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Solid State, and Liquid Nets
by Kevin Carson 28 Feb '11

28 Feb '11

Sent to you by Kevin Carson via Google Reader: Solid State, and Liquid Nets via Andrew B. Watt's Blog by Andrew on 2/27/11 First watch this talk, And then this one. Go ahead. I’ll wait. Back? Feel like you wasted forty minutes of your life? OK, I’m sorry. Tell you what… you don’t need to read this entry of my blog. Then you won’t have wasted an hour. That should save you some time. But if you’re planning on sticking around, know that this is some of the problem I’m wrestling with. It may, in fact, be the problem that teachers all around the world are wrestling with. To sum it up as clearly as I can: How do we take solid-state schools — that is, institutions that are designed to do one thing according to a model with relatively little variability — and graft onto them these liquid networks, which are flexible, innovating, and constantly learning new skills and trading new ideas? I had dinner with a friend of mine last night, and we kept talking around the question. He’s a floral designer, an artist, an actor, a writer, a playwright, a director, and a sculptor, and he’s getting to be nationally known. So when he tells me that (for him) it was all about developing fluency with a set of tools, I tend to believe him. When I asked him to identify his four most important tools, he spoke of his knife, the bowls and urns and vases that contain his work, the flowers themselves, and glue. He said, “without wire, I’d need glue. With wire, I’d still need glue.” I know that working with cord and twine and rope, I gain fluency by learning new knots. The more knots I know, the more interesting and unusual things I do. Same with artists’ pens and paper — the more kinds I work with, the better I do as an artist. All through this vacation which ends tomorrow, I’ve been wondering about how to help my students develop their own liquid networks — systems of self-support and learning environments that help them find the information they want, instead of forcing specific information at them. I think it’s one of the major challenges of our time, and I wish I knew how to move the conversation forward. Filed under: Teaching Things you can do from here: - Subscribe to Andrew B. Watt's Blog using Google Reader - Get started using Google Reader to easily keep up with all your favorite sites

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Fwd: Journals : The Post-Capitalist Project
by Michel Bauwens 28 Feb '11

28 Feb '11

thanks Dante! ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Dante-Gabryell Monson <dante.monson(a)gmail.com> Date: Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 11:47 PM Subject: Journals : The Post-Capitalist Project To: Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004(a)gmail.com>, econowmix(a)googlegroups.com of potential interest as I see it within post-capitalist convergences, with potentially shared intentions, even though "semantically speaking", not sure if "we" / people interacting with p2pf necessarily define themselves or use the word "socialist" post-capitalism ? http://postcapitalistproject.org/about excerpt : * * *"The Post-Capitalist Project is a cooperative, nonsectarian venture of left journals, popular education centers, and electronic media. Our goal is to make easily available the wide range of new programs, experiments, and theories analyzing the transition beyond capitalism toward a socialist future, recognizing that “socialism” is a protean concept encompassing many different historical experiences and future possibilities."* -- 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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floss debate in venezuela?
by Michel Bauwens 28 Feb '11

28 Feb '11

http://softwarelivre.org/portal/governos/venezuela-software-libre-en-el-deb… Hi Franco, perhaps you or another spanish-language friend can report on this political debate about 'free software and revolution" ?, taking place in Venezuela? Michel -- 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: [fcforum] launching the declaration
by Michel Bauwens 28 Feb '11

28 Feb '11

thanks for helping spread the world about this new report regarding economic models for free culture and cultural commons: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Simona Levi <info(a)conservas.tk> Date: Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 8:11 PM Subject: [fcforum] launching the declaration To: fcforum(a)list.fcforum.net, Gwen Hinze <gwen(a)eff.org> Dear all, the site is ready for the launching from tonight, sunday 27 of february till tomorrow 28 (an of course after and forever :-)): http://fcforum.net/sustainable-models-for-creativity We have also uploaded pdfs versions so that we have dossier to show to institutions and politicians. Here a press release that you can of course adapt: http://fcforum.net/press-release Endorsments are growing already. Please invite friendly organization to endorse. Also send us the link where you'ill publish it so that we can add it to the press release notes. We have already those links that will be active from tonight: http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/fcforum-declaration-sustainable-models-for-cr… http://la-ex.net/modelos-sostenibles-creatividad Let's go for it!!!!!! Maximum noise everywhere ! :-) besos!! Simona ----- + info http://list.fcforum.net/wws/info/fcforum ------- -- 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: Ecovillages Video - "A New We"
by Michel Bauwens 28 Feb '11

28 Feb '11

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uk uncut and us mainstreet movements
by Michel Bauwens 28 Feb '11

28 Feb '11

http://www.truth-out.org/you-have-more-money-your-wallet-than-bank-america-… I wonder if someone could report on this new type of taxation movements that are emerging in the anglo-saxon world, first in the UK, now in the U.S.? Michel -- 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: Another Blogpost on ICC
by Michel Bauwens 28 Feb '11

28 Feb '11

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Silke Helfrich <Silke.Helfrich(a)gmx.de> Date: Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 12:43 AM Subject: Another Blogpost on ICC To: Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004(a)gmail.com> Cc: Heike Loeschmann <Loeschmann(a)boell.de> Michel, please add to the ICC Website! http://commonsblog.wordpress.com/2011/02/27/mit-big-society-haben-commons-n… Thank you! Silke -- 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: Primary Global Reserve Currency: the Con?
by Michel Bauwens 28 Feb '11

28 Feb '11

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Anthony Judge <anthony.judge(a)gmail.com> Date: Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 12:52 AM Subject: Primary Global Reserve Currency: the Con? To: Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004(a)gmail.com> Hi Michel Possibly of interest, my latest: Primary Global Reserve Currency: the Con? Cognitive implications of a prefix for sustainable confidelity http://www.laetusinpraesens.org/docs10s/conplay.php It has an annex which may also be of interest: Embodiment of Identity in Conscious Creativity Challenge of encompassing "con" http://www.laetusinpraesens.org/docs10s/conplayb.php Best Tony -- Anthony Judge <anthony.judge(a)gmail.com> www.laetusinpraesens.org -- 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: Article : You Have More Money in Your Wallet Than Bank of America Pays in Federal Taxes
by Michel Bauwens 28 Feb '11

28 Feb '11

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Dante-Gabryell Monson <dante.monson(a)gmail.com> Date: Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 5:20 AM Subject: Article : You Have More Money in Your Wallet Than Bank of America Pays in Federal Taxes To: econowmix(a)googlegroups.com, sustainable_solidarity(a)yahoogroups.com, hc_ecology(a)yahoogroups.com http://www.truth-out.org/you-have-more-money-your-wallet-than-bank-america-… Saturday 26 February 2011 by: Zaid Jilani | *ThinkProgress | News Analysis*<http://thinkprogress.org/2011/02/26/main-street-tax-cheats/> ** <http://thinkprogress.org/2011/02/26/main-street-tax-cheats/>excerpt : ... as politicians are asking ordinary Americans to sacrifice their education, their health, their labor rights, and their wellbeing to tackle budget deficits, some of the world’s richest multinational corporations are getting away with shirking their responsibility and paying nothing. ThinkProgress has assembled a short but far from comprehensive list of these tax dodgers — corporations which have rigged the tax system to their advantage so they can reap huge profits and avoid paying taxes: - *BANK OF AMERICA*: In 2009, Bank of America* didn’t pay a single penny in federal income taxes,* exploiting the tax code so as to avoid paying its fair share. “Oh, yeah, this happens all the time<http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2010/03/26/91119/bank-of-america-wells-fargo-mig…>,” said Robert Willens, a tax accounting expert interviewed by McClatchy. “If you go out and try to make money and you don’t do it, *why should the government pay you for your losses?*” asked Bob McIntyre of Citizens for Tax Justice. The same year, the mega-bank’s top executives received pay “ranging from $6 million to nearly $30 million.”<http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2010/02/27/1276388/bofa-exec-pay-remains-h…> - *BOEING:* Despite *receiving billions of dollars from the federal government every single year* in taxpayer subsidies from the U.S. government, Boeing didn’t “pay a dime<http://www.ctj.org/pdf/boeing0211.pdf>of U.S. federal corporate income taxes” between 2008 and 2010. -* CITIGROUP: *Citigroup’s deferred income taxes for the third quarter of 2010 amounted to a grand total of $0.00<http://www.wikinvest.com/stock/Citigroup_%28C%29/Data/Deferred_Income_Taxes…>. At the same time, Citigroup has continued to pay its staff lavishly. “John Havens, the head of Citigroup’s investment bank, is expected to be the bank’s highest paid executive for the second year in a row<http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/25/business/25citi.html> , *with a compensation package worth $9.5 million.”* - *EXXON-MOBIL:* The oil giant uses offshore subsidiaries<http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2010/04/06/exxon-zero-taxes/> in the Caribbean to avoid paying taxes in the United States. Although Exxon-Mobil paid $15 billion in taxes in 2009,* not a penny of those taxes went to the American Treasury.*This was the same year that the company overtook Wal-Mart<http://www.autoblog.com/2009/04/20/exxon-mobil-topples-wal-mart-to-sit-atop…> in the Fortune 500. Meanwhile the total compensation of Exxon-Mobil’s CEO the same year was over $29,000,000.<http://www.companypay.com/executive/compensation/exxon-mobil-corp.asp?yr=20…> - *GENERAL ELECTRIC: *In 2009, General Electric — the world’s largest corporation<http://www.richestpersons.net/top-10-biggest-companies-in-the-world/> — filed more than 7,000 tax returns and *still paid nothing to U.S. government. *They managed to do this by a tax code <http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2009/04/22/corporate-tax-offshore/>that essentially subsidizes companies for losing profits and allows them to set up tax havens overseas. That same year GE CEO Jeffery Immelt — who recently scored a spot <http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-01-21/obama-taps-ge-s-immelt-for-economy…>on a White House economic advisory board — “earned total compensation of $9.89 million.”<http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704869304575103960593817310.h…> In 2002, Immelt displayed his lack of economic patriotism, saying, “When I am talking to GE managers, I talk China, China, China, China, China<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suN-9FrBi7E>….I am a nut on China. Outsourcing from China is going to grow to 5 billion.” *- WELLS FARGO: *Despite being the fourth largest bank in the country<http://www.americanconsumernews.com/2010/03/no-taxes-for-bank-of-america-ny…>, Wells Fargo was* able to escape paying federal taxes* by writing all of its losses off after its acquisition of Wachovia. Yet in 2009 the *chief executive of Wells Fargo also saw his compensati**on “more than double” *as he earned “a salary of $5.6 million paid in cash <http://www.reuters.com/article/2010/03/03/us-wellsfargo-stumpf-idUSTRE6225P…>and stock and stock awards of more than $13 million.” -- 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: Matt Taibbi: "Why Isn’t Wall Street in Jail?"
by Michel Bauwens 27 Feb '11

27 Feb '11

well worth watching ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Dante-Gabryell Monson <dante.monson(a)gmail.com> Date: Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 7:07 AM Subject: Matt Taibbi: "Why Isn’t Wall Street in Jail?" To: econowmix(a)googlegroups.com http://www.democracynow.org/blog/2011/2/22/matt_taibbi_why_isnt_wall_street… -- 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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