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Fwd: Are we waking up?
by Michel Bauwens 06 May '19

06 May '19

p2p---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Nicole Leonard - Fossil Free News <350(a)350.org> Date: Mon, May 6, 2019 at 12:55 PM Subject: Re: Are we waking up? To: Bauwens Michel <michelsub2004(a)gmail.com> New energy and urgency in this Fossil Free News [image: Fossil Free Digest] Bauwens, I'm sending the latest Fossil Free News again because I don't want you to miss last week's big news about declarations of climate emergency in the UK. Here's a short video rundown – can you watch and share <https://act.350.org/go/87164?t=6&akid=72778%2E360134%2ECA3XLn>? And as usual, the full newsletter with stories from around the world is below. <https://act.350.org/go/87164?t=7&akid=72778%2E360134%2ECA3XLn> Share on Facebook <https://act.350.org/go/87164?t=8&akid=72778%2E360134%2ECA3XLn> Share on Twitter <https://act.350.org/go/87165?t=9&akid=72778%2E360134%2ECA3XLn> Share on Instagram <https://act.350.org/go/87166?t=10&akid=72778%2E360134%2ECA3XLn> ------------------------------ Activists from Extinction Rebellion brought London streets to a standstill with a pink boat named after murdered Honduran environmental protector Berta Cáceres last week. Recent global events have flung open the window of opportunity to treat climate change as a global emergency. And people power is forcing politicians to pay attention. As eyes turn to what happens next (another global school strike on May 24, a global climate walkout in September), we look back at some of the extraordinary developments of the last two weeks. Enjoy, Nicole In Case You Missed It *Tipping point?* Both Paris and London witnessed new powerful acts of climate civil disobedience. Over 1000 Extinction Rebellion activists were deliberately arrested in London and their stark messaging and controversial tactics caught the public mood as a heatwave struck the UK over the Easter weekend. Similar scenes erupted in Paris as 2000 people took direct action targeting the state and its complicity with big polluters like Total. Read more <https://act.350.org/go/87161?t=11&akid=72778%2E360134%2ECA3XLn> Greta Thunberg at the UK Parliament. Photo: Evening Standard *Telling the truth: *Greta Thunberg and British youth climate strikers were in the UK parliament last week, adding their voices to the demand for a climate emergency. Greta gave her uncompromising indictment of the government’s continued support for fossil fuels. She called their push to develop fracking and new coal mines “beyond absurd’. *Climate emergency: *Just yesterday, on May 1, the Parliament responded by declaring a climate emergency <https://act.350.org/go/87162?t=12&akid=72778%2E360134%2ECA3XLn>, hot on the heels of the Welsh government earlier this week. “This can set off a wave of action from parliaments and governments around the globe,” said Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn. *No jobs on a dead planet: *Also on May Day, people marched around the world to celebrate the rights and contributions of all workers. In Manila, Philippines, thousands marched to call for a just transition away from the age of fossil fuels. It’s a reminder that as we shift to a renewable future we have a huge responsibility to address inequality and leave nobody behind. Events in Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa and Ghana from days of action in 2018. *Hardest hit: *A category 4 cyclone hit Mozambique again last Friday <https://act.350.org/go/87123?t=13&akid=72778%2E360134%2ECA3XLn>, just weeks after the devastation of Idai left millions struggling further down the coast. As the reality of climate change sets in and worsens, there's renewed determination to push for a fossil free Africa, with over 50 Afrika Vuka <https://act.350.org/go/81045?t=14&akid=72778%2E360134%2ECA3XLn> actions already planned for 25 May. *Sexy Killers:* a documentary about coal is going totally viral <https://act.350.org/go/87163?t=15&akid=72778%2E360134%2ECA3XLn> and sparking national conversations about political corruption and the future of coal in Indonesia. The film Sexy Killers has already had nearly 20 million views and over 1000 community screenings in its first two weeks despite attempts by police and some local authorities to ban them. *Big win:* Ecuador's Waorani indigenous tribe won their first victory <https://act.350.org/go/87160?t=16&akid=72778%2E360134%2ECA3XLn> against big oil companies in a ruling that blocks the companies' entry onto ancestral Amazonian lands for oil exploration. <https://act.350.org/go/80683?t=17&akid=72778%2E360134%2ECA3XLn> The One To Watch This 7-minute documentary takes us to the island of Tigtabon in the south of the Philippines, where ways of life for the Sama Badjao indigenous people are at severe risk from climate change. Watch <https://act.350.org/go/86878?t=18&akid=72778%2E360134%2ECA3XLn> The Inside Story 20 year-old Pacific Climate Warrior Brianna Fruean, from Samoa, and 17 year-old UK school striker Anna Taylor talk about their journeys into the climate movement and what inspires them. Read their conversation <https://act.350.org/go/87125?t=19&akid=72778%2E360134%2ECA3XLn> That's it for now! I'll be back in two weeks with more. *View this email online <http://act.350.org/mailings/view/72778?t=1&akid=72778%2E360134%2ECA3XLn>* If you have feedback, write us at ffdigest(a)350.org. Fossil Free <http://act.350.org/go/2338?t=2&akid=72778%2E360134%2ECA3XLn> is a global campaign led by local groups demanding our local communities and institutions commit to: - A fast + just transition to 100% renewable energy for all - No new fossil fuel projects anywhere. - Not a penny more for dirty energy For more updates, follow us on: Facebook <https://act.350.org/go/2460?t=3&akid=72778%2E360134%2ECA3XLn> and Twitter <https://act.350.org/go/2461?t=4&akid=72778%2E360134%2ECA3XLn>, and Instagram <https://act.350.org/go/49321?t=5&akid=72778%2E360134%2ECA3XLn>. *You're receiving this email because you signed up to receive updates about the Fossil Free campaign from 350.org <http://350.org>. * *You can unsubscribe <https://act.350.org/unsubscribe/unsubscribe/?t=20&akid=72778%2E360134%2ECA3…> at any time.* -- 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: Cosmo-local Reader - Launch - Introduction - Invitation
by Michel Bauwens 06 May '19

06 May '19

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: jose ramos <jose(a)actionforesight.net> Date: Wed, Apr 24, 2019 at 6:14 AM Subject: Cosmo-local Reader - Launch - Introduction - Invitation Dear friends DGML/Fabcity/cosmo-local/etc is quickly moving from the fringes to the mainstream. Like with the sharing economy, the language and intent is and will be co-opted by capitalism, commodified, repackaged and resold back into a consumer trash producing society, rendering the potential of this inert and dull. But there is a way to counter this and create something different. The Cosmo-local Reader is one of a number of attempts and experiments to bind the potential for DGML/Fabcity/cosmo-local/etc. to a planetary ethics and vision, grounded in a clear truth that we are brothers and sisters on this small planet that needs mutual care and protection, and that deep mutualization is the path for the care and support of all. Of course a Reader is no match for the forces of capitalism! But... we can begin to steer the discourse, create the distinctions, build recognition and solidarity with each other, and coordinate for maximum impact. We can plant the seeds of change and begin to weave a commons. We will begin with simple steps, a first stage Reader, to be complete by the end of 2019, and then we can reassess and evaluate next steps. An open doc on the project is here and feel free to make comments https://docs.google.com/document/d/1IfIQiJlF_D17F25_AsZOSifdIYJoia8csAacsIh… *Context* Vasilis Kostakis and colleagues are undertaking a multi-year EU funded study on cosmo-localism. https://www.cosmolocalism.eu/ He may want share a bit about it, or not, I'm not sure at what stage it is in. I mention this because the Reader needs to sit within an ecology to this large scale study, which includes things like a detailed LSA of cosmo-local potentials, extensive action research projects, etc. So what the Reader will do is to build a foundation for the core concepts, short cases and propositions. The Reader is meant to be a space for systemic self recognition (how one part / idea might fit with another - what projects exist) and will expand the space of inquiry. The Reader needs to support the efforts of the EU project, which will take the thinking further, not compete with it. In general the ecosystem metaphor serves to guide us. We want the Reader to be part of a generative ecosystem of projects and initiatives and to also support in the development of this ecosystem. In ecosystems actors have some autonomy but also coordinate and generate synergies and symbiosis. *Who is involved?* So far the editing team consists of me, Sharon Ede, Michel Bauwens and James Gien Wong. However, I'm open minded about who is on the editorial team, so if you're interested in being an editor, please get in contact. In terms of contributions, many of you have already offered to contribute something, but the devil is in the detail. I would like to invite you here to formally submit a proposal: https://surveyhero.com/c/cb257946 Or just email it to me and I'll log it. *Timeline* - Please submit a proposal by June 15. - Thereafter contributions will be due on Sept 1 - We'll provide review feedback by Oct 1 - Final contribution due by Nov 1 - Publication Dec 2019 *Organizing Philosophy* The Reader is not a search for ideological purity or coherence. We all have different views and perspectives and these will play out in the Reader. Indeed over the last decade we've seen people tear each other apart for not sharing the same exact views. De Sousa Santos, in his study of the world social forum, talked about the need for "depolarizing pluralities", and how when this done well, then there is the possibility of new meta-forms and emergences. Thus, we need to search for common ground amid difference, be willing to have debates and disagree, but ultimately connect the dots. It's the fellowship of the ring! Hobbits, Dwarves, Elis, Humans, etc... working together. The Reader will begin to show new convergences but also tensions / fault-lines. This is okay. Ultimately this is all about learning and then building a counter-hegemonic movement. *Website* I'm currently putting up a wordpress site for the project and will share this when ready (in next few days). As contributions come in and are edited and ready, the plan is to publish on the site, with the combined contributions compiled and edited at the end of the year. Anyone who can help with the website let me know. *Sharing* Please share this email with others who may be interested in contributing. I'll be putting together a medium post with an invitation and will pass on the link in the next few days. This is an open project and the opportunity is to use these distributed worlds we inhabit as a way to uncover examples and areas previously unexplored. *Format* Oscar Velazques and his team in Mexico City have agreed to help with building a documentation framework for the Reader, and this will come out in the next few weeks hopefully as a guide to case documentation. Thank you all for your friendship and support. This is really exciting and I look forward to working with you if you decide to jump in. In solidarity and for the commons Jose ********************** Dr. José M. Ramos pub: https://usc-au.academia.edu/joseramos linkedin: http://linkd.in/19h1V5h web: http://actionforesight.net tel: +(61)431-541-068 -- Check out the Commons Transition Plan here at: http://commonstransition.org P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation>Updates: http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/

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Fwd: Michel Bauwens - new related research
by Michel Bauwens 29 Apr '19

29 Apr '19

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Google Scholar Alerts <scholaralerts-noreply(a)google.com> Date: Sat, Apr 27, 2019 at 12:09 PM Subject: Michel Bauwens - new related research To: <michelsub2004(a)gmail.com> [PDF] Do it ourselves: Digital platform for self-organisation in urban planning-research through design <http://scholar.google.co.th/scholar_url?url=https://dspace.cc.tut.fi/dpub/b…> H Mitish In the beginning of new century, on the wave of ICT pervasion collaborative urban design was expected to boost, but digitalization of established practices was far to be a cure-all solution. Many successful planning systems eventually discredited … [image: Twitter] <http://scholar.google.co.th/scholar_share?hl=en&oi=scholaralrt&ss=tw&url=ht…> [image: Facebook] <http://scholar.google.co.th/scholar_share?hl=en&oi=scholaralrt&ss=fb&url=ht…> List my alerts <http://scholar.google.co.th/scholar_alerts?view_op=list_alerts&email_for_op…> Cancel alert <http://scholar.google.co.th/scholar_alerts?view_op=cancel_alert_options&ema…> This alert is sent by Google Scholar. Google Scholar is a service by Google. -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net Connect: http://p2pfoundation.ning.com; Discuss: http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation Updates: http://del.icio.us/mbauwens; http://friendfeed.com/mbauwens; http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens

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Fwd: |Reminder| - Call for contributions: International conference "Social Solidarity Economy & the Commons: Contributions to the Deepening of Democracy", 6-8 November 2019, ISCTE-IUL, Lisbon, Portugal
by Michel Bauwens 29 Apr '19

29 Apr '19

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Ana Margarida Esteves <anamargarida.esteves(a)gmail.com> Date: Mon, Apr 29, 2019 at 5:30 PM Subject: |Reminder| - Call for contributions: International conference "Social Solidarity Economy & the Commons: Contributions to the Deepening of Democracy", 6-8 November 2019, ISCTE-IUL, Lisbon, Portugal To: <commonswatch(a)lists.p2pfoundation.net>, Jason Nardi - RIPESS Europe < jason.nardi(a)ripess.eu>, Post Social Movements < SOCIAL-MOVEMENTS(a)listserv.heanet.ie>, Social Movements Research Committee < rc47.isa(a)gmail.com>, Iris Kunze <info(a)iriskunze.com>, Nonty Sedibe < nontys(a)gmail.com>, <interface-spokescouncil(a)googlegroups.com>, Post WSFDiscuss <WorldSocialForum-Discuss(a)openspaceforum.net>, Research stream email of P2P Foundation <research(a)p2pfoundation.net>, p2p-foundation < p2p-foundation(a)lists.ourproject.org>, Institute for Global Peace Work < igp(a)tamera.org>, SEN list <sen(a)lists.riseup.net>, Tamera Global Ecology Department <global.ecology(a)tamera.org>, Theodoros Rakopoulos < theodoros.rakopoulos(a)sai.uio.no>, Sveinung Legard <sveinung.legard(a)gmail.com>, Sveinung Legard <sveinung.legard(a)sosgeo.uio.no>, Sveinung Legard < sveinule(a)sosgeo.uio.no>, Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004(a)gmail.com>, Robert Hall <robert.hall(a)ecolise.eu>, Tom Henfrey <tom.henfrey(a)ecolise.eu>, Jason Nardi <jason.nardi(a)gmail.com>, Jay Tompt <jay(a)transitiontowntotnes.org>, Shaun Chamberlin <shaun(a)darkoptimism.org>, Anna Kovasna < anna.kovasna(a)ecovillage.org>, Taisa Mattos <taisamattos(a)hotmail.com>, < iasc(a)iasc-commons.org>, Polanyi-EMES Seminar <polanyi(a)emes.net>, Local Futures <info(a)localfutures.org>, <info(a)malmo.degrowth.org>, degrowth-reading-group <degrowth-reading-group(a)googlegroups.com>, Rocio Nogales <rocio.nogales(a)emes.net>, Sabine Spada - Emes International Research Network <sabine.spada(a)emes.net>, Sinem Adar <sinem.adar(a)gmail.com>, Henry, Paget <paget_henry(a)brown.edu>, Patrick Brenzel <pbrenzel(a)ssc.wisc.edu>, Francesca Forno <francesca.forno(a)unitn.it>, Francesca Forno < francesca.forno(a)unibg.it>, Donatella.DellaPorta <Donatella.DellaPorta(a)eui.eu>, <lorenzo.bosi(a)sns.it>, <lorenzo.zamponi(a)sns.it>, Geoffrey Pleyers < Geoffrey.Pleyers(a)uclouvain.be>, Breno Bringel <brenobringel(a)iesp.uerj.br>, Marcos PS Arruda <marcospsarruda(a)gmail.com>, ANIMAR - Marco Domingues < marcodomingues.animar(a)gmail.com>, Sílvia Ramos Pereira < animar.silviapereira(a)gmail.com>, marco domingues <ecogerminar(a)gmail.com>, < cosmos(a)sns.it>, rafter sass ferguson <liberationecology(a)gmail.com>, Rafter Ferguson <rferguson(a)ucsusa.org>, Giacomo D'Alisa <giacomodalisa(a)gmail.com>, Aline Mendonça <nocams(a)gmail.com>, Alicia Trepat Pont | Team Christian Felber <alicia(a)christian-felber.at>, Ashish Kothari <chikikothari(a)gmail.com>, <donatella.dellaporta(a)sns.it>, Eirik Eiglad <eiglad(a)online.no>, Emily Kawano <emilykawano(a)gmail.com>, Emily Rose Glickman < Emily_Rose_Glickman(a)iscte-iul.pt>, Luis Mah <luis.mah(a)gmail.com>, < degrowth(a)agora.degrowth.net> Cc: Leonardo Leal <lplls(a)iscte-iul.pt>, Kovanen, Sunna < S_Kovanen(a)ifl-leipzig.de>, Sunna Kovanen <sunna.kovanen(a)gmail.com>, denison jayasooria <denisonjayasooria(a)gmail.com>, Denison Jayasooria < denisonkitaukm(a)gmail.com>, Denison Jayasooria <denisonproham(a)gmail.com>, Miguel Yasuyuki Hirota <miguel(a)ineval.org>, Miguel Hirota <mig76fk(a)gmail.com>, Miguel Yasuyuki Hirota <mig(a)olccjp.net>, Melf-Hinrich Ehlers < melfhinrichehlers(a)gmail.com>, <TinaClarkeOz(a)gmail.com>, < claudialvarez09(a)gmail.com>, <mieke.elzenga(a)gmail.com>, Julie A Matthaei < jmatthae(a)wellesley.edu>, Julie Matthaei <jmatthaei(a)wellesley.edu>, Gianpaolo Baiocchi <gb97(a)nyu.edu>, patrick_heller <patrick_heller(a)brown.edu>, Jose Itzigsohn <jose_itzigsohn(a)brown.edu>, Raquel Silva < Raquel.Silva(a)iscte-iul.pt>, <info(a)gen-europe.org>, Kosha Joubert < kosha.joubert(a)ecovillage.org>, Vasilis Kostakis <kostakis.b(a)gmail.com>, Vasilis Niaros <vasilis.niaros(a)gmail.com>, May East < may.east(a)gaiaeducation.org>, Alexandre de Sousa Carvalho <hadscmb(a)gmail.com>, Ricardo Alexandre (TSF/de) <ricardo.alexandre(a)tsf.pt>, Help Transformadora < help(a)transformadora.org>, <amberponton(a)transitionnetwork.org>, frederick weihe <faweihe(a)gmail.com>, Barbara Kovats <b.kovats(a)tamera.org>, novocurso < novocurso(a)googlegroups.com>, CIT BRASIL - Colégio Internacional dos Terapeutas (NOVO) <cit-brasil-terapeutas-2013(a)googlegroups.com>, Aspirantes CIT <cit-brasil-aspirantes-2013(a)googlegroups.com> *Apologies for cross-posting* Dear colleagues, We are sending you the call for contributions for the second edition of the international conference "Social Solidarity Economy & the Commons", which will take place from the 6th to the 8th of November 2019 at Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL) in Lisbon, Portugal. The general theme of this year's edition is "Contributions to the Deepening of Democracy". Please submit proposals by email to ssecommons.cei(a)iscte-iul.pt . The submission deadline is May 31st 2019. Confirmed keynote presenters: Donatella della Porta (Scuola Normale Superiore, Florence, Italy) Jean-Louis Laville (CNAM/EHESS, Paris) Philippe Eynaud (Univeristé Paris 1, Panthéon Sorbonne, Paris) Sophie Bloemen (Co-diretor of "The Commons Network", Amsterdam) Boris Marañón Pimentel (Instituto de Investigaciones Económicas, Universidad Autónoma de Mexico / Consejo Latinoamericano de Ciências Sociales - Ciudad de Mexico) Robert Hall - Former president of ECOLISE (https://www.ecolise.eu/council/ ), member of the regional parliament of Gotland, Sweden. Co-founder of Suderbyn Ecovillage. Consultant to the European Union, OSCE and the United Nations Brendan Martin, founder of "The Working World", an international microcredit organization for Solidarity Economy enterprises (New York): https://www.theworkingworld.org/us/brendan-martin/ Ethan Earle, political consultant (Paris), North American liaison of the "Rethinking Cross-border Organising Project" of the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, board chair of "The Working World (New York) Cristina Amaro da Costa, researcher on Sustainable Agriculture, Escola Superior Agrária de Viseu, Portugal Ana Huertas, project coordinator (Spain), Municipalities in Transition Ruby van der Wekken, coordinator, Oma Maa cooperative, Hensinki, Finland Felipe Addor, Nides/UFRJ (Rio de Janeiro) On behalf of the organising committee, Ana Margarida Esteves and Leonardo Leal -- 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: Sharing visions in Budapest - Hungary
by Michel Bauwens 10 Apr '19

10 Apr '19

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Fwd: [bgcon] MORE WORLD Workshops – Call for Registration
by Michel Bauwens 09 Apr '19

09 Apr '19

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Krystian Woznicki <kw(a)berlinergazette.de> Date: Tue, Apr 9, 2019 at 9:27 AM Subject: [bgcon] MORE WORLD Workshops – Call for Registration To: <digi-yards(a)berlinergazette.de> Hi, how can we cooperate across borders to tackle climate change? While climate change seems to be intangible, nowhere and everywhere at the same time, it is entangled with everything and everyone. Against this backdrop, the Berliner Gazette’s 20th anniversary initiative MORE WORLD stimulates a critical dialogue. The goal is to better understand and grasp climate change through entanglements – and to ultimately explore possibilities to tackle climate change from within its cross-border entanglements, especially with migration and digitalization. How do we have to rethink cooperative practices if capacities for collective action potentially arise from a planetary web of interdependencies? What cooperative practices can catalyze the interplay between communal, state and global approaches to adapt to climate change? To explore this, the Berliner Gazette will organize the 20th edition of its annual conference. The BG annual conference will take place at the Center for Arts and Urbanistics (ZK/U) on Oct. 10-12, 2019. Save the date! To investigate the complexities of climate change, the BG will create a three-day program with workshops, performances and lectures by speakers such as Sujatha Byravan, whose pioneering research explores the politics of climate refugees, Marta Peirano, whose new book explores how to tackle climate change with communal tools, and Harsha Walia, whose activism in the field of migration intersects with climate justice struggles. *Workshops* The workshops – arguably the heart of the conference – will bring together activists, researchers and cultural workers from more than 20 countries. The BG will invite key actors to form the core of the workshops, and enables the general public to register via the call for registration. *Cooperative Processes* To tackle the key issues of the BG annual conference, five parallel workshop tracks will take five different approaches to communal practices dealing with climate change: Eco-Data, Counter/Knowledge, Justice, Lifestyles and Resources. Descriptions here: https://more-world.berlinergazette.de The workshop groups will communicate before the conference in order to flesh out the workshop design collaboratively. Led by experienced group leaders, participants will be invited to come up with possible answers to the questions raised by the MORE WORLD initiative. The results will be made available as online resources via berlinergazette.de: they may include position papers, multimedia storytelling projects and data visualizations. *Registration* + *Details* The call for registration targets (up-and-coming) hackers, journalists, activists and researchers. A limited number of participants will be able to register for one of the five workshops (Eco-Data, Counter/Knowledge, Justice, Lifestyles or Resources) by contacting the following email: info(at)berlinergazette(.)de. The deadline is September 1st. Further details here: https://more-world.berlinergazette.de *Spread the word* Forward this email and re-tweet this: https://twitter.com/berlinergazette/status/1115512510948495361 Stay tuned, Krystian (for the BG team) - https://more-world.berlinergazette.de _______________________________________________ Digi-yards_berlinergazette.de mailing list digi-yards(a)berlinergazette.de https://ml06.ispgateway.de/mailman/listinfo/digi-yards_berlinergazette.de -- Check out the Commons Transition Plan here at: http://commonstransition.org P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation>Updates: http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/

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Fwd: Recapping Ouishare's first big gathering in 2019 💻📡🎶
by Michel Bauwens 09 Apr '19

09 Apr '19

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Ouishare <hello(a)ouishare.net> Date: Tue, Apr 9, 2019 at 10:00 AM Subject: Recapping Ouishare's first big gathering in 2019 💻📡🎶 To: <michelsub2004(a)gmail.com> Looking back at the Grand Barouf Numérique Grand Barouf Numérique 2019 Recapping Ouishare's first big gathering in 2019 The <https://ouishare.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=744876426414b018c030e670…>*Grand Barouf Numérique* <https://ouishare.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=744876426414b018c030e670…> in March was a full success. If you missed it, here are* three ways to catch up:* 1. Read our *interview with Joke Quintens* <https://ouishare.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=744876426414b018c030e670…> to find out why she thinks that *"The city is where we can decide to plant or cut trees, support alternative energies and decide to keep open spaces. They are where the real change happens, not an a national level, that is what I see in practice.**"* 2. Check our favorite *#GrandBarouf2019 moments * <https://ouishare.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=744876426414b018c030e670…>on Twitter. 3. Watch our *recap video* <https://ouishare.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=744876426414b018c030e670…> below. Read the interview <https://ouishare.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=744876426414b018c030e670…> <https://ouishare.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=744876426414b018c030e670…> <https://ouishare.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=744876426414b018c030e670…> Entreprise à mission : changer les sociétés pour améliorer la société? Paris, Wednesday, April 17th, 9:00 am. <https://ouishare.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=744876426414b018c030e670…> Objectiver l'impact des tiers-lieux sur les territoires? Paris, Wednesday, April 17th, 6:30 pm. <https://ouishare.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=744876426414b018c030e670…> Designing Community. Paris, Friday, April 19th, 9:00 am. <https://ouishare.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=744876426414b018c030e670…> © 2013-2019 Ouishare, All Rights Reserved. Questions? Write to hello(a)ouishare.net View In Browser <https://mailchi.mp/ouishare/os-event-recap-november-1920065?e=3999a9fb3d> Terms of Use <https://ouishare.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=744876426414b018c030e670…> Unsubscribe <https://ouishare.us5.list-manage.com/unsubscribe?u=744876426414b018c030e670…> -- 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: PGA Post: P2P Foundation book launch "Peer to Peer: The Commons Manifesto".
by Michel Bauwens 05 Apr '19

05 Apr '19

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Stacco Troncoso <staccotroncoso(a)p2pfoundation.net> Date: Wed, Apr 3, 2019 at 7:41 PM Subject: Fwd: PGA Post: P2P Foundation book launch "Peer to Peer: The Commons Manifesto". To: Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004(a)gmail.com>, Alex Pazaitis < alex.pazaitis(a)p2pfoundation.net>, Vasilis Kostakis <kostakis.b(a)gmail.com> FYI Sent from a mobile device. Please excuse any typos. ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Post Growth Alliance <alliance(a)postgrowth.org> Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2019, 18:22 Subject: PGA Post: P2P Foundation book launch "Peer to Peer: The Commons Manifesto". To: Stacco <Staccotroncoso(a)p2pfoundation.net> What is Peer to Peer, and why is it essential for a post-capitalist future? PGA Member Content Update: What is Peer to Peer, and why is it essential for a post-capitalist future? <https://postgrowthalliance.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=dcc08996cc57fb…> <https://postgrowthalliance.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=dcc08996cc57fb…> PGA Members submit your request for content creation here <https://postgrowthalliance.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=dcc08996cc57fb…> . Dear Stacco, Thanks for being so awesome! As a supporter of this Alliance, you're helping shine a light on work that's truly making a difference. To help the *P2P Foundation <https://postgrowthalliance.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=dcc08996cc57fb…>* *:* Share This Twitter Post <https://postgrowthalliance.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=dcc08996cc57fb…> Share This Facebook Post <https://postgrowthalliance.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=dcc08996cc57fb…> Alternatively, use any of the text below and the image above to craft your own post. Remember: to tag people/groups, put the '@' symbol before their name. *Twitter Copy:* What is P2P and how might it enable us to transcend capitalism? http://commonstransition.org/peer-to-peer-a-commons-manifesto/ h/t: @P2P_Foundation @mbauwens @AlexPazaitis @postgrowth #postgrowth *Facebook Copy: * What is Peer to Peer, and why is it essential for a post-capitalist future? These are the questions tackled by Michel Bauwens, Vasilis Kostakis and Alex Pazaitis in their just-launched book: “Peer to Peer: A Commons Manifesto”. Not since Marx identified the manufacturing plants of Manchester as the blueprint for the new capitalist society has there been a more profound transformation of the fundamentals of our social life. As capitalism faces a series of structural crises, Bauwens, Kostakis and Pazaitis claim a new social, political and economic dynamic is emerging: peer to peer. They describe peer to peer as both a type of social relations in human networks, as well as a technological infrastructure that makes the generalization and scaling up of such relations possible. Thus, they claim, peer to peer enables a new mode of production and creates the potential for a transition to a commons-oriented economy beyond capitalism. If you are curious how the current political economy around capital, state and nation could be transformed to one based on: - new ecosystems between productive communities sharing common resources - generative market mechanisms that work for these communities and state forms - public authorities which enable and empower the autonomy of individuals and communities, through public-commons partnerships You can order, or download the book (for free) via: http://commonstransition.org/peer-to-peer-a-commons-manifesto/ #PostGrowthAlliance submission by: @P2PFoundation This email was sent to Staccotroncoso(a)p2pfoundation.net *why did I get this?* <https://postgrowthalliance.us2.list-manage.com/about?u=dcc08996cc57fb1c3f5a…> unsubscribe from this list <https://postgrowthalliance.us2.list-manage.com/unsubscribe?u=dcc08996cc57fb…> update subscription preferences <https://postgrowthalliance.us2.list-manage.com/profile?u=dcc08996cc57fb1c3f…> Post Growth Institute · 156A Union St · Ashland, OR 97520 · USA -- 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: End or no end to capitalism?
by Michel Bauwens 31 Mar '19

31 Mar '19

https://triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/article/view/755 ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Bob Haugen <bob.haugen(a)gmail.com> Date: Sun, Mar 31, 2019 at 3:26 PM Subject: End or no end to capitalism? To: Michel Visioning Bauwens <visioning(a)p2pfoundation.net> I'm reading two documents written by in part by Oliver Nachtwey 1. _Germany's Hidden Crisis: Social Decline in the Heart of Europe_ https://books.google.com/books?id=F6l2DwAAQBAJ I can't copy and paste from that, but the premise is the decline of human social life in Europe as capitalist growth and profits decline. This is one of several books and articles I've read lately about the decline and possible fall of capitalism due not to Jeremy Rifkin's theories but to other internal contradictions. 2. _Market and Labour Control in Digital Capitalism_ by Philip Staab and Nachtwey In this one, the authors say capitalism is not falling, but staging one of its periodic reconfigurations to escape from one of it's self-made traps. <excerpt from the latter> No End to Capitalism The empirical elaborations and tentative theoretical assumptions in this article aimed at challenging theories of post capitalism, which, in the context of this text, have been associated with current works of Jeremy Rifkin and Paul Mason. In their latest books, both authors argue for a more or less inevitable end to capitalism. They assume that private accumulation is systematically blocked by the inability of capitalist corporations to create revenues by setting prices as they lose control over the reproduction of their commodities in an economy where people have the power to make most things in non-capitalist production models themselves. Mason states, however, that, in building dominant monopolies, leading digital economy companies could retain the power of price setting while the products they deal with become increasingly cheaper in terms of production costs. Notwithstanding, he argues that these attempts will be failing in the end as such monopolies cannot stop the rise of open source and peer production. In order to challenge these ideas, we asked two questions, applied empirically mostly on the case of Amazon: Is the digital economy really moving towards a state in which corporations lose all control over markets, which then become increasingly decommodified? And second, is there really any end to capitalist labour or at least a reduction in capitalist modes of exploitation connected to the digitization trend? While we cannot give a definite answer to both questions, close analysis of Amazon and thoughts on the policies of other leading digital corporations bring us to conclusions which challenge the assumptions of post capitalist theories. First, key corporate players of digitization—in particular Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Apple and Facebook—are indeed trying to become powerful monopolies and have partly succeeded in doing so, using network effects of digital platforms, the power of scaling routed in the zero marginal cost logic of digital goods and building socio-technical ecosystems in order to enforce customer retention. Second, it seems that leading digital economy companies tend to develop in part isomorphic structures on the supply side, hence creating a situation of oligopolistic market competition. We drew on basic assumptions of monopoly capital theory, which were elaborated empirically in 1960s to 1980s industrial sociology, to explain that in this situation of oligopolistic competition, cost cutting, achieved primarily via labour process rationalization, becomes key to the corporation’s competitive strategies. In our view, the case study of Amazon and our theoretical assumptions drawn from it offer evidence that strategies of cost cutting especially target the enhancement of digital labour control. Our conclusion is, therefore, that theorists like Mason might be right (although not for the right reasons) in arguing that large digital corporations fail in building stable monopolies. This, however, does not seem to imply any end to capitalist labour. Rather it seems to call for a tightening of the grip of labour control and new modes of exploitation of human labour—phenomena we have addressed with the terms digital Taylorism and digital contingent work. In our view, the current state of digital capitalism resembles a fight for supremacy between large digital corporations, which is based on the enforcement of extraction of value from human labour. Our assumption therefore is that we see nothing like the end of capitalism in the digital economy. Rather, capitalism is maturing in the usage of digital technologies following tracks well known from the history [of] industrial societies. </excerpt> -- 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: Abstract submission now open | Submit abstracts by 20 September 2019
by Michel Bauwens 28 Mar '19

28 Mar '19

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