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

10 Mar '26

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

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Fwd: Central banks failing to match green rhetoric with action - report
by Michel Bauwens 31 Mar '21

31 Mar '21

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Anna Pick <press(a)positivemoney.org> Date: Wed, Mar 31, 2021 at 2:58 PM Subject: Central banks failing to match green rhetoric with action - report To: Michel Bauwens <michel.bauwens(a)p2pfoundation.net> Good morning, Positive Money has today launched the ‘Green Central Banking Scorecard’, a report that reveals how G20 central banks are faring on climate action. The research reveals a complete absence of high impact climate policies among G20 central banks, only months ahead of the crucial COP26 summit in November. Despite the Chancellor’s wish for the UK to be the world leader <https://positivemoney-org-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/Redirect?ukey=15WoTxYC…> on green finance, the UK comes in 4th, behind China, Brazil and France. The UK scores 10/10 for research and advocacy, but has so far failed to translate this into meaningful action, lagging behind on categories for monetary policy (4/50), financial policy (19/50), and ‘leading by example’ (5/20). With the UK-hosted G7 Summit <https://positivemoney-org-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/Redirect?ukey=15WoTxYC…> coming up in June and the Glasgow COP26 talks in November, the Bank of England has a narrow window to announce concrete measures and establish itself as a global leader on greening the financial system. Please find below the full press release, and do get in touch if you would like further information or a briefing. I am available on 07948802104. Best, Anna ### FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Central banks failing to match green rhetoric with action - report Absence of high impact climate policies among G20 central banks, report reveals London, 31 March 2020 - Monetary and financial authorities across the world’s largest economies aren’t practicing what they preach on climate, according to a new report published today by research and campaign group Positive Money. Endorsed by 24 leading research institutes and NGOs, Positive Money’s ‘Green Central Banking Scorecard’ assesses the relative progress G20 central banks have made on sustainability in relation to research and advocacy, monetary policy, financial policy, as well as other ways they are leading by example, and sets out what actions policymakers could be taking to tackle environmental breakdown. The results show that while 14 out of 20 central banks scored full marks on their research and advocacy efforts, this has so far rarely translated into concrete action, with overall scores dragged down by a stark lack of green monetary and financial policies across the board. China tops this year’s scorecard with an aggregate score of 50 out of 130, which equates to a mediocre ‘C’ grade in the scorecard. This reflects the fact that, while China’s monetary and financial authorities have taken steps to steer lending towards greener activities, even policymakers in the top ranking countries still have a long way to go to align finance with the climate goals governments have committed to. The report reveals an absence of high-impact policies that meaningfully reduce financial support for fossil fuels across the G20. In cases where central banks have integrated climate into their policies, the focus has been on financial disclosures, stress tests, and encouraging lending towards green assets, rather than crucial steps to wind down financial support for fossil-fuel-intensive and ecologically harmful activities. The authors call for policymakers to urgently remedy this policy shortfall by taking action to exclude unsustainable activities from the assets they purchase and accept as collateral for lending, and for financial regulation to penalise high-carbon lending, with higher capital requirements to more accurately reflect the risk of fossil fuel investments. As well as being a necessary prerequisite for central banks’ goals of maintaining price and financial stability and supporting government policy, the report also argues that the Covid-19 pandemic, which has origins in ecological degradation, strengthens the case for central banks taking a more proactive and interventionist role in promoting sustainability. Positive Money’s report comes after the 2021 Banking on Climate Change report from Rainforest Action Network and other NGOs last week revealed that the world’s 60 largest private banks have financed fossil fuels to the tune of $3.8 trillion since the Paris Agreement in 2015, with a 10% increase in fossil fuel expansion projects in 2020. The report comes as G20 finance ministers and central bankers are set to meet on 7-8 April to discuss a new Action Plan to address global challenges including climate and environment-related risks. David Barmes, Positive Money economist and lead author of the report, said: “While it’s positive that central bankers are ‘talking the talk’ by featuring climate more prominently in speeches and research, there has been a widespread failure to ‘walk the walk’ by turning these words into concrete policy action. “The 2008 crash showed financial markets cannot be left to self-regulate in the face of systemic risk, but by failing to confront the climate crisis we are repeating the same mistakes on an even bigger scale. Global finance will continue to generate instability and environmental breakdown until central banks and supervisors reshape the financial system to better serve people and the planet. “Protecting environmental stability is a prerequisite for maintaining monetary and financial stability. If central banks are to fulfil their core mandates and support governments’ climate targets, they must step up action to clamp down on dirty financial flows.” On the Bank of England falling behind other countries’ central banks ahead of the UK hosting COP26, Katie Kedward, Policy Fellow at UCL’s Institute for Innovation and Public Research, said: “The Bank of England has taken a leading role in its research and advocacy on climate change. With only months to go before the UK hosts the crucial COP26 summit, this research underscores that the Bank of England can go further to contribute to the greening of the financial system. “The newly updated green mandate from the government will now help the Bank to take further steps through its monetary and financial policies, and it is positive to see the recent commitment to decarbonise the corporate bond purchase portfolio. In order to ‘lead by example’, the Bank of England should explore how to implement other important policies, such as climate-aligned capital requirements to actively penalise high-carbon lending.” Notes 1. View the report in full: https://positivemoney.org/publications/green-central-banking-scorecard/ <https://positivemoney-org-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/Redirect?ukey=15WoTxYC…> 2. The report will be launched at 13:30 BST on 31 March with an online event, featuring contributions from Official Monetary and Financial Institutions Forum (OMFIF) chief economist and director of research, Danae Kyriakopoulou, International Institute of Green Finance director general Yao Wang, and Reclaim Finance executive director Lucie Pinson. Register to attend here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/central-banks-leaders-or-laggards-in-the-cli… <https://positivemoney-org-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/Redirect?ukey=15WoTxYC…> 3. For more on how finance is funding fossil fuels, see the latest Banking on Climate Chaos report: https://www.ran.org/bankingonclimatechaos2021/ <https://positivemoney-org-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/Redirect?ukey=15WoTxYC…> 4. For more information or to arrange a briefing/interview with a spokesperson, please contact press(a)positivemoney.org.uk or Anna Pick on 07948802104 About Positive Money Positive Money campaigns for a money and banking system which supports a fair, democratic and sustainable economy. Set up in the aftermath of the financial crisis, Positive Money is a not-for-profit company funded by charitable trusts and foundations, as well as small donations from its network of over 65,000 supporters. www.positivemoney.org <https://positivemoney-org-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/Redirect?ukey=15WoTxYC…> ### [image: beacon] -- 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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Social Media: A Critical Introduction - third edition
by Christian Fuchs 30 Mar '21

30 Mar '21

New, third edition: Christian Fuchs. 2021. Social Media: A Critical Introduction. London: Sage. Third edition. 448 pages. Preface, introduction, sample chapter, and more infos here: https://fuchsc.uti.at/social-media-a-critical-introduction-third-edition/ Social media are an integral part of contemporary society. From news and politics to language and everyday life, they have changed the way we communicate, use information and understand the world. So we have to ask critical questions about social media. We have to dig deeper into issues of ownership, power, class and (in)justice. This book equips you with a critical understanding of the complexities and contradictions at the heart of social media’s relationship with society. The revised and expanded Third Edition: * Explores populism, racism and nationalism in a new chapter on right-wing authoritarianism. * Introduces the phenomenon of social media influencers in the age of Instagram, YouTube, and Snapchat. * Explains how big data is central to social media in a new chapter on big data capitalism and imperialism. * Explores the growing prominence of platforms and platform capitalism. * Challenges you to envision and achieve a truly social media that serves the purposes of a just and fair world. * Analyses fake news and misinformation in the context of Facebook and Cambridge Analytica. There are winners and losers in the age of digital capitalism. This book is an essential guide for anyone who wants to critically understand how we got to digital capitalism, and what we can do about it. Table of Contents List of figures and tables, page ix About the author, page xiii Preface, page xv I FOUNDATIONS, page 1 1 What is a Critical Introduction to Social Media?, page 3 2 What are Social Media?, page 25 3 Big Data Capitalism, page 49 II APPLICATIONS, page 71 4 The Power and Political Economy of Social Media, page 73 5 Google: Good or Evil Search Engine?, page 109 6 Facebook and WhatsApp: Surveillance in the Age of Fake News, page 139 7 Influencer Capitalism: Reified Consciousness in the Age of Instagram, YouTube, and Snapchat, page 173 8 Twitter and Democracy: A New Public Sphere?, page 205 9 Right-wing Authoritarianism on Social Media, page 239 10 Weibo: Power, Ideology, and Social Struggles in China, page 265 11 The Sharing Economy of Airbnb, Uber, and Upwork, page 285 12 Platform Capitalism, page 309 13 Wikipedia: A New Democratic Form of Collaborative Work and Production?, page 327 III FUTURES 14 Capitalist Social Media’s Major Problems and Alternatives, page 347 15 A Manifesto for Truly Social Media, page 367 References, page 387 Index, page 413

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Fwd: A Question from Loic
by Michel Bauwens 30 Mar '21

30 Mar '21

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Daniel Pinchbeck from Daniel Pinchbeck’s Newsletter < danielpinchbeck(a)substack.com> Date: Sun, Mar 28, 2021 at 11:57 PM Subject: A Question from Loic To: <michelsub2004(a)gmail.com> What is to be done? ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ A Question from Loic <https://email.mg2.substack.com/c/eJxdkl2X2iAQhn-NudND-BIuuNjWtdWjsdvd1u1VDo…>What is to be done? <https://email.mg2.substack.com/c/eJxdkMtqxDAMRb9mvJvB79gLL2bT3wh-KImpYwfHac…> Daniel Pinchbeck <https://email.mg2.substack.com/c/eJxdkMtqxDAMRb9mvJvB79gLL2bT3wh-KImpYwfHac…> Mar 28 <https://email.mg2.substack.com/c/eJxdUktP4zAQ_jXNjcpv4kMOhSxSEG23Cwt0L5Ef08…> [image: Comment] <https://email.mg2.substack.com/c/eJxdUsty2yAU_RprZw8PQWChRVrHrT2x3DRpna40CK…> [image: Share] <https://email.mg2.substack.com/c/eJxdktGSmyAUhp8m3iWDIAQvvNg2mzaZjel2t832yk…> <https://email.mg2.substack.com/c/eJxVUsuu3CAM_ZrJLhHvmAWLq0r9jYiHk6E3gTSQez…> Loic Le Meur is a tech entrepreneur who has been studying with indigenous traditions in Brazil. He wrote this to me: *Hi Daniel really enjoyed your latest newsletter on Tulum. Do you mind me asking though? How do you see yourself in the world you describe, since living in Tulum yourself is just also accepting that system and being a full participant of it? I agree with most of your points in your text, just to be clear. Not trying to criticize or make you uncomfortable. I just also see that you live and benefit from exactly what you are criticizing or showing the issues of by precisely living there yourself?* I appreciate this question. My answer has a few different levels to it. The short answer is that I wish I knew what to do now that would be truly helpful. I realize that bringing awareness may seem futile, but, as I have found, it can start a process that eventually leads to tangible change. As for living in Tulum, I have to live somewhere! Tulum seems a good place for me to be right now as many amazing people pass through here and a new culture is developing here that can be inflected, influenced and perhaps shifted. The fact that Tulum’s culture is theoretically focused on “consciousness” makes the unconsciousness, selfishness, and hypocrisy more glaringly obvious than in Cancun, say, or New York. Before I wrote my first book, *Breaking Open the Head* (2002), you couldn't speak seriously about psychedelics / visionary plants in mainstream society without being ridiculed. Today, we are in a psychedelic renaissance. For better or worse, massive industries are forming around them and everybody has changed their minds about them. That book contributed to a change of perception which is now leading to significant social change. As I wrote in my piece, Tulum is a perfect microcosm of the macrocosm. For instance, let’s look at the situation in the Amazon, which is similar. We are pushing the Amazon to the brink. Scientists now worry that the huge Amazon rainforest may collapse as a functional ecosystem within five to fifteen years. According to a recent study, the Amazon now produces more CO2 than it sequesters. Since the Amazon rainforest is the hydrological heart of the planet, this should concern all of us and motivate us to take action. Share <https://email.mg2.substack.com/c/eJxdktGSmyAUhp8m3iWDIAQvvNg2mzaZjel2t832yk…> The same underlying pressures that are ruining the Yucatan are also devastating the Amazon. Essentially, the logic of our economic system forces the need for incessant growth and development, beyond the limits of what the Earth can support. (Useful books to understand this are *The Case Against the Global Economy*, edited by Jerry Mander, and *Oneness Versus the 1%* by Vandana Shiva). We are either going to find a way to change this or our children will inherit a dystopian inferno with drastically reduced possibilities and curtailed lives. I have been reading Bill Gates’ new book, *How to Avoid a Climate Disaster*, on climate change. Typically, he doesn’t focus on reducing the massive amounts of CO2 we release, which requires changing the lifestyles of the wealthy, first of all. The top 1% use an estimated 20% of our collective resources. Instead, Gates is funding experiments in “global dimming,” where we pour sulfur particles into the atmosphere to reduce sunlight. This is obviously not a holistic solution and could cause new disasters. But for those trapped in the logic of Capitalism and endless growth, they have no choice but to believe we can continue this current system indefinitely. What seems clear is that piecemeal efforts of philanthropy and charity cannot address the underlying forces driving us toward catastrophe. What we need is systemic change. We must redesign the operating system for our civilization — our economic system above all. In my 2017 book *How Soon Is Now*, I explored some ways this could be done. I know it seems difficult, if not impossible, to accomplish this. On the other hand, many things that once seemed impossible have come to pass. We don’t know what we are capable of until we try. How can we bring about systemic change? We need to establish, first of all, shared awareness and a collective agreement about what must be done. Such a shared awareness naturally begins with a small group, a minority, who then transmit it to larger circles of the population (as happened with psychedelics). We need to build the movements, media, institutions and tools to drive such a transition. Luckily, we have many prototypes for how this can be accomplished from initiatives and innovations from the past. Let’s take the Amazon as an example. Millions of people live in the Amazon basin and many of them are doing work that further exploits and deforests the rainforest. They don’t do this because they want to, but because they have no choice. One of the main drivers of destruction is that large tracts of the jungle are being converted to soybean plantations for cattle, to satisfy a growing demand for meat in countries like China and India. You can’t solve the situation in the Amazon without providing a different way for those millions of people to make decent livelihoods. Their work has to become labor that supports the health and biodiversity of the local ecosystem. This would require the use of different tools for exchanging and measuring value, along with a large-scale retraining program. We also need to find a way to reduce the world’s growing appetite for meat. While this is difficult to imagine, it is not actually impossible. Nothing physically prevents us from making these changes, only the logic of the economic system and the ideologies that prop it up. In considering the dynamics of systemic change, one theme that I keep exploring is the necessity for a new over-arching paradigm that transcends reductive materialism and mass consumerism. I believe this new paradigm already exists in nascent form, but it must be collectively recognized. We need more “propaganda” (myths, stories, songs) to transmit it to different sectors of the populace. One element of this new paradigm is the integration of science and mysticism, which also allows a place for traditional religious beliefs. Spirituality (and religion) impart dignity and purpose to people’s lives. They point us toward a greater goal that we can unify to achieve, as leaders like Gandhi and Martin Luther King demonstrated. <https://email.mg2.substack.com/c/eJxVUkuO5CAMPU1ll4h_YMGiNVJfI-LjpJhKIAOku2…> We know that a group of smart, well-resourced people who decide to work together can change the world. The book *Dark Money* by Jane Mayer gives one example. Mayer documents how the Koch brothers used their wealth and power to change the direction of American society over a half century. The Kochs hated the increased taxation, increased social services, decent public education and movements for civil rights and the environment that were the legacy of the 1960s. They wanted to reduce taxes on the wealthy, cut social services, and evade ecological restrictions. They realized they needed a long-term master plan to do this. So they developed one. As part of their strategy, they established media outlets, started think tanks, bought academic departments at universities, and created “Astro-turf”’d social movements like the Tea Party, copying progressive grassroots initiatives. They successfully rolled back decades of progress. The “other side” — those seeking a systemic alternative to reduce wealth inequality, reverse the extractive model of Colonialism, and protect our threatened planet — can study what the Koch brothers did and copy it. In fact, such a counter-initiative might develop quickly. After all, it has reason and justice on its side. To quote Shiva: “We can, through our creativity and imagination, through our solidarity and interconnectedness, create a planetary freedom movement through which we break free of the chains and walls constructed by the illusions of the mechanical mind, the money machine and the delusion of democracy. We can reclaim and create real knowledge through real intelligence. We can reclaim and create real wealth with nature, through our creativity. We can sow the seeds of real freedom and earth democracy.” I actually don’t know if we can do this — but it seems at least worth a shot. Among the people I know, many have decided that it is already too late; “the machine is unstoppable;” our civilization is going to collapse no matter what we do, so there is no reason to try to find or build scale-able solutions. In any case, it will require a succession of horrific disasters before the masses start to “wake up.” Some choose to focus on self-healing, personal spiritual growth, building off-the-grid communities with a small group of friends, or they apprentice with indigenous people and see the spiritual wisdom of the indigenous as an Absolute Good compared to the Absolute Bad of the Capitalist technocracy. While I sympathize with this perspective, I find it misguided and self-serving. It is another way to abdicate and avoid taking responsibility. The problem with focusing on healing yourself is that there is no end to it. We remain imperfect beings in mortal, imperfect bodies. There will always be more to heal. On the other hand, a degree of self-healing — from our education system, from a culture based on competition and exploitation, and from personal trauma — is necessary, so it requires balance. In retrospect, I realized that I rushed into trying to "save the world" before I had done enough healing work on myself. This led to negative consequences and hard lessons I had to learn. We will definitely see intensifying disasters in the coming years. But those disasters won’t lead to positive social change unless we are prepared with functional alternatives to the current system. We still have time to develop and disseminate such alternatives — but we don’t know how much time is available. In our culture, we are trained to continually seek for the next thrill, the next escape. We do this by moving to exotic places like Tulum and Bali, or by adopting spiritual practices from other cultures as a badge of identity. This inevitably continues the logic of Colonialism, which is based on a model of exploit-and-escape. As beneficiaries of the Western system, it might be more honest for us to accept our culpability for this legacy of exploitation and seek to terminate it, rather than believing it is enough to seek inner peace while swaddled in native beads and fabrics. Indigenous traditions, indigenous medicine, and indigenous spirituality are beautiful and transformative. As Europeans and Americans, we can learn so much from them. But we do not belong to those cultures. We have a moral and spiritual responsibility to deal with our Wetiko culture, the one that has unleashed this planetary holocaust. Instead of seeing this as a horrible burden, we can approach it as a tremendous spiritual opportunity and adventure. Who is up for this challenge? By becoming a paid subscriber, you support my ability to research and write. You receive free tickets to some online seminars and reduced-price access to all others. Subscribe now <https://email.mg2.substack.com/c/eJxdUl1vmzAU_TXwtgj8FfPAQ9Q0W9IkqF3Ckidk7A…> <https://email.mg2.substack.com/c/eJxdUktP4zAQ_jXNjcpv4kMOhSxSEG23Cwt0L5Ef08…> [image: Comment] <https://email.mg2.substack.com/c/eJxdUsty2yAU_RprZw8PQWChRVrHrT2x3DRpna40CK…> [image: Share] <https://email.mg2.substack.com/c/eJxdktGSmyAUhp8m3iWDIAQvvNg2mzaZjel2t832yk…> You’re on the free list for Daniel Pinchbeck’s Newsletter <https://email.mg2.substack.com/c/eJxdkMtuxCAMRb9mWI54BxYsuulvIB5OgkpIBKRV_r…>. 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Fwd: This Sunday - TEDx online event featuring Jojo Mehta
by Michel Bauwens 19 Mar '21

19 Mar '21

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Stop Ecocide <team(a)stopecocide.earth> Date: Fri, Mar 19, 2021 at 8:55 PM Subject: This Sunday - TEDx online event featuring Jojo Mehta To: <michelsub2004(a)gmail.com> View in Browser Proud to support TEDx Stroud, featuring Jojo Mehta, Co-founder & Executive Director, Stop Ecocide International Online TEDx event Sun, 21 Mar 2021, 14:00 -17:00 GMT TEDx Stroud feature View in Browser <https://a1e0.engage.squarespace-mail.com/r?m=6054ad34938d9a5b93cfb1a0&u=htt…> <https://a1e0.engage.squarespace-mail.com/r?m=6054ad34938d9a5b93cfb1a0&u=htt…> Proud to support TEDx Stroud, featuring Jojo Mehta, Co-founder & Executive Director, Stop Ecocide International *Online TEDx event*Sun, 21 Mar 2021, 14:00 -17:00 GMT TEDx Stroud <https://a1e0.engage.squarespace-mail.com/r?m=6054ad34938d9a5b93cfb1a0&u=htt…> features eight speakers to spark deep discussion and connection on the theme of *emergence*, broadcast from Stroud, a small market town in the Cotswolds rapidly becoming renowned as a hotbed of progressive thinking and cutting edge ideas. In our turbulent world at a time of crisis, what new ways of thinking will arise, blossom, and take flight to guide us forward? This event explores emergent ideas ranging from the intensely personal to the truly global, in a challenging and eye-opening afternoon of short talks from eight inspiring women BUY TICKETS <https://a1e0.engage.squarespace-mail.com/r?m=6054ad34938d9a5b93cfb1a0&u=htt…> *A mother’s gift to humanity… period justice**Dr Zareen Roohi Ahmed,* Founder, Halimah Trust & Gift Wellness *Reclaiming the art of living well - and why our future depends on it* *Inez Aponte,* Facilitator, Educator & Consultant, Human Scale Development Approach *How I saved a life with fierce compassion* *Lucy Chan, *Director, Mindful Living Retreats *The magic of unlikely alliances* *Nishita Dewan, *Founder, CollaboratEQ *Facing the past to liberate the present* *Angela Findlay,* Author & Artist *Education - What is it good for?* *Ann Finlayson, *Executive Director & Founder, SEEd *Ecocide law: protecting the future of life on Earth* *Jojo Mehta,* Co-founder & Executive Director, Stop Ecocide International *What is Zero Waste clothing?* *Shalize Nicholas,* Designer & Director, Madia & Matilda *Help change the rules to protect the future of life on Earth.* Stop Ecocide International would like to give you the opportunity to accelerate our work <https://a1e0.engage.squarespace-mail.com/r?m=6054ad34938d9a5b93cfb1a0&u=htt…> to make ecocide an international crime. Over the last 18 months, a growing number of states <https://a1e0.engage.squarespace-mail.com/r?m=6054ad34938d9a5b93cfb1a0&u=htt…> (as well as the Pope and the EU) have publicly expressed interest in an international crime of ecocide. Top international criminal lawyers <https://a1e0.engage.squarespace-mail.com/r?m=6054ad34938d9a5b93cfb1a0&u=htt…>are drafting a robust legal definition of ecocide that states can actually propose as an amendment to international law. It's the latest hot topic <https://a1e0.engage.squarespace-mail.com/r?m=6054ad34938d9a5b93cfb1a0&u=htt…> in the legal world. Your interest and commitment are important to us. It would hugely inspire and very practically support our work if you were able to donate towards it. We think it's probably the single most powerful thing you can do with just 2 minutes and a Paypal account or credit/debit card. DONATE HERE <https://a1e0.engage.squarespace-mail.com/r?m=6054ad34938d9a5b93cfb1a0&u=htt…> <https://a1e0.engage.squarespace-mail.com/r?m=6054ad34938d9a5b93cfb1a0&u=htt…> [image: twitter] <https://a1e0.engage.squarespace-mail.com/r?m=6054ad34938d9a5b93cfb1a0&u=htt…> [image: instagram] <https://a1e0.engage.squarespace-mail.com/r?m=6054ad34938d9a5b93cfb1a0&u=htt…> [image: facebook] <https://a1e0.engage.squarespace-mail.com/r?m=6054ad34938d9a5b93cfb1a0&u=htt…> [image: linkedin] <https://a1e0.engage.squarespace-mail.com/r?m=6054ad34938d9a5b93cfb1a0&u=htt…> [image: youtube] <https://a1e0.engage.squarespace-mail.com/r?m=6054ad34938d9a5b93cfb1a0&u=htt…> *We will never disclose or pass on your details, and you can unsubscribe at any time. Our mailing lists are managed by Stop Ecocide International Ltd on behalf of the Stop Ecocide Foundation. * Stop Ecocide Foundation, Nieuwe Herengracht 18, 1018DP, Amsterdam, Netherlands Unsubscribe <https://a1e0.engage.squarespace-mail.com/r?m=6054ad34938d9a5b93cfb1a0&u=htt…> -- 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: 💠 «Μία νέα αντίληψη για την παραγωγή αξίας από την οικονομία των Κοινών & της ομότιμης παραγωγής στη μετά-Covid εποχή» | Συνέντευξη ΕΝΑ
by Michel Bauwens 19 Mar '21

19 Mar '21

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Theodora Kotsaka <theodorakotsaka(a)yahoo.com> Date: Fri, Mar 19, 2021 at 8:57 PM Subject: 💠 «Μία νέα αντίληψη για την παραγωγή αξίας από την οικονομία των Κοινών & της ομότιμης παραγωγής στη μετά-Covid εποχή» | Συνέντευξη ΕΝΑ To: Theodora Kotsaka <theodorakotsaka(a)yahoo.com> FYI *Παρατηρητήριο των Κοινών ΕΝΑ | Συνέντευξη* *«Μία νέα αντίληψη για την παραγωγή αξίας από την οικονομία των Κοινών και της ομότιμης παραγωγής στη μετά-Covid εποχή»* Ο *Michel Bauwens* είναι ιδρυτής του P2P Foundation και του Commons Strategies Group. Συνεργάζεται με παγκόσμια δίκτυα ερευνητών σχετικά με την ομότιμη παραγωγή, την τεχνολογία και την επιχειρηματική καινοτομία. Τα τελευταία χρόνια είναι διευθυντής έρευνας του Commons Transition, μίας πλατφόρμας για την ανάπτυξη εφαρμοσμένων πολιτικών με στόχο τα κοινά. Τη συνέντευξη πήρε και επιμελήθηκε η Συντονίστρια του Παρατηρητηρίου των Κοινών του ΕΝΑ *Δώρα Κοτσακά*. ------------------------------ *Θα μπορούσατε να δώσετε έναν ορισμό για τον όρο «βασισμένη στα κοινά ομότιμη παραγωγή» (commons-base peer production, CBPP) και για ποιο λόγο εμφανίζεται ως αναδυόμενη τάση στην ανάλυσή σας;* *Παρά το πλήθος των, προφανώς, αρνητικών συνεπειών της μονοπωλιακής ιδιοκτησίας των μέσων κοινωνικής δικτύωσης, τα τελευταία έχουν δώσει τη δυνατότητα νέων μοντέλων δημιουργίας και κατανομής της παραγόμενης αξίας εξαιτίας της ικανότητας αυτοοργάνωσης δισεκατομμυρίων ανθρώπων σε μεγάλες κλίμακες. Η παραγωγή συμβαίνει τόσο στα περιθώρια, όσο και στον πυρήνα της κοινωνίας. Μέσα σε αυτό το πλαίσιο ο όρος P2P (peer to peer) αναφέρεται στη δυνατότητα σύνδεσης ομοτίμων σε μεγάλους αριθμούς μέσω ψηφιακών συστημάτων, ενώ τα κοινά περιγράφουν την ικανότητα δημιουργίας ή διαχείρισης κοινών πόρων με αυτόνομο τρόπο.* *Στο πρώτο στάδιο, σήμαινε την ικανότητα συν-παραγωγής ελεύθερου λογισμικού, ανοιχτών σχεδίων και διαμοιρασμένης γνώσης. Σήμερα βρίσκεται στον πυρήνα του καπιταλισμού. Το 2011 συνιστούσε το 1/6 του ΑΕΠ και έχει τροφοδοτήσει σε μεγάλη έκταση τις κολοσσιαίες ψηφιακές πλατφόρμες, οι οποίες διαφορετικά δεν θα υπήρχαν. Ωστόσο, παραμένει μία εκθετικά αυξανόμενη πρακτική από την πλευρά των πολιτών, η οποία τροφοδοτεί πλήθος εναλλακτικών οικονομικών εγχειρημάτων. Η ανάπτυξη του κώδικα ανοιχτού λογισμικού συνεχίζει ραγδαία αυξανόμενη.* *Το δεύτερο στάδιο προέκυψε μετά τη συστημική κρίση του 2008, όταν εκατομμύρια κατοίκων των πόλεων άρχισαν να δημιουργούν αστικά κοινά, όπως αμοιβαιοποιημένα συστήματα προμηθειών. Στη συνέχεια γίναμε μάρτυρες του δεκαπλασιασμού της ανάπτυξης των αστικών κοινών. Κάτι που μπορώ να επιβεβαιώσω μετά την καταγραφή αυτού του τύπου πρωτοβουλιών στη Γάνδη το 2017, αλλά και την αποτύπωση της τάσης σε ποικίλες αναφορές προερχόμενες από διαφορετικές χώρες. Τα περισσότερα από αυτά τα αστικά πρότζεκτ έχουν αναδιανεμητικό χαρακτήρα, δηλαδή δεν παράγουν τα αγαθά και τις υπηρεσίες, αλλά τα αναδιανέμουν μέσω οικοσυστημάτων δομημένων γύρω από τα κοινά. Για παράδειγμα, κοινότητες καταπιστευτηριών γης (land trusts), συνεταιρισμούς διαμοιρασμού μέσων κινητικότητας και άλλα παρόμοια.* *Τα τελευταία χρόνια έχουμε μετακινηθεί στην τρίτη φάση, που χαρακτηρίζεται από την ύπαρξη παραγωγικών κοινών, δηλαδή ανοιχτών συνεργατικών συστημάτων που παράγουν υλικά αγαθά. Υπάρχουν σήμερα πρωτοβουλίες και παραγωγικά οικοσυστήματα όπου ακόμα και η παραγωγή λαμβάνει χώρα με τη χρήση μηχανισμών στηριγμένων στα κοινά, όπως η ανανεώσιμη ενέργεια και τα οργανικά τρόφιμα. 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Fwd: When Mental Maps shape the Landscape
by Michel Bauwens 19 Mar '21

19 Mar '21

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Aline Frankfort & JL Baudoin from The Shapership Call < shapership(a)substack.com> Date: Fri, Mar 19, 2021 at 8:18 PM Subject: When Mental Maps shape the Landscape To: <michelsub2004(a)gmail.com> Change the maps, change the word ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ When Mental Maps shape the Landscape <https://email.mg2.substack.com/c/eJxVkl2PojAUhn-N3Gn6QZFecGF0NZJF15lxNHNDSn…>Change the maps, change the word <https://email.mg2.substack.com/c/eJxV0ctuhCAUBuCnGXYargoLFt30NQzCcaSDYADb-P…> Aline Frankfort & JL Baudoin <https://email.mg2.substack.com/c/eJxV0ctuhCAUBuCnGXYargoLFt30NQzCcaSDYADb-P…> Mar 19 <https://email.mg2.substack.com/c/eJxVUtuO2jAQ_RrytsiXXB_ywC4LDVqCaCm79CVy7A…> [image: Comment] <https://email.mg2.substack.com/c/eJxVUluPojAU_jXypumFIn3gwehqNKuu4ziaeSGlPU…> [image: Share] <https://email.mg2.substack.com/c/eJxVkl2PojAUhn-N3Gn6Qfm44MLoajSrruM4mrkhpT…> <https://email.mg2.substack.com/c/eJxVUs2upiAMfZrPnQb5ExYsbiaZ1zAFqjJXxQG8d7…> As Einstein said, the world we have created is a product of our thought. We cannot change it without changing our thinking. Indeed, the VISIBLE Landscape outside is the “mirror” of the INVISIBLE Landscape of our “mental MAPS - perceptions, worldviews and stories which define “what is true”, good and possible. *What do we see outside? * *An Ego centric world of materialism, *focused on Efficiency, driven by *value capture, competition, growth, profit, productivity, power over, exclusion. * *This is **MAD land (leading to Massive Assured Destruction), *maintained by a series of “worldviews” such as the myth of progress, *making a career, *the* story of scarcity, the illusion of control and predictability.* Now look again and see the seeds and traces of a *radically different Future: an **ECO **centric world, *focused on resiliency, driven by systemic and regenerative value creation, organic collaboration, Power with, Inclusion. This is *NO MAD Land* *(leading to Mutually Assured Development), *sustained by radically different values and worldviews about Growth, Business, what it means to be Human and to live a meaningful Life. If we want to change the world, we need to change how we think and what we think We can see our voracious civilisation crashing down. So are the "old narratives", worldviews and myths which sustain it. This is the collapse of *MAD land *(leading to Massive Assured Destruction). *We need a Future we can believe in.* *A meaning making Story that *resonates with our deepest Aspirations and generates hope that a viable human Future is possible, in a *NO MAD Land* (based on Mutually Assisted Development). A Narrative able to generate the next appeal: a desire for the Future we want to create. This is the next big shift: from the Nostalgia of a Future forever gone to an "erotic" attraction towards a Future we want to create. So the Future we imagine can become the cause of our Present. 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Marxist Humanism and Communication Theory (book)
by Christian Fuchs 18 Mar '21

18 Mar '21

Fuchs, Christian. 2021./Marxist Humanism and Communication Theory. Media, Communication and Society Volume One/. New York: Routledge. ISBN 9780367697129 (paperback). ISBN 9780367697136 (hardback). ISBN 9781003142959 (ebook). 310 pages. 20% discount & sample chapter"Jean-Paul Sartre as Social Theorist of Communication. An Engagement with Critique of Dialectical Reason” available at: https://fuchsc.uti.at/books/marxist-humanism-and-communication-theory/ This book outlines and contributes to the foundations of Marxist-humanist communication theory. It analyses the role of communication in capitalist society. Engaging with the works of critical thinkers such as Erich Fromm, E. P. Thompson, Raymond Williams, Henri Lefebvre, Georg Lukács, Lucien Goldmann, Günther Anders, Jean-Paul Sartre, M. N. Roy, Angela Davis, C. L. R. James, Rosa Luxemburg, Eve Mitchell, and Cedric J. Robinson, the book provides readings of works that inform our understanding of how to critically theorise communication in society. The topics covered include the relationship of capitalism, racism, and patriarchy; communication and alienation; the base/superstructure-problem; the question of how one should best define communication; the political economy of communication; ideology critique; the connection of communication and struggles for alternatives. Written for a broad audience of students and scholars interested in contemporary critical theory, this book will be useful for courses in media and communication studies, cultural studies, Internet research, sociology, philosophy, political science, and economics. This is the first of five Media, Communication and Society volumes, each one outlining a particular aspect of the foundations of a critical theory of communication in society.* Table of Contents* 1. Introduction 2. Erich Fromm and the Critical Theory of Communication 3. Revisiting the Althusser/E. P. Thompson-Controversy: Towards a Marxist Theory of Communication 4. Raymond Williams’s Communicative Materialism 5. Henri Lefebvre’s Theory of the Production of Space and the Critical Theory of Communication 6. Towards A Critical Theory of Communication with Georg Lukács’s and Lucien Goldmann 7. Günther Anders’s Critical Theory of Technology 8. Jean-Paul Sartre as Social Theorist of Communication. An Engagement with “Critique of Dialectical Reason” 9. M. N. Roy, Socialist Humanism, and the Critical Analysis of Communication 10. Capitalism, Racism, Patriarchy 11. Conclusion

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Fwd: [CONVIVIUM] new 11 (1) issue: Katharina Pistor’s The Code of Capital: A Symposium
by Michel Bauwens 11 Mar '21

11 Mar '21

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Yuri Biondi <yuri.biondi.convivium(a)gmail.com> Date: Thu, Mar 11, 2021 at 1:28 PM Subject: [CONVIVIUM] new 11 (1) issue: Katharina Pistor’s The Code of Capital: A Symposium To: <convivium(a)services.cnrs.fr> CONVIVIUM is quite proud to announce its 11 (1) issue devoted to: Katharina Pistorâ€™s The Code of Capital: A Symposium Contributions by Katharina Pistor, Dan Awrey, Lisa Herzog, Matthias Thiemann, and leon Wansleben https://www.degruyter.com/journal/key/AEL/11/1/html Interested readers can access CONVIVIUM full content for free: Simply go to LOG IN and enter the passcode BEPress2021 in the "Do you have a passcode?" window. -------------------------------------------- CONVIVIUM annual conference within the SASE 2021 Annual Meeting, to be held on next 2-5 July, to be held virtually (online only). Our program includes panels on social innovation with Adrian Zicari, corporate governance and sustainability, empirical research in accounting with Jim Ohlson, financial accounting, financial crises, money, international tax avoidance, and auditing: http://yuri.biondi.free.fr/downloads/SASE2021Program.pdf Registration here: https://sase.org/ --------------------------------------------------------- Feel free to join us on: Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/CONVIVIUM.AEL/) and LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/groups/7419651/) -------------------------------------------------------- Kindest regards The CONVIVIUM Editors -------------------------------- Members of this mailing list receive spare news on our journal CONVIVIUM and related events. If you wish unsubscribe from CONVIVIUM mailing list, please click here: https://listes.services.cnrs.fr/wws/info/convivium/auto_signoff/convivium?e… Alternatively, you may manage your subscription, including remove it, from the following page: https://listes.services.cnrs.fr/wws/info/convivium -- 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: European Community Land Trust Roundtable
by Michel Bauwens 10 Mar '21

10 Mar '21

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Schumacher Center for a New Economics < schumacher(a)centerforneweconomics.org> Date: Wed, Mar 10, 2021 at 5:10 AM Subject: European Community Land Trust Roundtable To: Michel Bauwens <michel(a)p2pfoundation.net> view this email in your browser <https://mailchi.mp/centerforneweconomics.org/clt-euro-roundtable?e=639a1166…> <https://centerforneweconomics.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=69d509d1130…> *Scene of Findhorn Bay, Scotland. Photo courtesy of The Findhorn Village Conservation Company (TFVCC).* Dear Michel Bauwens, George Monbiot’s much heralded 40th Annual E. F. Schumacher Lecture, Private Sufficiency, Public Luxury: Land is the Key to the Transformation of Society, <https://centerforneweconomics.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=69d509d1130…> continues to inspire new thinking about community land ownership. To explore the topic further, the Schumacher Center is holding a series of virtual Community Land Trust Roundtables. The recording of the first Roundtable, held on February 18th, with panelists Janelle Orsi, Tony Hernandez, Çaca Yvaire, and host Greg Watson may be viewed here <https://centerforneweconomics.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=69d509d1130…> or below. The second Roundtable, highlighting UK and European practitioners, will be held Thursday, March 18th, at 11 AM EST (3 PM GMT) via Zoom. The three panelists are Tom Chance of the National Community Land Trust Network UK <https://centerforneweconomics.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=69d509d1130…>, Calum MacLeod of Community Land Scotland, <https://centerforneweconomics.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=69d509d1130…> and Geert De Pauw of the Brussels Community Land Trust <https://centerforneweconomics.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=69d509d1130…>. This conversation will be moderated by Natasha Hulst, <https://centerforneweconomics.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=69d509d1130…> European Land Commons Program Director at the Schumacher Center and co-founder of the Dutch community land trust Grond van Bestaan <https://centerforneweconomics.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=69d509d1130…> . <https://centerforneweconomics.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=69d509d1130…> Register for the CLT Roundtable <https://centerforneweconomics.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=69d509d1130…> In Scotland, half of the country’s privately-owned land is held by just 432 owners. Responding to this concentration of ownership, Scotland passed a series of Acts (2003, 2015, & 2016) that give “representative community bodies” the right of first refusal to buy land should it come up for sale. In the case of land abandoned, neglected, or causing harm, Scottish ministers can compel a landowner to sell if they decide that the sale will further sustainable development in the area. *Good place-making can provide communities with an important cultural context; a sense of pride and belonging; and a sense of local and national identity. It can provide environments which function well; link well with surrounding settlements and provide attractive areas in which to socialise, to move around and to do business.* – Scottish Government, TFVCC website To assist community groups in exercising their options, a Scottish Land Fund of 15 million pounds was established from lottery proceeds. Community Land Scotland (CLS) was organized to support community groups taking the step to purchase land under the land reform acts. Much like a Community Land Trust <https://centerforneweconomics.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=69d509d1130…>, a qualifying organization represents a defined geographic area with membership open to everyone in the region. CLS’s infographic <https://centerforneweconomics.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=69d509d1130…> outlines the steps needed to purchase community land. * We want to see more of Scotland’s land in the hands of more of Scotland’s people. * – Community Land Scotland's website Involving the local community is a strong component of a successful bid for land under the acts. The Findhorn Village Conservation Company <https://centerforneweconomics.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=69d509d1130…> exercised its option to buy the residual Novar Estates land at the center of the village. The area contains a car park and garage site, meaning the village can now control conditions of their use, balancing residents' needs for much-needed income with those of the many tourists to the area. *Galson Estate Trust, Scotland. Photo courtesy of Galson Estate Trust.* The Galson Estate Trust <https://centerforneweconomics.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=69d509d1130…> is a community-owned estate of 56,000 acres of coast, agricultural land and moor in the North West of the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland. Trust land comprises 22 crofting villages with a population of nearly 2,000 people. The Trust completed purchase of the land in 2007 with a combination of funding from the Scottish Land Fund and private sources. Crofting is a common land tenure system in the Scottish Highlands. Individual crofters typically lease five to twelve acres of land for agricultural and residential purposes. Then “crofting villages” lease larger amounts of poorer land for common grazing. The crofting leases remained in effect with the transfer of land from private to community ownership. Now, in addition, the community decides on the future use of its land including the construction of renewable energy systems, new housing development, support of schools and libraries, and sporting site maintenance. The lesson is that well-constructed legislation and a small amount of government funding can leverage tremendous citizen engagement to move village lands from private ownership to community ownership and management, resulting in greater environmental protections, appropriate development, and continuity of culture. More examples from Scotland, England, Belgium, and the Netherlands will be shared at the March 18th Community Land Trust Roundtable. Register here. <https://centerforneweconomics.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=69d509d1130…> Wishing All Well, Staff of the Schumacher Center <https://centerforneweconomics.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=69d509d1130…> On February 18th, the Schumacher Center hosted a Community Land Trust Roundtable with Çaca Yvaire, Tony Hernandez, Janelle Orsi and moderator Greg Watson. 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