST) - DURATION: 90 minutes - ZOOM LINK: *CLICK HERE <http://email.c.kajabimail.net/c/eJwdj71ugzAYRZ_GXqpa_gU8eIAg1C5IpWqGLpHtzyl…>* - ZOOM PASSWORD:120134 - ZOOM MEETING ID: 833 0555 9126 - FIND YOUR LOCAL NUMBER: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kGNZa7xWi <http://email.c.kajabimail.net/c/eJwdzstqwzAQBdCvsTahYjTSRNZCC7umpZtuuihkE6x…> After the webinar you will receive from us via email a link for viewing and downloading the slides that are shared during the webinar, as well as the webinar recording. We are looking fwd to being with you soon! Warm wishes, Anneloes and Ralph [image: Facebook] <http://email.c.kajabimail.net/c/eJwdj81ugzAQhJ8GX6pa_lsMBx-gKFLPfYDIPxtwAhi…> [image: YouTube] <http://email.c.kajabimail.net/c/eJwdjzFvwyAUhH-NWaoiePDsMjDYsSJliVq1kbpZGHB…> [image: Vimeo] <http://email.c.kajabimail.net/c/eJwdzktOxDAQBNDTxBuE1e6281l4kRAhseYAI386pCG…> The EARTHwise Tipping Point System <http://email.c.kajabimail.net/c/eJwdzs1uwyAQBOCnMZeoCHbB2AcOdq1KOecBIn42Ma2…>| Sing our World to Life <http://email.c.kajabimail.net/c/eJwdzrtuhDAQheGnwU2ENb7BUriAoEip8wArYw94Nlw…> | Our Stories <http://email.c.kajabimail.net/c/eJwdzkFuwyAQBdDTmE1VBMNgmwULO1alrHuAyMA0JsF…> | Donate <http://email.c.kajabimail.net/c/eJwdztFqxCAQBdCviS-lojO6xgcfkoZCn_sBi3GGxG2…> Unsubscribe <http://email.c.kajabimail.net/c/eJxNkMFuhDAMRL8mXCpQSBxCDjnsFq3Ucz8AhcQsLiy…> | Sent by EARTHwise Centre Ltd Morcellement Mont Calme • Tamarin, Black River • 90608 -- P2P Foundation: http://wiki.p2pfoundation.net <http://p2pfoundation.net> - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net Discuss: http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation Updates: ; http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens Curation of news on p2p/commons developments: https://www.facebook.com/groups/p2p.open/

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Fwd: News from ChiCommons
by Michel Bauwens 13 Aug '20

13 Aug '20

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: ChiCommons LWCA <inquiries(a)chicommons.coop> Date: Thu, Aug 13, 2020 at 12:24 AM Subject: News from ChiCommons To: <michel(a)p2pfoundation.net> Read our update about activities at ChiCommons Monthly News Vol. 2 August, 2020 ChiCommons' Mission *To cooperatively foster and grow a people-owned solidarity economy * Contact Us <https://chicommons.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4a4b5c7e4610fadec2a0a2…> Cooperative living is older than this tree in the Angkor Wat temple, Cambodia. Welcome to ChiCommons In November of 2018, at a Community Technology event sponsored in partnership with Chi Hack Night and the Chicago Sustainability Leaders Network, a participant in one of the breakout sessions raised a question. "I grew too many tomatoes and want to tell my neighbors I have extra tomatoes to share. How would I go about doing that?" This question formed the catalyst for what has now become Chicommons and within it the concept for Blockshare and our other sharing platforms. Since then, we have been building ChiCommons, a Limited Worker Cooperative Association. As the title of the famous book about the Spanish Mondragon Cooperative states, “We build the road as we travel.” You’re getting this email because you’ve attended one of our breakout groups at Chi Hack Night, requested more information from one of our members, or are associated with the cooperative/solidarity sector in Chicago. You, along with us, are building the road as we travel. Our vision is empowered, integrated, equitable, cooperative/solidarity economies across the Chicago region; connected globally, with ChiCommons-provided tools, services, and strategies. We realize that the Chicago area has been beset with longstanding issues of inequality and access. We, the ChiCommons cooperative, hope to be part of the solutions! Our Story So Far Welcome to our second edition of the Chicommons Newsletter. While things always seem to move slowly in the midst of the work, looking backwards reveals significant progress. - Deanna Franklin of *Attuned Design* <https://chicommons.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4a4b5c7e4610fadec2a0a2…> has helped us create a complete design system for our branding. You can see (“sorta”, this platform is somewhat limited) the results in this newsletter. We met Deanna through Chi Hack Night, where she designed a great logo for another breakout group. - ChiCommons is now headlining a Chi Hack Night pre-party every Tuesday, where you can join us and share any thoughts, project ideas or burning issues you want to get off your chest. *Join our Zoom call* <https://chicommons.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4a4b5c7e4610fadec2a0a2…> on Tuesdays from 6:30-7:30pm - We are working on a new round for our website, expect to see something soon. We could use some help from UX people and website gurus. Email us about your interest. Who We Are We are people with technical and non-technical expertise, so don’t feel apprehensive if you’re not savvy with technology. Our intent is to co-build communities from the ground up using technology as one of those tools so if you have non-technical tools in your tool box we welcome the opportunity to provide a space where you can put those tools to use. We are always looking to grow and expand our membership and in order to do that we are calling on all who have a passion for building communities at the neighborhood level to join us, especially women and non-binary gendered individuals. We are looking to recruit people with all sorts of skills, skills that can be applied to build communities of all types. If you would like to join us, please fill out this skills survey <https://chicommons.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4a4b5c7e4610fadec2a0a2…> and we’ll get in touch. We have work, both volunteer and paid. ChiCommons acts in support of our mission and vision. We actively support other cooperative and solidarity organizations. - We’re working with Chicago Market <https://chicommons.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4a4b5c7e4610fadec2a0a2…>, a food cooperative, to explore their options for supporting the Uptown neighborhood with some grocery services until they can open the brick and mortar store. - Nationally/internationally, ChiCommons supports DataCommons Cooperative with web hosting services, and our local cooperative map fills in their national map for the Chicago region. Data Commons Cooperative is the organization behind *find.coop* <https://chicommons.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4a4b5c7e4610fadec2a0a2…>, a site that documents cooperatives and solidarity entities around the world. - Some of us are involved in developing the cooperative ecosystem in Chicago via the Chicago Cooperative Ecosystem Coalition, a coalition of other worker cooperatives. Our Current Projects *Solidarity Cooperative Map* You can read about the origins of the map on our *website page* <https://chicommons.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4a4b5c7e4610fadec2a0a2…>. Until recently, the data was stored and managed in a Google Sheet. To prepare for our next steps, we’ve migrated our underlying data to mySQL. We’re now developing interactive Python/React capabilities so entities can manage their own records. The following skills would help us expedite this project (and we'll add you to our commercial jobs resource pool, see below <#m_-8657656942068932350_consulting>): - Backend: Python - Frontend: React, Javascript - Design: UX/CSS Volunteer Here <https://chicommons.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4a4b5c7e4610fadec2a0a2…> *BlockShare: Internet Access/Community Internet* We are also embedding ourselves in our South Shore pilot by connecting with churches, businesses, and community-based non profit organizations. We are using these community assets as the bridges to connect the skills and services being offered at the neighbor to neighbor level. Our intent to provide the tools so that each resident can thrive. Our partners such as Windsor Park Evangelical Lutheran Church is forming a cornerstone for that with its neighborhood Wi-Fi accessibility hub. We’re on the verge of implementing our first technology proof of concept pilot program around the Windsor Park Evangelical Lutheran Church. We plan to start deployment of wifi transceivers for buildings within immediate wifi range of the church so that those neighbors can take advantage of the church’s Internet Service. Once we successfully pilot this capability, we believe that we’ll capture the neighborhood’s attention and be able to start rolling out BlockShare. Of course, we need the help with GIS expertise (QGIS/Leaflet), wifi networking (Mikrotik/Ubiquiti), and applications developers (mobile/desktop/web-based). Sign up to help <https://chicommons.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4a4b5c7e4610fadec2a0a2…> ChiCommons Consulting As we published before, we started a consulting agency with our talented worker-owners to subsidize operations and internal projects. Between our worker-owner skills and expertise and our connections with organizations like Chi Hack Night, ChiCommons can offer significant resources for any project from strategic planning services and conflict resolution to total IT outsourcing and website design. We'd all be better off if you joined us. It’s another month into our consulting services startup, and we’ve picked up some more customers. Our free-lancers are seeing the benefit of working with a larger, more diverse team and starting to bring their existing clients into the agency. A broad selection of deep skills and expertise will ensure that ChiCommons continues to grow and become self-sustaining. You can add to our service catalog and get business by joining us. Start by telling us about your skills. 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Fwd: Fabio Passed away
by Michel Bauwens 13 Aug '20

13 Aug '20

Dear Paola, this is the p2p-f list that is still running, fyi Michel ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: <paola.dimaio(a)gmail.com> Date: Thu, Aug 13, 2020 at 1:41 PM Subject: Fabio Passed away To: Ange Embuldeniya <angelo.embuldeniya(a)gmail.com>, Michel Bauwens < michelsub2004(a)gmail.com>, People 2 People Aid <p2paid(a)googlegroups.com> Cc: Fabio Varesano <fabio(a)varesano.net>, Fabio Varesano <fvaresano(a)yahoo.it> Greets Angelo Michel everyone who may still be on the p2p List You may remember we released a drupal module p2p aid in 2006, I designed the system and Fabio implemented it p2p-aid, it was announced here https://www.drupal.org/forum/general/show-off-your-drupal-site/2006-02-23/p… Angelo bought a domain I think? or something (have too many emails in my inbox) I was looking for the p2p aid code to use it in a current deployment and just now realized that Fabio, the developer of the code passed away suddenly in 2013, I cannot find the code of the module either (was v 6) anywhere where we had shared it, including Fabio's personal website http://www.varesano.net/p2paid.org/ Two projects used our work and code since we published including Berkely University Sorry to bear this bad news, If anyone kept a copy of the code please lets put it on github even if ti is deprecated, its work done PDM On Sat, Jun 2, 2007 at 12:04 AM Ange Embuldeniya < angelo.embuldeniya(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Dear P & Fabio, > > here's the registrar info, please make necessary name server changes or if > you let me know the ns IP addresses and i can do the same. 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Fwd: 📄 "Indigenous Sacred Natural Sites and Spiritual Governance: The Legal Case for Juristic Personhood" by John Studley
by Michel Bauwens 08 Aug '20

08 Aug '20

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: PDF By John Studley <updates(a)academia-mail.com> Date: Sat, Aug 8, 2020 at 11:00 AM Subject: 📄 "Indigenous Sacred Natural Sites and Spiritual Governance: The Legal Case for Juristic Personhood" by John Studley To: <michel(a)p2pfoundation.net> [image: Academia.edu] <https://www.academia.edu/t/DGkU-N1LVPWo-baXxKC/> ------------------------------ >From your Reading History: Indigenous Sacred Natural Sites and Spiritual Governance: The Legal Case for Juristic Personhood <https://www.academia.edu/keypass/TWUxbll1Wi9Ra29ORjVDaWpIRkErQW9sWVZxM09Lel…> [image: Paper Thumbnail] <https://www.academia.edu/keypass/TWUxbll1Wi9Ra29ORjVDaWpIRkErQW9sWVZxM09Lel…> [image: Author Photo] John Studley <https://independent.academia.edu/keypass/TWUxbll1Wi9Ra29ORjVDaWpIRkErQW9sWV…> 2018, Indigenous Sacred Natural Sites and Spiritual Governance: The Legal Case for Juristic Personhood 160 Views View PDF ▸ <https://www.academia.edu/keypass/TWUxbll1Wi9Ra29ORjVDaWpIRkErQW9sWVZxM09Lel…> Download PDF ⬇ <https://www.academia.edu/keypass/TWUxbll1Wi9Ra29ORjVDaWpIRkErQW9sWVZxM09Lel…> ABSTRACT Since time immemorial, indigenous people have engaged in legal relationships with other-than-human persons. These relationships are exemplified in enspirited sacred natural sites, which are owned and governed by numina spirits that can potentially place legal demands on humankind in return for protection and... read more... <https://www.academia.edu/keypass/TWUxbll1Wi9Ra29ORjVDaWpIRkErQW9sWVZxM09Lel…> Want fewer recommendations like this one? <https://www.academia.edu/keypass/TWUxbll1Wi9Ra29ORjVDaWpIRkErQW9sWVZxM09Lel…> ------------------------------ <https://academia.app.link/xzTUSeHxQX> 580 California St., Suite 400, San Francisco, CA, 94104 Unsubscribe <https://www.academia.edu/keypass/TWUxbll1Wi9Ra29ORjVDaWpIRkErQW9sWVZxM09Lel…> Privacy Policy <https://www.academia.edu/t/DGkU-N1LVPWo-baXxKC/privacy> Terms of Service <https://www.academia.edu/t/DGkU-N1LVPWo-baXxKC/terms> © 2020 Academia -- 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: Article
by Michel Bauwens 07 Aug '20

07 Aug '20

fyi ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Jaap van Till <vantill(a)gmail.com> Date: Fri, Aug 7, 2020 at 7:15 PM Subject: Article To: Michel Bauwens <michel(a)p2pfoundation.net> Beste Michel, Kan jij zo vriendelijk zijn om dit artikel op een van de P2P sites te (laten) publiceren? Het is een m.i. terechte poging om de steeds maar groter wordende dominantie van Amazon af te remmen. Ze gaan zich ook al met de inhoud van boeken bemoeien, en de werkomstandigheden in de verzendcentra zijn vergelijkbaar met slavernij. Winkels en kleine uitgevers worden vermorzeld. Groet van/ Yours Sincerely, ir J.W. Jaap van Till visiting professor and network architect Wordpress blog: TheConnectivist Mobile: +31 655303210 My mission is: to help P2P Empower the Creative Class Begin doorgestuurd bericht: *Van:* Katarzyna Gajewska <k.gajewska_comm(a)zoho.com> *Datum:* 7 augustus 2020 om 09:24:30 CEST *Aan:* Jaap van Till <vantill(a)gmail.com> *Onderwerp:* *Original article* Picture: Wheatpaste found in Columbia Heights, Washington, DC, May 2020, Photo by Darell Duane ShareAlike CC BY-SA <https://creativecommonsusa.org/index.php/ufaqs/what-are-the-different-types…> *How NOT to work for Amazon? - author's dilemma* *by Katarzyna Gajewska* What to do when a book project keeps haunting you as if it decided to get finished without consulting you on that matter? When thinking about my project, I was considering what feels fully within my integrity. I want this book to be accessible for free and in decentralized way in order to fit to the concept of peer production, which I explore. I want to prepare a document that people can print out similarly as *Low-Tech Magazine proposes it <https://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2019/03/printed-website.html>* or read online wherever they are. It is about localized, environmentally friendly consumption. I want them to be able to buy paper copies as well and support small activist publishers. I want to support financially people contributing to production process and working towards a visionary change. I want this book to be accessible to people in countries where buying books from the West may not be easily affordable. There is one thing that I do not want: making profits for Amazon. As an author, one is caught up in a conundrum as contributing to the concentration of wealth seems to be the only option if one wants to reach out globally. I want to test another option. Activists have recently gathered to come with solutions against Amazon and formed *Athena coalition <https://athenaforall.org/#s3>* with *Dania Rajendra <https://daniarajendra.net/dani/>* as the director. They want to tackle the problems of digital surveillance, working conditions in warehouses, and using taxpayers' money in favor of Amazon's business. One wonders why it has not happened long time ago. Those who already see through the perils of the wealth accumulation have the power to take a moral stance in their actions. Hannah Arendt wanted to understand deeply the deeds of Nazi regime. She pointed to the refusal to think and question that led to evil. Western consumer societies live in an illusion that there are no big decisions to make or moral dilemmas to resolve. In contrast, I believe that time needed for confronting moral dilemmas would be so overwhelming that we could not survive in this system. I intuit that human inner operating system has adapted a functional inhibition of moral consideration. This serves the system. It is more difficult to see the water you are in and spell out our dilemmas. We are acting on auto-pilot. Fed with the same memes all over, it is difficult to envision options. If everybody does and aspires the same, there are no choices to make. Making choices invisible by permeating every aspect of life – which the concentration of wealth allows – is so much easier than applying censorship. A typical author would not ask whether they want to work for Amazon. The entire machinery of normalizing the status quo prevents such a question to emerge. If I signed a contract with a publisher, campaigning against buying my book on Amazon would probably break it. Moral dilemma is whether to limit access and information about my work by forgoing the usual procedure or consider that extending the readership of my book serves higher good, which will outweigh the damages. I want a third more creative option. We are stuck in helplessness because we either do not think of different options or justify our choices by saying that there is no choice. When giants are the nearest option, any extra way to buy elsewhere is an act of resistance. Writers, artists, people who think and feel too much have a social role to play. Isn't it in our job description to call for integrity and moral standards? We need to defend the freedom of thought before it is too late. COVID-19 enabled the giant to wipe out smaller providers and take an even bigger share of the market. Such a monopoly can strengthen the opportunity to censor writing. Publishers may anticipate that certain publications may not be approved by Amazon's machinery and forgo publication. Franklin Foer reports an incident of pressurizing a publisher after his 2014 article “Amazon Must Be Stopped” in *The New Republic <https://newrepublic.com/article/119769/amazons-monopoly-must-be-broken-radi…>*. He *wrote <https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/11/what-jeff-bezos-wants/…>*, “Citing my article, the company subsequently terminated an advertising campaign for its political comedy, Alpha House, that had been running in the magazine.” Failed-to-be-secret *writers' retreats <https://www.geekwire.com/2014/amazons-jeff-bezos-hosts-campfire-super-secre…>* organized by Jeff Bezos may be another way of manufacturing consent. Allegedly, Ghislaine Maxwell *has participated <https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/a35895/ghislaine-maxwell-was-a-guest-at-…>* in three of them. This adds to the question of the intentions behind such meetings. The instance of *removing digital <https://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/18/technology/companies/18amazon.html>* version of Orwell's “1984” from users' Kindle in 2009 because the provider turned out not to have the rights to offer this e-book showed that people do not really own these books once purchased. Furthermore, they may leave notes about their readings, which apparently are also in the hands of the company. This opens a lot of possibility to manipulate the content at their disposal. The case of *counterfeited copies <https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/23/technology/amazon-domination-bookstore-b…>* sold on Amazon further unravels the opportunities for manipulation of the content. The only option meeting my ethical criteria seems to be crowdfunding. I am collecting money to pay to a copyeditor and other co-creators. By giving access to printable manuscript, I want people to be able to do a print-on-demand in their locality. I also hope to collect money for LibriVox recording. Giving out of generosity and appreciation instead of buying creates a different relation between myself and readers. P2P movement works on the problem of potential extraction of creative commons achievements by corporations. Stacco Troncoso from *Guerrilla Translation <https://hackernoon.com/last-night-a-distributed-cooperative-organization-sa…>* gives an example of a book they translated into Spanish under Peer Production License (PPL), which *he describes <https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/think-global-print-local-licensing-commons/2…>* as “a copyFARleft license which allows cooperatives and solidarity-based collectives, but not corporations, to monetize cultural works. This license opens the possibility to print, publish, and distribute the translated book for cooperative publishers worldwide.” A longer analysis of this experience can be found *here <http://peerproduction.net/issues/issue-10-peer-production-and-work/varia/th…>*. The aim of *this license <http://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Reflections_on_the_Contradictions_of_the_Comm…>* is to create a network of Commons initiatives and stream income into this type of organizations. Another license, *Commons Clause <https://commonsclause.com/>*, enforces a negotiation to prevent “predatory commercial advantage” and enable developers to benefit from commercial use of their work. Further elaborations on the nuances of Non-Commercial and Peer Production licenses can be found *here <http://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Bibliography_of_the_Triple_C_Debate_between_P…>*. The problems of extraction are real and can be expected to be one of the front lines of P2P movement in the future. First *law cases <https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/Case_Law>*have been in courts. For my needs, this Peer Production License is too limiting. The character of my book will deter big commercially oriented companies anyway. Many small publishers, and these ones are more likely to be interested in marginal topics of my book, are not cooperatives. Furthermore, cooperative movement does not have the same conditions in all countries. Production process is not where unjust profit extraction mainly happens. As far as I know it is impossible to include a clause forbidding selling a specific product on a specific platform. *Vasilis Kostakis <http://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Vasilis_Kostakis>*, a digital commons scholar, confirmed that a license that would explicitly forbid selling a certain product on Amazon “might be against the 'free trade' legal framework.” Legal scholar whom I asked in an e-mail, Professor Aggelos Kornilakis, sees a possibility for a producer to forbid the use of their work on moral grounds. However, he points out that the courts would formulate judgments about excluding Amazon from the possibility of selling a specific product. It is impossible to predict what the judgment would be like. While I lack wherewithal to deal with this legal conundrum, I want this question to inspire reflection in Commons movement. Questions that are rarely asked (because of the hegemony of dominant actors) are those that may inspire the most radical change. At least, in our thinking. Non-contractual exploitation of my work by Amazon is definitely against my moral standards. I do not want to add money to inhumane working conditions in its logistics centers. I do not want my book to be delivered by exhausted employees and perpetuate the stories of *Vickie Shannon Allen <https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jul/30/accidents-at-amazon-work…>*, *José Antonio Rueda Bermudez <https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2017/06/02/spai-j02.html>*, and many other workers who cannot *drink water <https://serwisy.gazetaprawna.pl/praca-i-kariera/artykuly/1209250,kontrola-p…>* and *pee <https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-warehouse-like-prison-where-workers-…>* when they need it. Corona pandemic added more cruelty to *Jeff Bezos' portfolio <http://www.defenddemocracy.press/jeff-bezos-is-the-planets-richest-man-and-…>*. His employees were not equipped to protect themselves and the company did not obey the rules about nonessential products' retail in France. Amazon was going to win a lot due to the quarantine but it seems like it is never enough. Furthermore, Jeff Bezos did not decide to share his fast growing wealth to help in the crisis. If you find my books on Amazon, please, do not buy them there! If you know of a publisher actively resisting selling their books on Amazon, let me know. These people should be promoted! We need to talk. Let us make it a new brand and new habit to explicitly choose those who do not submit to what has become the source of oppression. It feels lighter to stick to my own paradigm rather than try to convince myself of other people's aspirations. The project became life and an experimentation with a new approach and my inner walls. I had to reinvent everything after having given up on academic career. I write this article partly to help you to stick to your dream as other people helped me to stick to mine. There is no happy ending to this story (yet?). So far mere setting up of the *campaign <https://www.gofundme.com/f/imagine-a-sane-society-book-project>* has been a bumpy ride. Now the end of the story is also in your clicking hands. The author appreciates Vasilis Kostakis' contribution to this article through an e-mail interview. He provided an overview and the links to the literature on commons-based licenses. Is the world ready for a feminine non-fiction utopia? Vote by *donating* <https://www.gofundme.com/f/imagine-a-sane-society-book-project>! Help to push Katarzyna's work to the masses. You can listen to an *excerpt from the book “Imagine a Sane Society”* <http://www.katarzynagajewska.org/imagine-a-sane-society-book-release> . The entire book will be available for free (digital text + audio) once we collect enough money for production. For updates on *her* publications: Katarzyna Gajewska - Independent Scholar <https://www.facebook.com/Katarzyna-Gajewska-Independent-Scholar-14245630944…> Her publication list (selection): https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Katarzyna_Gajewska Recently published: *Robot as a Teacher: The Perils of Digitalized Progress in Education* <https://dissidentvoice.org/2020/07/robot-as-a-teacher/> *Of Viruses and the Limits of Masculine (Dys)topias* <https://www.resilience.org/stories/2020-07-23/of-viruses-and-the-limits-of-…> *The Cultural Preparation for Crisis* <https://www.resilience.org/stories/2020-07-16/the-cultural-preparation-for-…> *Naming the Alternatives* <https://goodmenproject.com/featured-content/naming-the-alternatives-lbkr/> *So you want to leave it all and create a community?* <https://communelifeblog.wordpress.com/2020/07/01/so-you-want-to-leave-it-al…> -- 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: EDA NEWSLETTER - AUGUST 2020
by Michel Bauwens 04 Aug '20

04 Aug '20

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: <jbquilligan3(a)charter.net> Date: Sun, Aug 2, 2020 at 12:16 AM Subject: EDA NEWSLETTER - AUGUST 2020 To: michel(a)p2pfoundation.net <michel(a)p2pfoundation.net> *EDA NEWSLETTER* - AUGUST 2020 View this email in your browser <https://mailchi.mp/15db383fde8f/eda-newsletter-november-7854024?e=354efb4ffc> <https://economicdemocracyadvocates.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=acd14…> *economicdemocracyadvocates.org* <https://economicdemocracyadvocates.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=acd14…> *THIS MONTH IN EDA* *SPECIAL EDITION: PRINCIPLES OF LOCAL ECONOMIC DEMOCRACY - Part 3* All Needs Matter: The Story of Self-Sufficiency Resource Democracy: Self-Reliance through Self-Governance Sustainable Economies: Purchasing Capacity for Meeting Human Needs *POSITIONS AVAILABLE DIRECTOR OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY CO-CHAIRS OF EDUCATION ELECTIONS AND RATIFICATIONS INDIVIDUAL AND COLLECTIVE BALANCE IN THE CHARTER* *EDA FOURTH ANNUAL CONFERENCE* *JAMES QUILLIGAN SPEAKS ON CARRYING CAPACITY* *WHAT WE'RE READING AND WATCHING* *RECONNECT WITH EDA VOICES FROM OUR GOVERNING CIRCLE* *THE NEW WEBSITE FUND DRIVE COMING IN THE SEPTEMBER NEWSLETTER* *ALL NEEDS MATTER * *THE STORY OF SELF-SUFFICIENCY* *One of the world's great paradoxes is that our economies can only grow by getting people to consume beyond their real needs.* Here's the problem: by stimulating the economic demand of our expanding population, we overuse the planet’s fixed amount of non-renewable resources without adequately replenishing Earth's renewable resources. Then we rationalize these disparities through free-market ideology. We say that "*since humans are an intelligent species with vast scientific insight and technical skills, we would never harm civilization by creating perilous imbalances within society or nature. This is why we use a market economy because it is self-adjusting and avoids any misallocation of resources". *Yet these 'intelligent algorithms' that propel our economic systems are *not naturally correcting*, as evidenced by widespread poverty and ecological degradation. While biology shows that no population can live beyond its ecosystem, society ignores this natural law. Through free trade, our national economies buy, borrow and steal from other life-support systems, which means we are all drawing from the greater life-support system of Earth. Capitalism was not designed to value resources at their future worth. Instead, it measures resources by their extraction, production and labor costs and the price at which their products sell in the market -- all based on *supplying today's demand*. Today, the fundamental algorithms of modern economics, *use value* and *exchange value*, are driven more by what people want than what they need. This has created a growing deficit in our preparedness, integration and resilience as a society, which impedes our allocation of resources to those in need while destroying our environment. Nonetheless, *these algorithms are essential in expressing the dynamic forces of freedom and equality in human society.* Use value generates our engagement with others through the practical utilization of resources, and exchange value generates trust among people in the marketplace. What is vitally missing is the interdependent practice of social cooperation by every individual and the culture of mutual caring and solidarity that this generates. We also recognize the critical importance of education and technology in supporting cooperative culture. Yet this is not enough to transform the modern economy. Industrial civilization may have learned to increase economic efficiency by lowering the inputs of production and slowing the rate at which we use resources to produce each unit of what we want. But as long as human consumption continues to generate poverty, waste and debt, today's market-driven systems of education and technology will not change human behavior or drive evolutionary change. In the decades ahead, societies must learn to practice ways of life that are more in harmony with nature and can provide our sustenance through technologies that are designed for the rational and sustainable use of resources. What will solve this baffling equation is a new software of the mind. We need a code that shifts human understanding of ourselves, our behavior and our evolutionary role as a 'dominant species' to that of a 'participant species' in a complex ecosystem. We need to tell the story of where we come from, our purpose for being here and how we shall survive and thrive in this fragile environment. Without this new history of who we are, civilization will slowly collapse. Indeed, we are now in a period of decline, which is why we need a *narrative about the self-sufficient use of the resources common to all people*. This story is just as vital for the nourishment of the human race as our air, water, food and energy. Sustainability involves more than our current availability or access to resources. Given our growing economic and ecological deficits, humanity must look far ahead to how people’s future needs will be met. We have barely recognized that our shared commons cannot belong to one generation more than another, or how the mounting costs of our damage to Earth will be paid by those who were not responsible for this destruction. In this conclusion to *Principles of Local Economic Democracy*, we learn that the first five stages of sustainable economies will be aligned only when people become self-sufficient. *6) RESOURCE DEMOCRACY* *SELF-RELIANCE** THROUGH SELF-GOVERNANCE * *The world is self-ordering through natural evolution, which means that people co-evolve with nature*. Unlike the self-regulating cycles in the human body and the natural world, however, *the economic formula of supply and demand is mistaken for a self-evolving principle.* Little wonder the world seems so disjointed. Our 'self-organizing' free market is a crude approximation of a dynamically balanced ecosystem because supply does not account for the planetary limits of non-renewable resources and demand does not represent real human needs. The old story*, ‘supply creates its own demand’*, which favors the market value of resources over the basic needs of our population, has driven humanity to deplete Earth's natural resources and generate massive social and ecological debt. Our next story, *‘need measured is need met’*, must focus on how effectively the resources available within an ecosystem are distributed to those who need them, creating resource self-reliance (or self-sufficiency) within every eco-region on the planet. *Because human beings co-evolve with the natural world, our communities must be self-governing*. Self-governance applies at all levels of human life, from family, neighborhood and community to district, nation and planet. We are focusing on a unit of self-reliance which underlies and links all of these: the *bioregion*, where natural regeneration and restoration occur. This requires a belief system that is based on the necessity of sustaining life on the planet. Within every bioregional unit, this new socio-economic, ecological and cultural planning must be based on *carrying capacity* and *distributed value*. (Carrying capacity is the potential level of resources which an ecology can sustain to meet the needs of its population. Distributed value is the actual percentage of the population in a region whose needs are effectively met by the goods produced and distributed there.) Democracy is the only form of government that can create ecological sustainability because it is based on a succession of power across generations of elected leaders, making political cooperation sustainable through agreement. In modern democracies, however, a top-down system of authority has resisted human co-evolution with nature and ignored the possibilities of self-sufficiency through social cooperation. This is why we must work with elected officials who control our access and use of resources. If we don't do this, these politicians will continue to expand the market consumption and waste of necessities like food, water and energy. We must show our leaders why* it is not necessary to exploit the natural resources of others outside our region when we can sustain our population through community management of the resources in the place where we live.* In this era of climate emergency, pandemic and recession, self-governance means prioritizing human life and well-being through agreements to conserve our non-renewable resources and generate more renewable resources. This is why* representative democracy* is not enough: *participatory democracy* is also part of our social responsibility. We must influence our elected representatives to *shift decision-making power from corporate managers and shareholders to community stakeholders*, including workers, customers, suppliers, neighbors and the public. Local groups must take an active role in decisions to pool their resources through a mutual system of public services, modeling the planning and policies of their political districts after the ecosystems in which they are situated. This decentralized approach requires a collective change of heart and mind. It also requires *a structural change in the financial value that is added at each stage of our economic process *through the extraction, production, distribution, consumption, waste and recycling of our resources. *By taxing the value that we take from an ecosystem — rather than the value added — society will create a self-ordering, self-reliant economy through its own self-governance. *How? First, our common resources must be owned and managed by *community or regional trusts* that are directly accountable to the public. Second, political decisions on the sustainability and provisioning of each resource will be made by these trusts, which have the authority to *lease some of the rights for these commons to small businesses*. Third, *each business profits from the production of the resource and pays a tax to government*, which is recirculated to citizens as* credits, dividends or subsistence income*. Finally, the trust spends its leasing income on the *maintenance of sustainable commons *and the* replenishment of depleted** commons*. Changing our economies from *value-added *to* value-replenished* will generate self-sufficiency for the people in every bioregion*. *Each ecodistrict will take a constant inventory of its resources and production and match these assets with the distribution required to meet the basic needs of its population*. *Yet this strategic cooperation for self-sufficiency becomes *sustainable* only when this practice extends across time and into the future. Thus, the goal of democratic self-governance for our commons is to meet the needs of all people in the present while making Earth habitable for future generations. *A plan for self-sufficiency today is the next step in honoring the rights of citizens tomorrow.* * 7) SUSTAINABLE ECONOMIES PURCHASING CAPACITY FOR MEETING HUMAN NEEDS * *Sustainable economics is the most advanced stage of human society because it brings all the earlier stages together into a systemic, evolutionary unity.* Sustainability presupposes that human beings are balancing freedom and equality through cooperation and that these fundamental forces are supported by cultural development. It assumes that we have been educated with knowledge, expertise and solutions involving our common resources and are applying technology to meet everyone’s needs. A sustainable economy also requires the development of resource self-sufficiency for its population through self-governance. But sustainable economics is more than the sum of these cardinal principles. By embracing the idea that value flows from prices in the marketplace, we have forgotten that value arises simply through our minds. In fact, this was the historical meaning of *use value* — how human beings evaluate the materials that sustain us, regardless of their cost. But use value led to exchange value, and this led to a system in which the economic power of the State allocated resources through its sovereign authority. Then capitalism captured this power and privatized the State’s system of finance and debt. Now, under the yoke of institutions and rules that favor individual over collective value, consumers are rapidly depleting Earth’s resources and making little effort to sustain their lives. We can develop a sustainable economy by realizing that money possesses no real energy. Since money has no power in itself, it might as easily become a public resource for a socially just and ecologically sustainable economy. Imagine, if government debt were eliminated and money were revalued through the democratically-determined objectives of equality and sustainability, there would be no need for banks. Interest and debt would end. Stock and financial speculation would also come to a halt. Yet none of this would eliminate the principles of use value and exchange value — it would align them with the cooperative distribution of the resources necessary for people living today. And in meeting the needs of everyone in the present, we lay the foundations for a sustainable future. How could society organize itself in the same way as the natural world? This is more than just connecting resources with the people who need them today. It also means ensuring the evolution of human beings by giving everyone access to the wealth that is needed to sustain life for succeeding generations. This is why *purchasing capacity* — the amount of goods and services that we can purchase with a unit of currency — is needed to ensure the long-term vitality of human beings. Purchasing capacity not only affords us with fair wages or social credits to obtain essential products that meet our needs and spur our personal creativity and growth. *By measuring the value of maintaining human life from generation to generation, purchasing capacity will steer all societies toward sustainability.* The free market struggles to find a balance between supply and demand through the prices that are charged for products and services in the present time; it does not even try to predict the conditions of supply and demand that may affect people in the distant future. Yet an accurate measure of purchasing capacity is not possible without democratic self-governance to ensure the long-term equilibrium between available resources and social well-being in both the present and the future. *When democratic communities decide to protect a percentage of their non-renewable resources as reserves, they will ensure an adequate supply of these resources to address the needs of future generations. In turn, these reserve assets will become the basis for a self-adjusting standard of value and a means of calculating purchasing capacity value in the present, indicating how wealth may be optimally distributed in society, both now and progressively into the future*. By guaranteeing the rate at which the value of our income is adjusted to meet our basic needs, in line with the replenishment of our resources, we integrate the fulfillment of everyone’s needs now with the ecological conservation and regeneration necessary to meet these needs centuries from now. This is the culmination of our principles of local economic democracy. *Purchasing capacity is the beating heart of economics, leveraging the evolutionary forces that converge between the individual self and the collective whole of society and nature across time*. By balancing the material supply and demand of people today with the material supply and demand of people in future years, purchasing capacity value will enable all societies to plan ahead for the sustenance of the human species. *VOLUNTEERING IS COOPERATION* *POSITIONS AVAILABLE * *EDA has two positions open to our members for application:* Director of Communications and Director of Development. Details of these jobs are posted on EDA's Active Members site in Loomo. These are appointed positions. To apply for one of these openings, please send a brief letter of interest and a resume or CV to James at jbquilligan3(a)charter.net <[email protected]?subject=EDA%20Newsletter%20Inquiry-on%20positions%20available> Cooperation takes place when individuals work together as a group. Please join us. *WELCOME TRACY EDMONDS* *DIRECTOR OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY* EDA is excited to announce Tracy Edmonds as our new Director of Information Technology. No one is more qualified for this position than Tracy. In 1988, he earned a BSEE in Electrical and Computing Engineering from University of South Carolina. From 1994-2005 he worked at Oracle Corporation, Dolphin Interconnect Solutions, Troika Networks and Topspin Communications. For the past fifteen years, Tracy has worked at Cisco Systems, where he is now Director of Software Engineering. EDA has worked closely with Tracy for the past three-and-a-half years in several capacities and we are now making this a formal relationship. He has been helping to redevelop EDA's membership database and to build our new website-in-progress. We couldn't be happier that Tracy is sharing his vast expertise with EDA. Welcome, Tracy! *CHLOE BROWN AND DEIRDRE BROWN* *CO-CHAIRS OF EDUCATION* The EDA Board of Trustees is delighted to announce the appointments of Chloe and Deirdre Brown as Co-Chairs of the Education Team. Chloe is presently an undergraduate at Virginia Commonwealth University, majoring in Psychology and minoring in Religious Studies. She intends to pursue an MA in Art Therapy and Counseling to help young refugees with PTSD. Chloe has trained in advocacy work with the Friends Committee on National Legislation and has significant experience in community service and fundraising. Deirdre, Chloe's mom, completed her BS and Residency Program in 2019 at Bon Secours, St Mary's Hospital Memorial College of Nursing in Richmond, Virginia. Deirdre is presently working on an MS in Nursing at George Washington University. She is skilled in managing behavioral health in acute and non-acute environments. We are so pleased that this spirited and seasoned team will be hosting educational seminars, organizing Education Team meetings and supporting the EDA planning team. Welcome to EDA, Chloe and Dee Dee! *COMING SOON ELECTIONS AND RATIFICATIONS* *Our Election Board is holding elections for Treasurer, August 3 - 9*. Information about the candidates, their backgrounds and experience with EDA, is available under *RATIFICATIONS 2020/August *on our Active Members page in Loomio. Procedures for voting will also be available soon. The results of the election will be announced on August 10. *Ratifications for the Advocacy Team Chair and the Education Team Co-Chairs will be held August 24 - 30.* For the first time, these ratification will take place in the polling section of EDA's Loomio site. Background information -- including Jacelyn Eckman's job performance as Advocacy Team Chair and Choe and Deirdre Brown's resumes for Education Team Co-Chairs -- can be found on the EDA Active Members section in Loomio. Instructions about the ratification process will be available in mid-August. Reminder: an election involves voting a candidate into an EDA administrative position. A ratification involves confirming an appointee as a Chair in the EDA Action Council (Research, Education and Advocacy) or confirming a proposal from the Board of Trustees as formal EDA policy. To maintain your voting/ratification privilege, you must have taken part in one of the last two consecutive elections and/or ratifications and your EDA membership should be current. Our process as a democratic cooperative cannot work optimally unless everyone engages in the process. This is why all Active Members are asked to vote in elections and take part in ratifications. *Participation in group decision-making is the core of democracy.* *A SYSTEMS VIEW INDIVIDUAL AND COLLECTIVE BALANCE IN THE COOPERATIVE CHARTER * *The EDA Cooperative Charter was drafted between June 2017 and June 2018 with input from sixty-five people. *Our Drafting Team sought to create a balance between the individual selves and the collective whole of the organization. As the Charter's Preface states: *We recognize that social enterprises can become top-heavy for the sake of efficiency, or bottom-heavy in the interest of fairness. To develop a working balance between our leadership and members, we think this must include top-down and bottom-up checks and balances, with built-in incentives for both*. Below are some of the ways we have tried to establish this important equilibrium between the *individual *and *collective *rights and responsibilities of our Governing Circle, its staff and administrators. - The EDA Board of Trustees is a union of two different groups: the Executive Committee, which oversees the collective legal, financial and administrative functions of EDA; and the At-Large Trustees, who represent the individual interests of the Governing Circle of Active Members. - The Managing Director maintains the collective business of the organization through the Action Council and Operations Department, while the Board of Trustees focuses largely on the procedures for individual EDA members, such as non-profit responsibilities, policies, memberships, elections and ratifications. - The Action Council creates EDA's collective programs in research, education and advocacy, while Operations is focused on the individual tasks necessary to support these programs. - In the collective interest of the organization for holding free and fair elections, the Board of Trustees appoints an Election Board to ensure the individual rights of EDA members to run for office, vote for candidates and ratify policies and appointments. - EDA's elections require a quorum of 60% of the collective Governing Circle to vote, and through this voting 50% + 1 of our individual members decide the election or ratification. - The Board of Trustees has the right to propose individual appointees and individual policies to the Governing Circle for their confirmation, while the Governing Circle has the right to initiate a collective referendum for a new policy to the Board of Trustees for its approval. - The Mediation Body represents the individual rights of members of the Governing Circle which may be unrepresented or overlooked in the collective policies, procedures or management of the organization. These are a few examples of how we use systemic checks and balances in our work. As the document concludes: *The Cooperative Charter of Economic Democracy Advocates is our foundation for agreement, based in free, equal and cooperative human relationships and balanced between personal and collective needs.* Through this practice of organizational equilibrium, EDA hopes to bring our cooperative spirit into the world. *'FROM CRISIS TO COOPERATION' EDA FOURTH ANNUAL CONFERENCE* Our Fourth Annual Conference, *From Crisis to Cooperation*, will be held on Saturday, November 7. Please join us for this four-hour conference, which will include presentations from EDA's Research, Education and Advocacy teams, our President and Managing Director and notable guest speakers. What is behind this theme of 'crisis and cooperation'? Each one of us can probably define *crisis* better than we can *cooperation*. This is because our society is prone to creating crises while discouraging the cooperation to prevent them. We seem to provide mutual aid only after a major crisis has taken place. Nor do we have many rules or institutional frameworks for cooperation because volunteering for group work is simply not a valued part of our society. EDA's conference will examine these problems and how to develop strategies and policies for reversing them. We are looking for volunteers to help produce this program. This includes everything from advertising and registration to Zoom facilitation. We would also like to know if you have creative ideas for presentations. If you are interested in joining our conference planning team, please contact Managing Director James Quilligan at jbquilligan3(a)charter.net <[email protected]?subject=EDA%20Newsletter%20Inquiry-4th%20annual%20conference> *r3.0 CONFERENCE JAMES QUILLIGAN SPEAKS ON CARRYING CAPACITY* EDA Managing Director James Quilligan will make a keynote presentation at the 7th International r3.0 Conference on September 8. His theme is carrying capacity and distributed value and their role in creating economic democracy. This will be James' third talk to this distinguished group of planners and activists, which is being held online for the first time this year. On September 11, he will also serve as a Provocateur for a Breakout Session of this virtual gathering, entitled *Shifting to Economies as Ecosystems*. *WHAT WE'RE READING AND WATCHING* *FORECASTS AND SOLUTIONS* What the 1% Don't Want You to Know <https://economicdemocracyadvocates.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=acd14…> Economist Paul Krugman explains how the United States is becoming an oligarchy -- the very system our founders revolted against. Efficiency Vs. Resilience <https://economicdemocracyadvocates.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=acd14…> Today's multi-faceted crises are pulling back the curtain on unfettered capitalism, revealing that we are all interconnected. Organizing Complexity: The Path to Ownership Through Worker Cooperatives <https://economicdemocracyadvocates.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=acd14…> If you’re new to the concept of worker cooperatives, this article might surprise you. It explores the problems with the modern workplace, the nature of cooperatives, their benefits, how they work and why we don’t see more of them in society at present. Recipe for Action <https://economicdemocracyadvocates.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=acd14…> Listen to experts Danielle Nierenberg (President of Food Tank), Saru Jayaraman (President of One Fair Wage) and Melissa Desa (Director of Working Food) explain the failures of our global food system. Hear why the largest segment of working America has been left without food and economic safety nets. Learn inspiring ideas for improving food security in our own communities. *CONTINUING EDUCATION* *ReConnect with EDA * 10-Week Seminar *Civics of Resource Democracy* August 7 - October 9 *Fridays, 4:00 PM PDT/ 5:00 PM MDT/ 7:00 PM EDT (US & Canada)* *Continuing our Friday tradition of gathering*, Active Members and non-members are invited to meet for the educational seminar, *Civics of Resource Democracy*. 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Fwd: DIARY NOTE: Protesters to put climate on Bank of England agenda
by Michel Bauwens 04 Aug '20

04 Aug '20

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Simon Youel <simon.youel(a)positivemoney.org.uk> Date: Tue, Aug 4, 2020 at 3:20 PM Subject: DIARY NOTE: Protesters to put climate on Bank of England agenda To: <michel.bauwens(a)p2pfoundation.net> OPERATIONAL NOTICE: Rally and photocall Protesters to call for the Bank of England to put its money where its mouth is and support a green COVID recovery WHEN: Activists will assemble from 08:30 am on 6 August 2020 WHERE: Outside the Bank of England entrance facing the Royal Exchange building between Threadneedle Street and Cornhill Street WHAT: Activists will be reminding Bank of England governor Andrew Bailey of his pledges to build a greener economy, as Britain’s central bank prepares to release its latest Monetary Policy and Financial Stability Reports on Thursday 6 August. Campaigners will be wearing Andrew Bailey masks and holding speech bubbles featuring the governor’s previous statements on climate and the opportunity for a green recovery. A large banner will also read ‘NO ECONOMIC STABILITY IN A CLIMATE EMERGENCY’ WHY: The Bank of England is currently supporting fossil fuel companies such as Shell and BP through its corporate quantitative easing (QE) programme, as well as airlines, oil and gas companies and other polluters through its new Covid Corporate Financing Facility (CCFF). On becoming Bank of England governor in March, Andrew Bailey said <http://ec2-52-26-194-35.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com/x/d?c=8213785&l=f04…> that decarbonising the Bank’s asset purchases was “perfectly sensible” and pledged to take it forward as “a priority”. However, in April the Bank of England published an updated list of assets it will be buying with an additional £10bn of corporate QE, that still included climate criminals <http://ec2-52-26-194-35.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com/x/d?c=8213785&l=7d3…> such as Shell, BP and Total. A recent Positive Money report <http://ec2-52-26-194-35.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com/x/d?c=8213785&l=6d0…> also revealed that the majority of beneficiaries of the Bank’s new CCFF scheme have been high-carbon corporations, with airlines and oil and gas companies receiving billions of pounds of public financial support, prompting calls for environmental and social conditions to be attached to these bailouts. Andrew Bailey has responded <http://ec2-52-26-194-35.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com/x/d?c=8213785&l=c66…> to public pressure on climate to say that the Bank will turn to these issues “when the pressure on our resources abates”. Activists will remind Bailey that climate change is an existential threat to economic and financial stability which action cannot be delayed on. They will hold him to his previous words <http://ec2-52-26-194-35.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com/x/d?c=8213785&l=602…> on the opportunity for a green recovery. Contact: For more information, or to arrange an interview with a spokesperson or receive a briefing, please contact Simon Youel at simon.youel(a)positivemoney.org.uk or on 07817765517 -- *Simon Youel* Head of Policy & Advocacy, Positive Money T: 0207 253 3235 M: 07817765517 simon.youel(a)positivemoney.org www.positivemoney.org <http://ec2-52-26-194-35.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com/x/d?c=8213785&l=272…> *Positive Money is a company limited by guarantee registered in England and Wales. Registered number 07253015. Registered office: 303 Davina House, 137-149 Goswell Road, London EC1V 7ET* Add a magic button to Gmail <http://ec2-52-26-194-35.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com/x/d?c=8213785&l=761…> -- P2P Foundation: http://wiki.p2pfoundation.net <http://p2pfoundation.net> - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net Discuss: http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation Updates: ; http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens Curation of news on p2p/commons developments: https://www.facebook.com/groups/p2p.open/

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Fwd: invitation
by Michel Bauwens 04 Aug '20

04 Aug '20

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: maria lucia cruz correia <mluciacruzcorreia(a)gmail.com> Date: Tue, Aug 4, 2020 at 5:30 PM Subject: invitation To: <michelsub2004(a)gmail.com> *COMMON DREAMS:FLOTATION SCHOOL* This summer, you are warmly invited to the third edition of *Common Dreams: Flotation school, *in collaboration with the students of HEAD – Genève*: Aylin Balikci, Lucie Cellier, Zoé Gronchi, Laura Laigo, Abigaël Mackenzie, Morgane Roduit and Clara Rouge.* A co-production of *far° festival des arts vivants Nyon* <https://mluciacruzcorreia.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4c0aa08633c9ad…> and *HEAD – Genève * <https://mluciacruzcorreia.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4c0aa08633c9ad…> When? 15/08 - 19/08/2020 The title of this year is *Common Dreams: **Moving Away Together * For this edition during *far° Nyon, * we will propose a nomadic school, which will take place in a forest and with side activities on the Lake Léman. As a response to covid 19 and as a gesture of care, the school will be focusing on the matters of the heart, it will tender your senses with activities involving singing, eating, snorkeling, listening, contemplating, playing climate card game, reading tarot, activating, rebelling and restoring. Check the all activities and guests per day here <https://mluciacruzcorreia.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4c0aa08633c9ad…> : *How our common dreams grew the last six months?* Donna Haraway and Bruno Latour are referring to the need of a “*Terrestrial Political Education*”, to rethink education, as an attempt to have a geo politically engaged approach as a form to activate and inspire climate justice, terrestrial survival and kinship. Should we then give agency to the future generations and start learning from them? Perhaps this is a more respectful way towards the world we live in today and towards our common dreams. In February 2020, right before the lock down, we gathered for the first time in HEAD – Genève to share our common dreams on the future. The first phase of this collaboration was a process to unfold the notions of survival in floating raft-school which would eventually take place on the lake Léman. Commonly we came to the conclusion that some of the essential values to live in a confined space with a small group of people are: respect – kindness – non violence – attempt to love everyone (at least accept people) – express feelings at all times – compassion – patience – telling the truth (when it doesn’t hurt :) ) – be good to everyone (the most you can) – more tolerance – and establish moving-changing rules (always think twice). A kind of knowledge we gained during lock down. The workshop’s structure is designed in alignment with the four elements and its guests: *WATER:* the *Lake Léman*, an ecosystem hosting a biodiversity of aquatic species. *AIR:* *Pierre Kunz*, responsible for air quality quality control at Geneva Air, Noise and Non-Ionizing Radiation Service. *EARTH:* *Paola Tosolini*, prof. of architecture and sustainable materials at HEPIA *FIRE:* *Mathilde Captyn*, member of the party’s Les Verts comity and in charge of the campaign for *The Initiative pour les glaciers <https://mluciacruzcorreia.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4c0aa08633c9ad…>*. And *Hannah Entwisle Chapuisat*, co-founder of* Displacement journeys <https://mluciacruzcorreia.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4c0aa08633c9ad…> *, a project stimulating artistic responses to climate change. This was a promising setting where we work around six main topics: EDUCATION - ECOLOGY - SHELTER - SUSTAINABILITY - SOCIAL-ECONOMY in full awareness of the affecting terrestrial antropocene and the modes of survival and coexistence with natural habitats. We’ve imagined a raft where you could simply be as way “to float, to be carried by the current, to create a situation that makes it clear that we do not have control, but that we must learn to observe, understand and deal with what we have. Cooperate, share resources and skills. Not a fight against (the elements, the others...), but a dance with…”* * interview with Katrin Kettenacker from HEAD- Geneve here <https://mluciacruzcorreia.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4c0aa08633c9ad…> Due to COVID-19 pandemic a floating school on the lake will not be build but still we can share how it was imagined: More info on the Common Dreams:flotation school here <https://mluciacruzcorreia.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4c0aa08633c9ad…> *Common Dreams:flotation School*, is an ongoing autonomous climate school, taking different formats in response to the city and collaboration established with the partners. Providing workshops on survival, sustainability, climate adaptation, climate grief and loss of landscapes. 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Fwd: #CuraDaTerra (Cure of the Earth)
by Michel Bauwens 04 Aug '20

04 Aug '20

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Kosmos Journal <info(a)kosmosjournal.org> Date: Mon, Aug 3, 2020 at 8:56 PM Subject: #CuraDaTerra (Cure of the Earth) To: <michel(a)p2pfoundation.net> August 9th commemorates the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples. * KOSMOS COMMUNITY * [image: Facebook] <https://kosmosjournal.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=a2e6f01f29f00e615c1…> [image: Twitter] <https://kosmosjournal.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=a2e6f01f29f00e615c1…> [image: Website] <https://kosmosjournal.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=a2e6f01f29f00e615c1…> [image: Instagram] <https://kosmosjournal.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=a2e6f01f29f00e615c1…> *#CuraDaTerra (Cure of the Earth)* *Read this newsletter on our website <https://kosmosjournal.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=a2e6f01f29f00e615c1…>* *Dear Reader* August 9th commemorates the *International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples*, celebrated around the world. This year’s theme is ‘COVID-19 and indigenous peoples’ resilience’, and honors the innovative ways indigenous peoples continue demonstrating resilience and strength in the face of the pandemic while confronting grave threats to their survival. There is a parallel between COVID attacking the lungs of human beings and industrial capitalism ravaging the Amazon and Congo – the lungs of our planetary home. That’s why *Kosmos* is pleased to share about the movement, #CuraDaTerra (Cure of the Earth). The goal is to elevate the voices and perspectives of our Indigenous elders and build on the great work of Amazon Watch and other civil society organizations to create a global movement of allies focused on a clear demand: an immediate moratorium on logging, mining, ranching, industrial farming and all other forms of extraction. *80% of the planet’s biodiversity is in Indigenous Peoples territories, it’s more important than ever to support their struggle as one of the key strategies for addressing both climate change and social justice. – #CuraDaTerra* We are living in a moment ripe with potential. If Indigenous ways of living are forgotten, all Life is imperiled. Please share the following stories by *Kosmos* friends on social media and be so kind to use the hashtag #CuraDaTerra. *What Indigenous Wisdom Can Teach Us About Economics* By Helena Norberg-Hodge "...Reaching out across the left-right divide is critical. The people who vote for Bolsonaro and Trump do so largely because of the cultural and economic marginalisation imposed by economic globalisation – a process that has reduced many once-cohesive communities into isolated backwaters plagued by depression, addiction and unemployment. Now is the time to offer new political narratives– inspired by Indigenous ways of knowing, living and being -that speak to a flourishing of ecologically rooted communities and genuine prosperity. Now is the time for economic localisation. It is the way human beings can become part of the Cure of the Earth, *the Cura da Terra, *as Indigenous peoples have been since time immemorial." *READ MORE AT KOSMOS <https://kosmosjournal.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=a2e6f01f29f00e615c1…>* *Indigenous Languages As Cures of the Earth* By Tiokasin Ghosthorse "...The Amazon is a sacred place. Human Beings do not make sacred places, they acknowledge them, recognize them, and sustain them without developing them. We honor them with languages taught to us by the Earth herself. The Original Nations of the Western Hemisphere understand sacred places where Earth has directed their sensitivities to pure energy being in place. These multi-dimensional Earth languages of the Original Peoples are also a part of the sacred places. They are part of the *Cura Da Terra*, “Cure of the Earth”, to borrow a phrase from the First Peoples of the Amazon." READ MORE AT KOSMOS <https://kosmosjournal.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=a2e6f01f29f00e615c1…> *Waiter, there's a problem with my paradigm! Or what a bowl of soup can teach us about saving the Amazon* By Larry Kopald and Tom Newmark *“…*What would happen if we eradicated the destructive, extractive, and exploitative mindset that is ravaging the Amazon and replaced it with one based on regenerative agriculture, a template for ecologically rational food production that, as we wrote earlier, was co-created in the Amazon? Imagine all of Amazonia – all of its now diverse population – devoted to soil and overall ecosystem health. Imagine the Amazon becoming a model of planetary renewal and regeneration and how that could inspire a planetary revival.” READ MORE AT KOSMOS <https://kosmosjournal.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=a2e6f01f29f00e615c1…> *PODCAST | Charles Eisentein and Alnoor Ladha: Oppression, Interconnection, Healing* <https://kosmosjournal.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=a2e6f01f29f00e615c1…> “This rich dialog treats the evolution of activism beyond us-versus-them thinking, with special reference to current events around race, the indigenous, and the Amazon rainforest. CLICK HERE TO LISTEN <https://kosmosjournal.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=a2e6f01f29f00e615c1…> Alnoor Ladha’s work focuses on the intersection of political organizing, systems thinking and narrative work. Currently, he is active with Cura Da Terra (#CuraDaTerra), a campaign of and for the indigenous of the Amazon in their role as healers of the earth. Alnoor comes from a Sufi lineage and explores/writes about the intersection between politics and spirituality in times of crisis.” *Copyright © 2020 Kosmos Associates, All rights reserved.* You are receiving this email because you either purchased a service or subscription with Kosmos Journal, or subscribed to our newsletter Kosmos Online. *Our mailing address is:* Kosmos Associates PO Box 456 Media, PA 19063 Add us to your address book <https://kosmosjournal.us3.list-manage.com/vcard?u=a2e6f01f29f00e615c1467a04…> Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences <https://kosmosjournal.us3.list-manage.com/profile?u=a2e6f01f29f00e615c1467a…> or unsubscribe from this list <https://kosmosjournal.us3.list-manage.com/unsubscribe?u=a2e6f01f29f00e615c1…> . 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Fwd: 👋FABxLive is still LIVE!
by Michel Bauwens 04 Aug '20

04 Aug '20

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