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Call: Digital/Communicative Socialism, edited by Christian Fuchs, Special Issue of the Journal Communication, Capitalism & Critique
by Christian Fuchs 26 Jun '19

26 Jun '19

tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique is a Marxist journal of media and communication studies. Its special issue “Digital/Communicative Socialism” asks: What is digital/communicative socialism? The special issue will publish peer-reviewed contributions that explore perspectives on digital/communicative socialism in respect to theory, dialectics, history, internationalism, praxis, and class struggles. Details: https://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/announcement/view/35 Abstracts can be submitted per e-mail to christian.fuchs(a)triple-c.at, using the form published at https://triple-c.at/files/journals/1/CfP_Form_Socialism.docx Please do not make submissions that omit a completed form. Submission deadline is Monday, July 15, 2019. Feedback on acceptance/rejection will be provided at latest until July 31, 2019. The deadline for the submission of accepted papers is October 13, 2019. The maximum length of full papers is 8,000 words. Articles should in the first stage of submission (October 13) not be longer than 7,000 words so that there is space for additions as part of the revision process. All accepted articles will be peer-reviewed and published in a special issue of tripleC. The special issue will be published open access. There are no APCs. -- Prof. Christian Fuchs Co-Editor of tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique http://www.triple-c.at @fuchschristian christian.fuchs(a)triple-c.at

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Fwd: The Guardian's Deep Dive Into Our "New Left Economics"
by Michel Bauwens 26 Jun '19

26 Jun '19

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: The Next System Project <nextsystem(a)democracycollaborative.org> Date: Tue, Jun 25, 2019 at 10:00 PM Subject: The Guardian's Deep Dive Into Our "New Left Economics" To: <michel(a)p2pfoundation.net> The New York Times and The New Republic also feature our economic ideas; a new book includes work by Thomas Hanna and Carla Santos Skandier The latest from The Next System Project *The Guardian Examines 'New Left Economics'* <https://thenextsystem.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e51d2c7d40bc9992285…> The transatlantic work of the Democracy Collaborative and our allies took center stage in this "long read" article in *The Guardian* by Andy Beckett. "The new leftwing economics wants to see the redistribution of economic power, so that it is held by everyone—just as political power is held by everyone in a healthy democracy," Beckett writes. One concrete example highlighted in the article is the Democracy Collaborative's community wealth building work in Cleveland, Ohio and how it inspired a similar approach in the city of Preston in the United Kingdom. Read The Guardian article... <https://thenextsystem.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e51d2c7d40bc9992285…> *Candidate Calls For Fossil Fuel Shutdown* <https://thenextsystem.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e51d2c7d40bc9992285…> Presidential candidate Jay Inslee, the governor of Washington, this week proposed a set of climate crisis policies that include "the buying out and decommissioning of fossil fuel assets," with a goal of "phasing out fossil fuel production nationwide, with a special focus on a just transition for workers and the protection of communities that are reliant upon fossil fuel extraction." The Inslee "Freedom from Fossil Fuels" proposal broadly mirrors the agenda laid out in the "Taking climate action to the next level" <https://thenextsystem.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e51d2c7d40bc9992285…> report The Next System Project published last year. Our YouGov poll earlier this year shows there is a sizable public mandate for strong action to phase out the fossil fuel industry and support a green transition for workers. Read our take... <https://thenextsystem.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e51d2c7d40bc9992285…> *The New York Times, The New Republic Feature Next System Project Work* <https://thenextsystem.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e51d2c7d40bc9992285…> A June 22 *New York Times* article on how communities in the United Kingdom have responded to spending cuts imposed by the central government highlights the transformation of the UK town of Preston under the leadership of Preston councilor and Democracy Collaborative fellow Matthew Brown. The *Times* article calls the success of what has become known as "the Preston model" of community wealth building "an irony of austerity’s consequences. Championed as a spur to rugged individualism, it has prompted communities like Preston to intensify government’s role in economic life." Read the Times article... <https://thenextsystem.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e51d2c7d40bc9992285…> *The New Republic*, meanwhile, published "The Road Not Taken," a look at the struggles of Lordstown, Ohio in the wake of a decision by General Motors to close its auto plant there. The "road not taken," the article reveals, is the path of employee ownership, which The Next System Project director Joe Guinan and researcher Peter Gowan discuss in the article. “The workers should get a chance to come up with ideas for how they could keep their jobs, and give them the right to take over that plant if it’s being sold or closed,” says Gowan, author of the Right to Own report <https://thenextsystem.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e51d2c7d40bc9992285…> that outlined the proposal. Read The New Republic article... <https://thenextsystem.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e51d2c7d40bc9992285…> *New Book On How Public Finance Can Fuel Change* <https://thenextsystem.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e51d2c7d40bc9992285…> "The public does not have to rely on the private sector" to finance solutions to our problems, says a statement introducing a new book published by The Transnational Institute, *Public Finance for the Future We Want*. The book includes chapters written by Next System Project Research Director Thomas M. Hanna on "community wealth building and resilient local economies" and by energy and climate researcher Carla Santos Skandier on "a public buyout to keep carbon in the ground and dissolve climate opposition." The Democracy Collaborative is one of several co-publishers of the book, which is being offered free as a PDF download. Download and read... <https://thenextsystem.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e51d2c7d40bc9992285…> Learn more about the basics of system change and catch up with past episodes of The Next System Podcast <https://thenextsystem.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e51d2c7d40bc9992285…> on our website, thenextsystem.org <https://thenextsystem.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e51d2c7d40bc9992285…>. 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Fwd: Land for the Many
by Michel Bauwens 26 Jun '19

26 Jun '19

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Schumacher Center for a New Economics < schumacher(a)centerforneweconomics.org> Date: Tue, Jun 25, 2019 at 10:01 PM Subject: Land for the Many To: Michel Bauwens <michel(a)p2pfoundation.net> view this email in your browser <https://mailchi.mp/centerforneweconomics/land-for-many?e=58c6ab1e1c> <https://centerforneweconomics.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=69d509d1130…> <https://centerforneweconomics.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=69d509d1130…> The neighborhood of Lewisham, London, which received mayoral recognition for its CLT program. Dear Michel Bauwens, In a June 4, 2019 <https://centerforneweconomics.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=69d509d1130…>, article in *The* *Guardian*, George Monbiot comments: *What is the most neglected issue in British politics? I would say land. Literally and metaphorically, land underlies our lives, but its ownership and control have been captured by a tiny number of people. The results include soaring inequality and exclusion; the massive cost of renting or buying a decent home; the collapse of wildlife and ecosystems; repeated financial crises; and the loss of public space. Yet for 70 years this crucial issue has scarcely featured in political discussions. * *The Guardian *article coincided with the publication of a report for the Labour party – "Land for the Many <https://centerforneweconomics.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=69d509d1130…>" – written by Monbiot with six experts in the field with the aim to "put this neglected issue where it belongs: at the heart of political debate and discussion.” In Saturday’s online edition of the *The New York Times* and again in Sunday’s print version, Julie Turkewitz reports on "Who Gets to Own the West <https://centerforneweconomics.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=69d509d1130…>?" She details a trend in which newcomers to the “interior West” – including Idaho, Montana, and Colorado – are buying up large tracts of land. *Brokers say the new arrivals are driven in part by a desire to invest in natural assets while they are still abundant, particularly amid a fear of economic, political and climate volatility. “There is a tremendous underground, not-so-subtle awareness from people who realize that resources are getting scarcer and scarcer,” said Bernard Uechtritz, a real estate adviser*. Turkewitz references the Land Report <https://centerforneweconomics.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=69d509d1130…>, which tracks large land transactions and reports that just 100 families collectively own 42 million acres across the country – an expanse of 65,000 square miles, or 3 percent of all the privately held land in the US. Describing the consequences of this land rush, she writes, “In 2018, more than 20,000 Californians arrived in Idaho; home prices around Boise jumped 17%. This has meant not just new subdivisions and microbreweries, but also packed schools, crowded ski trails and heightened anxiety among teachers, plumbers and others, who are finding that they can no longer afford a first home.” <https://centerforneweconomics.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=69d509d1130…> Art space members rally to buy their own building through the Oakland CLT. At a time of ever greater concentration of land ownership, the need to broaden access to land is increasingly urgent. As both Monbiot and Turkewitz lay bare, land access lies at the heart of issues of equity, affordable housing, livable cities, regenerative agriculture, ecological restoration, renewable energy, social entrepreneurship and, we would add, reparations. Monbiot’s 75-page report provides detailed suggestions to the UK government to address this concentration of land ownership. Among them: *To help stabilise land prices and make homes more affordable, we propose a new body, called the Common Ground Trust. When people can’t afford to buy a home, they can ask the trust to purchase the land that underlies it, while they pay only for the bricks and mortar (about 30% of the cost). They then pay the trust a land rent. Their overall housing costs are reduced, while the trust gradually accumulates a pool of land that acts as a buffer against speculation, and creates common ownership on a large scale.* He also suggests, “We would like to use part of the Land Registry’s vast surplus to help community land trusts buy rural land for farming, forestry, conservation and rewilding." Community land trusts <https://centerforneweconomics.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=69d509d1130…>are proven vehicles for fairly allocating land in a place-based, democratic manner. The non-profit, regionally-based organizations, acquire land by gift or purchase, create a land use plan for each site, then lease the land on a 99-year basis for the designated use such as workforce housing, farming, manufacturing, local retail, or office space. Lessees own their buildings and other improvements, but not the land itself, which remains in a community commons. Buildings are resold at replacement value only, excluding the rising cost of land, and thus are kept more affordable for the next lessee. Accordingly, community land trusts are a tool for communities to control their own local economic development, and to allocate land in response to local social and economic conditions. <https://centerforneweconomics.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=69d509d1130…> NCLT one of the oldest CLTs in the country, holds land for farms and office buildings, as well as housing. However, the growth of community land trusts has been slow to reach a critical scale. Even if governments and foundations suddenly turned their collective resources to funding community land trusts, there would still not be enough working lands – lands suited for housing, farming, ranching, retail, manufacturing, and other commercial uses – held in community commons to accomplish broad land redistribution. It will take a wide-ranging movement of land gifting to effect change. In much the same way that conservation land trusts are recognized as reliable recipients of ecologically sensitive lands, community land trusts need to be understood as reliable recipients of working lands. This would mean expanding the growth and public profiles of community land trusts so that donors and their philanthropic advisors recognize community land trusts as trusted partners in achieving their long-term goals for use of a specific site, or for achieving their philanthropic goals such as security for women and girls, thriving local food systems, support for import-replacement, protecting the diversity of Main Streets, climate remediation, and more. Broadening access to land is thus not just an affordable housing issue, but one that encompasses many of the key environmental and social issues of our time. We propose an alliance of groups that would join together to encourage voluntary gifts of land to community land trusts – land redistribution on a scale that responds to the urgency of the issue in today's world. Monbiot concludes, “These proposals, we hope, will make the UK a more equal, inclusive and generous-spirited nation, characterised not by private enclosure and public squalor, but by private sufficiency and public luxury. Our land should work for the many, not just the few.” Join us in our continued advocacy for fair access to land, Staff of the Schumacher Center for a New Economics *Save the Date: 39th Annual E. F. 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Fwd: [Global U] SSFS6-live streaming
by Michel Bauwens 26 Jun '19

26 Jun '19

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: LAU Kin Chi <laukc(a)ln.edu.hk> Date: Wed, Jun 26, 2019 at 12:41 AM Subject: [Global U] SSFS6-live streaming To: globalufoundingmembers(a)googlegroups.com < globalufoundingmembers(a)googlegroups.com> Cc: our.global.u(a)gmail.com <our.global.u(a)gmail.com>, Tsui <sittsui(a)gmail.com>, LAU Kin Chi <laukc(a)ln.edu.hk> Dear Friends, The 6th South South Forum on Sustainability has started. For all Programme, Reader, etc., of SSFS6, please visit https://our-global-u.org/oguorg/en/sixth-south-south-forum-on-sustainabilit… As we will be live-streaming SSFS6 in English, if you have the time, please click the youtube links below. With warm regards, Kin Chi *June 24-26 Summer School on Nuclear Weapons and Power:* 24/6 Summer School Day One 0930 Lecture 1 https://youtu.be/Cy1Yl78my3Y 24/6 Summer School Day One 1430 Lecture 2 https://youtu.be/kEGBcuZPNFQ 25/6 Summer School Day Two 0930 Lecture 3 https://youtu.be/YfjTsQp6Nxw 25/6 Summer School Day Two 1430 Lecture 4 https://youtu.be/53SAGYdj5Yw 26/6 Summer School Day Three 0930 Lecture 5 https://youtu.be/4Y3WUVatwyg 26/6 Summer School Day Three 1430 Lecture 6 https://youtu.be/YBeRZPuKkoA *June 28-30 Forum on Ecology, Livelihood, and Community Regeneration* DAY ONE: 28 June 09:30-11:00 Feminist-Humanitarian Reframing of Global Security Activism https://youtu.be/io1AyWQEeHs DAY ONE: 28 June 11:30-12:30 Feminist-Humanitarian Reframing of Global Security Activism (continued) https://youtu.be/7GzQH1_5XX8 DAY ONE: 28 June 14:00-16:00 Politics of Ecology, Energy and Community https://youtu.be/qV6dUXeQku0 DAY ONE: 28 June 16:30-18:30 Politics of Ecology, Energy and Community (continued) https://youtu.be/I2z8mkJabaM DAY TWO: 29 June 09:00-11:00 Re-Embedding Economies in Ecologies https://youtu.be/ZqU03tchXHI DAY TWO: 29 June 11:30-12:30 Re-Embedding Economies in Ecologies (continued) https://youtu.be/SwS4zoFFNo4 DAY TWO: 29 June 14:00-16:15 Experiences in Community Regeneration https://youtu.be/Q2ZYQrfdwMA DAY TWO: 29 June 16:45-18:00 Experiences in Community Regeneration (continued) https://youtu.be/HUbhHc0KzF4 DAY THREE: 30 June 09:00-11:00 China: Trajectory of 70 Years https://youtu.be/PAMZDvEC7To DAY THREE: 30 June 11:30-12:30 China: Trajectory of 70 Years (cont’d) https://youtu.be/eQCk8_JTExY DAY THREE: 30 June 14:00-16:00 The Alternatives Debate: Envisioning and Organizing https://youtu.be/xIvPNhnRfUQ DAY THREE: 30 June 16:30-18:00 The Alternatives Debate: Envisioning and Organizing (continued) https://youtu.be/n0qH8tT_FxU [image: Lingnan University Hong Kong] <https://www.ln.edu.hk> [image: Transformation For Life] <https://www.ln.edu.hk/transformation-for-life> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "GlobalUFoundingMembers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to GlobalUFoundingMembers+unsubscribe(a)googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/GlobalUFoundingMembers. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/GlobalUFoundingMembers/HK0PR02MB261175D29… <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/GlobalUFoundingMembers/HK0PR02MB261175D29…> . For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- 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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by Potier Von Dee Roosueault 25 Jun '19

25 Jun '19

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Fwd: Extinction Resilience!
by Michel Bauwens 25 Jun '19

25 Jun '19

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Kosmos Journal <info(a)kosmosjournal.org> Date: Tue, Jun 25, 2019 at 2:00 PM Subject: Extinction Resilience! To: michel <michel(a)p2pfoundation.net> Click here <https://kosmosjournal.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=a2e6f01f29f00e615c1…> to read this newsletter on our website. [image: Kosmos Community Newsletter] Extinction Resilience! June 25th, 2019 *Editorial |** Resonance and Relationship* *In Kosmos Quarterly, Summer Edition* <https://kosmosjournal.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=a2e6f01f29f00e615c1…> We are losing treasure – species, ecosystems, and the essential fluids of our planet. If we think of these as separate elements – a species of turtle here, a rainforest there – then we are missing the real implications. Plants, animals, and minerals are interdependent members of their eco-communities and the family of Life. Everything exists in relationship. This is biology, not just philosophy. And now, biological and quantum theories of consciousness are reinforcing what the mystics have always known. Matter and mind are co-equal sides of the same coin. A new theory of resonance <https://kosmosjournal.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=a2e6f01f29f00e615c1…> (Tam Hunt, Jonathan Schooler), suggests that vibrational relationships underlie all physical processes, on a continuum of increasing richness, from sub-atomic to complex neural processes, and may be the very basis of consciousness. *This means all matter is conscious at some level. The consciousness of sand may be different than the consciousness of a panther…or a rainforest, but the creational energy of the entire universe vibrates in every subatomic particle that comprises it, and all matter resonates with this immanence.* We might even say that that *consciousness evolves through resonant relationships*. That is why, when we lose a species, consciousness itself is diminished. You can feel this reality in your own heart, when you learn that a species is gone. It’s like losing a part of yourself. Imagine the collective consciousness and ‘nature wisdom’ lost with the extinction of the West African black rhinoceros <https://kosmosjournal.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=a2e6f01f29f00e615c1…>, after 8 million years of evolution. What community of relationships vanished? Will songs of the black rhino still be sung? *UNTIL JULY 31, KOSMOS WILL DONATE HALF OF EVERY NEW SUBSCRIPTION DOLLAR TO THE CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY <https://kosmosjournal.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=a2e6f01f29f00e615c1…>, “saving wildlife, their habitats and the laws they depend on to survive.”* *SUBSCRIBE TODAY! <https://kosmosjournal.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=a2e6f01f29f00e615c1…>* When we think about ecocide, we often forget cultural ecocide. When places are poisoned, blasted, clear-cut, or turned to deserts, the *people* of those places – their stories, language, traditions and intimate knowledge of the land – disappear along with the plants, animals, and minerals. All of that connective tissue, where resonance resides, is obliterated. These losses can be subtle. Urban expansion and hunting have pushed chimpanzees, into shrinking preserves. Compared to chimpanzees in pristine forests, these ‘refugee’ chimps demonstrate far less learned behavior <https://kosmosjournal.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=a2e6f01f29f00e615c1…>. Since their DNA overlaps with humans by 98 percent, what do we suppose happens when humans are disconnected from nature, imprisoned, or forced to flee their homelands? Wisdom will tell you: our destruction of the Earth is damaging us – mind, body and spirit. *The articles in our summer edition of Kosmos Quarterly <https://kosmosjournal.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=a2e6f01f29f00e615c1…> *speak to these deeper issues of relationship. ‘All My Relations’, or in the *Lakota* language, *Mitákuye Oyás’iŋ, *is an important ceremonial prayer of harmony and oneness with all beings. It is a prayer that honors Life. *And there is so much Life still remaining to love, honor, and defend. Wherever damage is occurring, we can still work to reverse it. And what is intact, we can still protect. That is the spirit of the selfless work our beloved contributors share here.* *Pachamama Alliance* <https://kosmosjournal.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=a2e6f01f29f00e615c1…> and *PARCA* <https://kosmosjournal.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=a2e6f01f29f00e615c1…> are working to protect the Amazon rainforests and African rhinos respectively; John Liu describes work to restore the Sinai Peninsula; Sam Teicher, the coral reefs; and Laura Williams, forests in Portugal. There are stories of inter-species cooperation with wild boars in Pakistan, and not one but *two* talented musicians collaborating with nightingales: David Rothenberg and Sam Lee. Read about Sam Lee, Extinction Rebellion, and collaborating with nightingales in ‘*Birdsong Hits the Charts*‘ <https://kosmosjournal.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=a2e6f01f29f00e615c1…> Two articles – *Farming While Black* and *Plant-Based Medicine in Diaspora Communities* – remind us of the relationships between climate, food, race, and historic trauma, and the great healing potential that empowerment unleashes. Two more paired articles on Earth justice and Plant-based eating, offer mindfulness perspectives to help guide us in right action. This edition is also a special collaboration with *Tamera** Peace Research & Education Center* <https://kosmosjournal.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=a2e6f01f29f00e615c1…> in Portugal. They are calling activists from around the world to attend their August conference on resistance and regenerating the community of life <https://kosmosjournal.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=a2e6f01f29f00e615c1…>. 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Fwd: new issue of Economic Thought
by Michel Bauwens 13 Jun '19

13 Jun '19

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: World Economics Association <info(a)worldeconomicsassociation.org> Date: Thu, Jun 13, 2019 at 4:06 PM Subject: new issue of Economic Thought To: <michel(a)p2pfoundation.net> *Economic Thought* *History, Philosophy and Methodology Vol. 8, No. 1 * *download issue in full* <https://worldeconomicsassociation.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fc8acbf…> Judging Heterodox Economics: A Response to Hodgson’s Criticisms <https://worldeconomicsassociation.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fc8acbf…> *Lynne Chester* The Meaning and Future of Heterodox Economics: A Response to Lynne Chester <https://worldeconomicsassociation.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fc8acbf…> *Geoffrey M. Hodgson* Was Smith A Moral Subjectivist? <https://worldeconomicsassociation.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fc8acbf…> *Kevin Quinn* Addressing the Malaise in Neoclassical Economics: A Call for Partial Models <https://worldeconomicsassociation.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fc8acbf…> *Ron Wallace* Commentary on ‘Addressing the Malaise in Neoclassical Economics: A Call for Partial Models’ <https://worldeconomicsassociation.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fc8acbf…> *David Orrell* *By paying a WEA membership fee here <https://worldeconomicsassociation.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fc8acbf…>, or by giving a contribution here <https://worldeconomicsassociation.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fc8acbf…>, * *you will be making the WEA possible.* <https://worldeconomicsassociation.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fc8acbf…> *Copyright © 2019 World Economics Association, All rights reserved.* You joined the WEA via our website and/or made a voluntary donation to WEA *Our mailing address is:* World Economics Association 12 Maurice Road Bristol, BS6 5BZ United Kingdom Add us to your address book <https://worldeconomicsassociation.us3.list-manage.com/vcard?u=fc8acbfd9af76…> Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences <https://worldeconomicsassociation.us3.list-manage.com/profile?u=fc8acbfd9af…> or unsubscribe from this list <https://worldeconomicsassociation.us3.list-manage.com/unsubscribe?u=fc8acbf…> -- Check out the Commons Transition Plan here at: http://commonstransition.org P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation>Updates: http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/

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Fwd: [Invitation] Implementing the Sustainable Development Goals: What Role for the Social and Solidarity Economy? International Conference in June
by Michel Bauwens 13 Jun '19

13 Jun '19

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: UNRISD-SOCIAL-AND-SOLIDARITY-ECONOMY < unrisdsocialandsolidarityeconomy(a)un.org> Date: Thu, Jun 13, 2019 at 3:50 PM Subject: [Invitation] Implementing the Sustainable Development Goals: What Role for the Social and Solidarity Economy? International Conference in June To: Dear Participant, The United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD) is pleased to invite you to the international conference *Implementing the Sustainable Development Goals: What Role for the Social and Solidarity Economy?*, which will take place in Geneva on 25-26 June. See details of the event here <http://www.unrisd.org/80256B3C005BD6AB/(httpEvents)/ABE0A432A9D42782C12583A…> . We would very much appreciate if you could share and extend this invitation to members of your network who may be interested in attending the conference. For more information about the event and to read the full programme, please visit http://www.unrisd.org/sdgs-sse-conference <http://www.unrisd.org/80256B3C005BD6AB/(httpEvents)/ABE0A432A9D42782C12583A…> With best wishes, *The Social and Solidarity Economy Team* *Social Dimensions of Sustainable Development* *[image: cid:f37707d7-e356-4715-bdd6-33c30a95f3d7]* United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD) Palais des Nations, 1211 Geneva 10, Switzerland Follow UNRISD on [image: cid:[email protected]] [image: cid:[email protected]] [image: cid:[email protected]] [image: cid:[email protected]] *P* *Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail!* -- 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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Re: [P2P-F] Climate crisis
by Michel Bauwens 11 Jun '19

11 Jun '19

thanks Alex, I'm working with the Flemish Greens, and have potentially big news after the 22nd <g> Michel On Mon, Jun 10, 2019 at 12:48 PM Alex Foti <alex.foti(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Dear friends, > > dystopia is near but can still be averted. we shouldn't dive in to despair > when movements like Greta's FFF and London's XR and huge surge of greens in > Germany and elsewhere point to the fact that the people are finally ready > to ditch fossil capitalism. i've recently lost (very suddenly) my beloved > dad. so my outlook to life is dark. still he'd have wanted me to fight on > even in the face of crushing odds. since last summer i went back to climate > activism and was surprised to discover that many of my age (GenX) and > millennials i know had done the same, in milano and elsewhere. green is the > new red. p2p postcapitalists should join green parties, methinks. > > > > > On Sun, Jun 9, 2019 at 5:59 PM Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004(a)gmail.com> > wrote: > >> thanks for reading Slater's loss of faith apocalyptic warning letter >> below, >> >> Michel >> >> ---------- Forwarded message --------- >> From: Mathijs de Bruin <mathijs(a)mathijsfietst.nl> >> Date: Sun, Jun 9, 2019 at 12:04 PM >> Subject: Climate crisis >> To: >> >> >> Dear friends, >> >> Not much of an update of my part. Tears are in my eyes as I’ve read >> Matthew Slater’s post (forwarded below). Knowing him as one of the >> strongest ‘possibilitists’/optimists who has been working on realistic >> options for a livable future. >> >> I don’t know what to make of this, how to interpret this, how to deal >> with this. I do know, that his words are not lightly spoken. I do think we >> should worry. I feel that our solution(s) are not in maintaining wellbeing, >> as much as in sticking together. I want to hold your hands as the tsunami >> is coming, feel your embrace. See what is the best we can do, as *our* >> world is failing. >> >> To me, in this context, even knowing (and: doing!) what should be done. >> To choose survival, together, is worthwhile challenge. Even though the >> fruits of our labour might not be the utopic reality we long and strive >> for. It might be a different one: parting with grace, embracing what is to >> come, overcoming despair and: building on what is (or might be) left. >> >> “Alles van waarde is weerloos.” >> — Lucebert >> >> With love, >> Mathijs >> >> *Van: *"Matslats - Community currency engineer" <matslats(a)fastmail.com> >> *Onderwerp: **matslats.net <http://matslats.net>: Climate crisis* >> *Datum: *9 juni 2019 om 10:27:07 WEST >> *Aan: *mathijs(a)mathijsfietst.nl >> >> >> <https://cdn.blog.ucsusa.org/wp-content/uploads/polar-vortex-2019-Jan-29.jpg> >> >> I suspected for a long time that our civilisation wasn't viable. When the >> banks crashed in 2008 I paid attention to a lot of apocalyptic reporting >> that said we came *this* close to economic Armageddon - whatever that >> meant. As I better understood how capitalism is a stupid dogma preached >> increasingly only by self-serving, vain sociopaths >> <https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/give-and-take/201310/does-studying-…>, >> how it requires exponential consumption of resources >> <http://www.missingtheforest.com/capitalisms-problem-exponential-growth-in-a…>, >> and how it has failed to respond to increasingly shrill science-based >> warnings, I came to expect an ugly financial and/or climate collapse as >> inevitable in my lifetime. >> >> I was alarmed in early April 2018 when the polar vortex broke >> <https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/02/27/north-pole-temperatures-soar-pa…> >> and Europe froze, but Jem Bendell's paper, Deep Adaptation: A map for >> navigating the climate tragedy >> <http://www.lifeworth.com/deepadaptation.pdf> didn't alarm me too much. >> His favoured theory was a multi-breadbasket failure (MBBF) within 5-10 >> years; the melting of sea ice at the north pole would disrupt the weather >> so much that that grain harvests in Russia, USA and Canada would all fail, >> and that this would probably lead to societal collapse. Fair enough, I said. >> >> Jem's instincts can be uncanny. Last week I heard the news that the polar >> vortex has shifted over from the less cold north polar ocean to greenland, >> where more ice remains, and this has meant near incessant rain for grain >> farmers in USA. By the end of the planting season, only 60% of the fields >> had been planted, and much of what was planted had drowned. This plus >> drought in Australia >> <https://www.world-grain.com/articles/11664-australian-wheat-output-falls-to…> and >> a long Russian winter >> <https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-04-25/russia-s-wheat-crop-unde…> means >> that we are facing MBBF this year. >> Suddenly I'm not so sanguine. My last ten years work on complementary >> currencies has been an expression of optimism I didn't feel, that it was >> possible for people to self organise and run society differently. I felt >> even if there was the smallest chance of it being meaningful, in the face >> of such suffering, working to change the system was meaningful. Now without >> time to change the system, its hard to find purpose. We've been sunning >> ourselves on the beach until the tide went out waaaay to far, and now we >> see the froth of the tsunami on the horizon. Its too late to install the >> early warning system, too late to reinforce our houses, now we've only got >> time to run and to hope. Its time for me to admit that the system I was >> working to change for the better will be destroyed and all my work will be >> dashed on the rocks. Its too late to build a decentralised energy grid; too >> late to redesign finance; too late to build a better food system, too late >> to restore our national manufacturing base; too late to restore our soils, >> agriculture; too late for carbon capture technologies too late to dismantle >> the fossil fuel leviathan; too late for every hope I clung to; from last >> week to this, I don't know who I am any more. >> >> Climate science is far from exact, but when it starts playing out we'd be >> foolish to say it was wrong. But there's a leap from "crops will fail" to >> "society will collapse" which is another field entirely. A sensible society >> could still take steps (that's what Deep Adaptation is about) not so much >> to reduce carbon emissions but to ensure that resources are shared. But our >> society is very far from sensible, or even aware of what is coming. A real >> but manageable hunger crisis, perhaps comparable to the special period >> in Cuba <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vs6xoKmnYq8>, will be >> compounded by shock, blame, #ClimateGrief >> <https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/gy48d4/environmental-grief-climate-chang…>, >> and opportunist elites profiting from pain. >> >> So this winter the global grain reserves will be eaten and as in 2011, >> the poorer countries will probably experience political unrest fueled by >> high food prices. Since the north pole is past its tipping point, next year >> will almost certainly be worse than this, so about 18 months from now, a >> LOT of people will be freaking out. More than ever before, the food we eat >> will be taken directly out of the mouths of the starving. >> >> Some people are predicting human extinction >> <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqIt93dDG1M>, but that seems a rather >> abstract loss to me. My chest is heavy and my gaze constantly drifts >> because I'm grieving the failure of our wondrous civilisation, >> contemplating the expansion of needless suffering, and turning to face a >> difficult future. >> >> ---------------------- >> >> Please share this link on social media if you like it! >> >> http://matslats.net/climate-crisis >> >> >> >> >> -- >> P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net >> >> Connect: http://p2pfoundation.ning.com; Discuss: >> http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation >> >> Updates: http://del.icio.us/mbauwens; http://friendfeed.com/mbauwens; >> http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens >> >> >> >> >> -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net Connect: http://p2pfoundation.ning.com; Discuss: http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation Updates: http://del.icio.us/mbauwens; http://friendfeed.com/mbauwens; http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens

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Fwd: [Global U] Global U Communique No.20 (20190608)
by Michel Bauwens 09 Jun '19

09 Jun '19

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: LAU Kin Chi <laukc(a)ln.edu.hk> Date: Sun, Jun 9, 2019 at 5:04 AM Subject: [Global U] Global U Communique No.20 (20190608) To: globalufoundingmembers(a)googlegroups.com < globalufoundingmembers(a)googlegroups.com> Cc: our.global.u(a)gmail.com <our.global.u(a)gmail.com>, LAU Kin Chi < laukc(a)ln.edu.hk> *Global University for Sustainability* *Communique** of Founding Members Community* *No**.20 (8 June 2019)* Dear Founding Members, Dear Friends, *1. Sixth South South Forum on Sustainability (SSFS6) (2019)* SSFS6 will take place in Hong Kong on June 24 - July 3, 2019. The central theme is “Ecology, Livelihood, and Community Regeneration”. For Programme, Reader, Registration Form and other documents, please visit https://our-global-u.org/oguorg/en/sixth-south-south-forum-on-sustainabilit… Up to now, we have about 100 registered participants for the three events: *June 24-26*: Summer School on “Nuclear Weapons and Power: Current Challenges and Responses” *June 28-30*: Forum on “Ecology, Livelihood, and Community Regeneration” *July 1-3*: Workshop on Architecture and Urbanism You are most welcome, especially to the June 28-30 Forum where we anticipate dynamic debates. If you cannot come, we provide live streaming in English and Putonghua for the Summer School and the Forum. Please check the website for details. Please also check the SSFS6 Reader for the discussion materials. We are making an effort to translate the papers into English and Chinese. Please note the dates for *SSFS7 in 2020* are tentatively set for June 10-18, in Hong Kong. Proposals for holding SSFS in other sites are welcome. *2. 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