[P2P-F] Fwd: UNRISD Report Released; r3.0 in Keith Ambachtsheer's Monthly Letter; and other exciting developments

[Michel Bauwens]

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From: r3.0 
Date: Wed, Oct 9, 2019 at 3:29 PM
Subject: UNRISD Report Released; r3.0 in Keith Ambachtsheer's Monthly
Letter; and other exciting developments
To: Michel Bauwens 


Other exciting developments include Blueprint Working Groups launching,
events such as #NewMetrics19, What Now?!, and a new Transformation
Academy!
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*Dear Michel,*

What does it mean to be a Global Common Good? At a recent meeting in
Amsterdam, Bill and Ralph were asked who has downloaded our Blueprints, and
Ralph answered, "I have no idea. We don't track that information, because,
as a Global Common Good, we don't want to put any barrier between our
audience and our content."

It also means that we partner broadly, in the spirit of our
pre-competitive, market-making commitments. This month, we're glad to
announce a number of new Advocation Partners, including our longtime friend
John Fullerton of the Capital Institute, who keynoted
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our 3rd International Conference in 2015 with the provocation of whether
the bioregion is a more apt locus of attention than the corporation -- a
notion that resonated with us deeply over the years. To get a sense of the
depth of our connection, the Capital Institute figures into many of the
newsletter items this month, which you can find bulleted below:

   - *UNRISD Report Released*
   - *Last Chance to Join Blueprint Working Groups*
   - *r3.0 in Keith Ambachtsheer's Monthly Letter*
   - *Next Transformation Academy in Rotterdam*
   - *Now What?! Weaving for Bioregional Regeneration*
   - *r3.0 at #NewMetrics19*
   - *Medium Article on r3.0's Phase Two   *
   - *New Advocation Partners*

Enjoy this month's newsletter!

The r3.0 Operations Team
*Alexandra, Bill, Cleophea, Peter & Ralph*
UNRISD Report Released
<https://r3-0.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=749af2e0ab2f54ee18b2482c5&id=e812aebf99&e=e9fc303c86>
<https://r3-0.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=749af2e0ab2f54ee18b2482c5&id=3282319e36&e=e9fc303c86>
The United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD) has
released a report (available here
<https://r3-0.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=749af2e0ab2f54ee18b2482c5&id=2ab6e3f75d&e=e9fc303c86>)
authored by r3.0 Senior Director Bill Baue that proposes a three-tiered
typology of Sustainable Development Performance Indicators. The report is
the first of several collaborations in this 4-year Indicators Project
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--
Bill is already working on the second report in the series, which will
propose Tier Two Contextualized Indicators corresponding to 33 Tier One
Incrementalist Indicators from a July 2019 UNCTAD report
<https://r3-0.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=749af2e0ab2f54ee18b2482c5&id=b59eb4c5a9&e=e9fc303c86>.
Bill will present on both his reports at an upcoming UNRISD Workshop in
Montreal October 21/22, and we at r3.0 will integrate this material into
our ongoing work around transformation. If you want to chime in on the
online chatter around the report, please see the r3.0 twitter thread here
<https://r3-0.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=749af2e0ab2f54ee18b2482c5&id=f6b2e44c52&e=e9fc303c86>
.
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Last Chance! Join Blueprint Working Groups
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Work has commenced on the first two Blueprints in Phase Two of our
development, but there's still time to join the Working Groups for the
*Sustainable
Finance Blueprint
<https://r3-0.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=749af2e0ab2f54ee18b2482c5&id=01273dd9ec&e=e9fc303c86>*
(which
is about 80% full now) and the *Value Cycles Blueprint
<https://r3-0.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=749af2e0ab2f54ee18b2482c5&id=909091f82b&e=e9fc303c86>
*(which
is about 60% full). The Working Groups are currently giving input on
preliminary Content Indexes and proposing resources to consult and
reference in the report. A First Exposure Draft will be released to Working
Group Members by 8 November, in advance of In-Person Working Group Meetings
in Philadelphia on 21/22 November.

Please contact Bill 
and/or Ralph  if you
would like to join either / both Working Groups, or to refer a member of
your ne

[P2P-F] Fwd: Work Organisation, Labour & Organisation Call for Papers: The Algorithm and The City

[Michel Bauwens]

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From: Pluto Journals Ltd. 
Date: Wed, Oct 9, 2019 at 3:56 PM
Subject: Work Organisation, Labour & Organisation Call for Papers: The
Algorithm and The City
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Work Organisation, Labour & Globalisation welcomes contributions that
address the impacts of digitalisation and algorithmic management on cities.
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*Work Organisation, Labour & Globalisation's Call for Papers: 'The
Algorithm and the City'*
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The use of online platforms to organise the supply of services has major
implications for the way that the labour involved in creating and
delivering these services is managed. Recent research has shown an
exponential growth in platform labour, which doubled in the UK between 2016
and 2019 with an equally rapid spread of platform management practices to
other sectors of the economy (Huws, Spencer & Coates, 2019). This
development has been paralleled by a growth in online shopping and in the
use of platforms such as Airbnb for renting accommodation as well as the
spread of schemes such as bike sharing or car sharing, also run by online
platforms.

As well as having major implications for urban populations in general
(Carta, 2018), and the working conditions and job security of the platform
workforce in particular (see for example Wood et al, 2019; Leonardi et al.
2019; Van Doorn, 2017; Prassl, 2018; Munn, 2017), these developments are
also transforming cities in other respects. For example the need to speed
up ‘last mile’ delivery of goods (Altenried, 2019) is resulting in a
substitution of smaller inner city redistribution points for large suburban
warehouses (Barbier, Cuny & Raimbault, 2019), and the extension of food
delivery networks, driven by the algorithms used by platforms such as
Deliveroo and Uber Eats, is leading to the development of ‘dark kitchens’
situated at a distance from their parent restaurants but designed to be
close to potential customers (Hayward, 2019), in the process reconfiguring
urban space and changing the character of neighbourhoods.

Such developments do not just affect the skills and working conditions of
the workers directly managed by online platforms; they also have major
implications for workers in other sectors affected by these developments,
including employees in the hospitality, tourism, retail and transport
industries.

*Work Organisation, Labour & Globalisation **welcomes contributions that
address the impacts of digitalisation and algorithmic management on
cities. To read the full call for papers, please see full specification on
the WOLG website
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spatial geographies and labour and how workers are resisting.

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[P2P-F] Fwd: [commoning] How can we cooperate across borders to tackle climate change? BG conference | Oct. 10-12, 2019 | ZK/U Berlin

[Michel Bauwens]

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From: Krystian Woznicki via Commoning 
Date: Mon, Oct 7, 2019 at 4:29 PM
Subject: [commoning] How can we cooperate across borders to tackle climate
change? BG conference | Oct. 10-12, 2019 | ZK/U Berlin
To: 



Hi commoners!

How can we cooperate across borders to tackle climate change? To explore
this question, the Berliner Gazette organizes the 20th edition of its
annual conference: a three-day program with workshops, performances and
public talks at the ZK/U – Center for Art and Urbanistics in Berlin,
October 10-12, 2019. All info about MORE WORLD program please find here:
https://more-world.berlinergazette.de

*Public Talks*
The public talks program includes keynotes by the scientist *Sujatha
Byravan*  (India), whose
pioneering research explores the politics of climate refugees,
activist *Virginie
Gailing*  (France), who is hacking the climate
discourse online and offline with the do-it-together movement Extinction
Rebellion, the political geographer and radio maker *Anja Kanngieser*
 (Australia), whose work on imperiled Pacific
islands urges us to cooperate on the frontlines of climate change, the
Fridays For Future activist *Clara Mayer* 
(Germany), who dares to confront the corporate and political elites with
the uncomfortable truths of climate change, the poet and philosopher *Sudesh
Mishra*  (Fiji), sustainability
expert *Nikki Maksimovic*  (UK), whose work with
the Berlin-based Internet search engine Ecosia helps to plants trees by
donating 80% of its surplus income for reforestation initiatives, who
mobilizes indigenous cosmologies as sources of inspiration vis-à-vis
environmental havoc, the journalist and technology expert *Marta Peirano*

(Spain), whose new book explores how to tackle climate change with communal
technologies, and the activist and writer *Harsha Walia*
 (Canada), whose work on
migration intersects with climate justice struggles. The talks will be
moderated by *Abiol Lual Deng* 
(South-Sudan/US), an international relations expert and humanitarian policy
consultant, *Jennifer Kamau*  (Kenya/Germany) who is
an activist and researcher and facilitates a migrant network called
International Women Space, and *Jaron Rowan*
 (Spain), a researcher,
author and activist.

*Performances*
The conference program includes performances by artist and researcher *Kat
Austen * (UK), who will perform a
multimedia symphony based on her research trip to the North Pole; the art
collective *The University of the Phoenix*
 (Canada), who will be offering
participants an opportunity to join “The Order of the Immortal Stranger”: a
global secret society for interspecies cooperation; the artist *Xin Xin*
 (USA/Taiwan), who will be presenting “Plant
Ensemble”, a performance that uses biofeedback in plants to synthesize
sound; the choreographer *Pepe Dayaw*  (Philippines),
who will be cooperatively creating a Bibimbap-Badubap (a Korean rice dish),
amplifying the chopping sounds and remixing them into a jazz concert while
cooking; and the poet *Falko Hennig*  (Germany),
who will be leading two city walks, exploring cooperative initiatives that
tackle climate change.

MORE WORLD program:
https://more-world.berlinergazette.de

MORE WORLD interviews (with workshop guests, moderators, keynote speakers
and performers):
https://blogs.mediapart.fr/krystian-woznicki/blog

Spread the word!

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Hope to see you at the event!

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[P2P-F] Fwd: A new economics

[Michel Bauwens]

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From: Nick Hanauer 
Date: Fri, Sep 13, 2019, 3:29 PM
Subject: A new economics
To: Jeffrey Sterling 


Rich capitalists like me have never been richer.
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[image: Civic Action]

Rich capitalists like me have never been richer.

It’s not because we’re smarter or working harder. So why do .01%-ers like
me consume an ever-increasing share of the economic pie?

It comes down to one thing: the system is rigged for big corporations and
plutocrats and against the average person. And at the heart of this rigged
system is neoliberal economic policies.

But our economy doesn’t have to work this way: We can and must form a new
economics and design a new system.

I recently gave a TED talk tearing down neoliberal economics and
trickle-down policies – and offered up my new vision for a more
cooperative, moralistic economics:

*Watch my new TED talk to learn about why neoliberalism is sociopathic –
and why we need to create a new economics of cooperation:*



*Nick Hanauer speaks at TEDSummit: A Community Beyond Borders. July 21-25,
2019, Edinburgh, Scotland. Photo: Ryan Lash / TED*

Over the last decade, the 1% have gotten $21 trillion richer while the
bottom 50% have gotten $900 billion poorer. It’s not by accident – decades
of backward economic theory have just gotten it wrong.

We’ve been taught greed is good, inequality is essential, and that
shareholders are the only thing that matter. But neoliberal ideas are just
a protection racket for the rich – and it’s time we create a new economics
– one that researchers and scientists are just starting to formulate.

Neoliberal economic dogma has been shattered by policies this progressive
community helped make a reality. We fought for a $15/hr minimum wage,
fought to restore worker protections, and helped institute family leave –
all of which trickle-downers said would tank the economy. Instead, the
economy is thriving, unemployment has gone down – and we’re just getting
started.

*The thinking is simple: When restaurant owners are suddenly required to
pay restaurant workers enough so that now even they can afford to eat in
restaurants it doesn’t shrink the restaurant industry – it grows it.
OBVIOUSLY.*

Unlike the laws of physics, the laws of economics are a choice.
Conservatives have sold their economic theories to us as if they were
unchangeable natural law, but, in fact, those theories are social
constructs based on pseudoscience. If we want new economics, all we have to
do is choose to have it.

Being rapacious does not make you a capitalist; it makes you a sociopath.
Instead of a greed first, ask questions later approach – we need to invest
in cooperation as a growth mechanism for our economy. When everyone does
better, the economy does better.

The laws of economics are a choice –and I hope you take a moment to watch
my TED talk to find out what other ideas I have to formulate a new economy
where everyone does better. But hey, don’t take it from me, I’m just a
zillionaire spending my fortune the best way I know how: fighting for
policies that will rebalance the economy in favor of the middle class.

*Here’s that link to my TED talk again, I hope you’ll watch it.*


Thank you so much for being such an important part of this team as we work
to end neoliberal stooges rigging the system against the vast majority of
people.
[image: Hey, while you're here: At Civic Action we're trying to buck the
status quo and expand the middle class through activism and education.
We're not afraid of making a little trouble, but we can't do it without
you

[P2P-F] Fwd: Closing the space between us | Full Circle 🌎 with the PGI

[Michel Bauwens]

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From: Post Growth Institute 
Date: Sun, Sep 29, 2019 at 12:00 AM
Subject: Closing the space between us | Full Circle 🌎 with the PGI
To: Michel 


The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. Discover the strength of
our global interconnections and how to support like-minded organizations.
[image: Post Growth Institute 'support' newsletter banner]

Dear Michel,

Across the planet, grassroots initiatives are building systems that *offer
hopeful alternatives* to our extractive, growth-dependent economy. The
power of these projects lies not only in their local influence but in
global connections of *support, guidance, and encouragement*.

Despite our varied focuses and approaches, #postgrowth provides an
overarching concept to *challenge the dominant paradigm. *Setting aside our
differences and united by a shared sense of *where our evolution needs to
go,* we're starting to relax into supporting each other.

For the Support edition of Full Circle, we introduce the *Post Growth
Alliance, our cooperative social media service *that saves member
organizations time and money while increasing their exposure. Find out how
to *join the PGA family, learn about one of its members, *and meet one of
our long-time volunteers – part of a community of activists dedicated
to *helping
us shift the worldview*.

As we weave a rich tapestry, *closing the space between us enhances our
strength*. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.

Thanks for your support,


[image: graphic of networked globe]

Post Growth Alliance

Many nonprofits are at the cutting edge of sustainability activism and
debate, but their work remains underexposed. The *Post Growth Alliance*

(PGA) is a service that creates and amplifies engaging content for member
organizations by drawing on the power of the network to share each
others' posts across social media.

*Find out more about the PGA*

.
PGA member profile: Promoting Economic Pluralism
[image: screenshot of PGA post for PEP's Not the Nobel Prize]

*Promoting Economic Pluralism*

(PEP)
seeks to co-create truly sustainable, resilient, and inclusive new
economies thought strategic activities and projects that influence economic
analysis, teaching, and thinking.

PEP is also responsible for the 'Not the Nobel Prize', an initiative to
celebrate thinkers and doers finding economic answers to the challenges of
the 21st century.
Find out more about *Promoting Economic Pluralism*
,
and vote for the seven finalists of 2019's *Not the Nobel Prize in
Economics*
.

[image: Each and every subscriber helps to amplify PGA posts, which
currently reach an average of 20,470 people.]

Support the PGA
There's an easy and effective way to support groups changing the world –
and it doesn't cost a cent. *Subscribe to our mailing list*

and
receive exciting content, ready crafted and formatted to share on social
media.


[image: graphic showing rise in use of postgrowth hashtag on Twitter]

The #postgrowth story is taking off on Twitter. In 2019 so far, #postgrowth
has been tweeted 21,963 times. That's a *258% increase from 2018* and a
66,167% increase since 2009 when the hashtag was first used!
*Meet PGI volunteer, Sarah Riebstein*

A PhD candidate at Princeton University, Sarah researches universal basic
income and the Alaska Permanent Fund’s resource dividend model. As an
activist, she works with us on refining and spreading our vision of a
not-for-profit economy

–
including a stint managing the PGA. Here she shares a little about what
it's like to work with the PGI.
[image: photo of PGI volunteer Sarah Reibs

[P2P-F] Fwd: The Optics of the Commons: an invitation for reflection and transformation

[Michel Bauwens]

-- Forwarded message -
From: Georgia Nicolau 
Date: Sat, Sep 28, 2019 at 4:05 AM
Subject: The Optics of the Commons: an invitation for reflection and
transformation
To: Michel Bauwens 




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*"The commons is what gives meaning to our existence" Kum'tum
Akroá-Gamella, from the  Akroá-Gamella people, state of Maranhão, northeast
of Brazil.*



We believe that the commons, in its multiple perspectives, is an essential
kaleidoscope concept for facing this historic moment of hopelessness, in
Brazil and in the world.


The Optics of the Commons series brings together sixteen short episodes
featuring voices and ideas from young experts and activists. In the videos,
they address different perspectives on living and making communities based
on a diversity of studies, practices and experiences. Seen together, the
approaches produce inspiring resonances.
Taking inspiration from these words, the Procomum Institute
<https://www.procomum.org/the-institute-procomum/?lang=en> invites everyone
to reflect and question our ways of existing, living and building
relationships.

Watch and share! Let's talk about how together we can dream - and build-
other possible futures. *All videos have english subtitles*.

"I look at the commons from the perspective of the black people, who have
always been separated from the State and capital” Bianca Santana, writer,
journalist and researcher defines the Commons as the goods shared by
certain communities, their experiences and resistances.

Click here to watch the full video
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7a7emZKVF4w&list=PLz53SY9iZdF55YaAXY2S-kVlpIBi4623a&index=1>

The occupation of public spaces, conflicts and the construction of public
policies that prioritize cities for people are themes and strategies raised
by Marcio Black, cultural producer, political scientist and member of the
Black System Collective, to interpret the Commons.

Click here to watch the full video
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fay4LtN9ksk&list=PLz53SY9iZdF55YaAXY2S-kVlpIBi4623a&index=2>

“The commons is what  gives meaning to our existence,” shares Kum'tum
Akroá-Gamella, a member of the Akroá-Gamella people, indigenous from
Northeast of Brazil. For him, we are living a crisis that endangers the
very existence of the planet because of practices that are part of a
certain ideology of progress. Ancestral knowledge and a new way of seeing
and understanding nature defines the commons for Kum'tum.


Click here to watch the full video
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgUDk-cELTM&list=PLz53SY9iZdF55YaAXY2S-kVlpIBi4623a&index=3>

It is through the exchange, encounter and strengthening of autonomous
experiences of traditional communities and spaces of resistance throughout
Brazil and Latin America that the Collective Etinerâncias believes that the
commons moves and is present.

Click here to watch the full video
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEl1XEafyao>

“The commons means a production focused on sharing and a permanent cycle of
learning and distribution,” says João Brant, associate at the Procomum
Institute and consultant in the areas of communication and cultural
policies.

Click here to watch the full video
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqH6DvAKgF4&list=PLz53SY9iZdF55YaAXY2S-kVlpIBi4623a&index=5>

Abundance of water, soil and fresh air are common natural goods, but there
are limitations placed by private property, for example. These reflections
accompany and define the commons for Cinthia Mendonça, artist, researcher
and director of Silo - Arte e Latitude Rural.

Click here to watch the full video
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IX5cpQYzAEU&list=PLz53SY9iZdF55YaAXY2S-kVlpIBi4623a&index=6>

What struggles, conflicts and constructions fit the definition of commons?
Does natural goods define it in its complexity? The value of the commons to
Jean Tible, professor of political science at USP- University of São Paulo.
Click here to watch the full video
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPxrIKgkMog&list=PLz53SY9iZdF55YaAXY2S-kVlpIBi4623a&index=7>

"The commons has to do with practices, relationships, territories and has
to do with people, collective subjects," says Tica Moreno, a member of SOF
(Sempreviva Feminist Organization), Master in Humanities and Social
Sciences at the Federal University of ABC and PhD in Sociology by USP.

Click here to watch the full video
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PsLmCCFn58&list=PLz53SY9iZdF55YaAXY2S-kVlpIBi4623a&index=8>

The commons, for those who come from the peripheries, is in the daily
encounter and the plurality of actions. It surpasses the limits, the
margins and defies the walls that prevent the construction of a more
democratic and fair city. This is one of the commons 

[P2P-F] Fwd: Introducing OpenStructures.family

[Michel Bauwens]

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From: OpenStructures 
Date: Fri, Sep 27, 2019 at 12:00 PM
Subject: Introducing OpenStructures.family
To: 


After a long silence - we’re back and proudly present the new website !!
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Yes! We're clickable again. 🖤

After a long silence - we’re back and proudly present the new
website !!
It comprises a database of Parts
 and Applications
, a News
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Shop .
You can find previous as well as upcoming Projects
 on the history page –
as well as a repository of Designers
 and of our Network
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back soon again, since more is going to be added over time.
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*New Address:We Are Fa-mi-ly!*
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Based on a shared grid, everything is connected
to everything within the OpenStructures system.

We took these tangible links – between original and derivative parts, first
and second editions, initial designs and reconfigurations – as the central
feature of the new platform.

Each object , event
 or designer
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relations with other people, ‘family members’, ‘siblings’ or ‘ancestors’ at
the bottom of each
profile page .
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JAM Hotel Lisbon
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Atelier Lionel Jadot has invited OpenStructures Studio to collaborate on a
sustainable hotel project in Lisbon

Atelier Lionel Jadot 
from Brussels has commissioned OS_Studio together with Dutch designer Rikkert
Pauw  to develop a
typology of lamps and furniture for an ambitious and circular hotel
redevelopment in Lisbon.

During a workshop hosted by OpenStructures, we sketched how the design
concept by Lionel Jadot could be complemented with local found footage by
Rikkert Paul and OpenStructures compatible elements by OS_Studio
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Future Kind
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OpenStructures is featured in Futurekind: Design by and for the People

OpenStructures is proud to be part of a compendium of sixty design projects
enabled by new technologies that reveal how innovative, socially and
environmentally conscious designs allow us to change the world for the
better.

The book was launched this summer in New York, in presence of its editor Dr
Robert Phillips, Senior Tutor of Design Products + Futures at Royal College
of Art in London and is available
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Workshop:
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CAPA.CITY experimental autumn school
14 - 17 Oct. Turnhout (Be)

OpenStructures is applied as a hands-on tool in an academic research
project on retrofitting suburban areas by the architecture department of
Hasselt University.

>From 14 - 17 October, we will rethink suburbia by prototyping and building
various proposals for retrofitting. All of this this will be supported by
lectures on participatory design, collective learning and capacity building.

The CAPA.CITY project is a collaboration between both academic and
non-academic partners and carried out in 6 different residential
subdivisions in Belgium, Denmark and France.

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As part of 80 projects, all of which have a focus on sustainability and
social innovation, our second space in Brussels is hosting the physical
archive of our digital parts library
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[P2P-F] Very important historical essay on the relation between the market and the commons

[Michel Bauwens]

Articulating an Empirically Grounded Model of the Relation Between Markets
and Commons



** Article: Situating the sharing economy: between markets, commons and
capital. By Adam Arvidsson. Chapter 2 of the Handbook of the Sharing
Economy
,
Pages:10–26. Edited by Russell W. Belk, Giana M. Eckhardt and Fleura
Bardhi. Elgar, September 2019*


URL = https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788110549.7


Abstract[edit

]

"This chapter uses historical sociology to articulate an empirically
grounded model of the relation between markets, commons, sharing and
exchange in the history of capitalism in the West. The author revisits
historical debates on the role of the commons in the transition to
capitalism in the European Middle Ages to suggest that the market and the
commons have a history of long and complicated relations in the development
of Western modernity. His intention is to build on the renewed attention to
the longue durée of capitalism and modernity-greatly inspired by recent
debates on the Anthropocene—to explore what new insights can be gained from
shifting the focus away from the great transformation of the 19th century
that often figures as a model for how social change might come about. The
author concludes that, far from being a historical novelty, the present
emergence of a commons based sharing economy is a recurrent feature that in
the past has implied a potential for systemic transformation."



PROBABLY SIMILAR TO ;


Capitalism and the Commons



** Article: Capitalism and the Commons. By Adam Arvidsson.Theory, Culture &
Society, 2019*

URL = https://www.academia.edu/40231280/CAPITALISM_AND_THE_COMMONS?
Contents [hide 
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   - 1 Abstract
   
   - 2 Contents
   
   - 3 Excerpts
   
  - 3.1 Author's Summary
  

   - 4 More information
   

Abstract[edit

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"This article investigates the potential role of the commons in the future
transformation of digital capitalism by comparing it to the role of the
commons in the transition to capitalism. In medieval and early modern
Europe the commons supported gradual social and technological innovation as
well as a new civil society organized around the combination of
commons-based petty production and new ideals of freedom and equality.
Today the new commons generated by the global real subsumption of ordinary
life processes are supporting similar forms of commons-based petty
production. After positioning the new petty producers within the framework
of the crisis of digital capitalism, the article concludes by extrapolating
a number of hypothetical scenarios for their role in its future
transformation."
Contents[edit

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"The paper divides in four sections.

   - After some background and a preliminary definition of key concepts
   (like ‘capitalism’ and ‘commons’),


   - I revisit the role of the commons in the development and crisis of
   European feudalism.


   - The following section seeks to untangle the complicated relation
   between modern capitalism and the commons, and identify the specific role
   of the commons in contemporary digital capitalism.


   - The fourth section suggests that the socialized nature of the digital
   commons is driving a revitalization of forms of commons- based petty
   production similar to those that contributed to undermining the feudal
   order in the 13th and 14th centuries, and draws up a number of hypothetical
   scenarios for the possible future transformation of digital capitalism that
   might result from this."


Excerpts[edit

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See:

   1. Medieval Commons
 ; Medieval
   Commonism and the Ideologies of Ethical Markets‎
   

[P2P-F] Fwd: Future is Public | Democratic ownership of the economy conference (4-5 Dec Amsterdam) website opens for registration

[Michel Bauwens]

-- Forwarded message -
From: Satoko Kishimoto 
Date: Fri, Sep 27, 2019 at 1:40 PM
Subject: Future is Public | Democratic ownership of the economy conference
(4-5 Dec Amsterdam) website opens for registration
To: 
Cc: Lavinia Steinfort 


Dear friends,

I hope this finds you well. I am reaching out to friends with whom I have
been in touch when producing the book 'Reclaiming Public Services - how
cities and citizens are turning back privatisation' (published by TNI and
partners in 2017). We have also after publishing the book continued our
research and advocacy work on de-privatisation. I am pleased to inform you
about the upcoming international conference 'Future is public - Democratic
ownership of the economy', held on 4th-5th December in Amsterdam, The
Netherlands.

https://futureispublic.org/

The conference is co-hosted by TNI and the city of Amsterdam in
collaboration with international partners. I hope you find it interesting
and I would like to welcome you to register. We plan to live-stream the
conference too.

We will during the conference release the result of an updated mapping
study on the global remunicipalisation trend.

Your feedback and questions are welcome.

Best regards,

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[P2P-F] Fwd: Our World-Transforming Ideas at The World Transformed

[Michel Bauwens]

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From: The Next System Project 
Date: Tue, Sep 24, 2019 at 8:01 PM
Subject: Our World-Transforming Ideas at The World Transformed
To: 


Public pharma, inclusive ownership, green banks and more at London
conference this weekend
The latest from The Next System Project
The Democracy Collaborative was a partner in The World Transformed
conference, a four-day festival of politics, arts and music that took place
this past weekend in Brighton, England to help build left power both inside
and outside of government. Here are some of the big ideas we presented at
the conference.
*A Pharmaceutical Public Option for the UK*

High prescription drug costs are a problem for the United Kingdom as they
are in the United States. Our working paper, co-produced with the
organizations Just Treatment and Global Justice Now, identifies how the key
principles of public ownership can apply in the UK's pharmaceutical sector.
It also sets out a vision of what democratic participation, engagement, and
transparency would look like.
Get the report...

Meanwhile, in the United States the fight for a pharmaceutical public
option escalates this week as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi introduced her own
plan for lowering drug prices. Next System Project director Dana Brown
looks at the bill and concludes that democratically owned pharmaceutical
operations are the most important missing element.
Read more...

*The Truth Behind Inclusive Ownership Funds*


Recently, the Financial Times launched a full-scale assault on the
idea of “inclusive
ownership funds,
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in which businesses would share ownership with worker-controlled trusts,
that contained an analytic error so egregious 82 distinguished economists
felt compelled to publicly correct it. With our friends at Common Wealth,
we published an explanatory graphic of the ownership funds
framework, especially as more and more of the business press is recognizing
that this is an idea that will need to be reckoned with.
See and share the graphic...

*A Digital Cooperative Alternative to Online Giants*

The top five firms in the world in terms of market capitalization—Alphabet
(Google), Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Microsoft—collectively have outsize
power over the functioning of the global economy. Next System Project
fellow Dan Hind argues in his latest report, copublished with Common
Wealth, that reasserting the primacy of democracy over private power
requires reckoning with these leading firms and with the digital sector
more generally. He proposes a "public option" for the digital sphere in the
UK, a British Digital Cooperative that would act as a space for egalitarian
collaboration as well as rapid technological innovation.

Get the report...

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episodes of The Next System Podcast

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[P2P-F] Fwd: Farewell to the WSF? (GTN Discussions)

[Michel Bauwens]

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From: Great Transition Network 
Date: Thu, Sep 26, 2019 at 4:04 AM
Subject: Farewell to the WSF? (GTN Discussions)
To: 


>From Candido Grzybowski [cand...@ibase.br]
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[EDITOR'S NOTE: The discussion will be ending one week from today --
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 2. I look forward to your comments! -- JC]

I have been involved in the World Social Forum (WSF) process since the
beginning of 2000, when representatives of eight Brazilian social
organizations and movements—later called the Organizing Committee—met to
launch the first in Porto Alegre, Brazil, in late January 2001. As the
director of Ibase, created in the early 1980s by exiles returning to Brazil
after being granted political amnesty, I represented the organization on
the committee.

My relation to the WSF has two phases: (a) deep engagement from 2000 to
2010 and (b) a critical position with gradual withdrawal after that. I draw
from this experience in this contribution to the timely debate that the GTN
provides and that Roberto Savio, a personal friend, provokes. [1]

The WSF was conceived as an open space that would be a kind of battery
recharger of active citizenship, now necessarily of planetary dimension
because of the need to resolve contradictions of capitalism at a global
scale. The WSF has undoubtedly made a fundamental contribution to the
emergence of a worldwide citizen culture, and continues today propelled by
civil society organizations, social movements, and networks from different
parts of the world. In its early years, it helped build collective
political intelligence about the problems, challenges, and possibilities of
the struggles we waged, each in our own way across the Planet. It
underscored our interdependence as we share the same world and the same
challenge to make it another world. For our great diversity of identities
and cultures, our plurality of views and perspectives, the WSF offered us
an open space—a kind of factory for a new political culture—for us to
recognize ourselves as humanity and part of the same and unique shared
planetary system.

The world's cultural, political, and economic context has changed greatly
between 2001 and now. The multiple recent crises are expressions of the
contradictions and limits to which globalized capitalism submits humanity
and the sustainability of life on the planet. “Another possible world”
remains an urgent need. However, as I have argued in the past, we need to
think beyond the WSF, while still allowing the WSF to continue the
inspiring task for which it was founded. WSF meetings nourished the dream
and hope for many around the world and should continue to do so with the
younger generations of today.

*The WSF as inspiration and as limit*

The most obvious contribution of the WSF was as a galvanizing force that
opposed Davos and asserted that "another world is possible." It did this by
appealing to the capacity for transformative action of the multiple and
diverse collective subjects, organized into resisting entities, movements,
networks, coalitions, and alliances to formulate concrete proposals and
fight for their realization. This potential was latent, but the WSF brought
it forth by inviting shared reflection on experiences and knowledge that
develops in diverse practices, while opening possibilities to strengthen
the power of one's own action in each context. The WSF created the
foundations of a new political culture of transformation precisely by
establishing horizontal planetary dialogue as an imperative, without
antagonism, racism, or patriarchalism, dialogue within and between
collective subjects, each recognizing each other as equal subjects.

The WSF did not invent this new political culture, but it was a great
propeller and inducer of it. Due to its open space for diversity and
plurality—as defined in the Charter of Principles—the WSF has become a
reference point for meetings and exchanges, without hierarchies or
priorities. The encounters and debates it engendered, along with its
political pluralitsm, made it a reference point for a new planetary
political culture.

It must be acknowledged that this now political culture was just emerging.
We all brought our mental structures, values, and practices, with all their
contradictions, starting with the simplest: we confuse diversity with each
one doing what they wanted, making collaboration and synthesis difficult,
when such collaboration and synthesis is the raison d'être of the WSF
space. In fact, we were deluded about the size of the task ahead with our
way of thinking and acting freighted by conceptual and political tendencies
that undermined unity. Not least, despite the massive presence of feminist
organizations and movements, tenacious machismo did not give women proper
relevance in dialogues and exchanges. Also, while language and cultural
diversity are heritages to preserve, we could not cope with the problem of
translation

[P2P-F] Fwd: [CommonGood] Fw: Save the date! The WSFTE will take place 25th-28th of June 2020 in Barcelona

[Michel Bauwens]

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From: Birgit Daiber 
Date: Thu, Sep 26, 2019 at 4:52 PM
Subject: [CommonGood] Fw: Save the date! The WSFTE will take place
25th-28th of June 2020 in Barcelona
To: commong...@listi.jpberlin.de 


Dear Friends and colleagues, here's the announcement for the WSF 2020 in
Barcelona:


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*From:* w...@transformadora.org 
*Sent:* Thursday, September 26, 2019 11:35 AM
*To:* bir@hotmail.com 
*Subject:* Save the date! The WSFTE will take place 25th-28th of June 2020
in Barcelona

Save the date! The WSFTE will take place 25th-28th of June 2020 in Barcelona

The World Social Forum of Transformative Economies will take place from the
25th to the 28th of June 2020 in Barcelona. The decision was taken by the
members of Barcelona’s local convergence group, the hosts of the event,
which is made up of activists from various transformative economies sectors
(feminist economies, food sovereignty and agroecology, the commons, the
social and solidarity economy, and fair trade and ethical finance, amongst
others).

The dates were chosen taking into account the calendar of international
events in which the organizations of the Coordination Committee, which
promotes the process at an international level, take part. The aim was that
these activities would not clash with others, in order to favor the
participation of as many people as possible.

With a nine-month calendar, the members of the local Barcelona convergence
group and the members of the Coordination Committee are already organizing
themselves in different working commissions, to take charge of tasks such
as logistics, Forum contents, communications, and the welcome of the
international participants who will come to Barcelona to take part in the
event.

The aim is to make the WSFTE a diverse event, with broad representation
from all five continents and the maximum number of different collectives,
such as farm workers, indigenous people, squatters’ movements, LGBTI
people, feminist movements, spiritual movements, youth movements, labour
unions and also people working in education, digital economies, and
alternative media, amongst others.

The idea is to boost awareness of the transformative economies projects
that already exist and which prove that there is an alternative to the
capitalist model, in addition to building connections between agencies,
organizations and networks around the world.

Another goal is to make the WSFTE a beneficial space for the connection and
convergence between the different transformative economies movements, and
to define a common global agenda regarding transformative economies, in
addition to a collective commitment and specific agreements to ensure the
continuation of the movement beyond the convergence process.

To reach these goals, the WSFTE will include a program based on different
roadmaps with activities such as workshops, talks, cultural program,
creative spaces, virtual participation and areas for children, amongst
others.

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[P2P-F] Fwd: The Climate Strike - What an Amazing Day!

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Date: Sat, Sep 21, 2019 at 8:00 AM
Subject: The Climate Strike - What an Amazing Day!
To: Michel Bauwens 


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Climate March - What an Amazing and Inspiring Day

Image courtesy of Cat Zavis

Today we at Tikkun and many spiritual progressives around the world joined
the worldwide Climate Strike,  in San Francisco and many other locations
led and organized by Youth vs. Apocalypse. The organizers brilliantly
linked issues of climate justice and migrant justice, political ineptitude
and the call for a Green New Deal, corporate profit and fair wages and
environmental destruction, and the separation of children at our borders
and wars and climate devastation.

In San Francisco, we were joined by thousands of people of all races, ages,
genders, ethnicities, and religions – led by youth, marching in unity to
save the planet. It was a spectacular and inspiring day. Along the march we
stopped at Nancy Pelosi and Diane Feinstein’s offices, demanding that they
support a Green New Deal; Bank of America, challenging their investments in
fossil fuels that destroy indigenous communities; Amazon, demanding they
stop cooperating with ICE and pay their workers fair wages; Black Rock,
telling them to stop funding companies that are burning the Amazon
rainforest (with the chant – “Black Rock, Black Rock, How much do you earn,
For murdering our children as the Amazon burns?”); PG&E for their
negligence that has caused massive fires, paying executives and
stockholders millions of dollars and fighting against renewable energy; and
ICE because of their family separation policy, including placing children
in cages, when many are fleeing due to weather disasters. It ended with
speeches by children of all ages, some as young as 5, and elders, from near
and far.

We were inspired and hopeful. If you were there at one of these events,
send us a note about your experiences! As you know, we believe that these
kinds of demonstrations are important as one part of a strategy, and they
also need to be linked to a larger strategy and a vision of the world we
want. When these two are joined, real transformation will ensue. Today we
are feeling hopeful!! Hope you are too.

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[P2P-F] Fwd: Patterning Instinct news

[Michel Bauwens]

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From: Jeremy Lent 
Date: Tue, Sep 17, 2019 at 2:01 PM
Subject: Patterning Instinct news
To: Michel 


Recent articles, talks and news
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The Future Is Up for Grabs

Dear Michel,

Do you recently feel a touch of dread as you read the news? The Amazon and
Arctic ablaze. Xenophobic and racist rhetoric becoming mainstream. Our
leaders seemingly helpless or unwilling to respond. Does it feel to you
like our society is unraveling?

That may be the case, but it doesn't mean that all is lost. On the
contrary, theory of change suggests this is exactly the time when new and
radical ideas have an outsize impact. I invite you to read an article I
wrote last week explaining why this is so: "As Society Unravels, the Future
Is Up for Grabs.

"

As our political leaders fail, grassroots leadership becomes even more
important. That means you and me. On *Friday, September 20*, millions of
people around the world will take part in a Global Climate Strike
,
which may be one of the biggest coordinated grassroots demonstrations in
history. I urge you to join in and add your voice to the call for
transforming our society's destructive ways.

I've come to believe that the most promising alternative path for our
future is an *Ecological Civilization*: a shift in the underlying
foundation of our civilization from wealth accumulation to one that is
life-affirming. if you live in the SF Bay Area, please join me in an Ecological
Civilization Salon

at *Civana House *in San Francisco, on *October 3*.

If you can't make it to the salon, I've written about an Ecological
Civilization here
;
and you can listen to an interview

I gave recently on the topic, or watch this talk

I delivered this summer at a conference in the UK (*From 52:25–1:35:00*). And,
for those interested to explore more, I recommend the book *Abundant Earth:
Toward an Ecological Civilization*
by
Eileen Crist. You can listen to my recent interview with her here

.

I hope you'll be on the streets with me for a flourishing future this
Friday!

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[P2P-F] Fwd: Call for makers - Brussels Maker Faire 2019

[Michel Bauwens]

-- Forwarded message -
From: Maker Faire Brussels 
Date: Tue, Sep 17, 2019 at 10:52 AM
Subject: Call for makers - Brussels Maker Faire 2019
To: 


Call for makers - Brussels Maker Faire 2019
[image: Facebook]

[image: Instagram]

[image: Website]



*Get started for the Maker Faire Brussels 2019!*
Nederlands versie hieronder.
English version below.
🔧 🔨 ⚙ APPEL AUX MAKERS ⚙ 🔧 🔨
*La Maker Faire débarque à Bruxelles, les 6 et 7 décembre.*

L’événement phare du mouvement des Makers, qui essaime partout dans le
monde, vient se poser en grande première à Bruxelles, dans les espaces de
Usquare, le nouveau pôle de développement de la Capitale.

Vous êtes bricoleur.euse.s, inventeur.euse.s, designers, codeur.euse.s,
artistes, créateur.rice.s, gamers, youtubers, ingénieur.e.s, rêveur.euse.s…
Makers professionnel.le.s ou amateur.rice.s, adultes ou enfants,
étudiant.e.s ou retraité.e.s, tous les profils sont les bienvenus.Vous
souhaitez participer à la Brussels Maker Faire en tant qu’exposant.e ?
Encadrer un atelier ? Proposer une animation ? Intervenir sur scène pour
présenter un projet en cours ? C’est possible et c’est gratuit ! La seule
condition ? Proposer un projet, le faire soi-même et avoir envie de le
partager avec un public curieux et passionné.

*DO IT* ! (yourself) : envoyez votre candidature en remplissant le
formulaire « Appel aux Makers » avant le 15 octobre 2019 via *ce lien
*
.

Vous ne souhaitez pas être exposant.e mais contribuer autrement au
mouvement des Makers ? Partagez cette information à votre réseau ! Une aide
en quelques clics sera un grand coup de pouce pour le mouvement. Et si vous
souhaitez nous aider avec quelques clics de plus, un kit de communication
est à votre disposition. [ajouter lien kit de communication]

NB : L’inscription ne garantit pas une participation en tant qu’exposant.e
à la Brussels Maker Faire 2019. Un comité de sélection se réunira pour
sélectionner les projets. Vous serez informé.e de la suite donnée à votre
candidature par mail. Et dans tous les cas, vous êtes invité.e à venir
rencontrer les Makers les 6 et 7 décembre 2019 !

La Maker Faire Brussels est co-produite par Creative Brussels et VO Citizen.
S'inscrire

🔧 🔨 ⚙ OPROEP VOOR MAKERS ⚙ 🔧 🔨
*Maker Faire strijkt op 6 en 7 december neer in Brussel.*

Het belangrijkste evenement van de Makers-beweging, die zich over de hele
wereld aan het uitbreiden is, vindt voor het eerst plaats in Brussel, meer
bepaald in Usquare, dé nieuwe pool op het vlak van onze hoofdstedelijke
ontwikkeling.

Bent u (m/v) klusser, uitvinder, designer, codeur, kunstenaar, maker,
gamer, youtuber, ingenieur, dromer ...? Wees welkom! Professioneel maker of
amateur, volwassene of kind, student of met pensioen? Wie of wat u ook
bent, wees welkom!

Wilt u als exposant deelnemen aan Brussels Maker Faire? Een workshop
begeleiden? Een activiteit voorstellen? Het publiek laten kennismaken met
een lopend project? Het kan, en het is gratis! De enige voorwaarde: een
project voorstellen, het zelf doen en zin hebben om het te delen met een
nieuwgierig en gepassioneerd publiek.

*DO IT!* (yourself): Om u kandidaat te stellen, moet u het formulier
‘Oproep aan makers’ invullen en indienen voor 15 oktober 2019. U vindt het
via deze link

.

Wilt u geen exposant zijn maar op een andere manier bijdragen aan de
Makers-beweging? Deel deze link met uw netwerk! Het kost maar enkele kliks,
maar kan de beweging enorm vooruithelpen. En als u ons wil helpen met
enkele extra kliks, ligt er ook een communicatiekit voor u klaar!
[toevoegen: link naar communicatiekit]

NB: Uw inschrijving biedt geen garantie voor deelname als exposant(e) op
Brussels Maker Faire 2019. Een comité zal de projecten selecteren. Wij
houden u per mail op de hoogte over het gevolg dat aan uw kandidatuur werd
gegeven. U bent hoe dan ook van harte welkom om kennis te maken met de
Makers op 6 en 7 december 2019!

Maker Faire Brussels is een coproductie van Creative Brussels en VO Citizen.

Registreren

🔧 🔨 ⚙ CALL FOR MAKERS ⚙ 🔧 🔨
*Maker Faire arrives in Brussels on 6 and 7 December.*

The flagship event of the Makers movement, which is spreading to all
corners of the world, is taking place for the first time in Brussels, in
the Usquare areas, the capital's new development hub.

DIY enthusiast, inventor, desig

[P2P-F] important new commons policy book: Manifesto for Sharing Public Wealth

[Michel Bauwens]

https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Manifesto_for_Sharing_Public_Wealth


** Book: Plunder of the Commons: A Manifesto for Sharing Public Wealth. By
Guy Standing. Penguin / Pelican Books, 2019*

URL =
https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/308/308407/plunder-of-the-commons/9780141990620.html
Description[edit

]

Guy Standing:

"In the 12th and 13th centuries, civil strife over loss of the commons led
to the Charter of the Forest of November 1217, in which commoners’ rights
were asserted and reparations assured. Today, we need a new Charter for
reviving the commons and for compensating the commoners – you and me – for
loss of our commons. In my new book, Plunder of the Commons: A Manifesto
for Sharing Public Wealth, a 44-Article Charter of the Commons
 is presented.
Readers will have their own priorities. But what we should demand is that
every Party going into the next General Election should present their
variant of a Commons Charter.

Articles 43 and 44 of the proposed Charter are crucial. The starting point
is that private interests have obtained part of the commons or are using
them for pecuniary advantage. As such they owe the commoners compensation.
As commoners we are equal, and so the compensation should be equal for all.
We might call this the Commons Equality Principle
.

What complicates that principle is that the commons belong not just to
current generations, but to those who follow us as well. This leads to what
is known as the Hartwick Rule of Inter-Generational Equity
.
Revenue raised from the sale or use of common resources must only be paid
out if that does not deplete what is available for future generations. This
requires us to distinquish between exhaustible (non-renewable) commons,
such as oil and minerals, non-exhaustible (renewable), like land, water,
air, skyline and ideas, and replenishable commons, such as forests.

What is proposed is that levies be made on all uses of our commons, with
the proceeds used to compensate the commoners, as a matter of social
justice. If government were allowed to decide on how the resultant revenue
were spent, almost certainly the equality principle would be sacrificed.
So, the next step should be the establishment of a Permanent Commons Fund
, into which the
levies would be placed and reinvested.

With the range of levies potentially available, such a Fund could be built
up fairly quickly. Here three derivative rules should apply. The Fund would
have to respect the rule that investments would be made only in sphere that
did no harm to the commons, or the environment; they should not jeopardise
the future commons.

Revenue gained from investment of the levies on exhaustible common
resources should be treated as a capital asset, respecting the Hartwick
Rule. That means that only the net return should be distributed to today’s
commoners. This is the principle that has guided the Norwegian Oil Fund,
which has been built up from levies on use of its North Sea oil. Its annual
return from investments has exceeded 6%, its net return has been over 4%.
So, to maintain the capital, each year it disburses 4% of the Fund. Such
has been the Fund’s growth that technically every Norwegian is a millionaire

Third, the Commons Fund could treat levies on non-exhaustible and
replenishable commons as revenue for compensating current commoners,
because similar revenue could be raised next year and into the future. In
short, the Fund could be built up with primary revenue from the levies and
secondary revenue from its investments. And 4% of the money from the
exhaustible commons combined with, say, 80% of that from non-exhaustible
resources and somewhat less from those deemed replenishable (allowing scope
for replenishment) could be paid out as Common Dividends to all commoners,
equally, as a fundamental economic right.

In effect, what this proposal amounts to is an environmental fiscal policy
as well as a route to social justice, involving a shift from taxing income
from labour to taxing private wealth and misuse of our commons, and in the
process modestly building a new income distribution system based on
economic security." (
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/oureconomy/plunder-commons-compensate-commoners/
?)

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[P2P-F] Fwd: Discovery Theory U Workshop - Leadership and intelligence from the emerging future

[Michel Bauwens]

-- Forwarded message -
From: Vincent De Waele 
Date: Fri, Sep 13, 2019 at 11:51 AM
Subject: Discovery Theory U Workshop - Leadership and intelligence from the
emerging future
To: 


Leadership and intelligence from the emerging future. Discover a
methodology of deep change that connects us to our profound source of
creativity, both at individual and collective level.



*Discovery Theory U Workshop - Leadership and intelligence from the
emerging future*




Today we talk a lot about new leadership, co-creation, collective
intelligence, and emerging future. Some major questions are underpinning
these thoughts:


   - What is the jump in the level of thinking that leaders need to
   undertake to bring about new solutions?
   - What are the new leadership capacities that are needed to avoid to
   fall in the “same old” and reproduce the same results that we don’t want?
   - How can we discover our deepest purpose?
   - How can we engage in a deep co-creation process and draw from
   collective wisdom?
   - What are the voices of resistance that are keeping us from reaching a
   higher level of thinking and acting?


*Theory U*


Theory U is a methodology and a process of deep change that connects us to
our profound source of creativity, both at the individual and collective
level.

With the support of rich and diverse practices, Theory U can help us move
away from past patterns and unwanted behaviors, and consciously connect to
a purposeful source of creativity and to the new that wants to emerge. Visit
the presencing website to know more about it: link

.

*For who?*


This workshop is for you, manager, entrepreneur, intrapreneur, change
agent, innovation and transformation leader or coach, anyone leading change
in business, government, education, environmental policy, and civil society
contexts, engaged in:


   - being a facilitator of collective intelligence
   - being a change actor in a multi-stakeholder partnership
   - advancing your own project and your team to a higher level of
   performance
   - accessing deeper sources of creativity and generative change


*What will you learn?*


During this workshop you will learn and experience:


   - The leadership knowledge that matters most: self-knowledge
   - Core concepts of Theory U as a model for deep change and creativity in
   your environment
   - Practices to expand your presence, attention and communication capacity
   - Practices to translate your deepest purpose and broad ideas into
   prototypes
   - The connection with a community of change agents and a mindset sharing
   in a group of peers


Providing you with fundamentals of the Theory U process, this workshop also
prepares you to actively participate in the u.lab, a worldwide lab for deep
collective change, organized every year by the Presencing Institute.



*The facilitators*



*Alessandra Satta*


Trainer, facilitator, agent of generative change. Actively working on
community and team development at international and local level,
stimulating collective intelligence and systems thinking in groups. Helping
people uncover hidden mental models and designing transformational paths
for capacity building in complex times.

Linkedin



*Vincent De Waele*


Co-founder of Sense+

,  Reinventing Brussels

&
Changing World
.
Previously
Business Transformation Director at Orange Belgium.
Passionate about change, organizational and personal. Creator of
collaborative spaces. Active player in sustainability and ethical
investments. Facilitator, coach, change maker.

LinkedIn


*Practical information*


*Fee*
Individual: 320€
Organization or registration with an invoice: 450€ excl. VAT
Included in the fee are:
- A wo

[P2P-F] Fwd: Now on TC: our new edugame Troll Factory teaches you how fake news is spread - and why

[Michel Bauwens]

-- Forwarded message -
From: Jarno Mikael Koponen 
Date: Sat, Sep 14, 2019 at 2:42 PM
Subject: Now on TC: our new edugame Troll Factory teaches you how fake news
is spread - and why
To: 


Hi Michel,

Hope this finds you well. Thought this might be interesting:

We have here at Yle developed an online game Troll Factory that turns
people into professional online trolls in order to help them learn about
information wars. You can play the game here: https://trollfactory.yle.fi/

TechCrunch just wrote about the game: This game uses troll tactics to teach
critical thinking
https://techcrunch.com/2019/09/13/this-game-uses-troll-tactics-to-teach-critical-thinking/

And: https://twitter.com/ilparone/status/1172491208821788673?s=20

Feel free to share! And would love to hear your thoughts! -Jarno M.


Jarno M. Koponen
Head of AI & Personalization, Yle News Lab

E: jarno.kopo...@yle.fi
W: +358401290074
L: https://fi.linkedin.com/in/jarnokoponen
T: https://twitter.com/ilparone

Yle News and Current Affairs
Yle, The Finnish Broadcasting Company


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[P2P-F] Fwd: [P2P Foundation - Commons Transition Network WorkGroup] Commons Transition Culture 7-Step Process

[Michel Bauwens]

-- Forwarded message -
From: Daniel Pinchbeck (Loomio) 
Date: Thu, Aug 8, 2019 at 4:51 PM
Subject: [P2P Foundation - Commons Transition Network WorkGroup] Commons
Transition Culture 7-Step Process
To: 




[image: Daniel Pinchbeck]
*Daniel Pinchbeck* commented in: Commons Transition Culture 7-Step Process


A Five Act black comedy about the end of the world
--

My first play!
--

“Just as the caterpillar becomes the butterfly, the individual will undergo
complete metamorphosis within a new solid- state matrix. Our synapses will
link up with the totality of information and we will become like demi-gods,
knowing everything, creating new imperishable bodies out of steel, silicon,
and rewritten genetic code.”

   - Deep Zero

Recently I did something I have wanted to do all my life.

I wrote my first play.

The title of this five-act drama is Deep Zero. I am delighted to share it
with you. Deep Zero is set at Exstazia, a massive transformational
festival, in the near future. Most of the action takes place at a camp
organized by members of the globetrotting elite where they come together
annually to explore spirituality, psychedelics, art, music, and community
in a pristine desert. During this particular gathering, unfortunately, the
characters discover that global ecological catastrophe has accelerated.
Within a few months, the world will be entirely transformed. Faced with
that knowledge, what choices will they make as individuals? Who will be
saved?

Perhaps this sounds serious, but Deep Zero is a surreal black comedy. I was
inspired by Kubrick’s Dr Strangelove and Edgar Allen Poe’s The Masque of
the Red Death, as well as the modernist plays of Witkiewicz. If you know my
past work, you can probably guess that Deep Zero is also an exploration of
ideas in dramatic form. One of the characters is a transhumanist
philosopher who argues for the Simulation Hypothesis: the idea that this
universe is actually a mathematical model running in an alien
supercomputer. Another is an activist with Annihilation Revolution, a
decentralized radical movement. Another protagonist is building a “moon
shot” technology to save the world by sucking carbon out of the atmosphere.

As a newbie to the dramatic world, I am not sure what I do with this play
now that it exists. Of course I would love to see it given staged readings
and performed. I am also working on a screenplay adaptation of it that will
be significantly different, with a more upbeat culmination. If you want to
organize a reading of Deep Zero, please write to me. Also, if you have
ideas about what I can do with it, or criticisms and possible improvements,
those are all fun for me to hear. Just don’t be mean.

I am publishing it now in the lead up to this year’s Burning Man festival.
While Deep Zero is set at an imaginary event, I borrowed a number of
Burning Man memes and tropes.

Another fun thing I did recently was appear on Duncan Trussell’s Family
Hour (
https://danielpinchbeck.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=3ca3862889fa9a4809f017533&id=fce2c21159&e=f13febb92b

), speaking about my recently released book The Occult Control System, on
aliens, UFOS, Rudolf Steiner, and much more. Give it a listen! We also
discussed When Plants Dream (
https://danielpinchbeck.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=3ca3862889fa9a4809f017533&id=dd6e291fbf&e=f13febb92b

), my new book on the global spread of ayahuasca, coauthored with Sophia
Rokhlin, which comes out in September from Watkins Books.

Deep Zero is available today on Kindle ($6.66) (
https://danielpinchbeck.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=3ca3862889fa9a4809f017533&id=edb702705a&e=f13febb92b

). It will be out in a few days as a paperback on demand. I hope you will
allow it to tickle your mind. The opening scene and description are also on
Medium (
https://danielpinchbeck.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=3ca3862889fa9a4809f017533&id=4fdb98b3ec&e=f13febb92b

).

Kind regards,

Daniel

–>

Facebook (
https://danielpinchbeck.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=3ca3862889fa

[P2P-F] Key essay on the history of the market-commons relationships

[Michel Bauwens]

I very strongly recommend ths as a absolute must-read.

It is entirely aligned with my own conclusions and consistent with the
books and essays I have read on this part of medieval history:

** Article: Capitalism and the Commons. By Adam Arvidsson.Theory, Culture &
Society, 2019*

URL = https://www.academia.edu/40231280/CAPITALISM_AND_THE_COMMONS?
Contents [hide 
]

   - 1 Abstract
   
   - 2 Contents
   
   - 3 Excerpts
   
  - 3.1 Author's Summary
  


Abstract[edit

]

"This article investigates the potential role of the commons in the future
transformation of digital capitalism by comparing it to the role of the
commons in the transition to capitalism. In medieval and early modern
Europe the commons supported gradual social and technological innovation as
well as a new civil society organized around the combination of
commons-based petty production and new ideals of freedom and equality.
Today the new commons generated by the global real subsumption of ordinary
life processes are supporting similar forms of commons-based petty
production. After positioning the new petty producers within the framework
of the crisis of digital capitalism, the article concludes by extrapolating
a number of hypothetical scenarios for their role in its future
transformation."
Contents[edit

]

"The paper divides in four sections.

   - After some background and a preliminary definition of key concepts
   (like ‘capitalism’ and ‘commons’),


   - I revisit the role of the commons in the development and crisis of
   European feudalism.


   - The following section seeks to untangle the complicated relation
   between modern capitalism and the commons, and identify the specific role
   of the commons in contemporary digital capitalism.


   - The fourth section suggests that the socialized nature of the digital
   commons is driving a revitalization of forms of commons- based petty
   production similar to those that contributed to undermining the feudal
   order in the 13th and 14th centuries, and draws up a number of hypothetical
   scenarios for the possible future transformation of digital capitalism that
   might result from this."


Excerpts[edit

]

See:

   1. Medieval Commons 
   2. Markets and Commons
   
   3. Anti-Markets 
   4. Markets without Capitalism‎
   

Author's Summary[edit

]

Adam Arvidsson:

" What is the role of the commons in the future of digital capitalism? What
scenarios do the growing economic and cultural significance of digital
commons like Free an Open Source Software, Commons Based Peer Production
and, lately, blockchain technologies entail? This essay suggest that as
well as a significant source of resistance to capitalism, the digital
commons also support new forms of market oriented ‘petty production’ (to
use Marx’ term). In many ways, this is similar to the role that the commons
- rural and urban - played in the crisis of feudalism in the European Late
Middle Ages. Then as now, the commons were a powerful source of alternative
lifestyles and social movements. They were also crucial to the development
of a new market society that became a source of significant technological,
institutional and cultural innovation, laying the foundation for a new
capitalist mode of production. In the last section of the paper, I
speculate on whether the digital commons can support a similar process of
market-driven social transformation, and on how this might change the
nature of digital capitalism in the decades to come. *I have chosen the
experience of European feudalism in the 12th to 14th centuries as my main
point of comparison*, rather than the ‘original accumulation’ of the long
sixteenth century, and the Polanyian Great Transformation of the industrial
revolution, which have been the most important historical references for
contemporary scholarship on the anti-capitalist commons. This is not to
suggest that we are in a new Middle Age, as Umberto Eco famously did in the
1970s (Eco, 1977), but rather to highlight the possible role of
commons-based market actors in driving social change."

-- 

Re: [P2P-F] Farewell to the WSF? (GTN Discussions)

[Michel Bauwens]

thanks!

On Sun, Sep 8, 2019 at 1:54 AM jose ramos  wrote:

> https://eprints.qut.edu.au/40986/
>
> On Sat, 7 Sep. 2019, 10:36 pm Michel Bauwens, 
> wrote:
>
>> and do you have a link to the last chapter, or the phd ?
>>
>> On Fri, Sep 6, 2019 at 3:32 PM jose ramos 
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Only a phd :)
>>>
>>> Last chapter laid it out
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, 6 Sep. 2019, 9:58 pm Michel Bauwens, 
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> have you written anything specific on this, dear Jose, i.e.
>>>>
>>>> >>> strategy, adbusters to occupy failed. WSF did a lot but as this article
>>>> shows it waisted an opportunity. >
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Sep 6, 2019 at 8:16 AM jose ramos 
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> it's a solid analysis. I came to the same conclusions in my 2010
>>>>> thesis :(
>>>>>
>>>>> the evolution of the idea should be for a shared platform for
>>>>> coordinated / strategic action.
>>>>>
>>>>> its really the end of horizontalism as a credible organizing strategy,
>>>>> adbusters to occupy failed. WSF did a lot but as this article shows it
>>>>> waisted an opportunity.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Thu, Sep 5, 2019 at 9:08 PM Michel Bauwens 
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> -- Forwarded message -
>>>>>> From: Great Transition Network 
>>>>>> Date: Wed, Sep 4, 2019 at 10:10 PM
>>>>>> Subject: Farewell to the WSF? (GTN Discussions)
>>>>>> To: 
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> From Roberto Savio [uto...@robertosavio.info]
>>>>>> --
>>>>>>
>>>>>> *[Per Paul's email, reproduced below, we are kicking off this month's
>>>>>> discussion with a response from longtime member of the WSF International
>>>>>> Concil Roberto Savio. We look forward to your contributions. -- JC] *
>>>>>> *Farewell to the World Social Forum?*
>>>>>> Roberto Savio
>>>>>> Opening reflections for a GTN forum, 9/3/19
>>>>>>
>>>>>> *  LOOKING BACK*
>>>>>> The first World Social Forum in 2001 ushered in the new century with
>>>>>> a bold affirmation: “Another world is possible.” That gathering in Porto
>>>>>> Alegre, Brazil, stood as an alternative and a challenge to the World
>>>>>> Economic Forum, held at the same time an ocean away in the snowy Alps of
>>>>>> Davos, Switzerland. A venue for power elites to set the course of world
>>>>>> development, the WEF was then, and remains now, the symbol for global
>>>>>> finance, unchecked capitalism, and the control of politics by 
>>>>>> multinational
>>>>>> corporations.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The WSF, by contrast, was created as an arena for the grassroots to
>>>>>> gain a voice. The idea emerged from a 1999 visit to Paris by two 
>>>>>> Brazilian
>>>>>> activists, Oded Grajew, who was working on corporate social 
>>>>>> responsibility,
>>>>>> and Chico Whitaker, the executive secretary of the Commission of Justice
>>>>>> and Peace, an initiative of the Brazilian Catholic Church. Incensed by 
>>>>>> the
>>>>>> ubiquitous, uncritical news coverage of Davos, they met with Bernard
>>>>>> Cassen, editor of *Le Monde Diplomatique*, who encouraged them to
>>>>>> organize a counter-Davos in the Global South. With support from the
>>>>>> government of Rio Grande do Sul, a committee of eight Brazilian
>>>>>> organizations launched the first WSF. The expectation was that about 
>>>>>> 3,000
>>>>>> people attend (the same as Davos), but instead 20,000 activists from 
>>>>>> around
>>>>>> the world came to Porto Alegre to organize and share their visions for 
>>>>>> six
>>>>>> days.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> WSF annual meetings enjoyed great success, invariably drawing close
>>>>>> to 100

Re: [P2P-F] Farewell to the WSF? (GTN Discussions)

[Michel Bauwens]

and do you have a link to the last chapter, or the phd ?

On Fri, Sep 6, 2019 at 3:32 PM jose ramos  wrote:

> Only a phd :)
>
> Last chapter laid it out
>
>
>
> On Fri, 6 Sep. 2019, 9:58 pm Michel Bauwens, 
> wrote:
>
>> have you written anything specific on this, dear Jose, i.e.
>>
>> > adbusters to occupy failed. WSF did a lot but as this article shows it
>> waisted an opportunity. >
>>
>> On Fri, Sep 6, 2019 at 8:16 AM jose ramos 
>> wrote:
>>
>>> it's a solid analysis. I came to the same conclusions in my 2010 thesis
>>> :(
>>>
>>> the evolution of the idea should be for a shared platform for
>>> coordinated / strategic action.
>>>
>>> its really the end of horizontalism as a credible organizing strategy,
>>> adbusters to occupy failed. WSF did a lot but as this article shows it
>>> waisted an opportunity.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Sep 5, 2019 at 9:08 PM Michel Bauwens 
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> -- Forwarded message -
>>>> From: Great Transition Network 
>>>> Date: Wed, Sep 4, 2019 at 10:10 PM
>>>> Subject: Farewell to the WSF? (GTN Discussions)
>>>> To: 
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> From Roberto Savio [uto...@robertosavio.info]
>>>> --
>>>>
>>>> *[Per Paul's email, reproduced below, we are kicking off this month's
>>>> discussion with a response from longtime member of the WSF International
>>>> Concil Roberto Savio. We look forward to your contributions. -- JC] *
>>>> *Farewell to the World Social Forum?*
>>>> Roberto Savio
>>>> Opening reflections for a GTN forum, 9/3/19
>>>>
>>>> *  LOOKING BACK*
>>>> The first World Social Forum in 2001 ushered in the new century with a
>>>> bold affirmation: “Another world is possible.” That gathering in Porto
>>>> Alegre, Brazil, stood as an alternative and a challenge to the World
>>>> Economic Forum, held at the same time an ocean away in the snowy Alps of
>>>> Davos, Switzerland. A venue for power elites to set the course of world
>>>> development, the WEF was then, and remains now, the symbol for global
>>>> finance, unchecked capitalism, and the control of politics by multinational
>>>> corporations.
>>>>
>>>> The WSF, by contrast, was created as an arena for the grassroots to
>>>> gain a voice. The idea emerged from a 1999 visit to Paris by two Brazilian
>>>> activists, Oded Grajew, who was working on corporate social responsibility,
>>>> and Chico Whitaker, the executive secretary of the Commission of Justice
>>>> and Peace, an initiative of the Brazilian Catholic Church. Incensed by the
>>>> ubiquitous, uncritical news coverage of Davos, they met with Bernard
>>>> Cassen, editor of *Le Monde Diplomatique*, who encouraged them to
>>>> organize a counter-Davos in the Global South. With support from the
>>>> government of Rio Grande do Sul, a committee of eight Brazilian
>>>> organizations launched the first WSF. The expectation was that about 3,000
>>>> people attend (the same as Davos), but instead 20,000 activists from around
>>>> the world came to Porto Alegre to organize and share their visions for six
>>>> days.
>>>>
>>>> WSF annual meetings enjoyed great success, invariably drawing close to
>>>> 100,000 participants (even as high as 150,000 in 2005). Eventually, the
>>>> meetings moved out of Latin America, first to Mumbai in 2004, where 20,000
>>>> Dalits participated, then to Caracas, Nairobi, Dakar, Tunis, and Montreal.
>>>> Along the way, two other streams—Regional Social Forums and Thematic Social
>>>> Forums—were created to complement the annual central gathering, and local
>>>> Forums were held in many countries. Cumulatively, the WSF has brought
>>>> together millions of people willing to pay their travel and lodging costs
>>>> to share their experiences and collective dreams for a better world.
>>>>
>>>> WSF’s Charter of Principles, drafted by the organizing committee of the
>>>> first Forum and adopted at the event itself, reflected these dreams. The
>>>> Charter presents a vision of deeply interconnected civil society groups
>>>> collaborating to create new alterna

Re: [P2P-F] Farewell to the WSF? (GTN Discussions)

[Michel Bauwens]

have you written anything specific on this, dear Jose, i.e.



On Fri, Sep 6, 2019 at 8:16 AM jose ramos  wrote:

> it's a solid analysis. I came to the same conclusions in my 2010 thesis :(
>
> the evolution of the idea should be for a shared platform for coordinated
> / strategic action.
>
> its really the end of horizontalism as a credible organizing strategy,
> adbusters to occupy failed. WSF did a lot but as this article shows it
> waisted an opportunity.
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, Sep 5, 2019 at 9:08 PM Michel Bauwens 
> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> -- Forwarded message -
>> From: Great Transition Network 
>> Date: Wed, Sep 4, 2019 at 10:10 PM
>> Subject: Farewell to the WSF? (GTN Discussions)
>> To: 
>>
>>
>> From Roberto Savio [uto...@robertosavio.info]
>> --
>>
>> *[Per Paul's email, reproduced below, we are kicking off this month's
>> discussion with a response from longtime member of the WSF International
>> Concil Roberto Savio. We look forward to your contributions. -- JC] *
>> *Farewell to the World Social Forum?*
>> Roberto Savio
>> Opening reflections for a GTN forum, 9/3/19
>>
>> *  LOOKING BACK*
>> The first World Social Forum in 2001 ushered in the new century with a
>> bold affirmation: “Another world is possible.” That gathering in Porto
>> Alegre, Brazil, stood as an alternative and a challenge to the World
>> Economic Forum, held at the same time an ocean away in the snowy Alps of
>> Davos, Switzerland. A venue for power elites to set the course of world
>> development, the WEF was then, and remains now, the symbol for global
>> finance, unchecked capitalism, and the control of politics by multinational
>> corporations.
>>
>> The WSF, by contrast, was created as an arena for the grassroots to gain
>> a voice. The idea emerged from a 1999 visit to Paris by two Brazilian
>> activists, Oded Grajew, who was working on corporate social responsibility,
>> and Chico Whitaker, the executive secretary of the Commission of Justice
>> and Peace, an initiative of the Brazilian Catholic Church. Incensed by the
>> ubiquitous, uncritical news coverage of Davos, they met with Bernard
>> Cassen, editor of *Le Monde Diplomatique*, who encouraged them to
>> organize a counter-Davos in the Global South. With support from the
>> government of Rio Grande do Sul, a committee of eight Brazilian
>> organizations launched the first WSF. The expectation was that about 3,000
>> people attend (the same as Davos), but instead 20,000 activists from around
>> the world came to Porto Alegre to organize and share their visions for six
>> days.
>>
>> WSF annual meetings enjoyed great success, invariably drawing close to
>> 100,000 participants (even as high as 150,000 in 2005). Eventually, the
>> meetings moved out of Latin America, first to Mumbai in 2004, where 20,000
>> Dalits participated, then to Caracas, Nairobi, Dakar, Tunis, and Montreal.
>> Along the way, two other streams—Regional Social Forums and Thematic Social
>> Forums—were created to complement the annual central gathering, and local
>> Forums were held in many countries. Cumulatively, the WSF has brought
>> together millions of people willing to pay their travel and lodging costs
>> to share their experiences and collective dreams for a better world.
>>
>> WSF’s Charter of Principles, drafted by the organizing committee of the
>> first Forum and adopted at the event itself, reflected these dreams. The
>> Charter presents a vision of deeply interconnected civil society groups
>> collaborating to create new alternatives to neoliberal capitalism rooted in
>> “human rights, the practices of real democracy, participatory democracy,
>> peaceful relations, in equality and solidarity, among people, ethnicities,
>> genders and peoples.”
>>
>> Yet, the “how” of realizing any vision was hamstrung from the start. The
>> Charter’s first principle describes the WSF as an “open meeting place,”
>> which, as interpreted by the Brazilian founders, precluded it from taking
>> stances on pressing world crises. This resistance to collective political
>> action relegated the WSF to a self-referential place of debate, rather than
>> a body capable of taking real action in the international arena.
>>
>> It didn’t have to be this way. Indeed, the 2002 European Social Forum
>> called for mass protest against the looming US invasion of Iraq, and the
>> subsequent 2003 Forum played a major role in organizing the day of action
>> the following 

[P2P-F] Fwd: Farewell to the WSF? (GTN Discussions)

[Michel Bauwens]

-- Forwarded message -
From: Great Transition Network 
Date: Wed, Sep 4, 2019 at 10:10 PM
Subject: Farewell to the WSF? (GTN Discussions)
To: 


>From Roberto Savio [uto...@robertosavio.info]
--

*[Per Paul's email, reproduced below, we are kicking off this month's
discussion with a response from longtime member of the WSF International
Concil Roberto Savio. We look forward to your contributions. -- JC] *
*Farewell to the World Social Forum?*
Roberto Savio
Opening reflections for a GTN forum, 9/3/19

*  LOOKING BACK*
The first World Social Forum in 2001 ushered in the new century with a bold
affirmation: “Another world is possible.” That gathering in Porto Alegre,
Brazil, stood as an alternative and a challenge to the World Economic
Forum, held at the same time an ocean away in the snowy Alps of Davos,
Switzerland. A venue for power elites to set the course of world
development, the WEF was then, and remains now, the symbol for global
finance, unchecked capitalism, and the control of politics by multinational
corporations.

The WSF, by contrast, was created as an arena for the grassroots to gain a
voice. The idea emerged from a 1999 visit to Paris by two Brazilian
activists, Oded Grajew, who was working on corporate social responsibility,
and Chico Whitaker, the executive secretary of the Commission of Justice
and Peace, an initiative of the Brazilian Catholic Church. Incensed by the
ubiquitous, uncritical news coverage of Davos, they met with Bernard
Cassen, editor of *Le Monde Diplomatique*, who encouraged them to organize
a counter-Davos in the Global South. With support from the government of
Rio Grande do Sul, a committee of eight Brazilian organizations launched
the first WSF. The expectation was that about 3,000 people attend (the same
as Davos), but instead 20,000 activists from around the world came to Porto
Alegre to organize and share their visions for six days.

WSF annual meetings enjoyed great success, invariably drawing close to
100,000 participants (even as high as 150,000 in 2005). Eventually, the
meetings moved out of Latin America, first to Mumbai in 2004, where 20,000
Dalits participated, then to Caracas, Nairobi, Dakar, Tunis, and Montreal.
Along the way, two other streams—Regional Social Forums and Thematic Social
Forums—were created to complement the annual central gathering, and local
Forums were held in many countries. Cumulatively, the WSF has brought
together millions of people willing to pay their travel and lodging costs
to share their experiences and collective dreams for a better world.

WSF’s Charter of Principles, drafted by the organizing committee of the
first Forum and adopted at the event itself, reflected these dreams. The
Charter presents a vision of deeply interconnected civil society groups
collaborating to create new alternatives to neoliberal capitalism rooted in
“human rights, the practices of real democracy, participatory democracy,
peaceful relations, in equality and solidarity, among people, ethnicities,
genders and peoples.”

Yet, the “how” of realizing any vision was hamstrung from the start. The
Charter’s first principle describes the WSF as an “open meeting place,”
which, as interpreted by the Brazilian founders, precluded it from taking
stances on pressing world crises. This resistance to collective political
action relegated the WSF to a self-referential place of debate, rather than
a body capable of taking real action in the international arena.

It didn’t have to be this way. Indeed, the 2002 European Social Forum
called for mass protest against the looming US invasion of Iraq, and the
subsequent 2003 Forum played a major role in organizing the day of action
the following month with 15 million protesters in the streets of 800 cities
on all continents—the largest demonstration in history at the time.
However, the WSF’s core organizers, who were not interested in this path,
held sway, a phenomenon inextricable from the democratic deficit that has
always dogged the Forum.

Indeed, the WSF has never had a democratically elected leadership. After
the first gathering, the Brazilian host committee convened a meeting in Sao
Paolo to discuss how best to carry the WSF forward. They invited numerous
international organizations, and on the second day of the meeting appointed
us all as the International Council. Several important organizations, not
interested in this meeting, were left off the council, and those who did
attend were predominately from Europe and the Americas. In the ensuing
years, efforts to change the composition created as many problems as they
solved. Many organizations wanted to be represented on the Council, but due
to vague criteria for evaluating their representativeness and strength, the
Council soon became a long list of names (most inactive), with the roster
of participants changing with every Council meeting. Despite repeated
requests from participating organizations,

[P2P-F] Fwd: Launch of the Industry Commons Foundation

[Michel Bauwens]

-- Forwarded message -
From: Andrew Dubber 
Date: Thu, Sep 5, 2019 at 12:46 PM
Subject: Launch of the Industry Commons Foundation
To: Michel Bauwens 


Our biggest announcement yet

*Photography: Andrea Cerrato*

Hi Michel,

As you know, *#MTFLabs* have put creativity at the centre of innovation
across all industry sectors for a long time. For the past couple of years,
we've been working on a scale up of that MTF innovation ecosystem.

Last week, we finally received official validation from Stockholm County of
our new not-for-profit organisation: Industry Commons Foundation
<https://musictechfest.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=2fff492682fa89054a14e8980&id=6e4a512891&e=8bfc5ce1d6>.
This is a huge deal for the entire MTF community.

The *Industry Commons* places culture and creativity at the core of
industry innovation, protects the intellectual property of both the source
technology provider and the individual innovators, and democratises radical
innovation using the latest technologies.

It enables technology transfer from academia and industry to labs filled
with brilliant innovators from the global MTF community, it supports the
ingenious transversal and hybrid ideas that come out of that process
through incubation, creates entirely new market categories and helps those
ideas grow to commercial prototype.

The creation of this foundation provides the platform, infrastructure and
network to boost the intellectual capital that emerges from this diverse
and multi-disciplinary community.

The *Industry Commons* is the brainchild of MTF's founder and innovation
advisor to the European Commission, Michela Magas, who will serve as the
Foundation's chair.

On its board is a collection of absolute luminaries
<https://musictechfest.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=2fff492682fa89054a14e8980&id=a1c1b6a6e6&e=8bfc5ce1d6>
including: the VP Innovation for Imperial College London; the former
Director of Intel Labs Europe; the Director of the Swedish Media Council;
the founder of the European Network of Living Labs; the COO of Urban ICT
Arena at Kista; CEO of Innovation Pioneers; Head of Innovation for the
Swedish National Space Agency; Executive Director of the EU Law Observatory
of New Technologies; the Programme Director of the Data as an Enabler
Programme at Vake; and yours truly.

Next week we'll be announcing the first *Industry Commons Ecosystem (ICE)
Labs* to take place later this year in the lead up to the next Music Tech
Fest, where we'll showcase the results.

In the meantime, I wanted to let you know what we've been working on. It's
such a huge achievement and I'm so proud to be associated with this
incredible group of world-class innovation leaders. Really looking forward
to seeing what we can make happen with this amazing team and structure in
place.

All the best,

Andrew Dubber
Director, *Music Tech Fest*
Steering Board Member, *Industry Commons Foundation*


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[P2P-F] new Jose Ramos (P2P Foundation) course on cosmo-localism

[Michel Bauwens]

we are very proud of this pioneering course:

This new course by Jose Ramos should be given worldwide,

Futures of Production Through Cosmo-Local and Commons-Based Design


20-21 Sept 2019 ; Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai


https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Futures_of_Production_Through_Cosmo-Local_and_Commons-Based_Design

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[P2P-F] Capitalism and the Commons

[Michel Bauwens]

everything from Adam Arvidsson is always stimulating and worth reading:

"This article investigates the potential role of the commons in the future
transformation of digital capitalism by comparing it to the role of the
commons in the transition to capitalism. In medieval and early modern
Europe the commons supported gradual social and technological innovation as
well as a new civil society organized around the combination of
commons-based petty production and new ideals of freedom and equality.
Today the new commons generated by the global real subsumption of ordinary
life processes are supporting similar forms of commons-based petty
production. After positioning the new petty producers within the framework
of the crisis of digital capitalism, the article concludes by extrapolating
a number of hypothetical scenarios for their role in its future
transformation."

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0263276419868838?

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[P2P-F] Fwd: Full Circle: Resources for #postgrowth leaders at this crucial moment

[Michel Bauwens]

"In their new book, Nurturing Our Humanity: How Domination and Partnership
Shape Our Brains, Lives, and Future, Riane Eisler and Douglas P. Fry bring
together evidence to show that current systems of social domination are far
from inevitable. The alternative is a partnership system, which encourages
more peaceful, equitable, and sustainable outcomes. This way of life has
occurred in the past – and it can happen again."

https://centerforpartnership.org/product/nurturing-our-humanity/?
-- Forwarded message -
From: Post Growth Institute 
Date: Wed, Aug 28, 2019 at 7:30 PM
Subject: Full Circle:  Resources for #postgrowth leaders at this crucial
moment
To: Michel 


Post-growth perspectives offer insights for some of humanity's biggest
challenges. Are you ready to lead the way? Let's shift the worldview,
together.

Dear PGI Master,

It's often comforting to know that many, *many people are working towards a
better world*. Especially when feelings of hopelessness and negativity
threaten to overwhelm.

Here are the Post Growth Institute, we're witnessing the *lasting impact of
local projects*, and the ways *small stories ripple out in unexpected
directions. *Transformation is a process. By *embodying the lifestyle and
values we believe in*, we create a framework for them to spread and grow.

That's why, ultimately, leadership is a journey inwards: *A path towards
resilience and compassion **that comes full circle* as we gather the
strength to affect action.

This month, our newsletter includes resources and inspiration to *help you
lead by example towards a #postgrowth future* – whether you're steeling
yourself to step out and foster change, or already active in your community
with a project, nonprofit, or initiative.

Our revolutionary Offers and Needs Market (OANM) brings people
together to *exchange their
passions, skills, and resources*. *Read about Zimbabwe's first OANM* and *find
out how to start one in your own community.* Plus, in a newly released
book, discover why* it only takes a shift in perspective *to begin building
societies that harness our innate capacities for consciousness, caring, and
creativity.

Thanks for all you do for people and the planet.

Zimbabwe's first Offers and Needs Market

Some truly amazing things happened at Zimbabwe's first Offers and Needs
Market. In our latest article, Ignite Youth founder Tadzie Madzima explains
how the experience helped 150 young people become more confident and proud
of who they are.

*Read the full story*

*.*

*Find out about starting your own Offers and Needs Market*

*.*
[image: Screenshot of Post Growth Medium publication]

Postgrowth projects
Local communities across the world are leading the way to #postgrowth
futures through circular, regenerative projects and initiatives – from food
systems to healthcare to transit and co-living.

*Explore #postgrowth leadership.*

[image: Book cover for Nurturing Our Humanity: How Domination and
Partnership Shape Our Brains, Lives, and Future by Riane Eisler and Douglas
P. Fry]

Nurturing Our Humanity
In their new book, *Nurturing Our Humanity: How Domination and Partnership
Shape Our Brains, Lives, and Future*
,
Riane Eisler and Douglas P. Fry bring together evidence to show that
current systems of social domination are far from inevitable. The
alternative is a partnership system, which encourages more peaceful,
equitable, and sustainable outcomes. This way of life has occurred in the
past – and it can happen again.

*Buy the book here*

*.*
Share your #postgrowth project, story, or experience
We’re always looking for inspiring stories on #postgrowth themes. *Browse
our Post Growth publication*

and *submit a pitch or article*

to share with the world.

[P2P-F] Fwd: A faster Open Food Network platform, Olivier De Schutter joins Open Food Network, and a resource for funding sustainable food systems

[Michel Bauwens]

-- Forwarded message -
From: Open Food Network Australia 
Date: Wed, Aug 28, 2019 at 7:44 AM
Subject: A faster Open Food Network platform, Olivier De Schutter joins
Open Food Network, and a resource for funding sustainable food systems
To: 


Open Food Network updates and opportunities
View this email in your browser


Hi there!
It's almost spring, and here at Open Food Network Australia it feels like
it - we have new projects and exciting developments popping up all over the
place! Scroll to read more about a major upgrade to the Open Food Network
platform, our newest ambassador, a briefing which helps community food
enterprises make the case for funding, and more.
*A faster, more efficient Open Food Network*

Over the years we’ve been running Open Food Network we’ve been working
tirelessly to build the tools that food enterprises need to succeed. With
our tiny, part time development team working remotely in the UK, Australia,
Catalonia, Portugal, Philippines and France, and with people running food
enterprises all around the world, we’re working together to build common
infrastructure to power our food sovereignty!

For much of this time we’ve focussed on features like subscriptions, and
product import. But the time came for us to spend some time focussing on
some of the underlying infrastructure. We've just finished a major
upgrade to the performance of Open Food Network and we can now start to
reap the rewards, with massive speed improvements:
[image: The shops page is 92% faster, The maps page is 98% faster, The
Admin-Order Cycle page is 70% faster]
Along with improved performance, the release of this upgrade includes some
user experience improvements, and a security update.

You can read more about the upgrade on our site
,
along with the news of what the next exciting features in the pipeline are.
*Our new Australian website*

We recently did a major overhaul of our information website that sits
alongside our platform. You can still find the platform at
openfoodnetwork.org.au

but you can also see all of our other resources and Open Food Network
Australia work at *about.openfoodnetwork.org.au*

*Our new global website*

We have also completed an overhaul of our global *Open Food Network website
*.
Check it out to read more about how the Open Food Network is used around
the world, and how our global teams work together to create the shared
infrastructure needed to power a new food system.

Check it out at *openfoodnetwork.org
*
*Welcome, Olivier De Schutter*


We are thrilled to welcome Olivier De Schutter, former Special Rapporteur
on the right to food, as our newest Open Food Network ambassador. He says:

“I am very proud to be an Open Food Network Ambassador. For me, the Open
Food Network is an essential tool because it enables the different eaters
of a given territory or community, to connect and build initiatives
together.

It helps connect these eaters directly with local producers, enabling them
to support the emergence of local agrifood systems.

This virtual highway is a common resource, using the potential of digital
media to connect these communities of eaters and farmers – working together
for food sovereignty. It’s absolutely essential for these alternative
systems to develop. This tool enables everyone to contribute to fill in
information, that can be used to grow this virtual community, gathering
connections and strength until finally it is the new mainstream agri-food
system."

Watch the interview with Olivier

to hear the three rules he uses to guide his food choices, and why he
thinks the Open Food Network is so important to building a better food
system.
*Helping food enterprises operate efficiently*
We recently spent a day at the Harcourt Organic Farming Co-op helping them
design systems th

Re: [P2P-F] P2P-Foundation Digest, Vol 104, Issue 7

[Michel Bauwens]

roof of any campaign of myself against these individuals. I don't like
what they stand for, I oppose their politics, but I do not engage in
personal retribution. I have literally never done this in my life and don't
intend too. I am actively conflict-averse and see only negatives in
retribution. But let me venture a guess about what is behind this claim,
the people who deplatformed me in Berlin object to my publicising of their
action, in order for me to find an alternative venue. This is simple
self-defense, if they wish to deplatform, they cannot expect this to be a
secret, as it is a anti-democratic action. It is their right, but it comes
with a price tag, and it can indeed backfire (jordan peterson essentially
thanks his popularity to those that attempted to deplatform him, he was an
unknown before).

I can assure readers here that there have been zero such campaigns; the
reality is rather different, there is a campaign by this group of people,
who are constantly sending screenshots of small bits of phrases from myself
and others, and send them out to people like Kevin; (mostly, merely
discussing JP is considered to be a hate crime) The reality is the contrary
of what Kevin affirms, I have actively been deplatformed by them; on my
side, there has literally been nothing else than the defensive debates on
the Open P2P forum, where I have to defend my speech rights and that of our
pluralistic community. About 40-50 people left last August after the
intense altercations, while several hundreds came on. I expelled 5-6 people
because it was impossible to keep the peace in a community of 6,000 when a
few are constantly accusing all the others of being sexist, racist, etc..
for the mere fact of having a disagreement. Personal attacks and racial
statements have always been against our statutes. I take the responsibility
for policing this.

In conclusion, it is clear to me that there is no longer a place, on the
p2p forums that I manage, for people who favor racial and gender rankings.
I respect their preferences, but do not wish them to take place in our
forums. Do not for one minute think that these people are on the left or
progressives, they have very systematically overturned these principles in
their contrary. They are a clear and present danger to the future of our
democracy and the very possibility of civilized life. They favour a
politics of constant fragementation and inter-group strife, and their
incessant demands for purity create the conditions for a totalitarian
disater. Think of them as the cousins of the alt-right.

I have a huge database of documentation for those that have any doubts that
any of my claims about this movement are untrue, or just an interpretation.
I urge people to watch the multi-part documentary of Benjamin Boyce on the
troubles in Evergreen State College, which are the events that opened my
own eyes to the reality of this toxic evolution.

Since Kevin is seemingly aligning himself with identitarianism, I must
admit this came as a great surprise, as nothing in his books previously
indicated this penchant, it is good and proper that our ways separate. I
fear this will lead to a further implosion of the left, but have hope that
the Sanders/Warrensof this world will continue to focus on issues that can
unite rather than divide and fragment.

The way to pacify this is simple, we need to stay out of each other''s way.
Let me do my curation in the p2p group, as I have done for 10 years, in a
open and pluralistic way, without propaganda for any particular group. All
are welcome but the obvious 'rankists', since that is incompatible with the
p2p ethos. People interested in these approaches, can join the P2P Left
group on Facebook, it's a guaranteed safe space for those who agree with it.

Michel Bauwens



>1. Statement on the P2P Foundation (Kevin Carson)
>
> --
>
> Message: 1
> Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2019 11:33:29 -0500
> From: Kevin Carson 
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> It grieves me to write this, but I feel I have no choice but to do so
> if I want to be able to live with myself in good conscience.
>
> I remember some time ago that Michel posted something on the P2P
> Foundation email list reflecting the mindset of Jordan Peterson and/or
> Quillette (I forget the details) and expressed my negative reaction to
> it, and didn't think any more about it afterwards because I didn't
> notice anything further along those lines on-list and the Blog has
> also apparently steered clear of such issues.
>
> But earlier this year a comrade at C4SS.org informed me that such
> material -- alt-right or "Intelle

[P2P-F] Fwd: NEWS (Announcements)

[Michel Bauwens]

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>From Paul Raskin [pras...@tellus.org]
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Please help disseminate GTI publications by reposting, distributing, and
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The next GTN forum—*Farewell to the World Social Forum?*—will explore the
life and times of the WSF, and debate what should come next. I’ll launch it
in early September. Stay tuned.

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•Felix Dodds’s new book *Stakeholder Democracy: Represented Democracy
in a Time of Fear*
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•Gus Speth’s new collection of poetry *What We Have Instead *

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[P2P-F] Fwd: Two free Techfestival tickets? Bring more friends!

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[P2P-F] Fwd: Where is Paradise?

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Subject: Where is Paradise?
To: 


August 13th, 2019
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**|* *Paradise
Lost, The Sequel* <#m_5699525418494821509_Paradise+Lost> by Said E.
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Where is Paradise?
Dear Reader,

Is Paradise located outside or inside you? Maybe there is a special place
you have been that feels like Paradise: your ancestral home, or an ancient
forest. Or maybe you have touched Paradise in silence, or a lover’s caress.

Imagine a hundred people whose minds are full of hatred and anger coming
together. They will create hell on Earth for each other and other beings.
How about one thousand people! But when a thousand people come together in
love, joy, and inclusiveness, they can create a community that is like a
Paradise. Our minds form the basis of our hell or heaven. Of course, real
conditions of injustice and suffering exist, but when our hearts and minds
are anchored in the true nature of being, we have deeper insight into the
sources of injustice, and more energy to transform our conditions.

Here are collected some thoughts and resources to inspire you this week.
Where is Paradise for you? Is it beyond this earthly realm? Or is it here
and now in the crucible of community and change? Where two or more
gather…may we make a small Paradise.
*Climate Crisis As Initiation? Defend the Sacred | Join the Live Stream*

 Are you interested in the “Defend the Sacred” conference at  *Tamera Peace
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*in
Portugal, August 16–19, but can’t make it in person? Tune in via livestream
and follow the main events online in real time. Tamera be transmitting all
4 of the conference’s keynote panels. Leaders of Indigenous communities,
social movements and systemic alternatives will reflect on their
experiences of activism and spirituality and share prospects for a global
culture of cooperation.

On Saturday, August 17, 9.30–10.45 am BST, a panel will address the
question, “Climate Crisis as Initiation?” and feature Tokata Iron Eyes
(president of the Standing Rock Youth Council), Marina Nobre
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Portugal
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Read More About Tamera in Kosmos

*August Featured Poet | Nanette Lashuay*
*Nanette Lashuay has been a community health organizer for low-wage workers
in East Oakland, an anti-war activist, and an assistant professor at the
University of California, San Francisco. After several volunteer stints as
a wildlife researcher in Kenya, she moved to Africa in 2007 and now lives
in Zanzibar, Tanzania with her husband and two lovely stepdaughters whose
native land it is. Her fiction has appeared in The Kenyon Review.*

An Unexpected Heaven

I once went nose-to-nose with a snake, a red-specked garter
basking on the path, too content—it seemed—to flee at my approach.

I seized the invitation, bellied-down, and inched over on my elbows
to contemplate the rightness of a snake’s life.

Up close, silicate particles glitter star-size in the dust, many shining
shades of green compose the grass. Skimming shadows make me

quiver. Hot sun above, cool earth below bring enlightenment. I long
to slither, leaving swoops of joy and arcs of S’s for birds to chirp.

>From this squat view, human concepts crumbl

[P2P-F] Fwd: PGA Post: Staging an economic 'die in' to Reclaim Our Economy

[Michel Bauwens]

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From: Post Growth Alliance 
Date: Wed, Aug 14, 2019 at 6:36 PM
Subject: PGA Post: Staging an economic 'die in' to Reclaim Our Economy
To: Michel 


A ‘die in’ is just one of the tools organizers are using to draw attention
to our unsustainable economic system.

An recent economic 'die-in', in Essen, Germany.
Dear Michel,

As a supporter of the Post Growth Alliance

you're helping shine a light on work that's shifting the worldview. Thank
you!

To assist Reclaim our Economy

in
organizing a European Economy Action Camp, please:
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attention to our unsustainable economic system. Join others in #Brussels
this Sept. to coordinate these kind of actions:
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The coordinated action emerging from Europe is so inspiring!

In Essen, Germany, a small group recently organized a non-violent 'die-in'.
Here people quietly lie down in a busy consumer setting to 'interrupt the
signal' - to prompt conversation, reflection and attention around our
economic system.

Participating is exhilarating, empowering and so easy to do! (for most of
the people in this video, it was their first time doing anything like this).

Organized by Reclaim Our Economy, this action was the first in a series,
building to a major European initiative in 2020. The next step is an
organizing camp in Brussels from September 27th - 29th, and all are welcome
to join!

Learn more and sign up to join others passionate about here:
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[P2P-F] Fwd: The 9% Lie: Industrial Food and Climate Change

[Michel Bauwens]

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From: Jonathan Latham 
Date: Thu, Aug 8, 2019 at 6:36 PM
Subject: The 9% Lie: Industrial Food and Climate Change
To: 


Dear Friends and Colleagues

Published today (Aug 8th, 2019) in *Independent Science News*.

*The 9% Lie: Industrial Food and Climate Change*
by Ronnie Cummins

https://www.independentsciencenews.org/environment/the-9-lie-industrial-food-and-climate-change/

*Synopsis:* As the result of a joint calculation, the USDA and the US EPA
have begun claiming that US agricultures’ contribution to the climate
crisis represents 9% of total national green house gas emissions. The size
of this number is hugely important in terms of where to search for climate
solutions. According to the author these estimates are smokescreens and the
true number is approximately 5-6 fold higher. In other words, *most* US
greenhouse gas emissions come from agriculture and the food sector. This
low-balling is very convenient for the commercial interest groups that
benefit from the wasteful status quo of the US food system.

The author is director and co-founder of the Organic Consumers Association.

Please consider sharing this article.

Yours sincerely
Jonathan

Jonathan Latham, PhD
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[P2P-F] Fwd: Shareable's Film Premiere, New Cooperative Bookstore in Michigan, and More

[Michel Bauwens]

-- Forwarded message -
From: Shareable 
Date: Wed, Jul 31, 2019 at 5:02 PM
Subject: Shareable's Film Premiere, New Cooperative Bookstore in Michigan,
and More
To: Michel Bauwens 


<https://www.sharingcities.net/r?u=PhRuiz4x_CuV-VTdUGsue13cPnOdv3cMWgT-yA4GpmA&e=ea93a0bcb42dc60eca5621e8ea7359e6&utm_source=shareable&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=weekly_7_31_19&n=1>

The premiere of our new film "The Response" was a huge success last week.
Over 110 people attended the screening and panel discussion in Oakland,
California last Wednesday night. Over the next few months, we plan on
hosting screenings worldwide. If you are interested in hosting a screening
in your neighborhood, let us know
<https://www.sharingcities.net/r?u=PhRuiz4x_CuV-VTdUGsue9l23uVmNlS5SULrM1U4e5K6qKc2IfgZeb_V6AQ3XmVBXoTqr_CWJOGqEu5EDo4RLWpxWhLN_QHJj7qWvzJRMC8&e=ea93a0bcb42dc60eca5621e8ea7359e6&utm_source=shareable&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=weekly_7_31_19&n=2>
and we'll be in touch with more information soon.
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Latest stories

Shareable launches 'The Response' film in Oakland, while in Puerto Rico
governor resigns
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Almost two years after Hurricane Maria, the mutual aid centers established
by the subjects of "The Response" film are still running daily activities
and engaging the community far beyond the basic needs of post-disaster
survival, as they plan to long into the future. The film points to the ways
that disaster can open a conversation in a community about social cohesion
and foster change that lasts long after the emergency has passed.

ADDress-ing Japan's vacant house issue
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basis with a mission of putting vacant houses to good use.

Cooperative bookstore launches in Hamtramck, Michigan
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A group of former nonprofit workers got together a few years ago and
decided to create a cooperative bookstore that could also be a community
hub.

Bridging Ages' Life Stories Project connects seniors and teens
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The Life Stories Project that pairs teenagers with seniors, is reducing
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San Francisco, United States | September 12-13

Crowdsourcing lives on the web, but this September it's touching 

[P2P-F] Fwd: Our Latest Podcast with Ron Whitney

[Michel Bauwens]

-- Forwarded message -
From: Thomas Greco 
Date: Wed, Jul 31, 2019 at 6:40 PM
Subject: Our Latest Podcast with Ron Whitney
To: Michel 


Our Latest Podcast with Ron Whitney

In our latest Beyond Money Podcast

we explore with Ron Whitney the evolution of the commercial trade exchange
industry, which over the past 50 years has proven the workability of credit
clearing as a way of doing business without the need for money payment.

Ron operated his own trade exchange for 15 years, and since 2007 has taken
on the role of President and CEO of IRTA, the International Reciprocal
Trade Association, the premier trade association of, and advocate for, the
commercial trade exchange industry.

Ron shares his vast knowledge and insights about the current challenges,
prospects, and opportunities, including a description of the benefits of
trade exchange membership and the increasing use of Universal Currency (UC)
to enable purchases and sales over an extended trade exchange network.

This interview can be found at:
http://beyondmoney.libsyn.com/ron-whitney-irta
,
or https://soundcloud.com/user-27167973/ron-whitney-irta

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You can find links to all of our Beyond Money Podcasts at
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[P2P-F] Fwd: Session on SSE, the Commons and prefigurative politics: ISA Forum Call for Abstracts by Sept 30

[Michel Bauwens]

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From: Ana Margarida Esteves 
Date: Thu, Jul 25, 2019 at 11:31 AM
Subject: Session on SSE, the Commons and prefigurative politics: ISA Forum
Call for Abstracts by Sept 30
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Sveinung Legard 


Dear all,

Here is information on how to apply to the the upcoming ISA Forum, which
will take place in July 2020 in Porto Alegre, Brazil.

I invite you to submit papers to the following panel I am organizing:

>From “Alternative Spaces” to Counterpower: Promoting Post Capitalist
Livelihoods through Prefigurative Politics


RC47 Social Classes and Social Movements (host committee)

Language: English

Session Type: Oral

How do social movements promote prefigurative political projects that
balance the realization of post capitalist livelihoods, while at the same
time engaging with previously existing economic, cultural and institutional
structures? This panel invites presentations which illustrate processes by
which prefigurative political projects become counterpower through the
“co-production” of networks of trust and collaboration across different
social groups and institutional environments, leading to the diffusion of
“socio-ethical and counter-cultural practices” experimented with, enacted
and coordinated within “alternative spaces”.

 It looks specifically for contributions on the scaling up or diffusion of:

   - Solidarity Economy markets, purchasing groups and other examples of
   post capitalist re-signification of the market through anti-middleman,
   producer-to-consumer exchanges that engage producers and consumers in the
   embedment of economic activity in norms and practices of cooperation,
   social and environmental justice;
   - Innovations in communication technology which promote systemic,
   pattern and relationship-based approaches to the processing of information,
   as well as cooperative approaches to the processing of exchanges among
   actors;
   - Innovations in agricultural, manufacturing and infrastructural
   technology, based on regenerative approaches which internalize resource use
   and support production relocalization and food system reterritorialization;
   - Policy and regulatory innovations which support post capitalist
   livelihoods, resulting from the engagement of state and political parties
   in the diffusion of practices developed within “alternative spaces”;
   - Institutional innovations which promote participatory democracy and
   the widening of social and economic rights by furthering epistemological,
   cultural, functional, sexual and gender justice, diversity and inclusion in
   the construction of post capitalist livelihoods.

Session Organizer:
*Ana Margarida ESTEVES*, Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL),
Centro de Estudos Internacionais, Lisboa, Portugal, Portugal

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[P2P-F] Fwd: Making the Universe Great Again

[Michel Bauwens]

contrarian review of the avengers

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Subject: Making the Universe Great Again
To: Michel Bauwens 


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by Charles Eisenstein

*Image courtesy of Pixabay.*

Two-thirds of the way through the interminable *Avengers: Endgame*, I
leaned over to Stella and whispered, “They say a shared ordeal makes a
marriage stronger.” Gaping plot holes, characters that were more like
self-caricatures, scenes that seemed as if they were grafted in from
another movie, and concatenations of vapid one-liners that served as dialog
made the film nearly unwatchable.

Unwatchable to me, anyway. When I offered my complaints to my teenage son,
he gave me quite a passionate schooling. My incomprehension of the movie
was due largely to my having somehow missed most of the other 22 films in
the *Avengers* franchise. No matter. Philip is right that it is unfair to
pick on *Avengers*. Most of what I am about to say applies to countless
other Hollywood action movies of recent years.

At this point it is customary to issue a spoiler alert. I am going to
reveal pretty much the entire plot. That won’t matter though, because if
you have followed the series you have already seen this film. If you
haven’t, you will find the plot so contrived and the characters so flimsy
that you won’t care what happens.

Walking out of the theater, I felt something else besides the smug glee of
ridicule and the annoyance of three hours squandered. I felt alarm, even
dread. Aesthetics are inseparable from other dimensions of human creation
and human relating. They are political, they are economic, they are
ecological. That such a film even exists, especially with large budget and
resounding commercial success, is diagnostic of a severely diseased
civilization.

The aesthetic shortcomings of *Avengers: Endgame* reflect disturbing trends
in politics and society. Worse, the film is a propaganda and indoctrination
vehicle for those trends.

I’ll explore three of them here: the shattering of causal connections and
holistic understanding; escapism into delusions of restoring a heroic past;
and the descent into a virtual reality of image that seems to excuse us
from the laws of material reality. All of these have profound political
implications.

*Restoring the Past*

*Avengers: Endgame* is the sequel to *Avengers: Infinity War*, in which the
arch-villain, Thanos, succeeds in his evil plan to collect all six infinity
stones and kill half of all living beings in the universe. (Along with
them, he kills half of the superhero Avengers, including Spiderman.) His
rationale is, amusingly, humanitarian and ecological: to alleviate the
suffering caused by overpopulation. Refreshingly, the villain wins complete
victory in that film, which ends with Thanos retiring to a remote planet,
enjoying the sunset as he rests after a job well done.

A few minutes into the new film, a squad of the remaining Avengers find him
on his remote planet. He is occupied in his garden, and has destroyed the
infinity stones so that no one will ever be tempted again by their power.
Unmoved by Thanos’s transformation into an organic gardener and unswayed by
what appears to be his stirrings of regret or at least doubt, they chop off
his head and return home, avenged.

The rest of the movie is occupied with their use of time travel technology
to go back in time, collect the infinity stones from the past, and use them
to undo Thanos’s handiwork. What the stones can do, they can undo. It is
not only the stones that they bring back from the past though, it is also
Thanos himself, and along with him the familiar dramatic engine of heroes
versus arch-villain. Moreover, the Thanos they bring back is not the
nuanced, evolving Thanos in his garden, but an old, unregenerate version,
purely malevolent and unproblematically worth killing.

Neither the filmmakers nor the superheroes knew what to do without him.
Their identity cannot stand without an evil to define them as good, as
heroes. Without Thanos, Thor becomes a drunken oaf, Ironman becomes a
suburban dad, Hawkeye becomes a vigilante assassin, and Hulk becomes a
giant green scientist. Their superpowers are as superfluous as the MX
missile became with the demise of the USSR.

[P2P-F] Fwd: [P2P Foundation - Commons Transition Network WorkGroup] 4: New co-signed letter to the Pope

[Michel Bauwens]

have you noticed that times are changing, also generationally,

I saw three signs recentlly

one, erik davis on a Rebel Wisdom video, explaining how the occult has gone
mainstream

two, the legalization of cannabis

and three, this one here, UFO's taken seriously by the mainstream press,

these three things are unprecedented and a sign that the sixties
underground themes are now mainstream,



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Subject: [P2P Foundation - Commons Transition Network WorkGroup] 4: New
co-signed letter to the Pope
To: 




[image: Daniel Pinchbeck]
*Daniel Pinchbeck* gaf commentaar in: 4: New co-signed letter to the Pope


Looking at UFOS, alien abductions and visitations, through a Gnostic /
Anthroposophic lens

View this email in your browser (
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All of a sudden, the mainstream media has turned its focus on the subject
of UFOs, a global phenomenon they have derided and dismissed until now. The
tone has shifted drastically in recent articles in The New York Times (
https://danielpinchbeck.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=3ca3862889fa9a4809f017533&id=171b74fab4&e=9a23fad358

) (“‘Wow, What Is That?’ Navy Pilots Report Unexplained Flying Objects”)
and Washington Post (
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) (“UFOs Exist and Everyone Needs to Adjust to that Fact”), partly due to
‘Unidentified’, a new series on the History Channel. The series
exhaustively chronicles military encounters with what appear to be diverse
alien craft.

The Times reports on myriad anomalies encountered by pilots as recently as
2015, including an object akin to a “spinning top moving against the wind”
and another “like a sphere encasing a cube.” These objects accelerate to
hypersonic speeds, make sudden stops and instantaneous turns with no
visible engine or exhaust plumes. For some conspiracy theorists, the new
spate of articles suggests we are approaching a threshold of disclosure -
the long-awaited release of withheld information on UFOs and ETs. Others
suspect that this partial disclosure is orchestrated by intelligence
agencies whose motives remain opaque and unclear.

The alien question fascinates me. In 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl (
https://danielpinchbeck.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=3ca3862889fa9a4809f017533&id=758ded020c&e=9a23fad358

), I wrote at length about alien abductions and crop circles, another
complex subject that the mainstream media routinely dismisses and
ridicules. I have taken the new spate of media attention as an opportunity
to advance my thinking on this edgy area. The result is a 50-page essay
that explores the phenomena through a multi-dimensional lens, integrating
ideas from thinkers as diverse as Richard Dolan, Patrick Harpur, Laura
Knight-Jadczyk, Carl Jung, Lisa Renee, Rudolf Steiner, and many more.

The Occult Control System: UFOs, aliens, other dimensions, and future
timelines (
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) is also a thrilling departure for me because it is an entirely
self-published work, available through Amazon on Kindle, and soon as a
print-on-demand paperback. I really hope that you will snag a copy and give
it a read, then let me know what you think. I am eager to contribute to the
cultural discussion around this subject, because I believe we need to
develop a conceptual and philosophical approach as well as a narrative to
make sense of it. Before I published my first book, Breaking Open the Head
(
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[P2P-F] Fwd: Shareable's new book, The Response Film Premiere, and more

[Michel Bauwens]

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Subject: Shareable's new book, The Response Film Premiere, and more
To: Michael Bouwens 




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[P2P-F] Fwd: Evolutionary Toolbox for the Great Transition

[Michel Bauwens]

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From: Smart CSOs Lab 
Date: Thu, Jul 18, 2019 at 4:24 PM
Subject: Evolutionary Toolbox for the Great Transition
To: Michel 


Now available in ebook form in addition to the paper copy.
View this email in your browser

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July 2019

Dear Michel,

We are glad to announce that our new book *Switching off the autopilot: An
evolutionary toolbox for the Great Transition* is now also available in
ebook form as well as in a pdf with a single-page layout.

You can order the book

and ebook

or download the pdf
.


This book is about the ecological crisis that threatens to collapse our
entire civilisation. It is about the crisis of liberal democracy unfolding
before our eyes. And it is about a new approach that aims to tackle both
crises.

[image: front cover of Switching off the autopilot]
Here
are some excerpts from the book:

“We are currently experiencing a continuous spiral of polarisation in our
societies. It is unlikely that we can successfully transform our whole
economic system to tackle the ecological crisis in the face of growing
opposition to this project by a significant segment of our societies.
Progressive civil society in the Western world is far from having
understood the dynamics that are at play in this process of polarisation
and what role they themselves play in this process. Everybody who supports
the Great Transition should also support ways to stop and reverse
polarisation.”

Tribalism is a deep-seated human drive. History shows how the right
circumstances can activate our genetic predispositions, put us into tribal
mode and make us capable of committing the worst atrocities. Culturally, we
need to develop much more awareness of the fact that the enemy is within
us. It is not some kind of outside group of bad people – it’s us. We need
to develop systems, institutions and a culture that prevent us from getting
into tribal mode. This requires first developing a good understanding of
the social mechanisms that make the situation likely. Preventing
significant segments in our societies from feeling threatened is a good
starting point.”

“A systemic approach is open-ended and looks at the world from diverse
perspectives. It is an open-minded and science- based attempt to understand
the system, its grievances, its potential causes and solutions.”

“Instead of dividing the world between bad and good people or seeing it
mainly as a result of structures of oppression created by the dominant
classes, activism would gain much from taking an evolutionary worldview. It
much better explains how we have arrived to where we are now. It explains
the ugly part of human history (domination and oppression), but it also
shows that hierarchy, competition and our groupish instincts have played a
positive role in creating the amazing civilisation that we have. Most
importantly, an evolutionary worldview will help us find better solutions
and strategies for our (intentional) cultural evolution. Nicholas
Christakis: ‘We should be humble in the face of temptations to engineer
society in opposition to our instincts.’ ”

“As an important first step to get out of the current mess, we the Western,
educated, industrialised, rich and democratic (WEIRD) people should indeed
realise that we are the WEIRD minority, globally speaking. We have to learn
to live alongside this majority of people who don’t fully share our
morality. Only from a position of respect will we be able to focus on what
unites us as citizens of this planet. Our fate depends on each other.”

“This book is presenting a preliminary set of ideas for how we should
approach the project of intentional cultural evolution for the Great
Transition. My impression is that we are still in an early stage of
developing the evolutionary toolbox for a successful transformation of our
societies. As a next step we need to set up processes with
multidisciplinary teams who have the capacity, skills and energy to get
involved in prototyping for intentional cultural evolution. In the spirit
of evolution, these teams would be seeding and supporting a pool of
cultural evolution experiments. The goal would be to design variation and
selection systems that will allow alternative institutions or
organisational fo

[P2P-F] Fwd: "How I Launched the First Legal Cafe in Ohio!"

[Michel Bauwens]

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From: Elizabeth Burnett 
Date: Thu, Jul 18, 2019 at 5:30 PM
Subject: "How I Launched the First Legal Cafe in Ohio!"
To: Michel Bauwens 


Dear Michel,

You’ve probably heard about the Law Center’s Resilient Communities Legal
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of how Jacqueline Radebaugh, a Legal Fellow
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launched a Legal Cafe in Dayton providing free legal support to
community-entrepreneurs in her own town.

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[P2P-F] Fwd: Koppelting 2019 subscription has opened

[Michel Bauwens]

-- Forwarded message -
From: Koppelting 
Date: Wed, Jul 10, 2019 at 9:56 PM
Subject: Koppelting 2019 subscription has opened
To: 


Dear all,

>From the 19th of August we will be joining our forces to kick off
Koppelting, a week long p2p festival at De WAR.

During the weekdays we will work in-depth on a few dedicated projects. Work
along on hardware for citizen science. Build DIY sustainability solutions.
Make your own bra. Or bring your own project!

In the weekend, 24 and 25 August, there will be an unconference on a broad
variety of topics that participants bring in, ranging from grassroots
democracy and the biosphere as a commons to public debate on culture.

There will be the occasion to meet like-minded people, share a good meal
and engage in conversation.

We would like to invite you to sign up for the event at
koppelting.org/en/festival2019/signup and share your knowledge, ideas and
concerns with your peers this summer during the event. All types of
contributions are welcome: presentations, workshops, debates, theatre
performances; you name it! Watch the line-up as it automatically expands
here koppelting.org/en/festival2019/lineup.

The cost of organising the conference will be distributed amongst all
participants, speakers and non-speakers alike. It will be pay what you
want, but if we meet an average of €50 per person we can afford to cover
some basic costs of the venue, serve free coffee, tea, breakfast and lunch
and have all the talks streamed and recorded.

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[P2P-F] Fwd: New book: Switching off the autopilot

[Michel Bauwens]

-- Forwarded message -
From: Smart CSOs Lab 
Date: Wed, Jul 3, 2019 at 4:43 PM
Subject: New book: Switching off the autopilot
To: Michel 


View this email in your browser

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July 2019

Dear Michel,

I’m excited to announce the launch of my new book, *Switching off the
autopilot: An evolutionary toolbox for the Great Transition*.

This book is about the ecological crisis that threatens to collapse our
entire civilisation. It is about the crisis of liberal democracy unfolding
before our eyes. And it is about a new approach that aims to tackle both
crises.

[image: front cover of Switching off the autopilot]
Over
the last few years, campaigns and activist approaches to tackling systemic
problems have increasingly looked at the world through a lens of identity,
power and privilege. I’m deeply con­cerned that this approach is highly
divisive and counterproductive. Instead of bringing us closer to tackling
our most pressing issues, like climate change, they contribute to further
polit­ical polarisation and increase the risk of authoritarian regimes. The
current political climate might set us back many years from tackling the
eco­lo­gical crisis, years we don’t have. It might also reverse some of the
en­ormous social progress made in recent years instead of contributing to a
fairer world.

I haven’t written this book with the hope that everybody would agree with
the ideas I set out. In fact, I have written it because over the last few
years I have felt that the strategy discussions about the Great Transition
I have been involved in have too often operated within an ideological echo
chamber, where arguments and evidence are selected to justify the
pre-existing intuitions. I hope to provide an impulse towards bursting the
ideological bubble.

The book argues that civil society leaders and funders have a lot to gain
from adopting an evolutionary worldview. Evolutionary science teaches us
how we got to where we are now, and how understanding our gene-culture
co-evolutionary heritage will make it much easier to switch off our
destructive deep-seated tendency for tribalism and design a good society.
We have to shift all our attention to tackling the hard problem of
evolution: figuring out how to adapt to the new conditions on Earth much
faster than humanity has ever done or has had to do.

Order a hard copy

of the book or download the pdf

.

You can reach me at mich...@smart-csos.org and @MichaNarberhaus

on Twitter.

Best wishes,
Micha
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[P2P-F] Fwd: Thinking Globally, Acting Locally? (GTN Discussion)

[Michel Bauwens]

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From: Great Transition Network 
Date: Tue, Jul 2, 2019 at 9:12 PM
Subject: Thinking Globally, Acting Locally? (GTN Discussion)
To: 


>From Brian Tokar [bri...@pshift.com]
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*[Moderator's Note: This follows from Paul's note from yesterday. Brian
will be kicking the discussion off for us. I look forward to your
contributions. -- JC] *
Comment for GTN Forum

* Think Globally, Act Locally?*

Brian Tokar
7/1/2019

*The Promise and Pitfalls of Localism *

Today we are seeing an inspiring resurgence of progressive action at the
local level, even as reactionary nationalist movements in Europe and beyond
seek to position themselves as the true voices of a renewed localism. What
are the prospects for such locally centered political engagement in a time
of rising political polarization and conflict? How can local action help
advance personal liberation and social justice? More broadly, how can it
further our goals for global transformation?

The current upsurge of local action by both progressives and radical
municipalists is fueled by several complementary impulses. First, the
limitations of national politics and contemporary international
institutions have caused growing frustration. The  stranglehold of
corporate influences—from fossil fuel interests to the financial
sector—over national and transnational institutions often overwhelms
resistance, whether the focus is on the US government, the European Union,
or comparable structures around the world. For people seeking meaningful
action on the global climate crisis, rising economic inequality, or various
immediate threats to people’s health and well-being, local measures often
allow the most attainable initial steps toward the broader transformations
we seek. Frustration with the limitations of national or transnational
politics can thus be channeled toward a pragmatic pursuit of attainable
steps toward justice and community renewal.

Other motivating factors are more aspirational in nature. The aim to bring
important decisions closer to home reflects a desire for engagement over
anonymity, right relationship over polarizing conflict, and hope for a
meaningful role in decisions that affect our lives. The appeal of
“democracy begins at home” has deep historic roots, including the
participatory Town Meeting structures that shaped the colonial uprising
against British rule in late eighteenth-century North America. While
important choices about social, environmental, and technological policies
appear inherently global in character, the principle of
subsidiarity—enshrined in EU legal codes among others—speaks to the
widespread desire for decision-making as close to the local level as
possible.

At their best, local solutions to social and environmental problems may be
more amenable to an open and accessible democratic process, and their
implementation can remain more accountable to those most affected by the
outcomes. Local measures can help build closer relationships among
neighbors and strengthen the capacity for self-reliance in a time of
increasingly extreme climate-related disruptions. Local actions enable us
to see that the ruling institutions that often dominate our lives may be
far less essential than people tend to believe, and that we can effectively
challenge regressive policies at the national and supranational levels that
favor powerful outside interests. At the same time, local initiatives often
raise the question of how to spark a broader social transformation that can
offer a systemic change greater than the sum of its dispersed local
expressions.

Indeed, the rise of regressive, nostalgic, and profoundly reactionary forms
of populism around the world has served to illuminate the limitations of a
politics of localism for its own sake. Some years prior to initiating the
national campaign for “Brexit,”the reactionary UK Independence Party
proclaimed that “real decision-making should be given to local
communities”—only thinly veiling an agenda to marginalize immigrants and
oppose renewable energy, and even ban discussions of climate change in
local schools. Racist organizations in the US South have long hidden behind
localist rhetoric, as do the militia movement and other far right
neo-populist formations. Suburbanites in Detroit, as well as in southern US
cities, have established new local jurisdictions to exclude people of color
from decision-making and create newly segregated school districts. Wealthy
homeowners in major California cities have bankrolled efforts to halt an
increase in the housing supply through a statewide easing of zoning rules.
In the lead-up to the recent European Parliament elections, right-populist
formations came together in a new political grouping that called itself
“Freedom and Direct Democracy,” directly co-opting some of the most
advanced language of the emerging new radical municipalism.

How then can we steer clear of such coo

[P2P-F] Fwd: Thinking Globally, Acting Locally? (GTN Discussion)

[Michel Bauwens]

Dear Jose,

Would be great if you could participate on our concept of cosmo-local
production, if you pitch in, I will too,

Michel



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Subject: Thinking Globally, Acting Locally? (GTN Discussion)
To: 


>From Paul Raskin [pras...@tellus.org]
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Dear GTN,

In May, we introduced a new format for the bimonthly GTN discussions.
Rather than focus on a formal essay, we asked you to comment on a broad
theme (the climate movement) and a structured set of associated topics.
This revised approach got
a thumbs up from many of you, so let’s stick with it.

Our July forum—*THINK GLOBALLY, ACT LOCALLY?*—will zoom in from a global
panorama to the local scale in order to explore the scope for community
action to drive a Great Transition. Please organize your comments as
responses to one or more of the following topics:  *The Promise and
Pitfalls of Localism*


*Can bottom-up action and communitarian sensibility anchor a global
movement? Or is localism inherently limited by granularity, particularity,
and insularity? *

*Theories of Transformation*
*What conceptual frameworks provide effective guidance for a consequential
glocalism? *

*Scaling Sideways and Up *
*What prefigurative approaches are advancing replicable change in the
interstices of the dominant system? What new organizing initiatives and
coordinating structures are needed to catalyze a transformational movement
of local movements?*

Brian Tokar, a writer-activist in the social ecology tradition, leads off
with his responses to each of these topics, available here

(also coming soon to your inbox). What are yours? We welcome both succinct
and extended comments (up to c. 1,200 words).

The internal GTN discussion will go through Thursday, JULY 31. Then we will
publish a curated selection of comments that samples a range of
perspectives.

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[P2P-F] Fwd: Because of Facebook & Google, we need you more than ever

[Michel Bauwens]

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Subject: Because of Facebook & Google, we need you more than ever
To: Michael Bouwens 





Dear Michael,

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consumption patterns, not just vehicle and building emissions, are a major
contributor to climate change in cities and that sharing can dramatically
reduce consumption.

At the same time, it’s become a lot harder for Shareable to reach the
public online with our news reporting on sharing solutions. Over the last
few years, Google and Facebook, who now control over 70% of all web
traffic, made changes that have significantly reduced the reach of
countless websites, but perhaps especially independent media outlets like
Shareable.

*If you believe independent voices like Shareable matter, please make a
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In Facebook’s case, they simply blocked access to around 90% of all page
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has made many changes including ones that favor mainstream news sites. As a
result, scores of independent news sites like Shareable have been hurt.
Alternet, also an independent news nonprofit, sees these changes as a form
of censorship. I agree.

Shareable hasn’t sat idly by in the wake of these changes. We’ve adapted by
increasing the quality of our solutions journalism, hiring more experienced
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[P2P-F] Fwd: June 2019: European elections, the platform economy and social law, the cost of living in the EU, ETUI job vacancies

[Michel Bauwens]

worthwhile analysis of the results of the European elections, and
especially the West-East split

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Date: Mon, Jul 1, 2019 at 9:35 AM
Subject: June 2019: European elections, the platform economy and social
law, the cost of living in the EU, ETUI job vacancies
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*Mapping the results of the EU election: some preliminary reflections on
the social challenges*

The results of the recent European elections give us a very complex picture
at the EU and national level. The common interpretation is that there was a
lower than expected rise of the extreme right and populist parties in
Europe and that the green and liberal parties have been the winners. This
is true for the Western part of the EU, but in Eastern and Central Europe
the situation is different. In these countries, the Greens get only 3 seats
(on a total of almost 200) and so does the radical left (3 seats too). The
Socialists & Democrats in Central and Eastern Europe, for their part, have
stabilized their share of the vote. Altogether the left counts for 25 % of
the vote in that region. Looking more closely at the national level, it is
very difficult to make any generalization. Look at the situation in Poland
and Spain, for example.

The cleavage theory of Rokkan and Lipset from 1967 can be useful here in
trying to put some order and understand the picture by analyzing emerging
cleavages. Of the 3 traditional cleavages  - state vs church, centre vs
periphery, and owner/capital vs worker -  the last one was the most
influential for the trade union movement. Even if a redefinition of the
capital/workers cleavage would be possible, with more attention for the
ecological question, it would nevertheless be helpful to add 2 additional
(new) cleavages to the picture.

A first new cleavage is the opposition between open – closed society. It
was clearly part of this election debate.  It can be illustrated by the
tensions between the renamed Renew Europe Group and the Identity and
Democracy Group. Although intuitively we would take for granted that both
are opposed to social policies, this does not quite seem to be the case.
We can observe that some nationalistic parties propagate social messages.
At the same time, Emmanuel Macron, who has decided to join with his
political movement the Renew Europe Group in the European Parliament, has a
socially inspired discourse, although only at EU level (doing the contrary
at national level). If this cleavage is becoming dominant, it could be very
challenging for the trade unions.

A second cleavage is the green, post-materialist versus productivist
political positioning, which has gained more popularity recently.  For the
proponents of post-materialist values, the environmental crisis imposes a
completely new paradigm. It challenges the productivist paradigm which
centers on the concept of growth. Again, the social orientation of the
post-materalist paradigm is not straightforward. It ranges from very
socially sensitive to more liberal. The challenge here will be to have an
in-depth reflection about what it means concretely for trade unions to
operate in this new paradigm. If post-materialism takes the lead, what does
this mean for pensions and wages? What could be a trade union agenda in
this context?

In any case, it is only the start of very complex, challenging and
strategic debates for the future.

*Philippe Pochet, General director ETUI*
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[P2P-F] Fwd: Prejudice against Jews Rises in 2019

[Michel Bauwens]

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Subject: Prejudice against Jews Rises in 2019
To: Michel Bauwens 


Prejudice against Jews Rises in 2019
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*The "Mother of All Rallies" event in support of Donald Trump, Sept 2017.
Image courtesy of kelly bell photography/Flickr.*

*Editor's note: this information is shared by PRRI Public Religion Research
Institute. We at *Tikkun* are also concerned with the rise in
discrimination across the various demeaned elements in American society,
with 30% of Americans saying that small businesses should be able to refuse
services to gays and lesbians. We highlight the information about Jews
because, while there is a high level of recognition among liberals and
progressives about the discrimination against gays and lesbians, many
liberals and progressives deny that Jews are another such demeaned group,
and many younger Jews themselves hold that position and think that it is
inappropriate for social change activists to give focus to this issue. It
is highly likely that the rise of prejudice across the board toward
previously demeaned groups can be attributed to the atmosphere of violence
and hate stimulated by the Trump administration and the white nationalist
movement to which it has given strong signs of support, and which currently
manifests in the vicious attempt to demonize asylum seekers at our borders
while escalating attempts to expel "undocumented" refugees living in the
U.S. —Rabbi Michael Lerner, Editor, *Tikkun

The proportion of Americans who say small businesses should be able to
refuse to serve Jews on religious grounds is up seven percentage points
(19% in 2019 vs. 12% in 2014). Republicans (24%) are more likely than
independents (16%) and Democrats (17%) to say small businesses should be
allowed to refuse service to Jews. Support is up from 2014, when only 16%
of Republicans and 9% of Democrats supported this sort of service refusal.

Men are also more likely than women to say small business owners should be
allowed to refuse service to Jews (22% vs. 16%). Support for all of these
refusals is up for both men and women, with only around one in ten each for
men and women endorsing these types of religiously based service refusals
in 2014. Though there are no substantial differences by age in support for
religiously based service refusals that target Jews, support has increased
across all age groups since 2014. Support for these religiously based
service refusals has also increased among most major religious groups since
2014.

Support for refusing Jews service based on the religion of the person
seeking services has roughly doubled among white evangelical Protestants
(up to 24% from 12% in 2014), white mainline Protestants (up to 26% from
11%), and Catholics (up to 20% from 10%), while the religiously
unaffiliated (11% vs. 11%) and nonwhite Protestants (19% vs. 14%) have
remained mostly stable in their attitudes on these issues.

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[P2P-F] Fwd: Facebook May Pose a Greater Danger Than Wall Street

[Michel Bauwens]

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Subject: Facebook May Pose a Greater Danger Than Wall Street
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Hi, here is my latest article, posted on Truthdig.com -- Facebook May Pose
a Greater Danger Than Wall Street


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[P2P-F] Fwd: P2P-Foundation Digest, Vol 102, Issue 10

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   1. Call: Digital/Communicative Socialism, edited by Christian
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tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique is a Marxist journal of
media and communication studies. Its special issue
“Digital/Communicative Socialism” asks: What is digital/communicative
socialism? The special issue will publish peer-reviewed contributions
that explore perspectives on digital/communicative socialism in respect
to theory, dialectics, history, internationalism, praxis, and class
struggles.

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Submission deadline is Monday, July 15, 2019.

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31, 2019.
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The maximum length of full papers is 8,000 words. Articles should in the
first stage of submission (October 13) not be longer than 7,000 words so
that there is space for additions as part of the revision process.

All accepted articles will be peer-reviewed and published in a special
issue of tripleC.

The special issue will be published open access. There are no APCs.

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[P2P-F] Fwd: The Guardian's Deep Dive Into Our "New Left Economics"

[Michel Bauwens]

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The New York Times and The New Republic also feature our economic ideas; a
new book includes work by Thomas Hanna and Carla Santos Skandier
The latest from The Next System Project
*The Guardian Examines 'New Left Economics'*

The transatlantic work of the Democracy Collaborative and our allies took
center stage in this "long read" article in *The Guardian* by Andy Beckett.
"The new leftwing economics wants to see the redistribution of economic
power, so that it is held by everyone—just as political power is held by
everyone in a healthy democracy," Beckett writes. One concrete example
highlighted in the article is the Democracy Collaborative's community
wealth building work in Cleveland, Ohio and how it inspired a similar
approach in the city of Preston in the United Kingdom.
Read The Guardian article...

*Candidate Calls For Fossil Fuel Shutdown*


Presidential candidate Jay Inslee, the governor of Washington, this week
proposed a set of climate crisis policies that include "the buying out and
decommissioning of fossil fuel assets," with a goal of "phasing out fossil
fuel production nationwide, with a special focus on a just transition for
workers and the protection of communities that are reliant upon fossil fuel
extraction." The Inslee "Freedom from Fossil Fuels" proposal broadly
mirrors the agenda laid out in the "Taking climate action to the next level"

report The
Next System Project published last year. Our YouGov poll earlier this year
shows there is a sizable public mandate for strong action to phase out the
fossil fuel industry and support a green transition for workers.
Read our take...

*The New York Times, The New Republic Feature Next System Project Work*


A June 22 *New York Times* article on how communities in the United Kingdom
have responded to spending cuts imposed by the central government
highlights the transformation of the UK town of Preston under the
leadership of Preston councilor and Democracy Collaborative fellow Matthew
Brown. The *Times* article calls the success of what has become known as
"the Preston model" of community wealth building "an irony of austerity’s
consequences. Championed as a spur to rugged individualism, it has prompted
communities like Preston to intensify government’s role in economic life."
Read the Times article...


*The New Republic*, meanwhile, published "The Road Not Taken," a look at
the struggles of Lordstown, Ohio in the wake of a decision by General
Motors to close its auto plant there. The "road not taken," the article
reveals, is the path of employee ownership, which The Next System Project
director Joe Guinan and researcher Peter Gowan discuss in the article. “The
workers should get a chance to come up with ideas for how they could keep
their jobs, and give them the right to take over that plant if it’s being
sold or closed,” says Gowan, author of the Right to Own report

that outlined the proposal.
Read The New Republic article...

*New Book On How Public Finance Can Fuel Change*

"The public does not have to rely on the private sector" to finance
solutions to our problems, says a statement introducing a new book
published by The Transnational Institute, *Public Finance for the Future We
Want*. The book includes chapters written by Next System Project Research
Director Thomas M. Hanna on "community wealth building and resilient local
economies" and by energy and climate researcher Carla Santos Skandier on "a
public buyout to keep carbon in the ground and dissolve climate
opposition." The Democracy Collaborative is one of several co-publishers of
the book, which is being offered free as a PDF download.

Download and read...

[P2P-F] Fwd: Land for the Many

[Michel Bauwens]

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Date: Tue, Jun 25, 2019 at 10:01 PM
Subject: Land for the Many
To: Michel Bauwens 


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The neighborhood of Lewisham, London, which received mayoral recognition
for its CLT program.


Dear Michel Bauwens,

In a June 4, 2019
<https://centerforneweconomics.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=69d509d113032e3126c4543ce&id=7778ab4e8d&e=58c6ab1e1c>,
article in *The* *Guardian*, George Monbiot comments:
*What is the most neglected issue in British politics? I would say land.
Literally and metaphorically, land underlies our lives, but its ownership
and control have been captured by a tiny number of people. The results
include soaring inequality and exclusion; the massive cost of renting or
buying a decent home; the collapse of wildlife and ecosystems; repeated
financial crises; and the loss of public space. Yet for 70 years this
crucial issue has scarcely featured in political discussions. *
*The Guardian *article coincided with the publication of a report for the
Labour party – "Land for the Many
<https://centerforneweconomics.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=69d509d113032e3126c4543ce&id=d61117da07&e=58c6ab1e1c>"
–
written by Monbiot with six experts in the field with the aim to "put this
neglected issue where it belongs: at the heart of political debate and
discussion.”

In Saturday’s online edition of the *The New York Times* and again in
Sunday’s print version, Julie Turkewitz reports on "Who Gets to Own the West
<https://centerforneweconomics.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=69d509d113032e3126c4543ce&id=d7793ad060&e=58c6ab1e1c>?"
She details a trend in which newcomers to the “interior West” – including
Idaho, Montana, and Colorado – are buying up large tracts of land.

*Brokers say the new arrivals are driven in part by a desire to invest in
natural assets while they are still abundant, particularly amid a fear of
economic, political and climate volatility. “There is a tremendous
underground, not-so-subtle awareness from people who realize that resources
are getting scarcer and scarcer,” said Bernard Uechtritz, a real estate
adviser*.
Turkewitz references the Land Report
<https://centerforneweconomics.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=69d509d113032e3126c4543ce&id=b0ce805c2b&e=58c6ab1e1c>,
which tracks large land transactions and reports that just 100 families
collectively own 42 million acres across the country – an expanse of 65,000
square miles, or 3 percent of all the privately held land in the US.

Describing the consequences of this land rush, she writes, “In 2018, more
than 20,000 Californians arrived in Idaho; home prices around Boise jumped
17%. This has meant not just new subdivisions and microbreweries, but also
packed schools, crowded ski trails and heightened anxiety among teachers,
plumbers and others, who are finding that they can no longer afford a first
home.”


<https://centerforneweconomics.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=69d509d113032e3126c4543ce&id=cc8f5ee007&e=58c6ab1e1c>
Art space members rally to buy their own building through the Oakland CLT.

At a time of ever greater concentration of land ownership, the need to
broaden access to land is increasingly urgent. As both Monbiot and
Turkewitz lay bare, land access lies at the heart of issues of equity,
affordable housing, livable cities, regenerative agriculture, ecological
restoration, renewable energy, social entrepreneurship and, we would add,
reparations.

Monbiot’s 75-page report provides detailed suggestions to the UK government
to address this concentration of land ownership. Among them:

*To help stabilise land prices and make homes more affordable, we propose a
new body, called the Common Ground Trust. When people can’t afford to buy a
home, they can ask the trust to purchase the land that underlies it, while
they pay only for the bricks and mortar (about 30% of the cost). They then
pay the trust a land rent. Their overall housing costs are reduced, while
the trust gradually accumulates a pool of land that acts as a buffer
against speculation, and creates common ownership on a large scale.*
He also suggests, “We would like to use part of the Land Registry’s vast
surplus to help community land trusts buy rural land for farming, forestry,
conservation and rewilding."

Community land trusts
<https://centerforneweconomics.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=69d509d113032e3126c4543ce&id=7c9c6ba48d&e=58c6ab1e1c>are
proven vehicles 

[P2P-F] Fwd: [Global U] SSFS6-live streaming

[Michel Bauwens]

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From: LAU Kin Chi 
Date: Wed, Jun 26, 2019 at 12:41 AM
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To: globalufoundingmemb...@googlegroups.com <
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Cc: our.globa...@gmail.com , Tsui ,
LAU Kin Chi 


Dear Friends,


The 6th South South Forum on Sustainability has started.


For all Programme, Reader, etc., of SSFS6, please visit
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As we will be live-streaming SSFS6 in English, if you have the time, please
click the youtube links below.


With warm regards,


Kin Chi




*June 24-26  Summer School on Nuclear Weapons and Power:*

24/6 Summer School Day One 0930 Lecture 1

https://youtu.be/Cy1Yl78my3Y


24/6 Summer School Day One 1430 Lecture 2

https://youtu.be/kEGBcuZPNFQ


25/6 Summer School Day Two 0930 Lecture 3

https://youtu.be/YfjTsQp6Nxw


25/6 Summer School Day Two 1430 Lecture 4

https://youtu.be/53SAGYdj5Yw


26/6 Summer School Day Three 0930 Lecture 5

https://youtu.be/4Y3WUVatwyg


26/6 Summer School Day Three 1430 Lecture 6

https://youtu.be/YBeRZPuKkoA



*June 28-30  Forum on Ecology, Livelihood, and Community Regeneration*

DAY ONE: 28 June 09:30-11:00 Feminist-Humanitarian Reframing of Global
Security Activism

https://youtu.be/io1AyWQEeHs


DAY ONE: 28 June 11:30-12:30 Feminist-Humanitarian Reframing of Global
Security Activism (continued)

https://youtu.be/7GzQH1_5XX8


DAY ONE: 28 June 14:00-16:00 Politics of Ecology, Energy and Community

https://youtu.be/qV6dUXeQku0


DAY ONE: 28 June 16:30-18:30 Politics of Ecology, Energy and Community
(continued)

https://youtu.be/I2z8mkJabaM


DAY TWO: 29 June 09:00-11:00 Re-Embedding Economies in Ecologies

https://youtu.be/ZqU03tchXHI


DAY TWO: 29 June 11:30-12:30 Re-Embedding Economies in Ecologies (continued)

https://youtu.be/SwS4zoFFNo4


DAY TWO: 29 June 14:00-16:15 Experiences in Community Regeneration

https://youtu.be/Q2ZYQrfdwMA


DAY TWO: 29 June 16:45-18:00 Experiences in Community Regeneration
(continued)

https://youtu.be/HUbhHc0KzF4


DAY THREE: 30 June 09:00-11:00 China: Trajectory of 70 Years

https://youtu.be/PAMZDvEC7To

DAY THREE: 30 June 11:30-12:30 China: Trajectory of 70 Years (cont’d)

https://youtu.be/eQCk8_JTExY


DAY THREE: 30 June 14:00-16:00 The Alternatives Debate: Envisioning and
Organizing

https://youtu.be/xIvPNhnRfUQ


DAY THREE: 30 June 16:30-18:00 The Alternatives Debate: Envisioning and
Organizing (continued)

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[P2P-F] Fwd: Extinction Resilience!

[Michel Bauwens]

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Extinction Resilience! June 25th, 2019
*Editorial |** Resonance and Relationship*

*In Kosmos Quarterly, Summer Edition*


We are losing treasure – species, ecosystems, and the essential fluids of
our planet. If we think of these as separate elements – a species of turtle
here, a rainforest there – then we are missing the real implications.

Plants, animals, and minerals are interdependent members of their
eco-communities and the family of Life. Everything exists in relationship.
This is biology, not just philosophy. And now, biological and quantum
theories of consciousness are reinforcing what the mystics have always
known. Matter and mind are co-equal sides of the same coin. A new theory of
resonance

(Tam
Hunt, Jonathan Schooler), suggests that vibrational relationships underlie
all physical processes, on a continuum of increasing richness, from
sub-atomic to complex neural processes, and may be the very basis of
consciousness.

*This means all matter is conscious at some level. The consciousness of
sand may be different than the consciousness of a panther…or a rainforest,
but the creational energy of the entire universe vibrates in every
subatomic particle that comprises it, and all matter resonates with this
immanence.*

We might even say that that *consciousness evolves through resonant
relationships*. That is why, when we lose a species, consciousness itself
is diminished. You can feel this reality in your own heart, when you learn
that a species is gone. It’s like losing a part of yourself. Imagine the
collective consciousness and ‘nature wisdom’ lost with the extinction of
the West African black rhinoceros
,
after 8 million years of evolution. What community of relationships
vanished? Will songs of the black rhino still be sung?
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When we think about ecocide, we often forget cultural ecocide. When places
are poisoned, blasted, clear-cut, or turned to deserts, the *people* of
those places – their stories, language, traditions and intimate knowledge
of the land – disappear along with the plants, animals, and minerals. All
of that connective tissue, where resonance resides, is obliterated.

These losses can be subtle. Urban expansion and hunting have pushed
chimpanzees, into shrinking preserves. Compared to chimpanzees in pristine
forests, these ‘refugee’ chimps demonstrate far less learned behavior
.
Since their DNA overlaps with humans by 98 percent, what do we suppose
happens when humans are disconnected from nature, imprisoned, or forced to
flee their homelands? Wisdom will tell you: our destruction of the Earth is
damaging us – mind, body and spirit.

*The articles in our summer edition of Kosmos Quarterly

*speak
to these deeper issues of relationship. ‘All My Relations’, or in the
*Lakota* language, *Mitákuye Oyás’iŋ, *is an important ceremonial prayer of
harmony and oneness with all beings. It is a prayer that honors Life.

*And there is so much Life still remaining to love, honor, and defend.
Wherever damage is occurring, we can still work to reverse it. And what is
intact, we can still protect. That is the spirit of the selfless work our
beloved contributors share here.*

*Pachamama Alliance*

 and *PARCA*

are
working to protect the Amazon rainforests and African rhinos respectively;
John Liu describes work to restore the Sinai Peninsula; Sam Teicher, the
coral reefs; and Laura Williams, forests in Portugal. There are stories of
inter-species cooperation with wild boars in Pakista

[P2P-F] Fwd: new issue of Economic Thought

[Michel Bauwens]

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*Economic Thought*

*History, Philosophy and Methodology Vol. 8, No. 1 *
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Judging Heterodox Economics: A Response
to Hodgson’s Criticisms

*Lynne Chester*

The Meaning and Future of Heterodox Economics:
A Response to Lynne Chester

*Geoffrey M. Hodgson*

Was Smith A Moral Subjectivist?

*Kevin Quinn*

Addressing the Malaise in Neoclassical Economics:
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*Ron Wallace*

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Re: [P2P-F] Climate crisis

[Michel Bauwens]

thanks Alex,

I'm working with the Flemish Greens, and have potentially big news after
the 22nd 

Michel

On Mon, Jun 10, 2019 at 12:48 PM Alex Foti  wrote:

> Dear friends,
>
> dystopia is near but can still be averted. we shouldn't dive in to despair
> when movements like Greta's FFF and London's XR and huge surge of greens in
> Germany and elsewhere point to the fact that the people are finally ready
> to ditch fossil capitalism. i've recently lost (very suddenly) my beloved
> dad. so my outlook to life is dark. still he'd have wanted me to fight on
> even in the face of crushing odds. since last summer i went back to climate
> activism and was surprised to discover that many of my age (GenX) and
> millennials i know had done the same, in milano and elsewhere. green is the
> new red. p2p postcapitalists should join green parties, methinks.
>
>
>
>
> On Sun, Jun 9, 2019 at 5:59 PM Michel Bauwens 
> wrote:
>
>> thanks for reading Slater's loss of faith apocalyptic warning letter
>> below,
>>
>> Michel
>>
>> -- Forwarded message -
>> From: Mathijs de Bruin 
>> Date: Sun, Jun 9, 2019 at 12:04 PM
>> Subject: Climate crisis
>> To:
>>
>>
>> Dear friends,
>>
>> Not much of an update of my part. Tears are in my eyes as I’ve read
>> Matthew Slater’s post (forwarded below). Knowing him as one of the
>> strongest ‘possibilitists’/optimists who has been working on realistic
>> options for a livable future.
>>
>> I don’t know what to make of this, how to interpret this, how to deal
>> with this. I do know, that his words are not lightly spoken. I do think we
>> should worry. I feel that our solution(s) are not in maintaining wellbeing,
>> as much as in sticking together. I want to hold your hands as the tsunami
>> is coming, feel your embrace. See what is the best we can do, as *our*
>> world is failing.
>>
>> To me, in this context, even knowing (and: doing!) what should be done.
>> To choose survival, together, is worthwhile challenge. Even though the
>> fruits of our labour might not be the utopic reality we long and strive
>> for. It might be a different one: parting with grace, embracing what is to
>> come, overcoming despair and: building on what is (or might be) left.
>>
>> “Alles van waarde is weerloos.”
>> — Lucebert
>>
>> With love,
>> Mathijs
>>
>> *Van: *"Matslats - Community currency engineer" 
>> *Onderwerp: **matslats.net <http://matslats.net>: Climate crisis*
>> *Datum: *9 juni 2019 om 10:27:07 WEST
>> *Aan: *math...@mathijsfietst.nl
>>
>>
>> <https://cdn.blog.ucsusa.org/wp-content/uploads/polar-vortex-2019-Jan-29.jpg>
>>
>> I suspected for a long time that our civilisation wasn't viable. When the
>> banks crashed in 2008 I paid attention to a lot of apocalyptic reporting
>> that said we came *this* close to economic Armageddon - whatever that
>> meant. As I better understood how capitalism is a stupid dogma preached
>> increasingly only by self-serving, vain sociopaths
>> <https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/give-and-take/201310/does-studying-economics-breed-greed>,
>> how it requires exponential consumption of resources
>> <http://www.missingtheforest.com/capitalisms-problem-exponential-growth-in-a-finite-system>,
>> and how it has failed to respond to increasingly shrill science-based
>> warnings, I came to expect an ugly financial and/or climate collapse as
>> inevitable in my lifetime.
>>
>> I was alarmed in early April 2018 when the polar vortex broke
>> <https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/02/27/north-pole-temperatures-soar-past-freezing-beast-east-blasts/>
>>  and Europe froze, but Jem Bendell's paper, Deep Adaptation: A map for
>> navigating the climate tragedy
>> <http://www.lifeworth.com/deepadaptation.pdf> didn't alarm me too much.
>> His favoured theory was a multi-breadbasket failure (MBBF) within 5-10
>> years; the melting of sea ice at the north pole would disrupt the weather
>> so much that that grain harvests in Russia, USA and Canada would all fail,
>> and that this would probably lead to societal collapse. Fair enough, I said.
>>
>> Jem's instincts can be uncanny. Last week I heard the news that the polar
>> vortex has shifted over from the less cold north polar ocean to greenland,
>> where more ice remains, and this has meant near incessant rain for grain
>> farmers in USA. By the end of the planting season, only 60% of the fields
>> had been planted, and much of what was pl

[P2P-F] Fwd: Climate crisis

[Michel Bauwens]

thanks for reading Slater's loss of faith apocalyptic warning letter below,

Michel

-- Forwarded message -
From: Mathijs de Bruin 
Date: Sun, Jun 9, 2019 at 12:04 PM
Subject: Climate crisis
To:


Dear friends,

Not much of an update of my part. Tears are in my eyes as I’ve read Matthew
Slater’s post (forwarded below). Knowing him as one of the strongest
‘possibilitists’/optimists who has been working on realistic options for a
livable future.

I don’t know what to make of this, how to interpret this, how to deal with
this. I do know, that his words are not lightly spoken. I do think we
should worry. I feel that our solution(s) are not in maintaining wellbeing,
as much as in sticking together. I want to hold your hands as the tsunami
is coming, feel your embrace. See what is the best we can do, as *our*
world is failing.

To me, in this context, even knowing (and: doing!) what should be done. To
choose survival, together, is worthwhile challenge. Even though the fruits
of our labour might not be the utopic reality we long and strive for. It
might be a different one: parting with grace, embracing what is to come,
overcoming despair and: building on what is (or might be) left.

“Alles van waarde is weerloos.”
— Lucebert

With love,
Mathijs

*Van: *"Matslats - Community currency engineer" 
*Onderwerp: **matslats.net : Climate crisis*
*Datum: *9 juni 2019 om 10:27:07 WEST
*Aan: *math...@mathijsfietst.nl



I suspected for a long time that our civilisation wasn't viable. When the
banks crashed in 2008 I paid attention to a lot of apocalyptic reporting
that said we came *this* close to economic Armageddon - whatever that
meant. As I better understood how capitalism is a stupid dogma preached
increasingly only by self-serving, vain sociopaths
,
how it requires exponential consumption of resources
,
and how it has failed to respond to increasingly shrill science-based
warnings, I came to expect an ugly financial and/or climate collapse as
inevitable in my lifetime.

I was alarmed in early April 2018 when the polar vortex broke

 and Europe froze, but Jem Bendell's paper, Deep Adaptation: A map for
navigating the climate tragedy 
 didn't alarm me too much. His favoured theory was a multi-breadbasket
failure (MBBF) within 5-10 years; the melting of sea ice at the north pole
would disrupt the weather so much that that grain harvests in Russia, USA
and Canada would all fail, and that this would probably lead to societal
collapse. Fair enough, I said.

Jem's instincts can be uncanny. Last week I heard the news that the polar
vortex has shifted over from the less cold north polar ocean to greenland,
where more ice remains, and this has meant near incessant rain for grain
farmers in USA. By the end of the planting season, only 60% of the fields
had been planted, and much of what was planted had drowned.  This plus
drought in Australia

and
a long Russian winter

means
that we are facing MBBF this year.
Suddenly I'm not so sanguine. My last ten years work on complementary
currencies has been an expression of optimism I didn't feel, that it was
possible for people to self organise and run society differently. I felt
even if there was the smallest chance of it being meaningful, in the face
of such suffering, working to change the system was meaningful. Now without
time to change the system, its hard to find purpose. We've been sunning
ourselves on the beach until the tide went out wy to far, and now we
see the froth of the tsunami on the horizon. Its too late to install the
early warning system, too late to reinforce our houses, now we've only got
time to run and to hope. Its time for me to admit that the system I was
working to change for the better will be destroyed and all my work will be
dashed on the rocks. Its too late to build a decentralised energy grid; too
late to redesign finance; too late to build a better food system, too late
to restore our national manufacturing base; too late to restore our soils,
agriculture; too late for carbon capture technologies too late to dismantle
the fossil fuel leviathan; too late for every hope I clung to; from last
week to this, I don't know who I am any more.

Climate science is far from exact, but when it starts playing out we'd be
foolish to say it was wrong. But there's a leap from "crops will fail" to
"society will collapse

[P2P-F] Fwd: THIS BOOK IS YOURS - support us to make a book about artistic collaboration!

[Michel Bauwens]

-- Forwarded message -
From: Sally De Kunst 
Date: Sat, Jun 1, 2019 at 3:30 PM
Subject: THIS BOOK IS YOURS - support us to make a book about artistic
collaboration!
To: Sally De Kunst 


Dear friends and colleagues,


*We need your support for the book we are currently preparing! *


As you all might know, Arc artist residency had to close its doors in
December 2018. After this news we decided we wanted to shed a light on the
artistic research and the collaborations that took place at Arc, by
publishing a book.

*’THIS BOOK IS YOURS – Recipes for artistic collaboration’* will cover four
years in the life of Arc, from January 2015 till December 2018.

Each chapter of the book starts with a recipe for a meal that was prepared
at Arc on a certain occasion, because the easiest and most fundamental way
of gathering people, exchanging and collaborating is by cooking and eating
together.

The 19 chapters will furthermore contain other «recipes» for artistic
research and collaboration: texts, instructions, scores, drawings, essays,
diaries and more, contributed by artists and other practitioners from
various fields who were involved in Arc.



*In order to be able to finance this publication, we need your support.  *

We started a *crowdfunding to find 7.000.- CHF* and every little bit will
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[P2P-F] Fwd: The Bankers’ “Power Revolution”: How the Government Got Shackled by Debt

[Michel Bauwens]

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From: Ellen Brown 
Date: Fri, May 31, 2019 at 2:34 PM
Subject: The Bankers’ “Power Revolution”: How the Government Got Shackled
by Debt
To: 


Hi, here is my latest article, posted on my blog --

*The Bankers’ “Power Revolution”: *
*How the Government Got Shackled by Debt*


It is excerpted from my new book *Banking on the People: Democratizing
Money in the Digital Age
,
available here
.*


Best wishes,
Ellen
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[P2P-F] Fwd: Please Help Michael Albert's new Podcast, RevolutionZ

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Date: Mon, May 27, 2019 at 1:49 PM
Subject: Please Help Michael Albert's new Podcast, RevolutionZ
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I am writing everyone in my address book, almost exactly 1,000 people,
because I am initiating a Podcast called RevolutionZ: Life After Capitalism
<https://zcomm.org/revolutionz/>. I figure since I have your email address,
you at least know my history and views so who better to turn to?
In the words of Lennon and McCartney:

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And I do appreciate you being 'round
Help me get my feet back on the ground
Won't you please, please help me?

A podcast is a leap for me. My nephew recommended that I do one a few years
ago and I barely knew what he was talking about. Since then, things have
changed for me and podcasting.

Without going into details, family health issues have left me seeking a way
to be supportive, generate badly needed income, and simultaneously stay
politically productive. Meanwhile, podcasting has become incredibly
popular, technically manageable, able to generate income, and politically
relevant.

RevolutionZ starts with one audio episode a week. With sufficient help, I
will add a second and third each week, and also video.

In the first episode each week I will address something topical, cultural,
or activist, and quickly move the discussion from analysis to vision and
strategy. In the second, a guest will discuss his or her areas of
expertise. In the third, I and the week’s guest will address
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Generating useful content is seriously daunting, but as in most media
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While gearing up to do RevolutionZ, I am also seeking to sell the house I
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mentioned above. To do the podcast is of course a political project, but
this time it also seeks income to help address serious personal needs. In
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[P2P-F] Fwd: NEW BOOK! "Banking on the People: Democratizing Money in the Digital Age"

[Michel Bauwens]

-- Forwarded message -
From: Ellen Brown 
Date: Sun, May 26, 2019 at 12:00 AM
Subject: NEW BOOK! "Banking on the People: Democratizing Money in the
Digital Age"
To: 


Hi, my new book, nearly 3 years in the making, is finally in print. It’s
called “Banking on the People: Democratizing Money in the Digital Age
”
and is published by the Democracy Collaborative. The release date is June 1
and it's available for pre-order here
.
As our democracy hangs in the balance, I hope this book allows many more
people to understand why having control over the money supply is central to
the idea of democracy, and what we can do to wrest that control from big
private banks and put it squarely in the hands of the people.

>From the back cover:

*Today most of our money is created, not by governments, but by banks when
they make loans. This book takes the reader step by step through the
sausage factory of modern money creation, explores improvements made
possible by advances in digital technology, and proposes upgrades that
could transform our outmoded nineteenth century system into one that is
democratic, sustainable, and serves the needs of the twenty-first century.*
***

*"Banking on the People* is a compelling and fast-moving primer on the new
monetary revolution by the godmother of the public banking movement now
emerging throughout the country. Brown shows how our new understanding of
money and its creation, long concealed by bankers and others capturing the
benefits for their own purposes, can be turned to support the public in
powerful new ways."

 *--  Gar Alperovitz, professor emeritus at the University of Maryland,
Co-Founder of The Democracy Collaborative and author of America Beyond
Capitalism and other books*

"More lucidly that any other expert I know, Ellen Brown shows in *Banking
on the People* how we can break the grip of predatory financialization now
extracting value from real peoples’ productive activities all over the
world. This book is a must read for those who see the promising future as
we seek to widen democracies and transform to a cleaner, greener, shared
prosperity."

 *--  Hazel Henderson, CEO of Ethical Markets Media and author of Mapping
the Global Transition to the Solar Age and other books*

"Ellen Brown shows that there is a much better alternative to Citibank,
Wells Fargo and Bank of America. Public banks can safeguard public funds
while avoiding the payday loans, redlining, predatory junk-mortgage loans
and add-on small-print extras for which the large commercial banks are
becoming notorious."

 *--  Michael Hudson, Research Professor of Economics at the University of
Missouri, Kansas City, and author of Killing the Host and other books*

*"Banking on the People* offers a tour de force for those activists, NGOs,
and academics wanting to understand the forces at play when we talk about
the democratization of finance. A must read!"

 -- Thomas Marois, Senior Lecturer, SOAS University of London, author
of *States,
Banks and Crisis *and other publications

Best wishes,
Ellen
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[P2P-F] Fwd: The Climate Movement: What’s Next? (GTN Discussion)

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-- Forwarded message -
From: Great Transition Network 
Date: Wed, May 8, 2019 at 5:48 PM
Subject: The Climate Movement: What’s Next? (GTN Discussion)
To: 



>From Kavita Byrd 

---
Dear GTI,

I would like to speak to the questions of "SYSTEM CHANGE, NOT CLIMATE
CHANGE" and the need for a meta-movement.

In that strange way life has of delivering curses and blessings in one
package, climate change is both cataclysmic and catalytic – with an
unprecedented power in both capacities. It is forcing us to change, and to
choose how we want to change – to reinvent ourselves and our lives, or to
face our own extinction.

The climate crisis, as many have noted, is a symptom of something much
deeper, but because of the cataclysmic nature of the consequences it
entails, it is also the perfect catalyst for the deeper change needed, a
radical whole-systems shift on an unprecedented scale. A crisis of this
magnitude clearly cannot be addressed by any technological, financial or
legal quick fix, but is an unequivocal wake-up call, a red-alarm signal,
for a profound transformation of both our consciousness and our systems.
And despite the admitted complexity of how to get from here to there, the
core message is crystal clear: we need to move from a global capitalist
system based on separation, limitless growth, competition and self-profit
to a cooperative, just and regenerative new system based on our
interconnectedness and unity-in-diversity with each other and the whole web
of life, human and non-human. The climate crisis is an ultimatum: we need
to see ourselves as part of a whole, much larger than any
of us alone -- and to start acting that way, individually and collectively.

Perhaps no lesser crisis – the very threat to our own survival as a race –
could have ignited the sense of urgency that is awakening today: since the
IPCC report was delivered in October, warning us we have only twelve years
to completely transform our systems, we’ve seen a surge of action, from the
school-strikers, Extinction Rebellion, the New Green Deal – a momentum that
is unlikely to turn back, because it is understood now that there is no
time to lose, that it is now or never. The young people feel this most
acutely, but their elders are also waking up now to the cruelty of the
legacy we are leaving them. And around this the generations are also
starting to come together, as are diverse cultures, walks of life, races
and genders – more and more we are realizing that it’s all hands on deck
now, or we will all go down together.

Catastrophic as it is, climate change has the potential to serve as the
perfect catalyst for a profound, long-overdue radical whole-systems
transformation, such as we have never seen before in the history of the
human race. Affecting all levels, personal, local and global, it needs to
be addressed at all levels, personal, local and global. And that is
beginning to happen today, as we are seeing in these rising movements. We
need to build on the potential to alchemize this rising sense of crisis
into a critical mass, to catalyze whole-scale renewal out of impending
collapse, by building on the accelerating momentum and coordinating vision
and action at all these levels. These actions reach both in and out,
calling us to transform our consciousness and world-view from within, and
at the same time reach out to unify with others.

And yes, we’re up against tremendous odds, certain irreversible tipping
points have been crossed, and, no matter what we do, we are headed into
very challenging times… yet that’s no reason to sit back complacent or
cynical, like some in the “it’s too late” camp, but rather, all the more,
do everything we can to transform ourselves and our world in the short
window of time we have left, as I believe we are being called to, by the
forces of nature and our own evolution. That intention, and the actions we
take from it, are in our hands, no matter what the outcome…and they may be
far more powerful than we know…

Personally, I’d love to see GTI get involved in another Action Node, riding
the wave of rising urgency around the climate crisis now, and harnessing it
for a global citizens movement for the great transition we’ve been working
for...I don’t believe we’re out of time; I think that more than ever the
time is ripe now…

Kavita Byrd

***

Thursday, May 2, 2019

>From Bill McKibben 

THE CLIMATE MOVEMENT'S STATE OF PLAY

I came to climate activism gradually. In 1989, when my book The End of
Nature was published, it was the first book on global warming for a general
audience. For the next fifteen, I worked mainly as a writer and speaker.
That’s because I was analyzing the problem incorrectly. In my estimation,
we were arguing about the science of climate change: is it real, how bad is
it, how bad will it become? Being a writer, and an academic, I thoug

[P2P-F] Fwd: [CommonGood] Berlin Awakening

[Michel Bauwens]

-- Forwarded message -
From: Birgit Daiber 
Date: Mon, May 6, 2019 at 1:49 PM
Subject: [CommonGood] Berlin Awakening
To: commong...@listi.jpberlin.de ,
transform-commons...@googlegroups.com 


Dear Friends and Colleagues, I'm working on an article "The Right to the
City" for the Transform-Seminar 31.5./2.6. in Zagreb, but as I just was
interviewing activists in Berlin running a wonderful campaign on housing,
here a short information:

*Berlin awakening*

Every year about 40 000 people arrive in Berlin and try to find a living.
Beyond the hype of glamour and politics Berlin is a working-class city.
Traditionally most of it’s citizens do not own houses. Still today 86 %
live in social housing ore privately rented flats. As in all globalized
cities real estate run by hedge-fonds became one of the big businesses in
Berlin. In the last five years rents increased about 50 % - means
traditional tenants are evicted and no “normal” family is any more able to
find a place to live. In this extremely tense situation activists
remembered a wonderful and never practised article in the German
Constitution: Art. 15 says *“**Land, natural resources and means of
production may for the purpose of socialisation be transferred to public
ownership or other forms of public enterprise by a law that determines the
nature and extent of compensation.”*Since March 2019 now activists campaign
for a referendum to expropriate big private housing-companies, and it’s
going rather well. Until mid-June they have to deliver 20 000 signatures
(already completed), after proof by Berlin-Senate the Referendum can be
started. The referendum needs the mayority of 35 % of the eligible voters
to be successful. Already now the campaign provoked extensive political
debates all over the country – because the situation is not better in other
cities. And for sure, the traditional political scene is deeply shocked.

Yours, Birgit




*bir@hotmail.com *
*www.birgitdaiber.eu *
*Mobile: 0039-366-4207762*

*Casella Postale No. 28, *
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[P2P-F] Fwd: My response, and intro from Paul Raskin

[Michel Bauwens]

-- Forwarded message -
From: Gary Cleveland 
Date: Mon, May 6, 2019 at 2:14 AM
Subject: My response, and intro from Paul Raskin

Thrilled my response has gone out to the GTNetwork. And delighted to have
the opportunity to introduce the ideas of Organisations, their Ethos and
Stakeholders to such a massive audience??

Gary





Response GTN May 2019



Considerations –

1. WHAT IS THE CLIMATE MOVEMENT’S STATE OF PLAY?

2. “SYSTEM CHANGE, NOT CLIMATE CHANGE?”

3. DO WE NEED A META-MOVEMENT?



My profound thanks to Paul for opening and simplifying this massive area by
posing these three considerations as it allows me to respond – [hopefully
succinctly]. I will enumerate my reply in hope that my opinions are more
easily undertstood and, thus, of value?



1. I hurdle the first and address a combination of No’s 2 and 3.



2. I have always considered “Climate Change”, though terrifying, a
blessing for, as a personal threat inducing fear in all humans, it acts as
a window to the big room where has long lurked the problems that
demand a *‘meta’
- ‘system’ – change, *in other words, A Great Transition, GT. [I am sure I
don’t need remind anyone that we are the ‘G T Network’? GT]



3. So, the question comes down to how do we speed the advance to the
GT? Paul gives one all important answer when he notes we need – “build
overarching alliances and movements” and then “bind--- disparate movements
into a coherent force for a just and sustainable future”



4. I maintain the prime reason the world have been so slow towards a GT
is that almost all humans avoid either ‘building’ or ‘binding’. [To our own
disgrace, we have deflected doing this within the area of great non-profit
organisations, even though,  we are all key stakeholders to them.]



5. If we ponder the three great sectors of organisations; namely –

A.for-profit - commerce and industry;

B.non-profit - community, such as health, education, religion etc;

C.government - at all levels.

the sad answer is that only the commerce sector has succeeded, partly, in
creating alliances, eg - WRI, WBCSD, the Bteam, etc. and, that national
governments make endless attempts that either fail totally or fail within
the time scale that fate allows us? But, you and I in the non-profits
community sector [whom profess to know the need.] have not even tried -
until, maybe, now!





I believe it is not too fanciful to imagine we, the Great Transition
Network within Tellus, can provide the impetus and leadership that ‘builds’
and ‘binds’ a coherent force. [The notable success folk like Ceres, Volans,
p2p, GreenBiz etc. have achieved as individuals is truly remarkable. One
can only wonder how much faster we will move if they combine to partake in
forming that ‘force’?]



My response to Paul’s invitation is that I am convinced that pressure from
us, the thousand plus GTNetwork, as key stakeholders can build and bind an
ethos to allow the coherent force to lead to a *just* and *sustainable**
future*.


-  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  -



Great Transition Network



>From Paul Raskin 



We launched our current series on key social movements in November 2017
with a rich discussion of a “global citizens movement” as the missing
historical agent for a Great Transition (the GTN exchange is archived at
www.greattransition.org/forum/gti-discussions/201-how-do-we-get-there-the-problem-of-action).
A recurrent theme has been how the portentous issue of climate change
infuses all social and environmental mobilizations.



Our May discussion will focus directly on the climate movement, per se.
With so many of us active in this diverse arena, centering the GTN
discussion on a specific essay seems overly restrictive. Instead, I invite
you all to respond, succinctly or at length, to one or more of the
following questions:



WHAT IS THE CLIMATE MOVEMENT’S STATE OF PLAY?

What has worked, and where has the movement fallen short? What lessons can
be drawn for the next phase?



“SYSTEM CHANGE, NOT CLIMATE CHANGE?”

Does defusing the climate crisis require the deep structural and value
changes of a Great Transition? Or can “green capitalism” get us there?
Where do you stand on the reform versus transformation debate?



DO WE NEED A META-MOVEMENT?

To the degree that climate change is a symptom, along with other crises, of
deeply embedded structural problems, does the climate movement need to
build overarching alliances and movements? Does the climate movement, by
addressing a signal existential threat, have a special role in binding
disparate movements into a coherent force for a just and sustainable future?



To kick off the discussion, we asked 350.org founder Bill McKibben to
respond to each of these questions (soon to arrive in your inbox -- and
also attached). What Bill says (and doesn’t say) may provoke some thoughts
of your own.







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[P2P-F] Fwd: Are we waking up?

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p2p-- Forwarded message -
From: Nicole Leonard - Fossil Free News <3...@350.org>
Date: Mon, May 6, 2019 at 12:55 PM
Subject: Re: Are we waking up?
To: Bauwens Michel 


New energy and urgency in this Fossil Free News
[image: Fossil Free Digest]

Bauwens,

I'm sending the latest Fossil Free News again because I don't want you to
miss last week's big news about declarations of climate emergency in the
UK.

Here's a short video rundown – can you watch and share
? And as
usual, the full newsletter with stories from around the world is below.




Share on Facebook



Share on Twitter



Share on Instagram




--



Activists from Extinction Rebellion brought London streets to a standstill
with a pink boat named after murdered Honduran environmental protector
Berta Cáceres last week.

Recent global events have flung open the window of opportunity to treat
climate change as a global emergency. And people power is forcing
politicians to pay attention.

As eyes turn to what happens next (another global school strike on May 24,
a global climate walkout in September), we look back at some of the
extraordinary developments of the last two weeks.

Enjoy,

Nicole
In Case You Missed It

*Tipping point?* Both Paris and London witnessed new powerful acts of
climate civil disobedience. Over 1000 Extinction Rebellion activists were
deliberately arrested in London and their stark messaging and controversial
tactics caught the public mood as a heatwave struck the UK over the Easter
weekend. Similar scenes erupted in Paris as 2000 people took direct action
targeting the state and its complicity with big polluters like Total. Read
more 


Greta Thunberg at the UK Parliament. Photo: Evening Standard



*Telling the truth: *Greta Thunberg and British youth climate strikers were
in the UK parliament last week, adding their voices to the demand for a
climate emergency. Greta gave her uncompromising indictment of the
government’s continued support for fossil fuels. She called their push to
develop fracking and new coal mines “beyond absurd’.

*Climate emergency: *Just yesterday, on May 1, the Parliament
responded by declaring
a climate emergency
, hot on
the heels of the Welsh government earlier this week. “This can set off a
wave of action from parliaments and governments around the globe,” said
Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn.





*No jobs on a dead planet: *Also on May Day, people marched around the
world to celebrate the rights and contributions of all workers. In Manila,
Philippines, thousands marched to call for a just transition away from the
age of fossil fuels. It’s a reminder that as we shift to a renewable future
we have a huge responsibility to address inequality and leave nobody
behind.


Events in Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa and Ghana from days of action in
2018.

*Hardest hit: *A category 4 cyclone hit Mozambique again last Friday
, just
weeks after the devastation of Idai left millions struggling further down
the coast. As the reality of climate change sets in and worsens, there's
renewed determination to push for a fossil free Africa, with over 50 Afrika
Vuka 
actions already planned for 25 May.

*Sexy Killers:* a documentary about coal is going totally viral
 and
sparking national conversations about political corruption and the future
of coal in Indonesia. The film Sexy Killers has already had nearly 20
million views and over 1000 community screenings in its first two weeks
despite attempts by police and some local authorities to ban them.

*Big win:* Ecuador's Waorani indigenous tribe won their first victory
 against
big oil companies in a ruling that blocks the companies' entry onto
ancestral Amazonian lands for oil exploration.


The One To Watch



This 7-minute documentary takes us to the island of Tigtabon in the south
of the Philippines, where ways of life for the Sama Badjao indigenous
people are at severe risk from climate change. Watch

The Inside Story





20 year-old Pacific Climate Warrior Brianna Fruean, from Samoa, and 17
year-old UK school striker Anna Taylor talk about their journeys into the
climate movement and what inspires them. Read their

[P2P-F] Fwd: Cosmo-local Reader - Launch - Introduction - Invitation

[Michel Bauwens]

-- Forwarded message -
From: jose ramos 
Date: Wed, Apr 24, 2019 at 6:14 AM
Subject: Cosmo-local Reader - Launch - Introduction - Invitation



Dear friends

DGML/Fabcity/cosmo-local/etc is quickly moving from the fringes to the
mainstream.

Like with the sharing economy, the language and intent is and will be
co-opted by capitalism, commodified, repackaged and resold back into a
consumer trash producing society, rendering the potential of this inert and
dull. But there is a way to counter this and create something different.

The Cosmo-local Reader is one of a number of attempts and experiments to
bind the potential for DGML/Fabcity/cosmo-local/etc. to a planetary ethics
and vision, grounded in a clear truth that we are brothers and sisters on
this small planet that needs mutual care and protection, and that deep
mutualization is the path for the care and support of all.

Of course a Reader is no match for the forces of capitalism! But... we can
begin to steer the discourse, create the distinctions, build recognition
and solidarity with each other, and coordinate for maximum impact. We can
plant the seeds of change and begin to weave a commons.

We will begin with simple steps, a first stage Reader, to be complete by
the end of 2019, and then we can reassess and evaluate next steps.

An open doc on the project is here and feel free to make comments

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1IfIQiJlF_D17F25_AsZOSifdIYJoia8csAacsIhSmrY/edit?usp=sharing


*Context*

Vasilis Kostakis and colleagues are undertaking a multi-year EU funded
study on cosmo-localism. https://www.cosmolocalism.eu/ He may want share a
bit about it, or not, I'm not sure at what stage it is in. I mention this
because the Reader needs to sit within an ecology to this large scale
study, which includes things like a detailed LSA of cosmo-local potentials,
extensive action research projects, etc.

So what the Reader will do is to build a foundation for the core concepts,
short cases and propositions. The Reader is meant to be a space for
systemic self recognition (how one part / idea might fit with another -
what projects exist) and will expand the space of inquiry. The Reader needs
to support the efforts of the EU project, which will take the thinking
further, not compete with it.

In general the ecosystem metaphor serves to guide us. We want the Reader to
be part of a generative ecosystem of projects and initiatives and to also
support in the development of this ecosystem. In ecosystems actors have
some autonomy but also coordinate and generate synergies and symbiosis.

*Who is involved?*

So far the editing team consists of me, Sharon Ede, Michel Bauwens and
James Gien Wong. However, I'm open minded about who is on the editorial
team, so if you're interested in being an editor, please get in contact.

In terms of contributions, many of you have already offered to contribute
something, but the devil is in the detail. I would like to invite you here
to formally submit a proposal:

https://surveyhero.com/c/cb257946

Or just email it to me and I'll log it.

*Timeline*

   - Please submit a proposal by June 15.
   - Thereafter contributions will be due on Sept 1
   - We'll provide review feedback by Oct 1
   - Final contribution due by Nov 1
   - Publication Dec 2019


*Organizing Philosophy*

The Reader is not a search for ideological purity or coherence. We all have
different views and perspectives and these will play out in the Reader.
Indeed over the last decade we've seen people tear each other apart for not
sharing the same exact views. De Sousa Santos, in his study of the world
social forum, talked about the need for "depolarizing pluralities", and how
when this done well, then there is the possibility of new meta-forms and
emergences. Thus, we need to search for common ground amid difference, be
willing to have debates and disagree, but ultimately connect the dots. It's
the fellowship of the ring! Hobbits, Dwarves, Elis, Humans, etc... working
together. The Reader will begin to show new convergences but also tensions
/ fault-lines. This is okay. Ultimately this is all about learning and then
building a counter-hegemonic movement.

*Website*

I'm currently putting up a wordpress site for the project and will share
this when ready (in next few days). As contributions come in and are edited
and ready, the plan is to publish on the site, with the combined
contributions compiled and edited at the end of the year. Anyone who can
help with the website let me know.

*Sharing*

Please share this email with others who may be interested in contributing.
I'll be putting together a medium post with an invitation and will pass on
the link in the next few days. This is an open project and the opportunity
is to use these distributed worlds we inhabit as a way to uncover examples
and areas previously unexplored.

*Format*

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[P2P-F] Fwd: Michel Bauwens - new related research

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[P2P-F] Fwd: Sharing visions in Budapest - Hungary

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How to involve audiences









Collective visions for Budapest

*How to turn your visions for your city into actions and engage
communities?*
Mindspace

is
a grassroots urban regeneration platform working from the Rákóczi Square
Market Hall and expanding its activities across the neighborhood. Deviszont

is
a new community space for teenagers located in the periphery of Budapest.
Their stories are inspirational: How did they begin their journeys? Which
obstacles have they had to overcome? and what is their vision for the
future of their cities?


*Mindspace
*
*"*...we were passionate about the idea of creating a livable city.*" Ádám**
Kobrizsa*

Successfully establishing a non-profit organization in Budapest, the team
is devoted to improving the quality of urban life while developing their
project as a sustainable business model.
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with different backgrounds and disadvantages, they include all parts of
society in their diverse program. They operate a community space for
non-formal education in the suburbs of Budapest. Péter Susánszky explains
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[P2P-F] Fwd: [bgcon] MORE WORLD Workshops – Call for Registration

[Michel Bauwens]

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From: Krystian Woznicki 
Date: Tue, Apr 9, 2019 at 9:27 AM
Subject: [bgcon] MORE WORLD Workshops – Call for Registration
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Hi,

how can we cooperate across borders to tackle climate change?

While climate change seems to be intangible, nowhere and everywhere at
the same time, it is entangled with everything and everyone. Against
this backdrop, the Berliner Gazette’s 20th anniversary initiative MORE
WORLD stimulates a critical dialogue. The goal is to better understand
and grasp climate change through entanglements – and to ultimately
explore possibilities to tackle climate change from within its
cross-border entanglements, especially with migration and
digitalization. How do we have to rethink cooperative practices if
capacities for collective action potentially arise from a planetary web
of interdependencies? What cooperative practices can catalyze the
interplay between communal, state and global approaches to adapt to
climate change? To explore this, the Berliner Gazette will organize the
20th edition of its annual conference.

The BG annual conference will take place at the Center for Arts and
Urbanistics (ZK/U) on Oct. 10-12, 2019. Save the date! To investigate
the complexities of climate change, the BG will create a three-day
program with workshops, performances and lectures by speakers such as
Sujatha Byravan, whose pioneering research explores the politics of
climate refugees, Marta Peirano, whose new book explores how to tackle
climate change with communal tools, and Harsha Walia, whose activism in
the field of migration intersects with climate justice struggles.

*Workshops*

The workshops – arguably the heart of the conference – will bring
together activists, researchers and cultural workers from more than 20
countries. The BG will invite key actors to form the core of the
workshops, and enables the general public to register via the call for
registration.

*Cooperative Processes*

To tackle the key issues of the BG annual conference, five parallel
workshop tracks will take five different approaches to communal
practices dealing with climate change: Eco-Data, Counter/Knowledge,
Justice, Lifestyles and Resources. Descriptions here:
https://more-world.berlinergazette.de

The workshop groups will communicate before the conference in order to
flesh out the workshop design collaboratively. Led by experienced group
leaders, participants will be invited to come up with possible answers
to the questions raised by the MORE WORLD initiative. The results will
be made available as online resources via berlinergazette.de: they may
include position papers, multimedia storytelling projects and data
visualizations.

*Registration* + *Details*

The call for registration targets (up-and-coming) hackers, journalists,
activists and researchers. A limited number of participants will be able
to register for one of the five workshops (Eco-Data, Counter/Knowledge,
Justice, Lifestyles or Resources) by contacting the following email:
info(at)berlinergazette(.)de. The deadline is September 1st. Further
details here: https://more-world.berlinergazette.de

*Spread the word*

Forward this email and re-tweet this:
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[P2P-F] Fwd: Recapping Ouishare's first big gathering in 2019 💻📡🎶

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Looking back at the Grand Barouf Numérique
Grand Barouf Numérique 2019
Recapping Ouishare's first big gathering in 2019

The
*Grand
Barouf Numérique*

in
March was a full success. If you missed it, here are* three ways to catch
up:*

1. Read our *interview with Joke Quintens*

to find out why she thinks that


*"The city is where we can decide to plant or cut trees, support
alternative energies and decide to keep open spaces. They are where the
real change happens, not an a national level, that is what I see in
practice.**"*

2. Check our favorite *#GrandBarouf2019 moments *
on
Twitter.

3. Watch our *recap video*

below.
Read the interview



Entreprise à mission : changer les sociétés pour améliorer la société? Paris,
Wednesday, April 17th, 9:00 am.

Objectiver l'impact des tiers-lieux sur les territoires? Paris, Wednesday,
April 17th, 6:30 pm.

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[P2P-F] Fwd: PGA Post: P2P Foundation book launch "Peer to Peer: The Commons Manifesto".

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From: Stacco Troncoso 
Date: Wed, Apr 3, 2019 at 7:41 PM
Subject: Fwd: PGA Post: P2P Foundation book launch "Peer to Peer: The
Commons Manifesto".
To: Michel Bauwens , Alex Pazaitis <
alex.pazai...@p2pfoundation.net>, Vasilis Kostakis 


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What is Peer to Peer, and why is it essential for a post-capitalist future?

These are the questions tackled by Michel Bauwens, Vasilis Kostakis and
Alex Pazaitis in their just-launched book: “Peer to Peer: A Commons
Manifesto”.

Not since Marx identified the manufacturing plants of Manchester as the
blueprint for the new capitalist society has there been a more profound
transformation of the fundamentals of our social life. As capitalism faces
a series of structural crises, Bauwens, Kostakis and Pazaitis claim a new
social, political and economic dynamic is emerging: peer to peer.

They describe peer to peer as both a type of social relations in human
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generalization and scaling up of such relations possible. Thus, they claim,
peer to peer enables a new mode of production and creates the potential for
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-  generative market mechanisms that work for these communities and
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-  public authorities which enable and empower the autonomy of
individuals and
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[P2P-F] Fwd: End or no end to capitalism?

[Michel Bauwens]

https://triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/article/view/755

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From: Bob Haugen 
Date: Sun, Mar 31, 2019 at 3:26 PM
Subject: End or no end to capitalism?
To: Michel Visioning Bauwens 


I'm reading two documents written by in part by Oliver Nachtwey

1. _Germany's Hidden Crisis: Social Decline in the Heart of Europe_
https://books.google.com/books?id=F6l2DwAAQBAJ

I can't copy and paste from that, but the premise is the decline of
human social life in Europe as capitalist growth and profits decline.

This is one of several books and articles I've read lately about the
decline and possible fall of capitalism due not to Jeremy Rifkin's
theories but to other internal contradictions.

2. _Market and Labour Control in Digital Capitalism_ by Philip Staab
and Nachtwey

In this one, the authors say capitalism is not falling, but staging
one of its periodic reconfigurations to escape from one of it's
self-made traps.


No End to Capitalism

The empirical elaborations and tentative theoretical assumptions in
this article aimed at challenging theories of post capitalism, which,
in the context of this text, have been associated with current works
of Jeremy Rifkin and Paul Mason. In their latest books, both authors
argue for a more or less inevitable end to capitalism. They assume
that private accumulation is systematically blocked by the inability
of capitalist corporations to create revenues by setting prices as
they lose control over the reproduction of their commodities in an
economy where people have the power to make most things in
non-capitalist production models themselves. Mason states, however,
that, in building dominant monopolies, leading digital economy
companies could retain the power of price setting while the products
they deal with become increasingly cheaper in terms of production
costs. Notwithstanding, he argues that these attempts will be
failing in the end as such monopolies cannot stop the rise of open
source and peer production.

In order to challenge these ideas, we asked two questions, applied
empirically mostly on the case of Amazon: Is the digital economy
really moving towards a state in which corporations lose all control
over markets, which then become increasingly decommodified? And
second, is there really any end to capitalist labour or at least a
reduction in capitalist modes of exploitation connected to the
digitization trend?

While we cannot give a definite answer to both questions, close
analysis of Amazon and thoughts on the policies of other leading
digital corporations bring us to conclusions which challenge the
assumptions of post capitalist theories. First, key corporate players
of digitization—in particular Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Apple and
Facebook—are indeed trying to become powerful monopolies and have
partly succeeded in doing so, using network effects of digital
platforms, the power of scaling routed in the zero marginal cost logic
of digital goods and building socio-technical ecosystems in order to
enforce customer retention. Second, it seems that leading digital
economy companies tend to develop in part isomorphic structures on the
supply side, hence creating a situation of oligopolistic market
competition. We drew on basic assumptions of monopoly capital theory,
which were elaborated empirically in 1960s to
1980s industrial sociology, to explain that in this situation of
oligopolistic competition, cost cutting, achieved primarily via labour
process rationalization, becomes key to the corporation’s competitive
strategies. In our view, the case study of Amazon and our theoretical
assumptions drawn from it offer evidence that strategies of cost
cutting especially target the enhancement of digital labour control.

Our conclusion is, therefore, that theorists like Mason might be right
(although not for the right reasons) in arguing that large digital
corporations fail in building stable monopolies. This, however, does
not seem to imply any end to capitalist labour. Rather it seems to
call for a tightening of the grip of labour control and new modes of
exploitation of human labour—phenomena we have addressed with the
terms digital Taylorism and digital contingent work. In our view, the
current state of digital capitalism resembles a fight for supremacy
between large digital corporations, which is based on the enforcement
of extraction of value from human labour. Our assumption therefore is
that we see nothing like the end of capitalism in the digital economy.
Rather, capitalism is maturing in the usage of digital technologies
following tracks well known from the history [of] industrial
societies.



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[P2P-F] Fwd: Abstract submission now open | Submit abstracts by 20 September 2019

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*4th International Conference on Global Food Security*
*Achieving local and global food security: at what costs?*
*16-19 June 2020 | Montpellier, France*

The *4th International Conference on Global Food Security *
addresses
the topic of food security at all spatial levels from local to global, and
from an interdisciplinary and systemic food systems perspective. It aims to
better understand environmental, nutritional, agricultural, demographic,
socio-economic, political, technological and institutional drivers, costs
and outcomes of current and future food security. Interactions with
contextual factors including climate change, urbanisation, greening the
economy and data-driven technologies will be central. The conference
addresses the triple burden of malnutrition: hunger, micronutrient
deficiencies and obesity. It explores the state-of-the-art of
interdisciplinary insight, addresses the trade-offs that occur – and
synergies that can be sought – in transforming food systems. These are
aimed at reconciling the competing environmental, economic or social
objectives and outcomes towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals
at different levels across spatial and temporal scales.


*CALL FOR ABSTRACTS Abstract submission deadline: 20 September 2019*

*Topics for sessions and abstracts*
The conference emphasizes integrated analyses and perspectives and
therefore particularly welcomes contributions on the following
cross-cutting topics:

1. Food security and the Sustainable Development Goals: synergies, tensions
and trade-offs
2. Circularity of food systems at local, regional or global levels
3. Food security and policy, governance, institutions and trade
4. Transitions to post-carbon food systems in a post-carbon economy
5. How to assess future food security: on foresight, forecasting,
projecting, predicting and exploring the future
6. Influencing food consumption and demand considering the food environment
7. Development, impact and ethics of novel and data-driven technologies in
food systems

Such contributions will address all dimensions of food security, preferably
in an integrated way. In addition we also accept more specialized
contributions that focus on one (or preferably more) of the four dimensions
of food security, i.e.:

8. Availability: production, distribution and exchange of food
9. Access: affordability, allocation and preference of food
10. Utilisation: nutritional value, social value and safety of food
11. Stability and dynamics of food security aspects

Abstracts should be submitted using the online abstract submission system.
Submit your abstract here

[P2P-F] Fwd: SAVE THE DATE: #SCIS2019

[Michel Bauwens]

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24-27 October 2019 | Naples, Italy
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#SCIS2019
*SOCIAL COOPERATIVES INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL* 24 - 27 OCT 2019 | HOTEL ROYAL
CONTINENTAL | NAPLES

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* SPREAD THE WORD AND JOIN THE #SCIS2019!*

CICOPA's member Federsolidarietà – Confcooperative
,
the biggest federation of social cooperatives in Italy, is pleased to
announce the launch of the Fifth global edition of Social Cooperatives
International School. The SCIS, with a high entrepreneurial profile and
a international spirit, is open to social cooperators and social
entrepreneurs from all over the world and specifically addressed to
cooperatives’ managers.

*#SCIS2018: Participation has never been higher!*
Attracting more and more cooperators from around the world, the last year
the school hosted 50 participants from 13 countries (Italy, Czech Republic,
Malta, Nigeria, Sri Lanka, India, Austria, Bulgaria, Turkey, Belgium,
Korea, Hungary, Spain) with a focus on social impact evaluation and
measurement, technological innovation and urban regeneration and local
communities.

The SCIS is an event on social cooperatives entirely realized in English, a
unique place of dialogue and mutual learning that, over the years,
contributed also to attract the attention of the European and International
institutions on the issue of social cooperatives.

MORE INFORMATION and PROGRAMME COMING SOON!
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*REGISTRATION FEES:*

24/27 OCT 2019 | HOTEL ROYAL CONTINENTAL | NAPLES (ITALY)

EARLY BIRDS, registration before 30th August * :

   - 300€ (VAT included) in double room
   - 480€ (VAT included) in single room

* Deadline for registration is 15th September. The full registration fee
is: 350€ (VAT included) in double room; 550€ (VAT included) in single room.
Early birds rates are extended to 15th September for former SCIS
participants.
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coffee breaks, lunches and the visit to local best practices).

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* ¡DIFUNDAN LA PALABRA Y PARTICIPAN A LA #SCIS2019!*

El miembro italiano de CICOPA Federsolidarietà - Confcooperative
,
la mayor federación de cooperativas sociales se complace en anunciar el
lanzamiento de la cuarta edición mundial de la Social Cooperatives
International School. La SCIS, con un alto perfil emprendedor y espíritu
internacional, está abierta a cooperativistas y emprendedores sociales de
todo el mundo y está dirigida específicamente a los directivos u directivas
de cooperativas.

*# SCIS2018: ¡La participación nunca ha sido mayor!*
Atrayendo a más y más colaboradores de todo el mundo, durante la última
edición, la escuela recibió a 50 participantes de 13 países (Italia,
República Checa, Malta, Nigeria, Sri Lanka, India, Austria, Bulgaria,
Turquía, Bélgica, Corea, Hungría, España) con un enfoque en la evaluación y
medición del impacto social, la innovación tecnológica y la regeneración
urbana y las comunidades locales.

El SCIS es un evento sobre las cooperativas sociales realizado en su
totalidad en inglés, un lugar único de diálogo y aprendizaje mutuo que, a
lo largo de los años, contribuyó también a atraer la atención de las
instituciones europeas e internacionales sobre el tema de las cooperativas
sociales.

¡EL PROGRAMA Y MÁS INFORMACIONES LLEGARAN MUY PRONTO!

¡REGÍSTRATE AHORA!


*CUOTAS DE INSCRIPCION:*

24/27 OCT 2019 | HOTEL ROYAL CONTINENTAL | NAPLES (ITALY)

INSCRIPCIÓN ANTICIPADA antes del 30 de agosto * :

   - 300€ (IVA incluido) en habitación doble
   - 480€ (IVA incluido) en habitación individual

Idioma principal de trabajo: Ingles

* La fecha límite de inscripción es el 15 de septiembre. La tarifa de
inscripción completa es: 350 € (incluido el IVA) en habitación doble y 550
€ (incluido el IVA) en habitación individual.
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[P2P-F] Fwd: URL for Community Economies Summer School promo

[Michel Bauwens]

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From: Joanne McNeill 
Date: Thu, Mar 21, 2019 at 11:09 PM
Subject: URL for Community Economies Summer School promo
To:
Cc: Katharine McKinnon 


Thank you all for kindly agreeing to help us distribute information on the
upcoming inaugural Community Economies Summer School.
A URL is now available and an updated brochure loaded to the page.
A number of you asked for a link for ease of sharing etc, so sending on.

http://communityeconomies.org/summerschool2019

Thanks again, the team is very appreciative.

Kind regards
Jo

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*Joanne McNeill *
PhD (Political & Social Thought) | MA (Comms) | Churchill Fellow (2008)

Research Projects Manager | Senior Research Associate
Institute for Culture & Society | Western Sydney University

j.mcne...@westernsydney.edu.au  |  +61 402 200 816

*Please note I work with ICS WSU on Mondays and Tuesdays*

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Joanne_Mcneill4
www.linkedin.com/in/joannemcneill/

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[P2P-F] Fwd: Blog Text for EMES Research Conference Solidarity Fund

[Michel Bauwens]

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Date: Mon, Mar 25, 2019 at 12:24 PM
Subject: Blog Text for EMES Research Conference Solidarity Fund
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Michel,



 Start -



*Help unfunded PhD students and early career researchers participate in a
conference on social enterprise, cooperative and voluntary action*



After six successful conferences, the 7th EMES International Research
Conference on Social Enterprise Research

will
take place between 24-27 June 2019. The organisers have received over 375
proposals of exceptional quality, reflected by the high acceptance rate.



Many of the submitted papers come from scholars who are at an early stage
in their career, and who live and work in the Global South or regions
outside Europe. Unfortunately, every year, many of them are unable to
participate in the EMES International Research conference due to a lack of
funds in their home countries. EMES have been thinking about how to address
this situation, which is why they have launched a crowdfunding campaign to
build a solidarity fund. Many researchers who have participated in past
conferences, plus those interested in the topic of social enterprise and
the solidarity economy, have expressed an interest in supporting unfunded
colleagues. EMES are putting their trust in these scholars to make this
scheme viable.



We are calling on all scholars in the field of solidarity economics, the
commons and social enterprise to support the fund.  Contributions start
from €10.



The crowdfunding will cover the travel, accommodation and conference fees
of people who would otherwise not be able to attend. This support goes
beyond what is currently available to European scholars through the EMPOWER-SE
COST Action , (a co-organizer of this event).



*Main features, strengths and differentials*



1.   To allow at least five researchers from Africa, Asia and non-OECD
countries to participate in the EMES International Research Conference by
covering their travel, accommodation and registration costs.

2.   To demonstrate that solidarity exists within the social enterprise
research community.

3.   To showcase beneficiaries' work in a special video communication.



*Why this is important*

Scholars in some countries get little or no support to present their
research beyond their own university or college. This fund enables them to
do so. This is important because social enterprise scholarship has already
proved vital in transforming public policy and entrepreneurial practice in
many countries. Over the last 10 years, we have seen the EU support the *Social
Business Initiative* and the United Nations champion a new set of *Sustainable
Development Goals* (accepted by 193 countries). About 30% of enterprises
created today now have a social focus on achieving a mission. In addition,
many new business models are emerging based on the growing need for
sustainable development.



These changes are partly the result of articles, books and evidence-based
policy papers written by scholars contributing to social economy research.
This year's conference theme of "Sustainable development through social
enterprise, cooperative and voluntary action" will produce further research
contributions that shape the development of the field. By supporting this
fund, you will add to the diversity of our research community and redress
imbalances in the funding available for people to present their research at
this global conference.



*Please support the campaign*



Make a contribution and share the campaign by visiting the crowdfunding
page at:
https://en.goteo.org/project/7emes-research-conference-solidarity-fund



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[P2P-F] Fwd: The State of the World

[Michel Bauwens]

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From: r kanth 
Date: Tue, Mar 19, 2019 at 3:52 PM
Subject: The State of the World
To: Michel Bauwens 
































*Nature of the Real Crisis*

I have argued that humans are, above all, *myth-making* animals.

We are story-tellers, *par excellence.*

Stories about who* we* are, who *Others *are.

Cultural stories, religious stories, racial stories, *et. al.*

No, we don’t *All* get to  make up myths.

That’s for *some,* only.

The few, the proud, the *ruling castes*: *they* do it all - for us.

And we lap it up, faster than they can ladle it.

*

The most outstanding myths pertain to  the dominant tropes in economics,
politics,  and religion: the three *prime * domains of societal governance.

In our  own society, they go, more or less, * thus*.

In the *first*, *laissez-faire*, and free trade have taken, thus  far,
 pride of place; in the *second,* democracy, equality,  *etc.,*  occupy
public attentions in the *last,* it’s a  renewed ,  recharged , latter-day
evangelism that has moved from the fringe to the center,  in recent times.

The most powerful  may well be the *last,* whose longevity will be  a
telling index of our critical intelligence, * or lack thereof.*

*



So,  when such  myths work, society trundles on under the guise of
‘normalcy’.

But when they don’t , there is a rift within the lute.

*That’s where we are today.*

The negation of any *one* of the myths listed would be bad enough, but we
live

In times where *all three* are,  quite obviously ,  tottering.

The *economy*  itself – not just its myths - went down in 2008, and has
never really recovered (despite  much propaganda to the contrary ).

The *polity *has exposed its *oligarchical *nature blatantly, even
defiantly.

>From rigged elections,  to voter- registration fraud,  and  big-time
lobbying  monies in  Congress, the veils have been brutishly  ripped (with
only 6% expressing any faith in it, about the same level as  in official
Media).

Only the intellectually-challenged still sustain the idea that we subsist
in a working *democracy.*

Religion has also taken a tumble: the Church  of Rome  has shown itself to
be a sanctum for  malignant abuse, of various kinds; the Southern Baptists
 appear to  be not far behind.

Religious bigotry has, further  polarized communal discord: far from being
an *opiate,* it is now a powerful *amphetamine,* which only adds to the
rifts.

*

To sum up: we face a generalised crisis of *legitimacy *in Western
societies.

The old bromide  is wearing  thin: the new power-elites seem to lack the
maturity to wish to stabilize public opinion, being  quite content  to
resort to  the more familiar , if hoary,  ploys of *divide et impera.*

As the old adage has it, Caesar’s wife must not only be  chaste, but needs
also be *above suspicion*.

Who, in power today, can wear that latter  crown of laurels?

*No one*.

We live  with *Unscalable* Corruption (is $21 trillion enough to scale it?
That’s what went ‘unaccounted for’ ,  within but a few years in the DOD).

There is – apparently -* nothing* one can pin faith on.

Except, perhaps,  a little noticed quirk in our natures.

We putatively ‘higher’ mammals – good, bad, and ugly -  seem to yet
 nurture a craving for  a higher truth, despite being immersed, daily,  in
a treacherous world of lies.

It’s odd, but true.

That might account for the legions of ‘*truthers*’ that are on  the
internet , night and day, globally, arguing *against the stream.*

In the *long run – *if such a state  exists at all,  given the various
extinctions we face: of war, atomic weapons,  and climate change* - * I
think they are likely to prevail.

*For Critical Insights, once released , may not be , easily, crammed back
into Pandora’s Box.*

And  Power, without *Legitimation*, lacks  lasting potency.

*Whence, the good old days may be  gone – for good.*

***

So,  if you are a toady or a humbug, or a gull  or a shill, of a teetering
 system,  you are simply  out of luck.

For truth, like murder, methinks, *will ‘out’.*

That’s what wannabe Caligulas – of which there is  no dearth -  also  need
to know.

*[©R.Kanth, 2019]*


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[P2P-F] Fwd: Dear adults, use your power

[Michel Bauwens]

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From: Monica Davies - 350.org <3...@350.org>
Date: Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 1:11 PM
Subject: Dear adults, use your power
To: Bauwens Michel 


Students across the world will go on strike for the climate this week.
Here’s how you and other grown-ups can meaningfully support them:

Hi Bauwens,

A powerful new movement of young people is sweeping across the world: from
Sweden to Uganda, and Colombia to Hong Kong, young people are striking from
school to demand real climate action from governments.

This time, students are going big. This Friday, 15 March, they are
coordinating a wave of global school strikes and there are already more
than 700 strikes planned in 72 countries.



The moral authority of these kids has the potential to transform the
climate conversation. They know that their future is on the line, and are
acting like it. As grown-ups, we need to make sure we grab this opportunity
and help their actions be heard as far and wide as possible.

How can you show your support for the strikes? Here are 5 meaningful ways
you can support the striking kids

.

*Share this video*

and *find a strike near you to support*

.

To help the momentum grow, everyone can take even a small action, and
inspire others.

These protests are injecting a new urgency into the call for a fossil free
future, and focusing attention on long years of insufficient action by
governments. Students won’t wait any longer.

If you’re ready to act too, here’s how: see what you can do

.

*In solidarity with young people all over the world,*
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Re: [P2P-F] an update on important publications by the P2P Foundation

[Michel Bauwens]

I completely disagree with this assessment, and it would have to be
documented where that is the case ...

there has never been a great singularity in our work,

we also worked with existing prefigurative seed forms and how to integrate
them to achieve more radical structure-changing outcomes and always thought
socio-technical infrastructures are part of that change,

we never conflate price with value for example, it's simply not in there ;
actually, I don't even think we talk about price in that report; we argue
for value sovereignty, multiple streams of value, coins that represents
resource volumes (no price representing market value etc.. ) ; we are in
favour of keeping the commons free of exchange value (while documenting
those that think and practice differently), talk about non-financialized
thermo-dynamic accounting etc ...

for each of your points, I could argue similarly, i.e. we are not
objectivist but integral, the research method of the p2p lab is
action-research based, we stress everywhere that technology is not a
solution but a function of the communal and societal values, and the
behaviorist tone is about reporting what techno-libertarians are doing and
how we could do it differently (but yes, incentives do matter in driving
human behaviour)

so I'm not a psycho-therapist either, but it sounds a lot like projection,
.i.e. someone reading lots of things in the text that there simply not
there,

dear Stacco,

in another email, James asks to be removed from this mailing list and I'm
assuming he means 'visioning', so thanks for obliging,

Michel



On Mon, Mar 4, 2019 at 5:02 PM  wrote:

> Dear Michel et al
>
> Just an observation. I find it interesting how P2PF has drifted so deeply
> into objectivism, including its research methods, technocratic worldview
> and behaviorist tone. One wonders now who your target audience has actually
> become -- you seem to have gone from peer-to-peer humanism to antiseptic
> empiricism with unconscious abandon.
>
> I'm not a psychotherapist, but I see that P2PF still conflates price with
> value in most of its analysis, which means that your authors have not shed
> the (Freudian) reality principle of marginal utility theory in
> neo-classical economics, which is the persistent cause of capitalist
> overdetermination in social and ecological repression.
>
> Where is the Great Singularity in your work now? Who are the activists you
> hope to inspire? Or are you unconsciously using post-modernist analysis to
> further entrench the commons as a microeconomic religion and belying the
> commitment of your peers to equality and sustainability? Sad to say, I may
> as well be reading Hume or von Hayek for the sensory marvels of the price
> system.
>
> -
> From: "Michel Bauwens"
> To: "p2p-foundation", "Michel Visioning Bauwens", "Research stream email
> of P2P Foundation"
> Cc:
> Sent: Monday March 4 2019 6:37:48AM
> Subject: an update on important publications by the P2P Foundation
>
>
> We have several things cooking at the P2P Foundation which is aligned with
> your work!
>
> The first is an english book (being translated in Korean, and perhaps also
> in French soon), that summarizes our work in the last ten years, in look at
> how productive commons-based communities engage with generative market
> forms, and with facilitating public authorities, both at the micro-level,
> as actual practice, and how that let's us imagine a reformed civilization
> that can deal with social justice and ecological balance,
>
> See
> <https://www.commonslabantwerpen.org/activiteiten/2019/3/4/michel-bauwens-vasilis-kostakis-amp-alex-pazaitis-p2p-foundation-nbspbook-launch-peer-to-peer-the-commons-manifesto-university-of-westminster-press>
> https://www.commonslabantwerpen.org/activiteiten/2019/3/4/michel-bauwens-vasilis-kostakis-amp-alex-pazaitis-p2p-foundation-nbspbook-launch-peer-to-peer-the-commons-manifesto-university-of-westminster-press,
> for our official launch in London on 21/3 (launch in Ghent on 23/3)
>
> Our other great project is the one you contributed to finding funding. In
> essence, it takes the donut of Kate Raworth, and seeks a concrete
> instantiation of it by presenting a configuration of socio-technical
> systems that can be both socially predistributive (equity embedded through
> contributive accounting) and ecologically stable (in the context of course,
> of destabilizing climate change).
>
> It won't be published officially before mid-May but the final text and
> graphs are ready in google doc,
>
> see here for a summary and links to the google docs:
> <https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/P2P_Accounting_for_Planetary_Survival>
> https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net

[P2P-F] a special request for assistance in diffusing the news about our book (launch)

[Michel Bauwens]

dear friends and subscribers to our lists,

Is it possible to make a special effort to diffuse the announcement of our
new book ?

here is a short text that can be used for facebook and twitter:

The P2P Foundation is publishing a new book on how to replace the current
Capital-State-Nation system with Productive Commons Ecosystems, Generative
Markets, and Enabling Public Institutions (partner state); due out 21 march


the following wiki page gives access to the first chapter and ToC:

https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/(Book)_Peer_to_Peer:_The_Commons_Manifesto ;


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[P2P-F] thanks for diffusing info on this new book if possible

[Michel Bauwens]

see:

*Book: Social movements powering the future of money. Kindle Edition* edited
by Betty Lim and Simon Sim. 2019

URL =
https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Social_Movements_Powering_the_Future_of_Money

"read how 16 amazing founders mainly in the Commons/P2P space are
attempting to power a more “real economy.”

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[P2P-F] Fwd: The truth about U.S. government objectives in Venezuela

[Michel Bauwens]

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From: Thomas Greco 
Date: Tue, Mar 5, 2019 at 2:34 AM
Subject: The truth about U.S. government objectives in Venezuela
To: Michel Bauwens 


In 2018, the United Nations Human Rights Commission (HRC) sent its former
Secretary, Alfred de Zayas to Venezuela to investigate the situation there.
De Zayas is an American lawyer, writer, historian, and leading expert in
the field of human rights and international law.

In August of 2018, de Zayas presented his Venezuela report
<https://beyondmoney.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=3cbee2e1cfc237bcae4ed6959&id=b6f0fb4490&e=686d597d8c>
to the HRC but it was greeted with a shocking silence. The only mainstream
media outlet that I am aware of that has covered the UN report is the
Independent
<https://beyondmoney.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=3cbee2e1cfc237bcae4ed6959&id=0aa42b98a7&e=686d597d8c>
(UK), in an article titled, Venezuela crisis: Former UN rapporteur says US
sanctions are killing citizens
<https://beyondmoney.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=3cbee2e1cfc237bcae4ed6959&id=c339d831a9&e=686d597d8c>,
published on January 26, 2019. I have not seen any similar coverage it in
the United States, and I myself learned about the report almost by
accident. Amidst the deafening drumbeat for regime change, one must wonder
why such an official investigation has been ignored.

Despite this neglect by the mainstream media, several recorded interviews
of De Zayas have made their way onto the Worldwide Web. In this video
interview
<https://beyondmoney.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=3cbee2e1cfc237bcae4ed6959&id=e74df6170b&e=686d597d8c>,
the UN Investigator and human rights rapporteur gives a summary of his
findings. De Zayas says that *there is no humanitarian crisis in Venezuela,
*but “The government … through an external economic war is being
asphyxiated.” He asserts that “the financial blockade has had extremely
adverse human rights impact” and it has been the intention of the United
States “to create a situation whereby the people or the military would
topple the government...and then the one percent could again come in and
again control the wealth of Venezuela.”

Among the facts that he presents are these:

   - *The Venezuelan oil company Citgo has not been allowed to take it
   revenues, amounting to 9 or 10 billion dollars, out of the United States. *
   - *In July 2017 Citibank decided, without prior notice, to close the
   accounts of the Central Bank of Venezuela,*
   - *And again, in November 2017, Citibank blocked the transfer[of funds]
   for a shipment of more than 300,000 doses of insulin. *
   - *Also, in November 2017, “the company Euroclear, retained $1.65
   billion that the government of Venezuela had paid for the purchase of food
   and medicine.*

These and numerous other blocks of payment for essential medicines, he
argues, are responsible for increased rates of child and maternal
mortality, and increased deaths due to lack of insulin and anti-retroviral
drugs.

National security advisor, John Bolton has arrogantly admitted on air to
Fox Business host Trish Regan that the [Trump] administration has the goal
of putting U.S. companies in charge of Venezuela's oil production. See it
on former Congressman Ron Paul’s Liberty Report
<https://beyondmoney.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=3cbee2e1cfc237bcae4ed6959&id=4014dcea05&e=686d597d8c>
.

The most recent developments in this matter have included new financial
sanctions, the attempt to declare the Maduro presidency illegitimate and to
impose a hand-picked puppet who has no legitimate claim to the presidency,
and an attempt to provoke an incident by sending so-called “aid” to the
border with Columbia. As Mr. De Zayas, puts it, “Juan Guaido is riding on
the Trojan horse of the United States.”

We should be grateful to Mr. De Zayas for courageously reporting the truth
of the matter in Venezuela. It is distressing to me to see such broad
support by Western and Latin American governments for regime change in
Venezuela based on trumped-up charges. Such blatant imperial overreach
should have the US populace up in arms, especially after the obvious
falsehoods that have been put forth to overthrow governments in places like
Iraq, Libya, and others countries across the middle-east and North Africa,
and the attempted overthrow of the Assad government in Syria. Truly, the
world order today has all the hallmarks of a fascist super-state.

You can find Mr. de Zayas’ official report at
https://documents-dds-ny.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/G18/239/29/PDF/G1823929.pdf?OpenElement
<https://beyondmoney.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=3cbee2e1cfc237bcae4ed6959&id=ffe6f526f7&e=686d597d8c>.
I have excerpted the *Conclusions *and *Recommendations *from the report
and you can find them here
<https://beyondmoney.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=3cbee2e1cfc237bcae4ed6959&id=dfd6e2b26b&e=686

[P2P-F] in case you missed the 'best intro to the commons so far'

[Michel Bauwens]

RT @romankrznaric: The best introduction to "the commons" I've come across,

Now I know what it is, I'm starting to see it everywhere. #longthink101

https://t.co/OnHO2J2zYE

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[P2P-F] an update on important publications by the P2P Foundation

[Michel Bauwens]

We have several things cooking at the P2P Foundation which is aligned with
your work!

The first is an english book (being translated in Korean, and perhaps also
in French soon), that summarizes our work in the last ten years, in look at
how productive commons-based communities engage with generative market
forms, and with facilitating public authorities, both at the micro-level,
as actual practice, and how that let's us imagine a reformed civilization
that can deal with social justice and ecological balance,

See
https://www.commonslabantwerpen.org/activiteiten/2019/3/4/michel-bauwens-vasilis-kostakis-amp-alex-pazaitis-p2p-foundation-nbspbook-launch-peer-to-peer-the-commons-manifesto-university-of-westminster-press,
for our official launch in London on 21/3 (launch in Ghent on 23/3)

Our other great project is the one you contributed to finding funding. In
essence, it takes the donut of Kate Raworth, and seeks a concrete
instantiation of it by presenting a configuration of socio-technical
systems that can be both socially predistributive (equity embedded through
contributive accounting) and ecologically stable (in the context of course,
of destabilizing climate change).

It won't be published officially before mid-May but the final text and
graphs are ready in google doc,

see here for a summary and links to the google docs:
https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/P2P_Accounting_for_Planetary_Survival

Finally, I am 'list-pusher' for the European elections as MEP for the
flemish Greens. While it is in principle a un-electable position, I see it
as a opportunity for bringing the commons message and solution-space across
a wider audience.

I'm hoping to get a bit more of dedicated attention to our work, and any
assistance would be appreciated

Michel Bauwens

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[P2P-F] Fwd: At the Turning Point

[Michel Bauwens]

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From: Kosmos Journal 
Date: Sat, Mar 2, 2019 at 10:00 PM
Subject: At the Turning Point
To: michel 


Click here

to read this newsletter on our website.
[image: Kosmos Community Newsletter]
At the Turning Point March 2nd, 2019 [image: snowdrops.jpg]

Dear Reader,

A Buddhist nun shared a phrase that touched my heart, ‘*Mother Earth is
doing her best*.’ It has been my mantra as I notice the earliest signs of
Spring beginning to emerge where I live in Rose Valley, Pennsylvania – a
robin, and the very first buds of renewal outside my door. And even though
the rose bushes still look stark and bleak, I know the promise of life is
there. We are nearing the turning point between winter and spring in this
hemisphere, coinciding with the day our Spring edition of Kosmos Quarterly

publishes, *Rising Earth Awareness. *

You have heard the phrase, *Great Turning* – the transition to a global
society in harmony with all Life. All around us, we see the early signs of
this emergence. People are waking up to the realities of our present
situation. Yes, it looks bleak at times, and many still live in denial –
business as usual. Yet, there is no denying it – greater Earth awareness on
the rise.

If you have ever been to Astor Place in New York City, you have seen the
big *Cube* sculpture, positioned there on its axis. It is heavy and it
takes more than one person to move it. I have seen friends and strangers
come together to turn the *Cube*, and participated myself a few times. One
person can not do it alone. People must push together. That is the kind of
moment we face, except it is no less than a turning point for humanity.

In this spirit, *Kosmos* seeks to bring together those who wish to unite
our energy and seed our communities with hope and resilience. The Climate,
Consciousness and Community Summit takes place April 20-23
,
during Easter, Passover and Earth Day. This is the great work of our time.
No matter what our individual outlook may be – doubt, fear, outrage,
determination – each of us has a choice to make, whether or not we will *push
together*, for Life. Join us!

In loving cooperation,
R. Fabian and your Kosmos Team
*Registration

Open for the Kosmos Climate, Consciousness and Community Summit*

*The Kosmos Climate, Consciousness, and Community Summit
brings
together influential climate thinkers, healers and change-makers – ranging
from water protectors and local-economy pioneers, to artists, farmers,
spiritual teachers, and more. Come share about your work.*

Engage in intimate dialogue and reflection as we confront hard truths and
our deepest feelings about the converging crises we face on Earth, our
home. We will convene in the beautiful, thriving Transition Town

of
Media, Pennsylvania, April 20-23, 2019.
REGISTER HERE


*Our intimate Summit will also coincide with Findhorn Community’s CCC19
Conference
,
and
we will receive streamed Keynotes from Findhorn Community in Scotland,
including:*



*Bill McKibben, Activist and founder of 350.org *

*“We will build the architecture of the world that comes next.”*



*Vandana Shiva, Activist, physicist, feminist*

*“Soil is the metaphor of decentralized and deep democracy.”*



*Charles Eisenstein, Philosopher, Author*

*“Our salvation must come from recovering a direct relationship to what is
alive in front of us.”*





*Angaangaq Angakkorsuaq, Eskimo-Kalaallit Elder and Shaman*

*“…the greatest distance in the existence of Man is from his mind to his
heart.”*

A Selection of Recent Climate Reports

Compiled by Victoria Price
in the winter edition of Kosmos Quarterly

The following are summaries of recent studies conducted on the
interrelationships between climate change and four distinct areas: fashion,
food, the sea, and mental health.
READ MORE →

POEM | An Overcast Morning, I Sit Down To Write

By Melanie Green
in the Winter edition of Kosmos Quarterly

Inhalation and exhalation,
this just happens
and I’m in the middle of it…
REA

[P2P-F] Fwd: A Burger With No Cows, The Rise Of Cellular Agriculture

[Michel Bauwens]

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Subject: A Burger With No Cows, The Rise Of Cellular Agriculture
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The Learning with Lowel podcast interviews Isha Datar, CEO of New Harvest,
and discusses the company's work in producing animal agricultural products
without the animals.

According to Datar, the creation of a marbled steak would likely be the
most difficult due to it being a 3D and organized tissue. Currently, the
companies that she co-founded, Perfect Day and Clara Foods, produce milk
without cows and eggs without chickens.

The discussion on lab-based agriculture to make traditionally
animal-derived food products is of immense importance for the environmental
future of the planet as well being able to give a wider variety of people a
higher quality of food. Being able to find an alternative to animal
agriculture not only will free up large tracts of land and reduce
greenhouse gas emissions in the form of bovine flatulence, but also a
greater degree of control of what exactly goes into food.

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[P2P-F] Fwd: Michel Bauwens's Weekly: “How Post-Watergate Liberals Killed Their Populist Soul“ by The Atlantic

[Michel Bauwens]

I don't recall ever registering for this service, but it looks good,

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In the 1970s, a new wave of post-Watergate liberals stopped fighting
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[P2P-F] Fwd: [ess-communs] TR: CIRIEC RESEARCH CALL: Production of public goods and commons...

[Michel Bauwens]

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Date: Fri, Feb 22, 2019 at 5:22 PM
Subject: [ess-communs] TR: CIRIEC RESEARCH CALL: Production of public goods
and commons...
To: 


Pardon pour les doublons éventuels.



*De :* CIRIEC [mailto:cir...@uliege.be]
*Envoyé :* mercredi 20 février 2019 09:26
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Dear All,


CIRIEC launched a call for contributions for its new research program
2019-2020 on *“Joint production and co-production of public goods and
commons: source of a paradigm shift through creative destruction of public
action?”*.
This project will be led by Philippe Bance, Marie J. Bouchard and Dorothea
Greiling.

The deadline for submitting your proposal is *15 March 2019*.

Detailed description of the research project in *EN*

& *FR*

 .

If you wish to submit your proposal, please send it to *cir...@uliege.be
**.* 

Best Regards,

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*Bonjour,*

Le CIRIEC a lancé un appel à contributions pour son nouveau programme de
recherche 2019-2020 sur *"Production et coproduction conjointes de biens
publics et communs : source d'un changement de paradigme par la destruction
créative de l'action publique ?”*.
Ce projet sera mené par Philippe Bance, Marie J. Bouchard et Dorothea
Greiling.

La date limite pour soumettre votre proposition est le *15 mars 2019. *

Description détaillée du projet de recherche en *EN *
&
*FR*

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[P2P-F] new course

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[P2P-F] Fwd: PGA Updates and 2018 in Review

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[P2P-F] Fwd: Journal of Futures Studies - Feb 2019 Newsletter

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*The Emergence of Open Construction Systems: A Sustainable Paradigm in the
Construction Sector?*
Christina Priavolou
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*All Revolutions Are Equal; But Some Are More Equal Than Others*
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Re: [P2P-F] circular financing of regenerative activities

[Michel Bauwens]

diffused!

On Mon, Feb 18, 2019 at 3:23 AM Michael Linton 
wrote:

> I think we might all agree the RegGen intent is laudable and worthy, but
> personally I find their propositions hardly credible, for much the same
> reasons as those James has clearly given here (and has given to RegGen
> already, and that they seem not to take account doesn't add to my
> confidence)
>
> And coincidentally, I am leading a webinar on circular economies and such
> wicked problems as financing regeneration on Thursday this week at 10am pst
> / 1pm est / 7 pm cet
>
> Event on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/2347924768769206
>
> REGISTER here: https://www.conferize.com/reconomy/money-patterns
>
> Basically, I will outline
>
> 1) that circular economies require circular systems of money, and more
> 2) how open mutual credit networks provide for such systems - REA rules
> 3) a possible way to propagate mutual credit widely enough and quickly
> enough to be useful
>
> and introduce some practical propositions. These notes
> <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ozhPRqdgTk_lSPmeUZM3_gDjUHlQmnlu4vb2jnU3_gE/edit>
> may give some idea of the likely content, shape and range of the webinar.
>
> Since it's a 2 hour session, it will be recorded for any interested but
> pressed for time.
>
> cheers, Michael
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Sun, Feb 17, 2019 at 8:44 AM  wrote:
>
>> Great video but... this addresses one sector - agriculture - and only
>> touches on water (via streams) and has no influence on energy systems. The
>> impact of the carbon sequestration factor is also exaggerated -- soil
>> sequestration of carbon dioxide will still take several centuries to return
>> the atmosphere to mid-20th century levels of carbon dioxide, according to
>> the IPCC.
>>
>> The other problem is RegGen's use of blockchain to focus on market-based
>> incentives without recognizing that an integrated regenerative approach
>> (involving all key renewable and non-renewable resources) could actually
>> restructure the monetary system and create a true circular economy. Here is
>> where monetary signals (which some folks cannot comprehend) originate.
>> ReGen has it right with the sensors and monitors but makes the mistake of
>> turning this into financial data. As I told ReGen last June in Amsterdam,
>> they haven't grasped the difference between financial and monetary policy
>> and are making holistic claims that are highly misleading.
>>
>> Sure, it's a wicked problem but let's be clear: balancing extractive
>> economics with regenerative economics requires a set of metrics that is not
>> market-based. You don't solve a problem by using the same assumptions and
>> methods that created the problem in the first place.
>>
>>
>> -
>> From: "Michel Bauwens"
>> To: "Michel Visioning Bauwens", "p2p-foundation", "Research stream email
>> of P2P Foundation"
>> Cc:
>> Sent: Sunday February 17 2019 4:53:07AM
>> Subject: circular financing of regenerative activities
>>
>> I very strongly believe this is one of the key solutions for climate
>> change mitigation, and more generally, about creating 'circular finance'
>> mechanisms, i.e. rewarding generative, rather than extractive activity:
>>
>> <https://vimeo.com/299326236>https://vimeo.com/299326236
>>
>> --
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>> <http://blog.p2pfoundation.net>http://blog.p2pfoundation.net
>>
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>> Discuss:
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>> <http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens>http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens
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>>
>>
>>
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Re: [P2P-F] circular financing of regenerative activities

[Michel Bauwens]

thanks James!

have you talked to the ReGen people about this ?

On Sun, Feb 17, 2019 at 5:44 PM  wrote:

> Great video but... this addresses one sector - agriculture - and only
> touches on water (via streams) and has no influence on energy systems. The
> impact of the carbon sequestration factor is also exaggerated -- soil
> sequestration of carbon dioxide will still take several centuries to return
> the atmosphere to mid-20th century levels of carbon dioxide, according to
> the IPCC.
>
> The other problem is RegGen's use of blockchain to focus on market-based
> incentives without recognizing that an integrated regenerative approach
> (involving all key renewable and non-renewable resources) could actually
> restructure the monetary system and create a true circular economy. Here is
> where monetary signals (which some folks cannot comprehend) originate.
> ReGen has it right with the sensors and monitors but makes the mistake of
> turning this into financial data. As I told ReGen last June in Amsterdam,
> they haven't grasped the difference between financial and monetary policy
> and are making holistic claims that are highly misleading.
>
> Sure, it's a wicked problem but let's be clear: balancing extractive
> economics with regenerative economics requires a set of metrics that is not
> market-based. You don't solve a problem by using the same assumptions and
> methods that created the problem in the first place.
>
>
> -
> From: "Michel Bauwens"
> To: "Michel Visioning Bauwens", "p2p-foundation", "Research stream email
> of P2P Foundation"
> Cc:
> Sent: Sunday February 17 2019 4:53:07AM
> Subject: circular financing of regenerative activities
>
> I very strongly believe this is one of the key solutions for climate
> change mitigation, and more generally, about creating 'circular finance'
> mechanisms, i.e. rewarding generative, rather than extractive activity:
>
> <https://vimeo.com/299326236>https://vimeo.com/299326236
>
> --
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>
>
>
>

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[P2P-F] circular financing of regenerative activities

[Michel Bauwens]

I very strongly believe this is one of the key solutions for climate change
mitigation, and more generally, about creating 'circular finance'
mechanisms, i.e. rewarding generative, rather than extractive activity:

https://vimeo.com/299326236

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[P2P-F] Fwd: Alpha Males vs. Omega Men

[Michel Bauwens]

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From: Jorge Ferrer 
Date: Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 7:17 AM
Subject: Alpha Males vs. Omega Men
To: Jorge Ferrer 


Dear friend,

I hope you enjoy this playful polemics! Feel free to circulate it. Both
Spanish and English versions provided; please scroll down for the English
one.

http://hablemosdepoliamor.com/macho-alfa-versus-hombre-omega/?fbclid=IwAR23m01_Oe1FX1ZjK1tqGhYaOOZS25ScDstI7kmTB4ndkzW0Q24M9GrdjBE

Warmly,

Jorge

-- 
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Professor
Integral and Transpersonal Psychology PhD Program
Department of East-West Psychology
California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco
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[P2P-F] Fwd: The Energy 202: No 'unanimity' on Green New Deal, says key House Democrat

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*The Energy 202: No 'unanimity' on Green New Deal, says key House Democrat*

*By  Dino Grandoni / PowerPost*

February 12, 2019 - A pair of prominent Democrats on Thursday released a
sweeping and long-awaited measure outlining what they are calling a “Green
New Deal.” Invoking President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s years-long effort to
drag the country out of the Great Depression, they are calling for nothing
short of a top-to-bottom renovation of the U.S. economy in order to halt
man-made climate change.
Their measure was greeted rapturously by climate activists eager to stop
what they see as a looming threat. Immediately, it had the backing of four
Democratic senators who have launched bids for the 2020 presidential
nomination.
It is still early days for the Green New Deal. But fault lines within the
Democratic caucus were already visible before the end of the day, with some
members urging caution about setting vague and, at times,
impossible-to-achieve goals to only fall short.
And perhaps most importantly, the plan has yet to get the formal backing of
one crucial Democrat: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.).
"It will be one of several or maybe many suggestions that we receive,”
Pelosi told Politico on Wednesday. “The green dream or whatever they call
it, nobody knows what it is, but they’re for it right?”
“There’s not unanimity,” said Rep. Raúl Grijalva (D-Ariz.), who backs the
Green New Deal proposal and chairs the House Natural Resources Committee.
“I’m sure there’s colleagues that feel that should have been more
prescriptive than it is. And I’m sure there’s colleagues that feel that
we’re providing an issue to the other side.”
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), whose star only seems to be rising
in the Democratic Party, and Sen. Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), who led the
Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming when he was in
the House, introduced the measure, a nonbinding resolution, that they say
opens the debate on how to craft tangible legislation on an idea that until
now essentially served as a campaign slogan.
Markey and Ocasio-Cortez are calling for the United States to reduce net
greenhouse gas emissions to zero within 10 years and eliminate
climate-warming pollution from the transportation sector “as much as is
technologically possible."
And they want to do so while checking off a number of other progressive
goals, like increasing access to housing, health care and education for
what they call “frontline” communities, or Americans who are low-income,
indigenous and people of color.
The proposal advanced by the Democrats is still vague, perhaps in a bid to
garner broad support -- Ocasio-Cortez and Markey attracted roughly 60 House
members and nine senators as initial co-sponsors. Endorsements from Sens.
Cory Booker (D-N.J.), Kirsten Gillibrand (N.Y.), Kamala Harris (D-Calif.)
and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), each of whom are running for president,
signal the Green New Deal will be an ongoing issue in the 2020 election.
Many observers saw Pelosi’s “green dream” comment as dismissive. Before the
end of the day, the satirical newspaper The Onion published a story
headlined: “Nancy Pelosi Signals Support For Environmental Causes By
Placing Green New Deal Directly Into Recycling Bin.”
But proponents of the proposal embraced Pelosi’s language. "I think it is a
green dream,” Ocasio-Cortez said at a press conference rolling out the
Green New Deal. “I don’t consider that to be a dismissive term. I think
it’s a great term.”
And the speaker was more welcoming of the proposal at her own press
conference Thursday morning. “I haven’t seen it," Pelosi said, “but I do
know that it’s enthusiastic and we welcome all the enthusiasms that are out
there.”
Still, Pelosi is charting her own course on climate change with her power
as speaker. On that same morning, Pelosi named the Democratic lawmakers who
will serve on a new select committee on climate change.
She eschewed a request that committee members be required not to take
fossil-fuel money. Green New Deal proponents also wanted the committee to
embrace that term, but Pelosi ended up naming the committee the "House
Select Committee on the Climate Crisis."
"The energy industry is complicated," said select committee member and
Democratic freshman Rep. Sean Casten (Ill.). He has not endorsed the Green
New Deal yet, but of it he added: "The aspiration's beautiful, right? I
want to live in a world that has has green jobs. I want to live in a world
that has an equitable distribution of resources."
Other Democrats expressed more skepticism about slashing carbon emissions
that quickly. “I’m not sure 

[P2P-F] Fwd: A World Political Party: The Time Has Come (GTN Discussion)

[Michel Bauwens]

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Subject: A World Political Party: The Time Has Come (GTN Discussion)
To: 



>From Heikki Patomäki 

---
The Time for a World Political Party is now: A Response to Critics

Heikki Patomäki

In the future, we will see many world political parties (WPPs). The idea of
a WPP is generic. While our capacity to envisage our common existence from
a planetary perspective and to organize politics accordingly is valuable in
itself, I am advocating a particular vision for the form such a party could
take. This ambiguity has triggered a number of critical comments, so let me
be clear: what I propose is that we establish a democratic socialist world
party. At the same time, however, I believe that in a pluralistic and
non-Eurocentric world, there will be other simultaneous and substantive
ideals around which future politics revolve.

What could a democratic socialist world party do under the current
institutional and political-economic conditions? As Karl Marx famously
said, actors “make their own history, but they do not make it as they
please; they do not make it under self-selected circumstances, but under
circumstances existing already, given and transmitted from the past.”
Certainly, there have been better world-historical moments for global
democratic ideas, such as the end of the two world wars and the 1990s. If
anything, the world is now disintegrating, in part as a result of the rise
of nationalist populism. This rise has been strongly fueled by the 2008–9
crisis and its consequences, but its deeper causes are related to the
process of neoliberalization that started back in the 1970s. Moreover, in
spite of many campaigns, it remains the case that there is still no world
parliament (or government). Even if the idea of a United Nations
Parliamentary Assembly (UNPA) was realized immediately, it would
probably give greater voice to members of national parliaments, rather than
creating space for anything resembling global political parties proper. No
global elections are yet in sight.

It is reasonable, at least tentatively, to see the current situation in
terms of Karl Polanyi’s double movement, although clearly, history does not
simply repeat itself. There is no pendulum of history. Moreover, we cannot
go back to what Axel Honneth calls the intellectual fictions of the age of
the Industrial Revolution, namely that historical progress is necessary and
that it will be carried forward by a particular class with fixed interests.
[1] While the working-class movement in England and elsewhere emerged from
a variety of real socioeconomic conditions, it was actively nurtured by
socialists who believed in its world-historical role. The socioeconomic
conditions are different in the twenty-first century. For instance,
industrial workers form a declining share of the labor force across
advanced industrial countries.

Changing realities require new ideas. The idea of transformative global
agency is purported to make a wide rational appeal across different social
classes: “This is what is reasonable for us to do!” As Richard Falk puts
it, “The very adversity of circumstances and the severity of global risks
is giving rise to a radical populist consciousness.” In addition to these
risks, and the acute sense of injustices and asymmetries of power, there
must also be a positive direction. David Christian expresses the positive
part of the idea eloquently: the challenge is to construct “a new and
inspiring vision of where we humans are today, a vision that can inspire
optimism and ambition about the planetary task of building a sustainable
future.” Indeed, this is the main aim of my call for a WPP.

The making of a collective agency is a process of active and reflexive
engagement among the world’s people. The nineteenth-century socialists,
believing in their world-historical role, established trade unions, various
associations and societies, and labor and socialist parties. The making of
a working class shaped the development of industrial capitalism, and also,
together with the twentieth-century catastrophes, led to the establishment
of dictatorial and often violent single-party socialist regimes across the
world. We need to learn from these historical experiences, both the
negative and positive lessons they have to offer. We must avoid again being
mired in the intellectual fictions of the age of the Industrial Revolution
and must acknowledge the diversity of elements that fed into the process of
forming the nineteenth-century working class. The majority of these
associations, unions, and parties were struggling to democratize society,
and often succeeded.

Similarly, we can see the emergence of global civil society, along with the
possible coalescence of a world political party, as part of a broad process
of global transformation. Citizens across the world are disillusioned b