there are not so many options ... one is state support, according to some , just as disqualifying as private support ... the alternative is membership only,which requires old style political organizing ... I can think of 2 more mass fundraising and autonomous entrepreneurial activities
the russian revolution was parlly funded by German secret service money, it was still a terryfying event for the powers that be .... On Sun, Apr 3, 2016 at 5:02 PM, Orsan Senalp <[email protected]> wrote: > Well, I will have to disagree with your cateful response about the nature, > intention, and politics of project-funding in the age of social system > engineering and complexity management; which is the experitise of founders > and providers of such political funds (David Rockefellar Studied complexity > and governance, George Soros is expert of refiexive complex systems; Ervin > Lazslo of Club of Budapest some of many).. The science of socialisation is > the experitise of ruling class' organic intellectuals and such funds serves > to set initial conditions or manage the complexity this certain classes > encounter, not really for risky charity that can lead to qualitative > rapture in the system that can transform these guys to one of many peer > producer node. > > I bear most positive feelings and belief in sincerely of intentions, but > political language, as in your response, is unfortunately not so figurative > thus lessen the hope for future. > > The question I bear is, can it or should it be different? Especially now > at the brink of yet another inter-ruling class war. Can we go beyond the > language of secondary relationships belongs to the anicient regime > politics and practice peer to peer politics. This is a question to the next > system thinkers.. > > Örsan > > On 02 Apr 2016, at 20:56, Michel Bauwens <[email protected]> wrote: > > while I support Gar Alperovitz's specific Next Economy project as a > necessary step forwards, and am also aware that there are various 'new > economy' projects being circulated, funded by various players, I am > personally not opposed to funded projects, and very aware that language > cannot be controlled by any player, > > Thus, I judge each specific project on its own merits and the Next Economy > project is one of the most promising initiatives, certainly in the US > context, even though, from our very specific point of view at the P2P > Foundation, it is missing out on the necessary aspect of changing the mode > of production through commons-based peer production. It is often a bad > strategy to focus on what is different between projects, rather than focus > on commonality and seeking to build broad social coalitions for change, > > The source of financial support is an important part that should be > transparent, but just one of the many elements that should inform our > judgment. Many foundations with 'bad names' because the original funders > were extractive or predatory, nevertheless end up funding many good > projects. Important is the level of autonomy and integrity that projects > can maintain in the context of such fundings, > > Michel > > On Sun, Apr 3, 2016 at 1:49 AM, Orsan <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> Himm, although email comes from Micheal Alberts to you Michel, the text >> is marked by the term 'new economy'. As I have been highlighting since >> already sometime the term 'new economy' brand make the text called program, >> that sells the politics propagated by Gar Alperovitz; who is the mostly >> funded one amongst all the others, and then the text stats with: >> >> "Around the world powerful and diverse possibilities are in struggle. We >> the signers of "Some Possible Ideas for Going Forward" think one high >> priority for progress is activists developing, discussing, and settling on >> priorities around which to organize multi issue activism in coming months >> and years. We hope this document can help inspire more conversations within >> groups and movements that, over time, come to some synthesis. We do this in >> the spirit of self organization - and as a rejection of preformed >> inflexible programs and agendas imposed on activists from above. We believe >> only program that comes from below and is fully understood and owned by >> grassroots participants can win lasting change." >> >> I would suggest to readers and signers to check the list of funders of >> new economy coalition, new economy foundation, and the striking links and >> similarities between the priority agenda items, as well as shared >> terminology between this coalition and the elite club, Club of Rome. >> >> One would expect at this moment in history a little bit sincerity and >> openness about the underlying relationships; if not from initiators at >> least form the names like Alberts promoting and inviting other left wing >> signers, and not promote such a top down agenda setting operation as bottom >> movement. >> >> Solidarity, Orsan >> >> On 2 apr. 2016, at 19:46, Michel Bauwens <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> >> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >> From: Michael Albert <[email protected]> >> Date: Sat, Apr 2, 2016 at 8:52 PM >> Subject: invitation to sign multi author programmatic initiative >> To: Vijay Prashad <[email protected]>, Leslie Cagan < >> [email protected]>, Laura Flanders <[email protected]>, Michel >> Bauwens <[email protected]>, Pauolo >> Hi, >> >> Don't you want to sign on to the collective programmatic document we have >> offered before it goes public? We have not heard your response... perhaps >> you never received your invitation? Or maybe we missed your reply? If so, >> there was an error and our apologies for that. >> >> At any rate, the document, included below, is hopefully self explanatory. >> It seeks to inspire and assist a wide effort to arrive at shared left >> program. It offers various ideas for possible program, culled from practice >> and diverse sources, but it mainly seeks participation in a far reaching >> discussion, debate, and exploration, that will hopefully refine, augment, >> and interweave lasting multi issue, multi constituency, program for the >> future. >> >> Please let us know by return email if you would like to add your name to >> the effort. If so, please also indicate any affiliation you would like >> listed. >> >> The current signers of the document are: >> >> Michael Albert, Z Communications / U.S. >> Greg Albo, Centre for Social Justice / Canada >> Gar Alperovitz, The Next System / U.S. >> Bridget Anderson, COMPAS / UK >> Kehinde Andrews, Organization of Black Unity / UK >> Gordon Asher, Scholar Activist / Scotland >> Walden Bello, Focus on the Global South / Philippines >> Peter Bohmer, Economics for Everyone / U.S. >> Noam Chomsky, Internationalist / U.S. >> Savvina Chowdhury, Rachel Corrie Foundation / U.S. >> Marjorie Cohn, Scholar Activist / U.S. >> Ben Dangl, Journalist/Editor / U.S. >> Heather Day, CAGJ, / U.S. >> Cindy Domingo, Electoral Activist / U.S. >> Steve Early, Labor organizer / U.S. >> Joe Emersberger, UNIFOR / Canada >> Barbara Epstein, Scholar Activist / U.S. >> Mark Evans, What About Classism / UK >> Vincent Emanuele, IVAW / U.S. >> Bill Fletcher, Talk Show Host / U.S. >> Bill Gallegos, Environmental Justice Trainer / U.S. >> Irene Gendzier, Scholar Activist / U.S. >> Andrej Grubacic, Global Commons / U.S./Balkans >> Thomas Herndon, Univ. of Mass. / U.S. >> Kathy Kelly, Voices for Creative Nonviolence / U.S. >> Matt Lester, Economics for Everyone, / U.S. >> Joris Leverink, ROAR / Netherlands/Turkey >> Rodolfo Leyva, Middlesex University / UK >> Auset Marian Lewis, Journalist / U.S. >> Mandisi Majavu, Activist/Negritude / South Africa >> David Marty, Scholar Activist / Spain >> Robert W. McChesney, Univ Illinois / U.S. >> Suren Moodliar, Global Action / U.S. >> Larry Mosqueda, Movement for Justice & Peace / U.S. >> John Narayan, University of Warwick / UK >> Immanuel Ness, CUNY / U.S. >> Eugene Nulman, Critical Social Research / UK >> Paul Ortiz, University of Florida / U.S. >> Garry Owens, Kindle the Flame / U.S. >> Leo Panitch, Socialist Register / Canada >> Cynthia Peters, World Education / U.S. >> Justin Podur, Activist/Scholar / Canada >> Nikos Raptis, Scholar Activist, Greece >> Jack Rasmus, St Marys College / U.S. >> Jerome Roos, ROAR Magazine / The Netherlands >> Boaventura de Sousa Santos, Internationalist / Portugal >> Lydia Sargent, Z Communications / U.S. >> Stephen Shalom, New Politics / U.S. >> Marina Sitrin, Lawyer/Author / U.S. >> Norman Solomon, RootsAction / U.S. >> Sarah Stockholm. Showing Up for Racial Justice / U.S. >> Paul Street, Journalist/Author / U.S. >> Verena Stresing, Scholar Activist, France/Germany >> David Swanson, WarIsACrime / U.S. >> Fernando Vegas, Retired Supreme Court Judge / Venezuela >> Tom Vouloumanos, NDP / Canada >> Greg Wilpert, Real News / Ecuador/U.S. >> Florian Zollmann, Scholar Activist / UK/Germany >> >> >> And here is the document… >> >> >> *Some Possible Ideas for Going Forward* >> >> >> Around the world powerful and diverse possibilities are in struggle. We >> the signers of "Some Possible Ideas for Going Forward" think one high >> priority for progress is activists developing, discussing, and settling on >> priorities around which to organize multi issue activism in coming months >> and years. We hope this document can help inspire more conversations within >> groups and movements that, over time, come to some synthesis. We do this in >> the spirit of self organization - and as a rejection of preformed >> inflexible programs and agendas imposed on activists from above. We believe >> only program that comes from below and is fully understood and owned by >> grassroots participants can win lasting change. >> >> To try to help, we have assembled some familiar programmatic ideas rooted >> in diverse movements and projects. We signers do not each individually >> necessarily support every single programmatic suggestion given here. >> Indeed, perhaps none of us supports every single suggestion much less all >> the specific wording. Instead, we all support having a widespread >> discussion of these worthy ideas and of other ideas that emerge from the >> process, to arrive at widely supported program for left activists. >> >> >> >> *Some Possible Economic Programmatic Ideas* >> >> A left agenda might, for example, pursue four central economic goals - >> better quality of daily economic experience, more fairness, better >> production priorities, and increased mutual compassion. >> >> For example, new economic program might seek: (1) a law forbidding >> capital export and relocation without community and worker agreement, and >> (2) a law delineating punishments for employers who impede nationally >> mandated economic reforms. Likewise, it could seek controls on work day and >> work week length - for example seeking 30 hours of work for 40 hours pay. >> It might demand that the maximum penalty for owners violating the spirit >> and intent of such laws would be nationalization of their businesses under >> the management of currently employed workers. >> >> Similarly, new economic program might propose: (1) reducing inequality, >> (2) reorienting productive potentials to meet social needs, and (3) >> enlarging economic democracy. >> >> For example, new economic program might propose sharply progressive >> property, asset, and income taxes, with no loopholes, as well as a >> dramatically-increased minimum wage, say $20 an hour, and perhaps a >> guaranteed income for all, coupled with a new profit tax that would be >> proportional to inequities in each firm’s pay scale. The more oppressive >> the pay scale, the higher the profit tax. >> >> Due to a new minimum wage law, minimum pay would rise dramatically. Due >> to a new pay equity tax, industries with a more equitable pay scale would >> have more after-tax resources. Not only could more equitably structured >> firms use these extra funds to further improve work conditions and increase >> their social contribution, they could generally out-compete less socially >> responsible firms. New property and asset taxes would dramatically diminish >> differences in wealth. >> >> New economic program might usefully label all these innovations >> redistributive and repeatedly explain why redistribution from the rich to >> the poor is both morally justified and socially essential. Perhaps this >> part of a new program could be called “reclamation of stolen riches.” >> >> New economic program could seek a comprehensive full employment policy >> arising from campaigns to rebuild infrastructure and, in particular, to >> attain sustainable energy policies, as well as via the shift to a shorter >> work week. It could include comprehensive adult education and job training, >> and a comprehensive social support system for those unable to work, >> whatever the reason. >> >> Moreover, beyond material equity, new economic program could also >> advocate that workers should all have work conditions and responsibilities >> suitable to their personal development and to their responsibility to >> contribute to society’s well being. Why should some people endure boring, >> dangerous, subordinate, and rote conditions, a new movement might ask, >> while other people enjoy challenging, fulfilling, empowering, and varied >> conditions? New program could reveal that fairness is not only attaining >> equity of wealth and pay, but also equity of conditions of work and life. >> >> Using this principle as a long term touchstone, new program could seek to >> build and support workers’ councils empowered to conceive, demand, and work >> to implement job redefinition as well as to win increasing say over the >> pace, goal, and organization of work for the workers who do it. Such a >> program could emphasize that work can and should be a demanding but >> rewarding part of people’s lives, rather than an alienating, debilitating, >> energy and dignity sapping affront to people’s life potentials. >> >> Regarding investment priorities, new economic program could propose tax >> incentives for socially useful production and tax disincentives and indeed, >> legal prosecution, for wasteful and socially harmful production. This would >> help foster production to meet real needs and potentials. Indeed, such a >> new program could indicate precisely how to successfully regulate, punish, >> and even nationalize under workers control any business or industry deemed >> by an independent citizens bureau and public plebiscite to be destructive >> of the public good. While this might initially point at Walmart scale >> businesses, in time, of course, it would get at capitalist institutions per >> se. >> >> Of course, major change in economic priorities that a new program could >> emphasize could include a massive cut in military spending. Further, new >> program could propose that existing military bases be converted to centers >> for ecological clean-up, to new schools for local communities, to >> workplaces for developing low income housing, or to new centers of clean >> transportation or energy production. Funding for the new centers of social >> creativity could persist simply being the old military funding now put to >> desirable ends and similarly resident GIs or others seeking new employment >> could be retrained on site, to work in the converted bases. >> >> Regarding economic democracy and participation, new program could work >> for the formation of consumer and worker organizations to watchdog product >> quality, guard against excessive pricing, advise about product >> redefinition, and participate in plant, industry, and community collective >> consumption decisions with open books and full investigative rights. Beyond >> these first steps, new program could clarify that the ultimate goal is the >> full democratization of economic decision making and the initiation of a >> national public project to develop new institutions for work, consumption, >> and allocation. >> >> In short, new economic program could: (1) ratify the public’s suspicion >> that the basic problem with our economy is that capitalist institutions >> make capitalists prefer war production, persistent unemployment, and >> homelessness to a working class able to demand a bigger piece of the pie >> and control over what kind of pie is baked; and, (2) propose uncompromising >> changes that redress existing grievances, create conditions more just and >> humane, and establish a new balance of power conducive to winning more >> fundamental changes, including new defining institutions in the future. >> >> >> *Some Possible Education Programmatic Ideas* >> >> A new education program could note that existing schools create >> subservient and exploitable future workers by providing most students >> minimal literacy, virtually no dignity or sense of self worth, plus maximum >> training in enduring boredom and obeying orders. >> >> New education program could explain that schools accomplish all this >> destruction and distortion by incorporating differences in teacher-student >> ratios, in resources per student, and in teacher expectations and >> training—all on top of different conditions of home life, community >> relations, access to information and comfortable learning conditions, that >> simply multiply the injustice. >> >> To foster educational change new program could highlight the need to >> overcome corporate agendas and existing institutional pressures with our >> own alternatives. It could reveal that to have good education for all we >> must have a society promising full employment at jobs that require and >> utilize people’s full capabilities, including facility at decision-making, >> ample knowledge about society, and expectations of success and >> participation. >> >> New education program could also pressure for specific pedagogic changes >> in how schools and classes are conducted both during school hours, and also >> for surrounding communities in off hours. To enumerate these changes, new >> program could advocate a national debate about curriculum reform, improved >> teaching methods and enriched teacher-student relations, improved resources >> for schools, and increased community involvement and benefit. >> >> New education program could also seek specific goals for education. For >> example, to reduce class size to a maximum of 20 students per teacher in >> all schools and to equalize resources per student across all schools, >> including architecture, computers, books, and food, and, of course, to >> guarantee free education (through college) for anyone who wants it. >> >> New education program could seek specific funds to staff all schools at >> night for community meetings and remedial and adult education. Space to >> meet, to engage with others, is a huge factor in successful community >> organizing, and perhaps public schools, at night, could become that space. >> And finally, new program could seek that funding for education comes from >> corporate profit taxes and from private progressive taxes collected at the >> national level to guarantee that regions attain educational parity. >> >> >> *Some Possible Race Programmatic Ideas* >> >> New program addressing the pivotal problem of race in the U.S. and >> societies around the world could seek to ensure that people can freely have >> multiple cultural and social backgrounds and commitments, including >> providing the space and resources necessary for people to positively >> express their views, celebrations, languages, and values. >> >> New program addressing race could explicitly recognize that rights and >> values exist regardless of race, religion, or cultural allegiances, so that >> while society protects all people’s right to affiliate freely, its core >> values are universal for every community. >> >> New program addressing race could guarantee free entry and exit to and >> from all cultural communities in society including affirming that >> communities that do have free entry and exit can be under the complete self >> determination of their members, so long as their policies and actions don't >> conflict with society's broader norms of equity and justice. This could >> include amnesty for immigrants and open borders for all refugees. >> >> But, mainly, new program addressing race could prioritize directly >> redressing violations of race equity and justice. For example, new program >> could emphasize confronting the institutions of racist and national >> oppression, seek community control of police, end mass incarceration, and >> could seek to reverse the legacies of these same phenomena by way of >> reparations for Black and Native American communities. New program might >> categorically reject the notion that "...a rising tide raises all boats..." >> and the notion that broad and progressive economic reforms such as those >> supported elsewhere in this call ipso facto resolve racist and national >> oppression. >> >> New Program addressing race could therefore go beyond universal aims to >> highlight specific measures needed to repair the damage of hundreds of >> years of oppression to racial and cultural communities. This would >> necessitate examining all areas of life including the economy, education, >> healthcare, politics and law enforcement, in each case seeking to determine >> innovations required beyond those that are universal for all, precisely to >> avoid bias that leaves racial communities with less than universally >> acclaimed and sought benefits. >> >> >> *Some Possible Gender/Kinship Programmatic Ideas* >> >> New program addressing the pivotal problems of gender and kinship could >> emphasize the need to not privilege certain types of family formation and >> sexuality over others but instead to actively support all types of families >> and lifestyles consistent with society’s other broad equitable norms and >> practices. >> >> It could promote children’s well-being and affirm society’s >> responsibility for all its children, including affirming the right of >> diverse types of families to have children and to provide them with love >> and a sense of rootedness and belonging. It could minimize or eliminate >> age-based permissions, preferring non-arbitrary means for determining when >> an individual is old or young enough to participate in economic, political >> or other activities, or to receive benefits/privileges. >> >> It could respect marriage and other lasting relations among adults as >> religious, cultural, or social practices, but reject marriage as a way to >> gain financial benefits or social status. >> >> It could respect care giving as a valuable function including making care >> giving a part of every citizen’s social responsibilities, or pursue other >> worthy means to ensure equitable burdens and benefits. >> >> It could affirm diverse expressions of sexual pleasure, personal >> identity, and mutual intimacy while ensuring that each person honors the >> autonomy, humanity, and rights of others. >> >> It could seek to provide diverse, empowering sex education, including >> legal prohibitions against all non-consensual sex. >> >> And mainly, given the world we now live in, new program addressing gender >> and kinship could fight to reverse decades of discrimination’s residual >> effects and persistent elements, including protecting the rights of women >> to control their own bodies on the one hand, and to enjoy equal benefits >> and responsibilities throughout all parts of society, thus seeking abortion >> rights, day care opportunities, and equal payment requirements. >> >> >> *Some Possible International Relations Programmatic Ideas * >> >> Today's policy makers view foreign policy as a way to maintain a flow of >> riches and wealth out of other countries into one’s own, while ensuring >> fealty and obedience, and curtailing efforts at establishing new relations >> of true national independence much less social renovation anywhere in the >> world to avoid their having a showcase effect. In contrast, a proper >> foreign policy for any country would respect the integrity of other nations >> and simultaneously seek a human-serving society at home. New foreign policy >> program could emphasize: >> >> • Cessation of all arms shipments abroad. >> >> • Cessation of any aid abroad intended for the hands of police or other >> potentially repressive agencies, such as occupying armies. >> >> • Elimination of all U.S. or other nations's overseas military bases with >> half the funds saved from such closings returned to the Home country for >> solving domestic problems and half applied to aid to poor countries in the >> form of no-strings attached infrastructure improvements, job and skills >> training, equipment grants, food aid, and privileged buyer status for many >> goods on the international market. >> >> • An end to the use of military force as an instrument of national >> policy. >> >> • Use of aid and trade, and foreign policy in general, to demonstrate and >> provide solidarity with struggles for social justice, democracy, and self >> determination everywhere in the world to benefit all parties, but mostly >> those who are weaker and poorer. >> >> >> *Some Possible Health Programmatic Ideas* >> >> A new health program could emphasize that civilized health care and >> conditions for our society must involve three main components: prevention, >> universal care for the ill, and cost cutting. At a minimum a new health >> program might seek: >> >> • Improved preventive medicine, including increased public education >> about health-care risks and prevention, a massive campaign around diet, >> laws against and penalties for corporate activity that subverts health in >> employees, consumers or neighbors, and provision for community centers for >> exercise and public health education. >> >> • Universal health care for the ill, including a single-payer system with >> the government providing comprehensive and equally fine coverage for all >> citizens. >> >> • Reassessment of training programs for doctors and nurses to expand the >> number of qualified health workers and to better utilize the talents of >> those already trained rather than simply aggrandize those at the top of the >> pyramid of all involved. >> >> • And, as well, civilian review over drug company policies including >> price controls and severe penalties for profit seeking at the expense of >> public health up to and including nationalization under civilian control >> and workers self management, plus similar attention to the medical impact >> of all institutions in society—for example, the health effects of work >> conditions and product definitions and components. >> >> Such a campaign could point out that the single-payer system would save >> tens of billions on billing, collection, and bureaucracy, but, perhaps even >> more important, would improve the quality of care for all and move us >> toward a caring and mutual aid conception of life, rather than me firsts. >> It could also advocate saving billions more, to be allotted to preventive >> medicine and treatment, by establishing limits on the incomes of health >> professionals and the profits pharmaceutical and other medical companies >> could earn. If additional funding was required, it could come from punitive >> taxes on unhealthful products such as cigarettes, alcohol, and unsafe >> automobiles, etc. >> >> The overall guideline for health program would be that illness should be >> reduced as much as possible, the quality of health care should be raised as >> much as possible, and the costs of these improvements should be paid by >> those who have gotten rich at others’ expense. >> >> >> *Some Possible Ecology Programmatic Ideas * >> >> A new ecological program could establish a department of ecological >> balance to develop a list of necessary clean-up steps, energy innovations, >> and steps to reduce global warming and mitigate its impact, and, in >> general, policy to preserve the ecology. >> >> Beyond this, new ecology program could argue that clean-up funds should >> come from a reparations tax on current polluters and prior beneficiaries of >> unclean industrial operations. >> >> The critical innovation in a new program’s approach to ecological sanity, >> however, could be to open a national public debate about the relation >> between our basic economic and social institutions and the environment. For >> example, new program could begin the process of clarifying that we need >> institutions attuned to ecological costs and benefits and that we must >> experiment with non-market approaches to allocation, rather than trying to >> police the inevitable ecological ill-effects that markets routinely >> produce. >> >> >> And, of course, new ecology program that was sane, much less highly >> worthy, would have to formulate a truly massive campaign to turn the tide >> against global warming, water depletion, and other life threatening trends. >> >> >> *Conclusion* >> >> Obviously the above list of programmatic possibilities, culled from >> projects and endeavors around the world, could be enlarged to include, for >> example, immigration program, drug program, infrastructure program, >> diversity program, arts and culture program, science program, and so on. In >> addition, the programs should be refined, improved, and altered as >> grassroots experiences require. >> >> Recent progressive electoral efforts and mass campaigns around the world >> have revealed a huge reservoir of desire and of creative willingness on the >> parts of large sectors of populations, and very especially young people, to >> seek change. Many of those newly participating in progressive activity are >> already within reach of supporting these and additional programmatic ideas >> as they would be refined and augmented by a wide intervention of grassroots >> voices. >> >> Ultimately attaining worthy new program will entail thinking outside the >> box, as many emerging struggles around the world have urged, noting that >> the box is capitalism, patriarchy, racism, and authoritarianism. The box is >> the imposed mental straitjacket of thoughts and practices typical of all >> too many countries' political life. >> >> As current prominent examples, why couldn’t the energy generated during >> Bernie Sanders’ campaign for president in the U.S., Jeremy Corbyn's victory >> as opposition party leader in the UK, or Podemos' electoral attempts in >> Spain come over to sustained, militant commitment to the suitably refined >> and improved kinds of programmatic ideas we propose in this document? >> >> Campaigns need money, often a serious stumbling block, but Sanders, for >> example in the U.S. case, has reached 5 million donors giving an average of >> over $25 each. Why couldn’t a program like that offered above, but adapted >> and improved, attract all those 5 million people and many more, and do >> comparably well elsewhere in the world, attracting aroused constituencies >> to contribute creatively to plans for on-going mass activism? >> >> Similarly, in the U.S., as the current prominent case, Sanders has >> suffered immeasurably at the hands of what he calls rigged elections, as >> have others here and elsewhere, but another general problem, beyond the >> structure of elections, is the corporately organized, profit seeking, and >> horribly motivated media that operates in country after country. Why >> couldn’t a prominent campaign built around new program include taking back >> communications in countries around the world, which is certainly a >> desirable aim in its own right, and also a bedrock step on the path to >> larger programmatic successes? >> >> Despite current progressive electoral energy and, in some places, major >> movement gains, there is a long way to go to win lasting fundamental >> change. Partly this is because vile institutions at the core of our society >> manipulatively and coercively twist our motives and awareness. Partly it is >> because a right wing surge is also occurring. And partly it is because the >> public has still not thrown off cynicism and a trembling fear of enduring >> even worse outcomes if we try to seek better. However, it is not impossible >> for people to take that crucial step. And the massive support many popular >> projects have lately revealed could become a foundation upon which to go >> further in the coming period. >> >> We offer the many programmatic thoughts in this document hoping to >> encourage a movement-wide discussion of where we go and what we stand for >> as we all attempt to counter the forces of darkness and irrationality with >> light, hope, and vision. >> >> >> >> >> -- >> Check out the Commons Transition Plan here at: >> http://commonstransition.org >> >> P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net >> >> <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation>Updates: >> http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens >> >> #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/ >> >> >> = >> >> _______________________________________________ >> P2P Foundation - Mailing list >> >> Blog - http://www.blog.p2pfoundation.net >> Wiki - http://www.p2pfoundation.net >> >> Show some love and help us maintain and update our knowledge commons by >> making a donation. 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