[P2P-F] [NetworkedLabour] Fwd: [Squares] Street vendors' union members jailed

[Michel Bauwens]

definitely a non-faustian account:

https://roarmag.org/magazine/the-street-syndicate-re-organizing-informal-work/

On Mon, Aug 8, 2016 at 2:16 PM, peter waterman <peterwaterman1936 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I would like to hear a - preferably Non-Faustian - account of what the
> municipality and its mayor are doing to the harmless immigrant street
> traders, and how, if at all, the former are responding to the campaign in
> defence of the latter.
>
> Best,
>
> P
>
> On Mon, Aug 8, 2016 at 6:53 AM, Orsan <orsan1234 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Yes she is / was / or never was... Ada Colau, promoted as 15m / PAH
>> activist, a commoner. This smells like another proof for the Faustian
>> bargain we have been discussing here.
>>
>> The love of and will for power, or its strong transformative effect on
>> the weak human agency, who is more then ready to find all kinds of reasons
>> to justify why he or she must hold the power, first and foremost to use it
>> against the enemy and smash them, reminds me Tolkien's scene where Boromir
>> and Bilbo Baggins - in the lord of the rings - both were attacking on Frodo
>> Baggings (Jr.) while a silent scream inside of their head was calling
>> 'preciousss'... 'mineee / ours' (generates multiple character disorder).
>> Both wants to get back the ring, that rules them all.
>>
>> If we want to do any good to ourselves and our loved ones we need to get
>> rid of the ring, sending it back where it comes from..
>>
>> O.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Sent from my iPad
>> > On 7 aug. 2016, at 23:37, Bob Haugen <bob.haugen at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > I thought Barcelona was the city with the "radical mayor". What
>> happened?
>> >
>> >> On Sun, Aug 7, 2016 at 4:29 PM, Orsan <orsan1234 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Begin forwarded message:
>> >>
>> >> From: Mikifus <mikifus at gmail.com>
>> >> Date: 5 augustus 2016 22:41:43 CEST
>> >> To: squares <squares at lists.takethesquare.net>
>> >> Subject: [Squares] Street vendors' union members jailed
>> >> Reply-To: squares at lists.takethesquare.net
>> >>
>> >> Hi,
>> >>
>> >> You may have heard of the street vendors' union in Barcelona which
>> fights
>> >> for the rights of this collective. I am not completelly aware of the
>> context
>> >> but basically the city's most classist powers have come together and
>> are
>> >> succesfully bullying street vendors with the complicity of the city
>> hall.
>> >>
>> >> Now they went a step further and are jailing people without any real
>> >> charges. More details on the article.
>> >>
>> >> Please help us share this information to get signatures from
>> individuals and
>> >> organizations abroad.
>> >>
>> >> English article:
>> >> https://traslamanta.wordpress.com/2016/08/05/break-the-silen
>> ce-surrounding-injustice-freedom-for-the-barcelona-street-vendors/
>> >>
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