Re: [P2P-F] Fwd: [NetworkedLabour] Fwd: ZNet Commentary: Marina Sitrin: Bachilleratos Populares
Thanks a lot for this, Marina. An example of what sounds like truly a transformative learning model, where community problem-solving by that very community forms the core of both its curriculum and most importantly, its explicit value system -- true commitment to each other in that community. The most important commons educational premise of all. Also, interested to see the concept of Restorative Justice woven into it. Especially as this much older form of justice upends our power/punishment top-down systems for much healthier restoration of the broken relationships and empathetic learning of the harm done, to heal that harm to all involved for the entire community. Just attended a workshop of this very thing, Restorative Justice for Schools in Essex, so thrilled to see the concept spreading as it is so effective in redefining crime and punishment in terms of learning about harm done on humane, interpersonal realities rather than only economic-private property and hierarchal-authority terms. So really appreciated the piece Marina, June June Gorman, Educator and Educational Theorist Founder, Transformative Education Forumhttp://www.tef-global.org/ Learning Research Fellow, Schumacher Institute http://www.schumacherinstitute.org.uk Education Advisor, UN SafePlanet Campaign http://www.safepla.net/ Board Project Director for Outreach, International Model United Nations Associationhttp://imuna.org/ Steering Committee, (UNESCO/Global Compact) K-12 Sector for Sustainability Education http://www.uspartnership.org/main/view_archive/1 ) Member, UN Education Caucus for Sustainable Development Member UN, Commons Cluster From: Michel Bauwens mic...@p2pfoundation.net To: p2p-foundation p2p-foundation@lists.ourproject.org Sent: Friday, February 20, 2015 5:03 AM Subject: [P2P-F] Fwd: [NetworkedLabour] Fwd: ZNet Commentary: Marina Sitrin: Bachilleratos Populares -- Forwarded message -- From: ZCommunications michael.alb...@zmag.org Date: Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 9:43 AM Subject: ZNet Commentary: Marina Sitrin: Bachilleratos Populares To: pwate...@gmail.com Is this email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser. Marina Sitrin: Bachilleratos PopularesZ Communications Daily Commentary We arrived late to the graduation. The entire block was full and there wasn’t a free seat in sight. Hundreds of people filled the street. Some people came dressed from work, and others, who had loved ones graduating, were dressed in their best clothes, cameras ready. I had no idea it would be such an elegant event. Incongruously it was held in the street that the neighbors had shut down, with chairs lent from the recuperated factory hosting the event, neighbor’s homes, a retirement home across the street and wood benches constructed just for the event. The stage was a makeshift construction with a hand-held microphone from the 1980s. But the people, the people attending were so elegant. The women graduating looked like they were going to their proms or quince celebrations in elaborate dresses, hair and faces made up and high heeled shoes – although many were decades older than fifteen or prom age. The spirit, joy, and pride on their faces and those of their families and neighbors was palpable. It was contagious. The pride was for graduating high school: something many people in poor and low working-class neighborhoods in Argentina do not get to do. For me, the joy of course was sharing in their pride at graduating, but also in recognizing how ‘regular’ this sort of thing had become for the community. The graduation took place in the street in front of the recuperated print shop Chilavert where the students had completed their three years of study: a street that the workers and families had shut down because they needed to. It was all so normal – normal in the revolutionary sense that Che Guevara spoke of normal – remarking that when the extraordinary becomes everyday you know it is a revolutionary time. The above described celebration took place in 2009, marking the first graduation of a Bachillerato Popular in Chilavert, in Buenos Aires, Argentina. I was again in Chilavert, speaking with popular educators from the Bachillerato five years later. The evolution since that first graduating class is remarkable, both within Chilavert and throughout Argentina. Already impressive in 2009, after only three years with more than 40 popular education centers and over 5000 students, five years later, that number has more than doubled with over 100 bachilleratos and many thousands of students. When one thinks of alternative high school programs certain images often come to mind, such as a wide diversity of participants based in age and experience. And when one thinks of popular education, one imagines learning and teaching based in local knowledge bases of the participants. The bachilleratos reflect these elements, and so
Re: [P2P-F] Fwd: Food for an exhausted thought
Thank you Michel and thank you even more so, Claudio for the clear points below. As per earlier discussions on this listserve, it is indeed in building a new Rome that the only path to this healthier dream and more sustainable world (and why indeed should we accept its opposite dystopian vision as so easily humanity's deserved lot?), can be built together. But as a few of us have so clearly pointed out, Human Rights at the base of how we treat all on this planet, and thus points 19 and 20 -- are simply critical to any such hope of that transformed vision of what we do instead deserve of and for each other. It is the grounding of any viable path, with any truly different and far more hopeful destination at its end and in its process. Well and clearly, said. June From: Michel Bauwens mic...@p2pfoundation.net To: p2p-foundation p2p-foundation@lists.ourproject.org Sent: Monday, February 16, 2015 2:35 AM Subject: [P2P-F] Fwd: Food for an exhausted thought -- Forwarded message -- From: Claudio Schuftan cschuf...@phmovement.org Date: Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 9:14 AM Subject: Food for an exhausted thought To: yo schuf...@gmail.com Human Rights Reader 355 WE MAY BE MOVING TOWARDS A POST-NEOLIBERAL ERA, BUT MOVING AWAY FROM CAPITALISM WITH ITS MYRIAD HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS IS MUCH ANOTHER THING. 1. An era can be said to end when its basic aspirations and illusions are exhausted. (Arthur Miller) Take neoliberalism: Disenchantment with neoliberalism as an ideal has grown to a dangerous (or hopeful?) point.* (J.C. Juncker) *: I read somewhere that for people these days it is easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of Capitalism. (Albino Gomez) 2. Neoliberalism has not just been a set of bad attitudes. It has been the unrestrained exercise of corporate power with its human rights (HR) violations, taking advantage of the working class’s lethargy.** (W. Podmore) **: Capitalism does not only generate capital; it also creates a working class kept content with an unjust system they are made to believe to be natural. (N. Shepper) 3. You see? In our world, transnational corporations (TNCs) have rights backed by hard laws (treaties, free trade agreements, bilateral investment treaties…)*** and strong enforcement mechanisms; they can sue states even beyond national jurisdiction. But TNCs obligations are backed only by soft laws, codes of conduct and voluntary guidelines, deprived of any enforcement mechanism; the HR situation is no exception. Above all, it is weak and poor states that suffer most from this situation. Only powerful states are able to regulate and control the activities of TNCs and hold them responsible for the damage they do and the HR violations they perpetrate; butmost other states are not able to do so.(M. Khor) ***: For instance, the latest WTO Bali deal is ultimately ‘a battle between food for the poor and trade for the rich’. (R. Sengupta) 4. So, perhaps more than rhetorically, are we rushing forward to the past, to the times of Queen Victoria, when an obscure German philosopher and economist by the name of Karl Marx was working in the British Library in London on his denunciation of exploitation, and preparing his Communist Manifesto? (R. Savio) Neoliberalism is but a moment in the history of capitalism 5. Neoliberalism has done away with many State functions; it has not destroyed the State, but has put it at the service of the neoliberal project, the capitalist project. Capitalism has existed and exists as an economic, political, cultural and military hegemonic power. 6. How we relate to the essence of capitalism actually also leads to quite serious consequences for our environment. From a theoretical point of view, the reason is that the rate of reproduction of capital is very different from the rate of reproduction of nature and, as the injection of capital imposes its own rhythm, not surprisingly, it is destroying nature. : Who will forgive us if we let the planet die while we just bare witness? (J. Koenig) 7. For capitalism, nature is a source of 'natural resources', i.e., capitalism commoditizes the planet because, if natural resources are not dealt as commodities, they cannot contribute to making a profit and to the accumulation of capital. 8. This fact calls for a thorough revision of the capitalist model so as to serve particularly urgent ecological and social demands. Instead, the tinkering we have seen is short term, i.e., applying social policies largely of the welfare type, such as subsidies and other. This may (have) allow(ed) poor people to escape from misery, but not become the active social subjects they need to become --perhaps, at best, just the system’s customers. (F. Houtart) 9. In this, believing in a utopia is very necessary to aim at our human rights (HR) goal --not in the sense of an unreachable illusion, but in the sense of something that we do not have
Re: [P2P-F] message on my departure for 3.5 months of lecturing in europe
How Michel - Looking at this schedule below, it looks like you are not(?) going to be passing through London? I was asking b/c of that hoped for meeting that I consider so important in understanding people's true passions and drives and interests? :-) I do see the Irish Open Everything Conference and I did look closely at that, trying to discern if the key issues of excavating the dominant mode in all our teachings/learnings and social systems, especially in technologically advanced people and societies that the Matriarchal Studies discussion ellucidates directly on for me, is at all a part of this particular conference foci? I ask b/c I didn't really see it stand out and without it I find the default form of communication: who dominates it, who does the mansplaining to the rest, what subconscious pillars of patriarchy remain entrenched thus resulting in little new soil actually overturned -- on these key issues to me, at least, -- about the foundation of the entire system and why it developed the way it did? And thus why it might most likely, despite the other very important and critical fixes, perhaps not actually achieve the needed transformation of the base rational for that system? And its hierarchical re-organizing (despite change of personnel) pattern? I certainly and deeply believe that is true if one starts with the basis of that system in the very children we hope to raise to believe, value, see, and educate to create differently for a true Commons model to actually thrive for all. To resolve the so common inter-group conflict and emotional warfare that I have seen derail most, if not all the great ideas, that do come from those groups great at the intellectual understanding, but dismal at the more powerful drivers of emotional/subconscious realities that nonetheless predominate in us all. At any rate, was curious b/c that is the discussion I find rarest attempted in these groups but am certain, it the discussion that has to be also had. :-) Just wondered about your thoughts on that? Very best, June From: Michel Bauwens mic...@p2pfoundation.net To: p2p-foundation p2p-foundation@lists.ourproject.org Sent: Sunday, August 24, 2014 8:12 PM Subject: [P2P-F] message on my departure for 3.5 months of lecturing in europe Dear friends, Before I get 3 hours of sleep, an announcement. I am off for 3.5 months of intensive lecturing and touring in Europe, to compensate for my long absense this year, due to my engagement in Ecuador . This trip will bring me, more or less 10 days in Germany: open coop workshop, movement-commons convergence workshop, degrowth (2-6/9), lecture in berlin 8/9 5 days in cloughjordan, Ireland for open everything 10-14/9 7 days in paris: Sept 16 to 23 short stint belgium / amsterdam India / Bangalore 28/9 - oct 2 Marseille, what the flok, oct 3-6 Belgium 7 to 17/10 Milan - Lille - Graz oct 23-27 Greece nov 6 to 15 .. of course, not the complete list .. SEE YOU THERE ? -- Check out the Commons Transition Plan here at: http://en.wiki.floksociety.org/w/Research_Plan P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net Updates: http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/ ___ P2P Foundation - Mailing list http://www.p2pfoundation.net https://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation___ P2P Foundation - Mailing list http://www.p2pfoundation.net https://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation
Re: [P2P-F] Fwd: P2P-Foundation Digest, Vol 44, Issue 43
Yay! An actual case history in matriarchal studies, a potential transformative node of learning if one wanted to see it that way? And in attempting to sincerely see it in that more potentialized way: Sometimes historic ignorance of all the particulars is not always a terrible place to come from in weighing in on a long and detailed dispute, despite one's wariness and admitted lack of facts. But isn't that the kind of history and repeated breakdowns in communication that most dissension and grudges and conflicts really come from, in most, though not all, cases of conflict? It seems to me that is an important area to be prepared to look at and resolve in a Commons forum a la Denis and Anna's comments. In particular I find the communication of the internet, even in mostly erudite and reasoned forums such as this one, consistently reflects a much greater tendency towards this very kind of polarized mis-communication versus interpersonal face-to-face communication, even when it too is also already polarized and therefore fraught with potholes of derailed communication. (Usually time for a good mediator at that point :-). So I truly do see Michel's points and frustration, think it has real history and actual perceived hurts and damages he might feel remain unaddressed sufficiently by Willi. And Willi, clearly some of what you say, the way you say it, definitely appears to be meant in provocation. From a completely out-of-the-loop and again, ahistorical perspective it was my impression that you comments on David Bollier, who again I claim complete ignorance about but don't feel in this case I need that knowledge to ascertain this, were just unnecessarily provocative. To me, and remember I tend to come from this realm of managing large groups of younger people and their sometimes more evidently honest emotional needs, it did seem a cry for attention. If so, it got it but I can't imagine in the way you actually most wanted it? Because of my lack of knowledge of the true facts and history, despite all the words that have gone by on this topic on this forum, I am willing to defer to Michel's call on his own needs for maintaining a list (as he clearly is one of the ones who invests most in its maintenance), that he feels is personally comfortable and respectful of himself and others. But wouldn't this very issue, again a la the matriarchal studies conversation that does in fact address this very concept of diversity and communication and frames of true understanding of the underlying needs attempting to be heard in that communication, potentially exist at the very core of how the Commons must learn to resolve such issues and disputes? We certainly know they have to happen, will naturally continue to happen, are constantly happening in all such attempts to bridge different worlds, viewpoints, ways of seeing and communicating of which the Commons is necessarily based upon? Or truly how is that vision of the Commons going to end up any differently under what we already see as dominant forms of control and accepted communication? It's true, not all such disputes are always resolvable. But it is also true that since they will indeed be a critical part of opening the conversation of what makes a Commons more common to all despite the limits of its dominating forms of communication now used by everyone by default on the internet because of its initiators and strongest proponents -- developed-world educated English as the primary language, and left-brain rational as the primary mode of valued communication often ignoring emotional discriminatory or devaluing undertones that are still felt and heard by those sensitive to them -- that we have to remain blind and resigned to accepting those very limitations in that communication? I honestly think that will never ultimately work in creating that wider, broader more inclusive Commons discussion. Thus, as most usually my stance, I think there is real learning to be done here and it is the learning most necessary to truly form these needed bridges across diverse communications. I also grant how sincerely frustrating it can be to open these issues up to a totally foreign, and currently very dominant-discourse-demeaned potentially more irrational way to have these discussions, again preferably interpersonally initially, in order to get to true hurts and even true feelings about those trespasses. Because I honestly and deeply believe without seeing this and subsequently trying that communication with this more difficult and even uncomfortably awkward new perspective in mind and heart, which ie forms the core of the message of matriarchal studies, we will continue to narrow our communication to that which most constricts the resolution of these very natural and consistently re-occuring conflicts in any attempt at any viable, sustainable and even ultimately enjoyable, true Commons. Is that possible?
Re: [P2P-F] Fwd: Matriarchal Studies
Dear Anna and Denis (and anyone else interested) - I would really enjoy further discussion on these essential issues I think, at the root of any vision for a more commons based, healthy humanity focused world. I do think that these issues from childhood and learned structures of social vs. autonomous structures or as Denis suggests, that political relationships evolve in the direction of mirroring how power is experienced via childcare are too critical to remain unexplored or unexamined, as they consistently show up in all our communication and work together, particularly across the needed diversity in communication and understanding essential, imho, to getting to truly viable solutions. This has been the critical focus of my own work in Transformative Education and the organization I started to examine these core issues, at least in educational models -- the Transformative Education Forum (TEF-Global.org - new website) and its recent work on a potential TEF-Bristol, to be held in conjunction with the Bristol European Green Capital 2015 campaign. So would love to follow up with you both, perhaps in September when you are back Denis and with you Anna on skype, as you suggest. And again, with anyone else interested in these issues, nearby or far? What I am personally certain of is that we are not the only ones aware of how critical this learning of internalized power structures and sense of personal efficacy or not, is constructed in childhood. I believe that many corporate and deeply patriarchal/hierarchical based ideologies have also seen fit to enter and control earlier childhood educational systems that had before been left more primarily to women as unvalued women's work extensions of child rearing. My work has shown me how very consciously and ultimately destructively this started in the US in the mid-1970's and is now being exported to educational systems around the world. It is why even now in the UK, No Child Left Behind (even under the same name!), increased standardized testing and the corporate-backed push for more use of instructional technology -- a playbook drawn up by the same corporate-patriarchal control now dominant in the US educational system -- have become the newest innovations pushed by the current UK administration. And in other places (e.g. Africa), particularly the replacement of indigenous teachers by computers, argued for by economic expediency. (It is not obviously, that the technology cannot be a helpful tool educationally, but I believe it is critical to understand how that depends upon who controls it and for what ends and what indigenous and more human-oriented learning it is indeed used to replace?) At any rate, would very much enjoy further discussion on these critical issues and will be in touch with you both and anyone else who would like to join us in that discussion. From: Anna a...@shsh.co.uk To: de...@postle.net de...@postle.net; P2P Foundation mailing list p2p-foundation@lists.ourproject.org Cc: June Gorman june_gor...@sbcglobal.net; de...@postle.net de...@postle.net; p2p-foundation@lists.ourproject.org p2p-foundation@lists.ourproject.org Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2014 8:42 AM Subject: Re: [P2P-F] Fwd: Matriarchal Studies Hi June and Denis, Unfortunately I am in West Yorkshire, not in London, but I would be interested to join your discussion. By Skype? I also believe that child rearing practices form a foundation of later values. Many political radicals ignore this aspect of their own behaviour with regard to their own families, perhaps as a result of their own experience as a child. Anna On 20 Aug 2014, at 07:16, Denis Postle d.pos...@btinternet.com wrote: On 19/08/2014 17:09, June Gorman wrote: I understand that internal need created by the initial innocence fracture, taught in sexist, racist. classist societies that want to maintain that inequitable status quo, but I don't think we can continue to suggest we can truly get anywhere different if we don't start acknowledging and addressing it, in all of us who came from those kinds of societies. It is therefore, and unfortunately because truly difficult work, not at all peripheral to these essential questions of sustainability and healthiness of humanity and the planet, but the core issues to address in truly getting to anywhere socially, economically and emotionally different. Yes indeed. I have been baffled for some time about how to introduce these concerns and what has been learned, however as you say this is 'tough stuff'. Maybe some kind of face to face inquiry node on these topics alongside the list would be valuable. And if we are both in London (and anyone else, I am also based in Brussels) we could perhaps see if that idea had legs. I'll send my contact details off-line. A last thought that might nourish anyone looking in, or draw acute scepticism! Few people
Re: [P2P-F] Fwd: Matriarchal Studies
I am in agreement with you, Denis, that there is a deep silence that shrouds this critical discussion of how people seem to act in consort with their proclaimed cognitively-argued values but often in clear, at least to others, discordant ways that suggest unearthed and unself-examined emotional confusion about earlier learned ways of seeing and being? This is the tough stuff for each of us and I wish that in all my experience it didn't end up being the most critical part of the communication breakdowns that consistently derail great commons thinking with potential great ideas and projects, but in actual practice is what often happens most. I'm amazed and disheartened by the clear integrity breaks that manifest from this discordance, often resulting in the communication breakdowns that derail our getting through these issues to the other side, in any healthy and sustaining way. In reference to Anna's response to Willi's claim that the necessary independence in the local economy trumps these discussions, I am much more aligned with Anna that without this work of imagining all of the underlying obstructions to this more equitable and even more loving world, you probably as a commons, will likely never get there. We have seen this countless times in countless revolutions, where the bullies still triumphed by being bullies, even if under differently envisioned cognitive ideals. The ideals didn't ultimately matter, the emotional coherence with those ideals and dealing with others with that coherence, did. That's an emotional reality. It is taught by societies' inequities and cruelties while young I would argue, in order to counter the more innate drive for fairness and equality that I have found unerringly in all the thousands of very young children I have met and taught. It services the rationalisation of our own privilege, to allow it to continue in one form or another, without deep examination about that rationalisation. I understand that internal need created by the initial innocence fracture, taught in sexist, racist. classist societies that want to maintain that inequitable status quo, but I don't think we can continue to suggest we can truly get anywhere different if we don't start acknowledging and addressing it, in all of us who came from those kinds of societies. It is therefore, and unfortunately because truly difficult work, not at all peripheral to these essential questions of sustainability and healthiness of humanity and the planet, but the core issues to address in truly getting to anywhere socially, economically and emotionally different. But admittedly, some of the hardest work to do:-) Denis, you are apparently in West London? Let's meet sometime and talk more about this and your psycommons work? June From: Denis Postle d.pos...@btinternet.com To: p2p-foundation@lists.ourproject.org Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2014 5:38 AM Subject: Re: [P2P-F] Fwd: Matriarchal Studies On 16/08/2014 18:22, June Gorman wrote: the key -- and I have found this to be the hardest for those trained well in cognitive displacement of inner heart knowing -- is to actually understand this emotionally, not just cognitively. That's when actual human relationships are transformed, when we forge the paths of learning from each other that do not deny our different ways of understanding, but actually balances them so we can hear the gifts offered by that very difference. Over cultures and histories, as well as genders. Anyway, critical to deconstruct as it so often is the underlying root of much of the dissension and will to power over others that is taught at the root of patriarchy but not, as this piece suggests and all my historical work has found as well, at the power with one another model at the ground of matriarchy. The key is to teach that at the level it is most understood, the level of the emotional heart, critical to any successful parenting of any human life and ultimately the planet that supports that and all life.Hi June, this is a very welcome statement for the list. If I was to coin a bit of a provocation based on it - the extent to which the cognitive and action aspects of our lives are driven/shaped by our imaginal and embodied emotional agendas do seem to me to generally remain out of reach in the conversations here. But then as I well understand, this is partly due to the professional capture and sequestration of psychological knowledge by pharma and medicine. We embrace physical fitness but psy fitness still seems trapped behind the 'mental illness' fiction and off the activist and academic life agendas. For some constructive examples of how this stranglehold on psy fitness can be contradicted, listers might like to see my FREE ebook library, especiallyJohn Heron: Psyche and Personhood and the two videos about the psyCommons on http
Re: [P2P-F] Fwd: Matriarchal Studies
Thank you SO much for this Michel and especially Dante, who found this and shared this piece! As I truly believe this is an essential and critical discussion for any true transformation of a so deeply and aggressively imbalanced patriarchal society and world, and that the necessary emotional intelligence critical to getting back to any true balance or human and planet sustainability, has been broken and deeply damaged by that very left-brain, overly rationalized focus that obscures these issues. And is so deeply reinforced by our educational system, which deepens this very imbalance. It's just a great piece, Dante but the key -- and I have found this to be the hardest for those trained well in cognitive displacement of inner heart knowing -- is to actually understand this emotionally, not just cognitively. That's when actual human relationships are transformed, when we forge the paths of learning from each other that do not deny our different ways of understanding, but actually balances them so we can hear the gifts offered by that very difference. Over cultures and histories, as well as genders. Anyway, critical to deconstruct as it so often is the underlying root of much of the dissension and will to power over others that is taught at the root of patriarchy but not, as this piece suggests and all my historical work has found as well, at the power with one another model at the ground of matriarchy. The key is to teach that at the level it is most understood, the level of the emotional heart, critical to any successful parenting of any human life and ultimately the planet that supports that and all life. Just, Thank you! Warmly, June June Gorman, Educator and Educational Theorist Co-founder, Transformative Education Forumhttp://www.tef-global.org/ Education Advisor, UN SafePlanet Campaign http://www.safepla.net/ Board Project Director for Outreach, International Model United Nations Associationhttp://imuna.org/ Steering Committee, (UNESCO/Global Compact) K-12 Sector for Sustainability Education http://www.uspartnership.org/main/view_archive/1 ) Member, UN Education Caucus for Sustainable Development Member, UN Commons Cluster From: Michel Bauwens mic...@p2pfoundation.net To: p2p-foundation p2p-foundation@lists.ourproject.org Sent: Saturday, August 16, 2014 4:49 PM Subject: [P2P-F] Fwd: Matriarchal Studies -- Forwarded message -- From: Dante-Gabryell Monson dante.mon...@gmail.com Date: Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 5:54 PM Subject: Matriarchal Studies To: Michel Bauwens michelsub2...@gmail.com http://www.hagia.de/en/matriarchy.html http://www.hagia.de/en/matriarchy/matriarchal-studies.html Matriarchy Matriarchies are not just a reversal of patriarchy, with women ruling over men – as the usual misinterpretation would have it. Matriarchies are mother-centered societies, they are based on maternal values: care-taking, nurturing, motherliness, which holds for everybody: for mothers and those who are not mothers, for women and men alike. Matriarchal societies are consciously built upon these maternal values and motherly work, and this is why they are much more realistic than patriarchies. They are, on principle, need-oriented. Their precepts aim to meet everyone’s needs with the greatest benefit. So, in matriarchies, mothering – which originates as a biological fact – is transformed into a cultural model. This model is much more appropriate to the human condition than the way patriarchies conceptualise motherhood and use it to make women, and especially mothers, into slaves. The deep structure of “matriarchal society” (a structural definition): With matriarchal cultures, equality means more than just a levelling of differences. Natural differences between the genders and the generations are respected and honoured, but they never serve to create hierarchies, as is common in patriarchy. The different genders and generations have their own dignity, and through complementary areas of activity, they function in concert one other. More precisely, matriarchies are societies with complementary equality, where great care is taken to provide a balance. This applies to the balance between genders, among generations, and between humans and nature. Maternal values as ethical principles pervade all areas of a matriarchal society. It creates an attitude of care-taking, nurturing, and peacemaking. This can be observed on all levels of society: the economic level, the social level, the political level and the areas of their worldviews and faiths. At the social level, matriarchal societies are based on the clan, and on the “symbolic order of the mother”. This also means maternal values as spiritual principles, one that humans take from nature. Mother Nature cares for all beings, however different they may be. The same applies to motherliness: a good mother cares for all her children, embracing
Re: [P2P-F] Fwd: Matriarchal Studies
Dante - Forgive the pun, but on this economic point I believe you are right on the money! For in this the patriarchal mindset has trumped, and the definition of all worthwhile value reduced completely down to that which makes certain people -- all of which, not coincidentally, tend to be the most patriarchal in their beliefs and emotional modus operandi -- the leaders of this increasingly unfair, unequal and unsustainable, breaking-apart world. Yet, we call them wealthy, often intelligent and treat them like kings and accept their system, even when spiritual, moral and even environmental bankruptcy are the obvious and only predictable ends. It is, after the physical aggression and violence used more historically and currently in still less developed places, the most sophisticated of all their control mechanisms as so many, (as you explain in your resultant alienation from this economic system), have bought into it, telling themselves there is no other way. At least the physical control and subsequent felt resistance was more honest and did not create our own participation in our own subjugation: this subsequent emotional as well as physical slavery. I still believe there is another way to fight these dominating pathologies by learning the language to expose them -- intellectually and philosophically, yes -- but more importantly, excavate them emotionally where this learning (like all social learning) is most deeply imprinted on our own sense of self. This, I have found, is the most important and most difficult work to do -- on ourselves first, and then on our societal systems. But much, much easier to do when done together, accepting and admitting to the hard work of that emotional re-learning and what level of vulnerability and care it demands in order to do well. Especially as it is completely deemed foreign and denigrated by all that is most valued as strength and dominance of the patriarchal models so deeply enforced. That is where community is most essential, and lived interactive presence in community the true test of these excavated truths. Emotional honesty and emotional intelligence then become critical pre-requisites to do this work. So I deeply support your trying to do it, Dante-Gabryell and helping all of us too, over this still rather cold distance of internet words that miss the deepest, most important heart-to-heart communication that is its true countervailing form to heal that very taught cold distance and created alienation. In this I have found, the cognitive words mean very little compared to the actions in our lives and our greater world and with each other. So I do truly appreciate that and what you are trying to do here, June And do you ever get to London? I still believe the most powerful conversations of learning this very thing are indeed inter-personal. By very definition, that have to be done that way to be heard truly and coherently. :-) From: Dante-Gabryell Monson dante.mon...@gmail.com To: June Gorman june_gor...@sbcglobal.net; P2P Foundation mailing list p2p-foundation@lists.ourproject.org; econow...@googlegroups.com econow...@googlegroups.com; op-...@googlegroups.com op-...@googlegroups.com Cc: leonard ferrari leonard_ferr...@yahoo.com; Tom Henfrey t...@schumacherinstitute.org.uk; Lisa Maroski lisa.maro...@mindspring.com Sent: Saturday, August 16, 2014 8:08 PM Subject: Re: [P2P-F] Fwd: Matriarchal Studies Thanks June for reacting. I personally find it very challenging, in societies in which I lived and grew up in, ruled by increasing monetization ( top down hierachical debt ), to live an approach based on sharing and contributing to a commons which includes matriarchal / nurturing patterns. My own experience, is that monetization is so strongly imposed ( maintaining control ) for the access to any resource, including water ( and soon perhaps air ? ) , and the fear of lack of money so strong, that me, and other friends who want to live in such way, seem to most often end up rather marginalized from society, when intentionally deciding to reduce involvement in the priorities of such ideological system empowered through servicing of debt / the debt peonage. I personally look forward to reduce such debt peonage. Mere survival, in western europe ( that is, access to a one room flat, and not particularly high quality food ), easily costs 1000 euros a month. Most of this money goes straight as a tax to service debt , profits and interests. Strategies can be developed to reduce such costs, while increasing autonomy. I believe a number of us revolving around p2pfoundation may be interested in such strategies , and the opening up and sharing of knowledge that can empower it. /// Various other concepts may be overlapping : certain forms of nomadism , festivalism ( http://p2pfoundation.net/Festivalism ) , ... Finding ways to use the overproduction of our
Re: [P2P-F] Do we know about Linked Data ? Are we interested is understanding its potentials ? Quick survey - Thanks !
Dante - I'm going to answer this groupwide b/c this, and related technology issues, touch on a very tricky area for me in true sustainability education, working globally on these very ideas over the past several years. To put it simply, I have been hearing about the possibilities and world-changing hopes for the web and internet and connecting across it since being at Berkeley in the late 70's, with some of the first computer-techies filled with sincere, truly revolutionary fervor. And in so many ways, the information-connecting part of their vision, came true. Globally. At the same time, I would and have argued often that it is not only this very imbalanced focus on science and technology, but also the way it is learned and taught and spread, that has help to lead us to the very in-human, technologically advanced cliff of un-sustainability we are about to go over. Even more concerning for me as a teacher, is seeing a developing form of metaphoric autism in its strongest proponents and users, and now the children. In my experience, this is very related to this technology in that it not only seems to dramatically reduce the skill sets of harder, more complex interpersonal communication needed across diversity, diverse cultures and nations more than ever in true shared problem-solving, but also dangerously effects these abilities for interpersonal communication (emotional and social intelligences) in children to whom it is being introduced to as the dominant education model over the older more human teacher-paradigm. This is happening worldwide, pushed by a corporate and even for-profit educational industry with very specific education agendas that this technology, taught in these ways, support and on behalf of cutting educational costs. There are real and significant resulting social costs, especially for communities and the concept of the shared Commons. My entire forthcoming book on education tries to explain this. At the same time, who can not see the possibilities in terms of learning with the massive information-processing applications of these technologies? But it is not actually the area that I see of growing wariness with their increased use -- the concern and observation of actual destruction and loss of more empathetic, emotional/social interpersonal skills and community-communication dynamics (again, especially in children before the age of 10/11 years) which is my far greater educational fear. So I am not quite the cheerleader I might be if I hadn't seen this increasingly destructive result on other kinds of learning more critical to me, than just massive information processing. And I have found few who do see the beauty, possibility and potential of these technologies that either fully understand or address this other, more critical potentially damaging human relationship learned result. As a teacher watching it happen with children over the last 30 - 35 years, (plenty of data/research on this especially with young and adolescent boys who spent the most time online/gaming (http://www.ted.com/talks/zimchallenge.html)), I have never seen this adequately addressed? The TEF has tried to do so, directly in this Transformative Education Principle: TEF Principle 11: Use of Technology for Greater Connection not Alienation Transformative education should utilize technology in a manner that does not impede but enhances the education of children and enables Transformative Education, that cannot be delivered in any other manner. This is reiterated in the TEF Principles by the questions and concerns TEF raises about the dominating STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) education focus so heavily promoted in the US over the last couple of decades, and now being exported globally by the US corporate-education sector, the World Bank and the Brookings Institute. Short answer then: I aminterested about learning more about linked-date myself, again can see its possibilities. But not over other far more needed understanding or as a time/money/resource preference of connectivity, skilled communication and necessary linking in human to human relationships themselves. I have found these are the far more important issues to understand and resolve, especially in education. As I have seen it's lack all over, as a primary negative effect of not having these skill sets of connectivity and communication understood and developed first. Hope that answers your question, even if somewhat ambiguously? :-) Best, June June Gorman, Educator and Educational Theorist Co-founder, Transformative Education Forum (website in transition) Education Advisor, UN SafePlanet Campaign Board Project Director for Outreach, International Model United Nations Association Steering Committee, (UNESCO/Global Compact) K-12 Sector for Sustainability Education Member, UN Education Caucus for Sustainable Development Member, UN Commons Cluster
Re: [P2P-F] Fwd: Nestlé's evil plan
I am so glad that someone else caught this and is acting on it. I myself saw the video and was astonished at how easily the human mind justifies commoditizing everything, even basic living necessities and resources (most people die without water in 3 days!) and basic human rights to essential human needs -- as just another thing to make a profit on, and only thus available to humans who can pay! But again, understanding this process and how it is cultivated in the human mind disconnected from the human heart -- ie this is a cheerful, happy-seeming man who truly doesn't understand what people are complaining about? -- is my biggest interest in order to transform that result. His life is good and I honestly think he no longer knows how to see and certainly feel anything else that might be true for the great majority of others. Not understanding how we create and educate for this very empathy-disconnect, is to not truly understanding how to change it at its roots, imho and the key idea to deconstruct and re-educate in any path of education to again, transform that result. At any rate, once I saw the video I am immediately reactivated my own boycott of anything Nestle despite being a chocolate lover and support all you are doing, Team SumofUs! I'll spread the word, June June Gorman, Educator and Educational Theorist Co-founder, Transformative Education Forum (website in transition) Education Advisor, UN SafePlanet Campaign Board Project Director for Outreach, International Model United Nations Association Steering Committee, (UNESCO/Global Compact) K-12 Sector for Sustainability Education Member, UN Education Caucus for Sustainable Development Member, UN Commons Cluster From: Michel Bauwens mic...@p2pfoundation.net To: p2p-foundation p2p-foundation@lists.ourproject.org Sent: Sunday, December 1, 2013 5:57 PM Subject: [P2P-F] Fwd: Nestlé's evil plan -- Forwarded message -- From: Francois Houtart hout...@hotmail.com Date: Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 8:41 PM Subject: RE: Nestlé's evil plan To: Michel Bauwens mic...@p2pfoundation.net Un autre réseau. FH François Houtart Email:hout...@hotmail.com Fundación Pueblo Indio del Ecuador Calle Ruiz de Castilla N. 26-92 Quito ECUADOR Tel. (593) 32.12.100 (593) 09.69.55.06.40 Rue Kelle, 192/6 B-1150 BruxellesTel. (32) 476.31.50.53 Subject: Nestlé's evil plan From: u...@sumofus.org To: hout...@hotmail.com Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2013 16:48:20 + François, Nestlé's chairman has been caught on camera saying that water isn't a human right, calling this view extreme. Instead, he wants water sold on the open market like anything else, for those who can afford to buy it -- and his company is working harder than ever to make sure it happens. Its business model is clear: privatize and commodify our public resources -- under the leadership of a man who says a CEO's biggest social responsibility is to ensure corporate profits. From Pakistan to Canada, Nestlé is busy draining millions of liters of our fresh water -- often without paying a cent! -- in order to sell back to the public at record prices. Here's the thing: ifwe don't stand up to Nestlé, no one will. The world's largest food company already has governments and regulators in its back pocket, and has cowed others with its aggressive PR campaigns. They have billions in corporate profits and influence. But we are two million people strong, and we have the public on our side. And when people stand together, we can win. In Canada, an ambitious lawsuit stopped Nestlé from extracting millions more liters liters of fresh water during a drought. And in Pakistan, Nestlé was even sponsoring fake 'public health seminars' to tell people that non-bottled water was dangerous, until public outrage forced them to stop. Can you commit to stand up to Nestlé, and pledge just $1 now to stop Nestlé's plan to commodify nature for profit? Together, we're powerful. We've already shown that we can win, but the truth is we need to do much more if we're to seriously challenge the agenda of Nestlé and its corporate friends. Here's some of the things our community could do together -- if we all chip in: * Fight lawsuits against Nestlé and win -- just like the case run by the Council of Canadians and others that prevented Nestlé from taking even more water to bottle during drought conditions; * Hold rallies outside key Nestlé events to make sure that the most powerful executives and shareholders know that we’re watching them -- just like we've already done against Bayer in our campaign to save the bees; * Purchase advertisements that target key Nestlé customers to ask them to stop stocking Nestlé products -- we know the US State Department heard us loud and clear when we spoke out against KXL using this tactic; * Act quickly to build media interest when further
Re: [P2P-F] Fwd: Wired : learner centered movement
I grant your point, Anna and am far more aligned with it than not. That is why the 12th Principle of the TEF is my favorite: Principle 12: Sanctity of Human Learning and Life The learning environment shall be sacred, trust in the wisdom of imagination, teach the wonder and potential of every human child, the interrelationship of life and that we can no longer afford to live with privileged disregard of this planet, all its diverse and valuable species and each other. As a 30+ year teacher, I can honestly and most sincerely say everything truly important I learned about education, I learned from the children and students themselves. Mostly, how much the way I had been taught to teach and was the best way to learn applied to very few of the actual human beings in front of me who, as true of every child born to the earth, loved learning as a natural a priori for the most learning-dependent species on the planet. Before often being destroyed by our often very rigid educational systems. I spent all the years after my own elite education trying to learn from them how to really teach what they were interested in learning and more importantly, without doing their innate joy and passion in learning, damage. Yes, I think we could easily replace all Teacher Education with a better study of how children prefer to and thrive most in education, by understanding and then choosing their own best way to learn and what most matters to them to learn. But you are still going to have to systemize that education, even if the children are some of the prime contributors to it. :-) June From: Anna Harris a...@shsh.co.uk To: dante.mon...@gmail.com; P2P Foundation mailing list p2p-foundation@lists.ourproject.org Cc: June Gorman june_gor...@sbcglobal.net; Myra Jackson mljac...@gmail.com Sent: Friday, October 18, 2013 10:02 AM Subject: Re: [P2P-F] Fwd: Wired : learner centered movement This is an interesting discussion, but seems to be leaving out the most important element, consulting the child. Child centered really means the child in charge, trusting the child to make decisions and learn from mistakes. While I understand your concern June, my child self feels constricted by all these principles. TEF seems to have a very clear idea of what it is trying to produce. Has it asked the child? It seems to have been decided what is best for the child, and for society. Certainly more respectful but still a top down decision. Do we really need to stipulate anything? Could we just follow the child, learn from the child? That doesn't mean abnegating my own interaction and involvement, but that must always be strictly as an equal, not to dictate because of my superior age and experience. This is not easy. We think we know. We feel responsible. Huge learning for the adult is involved. And there is still some sort of social demand that the child be 'useful to society', Leave them alone, let them be free. We have done enough damage. Anna On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 5:20 PM, Dante-Gabryell Monson dante.mon...@gmail.com wrote: Hi June, Thanks for your reply, I personally do not see this as a replacement of humans by the machines. I rather see the internet as a powerful tool for access to information, both supporting and facilitated by dynamics between learners. I believe that the pedagogies it can be inspired of are that of Piaget, Montessori, ... And as Marco underlined, hardly any new self learning ( or mutual learning ) approaches. What is new, is possibly broader mainstream recognition, possibly supported by the more widespread usage and interconnection of information technologies globally, and in peoples lifestyles, facilitating a shift away of the expert, or the teacher as monopoly in terms of knowledge. Such approaches have been central in my own learning - up to a point where I felt I could learn faster / feel less alienated in my learning by leaving school. The challenge, then, for me at least, is to build up recognition through networked approaches, with peers, rather then through top down , centralized certification programs and education environments. Although one may argue that the tests could at some point confirm the acquired ( self ) learning, the self learner ( or rather, the mutual learners in self organizing approaches ) does not, contrary to official enrolled students, benefit from such student status, and at least in my experience, faces pressures from society, even if only in terms of lack of support. Cordially, Dante On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 1:37 PM, June Gorman june_gor...@sbcglobal.net wrote: Dante-Gabryell -- This is wonderful stuff. I know of Mitra's work and find it exciting. Some of us in the UN Commons Cluster are working on these ideas as well and how they fit into education of and about all the Commons. But as a 30+ year (Western-US) teacher and the founder of the MailScanner
Re: [P2P-F] possible issue with p2p-f email platform
Thank you Apostolis and Michael, as well. That helped explain it, though again I have never seen it occur before and have obviously sent that link out in just that way many times before, but will think better about writing it in that form, next time. I guess we are all just a little jumpy considering both the NSA surveillance leaks and the email interference problems P2P had before? It makes one feel much more insecure about how email can be monitored and/or controlled by others. Interesting article about this very thing in recent Reader Supported Network: Dear Stupid, Stupid NSA Now I hope I understood correctly Apostolis, in putting that link in under the same type? We'll see. :-) Thanks, June From: Apostolis Xekoukoulotakis xekou...@gmail.com To: P2P Foundation mailing list p2p-foundation@lists.ourproject.org Sent: Monday, September 9, 2013 3:43 AM Subject: Re: [P2P-F] possible issue with p2p-f email platform https://www.interspire.com/support/kb/questions/1104/Recipients+are+seeing+phrases+like+%22MailScanner+has+detected+a+possible+fraud+attempt+from...%22 I see it often in the list as well. 2013/9/9, Michel Bauwens mic...@p2pfoundation.net: Personally have no idea what June is exactly referring to as it does not show up in my email; could also be in the settings of the receiver's email program? Thanks for tech-savvy people for having a look at the issue described below, Michel June Gorman's message: From: June Gorman june_gor...@sbcglobal.net Subject: Re: [P2P-F] Fwd: [knowledgelab] Reminder: Monday eve: Caf? event on Gender and the Politics of Technology To: June Gorman june_gor...@sbcglobal.net, P2P Foundation mailing list p2p-foundation@lists.ourproject.org, gailches...@blueyonder.co.uk gailches...@blueyonder.co.uk Message-ID: 1378644587.23298.yahoomail...@web184704.mail.ne1.yahoo.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 All - Sorry about the repeat email here, and I know P2P has had recent concerns and issues regarding email use and misuse etc, but can anyone explain that horrible red message below about the TEF website? ?I have never seen that before and we certainly are a real and valid website, can someone explain to me why that would show up in the message -- is it to do with protections the P2P put in place? ?And who is us.mg201.yahoo.com? ?And worse, when I click on it I do indeed get a strange website or none, but clicking on the one below under my name goes to the real TEF website? Can anyone explain this to me? ?It would be nice to think the TEF has actually become transformative enough in its message of sustainable education to have interested the powers that be who don't want to do so, but that's a little grandiose? I don't understand this? Love to hear from those who might? Best, June From: June Gorman june_gor...@sbcglobal.net To: P2P Foundation mailing list p2p-foundation@lists.ourproject.org; gailches...@blueyonder.co.uk gailches...@blueyonder.co.uk Sent: Sunday, September 8, 2013 5:35 AM Subject: Re: [P2P-F] Fwd: [knowledgelab] Reminder: Monday eve: Caf? event on Gender and the Politics of Technology Gail and all - This is a very critical and important topic, both to me and the Transformative Education Forum (MailScanner has detected a possible fraud attempt from us.mg201.mail.yahoo.com claiming to be tef.globalchallengesforum.org), and as I have just moved to London (Marylebone) from California, I definitely plan to attend tomorrow evening. Thanks for the notice. ?A critical topic in technology in ways that really have to be understood to go forward differently with that technology as a truly primary positive or truly transformative force. Looking forward to it, June June Gorman, Educator and Educational Theorist Co-founder,?Transformative Education Forum Education Advisor,?UN SafePlanet Campaign? Board Project Director for Outreach, International Model United Nations Association? Steering Committee, (UNESCO/Global Compact)?K-12 Sector for Sustainability Education??) Member, UN Education Caucus for Sustainable Development Member, UN Commons Cluster From: Anna Harris a...@shsh.co.uk To: P2P Foundation mailing list p2p-foundation@lists.ourproject.org Sent: Saturday, September 7, 2013 11:00 PM Subject: [P2P-F] Fwd: [knowledgelab] Reminder: Monday eve: Caf? event on Gender and the Politics of Technology -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundationUpdates: http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/ -- Sincerely yours, Apostolis Xekoukoulotakis ___ P2P Foundation - Mailing list http
Re: [P2P-F] Fwd: [knowledgelab] Reminder: Monday eve: Café event on Gender and the Politics of Technology
Gail and all - This is a very critical and important topic, both to me and the Transformative Education Forum (tef.globalchallengesforum.org), and as I have just moved to London (Marylebone) from California, I definitely plan to attend tomorrow evening. Thanks for the notice. A critical topic in technology in ways that really have to be understood to go forward differently with that technology as a truly primary positive or truly transformative force. Looking forward to it, June June Gorman, Educator and Educational Theorist Co-founder, Transformative Education Forum Education Advisor, UN SafePlanet Campaign Board Project Director for Outreach, International Model United Nations Association Steering Committee, (UNESCO/Global Compact) K-12 Sector for Sustainability Education ) Member, UN Education Caucus for Sustainable Development Member, UN Commons Cluster From: Anna Harris a...@shsh.co.uk To: P2P Foundation mailing list p2p-foundation@lists.ourproject.org Sent: Saturday, September 7, 2013 11:00 PM Subject: [P2P-F] Fwd: [knowledgelab] Reminder: Monday eve: Café event on Gender and the Politics of Technology -- Forwarded message -- From: Gail Chester gailches...@blueyonder.co.uk Date: Sun, Sep 8, 2013 at 12:59 AM Subject: [knowledgelab] Reminder: Monday eve: Café event on Gender and the Politics of Technology To: knowledge...@lists.aktivix.org You are invited to the latest event in our series of cafe discussion events on the politics of technology (see below for list of subsequent events). These events are preparing for a three-day gathering on the politics of technology in May 2014. NB There will be a discussion group at 6pm at Fairly Square Bar and Cafe on basic issues in the politics of technology which is open to all. Please forward this info to appropriate lists, FB groups etc. Apologies for cross-posting. Best wishes Gail Chester Luddites200: www.luddites200.org.uk Breaking the Frame 3: Gender and the Politics of Technology In the home and at work, women and men have different relationships to technology. Women have traditionally been excluded from science and engineering and are put in the role of users and operators of new technology. Do technologies like IVF and domestic machinery really benefit women or entrench their existing social roles? How do shifts in technology affect the oppression of women? When: 7pm September 9th 2013 Where: Fairly Square Bar Cafe, 51 Red Lion St London WC1R 4PF Introductions from: * Cynthia Cockburn, feminist activist and author of Machinery of Dominance, Gender and Technology in the Making, and Brothers: Male Dominance and Technological Change * David King Human Genetics Alert * Connie Hunter Women's Environmental Network For the full list of forthcoming events, see below or visit the Breaking the Frame blog. For more information contact luddites...@yahoo.co.uk. The Breaking the Frame series: discussions on the politics of technology Technology dominates our world, but many people think ‘its just a neutral tool’ or that technology equals progress. Although it does, of course, bring benefits, technology is largely designed and controlled by corporate, military and patriarchal elites to serve their interests and exert their power. To prepare for a gathering next May, we are organising a series of monthly events to look at the technology politics of food, energy, work, war, the economy, health etc. Gender issues are part of our analysis from the beginning and are included in all of our meetings. There will be speakers from campaigning groups and lots of time for discussion. July 8th Technology out of control? Drones, killer robots and the arms trade August 12th Nuclear Power: Climate Chiller or Silent Killer? September 9th Gender and the politics of technology October 14th Economic crisis and austerity: “It’s the technology, stupid” November 11th Food, GM and synthetic biology December 9th Extreme Energy (fracking, tar sands etc), geoengineering, and climate change January 13th The politics of alternative technology and workers’ plans February 10th Digital technology, surveillance and Big Data March 10th Toxics and nanotechnology April 14th ‘Mental health’, big pharma and the new eugenics When: 7pm 2nd Monday of the month Where: Fairly Square Bar and Cafe, 51 Red Lion St London WC1R 4PF For more information visit the Breaking the Frame blog, Facebook: Breaking the Frame or contact luddites...@yahoo.co.uk. ___ knowledgelab mailing list knowledge...@lists.aktivix.org https://lists.aktivix.org/mailman/listinfo/knowledgelab ___ P2P Foundation - Mailing list http://www.p2pfoundation.net https://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p
Re: [P2P-F] Fwd: [knowledgelab] Reminder: Monday eve: Café event on Gender and the Politics of Technology
All - Sorry about the repeat email here, and I know P2P has had recent concerns and issues regarding email use and misuse etc, but can anyone explain that horrible red message below about the TEF website? I have never seen that before and we certainly are a real and valid website, can someone explain to me why that would show up in the message -- is it to do with protections the P2P put in place? And who is us.mg201.yahoo.com? And worse, when I click on it I do indeed get a strange website or none, but clicking on the one below under my name goes to the real TEF website? Can anyone explain this to me? It would be nice to think the TEF has actually become transformative enough in its message of sustainable education to have interested the powers that be who don't want to do so, but that's a little grandiose? I don't understand this? Love to hear from those who might? Best, June From: June Gorman june_gor...@sbcglobal.net To: P2P Foundation mailing list p2p-foundation@lists.ourproject.org; gailches...@blueyonder.co.uk gailches...@blueyonder.co.uk Sent: Sunday, September 8, 2013 5:35 AM Subject: Re: [P2P-F] Fwd: [knowledgelab] Reminder: Monday eve: Café event on Gender and the Politics of Technology Gail and all - This is a very critical and important topic, both to me and the Transformative Education Forum (MailScanner has detected a possible fraud attempt from us.mg201.mail.yahoo.com claiming to be tef.globalchallengesforum.org), and as I have just moved to London (Marylebone) from California, I definitely plan to attend tomorrow evening. Thanks for the notice. A critical topic in technology in ways that really have to be understood to go forward differently with that technology as a truly primary positive or truly transformative force. Looking forward to it, June June Gorman, Educator and Educational Theorist Co-founder, Transformative Education Forum Education Advisor, UN SafePlanet Campaign Board Project Director for Outreach, International Model United Nations Association Steering Committee, (UNESCO/Global Compact) K-12 Sector for Sustainability Education ) Member, UN Education Caucus for Sustainable Development Member, UN Commons Cluster From: Anna Harris a...@shsh.co.uk To: P2P Foundation mailing list p2p-foundation@lists.ourproject.org Sent: Saturday, September 7, 2013 11:00 PM Subject: [P2P-F] Fwd: [knowledgelab] Reminder: Monday eve: Café event on Gender and the Politics of Technology -- Forwarded message -- From: Gail Chester gailches...@blueyonder.co.uk Date: Sun, Sep 8, 2013 at 12:59 AM Subject: [knowledgelab] Reminder: Monday eve: Café event on Gender and the Politics of Technology To: knowledge...@lists.aktivix.org You are invited to the latest event in our series of cafe discussion events on the politics of technology (see below for list of subsequent events). These events are preparing for a three-day gathering on the politics of technology in May 2014. NB There will be a discussion group at 6pm at Fairly Square Bar and Cafe on basic issues in the politics of technology which is open to all. Please forward this info to appropriate lists, FB groups etc. Apologies for cross-posting. Best wishes Gail Chester Luddites200: www.luddites200.org.uk Breaking the Frame 3: Gender and the Politics of Technology In the home and at work, women and men have different relationships to technology. Women have traditionally been excluded from science and engineering and are put in the role of users and operators of new technology. Do technologies like IVF and domestic machinery really benefit women or entrench their existing social roles? How do shifts in technology affect the oppression of women? When: 7pm September 9th 2013 Where: Fairly Square Bar Cafe, 51 Red Lion St London WC1R 4PF Introductions from: * Cynthia Cockburn, feminist activist and author of Machinery of Dominance, Gender and Technology in the Making, and Brothers: Male Dominance and Technological Change * David King Human Genetics Alert * Connie Hunter Women's Environmental Network For the full list of forthcoming events, see below or visit the Breaking the Frame blog. For more information contact luddites...@yahoo.co.uk. The Breaking the Frame series: discussions on the politics of technology Technology dominates our world, but many people think ‘its just a neutral tool’ or that technology equals progress. Although it does, of course, bring benefits, technology is largely designed and controlled by corporate, military and patriarchal elites to serve their interests and exert their power. To prepare for a gathering next May, we are organising a series of monthly events to look at the technology politics of food, energy, work, war, the economy, health etc. Gender issues are part of our analysis from
Re: [P2P-F] Fwd: New From Pluto Press - Nature for Sale: The Commons versus Commodities
Anna, I truly second what you are so lovingly trying to say here! It is a disempowering state developed in children while young and thus still very sensitive to emotional learning. Unfortunately, when that learning is thus done badly by society's previous damage reinforced in school, motivation and hope are both deeply damaged. On both the individual and thus wider social level, instead of feeling we can, we much more quickly accept the reinforced emotional learning that, we can not! But in going towards the hope the possibility instead, I always ask at this point which is more fun and enjoyable to believe and do? And which direction are the people more interesting, creative and empowered? Especially the youth and children? For me it therefore becomes no contest for where I want to put my energy and time. Thanks for your spark, Anna! June Gorman, Educator and Educational Theorist Co-founder, Transformative Education Forum Education Advisor, UN SafePlanet Campaign Board Project Director for Outreach, International Model United Nations Association Steering Committee, (UNESCO/Global Compact) K-12 Sector for Sustainability Education Member, UN Education Caucus for Sustainable Development Member, UN Commons Cluster Sent from my iPhone On Jul 19, 2013, at 12:00 PM, Anna Harris a...@shsh.co.uk wrote: Yes, Edu, even as we wake up to see how we were shaped by the system we also realise how we are trapped in it, and recreate it ourselves. But that knowledge also gives us power. Personally for me there has to be a short term payback as well as thinking of the benefit in the long term. If it was just down to imagining what it would be like if billions of us did the same that would not motivate me. What does it for me is connecting with the authentic voice within me, which is to do with having the courage to trust myself no matter what. ___ P2P Foundation - Mailing list http://www.p2pfoundation.net https://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation
