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Fwd: [CommonGood] Relaunch of Global Social Justice
by Michel Bauwens 05 Dec '18

05 Dec '18

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Francine Mestrum <info(a)globalsocialjustice.eu> Date: Tue, Dec 4, 2018 at 9:24 AM Subject: [CommonGood] Relaunch of Global Social Justice To: <commongood(a)listi.jpberlin.de> Dear friend, We may be long time friends, or we may have met at some international conference or social forum. At any rate, you were on my list of people to contact as soon as the website of Global Social Justice was relaunched. This moment has now finally arrived: take a look at http://globalsocialjustice.info <https://globalsocialjustice.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4e78ad6c59c24…> You will notice the change of name: the old website still exists and has all old articles and research on it, but it has been irreparably damaged by repeated hacking. In case you do not know Global Social Justice: we are a global network, founded around 2005-2006 and have been steadily growing till around 500 members on all continents. Our work concerns social justice. We have been developing a concept of social protection that is emancipatory and transformative, that is a policy which contributes to system change. Because to us, the links between social protection, climate justice, macroeconomics, democracy and peace are very clear. Our aim is to identify the different elements that make up for these links and to achieve not only global social justice but also the social and political change our world needs so badly. We are therefore now launching this new website. It is closely linked to other initiatives that were taken these last years: a project around social commons, which is nothing else than a participatory and democratized version of a broad social protection. Most of all, we are proud to have launched a Global Charter for Social Protection Rights. It was adopted at the 12th Asia Europe People’s Forum end of September 2018 in Ghent, Belgium. At the international level as well a lot has happened. The ILO is very committed to promote its social protection floors, many ngo’s are working on the implementation of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. And on the ground, more and more people and social movements are fighting against austerity policies, against privatisations, against the erosion of their economic and social rights. We continue to believe that the abovementioned international initiatives are very positive. If implemented, they would mean a tremendous progress for humanity. All the same, we think that social ,movements need to develop their own agenda, for several reasons. First, we should not only fight for things that have already been given to us. Social protection floors and sustainable development are urgently needed, but what these programmes say is exactly what the global dominant groups accept to give us, and not one point more. And we need more if we want to achieve social justice. Secondly, we should fight for the priorities of people on the ground, we need an agenda that comes from the grassroots so as to really respond to the needs of people. Thirdly, we should know who our enemies are, and they are not only the advocates of neoliberalism anymore. We are now also faced with right-wing populism and these people do want some kind of social protection, but not the kind we want. Whereas neoliberals will want to privatize and deregulate in order to achieve a social protection at the service of growth and markets, right-wing populists will want to defend so-called ‘traditional values’ and this does not lead to emancipatory policies. That is why we are very proud that at the 12th Asia Europe People’s Forum, end of September 2018 in Ghent, Belgium, we adopted a Global Charter for Social Protection Rights. This is not a binding text, but a kind of guideline for all people who want to work on social justice. It is a document with general principles that can give meaning to the specific needs of people, so as to build an emancipatory and transformative agenda. And what we mean by this is that people should be made free and contribute to the social change our world so urgently needs. We truly believe social protection can help to bring this about. These are also the points that we will work on in the future: develop the concept of social commons, which is nothing else than a participatory and democratized version of social protection; develop and identify the links from social protection to environmental policies, to democracy and peace, and certainly also to alternative macro-economics. It is a long-term agenda, but we have found in the Asia Europe People’s Forum and in the World Social Forum friends and allies who will work with us. This gives courage and is very motivating. *We do hope you are interested in the news we have to bring and the work we are doing. Please confirm by answering to this e-mail. If you, do not want to receive our messages, please also let us know.* We very much hope we can develop a long term relationship around social justice, especially starting in 2019 at the centenary of the ILO which stated in its Constitution of 1919 that ‘sustainable peace is not possible without social justice’. We think this message is as relevant today as in was one hundred years ago. With warmest regards, Francine Mestrum Brussels/Mexico City You can also find us on facebook: Global Social Justice *Copyright © 2018 Global Social Justice, All rights reserved.* you are receiving this e-mail as usual *Our mailing address is:* Global Social Justice Oude Graanmarkt 47 47 Brussels 1000 Belgium Add us to your address book <https://globalsocialjustice.us9.list-manage.com/vcard?u=4e78ad6c59c246708d1…> Want to change how you receive these emails? 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Fwd: [Networked-Labour] Fwd: [WSMDiscuss] (Fwd) write an essay for Globalizations journal forum on Samir Amin's proposal for a 5th international
by Michel Bauwens 05 Dec '18

05 Dec '18

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Örsan Şenalp <orsan1234(a)gmail.com> Date: Tue, Dec 4, 2018 at 11:44 AM Subject: [Networked-Labour] Fwd: [WSMDiscuss] (Fwd) write an essay for Globalizations journal forum on Samir Amin's proposal for a 5th international To: Networked Labour <networked-labour_igopnet(a)lists.igopnet.cc> ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Patrick Bond <pbond(a)mail.ngo.za> Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2018 at 08:44 Subject: [WSMDiscuss] (Fwd) write an essay for Globalizations journal forum on Samir Amin's proposal for a 5th international To: Jai Sen <jai.sen(a)cacim.net>, Post WSMDiscuss < wsm-discuss(a)lists.openspaceforum.net>, Post Social Movements Riseup < social-movements(a)lists.riseup.net>, Post Crisis of Civilisation and Alternative Paradigms < crisis-de-civilizacion-y-paradigmas-alternativos(a)googlegroups.com>, Post Debate <Debate-list(a)fahamu.org>, Post CJN! <cjn(a)lists.riseup.net> -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: call for essays on samir amin's proposal for a 5th international (due dec 14) Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2018 11:57:02 -0800 a *Globalizations* forum on Samir Amin's proposal for a 5th international Samir Amin died on August 12, 2018. In July of 2018 he published a call for the establishment of a global fifth international that could coordinate and provide support to progressive social movements. Amin, Samir 2018* “*Letter of Intent for an Inaugural Meeting of the International of Workers and Peoples” IDEAs network, July 3 *http://www.networkideas.org/featured-articles/2018/07/it-is-imperative-to-reconstruct-the-internationale-of-workers-and-peoples/ <http://www.networkideas.org/featured-articles/2018/07/it-is-imperative-to-r…>* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samir_Amin The Special Forum in *Globalizations *will contain short essays (from 2000 to 4000 words. They will be free online access on the Routledge website. Co-editors of the Special Forum are Barry Gills and Chris Chase-Dunn. The Forum will include both those who are friendly to the idea of a global political organization and those who think this is a bad idea. It will be a mix of positive reflections and critical ones and should include those that expand the thinking horizon on the issue of progressive world politics. Please let us know if you are willing to write for this as soon as possible and send your essay to bkeithgills(a)gmail.com and to chriscd(a)ucr.edu no later than *Friday, December 14, 2018*. Also, if you have suggestions of others we should invite please send those as well. *Globalizations *is an interdisciplinary journal published by Routledge. We hope that this forum will be co-published by Globalizations, *Journal of World-Systems Research*, Monthly Review Press and Pambazuka News <https://www.pambazuka.org/> (an African ezine with a wide following among activists and scholars in Africa). Although initially in the English language, we anticipate and encourage translations. Representatives of each of the co-publishers have been be asked to approve the contents of the forum and each publisher will be named in the front page of the forum. Each of the co-publishers will provide links from their own websites to the *Globalizations* special forum and links from each co-publisher will be listed on the Globalizations forum site. This collaboration will allow wide access to the important discussion of Samir Amin’s proposal for a new global political organization. -- chris chase-dunn 邓宇歌 institute for research on world-systems olmsted 1218 university of california-riverside riverside, ca 92521 USA consider using my textbook in your class: _Social Change: Globalization from the Stone Age to the Present_ https://www.routledge.com/products/9781612053288 <https://post.ucr.edu/owa/redir.aspx?C=2kYGfgreKu2FwIbuDc5KtpI9DKmc1AEeUeJHQ…> ________________________________________ ** Inspired by the World Social Forum, WSMDiscuss – the successor to a list named ‘WSFDiscuss’ started in 2005 - is an open, unmoderated, and self-organising forum for the exchange of information and views on the experience, practice, and theory of social and political movement at any level (local, national, regional, and global), including the World Social Forum. 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Fwd: [bgcon] recap #2: AMBIENT REVOLTS > videos, projects and more
by Michel Bauwens 05 Dec '18

05 Dec '18

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Krystian Woznicki <kw(a)berlinergazette.de> Date: Tue, Dec 4, 2018 at 12:12 PM Subject: [bgcon] recap #2: AMBIENT REVOLTS > videos, projects and more To: <digi-yards(a)berlinergazette.de> Hi, here come the results from the #AmbientRevolts conference, 3 days of workshops + talks w/ more than 500 people from 25 countries. Check out now the videos, audios and projects: https://ambient-revolts.berlinergazette.de And please re-tweet this tweet: https://twitter.com/berlinergazette/status/1069559840916287490 Challenge Artificial Intelligence! Krystian -- -------------------------------------------------------------- BG – Berliner Gazette | since 1999 | http://berlinergazette.de -------------------------------------------------------------- UPCOMING BG ANNUAL CONFERENCE: AMBIENT REVOLTS – Nov 8-10, 2018 https://ambient-revolts.berlinergazette.de -------------------------------------------------------------- DOCU OF LATEST BG PROJECTS: FRIENDLY FIRE – BG Annual Conference 2017 https://berlinergazette.de/friendly-fire SIGNALS – Exhibition of the Snowden Files http://berlinergazette.de/signals -------------------------------------------------------------- BG BOOKS OUT NOW @ DP: FUGITIVE BELONGING https://diamondpaper.net/title_27 A FIELD GUIDE TO THE SNOWDEN FILES http://diamondpaper.net/title_26 AFTER THE PLANES http://diamondpaper.net/title_25 -------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ 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: How We All Became Russia's 'Useful Idiots'
by Michel Bauwens 05 Dec '18

05 Dec '18

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: <douglas(a)rushkoff.com> Date: Wed, Dec 5, 2018 at 7:59 PM Subject: How We All Became Russia's 'Useful Idiots' To: <rushkoff(a)simplelists.com> Lots going on as I prepare for the Team Human release and book tour. For now, if you're in NYC, we're doing a live Team Human recording at Civic Hall on Thursday December 13 at 6p, with guests Mark Pesce (co-inventor of VRML) and Penny Abeywardena (NYC commissioner of diplomacy) live at Civic Hall in NYC. Tickets are free but reservations encouraged <https://www.eventbrite.com/e/penny-abeywardena-and-mark-pesce-with-douglas-…> . I'm doing a bunch of book launch events in January/February, but the one most likely to sell out fast will be my conversation with Naomi Klein at WNYC Greenspace on February 4 <http://www.thegreenespace.org/events/thegreenespace/2019/feb/04/team-human-…>. I'll send a full rundown of the tour when it's finalized. For now, it's NYC: Jan 22 McNally/Jackson, Jan 23 Civic Hall DC: Jan 24 Politics and Prose LA: Jan 28 Last Bookstore in LA (assuming 25 people buy books in advance <https://www.eventbrite.com/e/team-human-with-douglas-rushkoff-tickets-53038…> ) SF: Jan 29 City Lights, Jan 30 Commonwealth Club NYC: Feb 4 WNYC Greenspace w Naomi Klein Boston: Feb 6 MIT/MediaLab 2p, Harvard Books 7p London: Feb 14 RSA (2p), Feb 15 British Library with George Monbiot Portland Feb 21 Powell's, Feb 22 Team Human Live at Bunk Bar Toronto March 2, Curious Minds Festival Austin March 8-12 SXSW Yes - the book is available for pre-order everywhere. You can start w Norton's page to find links to retailers and Indybound. But right now, TARGET has it cheaper than I can buy it myself <https://www.target.com/p/team-human-by-douglas-rushkoff-hardcover/-/A-54245…> - at just a bit over 15 bucks per book! You can also pre-order Kindle or Audiobook (read by me) on Amazon. Meanwhile, a great new episode of Team Human went up this morning <https://teamhuman.fm/episodes/ep-113-jamie-cohen-the-commodity-of-authentic…>, with Jamie Cohen talking about how Youtubers adapt themselves and manufacture authenticity to maximize views. My monologue on the show, about how we all became Russia's "useful idiots", was adapted into a piece on Medium and I've pasted it below. Please feel free to forward this email to others who may be interested in Team Human or my stuff. Thanks for caring! d *How We All Became Russia’s ‘Useful Idiots’* *Nationalism may have started as a side effect of fake news, but it’s quickly becoming the new American way* by Douglas Rushkoff The New York Times recently ran one of the most compelling and informative documentaries I’ve seen since Adam Curtis’ mind-blowing Century of the Self series. “Operation Infektion,” as it’s called, is a tragically, egregiously underpublicized and difficult to access trio of 15-minute videos — either lost to the ineptitude of the Times web staff or simply buried in the torrent of other daily news and treasonous revelations. The films chronicle the Russian effort to spread conspiracy theories in the United States since the 1980s, beginning with the planted story in an Indian newspaper about the AIDS virus being concocted in a U.S. military lab, right through the story about Hillary Clinton running a child sex ring out of the basement of a pizzeria — which turned out to have no basement. The movies show how 85 percent or more of Russian intelligence activity and budgeting went to promoting fake news stories in the United States. Intelligence agents’ yearly review focused primarily on how many ideas they came up with for conspiracies and how many they were able to get picked up by dupes, called “useful idiots,” such as Alex Jones and Sean Hannity. The possibility that a U.S. president would retweet such planted stories, or even repeat them in his speeches, was beyond their wildest hopes. For anyone confused about or, worse, still doubting the Russian exploitation of Donald Trump’s campaign to sow division in the United States or of the campaign’s infiltration by Russian operatives, from Marina Butina to Paul Manafort, the videos are must-see TV. But they’re less important for their indictment of Trump and the agents he hired than for how they expose the way we all continue to buy into this manufactured animosity. So, no, the liberal elite did not infuse the landscape with today’s more belligerent forms of identity politics. Neither did the far right invent the most contagious conspiracy theories about Hillary Clinton or George Soros. They are the result of four decades and hundreds of millions of dollars of targeted disinformation by Russia. Even more damaging than the stories themselves is how they make us feel about the “other side,” who we believe has stooped to this level of shameful lying and rhetoric. (And, as the metrics indicate, those of us who are outraged by a sick tweet are just as likely to spread it as those who agree!) More important, though, is that this half-century Russian effort — and its embrace by the current administration — reveals more than a shared love for fake news. Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump also share the opinion that the United States’ influence over the world, and its attendant responsibilities, have become too great. Just as the Soviet Union fell in the 1980s under Mikhail Gorbachev and George H.W. Bush, Pax Americana should be dismantled under Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, or so goes the theory. >From the Russian perspective, it’s just tit for tat. The former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics collapsed in no small part due to economic and political pressure from United States throughout the Cold War. When the Soviet Union fell, George H.W. Bush was actually careful not to gloat. He likely understood that a vengeful Russia would be a dangerous Russia. For just as we helped break up the Soviet Union into Moldova, Estonia, Ukraine, Armenia, Georgia, and so on, Russia had its eye on undermining the European Union, breaking up NATO, and leaving its member states isolated and beyond the influence and protection of the United States. Although Gorbachev was a moderate, the KGB under Putin continued its massive campaign to launch conspiracy theories in the West. As Putin rose to power, his efforts became better funded. It may have looked ridiculous at the time: The best that Russia could do to challenge the United States’ global power was to spread conspiracy theories on late-night radio? But Russia was playing a long game: Identify the existing disagreements and hot-button issues in the U.S. population and amplify them. Russia targeted like-minded communities — from gun owners and Christian fundamentalists to black activists and anti-war organizers — with extreme versions of their own beliefs and sensationalist lies about their opponents. With the advent of social media, it became even easier to speak to one community, enrage its base, and turn opponents into inhuman enemies. Many protests and counterprotests over the past year were actually convened not by domestic activists but by Russian bots. And all this effort had nothing to do with the issues at stake but were simply to get Americans to a place where we no longer know what to believe. In the words of one of the former KGB agents running the effort, the idea was “to change the perception of reality of every American to such an extent that despite an abundance of information, no one is able to come to a sensible conclusions in the interests of defending themselves, their families, their communities and their country.” All this effort was intended to divide the U.S. empire — the United States, Europe, and its various allies — back into separate, self-interested nations. In the resulting landscape of individual countries, Russia would be relatively bigger and more powerful. It worked even better than Russia planned. Not only is one of their most trustworthy conspiracy theorists in the White House, but also the United States is seriously considering isolationism as a national policy. Thanks at least in part to these campaigns, we have a president and a significant portion of the population who believe the United States is better off as a separate country, unencumbered by obligations to the alliances we established after World War II. It’s not simply that we are too busy fighting one another to defend ourselves from the rest of the world; we are now actively pursuing stronger boundaries and withdrawal from global pacts from the Paris climate agreement to the TPP and WTO. Rather than trace this isolationism back to the propaganda and fake news that spawned it, we must now engage with nationalism in its own right. This is the way many Americans (and, by the same process, Brexiters) now feel, and it almost doesn’t matter why or how they came to feel this way. A smaller, less influential United States is attractive in a lot of ways. It may not work so well for growth-based capitalism, which has always depended on expansion into new markets, but that could force positive changes in extractive corporatism. It also relieves the United States of the short-term expenses of protecting other people in other places. There’s a certain shame in standing by while people in China, Russia, Myanmar, or the Middle East are oppressed. But humanitarian crises are not the responsibility of a nation going it alone. “America first” doesn’t mean we can’t help other folks, just that we remove the plank from our own eye so we can see clearly enough to remove the speck from our brother’s. It would be nice to think that Putin is simply encouraging us to accept our place in a new brotherhood of equal nations. But the problem with the United States’ retreat from the global stage is that Putin is advancing. Sure, he wants us to be a divided, paranoid, and self-obsessed nation — but only so he can pursue his own expansion into Ukraine, Syria, Iran, and beyond. While the United States dismantles its global apparatus, Russia will restore its own. If the United States truly wants to adopt a less interventionist foreign policy, it should do so — but not for the wrong reasons. There’s a difference between empire and alliances. NATO and the United Nations are not extensions of the U.S. empire, but rather compromises made in the interest of a peaceful global order. If anything, maintaining a nation’s economic and military security without such alliances is harder and more expensive. Worse, if the United States really does retreat into nationalism, exit its trade blocs, and dismantle its strategic alliances, the rest of the world will be left to negotiate arrangements with Russia and China instead—countries that prefer domination over alliance. This is where our constant state of distraction and infighting may prove debilitating. We are so ready to see our domestic adversaries as Russia would paint them that we are losing sight of who is turning us against one another, how they want us to respond, and what they mean to do after that. -- Douglas Rushkoff http://rushkoff.com Founder, Laboratory of Digital Humanism and Professor of Media Theory and Digital Economics, CUNY/Queens Team Human <http://teamhuman.fm> - the podcast! Sign up for RushkoffMail <http://www.simplelists.com/subscribe/rushkoff> to get updates and newest writing ---- This is RushkoffList, a monthlyish update and advance look at work in progress. Feel free to forward to your friends as long as you include this footer. To subscribe, use this link: http://www.simplelists.com/subscribe/rushkoff To unsubscribe: http://www.simplelists.com/confirm.php?u=grdK4Lvi7veNxafT2DxZrw1oAyoTFsEc -- 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: Fab City Foundation
by Michel Bauwens 01 Dec '18

01 Dec '18

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Fab City Global Initiative <info(a)fab.city> Date: Sat, Dec 1, 2018 at 3:12 PM Subject: Fab City Foundation To: Michel <michel(a)p2pfoundation.net> Join the launch of the FCF in Tallinn in December Sharing the Fab City roadmap The Fab City Foundation Next step towards the future of Fab City. Since 2014 Fab City Global Initiative has been collaboratively building the roadmap towards self sufficient, locally productive yet globally connected cities. We often say that we're building the aeroplane at the same time as flying it; using our prototyping approach to test and develop the productive power of cities and citizens. 2018 has been a year of milestones and has come to concretise many aspects of the Fab City Global Initiative. This year we hosted the biggest Fab City summit yet, that brought together over 1000 people from 80 different countries to explore Fab City thinking. At Paris' Hotel du Ville with the Mayor of Paris, Mayor of Barcelona and the Fab Foundation's Sherry Lassiter in attendance, we also launched the first ever Fab City book. 2018 will also be the year in which the Fab City Foundation is launched. This is a turning point for the Fab City Global Initiative because it will help to articulate the goals of the Fab City roadmap through lobbying and financial efficacy. It will also act as a catalyst for the Fab City Collective to undertake a process of definition and articulation. You are welcome to join the official launch event of the Fab City Foundation, *“Fab City Global Initiative: a sustainable return to urban production.”* <https://city.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9fda6809b952c81883e74c723&i…>It will be held in Tallinn on 12 December. Tallinn has been chosen as the foundation is being established in Estonia. If you are unable to join us in Estonia, you can join via live stream by following the details that will be shared on Telegram: https://t.me/fabcityglobal <https://city.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9fda6809b952c81883e74c723&i…> For more information and how to join the Fab City Foundation event send Kate an email using the button below. Email for Launch details <info(a)fab.city?subject=Fab%20City%20Foundation%20Launch%20Event> Conference: Distributed Design Thanks to P2P Lab, Mektory <https://city.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9fda6809b952c81883e74c723&i…>, Creative Europe and the Distributed Design Market Platform <https://city.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9fda6809b952c81883e74c723&i…>, the event in Estonia will coincide with an informative conference, " <https://city.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9fda6809b952c81883e74c723&i…>Blockchain for Industry 4.0 and Distributed Design" <https://city.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9fda6809b952c81883e74c723&i…> on Tuesday 11th, featuring speakers such as Thomas Salfield of Wikifactory <https://city.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9fda6809b952c81883e74c723&i…>, Alex Pazaitis and a special conversation via live-stream between Jamie Burke of Outlier Ventures and Primavera de Filippi of the Harvard Berkman Center. Please register via Eventbrite or Facebook <https://city.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9fda6809b952c81883e74c723&i…> for this event. Save the Date! In anticipation of the biannual Fab City Summit in Montreal in 2020, this year the international Fab City community will gather in Amsterdam as part of the annual We Make The City event! We are thrilled to collaborate back in Amsterdam again, with a focus on cities and the Fab City Network. We encourage you to start sharing these dates with your local consortium and Mayoral office. Read more and Save the Date! <https://city.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9fda6809b952c81883e74c723&i…> Don't forget! The first ever Fab City book is available to Read Online or Print on Demand! There are still some copies left and you can read an extract via the blog, The Mass Distribution of (almost) Everything <https://city.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9fda6809b952c81883e74c723&i…> by Tomas Diez. 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Fwd: Deep Adaptation to Climate Breakdown
by Michel Bauwens 01 Dec '18

01 Dec '18

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Jem Bendell <drjbendell(a)gmail.com> Date: Fri, Nov 30, 2018 at 3:14 PM Subject: Deep Adaptation to Climate Breakdown To: Michel <michel(a)p2pfoundation.net> Why I've been quiet Greetings Michel In late July my paper <https://lifeworth.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c58fbb0d721b1e5f3e4787b…> on preparing for an inevitable near-term collapse due to climate chaos went viral, being downloaded 40,000 times in a few weeks and appearing in media worldwide. I am inviting people to explore what Deep Adaptation to climate chaos could involve. A quick summary of how academia is waking up to this predicament was provided by Bloomberg here <https://lifeworth.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c58fbb0d721b1e5f3e4787b…>. If interested you can join a LinkedIn group <https://lifeworth.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c58fbb0d721b1e5f3e4787b…> on the topic. More of my commentary is at www.deepadaptation.info <https://lifeworth.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c58fbb0d721b1e5f3e4787b…> I’m giving talks on it in Bristol <https://lifeworth.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c58fbb0d721b1e5f3e4787b…> and Carlisle <https://lifeworth.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c58fbb0d721b1e5f3e4787b…> next month. We are also hosting a retreat in Greece <https://lifeworth.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c58fbb0d721b1e5f3e4787b…> for people who are changing their lives to work fully on Deep Adaptation. There are limited places on this gathering, so early application is essential. Info here <https://lifeworth.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c58fbb0d721b1e5f3e4787b…> . This new context will infuse a couple of other courses I’m leading next year, including: Crypto, Blockchain and Society, London, April 1st to 4th. Featuring myself and guest lecturers from this dynamic sector in London. Info here <https://lifeworth.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c58fbb0d721b1e5f3e4787b…>. My most recent lecture <https://lifeworth.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c58fbb0d721b1e5f3e4787b…> was at the United Nations and focused on blockchain for sustainability. Sustainable Leadership, Ambleside, July 16th to 19th. Featuring myself and executives from business, government and civil society, exploring leading on the challenges of our time. Info here <https://lifeworth.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c58fbb0d721b1e5f3e4787b…>. Below I will list some other courses offered by colleagues at the University of Cumbria. Like me, I hope you find time amongst the busy-ness of life to let the latest climate trends influence how you prioritise in the months and years ahead. With faith, Jem Bendell Professor of Sustainability Leadership, University of Cumbria *These are some courses offered by colleagues: * Leadership Development, Ambleside, March 19th to 22nd. Suitable for people who design management development courses. Info here <https://lifeworth.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c58fbb0d721b1e5f3e4787b…>. Skills for Leading Teams, Ambleside, June 17th to 19th. Focusing on facilitation and group work. Info here <https://lifeworth.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c58fbb0d721b1e5f3e4787b…>. Strategic Partnerships and Community Engagement, Ambleside, 29th April to 1 st May. Led by Dr David Murphy. Info here <https://lifeworth.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c58fbb0d721b1e5f3e4787b…>. To take any of our courses as part of a qualification, The Certificate in Sustainable Leadership, then there are assignments and the fees are about 120% higher. If interested in that, contact *David.murphy(a)cumbria.ac.uk* *You are receiving this update from me as we exchanged emails in the past. My next email will probably be in April 2019. You can update your preferences <https://lifeworth.us9.list-manage.com/profile?u=c58fbb0d721b1e5f3e4787bdf&i…> or unsubscribe from this list <https://lifeworth.us9.list-manage.com/unsubscribe?u=c58fbb0d721b1e5f3e4787b…>.* -- 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: 150 YEARS OF GANDHI - THE RISE OF ASIA, France, March 13-15, 2019
by Michel Bauwens 01 Dec '18

01 Dec '18

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Darwis Khudori <darwis.khudori(a)univ-lehavre.fr> Date: Sat, Dec 1, 2018 at 11:49 AM Subject: 150 YEARS OF GANDHI - THE RISE OF ASIA, France, March 13-15, 2019 Dear Hans and friends of School for Wellbeings, Next year will be the 150th anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi. I hope you could participate in a commemorative conference that will take place in France on March 13-15, 2019. You find below the announcement of the conference and the call for papers. I would be grateful for your kind help to spread this information to your networks. Yours sincerely, Darwis KHUDORI Directeur Master Echanges avec l'Asie Université Le Havre Normandie, Francehttps://www.univ-lehavre.fr/https://fai.univ-lehavre.fr/?page_id=500h… [image: LA MONTEE DE L'ASIE] <http://www.bandungspirit.org/IMG/pdf/the_rise_of_asia-cfpp-text-a-chac-gric…> *THE RISE OF ASIA IN GLOBAL HISTORY AND PERSPECTIVE 150 years of Gandhi: will it bring peace, justice and non-violence to the world?* *INTERNATIONAL AND MULTIDISCIPLINARY CONFERENCE Paris and Le Havre, France, March 13-15, 2019 * *ORGANISING AND HOSTING INSTITUTIONS * *CHAC (Centre d’Histoire de l’Asie Contemporaine) Univeristé Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France GRIC (Groupe de Recherches Identités et Cultures) Université Le Havre Normandie, France* *http://www.bandungspirit.org/ <http://www.bandungspirit.org/>* *CALL FOR PAPERS* The conference is open to individual and group paper presentations. Those willing to present their papers are invited to submit their proposals following the GUIDELINES FOR PRESENTER CANDIDATES described in the call for papers. The conference call for papers lasts from November 1, 2018 to January 31, 2019. The selected proposals will be communicated to their authors between December 2018 and February 2019. *INTRODUCTION* *The twenty-first century is emerging as the Asian century. During the first half of this century, the Asian region, extending from the Pacific Ocean to the Arabian Sea and northwards, to include Central Asia, is likely to establish itself as the new centre of the economic universe. This will draw to a conclusion three centuries of Western dominance over the world economic resources and for much of this time, its political spaces. This transformation in the world economic order will not be painless either for the East or for the West. Indeed, the transition has the potential for causing much grief to the world as no established order is likely to cede its hegemony without challenge.* *The significant point of departure during this phase of transition lies in the fact that the receding economic power of the West (also more broadly classified as the North), dominated by the United States (US), remains and is likely to remain in the immediate future the dominant military power. Historically, the dominant political power, whether it was Rome, Britain or the US was, within its own spheres of influence, also the dominant military as well as economic power. This erosion of the economic power of the West while retaining military dominance with the US and its North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) allies, does not bode well for an easy transition for the global order. * *[…]* *How the established powers of the West, led again by the US, will react to this changing balance of economic power towards Asia, which has narrowed their competitive space and domestic employment opportunities, remains a challenge for the leaders of the Western world. How far the hitherto dominant West will go to preserve their hegemony over their economic order remains critical in determining whether the Asian century will evolve peacefully or through a process of turmoil. *(Rehman Sobhan, *”The Political Economy of the Asian Century”* in Manoranjan Mohanty, Vinod C. Khana, Biswajit Dhar (eds.) with a foreword of Boutros-Boutros Ghali, *Building a Just World. Essays in Honour of Muchkund Dubey,* Inde, New Delhi, Orient Black Swan, 2015, pp. 144-161). The quotation above raises many questions : will military powers continue to determine the future of the world ? Can military forces establish a world order based on peace, justice and non-violence ? Does economic development entail military development ? Is economic power equal with military power ? Is there any other force than military that may rule the world locally and globally ? Do the weak, the poor, the marginalized, the dominated, the discriminated, the oppressed, the disadvantaged have any chance to change their state of being in a non-violent way ? It is to commemorate the 150th anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi that the questions of world order based on peace, justice and non-violence are chosen to be the main subject of presentation and discussion of the third edition of The Rise of Asia Conference Series. It encourages the participation of scholars from a wide range of scientific disciplines (area studies, cultural studies, ecology, economics, geography, history, humanities, languages, management, political and social sciences…) and practitioners from diverse professional fields (business, civil society, education, enterprise, government, management, parliament, public policy, social and solidarity movements…), based in diverse geographical areas (Africa, North and South America, Australia, Asia, Europe, Pacific…). *SPECIAL SEANCES / ROUNDTABLES / WORKSHOPS *Special sessions/Roundtables/Workshops will be organised if there is enough number of proposals on the following topics: Asia-Africa Asia-Asia Asia-Eastern Europe Asia-Latin America Asia-Middle East-North Africa Asia-North America Asia-Pacific-Oceania Asia-Western Europe Asia-World System BRICS-World Order Culture-Literature -Religion-Spirituality Ecology-Architecture-Urbanism Gender-Women Issues Social and solidarity movements *De: *hans(a)schoolforwellbeing.org *À: *"Sudarshan" <sudarshan(a)undp.org> <sudarshan(a)undp.org>, "Sudarshan" <Ramaswamy.Sudarshan(a)undp.org> <Ramaswamy.Sudarshan(a)undp.org>, "Sombath Somphone" <ssombath(a)yahoo.com> <ssombath(a)yahoo.com>, "Nicanor Perlas" <npperlas(a)gmail.com> <npperlas(a)gmail.com>, "Michel Bauwens" <michelsub2004(a)gmail.com> <michelsub2004(a)gmail.com>, "Francois BAFOIL" <francois.bafoil(a)sciences-po.fr> <francois.bafoil(a)sciences-po.fr>, "Guo Peiyuan" <guopeiyuan(a)gmail.com> <guopeiyuan(a)gmail.com>, "Satish de Mel" <arthacharya(a)arthacharya.org> <arthacharya(a)arthacharya.org>, "Apichai Puntasen" <apichaipun(a)hotmail.com> <apichaipun(a)hotmail.com>, "Chea Vannath 2" <cheavannath(a)gmail.com> <cheavannath(a)gmail.com>, "Chea Vannath" <cheavannath(a)yahoo.com> <cheavannath(a)yahoo.com>, "Chalida Tajaroensuk" <Chalida.Empowerment(a)gmail.com> <Chalida.Empowerment(a)gmail.com>, "Darwis Khudhori" <emdeka(a)free.fr> <emdeka(a)free.fr>, "Takayoshi KUSAGO" <tkusago(a)gmail.com> <tkusago(a)gmail.com>, "Ong Kung Wai" <kungwai(a)tm.net.my> <kungwai(a)tm.net.my>, "Sharan Srinivas" <sharanster(a)gmail.com> <sharanster(a)gmail.com>, "Sotha Ros" <rossotha(a)yahoo.com> <rossotha(a)yahoo.com>, "Jarin Boonmathya" <jbthya(a)yahoo.com> <jbthya(a)yahoo.com>, "Istvan Rado" <irado(a)gmx.at> <irado(a)gmx.at>, "Silke Helfrich" <silke.helfrich(a)gmx.de> <silke.helfrich(a)gmx.de>, "Jost Pachaly" <director(a)th.boell.org> <director(a)th.boell.org>, "Wathana Onpanich" <wathana(a)jfbkk.or.th> <wathana(a)jfbkk.or.th>, dpongchai(a)hotmail.com, sopida(a)sti.or.th, "Leif Olsen" <leif_thomas_olsen(a)yahoo.com> <leif_thomas_olsen(a)yahoo.com>, "Rosana Tositrakul" <santiros05(a)gmail.com> <santiros05(a)gmail.com>, "Rosana Tositrakul" <santiros05(a)gmail.com> <santiros05(a)gmail.com>, "Prida Tiasuwan" <prida(a)pranda.co.th> <prida(a)pranda.co.th>, "Rebeca Leonard" <r.leonard(a)focusweb.org> <r.leonard(a)focusweb.org>, "Jacques-chai" <jacques-chai(a)focusweb.org> <jacques-chai(a)focusweb.org>, "Pun-Arj Chairatana" <pac(a)noviscape.com> <pac(a)noviscape.com>, "Supinya Klangnarong" <freebird3473(a)gmail.com> <freebird3473(a)gmail.com>, "Ajarn Sulak" <spd(a)semsikkha.org> <spd(a)semsikkha.org>, "Ajarn Surichai" <surichai1984(a)yahoo.com> <surichai1984(a)yahoo.com>, "Apichai Puntasen" <apichaipun(a)hotmail.com> <apichaipun(a)hotmail.com>, "Amara Pongsapich" <amara.p(a)chula.ac.th> <amara.p(a)chula.ac.th>, "teerana" <teerana(a)hotmail.com> <teerana(a)hotmail.com>, "Montawadee Krutmechai" <montawadee2009(a)gmail.com> <montawadee2009(a)gmail.com>, "David Crookall" <crookall.simulation(a)googlemail.com> <crookall.simulation(a)googlemail.com>, "Dasho Karma Ura" <dasho.k.ura(a)gmail.com> <dasho.k.ura(a)gmail.com>, "Sangay Thinley" <sthinley(a)gmail.com> <sthinley(a)gmail.com>, "Buddhina Nuntavorakarn" <n_fatcat(a)yahoo.com> <n_fatcat(a)yahoo.com>, "Duangjai Rungrojcharoenkit" <jaiko17(a)yahoo.com> <jaiko17(a)yahoo.com>, "hans@schoolforwellbeing. org" <hans(a)schoolforwellbeing.org> <hans(a)schoolforwellbeing.org> <hans(a)schoolforwellbeing.org>, "Khun Chitpong" <guopai(a)gmail.com> <guopai(a)gmail.com>, "Patcharee Chonmanat" <patcharee(a)schoolforwellbeing.org> <patcharee(a)schoolforwellbeing.org>, "Soraj Hongladarom" <s.hongladarom(a)gmail.com> <s.hongladarom(a)gmail.com>, "Supit Knoop" <supitknoop(a)gmail.com> <supitknoop(a)gmail.com>, "Surat Horachaikul" <surat247(a)hotmail.com> <surat247(a)hotmail.com>, "Thanapol Kheolamai" <thanapol(a)schoolforwellbeing.org> <thanapol(a)schoolforwellbeing.org>, "Wallapa" <wallapa.van(a)gmail.com> <wallapa.van(a)gmail.com> *Cc: *"Patcharee Chonmanat" <patcharee(a)schoolforwellbeing.org> <patcharee(a)schoolforwellbeing.org>, "Supit Knoop" <supitknoop(a)gmail.com> <supitknoop(a)gmail.com>, "Jost Wagner" <jw(a)change-initiative.com> <jw(a)change-initiative.com>, "Wallapa" <wallapa.van(a)gmail.com> <wallapa.van(a)gmail.com>, "Apple" <nm(a)change-initiative.com> <nm(a)change-initiative.com>, "Somboon Chungprampree" <c_somboon(a)hotmail.com> <c_somboon(a)hotmail.com>, "Fon" <ravipa.pco(a)gmail.com> <ravipa.pco(a)gmail.com>, "fonfah kanong" <fonfahkanong(a)gmail.com> <fonfahkanong(a)gmail.com>, "Thanapol Kheolamai" <thanapol(a)schoolforwellbeing.org> <thanapol(a)schoolforwellbeing.org>, "Thanutra Teerasuphaset" <thanutra.t(a)fccthai.com> <thanutra.t(a)fccthai.com>, "Woranut" <woranutc(a)yahoo.com> <woranutc(a)yahoo.com> *Envoyé: *Dimanche 28 Août 2011 15:31:51 *Objet: *School for Wellbeing Press Meeting FCCT Monday 29 August 19.30 Dear all resource persons and participants exchange platform Re-thinking Property, In the first place of course a very warm thank you to you all again for joining the exchange platform! It has been a moving experience. We made many new friends and renewed many of our friendships. And, it is not yet over.. Many of you will be back home or on your way, hopefully with good memories of our creative meeting. But if you are still in Bangkok, this is to remind you that we will meet to REACHING OUT: Monday 29 August at the Foreign Correspondents Club of Thailand (FCCT). The address is below and I am sure you all will be able to find it easily. The programme is as follows: · 18.30 Dinner (all are welcome) · 19.30 Introduction (conference video?) · 20.00-21.00 Panel discussion moderated by Surat Horachaikul o Panellists - Silke Helfrich – Commons Strategy Group - Takayoshi Kusago – Kansai University - Sharan Srinivas – Right Livelihood College - Hans van Willenswaard – School for Wellbeing (replacing Dasho Karma Ura) Attached is the written text of what is now ‘Action-Research Outline’ based on our discussion Friday evening 26 August at SASA (hopefully it will correctly contain all comments..). In case of emergency please call Wallapa 081-406 2260 and ask for Hans. Hope to see all of you (still) in Bangkok Monday 18.30, Hans and Wallapa Thanutra Teerasuphaset Manager Foreign Correspondents' Club of Thailand (FCCT) Penthouse, Maneeya Center Building 518/5, Ploenchit Road, Lumpini Pathumwan, Bangkok 10330 Tel: 02 652-0580-1 Fax: 02-652-0582 Email: thanutra.t(a)fccthai.com Website: www.fccthai.com Suan Nguen Mee Ma social enterprise Garden of Fruition Publishing house * Green shop, books, handicrafts, coffee * Green Market Network 77,79 Fuang Nakorn Road Opposite Wat Rajabopit Bangkok 10200 Thailand www.suan-spirit.com www.thaigreenmarket.com Secretariat School for Wellbeing Studies and Research www.schoolforwellbeing.org Tel. +66-(0)2-622 0955 Fax. +66-(0)2-622 3228 <https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campai…> Garanti sans virus. www.avast.com <https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campai…> <#m_1725517743282971792_DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2> -- 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: "LET’S TRAIN HUMANS FIRST….BEFORE WE TRAIN MACHINES"
by Michel Bauwens 01 Dec '18

01 Dec '18

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Hazel Henderson <hazel.henderson(a)ethicalmarkets.com> Date: Fri, Nov 30, 2018 at 9:40 PM Subject: "LET’S TRAIN HUMANS FIRST….BEFORE WE TRAIN MACHINES" To: Ethical Markets <gogreen(a)ethicalmarkets.com> Dear Esteemed global Advisory Board and Judges Panel, Please see the below article, recently published in SeekingAlpha <https://seekingalpha.com/instablog/244947-hazel-henderson/5242818-let-s-tra…> . Your feedback would be appreciated. Thank you, Hazel [image: Hazel Henderson] <https://seekingalpha.com/author/hazel-henderson/instablogs> Hazel Henderson's Blog <https://seekingalpha.com/author/hazel-henderson/instablogs> | Ethical Markets <http://www.ethicalmarkets.com> Please Note: Blog posts are not selected, edited or screened by Seeking Alpha editors. *"LET’S TRAIN HUMANS FIRST….BEFORE WE TRAIN MACHINES"* Nov. 30, 2018 3:19 PM ET Hazel Henderson© 2018 We humans are at the absurd stage in our technological evolution when we seem to have abandoned our common sense. Billions are spent by governments, corporations and investors in training computer-based algorithms (i.e. computer programs) in today’s mindless rush to create so-called "artificial" intelligence, widely advertised as AI. Meanwhile, training our children and their brains (already superior to computer algorithms) is under-funded, schools are dilapidated, sited in run-down, often polluted areas while our teachers are poorly paid and need greater respect. How did our national priorities get so skewed? In reality, there is nothing artificial about these algorithms or their intelligence, and the term "AI" is a mystification! The term that describes the reality is "Human-Trained Machine Learning", in today’s mad scramble to train these algorithms to mimic human intelligence and brain functioning. In the techie magazine WIRED, October 2018, we meet a pioneering computer scientist, Fei-Fei LI, testifying at a Congressional hearing, who underlines this truth. She said, "Humans train these algorithms" and she talked about the horrendous mistakes these machines make in mis-identifying people, using the term "bias in—bias out" updating the old computer saying, "garbage in—garbage out". Professor LI described how we are ceding our authority to these algorithms to judge who gets hired, who goes to jail, who gets a loan, a mortgage or good insurance rates --- and how these machines code our behavior, change our rules and our lives. She is now back at Stanford University after a time as an ethicist at Google and has started a foundation to promote the truth about AI, since she feels responsible for her role in inventing some of these algorithms herself. As a celebrated pioneer of this field, Professor LI says "There’s nothing artificial about AI. It’s inspired by people, it’s created by people and more importantly, it impacts people". So how did Silicon Valley invade our culture and worldwide technology programs with its short-term, money -obsessed values: "move fast and break things"; disrupt the current systems while rushing to scale and cash out with an IPO? These values are discussed by two insiders in shocking detail, by Antonio G. Martinez in "Chaos Monkeys" <http://www.ethicalmarkets.com/book-review-chaos-monkeys-and-the-nature-of-v…> (2016) and Bloomberg’s Emily Chang in "Brotopia" <https://smile.amazon.com/Brotopia-Breaking-Boys-Silicon-Valley/dp/073521353…> (2018). These authors explain a lot about how training these algorithms went so wrong: subconsciously mimicking their mostly male, misogynist, often white entrepreneurs and techies with their money-making monopolistic biases and often adolescent, libertarian fantasies. I also explored all this in my article "The Future of Democracy Challenged in the Digital Age" <http://www.ethicalmarkets.com/cadmus-the-future-of-democracy-challenged-in-…>, CADMUS, October 2018, describing all these issues of the takeover by AI of our economic sectors; from manufacturing, transport, education, retail, media, law, medicine, agriculture, to banking, insurance and finance. While many of these sectors have become more efficient and profitable for the shareholders, my conclusion in "The Idiocy of Things" <http://www.ethicalmarkets.com/the-idiocy-of-things-requires-an-information-…> critiqued the connecting of all appliances in so-called "smart homes" as quite hazardous and an invasion of privacy. I urged humans to take back control from the over-funded, over-invested, over-paid computer and information science sectors too often focused on corporate efficiency and cost-saving goals driven by the profit targets demanded by Wall Street. I have called for an extension of the English law, settled in the year 1215: "habeas corpus" affirming that humans own their own bodies. This extension would cover ownership of our brains and all our information we generate in an updated "information habeas corpus". Since May 2018, European law has ratified this with its General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which stipulates that individuals using social media platforms, or any other social system do indeed retain ownership of all their personal data. So, laws are beginning to catch up with the inhuman uses of human beings, with our hard-earned skills being used to train algorithms that then replace us! The computer algorithm trainers then employ out of-work people surviving in the gig economy on Mechanical Turk and Task Rabbit sites, in minimum, hourly- paid data entry tasks to train these algorithms! Scientist Jaron Lanier in his "Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Now" <http://www.ethicalmarkets.com/social-media-fangs-in-the-crosshairs-takeaway…> (2018) shows how social media are manipulating us with algorithms to engineer changes in our behavior, by engaging our attention with clickbait and content that arouses our emotions, fears and rage, playing on some of the divisions in our society to keep us on their sites. This helps drive ad sales and their gargantuan profits and rapid global growth. Time to rethink all this, beyond the dire alarms raised by Bill Gates, Elon Musk and the late Stephen Hawking that these algorithms we are teaching will soon take over and may harm or kill us as did HAL in the movie "2001". Why indeed are we spending all this money to train machines while short-changing our children, our teachers and schools? Training our children's brains must take priority! Instead of training machines to hijack our attention and sell our personal data to marketers for profit --- let's steer funds into tripling efforts to train and pay our teachers, upgrade schools and curricula with courses on civic responsibility, justice, community values, freedoms under habeas corpus (women also own their own bodies!) and how ethics and trust are the basis of all market and societies. Why all the expensive efforts to enhance machine learning to teach algorithms to recognize human faces, guide killer drones, falsify video images and further modify our behavior and capture our eyeballs with click bait, devising and spreading content that angers and outrages --- further dividing us and disrupting democracies? Let's rein in the Big Brother ambitions of the new techno-oligopolists. As a wise NASA scientist, following Norbert Weiner's Human Use of Human Beings (1950), reminded us in 1965 about the value of humans: "Man (SIC <https://seekingalpha.com/symbol/SIC>) is the lowest-cost, 150 pound, nonlinear all-purpose computer system which can be mass-produced by un-skilled labor", quoted in Foreign Affairs, July-August, 2015, p. 11. Time for common sense! -- 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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Call: Critical Digital and Social Media Research Conference
by Christian Fuchs 30 Nov '18

30 Nov '18

Critical Digital and Social Media Research Conference March 6-8, 2019 Umeå University Organised by DIGSUM (Centre for Digital Social Research) at Umeå University and the CAMRI (Communication and Media Research Institute), University of Westminster https://www.umu.se/en/events/critical-digital--social-media-research_731838… Keynote speakers: Mark Andrejevic, Christian Fuchs, Kylie Jarrett, Simon Lindgren, Evgeny Morozov, Tiziana Terranova This combined symposium and PhD workshop aims at showing that critical theories, critical methodologies and critical practices are cornerstones of digital and social media research and how they act as tools for questioning big data fetishism and the dominance of overly data-driven analytics. The event, aside from the keynotes, presents an opportunity for PhD students and postdocs to present a short paper and receive feedback from CAMRI and DIGSUM researchers, and prominent international participants. Applications to take part in the conference are accepted on a running basis starting November 29 2018, and the first 16 candidates to be accepted will have their participation (all travels and accommodation) fully funded by DIGSUM and CAMRI.

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Fwd: We need you double on Giving Tuesday! Mutual Aid for Social Justice
by Michel Bauwens 29 Nov '18

29 Nov '18

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Stephanie Rearick <steph(a)stephanierearick.com> Date: Tue, Nov 27, 2018 at 1:32 AM Subject: We need you double on Giving Tuesday! Mutual Aid for Social Justice To: Stephanie Rearick <steph(a)mutualaidnetwork.org> We need your support tomorrow. Tomorrow, November 27, is Giving Tuesday! For one day only, Facebook will match every dollar you give to our campaign. (read more about the campaign below) Our goal for tomorrow is to raise $10,000. If we achieve this, that would mean we are over halfway to our campaign goal of $50,000! You can help us reach our #GivingTuesday goal by donating through the Social Justice Center’s Facebook page. The #GivingTuesday fundraising post will be live tomorrow. I will also e-mail you the link where you can donate once it’s live. Every dollar you give tomorrow will go twice as far, so please donate whatever amount you can. As always, please share via Facebook and e-mail. If you were going to give, make tomorrow the day -- and double your impact! Thank you so much for your support, Stephanie — more details: Our vision for the SJC is to be a hub of Madison social justice organizing, collaboration and activism and tomorrow is your chance to help us make our vision a reality. We are halfway done with renovations that will transform our shared building on Willy Street but we need additional support to pay our construction bills and keep our space affordable for our member organizations. We started a massive crowdfunding campaign - so far we’ve raised over $6,000 of the $50,000 we need. But we still have a long way to go. Thanks for helping out! -- Stephanie Rearick steph(a)stephanierearick.com +1.608.443.8229 -- 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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