---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Örsan Şenalp <[email protected]> Date: Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 5:20 AM Subject: Re: [Networkedlabour] [P2P-F] Fwd: Free Libre Open Access working class self-learning To: Anna Harris <[email protected]> Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]
Hi Anna, thanks for the reply and feedback! It souds much better to me to be honest also to break with the mental-manual labour division which I see as the beginning of the wrong path we took as human civilisation, or forced to take. I do not the expertise at the moment to argue this with references to etnnogrpahic and antropologic sources, but it is kind of obvious that in case we do not manage this, we wil be reproducing today's and future's class divisions and struggles. I think and belive the method of self- and mutual-learning by exchange and by adding on top of what we each already know, and having a shared commons produced by those recognise each others as peers -class division reproduction free- like we do it on the e-lists and social networks. So can I please add this proposal to the draft list of offered courses,with your name as tutor? Meanwhile I just gave a concrete form to the overall project and submitted the below proposal to Coopfunding.net, a cooperative funding project developed by Catalan Integral Coperative. As you will see your course fits perfectly to the objective: "GNUnion aims at 1. Creating one big mesh network for the working people from the Global South and Global North by linking autonomous networks and communities of high-tech/knowledge, industrial and service workers; domestic, immigrant, rural, jobless and future workers; solidarity, activism and research networks; labour, environmental, social justice and information freedom activists, 2. Hyper-, and self-empowerment of the individual nodes and networks involved, 3. Emancipation of human labour, creativity and potential from current dominant system, based on waged slavery, by mesh networking existing and working alternatives and building new ones, 4. Combining labour, digital, creative and media activism to confront system with transnationally meshed, systemic and strategic mass actions, The network of the projects we design and develop focuses on self-organizing and connecting like-minded peers and their network bases to each other strategically and synergetically. To this end we build dynamic, free, libre, and open access spaces and tools through which our collective agendas, struggles, and energies can entangle with each other, and we can act upon them harmonically. Variety of projects listed below invites like minded peers to use the individual social and communicational power they have and collaborate around dynamic, creative and positive projects empowering them. By combining peer to peer social dynamics and technologies, and embedding them into our internal and external processes and relations we ultimately target global emancipation of labour and the commons from the capital, by empowering all the single nodes joining in collaborating creation of a commons humanity. Read the rest here: https://gnunion.wordpress.com/2015/01/14/gnuniting-for-the-commons-humanity/ " I would like to communicate details futher, may be on skype or somthing else, will email you to arrange a call! talk soon, Orsan On 13 January 2015 at 18:07, Anna Harris <[email protected]> wrote:
Hello Orsan and all,
I welcome this invitation to pool our resources, asking us to offer
whatever
we may have to contribute.
Transformative Circles
'What transforms a meeting into a circle is the willingness of people to shift from informal socializing or opinionated discussion into a receptive attitude of thoughtful speaking and deep listening. (Peerspirit.com)
'The main objective of collective thought is constructing. This meaning, two people with different ideas combining their energy in order to build something. Then, it is not about my idea or yours. It will be the two ideas together that produce a new outcome that we did not know about in the first place. This is why active listening in which we are not just preparing for our next intervention is so necessary. Collective thought is born once we understand that every opinion, ours and those different to ours, all of them, are needed in order to generate the idea of consensus; an idea which, after being indirectly constructed, will transform us.' (Sol text for assemblies)
For a few years now I have been participating in groups which provide a regular space for people to share what is going on for them in their lives, where they can express something about the challenges of their personal journey, in an atmosphere of acceptance, without judgement, approval or disapproval. This level of communication, which requires intention and presence, is rare in our society, and can bring enrichment to social relationships. It also offers valuable support for people who may be experiencing social pressures, unemployed, or stuck in a boring job which gives no satisfaction, feel hopeless or a failure, often signed off as sick with depression, leading to guilt and shame, or cut off, isolated, at home on their own, seeing everyone else portrayed in the media as leading successful lives. Being able to link these emotions with some understanding of how this capitalist system affects people's lives, what is happening economically, or politically, can enable people to realise they are not alone, that we share a common struggle. Sometimes through this deep listening, we tune in to something universal, some might call it collective consciousness, and our hearts feel nourished and refreshed.
My intention is to provide this facility free online on Skype, Fuze, or similar. I initiate the group but I am an equal participant, and share responsibility with the other participants. I am happy to provide more details.
This may be different from the sort of courses you are offering. I would welcome more discussion around the importance of including this in a full education.
Anna
On 10 Jan 2015, at 19:58, Orsan <[email protected]> wrote:
Things are getting more concrete in terms of the workers owned cooperative education design I have been working on. Will briefly introduce the below also to faricoop, and faircoop members. in order to both ask contributing design and content, but also and in case if they like to registering any courses, or what would they need to learn for in exchange faircoins or what ever they have to offer. Bob Haugen just kindly asked if the app they could help -app wise- in coordination of needs and offers, can be bartered, and I replied him below:
"The thick lines are as below, may help to visualize for you and Lynn:
We..
- offer several practice/skill sharing/exchange courses and several theory courses, of which were complete modules, as well as fixed tutors. - then like February will open registrations for the courses, that would start May first. Those courses with enough registration like 15-20 will be destined to take off. - when we talk to comrades potential tutors, and ask them suggest courses, we want to show them what we have in faircoop framework they could get in exchange. For instance I have free text-document digitalization service to offer, as well as they could chose to attend other free courses they might like, like coding.
Please Let me know in case you like to do something on coding, that would be great. Or any topic you might wish to. It does not have to be course series, can also be work shop, skill or ideas sharing, anything self-organised!"
Just wanted to say that I believe this barter aspect, coordinated with an help of app like Bob and Lynn have been developing can just be immediately implemented between all of us. And would be complementary to inner- and inter-cooperative economy using good cyrpto-currencies, like faircoin, or free sharing!
Ps. above is very much valid for all p2p and commons friends on this list as well. So please think what would you need to learn, and what would you like to teach, and let us know about it.
Best, Orsan
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