[P2P-F] Fwd: Ending Discrimination Through Unity: The 2022 Counterweight Conference

[Michel Bauwens]

very important conference about the frontiers about the re-emerging
inclusionary anti-racism:



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The Counterweight Conference's contribution to the depolarization movement
and my role as conference speaker, recruiter, advisor, and academic
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On Saturday, September 24 at 10am, Eastern Standard Time, a recording of a
talk I gave will be broadcast live during the third day of the Counterweight
Conference for Liberal Approaches to Diversity and Inclusion

followed by a live Q with me and the audience. My talk is titled,
“Shaping a Workplace Culture: The Fundamentals,” and explores one of the
most fundamental attributes of all in a leader who wishes to be
authentically influential: the need to acknowledge when they are wrong.

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[P2P-F] Re-igniting the p2p revolution (\0xDynamite)

[Michel Bauwens]

Thanks for the update.

The list may be dead, but p2p and commons initiatives are still growing.

In terms of technical alternatives, there seems quite a bit available and
many people have left mainstream social media, think of Urbit for the
libertarians, Mastodon, etc ...

Urban commons have grown tenfold from 2006 to 2016, and the organizations I
work more closely with, are all growing at a brisk pace,

I think what has derailed some of the momentum is the polarisation in the
political and social movements, with various tribes going their own way,
using their own politically filtered platforms, with technical
centralization replaced by distributed moral censorship for the ideas of
the competing tribes.

Michel

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>1. Re-igniting the p2p revolution (\0xDynamite)
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> This list is dead.  Either people didn't fully understand the
> potential of p2p networks or the need for it got magically sublimated
> into everyday capitalism.  Nah.
>
> But what happened to the revolution?  Where are the nerds and
> cyberpunks who wished to change the world?  Have they assimilated with
> their billion-dollar IPO jobs and climbing the new curve of
> exponential growth?
>
> The Internet under the standard client-server model has turned
> everyone, one again, into consumers.  The curve of GDP has gotten
> higher with its new access to these elite tools.  But it's a sinking
> ship.  Everyone knows this, deep down.
>
> An adult's cellular network generally becomes hierarchical with some
> sort of strict immune system code at the top, holding dominant beliefs
> about the world forming a sort of religious order which is called
> their "ego".  People come to identify with this and protect it.
>
> A child's cellular network acts more like a p2p network -- each is
> equal in a mind that has no religion.  The attitude is "whatever
> works" and, internally, "whoever can do the job".  Everyone else will
> protect themselves -- you don't need hierarchies of security,
> political correctness, or whatever new religion the world is
> demanding.
>
> Be like the child.
>
> Mark Janssen
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> PS.  http://github.com/thePastor/Singularity
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[P2P-F] just fyi, where I am at in march 2022, four years after the blacklisting by identitarians

[Michel Bauwens]

Just a little note of 'where I am at' and 'where I am going', potentially,
and what it means for this forum. (refers to the p2p forum on fb)

A brief recall: after 20 years of activism, establishing an observatory, a
theory, and a network to observe and understand the current transition,
based on the hypothesis we need to move towards a commons-centric societal
order, I got cancelled and blacklisted after a conflict with the identity
'left' in August 2018.

This was for me, an important crisis moment, as I could not reconcile
myself with where the 'left' was evolving to. It was either embracing the
neo-racial and segregationist theories, denying their reality, or ignoring
their danger. For me, it was a story of identity crisis, since it was a
huge part of my own identity, but also stories of personal betrayal etc...
I had to take stock ... which pretty much coincided with the emerging COVID
crisis. I decided to restudy, first of all, all the intellectual traditions
that I had ignored; secondly, going back to a deeper understanding of
transitions, while also imperatively having to understand where this
degeneration of emancipatory thought (if you can call it thought), came
from.

As I was engaging with this new quest, helped by the time freed by the
blacklisting, and the COVID isolation, I discovered the work of John David
Ebert and the thread of civilizational analysis. But I was rather passive
in terms of new production, the reason being I had less confidence, since I
had a lot more questions than answers.

But, last weekend emerged some type of new integration in my framing of the
past , present and future of humankind. So I expect to be more active again.

But this may have some consequences on my curation. It  very time
consuming. What I have noticed is the following: 1) the 'liberal' (US
meaning) is becoming more and more hostile to pluralism and more and more
authoritarian and suppressive towards free and dissident thought, pushing
for censorship and even war; 2) while this forum is quite active, the
others I maintain are less so; to be precise, there is a lot of sharing
going on, perhaps 10 times more than in 2018, but in terms of reaction, no,
and I am starting to feel it is a waste of time. The problem is that I have
to choose between deep thought, and the more superficial short-term web
curation, which takes 4-5 hours of my time every day.

But here is also a more strategic issue, we need something new, something
that I would call provisionally 'integral commoning'. What I mean is that
we can no longer stay within partisan tribalisms, but need to create groups
of people willing to thinking freely and creatively across boundaries,
looking for what is useful and good in all traditions, from premodern,
modern, postmodern to what I would call transmodern. A movement which
stresses the need for reasonable social distribution, ecological balance,
but at the same time protects civil rights and pluralism, while making no
compromise at all with the new racial hierarchism. While the conservative
side is now the side protecting civil rights and legal equality, it is
still failing to come to grasp with the problems around the increasing
inequalities and ecological crises.

So we need to build something new. I am only interested in working with
people who support civil rights, human equality, while being sensitive to
the social and ecological crisis, AND, have a measure of realism about the
human condition. We cannot afford to be Rousseau-ists right now, we need to
think about power and property, alliances, and recognize the huge failings
of the human conditions, including the ones in ourselves. It is also by
recognizing our own projections, i.e. seeing evil outside ourselves and
scapegoating it, that we can hope to improve the conditions of our
interconnected world.
So, I'll stop here, but if you see some changes in my curation approach,
that is the reason, I will push more forcefully against the degeneration of
emancipatory thought, which next to destructive effects of unmanaged
capitalist growth, is the real and present danger humanity is facing, since
it is destroying the opposition to what is going wrong.

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[P2P-F] Fwd:  "Cosmolocalism: Understanding the Transitional Dynamics towards Post-Capitalism" by Alexandros Schismenos

[Michel Bauwens]

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Subject:  "Cosmolocalism: Understanding the Transitional Dynamics towards
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You wrote the paper A Commons-Based Peer To Peer Path to Post-Capitalism :
An Interview with
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A related paper is available on Academia.
Cosmolocalism: Understanding the Transitional Dynamics towards
Post-Capitalism

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Over the last decades, the proliferation of ICTs and capitalist markets has
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societal organisation, while social inequality has deepened. In this
context, alternative forms of organisation based on the commons have
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[P2P-F] Fwd: Technology and the Future (GTN Discussions)

[Michel Bauwens]

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Date: Mon, Jan 3, 2022 at 11:28 PM
Subject: Technology and the Future (GTN Discussions)
To: Great Transition Network 


>From Pierre Calame [p.cal...@fph.ch]
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I fully agree with the analysis of Michel Bauwens. Blockchain technology
applied to specific ledgers is not per se energy-intensive. There is
actually a first crucial application of it: the ecological footprint of
global supply chains. Such ledgers are essential for creating the
accounting system of carbon dioxide equivalent individual quotas, which are
the logical consequence of an obligation to fight global warming.  You can
find the description or the system at:
blog.pierre-calame.fr/public/quotas_carbone_EN.pdf . In my opinion, pushing
for the international endorsement of such a system should even be a crucial
priority for GTI.

Yours,
Pierre

Pierre  Calame


Le 30/12/2021 à 19:43, Great Transition Network a écrit :

>From Michel Bauwens [michelsub2...@gmail.com]
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Great Transition Initiative: Filling in the Commons Gap
Michel Bauwens

Whether we believe that technology itself has its own determinism or that
it is shaped by material interests, there is always a residue of human
agency to transform technological tools in the service of social change.
This is what we propose to do here with perhaps the most unlikely
candidate: the bitcoin-generated blockchain. Our contention is that the
blockchain can be used as an essential tool to construct the next
cyber-physical infrastructure that will allow humanity to produce for its
own needs, while respecting the material and ecological planetary
boundaries, and its interdependency with the web of life.

Bitcoin is the recipient of many legitimate critiques by progressives. It
was designed with Austrian economics and anarcho-capitalist values in mind,
is very energy-intensive in its production, and has a very unequal
distribution in terms of income and property, a distribution that is not
accidental in view of the ‘oligarchic protocols’ that it has chosen as
incentives for its stakeholders. [1] But is it important to distinguish the
existence of a global distributed ledger, i.e., an open and interoperable
accounting and logistical system that can be used to coordinate production
on a global scale, from its first iteration as the ledger of Bitcoin. We
now have different post-blockchain distributed ledgers that attest to this,
and a number of these ledger projects are operated not according to
libertarian values and rules, but by integrating the insights of Elinor
Ostrom. [2]

The question to answer is the following: what becomes possible once we have
such technology at our disposal? My contention is that an interoperable
blockchain becomes the vehicle for global mutual coordination of human
production within planetary boundaries.

A ledger is first and most an accounting tool, recording transactions. This
is obviously not trivial: the first accounting systems in Sumer, with
temple administrations recording the flow of grain and debts, stand for the
origins of the state apparatuses; the double entry accounting system for
private competitive units created by a Franciscan monk Luca Pacioli in the
Italian city-states stood for the emergence of private forms of capitalism
which would eventually become dominant.

Blockchain ledgers have currently inaugurated various forms of
post-capitalist accounting which seem to be just as non-trivial:
•Contributory accounting, which can record, value, and recompense
non-commodified forms of contributions to ecosystems and networks, already
signify the recognition of value outside the commodity form; it is a
crucial tool signifying a transition to contributory regimes of value [3]
•Flow accounting, such as the Resource-Events-Agents software, allows
every transaction to be recorded as an event in a network, and has
abandoned double entry; it is an accounting for externality-aware
ecosystems, not externality-ignoring closed entities.
•Thermodynamic accounting directly records the flow of matter and
energy into an accounting system, such as the systems pioneered by R30.org
and the Global Commons Alliance, who use a ‘global thresholds and
allocations’ approach to determine the maximum allowed flow in particular
contexts.

These ledgers are linked to tokens and intelligent current-sees which can
allow for expanded and complex value regimes. [4] We now have access to
local currencies, which can protect and regulate local economies and
domain-specific intelligent monies such as SolarCoin generated by renewable
energy or FishCoin which regulates the maximum volumes for the fishing
industry.

Local-geographic currencies, domain-specific v

[P2P-F] Fwd: FAIR Weekly Roundup: mobilizing for anti-racism

[Michel Bauwens]

one of the best newsletters to keep up with the anti-racist (which now must
include, anti-woke, struggles)

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Last week Benjamin Morley wrote a piece for our Substack about his personal
run-ins with race essentialist diversity, Equity, and inclusion trainings
while working for the Vermont’s Department of Aging and Independent Living.
Morley describes the training he and others experienced in great
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[P2P-F] against the massive indoctrination of US workers

[Michel Bauwens]

I don't intend to use this mailing list to harp on this divisive topic, but
I also am reacting to the denialist article send by DM, which flies in the
face of an overwhelming amount of documentation ...

so for 2-3 days, I may send some items, so that nobody can claim, "Ich
have this nich gewusst".

Michel

Benjamin Morley wrote a piece for our *Fair for all* Substack about his
personal run-ins with race essentialist diversity, equity, and inclusion
trainings while working for Vermont’s Department of Aging and Independent
Living. Morley describes the training he and others experienced in detail:

The trainers attempted to impose their ideology on us by changing our
perceptions and values related to areas such as equity, privilege, racism,
identity, family, politics, and spiritual beliefs. They also sought to
alter our self-perception based on which identity groups we were members
of, and how this group membership affected our status in American society.
The facilitator tried to normalize this new philosophy by encouraging us to
completely re-evaluate our individual identities, part of what she referred
to as “doing the work.”

Morley and others were accused of racism, and he remembers witnessing the
“fear, sadness, and guilt” the training instilled in his coworkers.
However, this was interpreted by the trainers as merely a symptom of “doing
the work” that’s necessary to combat “whiteness” and systemic racism.

When Morely decided to voice his misgivings about the training, he
discovered that he was indeed not alone—many of his coworkers felt the same
way, but were simply too afraid to to speak up. Morely believes this
dynamic is common, and hopes his story encourages more people to start
speaking up.


https://fairforall.substack.com/p/i-spoke-out-against-discriminatory

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[P2P-F] Fwd: Crypto Criticism, Part Two

[Michel Bauwens]

 time when we must radically
reduce CO2 output or face imminent planetary catastrophe. (Of course, some
on the Libertarian Right still insist, all evidence to the contrary, that
anthropogenic global warming is a myth or a Deep State conspiracy).

Ethereum is currently in the process of transitioning from “proof of work”
to “proof of stake” mining, which requires far less energy. But this has
not yet been accomplished. Critics such as Michel Bauwens and Alex
Pazaitis, in a recent report for the P2P Foundation, argue that there are
inherent problems with both modes of maintaining distributed ledgers: “Both
proof-of-work and proof-of-stake protocols do not present fair mechanisms
for the distribution of power in decision-making. Proof-of-work creates
soaring demands in energy and processing power… proof of stake is
explicitly based on ownership of stakes, which represents the outcome of
the very same unequally-distributed underlying dynamics” found throughout
Capitalism with its hierarchical power structures.

One of the main terms used to promote cryptocurrency adoption is
“decentralization.” Yet critics argue that this ideal of decentralization
is both a bit of a fraud and problematic in a number of ways. Some critics
make an analogy to the way “democratization” was used to promote the
adoption of Web2.0 technologies such as social networks and blogging. In
the end, it is unclear if these tools have promoted democratic values.
Authoritarian movements and regimes make effective use of them and appear
to be growing around the world. Similarly, decentralization could easily
lead to a recentralization, through Central Bank issued digital currencies
or by other means.

Critics argue that promoting decentralization as a goal of the movement is
misleading in a few different ways. One problem is that certain aspects of
the creation and distribution of cryptocurrencies tend to become more
centralized over time. For example, originally it was possible for
individuals to mine Bitcoin on their personal computers. As the network
grew, it required more computing power to perform its ongoing calculations.
Bitcoin creation is now mainly done by a small number of huge, centralized
mining operations who, presumably, have a great deal of influence over the
network.

As ‘Amazon’s Server Outage Took Down a ‘Decentralized’ Crypto Exchange
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an article from Vice reveals, many of the so-called decentralized tokens
and exchanges rely on highly centralized infrastructure, such as Amazon’s
Web Services (AWS). They are thus prone to failure or potentially can be
targeted for attack. The article notes: “It's clear that the
"decentralized" part of "decentralized finance" has a bit to go in some
cases, and Amazon's cloud dominance is now pretty much a core part of the
web, whether that's web1, 2, or 3. And that can cause all sorts of
problems.”

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While Blockchain-based cryptocurrencies are not as decentralized as they
seem to be, they are also not devoid of internal political battles, which
was supposed to be another selling point. Crypto-economics holds out the
vision of a world where messy political contests are unnecessary because
the purity of the code resolves such dilemmas. Yet in actuality, many
cryptocurrencies reach points in their development where complex decisions
must be made through traditional political means, with factions of
stakeholders holding emergency summits and frantic Zoom calls to piece the
thing back together.
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[P2P-F] a strategic analysis of where we are, and the role of the 'everywhere's

[Michel Bauwens]

WHERE ARE WE GOING ? A POLITICAL-STRATEGIC ANALYSIS

Here is how I see our conundrum

   - While capitalism and neoliberalism have been contradictory phenomenon
   in human history, creating both a lot of wealth, as well as substantial
   misery, the very least we can say is that it does not seem to be
   sustainable in the longer term: it is an agent of destruction of vital
   planetary resources, and is creating in its current phase, acute social
   inequalities; it seems in a process of de-legimization and disintegration,
   and the seeds are being sown for much more authoritarian and totalitarian
   systems

At the same time, it is doubtful if this can succeed, and ‘distributed
disintegration’ seems a realistic counter-scenario. This might lead both to
local deterioration but also to local re-organizations that may be more
sustainable and socially just.

As global and national identities are weakened by the inability of both the
global and national systems to satisfy human needs and dreams, two
counter-reactions are occurring.

On the side of the ‘somewheres’, broadly the working classes that are
rooted to place and community, the search is for more closer-knit potential
solidarities; this leads to a revival of localist, communautarian,
regionalist, but also nation-state ideologies, along with ethnic and
religious revivals, the binding element is a search for cultural roots that
can create common identity;

* for the ‘nowheres’, broadly the intellectual and managerial classes, the
regression is to the ‘woke’ identities, mostly linked to biological
conditions such as skin colour, gender, sexual preferences, etc .. The
first reaction leads to new coalitions of the rooted, with the more local
‘powers that be’,i.e. the territorially rooted entrepreneurs, SME's etc
...; the latter ‘unity of victimhood’ is powerfully backed by the
culturally progressive neoliberal elites, i.e. woke inc., the woke state
formations, etc .. Both reactions lead to increased othering, are based on
scapegoating mechanisms that may lead to social violence. (the inner group
being consolidated by a 'common enemy', rather than choosing for common
humanity approaches). We have historical examples on this on both sides of
the political spectrum.

Indeed the first form of reaction may lead to increased xenophobia and to
local and national forms of competition, with substantial dangers for
increased warfare for scarce resources; the second leads to the
consolidation of a new knowledge elite, led by a intellectual cartel, and
means an all-out warfare against the poor and the working class. Equal
outcome ideologies have historically led to disasters (right from the
Mazdaceans in Ancient Persia up to the Cultural Revolution under Mao)

So it must be said that the return to the nation-state, and ‘sovereignism’,
in the current context, is much more inclusive and pro-diversity in nature,
it aims to revive collective stories that bind, but at the cost of an
increased effort towards ‘assimilation’ towards national identities; it
means a slowing down of migration (the classic position of  Marxism, the
left and the labor movement until the 70s), but it is also attached to the
rule of law, equality under the law, and reinforced forms of national
solidarity, along with forms of protectionism; the second option aims for a
new racial and group identity based society, based on racial and other
hierarchies, based on permanent active discrimination, in other words, a
segregated society modelled on the realities that were prevalent before
modernity and before the advent of ‘universalist egalitarianism’. I
sincerely hope that a more progressive version of this may develop, but I
am not putting my hopes on it.

My bet is therefore that the sociology of the first coalition is better
poised for victories in the current context, and that the second, despite
its alliance with neoliberal forces, cannot command local and national
majorities. As stated, both reactions will increase othering, the first
against perceived ‘foreign elements that refuse to assimilate’, the second
a particular racial group but that will likely lead to a permanent purity
spiral and social implosions. But it is important to realize that the
nation-state, and its idea of legal equality between all citizens, which
can receive a progressive translation through building infrastructures of
opportunity for all, is in all circumstances preferable to a society based
on biological profiling and hierarchization, group allocation and
unequality before the law.

[This may sound counter-intuitive, but if we posit 3 factions:

* the conservative position of equality before the law, but which tends to
ignore the objective physical realities needed to realize these rights
concretely

* the traditional progressive position of concretizing these rights through
infrastructures of access and personal development for the majority working
populations

* the neo-identitarian position of equality of outcome 

[P2P-F] analyzing wokism

[Michel Bauwens]

 movements are the
most resilient against it: wokism is a technique for PMC elites for a
redistribution of benefits, but it only works in institutions that have
benefits to share and where 'stalinist'-type purges allow for a
redistribution of power and benefits; in contributory communities,
distributing based on identity instead of on contribution is an
impossibility.

Silence towards the countless victimizations that this movements
initiatives amounts to complicity, but we must not focus all our energies
in negative ways; a continued committment towards the constructive
engagement with actual commons remains the priority.

Here is a recent article,
https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Towards_a_Global_Open_Ledger_for_Contributory_and_Ecological_Economics

And people will be aware of our new book on the Cosmo-Localization of
production, which has about 100 case studies. Wokeness is a tragedy for the
left, perhaps the end game of the emancipatory movement that started with
the French Revolution and became worker-oriented in 1848, at the same time
popular and social struggles will find new expressions, as they have always
done.



Michel Bauwens:


Here are some preliminary notes about the meaning of the emergence of the
woke movement in the US and elsewhere.

I define the woke movement as a social movement that:

   - Claims to want to end unequal power dynamics and the end of oppression
   and privilege by majority groups towards minority groups, with the main
   privileged groups believed to be white males, who prop the unjust
   domination of the West
   - Claims that to obtain this equality, we must practice equity, i.e. a
   form of systematic reverse discrimination of resources so that the
   oppressed groups can appropriate their right share of resources,
   principally through antiracist activity. Resources must be unequally
   divided with a preference for the oppressed groups.
   - Claims that the primary determinant of human life and one’s position
   in the social order, depends on group membership, which largely determine
   individual identity and the course of life.
   - Claims the moral high ground and practices moral outrage as one of its
   principal activist tactics; calls for censorship and
   denunciations/cancellations are the most common tactic to obtain
   ideological hegemony.


The movement originated as one of the outcomes of postmodern teachings in
academia, through the mediation of Critical Race Theory, and its social
origination is in the youth strata of the elite universities, i.e. the
children of the most privileged strata of the population, allied with the
professional strata of minority groups. It is also supported by the
cognitive urban strata of the population, especially the post-millennial
generational cohort.

The aims of the movement are massively supported by the 1) ‘diversity and
inclusion’ bureaucracy’ and administrations of US universities,
corporations and federal institutions (particularly HR sectors but extended
to all forms of administrative leadership); 2) massive funding by
philanthro-capitalism and corporate leaderships (‘woke capitalism’); 3) the
political leadership of ‘progressive neoliberalism’; 4) the mainstream mass
media.

The above sociological orientation does not suggest that it has any
characteristic of traditional emancipatory movements, which are generally
supported by working class populations. Moreover, its political demands
have immediate and obvious effects that are hugely detrimental to the
poorer populations of all genders and races. Their demands favour the elite
and upwardly mobile sections of minority populations. Many of its tactics
are hugely reminiscent of the reactionary social movements of the 1930s
(deplatforming and cancellation of political dissent, desire for
caste-based allocation and organization of society, racial scapegoating),
although there are obvious differences in its sociological basis. What is
common is a conjucture of societal 'descent', creating populations that
fear social regress, which generally does not create 'progressive' aims and
outcomes.


So here is my attempt to explain its emergence at this particular
historical conjuncture.

Global capitalism has entered a downward spiral of systemic crises that has
hampered its ability to satisfy the desire of populations for material
betterment; this is especially so in the Western countries, which have
since the 1980s sacrificed their own working classes to enable
globalization.

Originally, the neoliberal compact of the 80s, which replaced the social
welfare compact after WWII, was based on an alliance of the ruling classes
with the new identity politics, i.e the cultural changes demanded by the
youth cohorts that fought the 1968 revolutions, and the subsequent demands
for egalitarian civil rights by racial minorities, women, sexual practice
minorities, etc …, while simultaneous de-industrialising the West to
eliminate working class power and demands. This led to huge advances

[P2P-F] Fwd: [ess-communs] Fwd: Cosmolocal Reader PDF version of book

[Michel Bauwens]

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Bonjour,

Très intéressante publication coordonnée par Jose Ramos sur une des
dimensions de l'économie des communs portée de longue date par Michel
Bauwens :

Download PDF Book
<https://www.dropbox.com/s/64q6fn18wz4ewtt/CL_Reader.pdf?dl=0>


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   *Cosmolocal Reader PDF version of book *

Dear friends, colleagues and registrants

Thank you again for registering for and attending the launch of the
Cosmolocal Reader.

As promised, it's my please to announce the pdf version of the book
available here:

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Over the next several weeks we'll be producing the e-book and
print-on-demand versions of the book, and will let you know when it is
ready.

We will also be running several events over the next half year to
publicise the book and highlight the work of authors.

Feel free to share the pdf book as much as you want.

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[P2P-F] ANNOUNCING THE COSMO-LOCAL READER: a real alternative to disintegrating neoliberal globalization and national protectionism

[Michel Bauwens]

ANNOUNCING THE COSMO-LOCAL READER:

The alternative to neoliberal globalization and purely national
'protectionism', or even isolating 'localization', is not just a wish, but
a reality under the ground.

Our new P2P Foundation supported publication, co-edited by Jose Ramos, Sharon
Ede, James Gien Wong and myself, with the professional publishing
coordination of Abril Chimal, is out as the Cosmo-Local Reader with 41 case
studies, a solid and pluralistic theoretical framing, and many more shorter
snapshots of a multitude of already existing projects, in all parts of the
world.

Our inaugural zoom was very interesting and I now believe that this is a
real milestone, not just for our work, but as a real alternative for a
disintegrating world system:

https://clreader.net/

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[P2P-F] Fwd:  "Bibliography of Michel Bauwens" by Michel Bauwens

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[P2P-F] an update on a project on the pulsation of the commons throughout human history

[Michel Bauwens]

STATUS UPDATE on my research project:



 As some of you may know I have undertaken an ambitious project that
combines:

 1) a general study of the evolution of civilizational forms ,
https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Category:Civilizational_Analysis

2) how it fits with cyclic patterns,
https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Category:P2P_Cycles

 3) and how the ebbs and flow of the commons institutions fit in that,
creating a pulsation of the commons that is now operating on a world scale
, https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Category:P2P_History and cries out for the
filling of the global commons gap, by the creation of global magisteria of
the commons

 A preliminary synthesis had been written with Jose Ramos as part of the
cosmo-local book , coming out in November (launch nov 11) see
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1U7x2PHk0xm3e5Ep7UGG56pDkJ5bAHCy-/edit


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[P2P-F] Fwd: The end and the beginning of something beautiful - CC Hub!

[Michel Bauwens]

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From: Crypto Commons Gathering 2021 
Date: Sun, Sep 12, 2021 at 7:58 PM
Subject: Fwd: The end and the beginning of something beautiful - CC Hub!
To: Adam Arvidsson , Adam Burns <
ad...@free2air.net>, Aleeza Howitt , Arthur Brock
, Anish Mohammed ,
Alejandro Avilés , The Blockchain Socialist <
idmsbft...@gmail.com>, Blair VanderLugt , Brett
Scott , Carolyn Beer ,
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Kris Decoodt , davide riva ,
Gregory Dsouza , , Damiano Avellino
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Felix FRITSCH , Grace (Rebecca Rachmany) <
rebe...@ganglysister.com>, Gerben , Vincenzo Mario Bruno
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sarahman...@gmail.com>, Neal Gorenflo , ,
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Dear Commoners!
Felix and Giulio here. Wow... So much to say. But first, take a deep breath
and feel the vibe :)

… and the chaos!


One week has passed and we are still so joyful for having accomplished such
an incredible event. CCG21 happened and in terms of gratification that is
more than enough. In terms of #worldunfucking, that's not enough. The Real
Value party starts now!

#RealValue

We don’t want to keep this mail long so we’ll try to be short: we want to
start with you a process of Hirschwangerhof local regeneration, to foster
the development of the “Crypto Commons” community and ecosystem - which of
course includes also non-blockchain/crypto projects - and to find the best
modalities of coordination and accelerate the diffusion of our tools and
vision.

Over the coming months, we seek to develop a feasible governance framework
and a full blown plan for the house regeneration. If you want to contribute
your time and intelligence to this mission, you can join the Crypto Commons
Hub <https://t.me/joinchat/nSfT0VysqwBjZTEy> group on TG.

‘Crypto Commons Hub’ (CCH) will also be the new public name of our entity -
formerly (briefly) known as Crypto Commons Association, CCA - for the
happiness of our friends, the Community Currency Alliance, and all of us
who don’t like confusion. In the end, we are not certain yet which legal
form is most suitable to our needs, and will explore that in line with our
governance and house regeneration plans.

Recordings, presentation slides and all other forms of good knowledge
gathered at the CCG will be published soon. We are currently migrating all
our digital activity and files on open source and privacy-secure services,
to say a big f*uck you to the Web Giants. In fact, this email is the last
communication from our Gmail account, the next ones will come by our nice
cryptocommons...@protonmail.com  account.

Short term: Raising funds to get things going

Our first move is to promote our Gitcoin Grant in order to be able to set
up a stable team in tandem with an internal group of voluntary contributors
who want to participate and help to varying degrees.

Gitcoin Grant Round #11
We set up a Gitcoin Grant
<https://gitcoin.co/grants/2073/crypto-commons-gathering-2021> supporting
first steps towards the establishment of the CCH as a physical space and
the production of the Crypto Commons Documentary (CCD), the first full
feature film on Crypto Commons, for which most of you have already been
interviewed in brief. Proceeds for the CCH will be used mainly to expand
our team by two people, including one ‘organized person’ skilled in all the
things we both suck at (structure, reliability, accounting etc.).

Felix, trying to bring order into the mess he created

The CCD will use funds primarily to send Oliviero and Josh to the Bitcoin
Miami Conference as part of our ‘Blockchain for Good’ delegation (Thanks
Sarah Manski for this!!). Their plan is to present 10-15 minutes of already
gathered material, advertise their public fundraising campaign, and to
continue gathering material for the full feature documentary - in
particular the Bitcoin Maximalist stance, but hopefully also some
willingness of Bitcoineers to look beyond the strictly monetary dimension.

The eleventh round of Gitcoin Grants ends on September 23rd. Every
donation, sharing and feedback is greatly appreciated. As always, the
dynamic fund matching provided by Gitcoin means that the more broad and
diverse our supporter base is, the more fund matching we get from
institutional partners - so please share widely in your various
communities! Usually, gas fees 

[P2P-F] Fwd: [bgcon] SILENT WORKS · Reviews

[Michel Bauwens]

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Date: Mon, Sep 13, 2021 at 1:49 PM
Subject: [bgcon] SILENT WORKS · Reviews
To: 


Hi,

last week the most recent text about the BG's 2020 SILENT WORKS project
(https://silentworks.info) was published and we are taking this as an
occasion to present a selection of reviews that were published in this
year so far.

*Phoenix Nomi: Summoning the Ghost in the Machine*
"Despite the dystopian undertones, the message in SILENT WORKS is
ultimately one of hope: solidarity is the glue that reconnects humans to
the meanings of our actions. We still have the power to change, and
working together as equals is the only way forward."
https://news.techworkerscoalition.org/2021/09/06/issue-17/

*Gavin Mueller: Turning the Magic of AI Inside Out*
"The Berliner Gazette seems to have immediately grasped the significance
of Covid-19 to the already existing trajectories of capitalism’s
technological restructuring, or in their words ‘the pandemic-related
crisis as a crisis of AI-capitalism’."
https://www.onlineopen.org/silent-works-the-hidden-labor-of-ai-capitalism

*Kevin Rittberger: Against AI capitalism’s fantasies of powerlessness*
"It is time to recognize Inhuman Labor as Janus-faced: on the one hand,
the inhumane working conditions, including the impossibility of
precarized wage workers to use AI for emancipative, sustainable and
non-capitalist purposes; on the other, Big Tech’s fantasy of
powerlessness, which needs to be exposed as just that."
https://springerin.at/en/2021/1/isilent-worksi/

*Jaron Rowan: Knowledge in Action*
"Ways of knowing that can give a voice to those who suffer from the
imposition of algorithmic logic at work; to the invisible bodies
entangled in distribution and logistics chains; to the workforce
regulated by apps, algorithmic calculations, geo-locations and
notifications."
https://non.copyriot.com/knowledge-in-action/

*Jess Henderson: Full Automation, Full Fantasy*
"The fact that there are real people having to witness and manually
assess content (from banal fodder to ‘the pornographic, the obscene, the
violent, the illegal, the abusive, and the hateful’) illustrates how AI
capitalism is not just a matter of real-existing AI at work, but also a
matter of the fantasy and appearance of AI at work."
https://www.harun-farocki-institut.org/de/2021/01/25/full-automation-full-fantasy-2/

*Georg Fischer: Making "hidden work" on digital platforms visible* (GER)
"Processes controlled by "artificial intelligence" often appear to
proceed independently. In fact, however, humans perform numerous, often
very monotonous activities in the background. The ambiguous title of one
of the workshop projects "Artificial Artificial Intelligence (AAI)"
refers to this as fake artificial intelligence."
https://irights.info/webschau/website-macht-verborgene-arbeiten-auf-digitalen-plattformen-sichtbar/30547

*Gesa Ufer: The Work Behind The Click* (GER)
"Algorithms will do our work for us, is one of the slogans of
digitalization. The conference and exhibition SILENT WORKS of the online
newspaper Berliner Gazette wants to make the "dirty work" behind the
beautiful surfaces visible."
https://www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/konferenz-silent-works-die-arbeit-hinter-dem-klick.2156.de.html?dram:article_id=487124

*Lara Luna Bartley: The Invisible Hand*
"SILENT WORKS got me thinking about invisibilized work more broadly. A
t-shirt is made once, but it is washed hundreds of times. And yet, our
economic systems ascribe economic value to the inititial making but not
the subsequent care."
http://www.laralunabartley.com/home/the-invisible-hand

Thanks to all!

Kind regards, Krystian

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BG Project 2020: Exhibition, Conference + Texts
https://silent-works.berlinergazette.de

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[P2P-F] Fwd: [EARTHwise and Future Humans] Educational Blueprint and other resources

[Michel Bauwens]

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From: Anneloes Smitsman 
Date: Fri, Sep 10, 2021 at 4:54 PM
Subject: [EARTHwise and Future Humans] Educational Blueprint and other
resources
To: 


Warm greetings!

As promised in my previous email, I am delighted to now share with you
several free resources to empower and inspire our capacities for
regeneration and thrivability.
*The r3.0 Educational Transformation Blueprint *


It has been my honor to have served as the lead author for writing the *r3.0
Educational Transformation Blueprint
*,
co-authored with the esteemed r3.0 Directors *Bill Baue* and *Ralph Thurm*,
and with vital inputs from our peers through the international working
group for this Blueprint.

LEARN MORE


We launched the Blueprint on Tuesday and we are grateful for the amazing
feedback we are receiving already. This Blueprint is for everyone committed
to developing the capacities and understanding for regeneration and
thrivability.

The Blueprint builds on my Ph.D. research "*Into the Heart of Systems
Change
*",
and includes many practices and transformational processes that I have
developed over the last decades. It also builds on the vital *r3.0
*
perspectives and design pathways for regeneration and thrivability, as
featured in earlier r3.0 Blueprints

.

*"The aim and intention for this Blueprint is to inspire and empower the
necessary inner and outer learning shifts that can move us towards
trajectories of regeneration and ultimately thrivability. Such shifts
require a major transformation in the way learning is currently taking
place (and envisioned) as well as new ways for initiating and inspiring the
kind of transformative learning that leads to the necessary behavioural
change. These inner and outer shifts will also require a major commitment,
individually and collectively, to address the root causes of the multiple
crises we are in*."

This Educational Blueprint includes *7 Transformative Learning Perspectives*
for Regeneration and Thrivability, which are explored through three focal
areas per chapter.

The Blueprint completes with *13 recommendations* that each of us can apply
in our lives and work, as shown in this slide from my *conference
presentation
*
this
week at r3.0 (further detailed and explained in chapter 9 of the
Blueprint):

This Blueprint also serves as an *essential guidebook* with many resources,
practices, processes, links, system maps, inquiries, stories, case-studies,
exercises, self-evaluations, and recommendations. It is now a public
document, and you can share it widely with your circles and communities. *CLICK
HERE

[P2P-F] Fwd: FYI: OECD Update on SMEs, Regions and Cities + 09/13 - 16 Global Social Solidarity Economy Online Conference (free, but note time zone)

[Michel Bauwens]

The Social and Solidarity Economy Conference, 13-16 September 2021
Agenda link:
https://preview.inwink.com/social-and-solidarity-economy/eventagenda
RSVP link:
https://preview.inwink.com/social-and-solidarity-economy/registration/register

In solidarity,

- *Nurul Eusufzai*
Co-Founder, Worker-Owner
ChiCommons LWCA
 https://www.chicommons.coop/

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News from the OECD Centre for Entrepreneurship, SMEs, Regions and Cities

The Social and Solidarity Economy Conference

13-16 September 2021
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The Social and Solidarity Economy:
>From the Margins to the Mainstream

Under the umbrella of the OECD’s Global Action to promote Social and
Solidarity Economy Ecosystems, supported by funding from the European
Union’s Foreign Partnership Instrument, this high-level virtual conference
will bring together hundreds of policymakers, practitioners, and experts in
the social and solidarity economy to:

>> Discuss new OECD evidence and raise awareness on the important role
social and solidarity economy organisations can play in rebuilding better

>> Learn more about policies, tools and legal frameworks, and new OECD
research, that can help support social and solidarity economy organisations
in driving the recovery as well as achieving and measuring social impact

>> Network with other international practitioners, experts and
policymakers, during interactive roundtables, breakout sessions and by
using our digital app networking features.
Register now! 
Opening remarks

*Monday, 13 September, 13:00 – 14:00 CET *

The OECD Secretary-General, Mathias Cormann, and European Commissioner,
Nicolas Schmit, will kick off this high-level meeting with a discussion to
raise awareness of the social and solidarity economy’s value and take it
mainstream.

This session will present the strategies that some governments are adopting
to support the social and solidarity economy, the actions that
international organisations are undertaking to raise visibility, and how
tapping into the expertise of the social economy can help policymakers
improve people’s lives, stimulate innovation, and help drive sustainable,
inclusive and resilient growth.
More about the session

Building back better: the social economy as a driving force for change

*Monday, 13 September, 14:00 – 15:30 CET*

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused significant global economic and social
disruption. As our economies recover, the time is right to reflect on the
lessons of the crisis and the important role the social and solidarity
economy can play in building back better.

This session will bring together international social and solidarity
networks to envision what policy actions are needed to ensure the social
and solidarity economy contributes to recovery.
More about the session

How to make the most of legal frameworks?

*Tuesday, 14 September, 13:00 – 14:30 CET*

Countries around the world are increasingly developing legal frameworks for
the social and solidarity economy in response to its growing profile and
impact. It is important to identify the challenges, trends, opportunities
and innovative approaches that are emerging.

This session will showcase new OECD work on how to leverage the potential
of the social and solidarity economy through legal frameworks. Leading
experts, policymakers and practitioners in the field will also share their
experiences, including on strategies when explicit legal frameworks do not
exist.
More about the session

Raising visibility post-COVID: lessons learnt

*Tuesday, 14 September, 14:45 – 15:45 CET*

Throughout the COVID-19 crisis, many social and solidarity economy actors
emerged as important drivers of resilience and inclusiveness. Building on

[P2P-F] Fwd: "In what way is what we are doing (investing in and building businesses) not working, and not aligned with society's and nature’s best interests?"

[Michel Bauwens]

-- Forwarded message -
From: Evolutesix 
Date: Wed, Sep 8, 2021 at 8:49 PM
Subject: "In what way is what we are doing (investing in and building
businesses) not working, and not aligned with society's and nature’s best
interests?"
To: Hi Michel 


Tuesday 28th September: 9th webinar Rebuild: the Economy, Leadership, and
You
Register for our 9th Webinar



*Join our guest speaker, Killu Sanborn of ESTVIK Partners. She has over 21
years of experience in life science venture lending and VC equity
financing, in dialogue with Jack and Graham about this theme. As usual, we
begin with Killu presenting the themes, a short response from Jack and
Graham linking with their book Rebuild: the Economy, Leadership, and You,
followed by all participants exploring the topic together.*


*In this session, we want to develop deeper insights into what levers we
have now, and what levers we must build so that we can do what is aligned
with society’s and nature’s best interests.*


*To get there we need to first get clear on why what we’re doing is not
working, and what in our thoughts and feelings has kept us anchored in
continuing to do what is not working; especially in the half-century since
“Limits to Growth” was published.*


*Themes we'll address.*

   -

   *Within the conventional container of profit and capital efficiency
   thinking, what we are doing looks pretty good, well-aligned with making
   more enterprises more profitable; which the prevailing paradigm assumes is
   in society's best interests.*
   -

   *But we have systemic blindness. We have two concurrent economic worlds
   in the climate challenge, during the pandemic - one of suffering and
   catastrophes, another of the self-congratulatory joy of great runs in the
   markets. We see stellar business and profit success of late from the
   "financial markets world", yet it is unglued from "underlying assets and
   people based world". We live in some ways as if there really are these two
   worlds, even as we know there is but one.*
   -

   *Our current response is not capable of dealing with the challenge: it
   is linear  (CV1-5), rather than a coherent whole nonlinear response (CV8
   response, perhaps with a CV7 bridge, which is what our current FairShares
   commons is.) CV1-8 defined here:
   https://www.kosmosjournal.org/article/the-many-dimensions-of-change/
   *



*So to simplify, the aspects that are not working and not in society's best
interests are 1) structural economically - treating companies as property
not persons, and what that leads to, what such structure sets up as
outcomes 2) relational - not "getting" complete interdependence between all
systems and beings 3) deep shared psyche (meaning-making, and limited by
our low fluidity in thought-forms beyond simple binary logic); a psyche
that holds the world in such a way that fracturing into different
concurrent worlds happens, AND WE ARE OK WITH IT.*


Please share the invitation broadly with anyone you think might benefit
from it.
Read more about the book, download a pdf, buy it

Before attending watch the video of the first event

Get your copy: printed, epub, or free pdf

If you've not yet bought or downloaded the book, go to the link above.

And if this book is new to you, here's our intent: this book is
for everyone working on rebuilding our world to one where all can thrive.
Startup founders, experienced leaders, consultants, team members, activists
and academics; if you want a better world, one where you can do what you
enjoy doing, where you can express who you are and what you stand for
through your work -- we have written this book for you.

And because we want everyone who might benefit from it to read it,
regardless of how much money they have, we will always have a pdf available
to download on a "contribute what you can" basis in the link below.

The toolkit is filled with cutting edge tools you can use in rebuilding:

   - yourself, so that you are better equipped to thrive in the challenging
   world of today;
   - our startups and mature businesses, so that they can create thriving
   employment, products and services; sustainable, circular, regenerative;
   - our economy, and the economics discipline, to one that works for all

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[P2P-F] Fwd: [bgcon] Black Box East · Texts

[Michel Bauwens]

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From: Krystian Woznicki 
Date: Mon, Sep 6, 2021 at 3:50 PM
Subject: [bgcon] Black Box East · Texts
To: 


Hi,

as you know BLACK BOX EAST is conceived as a year-long project, and the
Berliner Gazette (BG) has initiated diverse activities in the course of
this, most importantly a series of texts and a three-day online
conference encompassing five collaborative workshop tracks taking place
September 23, 24, and 25, 2021.

For the text series, the BG has created an extensive space within its
online newspaper (in German). We are sharing other language versions
with international partners, including EastEast, LeftEast, Mediapart,
and NON. Here we are presenting the first 30 texts from that series.
There is more to come.


I. How is the BLACK BOX EAST constructed? What interests does it serve?

With invited contributions by

historian *Ilko-Sascha Kowalczuk* about the (un)friendly take over of
East-Germany (GER|EN)
https://berlinergazette.de/demokratie-ohne-folgen/
https://lefteast.org/democracy-without-consequences/

sociologist *Yana Milev* about the politics of blackboxed devastations
in East-Germany (GER)
https://berlinergazette.de/schwarzbuch-der-deutschen-einheit/

political theorist *Stefan Kausch* and discourse analyst *Jürgen Link*
about East German normality between deviance and avant-garde (GER)
https://berlinergazette.de/disruptive-territory-ostdeutschland/

culture theoretician *Marco Abel* about the role of “the East” for the
birth of Germany as a neoliberal nation-state (GER)
https://berlinergazette.de/realisierung-und-intensivierung-des-neoliberalen-potenzials-im-wilden-osten/

activist and researcher *Christoph Marischka* about technological
landscapes in “the East” (GER)
https://berlinergazette.de/landschaften-des-kapitals/

culture theoretician *Neda Genova* about knowledge production and the
politics of transparency/opacity (GER|EN)
https://berlinergazette.de/perfekte-black-box/
https://blogs.mediapart.fr/berliner-gazette/blog/200821/black-box-east-delivery

media researcher *Greg McLaughlin* about Western narratives of the “Fall
of the Berlin Wall” and “Brexit” propelling capitalism and nationalism
(GER|EN)
https://berlinergazette.de/mauerfall-brexit-delirien-des-kapitals-ekstasen-des-nationalismus/
https://blogs.mediapart.fr/berliner-gazette/blog/310521/black-box-east-time-monsters-and-death-certainty

social anthropologist *Florin Poenaru* about how the Orientalization of
Romania is propelling unequal power relations in the EU (GER|EN)
https://berlinergazette.de/orientalisierung-rumaeniens-ungleichheit-eu/
https://blogs.mediapart.fr/edition/english-club/article/260521/black-box-east-orientalizing-romania

the photographer *Petrut Calinescu* about Western images of Romania,
precarious archives, and the politics of documentary photography (GER|EN)
https://berlinergazette.de/orientalisierung-rumaeniens-fotografie
https://blogs.mediapart.fr/berliner-gazette/blog/070621/black-box-east-precarious-archives-and-politics-documentary-photography

artist *Marina Gržinić* about the EU’s turbo-politics in ex-Yugoslavia
(GER)
https://berlinergazette.de/eu-turbo-faschismus-kapitalismus-osten/

sociologist *Sanja Milivojevic* about the black-boxed mobility
infrastructure in the Western Balkans (GER|EN)
https://berlinergazette.de/black-box-eu-mobilitaetsregime-balkan-route/
https://blogs.mediapart.fr/krystian-woznicki/blog/020321/inside-border-black-box-towards-political-economy-balkan-route


II. What economic and political realities does the BLACK BOX EAST
conceal and favor?

With invited contributions by

researcher *Mira Wallis* about Germany’s digital ghost workers in
Romania (GER|EN|RU)
https://berlinergazette.de/digitale-arbeit-und-mobilitaet-zwischen-deutschland-und-rumaenien
https://easteast.world/en/posts/367
https://easteast.world/posts/367

digital media researcher *Miglè Bareikytè* about the incommensurability
of labor politics and AI strategies in Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia (GER)
https://berlinergazette.de/ki-strategien-in-baltischen-staaten/

architects *Kateřina Frejlachová* and *Tadeáš Říha* about the politics
of logistics centers in Czech Bohemia (GER|EN)
https://berlinergazette.de/politik-der-lagerhallen-lkw-parks-und-autobahn-anschluesse-fuer-die-absatzmaerkte-des-westens/
https://blogs.mediapart.fr/berliner-gazette/blog/230821/black-box-east-politics-logistics-centers-czech-bohemia

geographers *Lela Rekhviashvili* and *Wladimir Sgibnev* about struggles
over infrastructure that holds post-Soviet space together (GER|EN)
https://berlinergazette.de/post-sowjetische-infrastrukturen/
https://lefteast.org/one-modernity-lost-the-other-out-of-reach-contested-post-soviet-infrastructures/

investigative journalist *Stefan Candea* about the political economy of
cross-border journalism in “the East” (GER|EN)
https://berlinergazette.de/der-journo-ngo-komplex-und-die-demokratisierung-rumaeniens

[P2P-F] Fwd:  "Exodus: General Idea of the Revolution in the XXI Century" by Kevin Carson

[Michel Bauwens]

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From: PDF By Kevin Carson 
Date: Sat, Aug 14, 2021 at 11:00 AM
Subject:  "Exodus: General Idea of the Revolution in the XXI Century" by
Kevin Carson
To: 


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>From your Reading History:
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[P2P-F] Fwd: Weekend Roundup: A Forgotten Prophet Whose Time Has Come

[Michel Bauwens]

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From: Noema Magazine 
Date: Sat, Aug 14, 2021 at 6:05 PM
Subject: Weekend Roundup: A Forgotten Prophet Whose Time Has Come
To: 


Ivan Illich’s radical critique of our modern certitudes resonates loudly
amid today’s crises.
AUGUST 14, 2021
PUBLISHED BY
THE BERGGRUEN INSTITUTE
Weekend Roundup:
A Forgotten Prophet Whose Time Has Come
Ivan Illich’s radical critique of our modern certitudes resonates loudly
amid today’s crises.
NATHAN GARDELS
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

View the roundup in your browser here
.
Visit Noema Magazine at noemamag.com

.
Clay Rodery for Noema Magazine
Beset as we are these days by the cascading consequences of climate change
and the descent into dysfunction of our social institutions, it is worth
remembering Ivan Illich, a forgotten prophet whose time has come.

Fortunately, two books on the 1970s apostle of the era of limits remind us
of his prescient relevance: “Ivan Illich: An Intellectual Journey
”
published by his friend and long-time interlocutor David Cayley this year,
and “The Prophet of Cuernavaca: Ivan Illich and the Crisis of the West
”
by Todd Hartch.

Cayley’s book benefits from his long personal acquaintance and countless
conversations over the years with Illich. Hartch, who never met Illich,
offers a more objective account informed by critical distance from his
subject. Both trace Illich from his early days as a parish priest in the
impoverished Puerto Rican neighborhoods of New York to becoming vice-rector
of the Catholic University of Puerto Rico to the long period in Cuernavaca,
Mexico, where he sought to de-imperialize Catholic missionaries and hosted
the radical thinkers of his day, to the striking story of his suffering and
demise.

Illich was a purveyor of impossible truths, truths so radical that they
questioned the very foundations of modern certitudes — progress, economic
growth, health, education, mobility. While he was not wrong, we had all
been riding on a train going in the opposite direction for so long that it
was hard to see how, in any practical sense, the momentum could ever be
stalled. And that was his point. Now that “the shadow our future throws” of
which Illich warned is darkening the skies of the present, it is time to
reconsider his thought.
Illich’s central contention was that persons are relational beings embedded
in a matrix of the natural cosmos, convivial community with others and, as
a fallen but still faithful priest, God’s grace. As the maverick thinker
saw it, Western modernity rent asunder this multidimensional oneness of
“Life.”

For Illich, 17th-century science departed from the past by privileging the
role of humans in the cosmos as above and apart from all other being. In
doing so, it effectively declared “the death of nature,” turning it into a
“resource” to feed the “pleonexia,” or radical greed, which fueled
“development” and “progress” that transmuted endless “wants” into “needs.”

As Illich saw it, the rise of universalizing social technologies — that is,
institutions managed by strangers — transgressed the traditional bounds of
diverse vernacular communities and harnessed human endeavor to a trajectory
of limitless growth, creating a “radical monopoly” over the ways and means
of living that blunted any alternative to industrializing the desires of
consumer society. In the process, persons and communities alike were
deprived of the practical knowledge to shape tools according to their own
defined needs and choices. Robbed of such competence, they 

[P2P-F] Fwd:  "Citizen Scholars and Digital Humanities" by Olga Pilkington

[Michel Bauwens]

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From: PDF By Olga Pilkington 
Date: Mon, Aug 9, 2021 at 11:00 AM
Subject:  "Citizen Scholars and Digital Humanities" by Olga Pilkington
To: 


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You read the paper On Aaron Gare’s Dramatization of Western Philosophy
.
A related paper is available on Academia.
Citizen Scholars and Digital Humanities

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[P2P-F] Fwd: NEW REPORT: Rethinking Climate

[Michel Bauwens]

-- Forwarded message -
From: RethinkX 
Date: Thu, Aug 5, 2021 at 12:58 AM
Subject: NEW REPORT: Rethinking Climate
To: 


New Report
"Rethinking Climate"
Just Released


As a thought leader who joined the conversation about our earlier
reports, "Rethinking
Transportation
,"
"Rethinking Food & Agriculture

," "Rethinking Energy
,"
and "Rethinking Humanity
,"
we wanted to alert you to our latest report analyzing how, if we make the
right choices, disruptive technologies can enable the world to eliminate 90
percent of carbon emissions within the next 15 years, and go beyond net
zero after 2040 – far faster, and with far greater consequence, than is
conventionally believed possible.

Today, RethinkX

is releasing, “Rethinking Climate Change: How Humanity Can Choose to Reduce
Emissions 90% by 2035 through the Disruption of Energy, Transportation, and
Food with Existing Technologies
.”
In this new report, we show that with the right societal choices these
three disruptions can eliminate the overwhelming majority of greenhouse gas
(GHG) emissions worldwide within 15 years, and that market forces can be
leveraged to do the bulk of the mitigation work because the technologies
required are either already commercially available and competitive today,
or can be deployed to market before 2025. This also means we can fight
climate change while simultaneously saving trillions of dollars and
fostering prosperity worldwide. Furthermore, these very same technologies
will also make the cost of carbon withdrawal affordable, meaning that
moonshot breakthrough technologies are not required to go beyond net zero
from 2035 onwards. Regions, nations, cities, communities, businesses, and
investors that choose to embrace and lead the disruptions will reap
enormous economic and social rewards as well as environmental benefits,
allowing less-developed areas to level the playing field and leapfrog over
previous barriers to human development. Therefore, the greatest barrier to
fighting climate change is our mindset. It is up to us to decide whether or
not we deploy these technologies worldwide rapidly enough to avoid
dangerous climate change.

Our goal is to inspire a global conversation about the opportunities and
threats of this technology-driven disruption and, importantly, the choices
that can lead to a more equitable, healthy, resilient, and stable
society.* Your
participation in this conversation is crucial.*

We invite you to explore our key findings below and share your thoughts via
social media. You can find the report here
,
and you can follow us on Twitter

and LinkedIn

.

Thanks very much,
James Arbib and Tony Seba
Founders of RethinkX
*KEY FINDINGS*

   - We already have the energy, transportation and food technologies
   needed to reduce over 90 percent of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions
   worldwide in the next 15 years. With the right societal choices, we can
   stop climate pollution at the levels needed to keep global warming well
   below 2 degrees Celsius.
   - Technology disruptions over the course of history – including
   automobiles, cameras and smartphones – have happened quickly and
   exponentially, making legacy industries obsolete within 10 to 15 years.
   Adopting a technology disruption mindset will allow policymakers to
   recognize the speed of the most critical disruptions, making more informed
   choices about where to focus action for maximum impact.
   - We can achieve a net zero future – affordably, on time, and opening up
   huge opportunities for carbon-free prosperity – if policymakers make smart
   choices to enable these highest impact technologies and stop supporting
   legacy industries that are getting in the way. If they are not decisive in
   this regard, we’ll lose precious time in responding to this crisis which
   will mean far larger planetary risks and trillions of dollars worth of
   losses that are otherwise avoidable.
   - Policymaker choices should strategically target and 

[P2P-F] Fwd: Why Kerala Gets It Right!

[Michel Bauwens]

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[P2P-F] Fwd: Policy briefing: Tomorrow’s Communities

[Michel Bauwens]

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To: mic...@p2pfoundation.net 


Hello

I am writing from Bristol University Press and am delighted to send you an
important policy briefing

on how peoples' lives can be positively transformed through diverse forms
of community involvement. I hope this will be of interest to you in your
work with communities in the UK. The briefing is based on Henry Tam’s new
book, *Tomorrow's Communities**,* which provides a practical, nine-point
policy agenda to show how policy makers can enable communities to become
more collaborative and resilient in dealing with the problems they face. Copies
of the book are available at 20% discount here
, or 35%
if you join our mailing list
. Please consider the
agenda in committee discussions and share the briefing with your networks. Many
thanks and very best wishes,

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[P2P-F] Fwd: The Eutrapelia and Austerity of Ivan Illich (save the dates)

[Michel Bauwens]

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From: Justin Murphy 
Date: Fri, Jul 23, 2021 at 12:05 PM
Subject: The Eutrapelia and Austerity of Ivan Illich (save the dates)
To: 


The Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben recently wrote that the work of
Ivan Illich—misunderstood, misrepresented, and underrated for decades—is
finally seeing its "hour of legibility."

This is why we are pleased to be launching the sixth course in the
IndieThinkers.org course system, dedicated to the famous anarchist Catholic
priest from Croatia. After previous courses on Deleuze, Jung, Bataille, Leo
Strauss, and René Girard, we are excited to give Ivan Illich his due in
this esteemed pantheon.

I'm writing you with a minor update to our schedule for the course, so you
can save the dates and get ready to enroll shortly. But before I do that, I
want to share a word from the course instructor, the British philosopher
Nina Power.

In our recent podcast on Ivan Illich
,
Nina said:
One of the things that Illich does really well is he beautifully resurrects
concepts and terms. *One of his words is **eutrapelia**, which he
translates as graceful playfulness*, which he thinks we need to bring back
into our personal relationships. It's an ancient term.
To be convivial, obviously, is to live with, but not just to live, but to
thrive, in this kind of graceful playfulness. The idea that social
interaction doesn't have to be the mediated relation of people as things,
in terms of exchange and use, but rather *a kind of beautiful game*, if you
like. And so he uses conviviality against the expansion of technology,
basically. He wants to limit tools, so that they serve *eutrapelia*.
Also, austerity. He tries to resurrect this word "austerity," which is even
more interesting to do now, because austerity became an economic term that
was used to punish countries like Britain after economic crashes. It
doesn't have very nice associations.
But for Illich, he takes the concept of austerity from Aquinas: he talks
about it as the foundation of friendship. And so austerity then is the
“austerity of virtue, which does not exclude all enjoyments, but only those
which are distracting from, or destructive of, personal relatedness.”
*Austerity
allows space for beautiful or graceful relationality, by limiting
distractions.*

Already, one can sense how Illich's worldview disrupts contemporary
ideological coordinates. We think this is one of the best reasons to study
Illich right now, at a time when public language is so badly suffocated by
politics and dubious ideological mappings.

Nina's intensive 8-week course on Ivan Illich is nearing its start. Here
are the key dates.

   - This Monday the 26th we're hosting a free workshop with the world's
   leading expert on Illich, David Cayley. Register now.
   

   - Enrollment will officially open on the following *Thursday, July 29*
   (I'll email you that morning).
   - We'll host an Orientation/Meet-and-Greet on *Thursday, August 5th* at
   10am Central / 4pm London.
   - Then *group discussion seminars every following Thursday,* at the same
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[P2P-F] Fwd:  "Temporalities of the Commons: Toward Strategic Vision" by jose ramos

[Michel Bauwens]

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From: PDF By jose ramos 
Date: Fri, Jul 23, 2021 at 11:00 AM
Subject:  "Temporalities of the Commons: Toward Strategic Vision" by jose
ramos
To: 


[image: Academia.edu] 
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You wrote the paper Is there something like a peer to peer science?
.
A related paper is available on Academia.
Temporalities of the Commons: Toward Strategic Vision

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ABSTRACT
This article explores counter hegemonic temporalities, examining nine
discourses for what they have to offer an emerging narrative and
temporality for the commons. Using these discourses, historical dimensions
of the commons, present issues, and future visions of commoning are
developed. The article ends by...
read more...

Your recent reading history:

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the world

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Luis Vivero Pol
The Play Ethic and the Financial Crisis

- Pat
Kane
REASON, FREEDOM AND MODERNITY vol 5 Active Materialism

- Peter
Critchley
A Home and a Resting Place Homo Religiosus: The Reality of Religious Truth
and Experience

- Peter
Critchley
"Ideology and the Evolution of Vital Institutions: A Synopsis,"

- Earl
Thompson
On Aaron Gare’s Dramatization of Western Philosophy

[P2P-F] Fwd: Happy International Day of Cooperatives 2021!

[Michel Bauwens]

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From: CICOPA 
Date: Thu, Jul 1, 2021 at 4:32 PM
Subject: Happy International Day of Cooperatives 2021!
To: 


#RebuildBetterTogether

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July 3rd, 2021 #CoopsDay International Day of Cooperatives

2020 was a remarkably difficult year. The world collectively went through
extended periods of uncertainty, while people tried to protect themselves
from the health and economic crises.

The global pandemic took a toll on everyone, including cooperatives.
Nonetheless, the worker and social cooperatives in our network showed
incredible resilience throughout the crisis.  Through worker ownership and
democratic control, cooperators adapted to new production modes and
paces, digitalized services at record speed, and showed strength and
unity. Thanks to the tight-knit network that cooperatives have in their
communities, they were also able to help the most vulnerable ones when they
needed it the most.

*CICOPA would like to take this opportunity to invite everyone to have a
moment of reflection on how we can “Rebuild better together”. *

We believe that by rethinking our education, and implementing cooperative
education in school curricula, the new generation will have the tools to
establish more just and democratic enterprises.

Together, through the cooperative values and identity, through solidarity,
social justice, and democracy at work, we can change the world.

*CICOPA wishes you a very happy International Day of Cooperatives! *

Take a look at the video message from our President Iñigo Albizuri below.

Message from CICOPA President, Iñigo Albizuri.

Additional information:

The International Cooperative Alliance has unveiled a campaign and a new
website dedicated to all things related to #coopsday, including the new
logo, and this year’s press kit. Find it all here

.
3 julio 2021 #CoopsDay *Dia Internacional de las Cooperativas*

El 2020 fue un año notablemente difícil. El mundo atravesó por largos
periodos de incertidumbre, mientras la gente trataba de protegerse de la
crisis sanitaria y económica.

La pandemia mundial les pasó factura a todos, incluidas las cooperativas.
Sin embargo, las cooperativas sociales y de trabajo de nuestra red
mostraron una increíble resiliencia a lo largo de la crisis. Gracias a la
participación de los trabajadores, y al control democrático, los
cooperativistas se adaptaron a nuevos modos y ritmos de producción,
digitalización de los servicios a velocidad récord, y mostraron fortaleza y
unidad. Del mismo modo, gracias a la estrecha red que tienen las
cooperativas en sus comunidades, se pudo ayudar a los más vulnerables
cuando más lo necesitaban.

*CICOPA quiere aprovechar esta oportunidad para invitar a todos a tener un
momento de reflexión sobre cómo podemos "Reconstruir mejor juntos".*

Creemos que, repensando nuestra educación, e implementando la educación
cooperativa en las aulas, la nueva generación tendrá las herramientas para
establecer empresas más justas y democráticas.

Juntos, a través de los valores y la identidad cooperativa, mediante la
solidaridad, la justicia social y la democracia en el trabajo, podemos
cambiar al mundo.

*¡CICOPA les desea un muy feliz Día Internacional de las Cooperativas!*

Los invitamos a ver el video mensaje de nuestro presidente Iñigo Albizuri a
continuación.

Mensaje del presidente de CICOPA, Iñigo Albizuri.

Información adicional:

La Alianza Cooperativa Internacional ha presentado una campaña y una nueva
página web dedicada a todo lo relacionado con el #coopsday, incluyendo el
nuevo logo, y el dossier de prensa de este año. Encuéntrelo todo aquí

.
3 juillet 2021 #CoopsDay *Journée Internationale des Coopératives*

2020 a été une année remarquablement difficile. Le monde a traversé
collectivement de longues périodes d'incertitude, tandis que les gens
tentaient de se protéger des crises sanitaires et économiques.

La pandémie mondiale a fait des ravages sur tout le monde, y compris sur
les coopératives. Néanmoins, les coopératives de travail associé et
les coopératives sociales de notre réseau ont fait preuve d'une incroyable
résilience tout au long de la crise. A travers le travail associé et au
contrôle démocratique, les coopérateurs se sont adaptés à de nouveaux modes
et rythmes de production, ont numérisé leurs services à une vitesse record
et ont fait preuve de force et d'unité. Grâce 

[P2P-F] Fwd:  ""Ideology and the Evolution of Vital Institutions: A Synopsis,"" by Earl Thompson

[Michel Bauwens]

This is a vital essay that I strongly recommend, I've summarized it here at
https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Ideology_and_the_Evolution_of_Vital_Institutions

Please note that it is part of a larger collection of book notes which I am
transcribing, reaching my reading up to the year 2005, with 92 summaries so
far:

https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Category:Bauwens_Reading_Notes_Project*

Perhaps of interest as well

* the theoretical sources for p2p theory,
https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Sources_of_P2P_Theory

and recommended literature:
https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/What_You_Should_Read_To_Understand_the_Commons



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Date: Thu, Jul 1, 2021 at 11:00 AM
Subject:  ""Ideology and the Evolution of Vital Institutions: A
Synopsis,"" by Earl Thompson
To: 


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>From your Reading History:
"Ideology and the Evolution of Vital Institutions: A Synopsis,"

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[P2P-F] Fwd: OM #4 | Can Co-ops Empower Patients and Homecare Workers?

[Michel Bauwens]

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From: Ownership Matters Newsletter 
Date: Tue, Jun 15, 2021 at 3:32 PM
Subject: OM #4 | Can Co-ops Empower Patients and Homecare Workers?
To: Michel Bauwens 




Ownership Matters
Can Co-ops Empower Patients and Homecare Workers?
by Elias Crim, Editor
This issue:

   - June 15 Event: What Can Co-ops Do About Healthcare and Homecare?
   - The Break Room: Co-op Attorney Kathy Gregg on What the Movement Really
   Needs
   - Europe Report: Leo Sammallahti on the "Secret" of Finnish Cooperativism
   - Next Gen Entrepreneurship — Start.coop Event, June 18
   - MEDLab: Colorado News Conservancy Convo
   - Call for Applicants: Fund Manager Fellowship from Purpose

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What Can Co-ops Do About Healthcare and Homecare?

"One of America’s most corrupt and ineffective systems" is the way Dave
Chase
<https://ownershipmatters.lt.acemlnc.com/Prod/link-tracker?redirectUrl=aHR0cHMlM0ElMkYlMkZoZWFsdGhyb3NldHRhLm9yZyUyRg===253320469=ownershipmatters%2Eactivehosted%2Ecom=a5UqKVuY6ZGhkPG81%2BHIuDpxdzkQNl9LgdxZ9pnzLRY%3D=d9f5111fcfdcbe1dd4051a59ad144857=13A26A2A90>,
a community-minded healthcare CEO and author, recently described our
"out-of-control" largest sector (now one-fifth of our entire national
economy) and its growing toll on Americans.

In his new book, *Relocalizing Health* (free PDF available here
<https://ownershipmatters.lt.acemlnc.com/Prod/link-tracker?redirectUrl=aHR0cHMlM0ElMkYlMkZoZWFsdGhyb3NldHRhLm9yZyUyRmZyaWVuZHMlMkY==253320469=ownershipmatters%2Eactivehosted%2Ecom=a5UqKVuY6ZGhkPG81%2BHIuDpxdzkQNl9LgdxZ9pnzLRY%3D=d9f5111fcfdcbe1dd4051a59ad144857=13A26A2A91>),
he further argues that the COVID-19 tragedy was nothing less than a wake-up
call. The future of healthcare, he concludes, must be "local, open, and
independent." Healthcare must be "relocalized."

Chase’s prescriptions might make some of us think naturally of co-ops,
which are organizations typically embedded in their local communities, open
(in membership), and resolutely independent.

And yet. . . . Given the size and sheer complexity of our national
healthcare system, it’s hard to imagine how even a large number of
healthcare-focused co-ops could make much of a dent in its many and growing
problems. What could a positive "disruption" look like?

Join us
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convenes three outstanding co-op leaders pursuing different approaches to
empowering home care workers and patients with chronic conditions.

Our panelists will be:

   -

   Deborah Craig, Cooperative Developer, Northwest Cooperative Development
   Center
   
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   In addition to working for Circle of Life homecare in Bellingham, WA
   (before joining NWCDC), Deborah also helped develop Peninsula Homecare,
   Capital Homecare, and Ridgeline Homecare. As her NWCDC colleague John
   McNamara puts it, "if there is a ‘Washington Model’ for homecare co-ops,
   Deborah is the architect."
   -

   Jen Horonjeff, founder/CEO, Savvy
   
<https://ownershipmatters.lt.acemlnc.com/Prod/link-tracker?redirectUrl=aHR0cCUzQSUyRiUyRnNhdnZ5LmNvb3AlMkY==253320469=ownershipmatters%2Eactivehosted%2Ecom=a5UqKVuY6ZGhkPG81%2BHIuDpxdzkQNl9LgdxZ9pnzLRY%3D=d9f5111fcfdcbe1dd4051a59ad144857=13A26A2A95>

   Jen is the co-founder of Savvy, the first and only patient-own

[P2P-F] Fwd: Why are you on the map, Michel?

[Michel Bauwens]

-- Forwarded message -
From: Michael Haupt from Society 4.0 
Date: Fri, May 7, 2021 at 8:41 PM
Subject: Why are you on the map, Michel?
To: 


A common question has been, Why am I on the map - what are your criteria?
You'll find the surprisingly simple answer inside. It's not what you think!
[image: society4-logo-wide]
[image: Society 4.0 Map]


In just 2 weeks the Society 4.0 Map

has been viewed almost 400 times. Considering that it's still early days
for us, the map seems to be making an impression. Thank you, Michel for
checking it out!
[image: Screen Shot 2021-05-07 at 13.06.15]
Map Criteria

One of the most common questions we received for this early draft of the
map is:

"Why am I on the map - what are your selection criteria?"



We were going to publish clear criteria about who gets to be on the map and
who doesn't. And then we decided that crowd wisdom is far more meaningful
than arbitrary criteria. So, we simply selected people who had been
repeatedly interviewed, referenced or quoted by peers.



So, Michel, you're on the map because your name kept popping up on our
radar in relation to the work you're doing. Thank you for being an
innovator in the regeneration space!
Feedback

We'd love to know what you think of the map so far. Please take just 2
minutes to share your thoughts. Your opinion means a ton!
*TELL US WHAT YOU THINK (2mins)*


Happy Friday!



Michael Haupt

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[P2P-F] Fwd: [commoning] Two Events Celebrating the Life and Contribution of Alexander Bogdanov

[Michel Bauwens]

-- Forwarded message -
From: orsan senalp via Commoning 
Date: Wed, May 5, 2021 at 4:31 PM
Subject: [commoning] Two Events Celebrating the Life and Contribution of
Alexander Bogdanov
To: Commoning 


The Centre for Systems Studies

Online, 2 - 3 June

Two Events Celebrating the Life and Contribution of Alexander Bogdanov

Alexander Bogdanov was one of the most creative and inspiring figures of
the 20th Century. His utopian novel, Red Star, started the genre of
Bolshevik science fiction, and he was the founder of the world’s first
haematology institute. He was a leader of the Russian Bolsheviks,
working with Lenin, at the turn of the last century, and he produced the
first systematic study of ideology, consciousness, and cultural hegemony
from a Marxian point of view, decades before the emergence of so-called
critical, western, or neo-Marxist approaches.

The year 2021 marks the centenary of the beginning of the demise of
Bogdanov. Lenin republished his Materialism and Empiriocriticsm and
launched an attack on Proletkult in 1920, which resulted in Bogdanov
stepping down from his role in this movement in the following year. With
Stalin’s rise to power and Bogdanov’s early death in 1928, one of the
most significant contributions made to human culture was lost for
several decades.

The rediscovery of Bogdanov’s work began in Russia in the 1960s.
Official recognition of Bogdanov and his place in history occurred in
the Glasnost and Perestroika period of the late 1980s. Since then,
Bogdanov’s work has gained increasing acclaim in his homeland and
beyond. As renowned systems thinker Fritjof Capra famously pointed out,
Bogdanov’s “Tektology was the first attempt in the history of science to
arrive at a systematic formulation of the principles of organization
operating in living and nonliving systems”. Since Capra made this claim
in 1996, Bogdanov has been recognised as the first systematiser of
systems thinking. However, the deserved global full recovery and
recognition of Bogdanov’s contribution has yet to come about. But, a
century after the beginning of his demise, it seems like a breakthrough
is happening. In 2019, the first Systems World of Bogdanov conference
was organised by the Financial University in Moscow, with more than 105
papers being presented. The second of these biennial conferences is
planned for the autumn of 2021.

With the aim of promoting awareness of Bogdanov’s work, the Centre for
Systems Studies is hosting two associated events that celebrate his life
and contribution. The first of these events is the Annual Mike Jackson
Lecture and the second one is an online mini-symposium. Please note that
you will need to register for each event separately (registering for one
doesn’t automatically give you access to the other).

Event Page:
https://execeducation.hull.ac.uk/the-centre-for-systems-studies-annual-mike-jackson-lecture/
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[P2P-F] Fwd: Join FAB16 this summer!

[Michel Bauwens]

-- Forwarded message -
From: The Fab Foundation 
Date: Wed, May 5, 2021 at 8:36 AM
Subject: Join FAB16 this summer!
To: 


FAB16 is the 17th edition of the International conference in digital
fabrication of the Fab Lab Network, taking place this year in Montréal,
Canada.


WELCOME
*FAB16 Montréal | Canada #Fabricating the Commons*
FAB16
,
the annual international Fab Lab Network conference, brings members of the
Fab Lab community together with government representatives, academic
researchers and experts, to present, vision, explore, collaborate and
create across the fields of digital fabrication, manufacturing, technology
and innovation.

Under the theme *Fabricating the Commons*, the event will highlight Fab
Labs as a community of practice,  production and social
action through knowledge-sharing around tools, designs, innovative
processes and collaborative and distributed production. Fab Labs provide
resources and open knowledge for the common good, for the community,  for
the environment - engaging in collaborative, democratic,
participatory innovation. And participants in FAB16 will explore and
experience the transformative potential of fabricating the commons.

FAB16 attendees participate from more than 2000 Fab Labs across the world
and include: fabbers, makers, engineerings, eco-friendly designers,
artists, teachers, researchers, academics, experts from industry and more.
Throughout the week of *online and in-person* activities, attendees
can take part in this hybrid, distributed event. The conference will
offer hands-on workshops, talks by outstanding researchers and leaders, a
day of content-rich FAB-TV from the network, a festival of
making, all focussed on what our sustainable future looks like and how we
build that future together. The conference  culminates in the Fab City
Summit - three days during which we explore how to become locally
productive and globally connected cities and citizens.

*Visit our website

for all of the details you need regarding registration
,
participation

and more! *


PARTICIPATE


*Call for workshops!*

Under the theme #FabricatingTheCommons, FAB16
,
from August 9th to August 12th, 2021, is a hybrid and distributed event! We
welcome proposals from all over the world to engage in hands-on and
theoretical workshops! You can offer workshops to your local community
in-person, to the global community online, or perhaps a hybrid version of
both in-person and online from Montréal or from your home lab!

Fill out the form

to participate.




*Call for pre-recorded content!*

This year we have new formats of applications! Discover and participate
with pre-recorded content with FAB World, Fabercise, Fab Cinema and more

Present your pre-recorded content during FAB16 online! Discover and
participate with FAB World, Fabercise, Fab Cinema and more!

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DATES
*Monday, August 9 *
Inauguration, FAB Symposium, Workshops

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*Thursday, August 12*
FAB Symposium, Workshops

*Friday, August 13*
Fab City Summit

[P2P-F] Fwd: Call for Book Chapters: SDG18 - Communication for All

[Michel Bauwens]

-- Forwarded message -
From: Jan Servaes <9freen...@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, May 5, 2021 at 2:23 PM
Subject: Call for Book Chapters: SDG18 - Communication for All
To: Alankar Kaushik , ACMC Secretariat <
secretar...@asianmediacongress.org>, Acunzo, Mario (DPSA) <
mario.acu...@fao.org>


*SDG18-Communication for All*

Call for Chapters

Abstracts expected by 10 June 2021


The 2030 agenda for development or what is known as the Sustainable
Development Goals (SDGs) is perhaps the most ambitious agenda collectively
agreed by 193 countries in human history. In 2015, the UN Member States
adopted the 17 SDGs as a framework that would help address the challenges
being faced by humanity. From eradicating poverty, ending hunger, providing
universal access to healthcare and education, addressing climate change; to
the partnering of individuals, philanthropists and nation states to achieve
the global goals.


Yet, the framers of the 2030 agenda for development comprising key
stakeholders from all sectors of all life forgot to dedicate one goal on
the role of communication in achieving the SDGs. Such an oversight has
attracted the attention of media and communication scholars alike,
journalists and policy makers who understand that it is nearly impossible
to achieve the SDGs without the articulation and embrace of the role of
communication in development.


The COVID-19 pandemic which struck in 2019 has shown why communication is
essential to human survival. The Pandemic which started as a health crisis
and later metamorphosed into a full-blown economic crisis is now having a
direct and indirect impact on the possibility of achieving each of the
SDGs. The Financing for Sustainable Development Report 2021 says the global
economy has experienced the worst recession in 90 years, with the most
vulnerable segments of societies disproportionately affected. An estimated
114 million jobs have been lost, and about 120 million people have been
plunged back into extreme poverty (https://developmentfinance.un.org/).


A major lesson that came out of the COVID-19 pandemic was the role of
communication in providing support for the survival of the global economy
and society as a whole. The global community became more attached to the
traditional and social media in order to understand the nature of the
virus, how it spreads and measures needed to curtail the spread of the
infection.


Social, economic and educational life moved from physical to a now
universally accepted virtual life style. Key global industries resorted to
working from home. Virtual meetings by heads of states are now normal and
remote education from primary to tertiary levels are gaining ground by the
day.


Following the global lockdown, the resilience needed to survive the
pandemic largely rested on the shoulders of the available communication
infrastructure. *Zoom,* which had an average of 19 million daily users in
December 2019 now averages 300 million users per day. *Teams, *developed as
a tool for remote work has 145 million daily users as announced by
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella in April 2021.


A study by the *World Health Organization* shows rapid increase in remote
consultation in the healthcare industry, especially in UK, France, Malta,
Germany, Poland, Luxemburg and Austria. Between March and April 2020, 5.5
million people received online consultation from 36,000-56,000 physicians
in France (Richardson et al 2020). The pandemic also exposed major
development challenges such as digital inequality. According to the UN,
COVID-19 has forced the closure of schools in 191 countries affecting 1.5
billion students and 63 million primary and secondary school teachers (UN
News 2020).


Essentially development has become a communication issue and communication
is a development issue. How could such a vital pillar of life be missing in
the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals?


Therefore, *we invite high-quality submissions from authors that would
explore the notion of SDG18 (Communication for All).*


Building on the works of Lee and Vargas (2020), Yusha’u and Servaes (2021)
and Servaes (2017), we see SDG18 (Communication for all) as inevitable in
achieving the 2030 Agenda for Development. *We welcome critical submissions
and high-quality research that explore this topic in relation to, but not
limited to the following:*



   * SDG18-Communication for all, targets and indicators.

   * Role of SDG-18 in the realization of each of the 17 SDGs earlier
   agreed by the UN.

   * Why the SDGs should be revisited to include SDG18-Communication for
   all.

   * Why SDG-18 is essential in post-COVID-19 economic recovery.

   * SDG18 and remote working (Work from Home).

   * SDG18 and Communication for Development and Social Change.

   * SDG18 and the new normal in post-COVID-19 World.

   * SDG18 and the World in 2030.

   * SDG18 and Fake News.

   * SDG18 and the role of mass media in development.

   * Role of SDG18 in containing future pandemics.

  

[P2P-F] Fwd: BlackRock

[Michel Bauwens]

This grounded analysis of blackrock, which you can find in strategic
culture dot org, went 'against the community standards' of fb,

a reason the more to read it, see the attachment,

Michel


BlackrockEnglishTribunal21.odt
Description: application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text
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[P2P-F] Fwd: recognising your valuable work

[Michel Bauwens]

-- Forwarded message -
From: Michael Haupt from Society 4.0 
Date: Thu, Apr 29, 2021 at 10:49 PM
Subject: recognising your valuable work
To: 


Michel, your work with P2P Foundation has earned you a place on the Map of
Emergence - woo hoo! Details inside >>>
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You're on the map!
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Michel, we've started mapping the emerging regenerative society.

You're one of the 300 inaugural innovators to earn a place on the first
iteration of the map.

Thank you, thank you, thank you for the work you're doing at P2P Foundation!
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It's fascinating to see where in the world the Regenerative Renaissance is
taking shape. We believe you're in Chiang Mai, Chiang Mai, Thailand.
*READ THE INTRODUCTION TO THE MAP*

Your Data

We've manually collated data from public sources, social media platforms
and sites like https://p2pfoundation.net/ and
https://www.linkedin.com/in/mbauwens/. While we've been ultra-careful,
mistakes (and outdated data) sometimes creep in. You can see (and correct
if necessary) your data by clicking the button below.
*UPDATE YOUR DATA*


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We're excited about the big plans we have for the coming months! This
includes making people and projects in the Global South more visible. Very
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people ready and waiting for the Emerging Paradigm. We'll keep you updated,
unless you'd prefer not to be part of this. There are links to manage
and/or delete your details at the bottom of this email. Questions?
*FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS*


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Blessings from Cape Town, South Africa

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[P2P-F] Fwd: Central banks failing to match green rhetoric with action - report

[Michel Bauwens]

-- Forwarded message -
From: Anna Pick 
Date: Wed, Mar 31, 2021 at 2:58 PM
Subject: Central banks failing to match green rhetoric with action - report
To: Michel Bauwens 


Good morning,

Positive Money has today launched the ‘Green Central Banking Scorecard’, a
report that reveals how G20 central banks are faring on climate action. The
research reveals a complete absence of high impact climate policies among
G20 central banks, only months ahead of the crucial COP26 summit in
November.

Despite the Chancellor’s wish for the UK to be the world leader
<https://positivemoney-org-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/Redirect?ukey=15WoTxYCo5EoRZGc-f5KyIXCROBEA0684JgUOZ7XKW1c-622811700=YAMMID-77510144=https%3A%2F%2Fnews.sky.com%2Fstory%2Fa-world-leader-in-green-finance-chancellor-eyes-city-role-in-post-brexit-revival-12128696>
on green finance, the UK comes in 4th, behind China, Brazil and France. The
UK scores 10/10 for research and advocacy, but has so far failed to
translate this into meaningful action, lagging behind on categories for
monetary policy (4/50), financial policy (19/50), and ‘leading by example’
(5/20).

With the UK-hosted G7 Summit
<https://positivemoney-org-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/Redirect?ukey=15WoTxYCo5EoRZGc-f5KyIXCROBEA0684JgUOZ7XKW1c-622811700=YAMMID-77510144=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.g7uk.org%2Fthe-cornwall-summit%2F>
coming up in June and the Glasgow COP26 talks in November, the Bank of
England has a narrow window to announce concrete measures and establish
itself as a global leader on greening the financial system.

Please find below the full press release, and do get in touch if you would
like further information or a briefing. I am available on 07948802104.

Best,

Anna

###

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE


Central banks failing to match green rhetoric with action - report

Absence of high impact climate policies among G20 central banks, report
reveals

London, 31 March 2020 - Monetary and financial authorities across the
world’s largest economies aren’t practicing what they preach on climate,
according to a new report published today by research and campaign group
Positive Money.

Endorsed by 24 leading research institutes and NGOs, Positive Money’s
‘Green Central Banking Scorecard’ assesses the relative progress G20
central banks have made on sustainability in relation to research and
advocacy, monetary policy, financial policy, as well as other ways they are
leading by example, and sets out what actions policymakers could be taking
to tackle environmental breakdown.

The results show that while 14 out of 20 central banks scored full marks on
their research and advocacy efforts, this has so far rarely translated into
concrete action, with overall scores dragged down by a stark lack of green
monetary and financial policies across the board.

China tops this year’s scorecard with an aggregate score of 50 out of 130,
which equates to a mediocre ‘C’ grade in the scorecard. This reflects the
fact that, while China’s monetary and financial authorities have taken
steps to steer lending towards greener activities, even policymakers in the
top ranking countries still have a long way to go to align finance with the
climate goals governments have committed to.

The report reveals an absence of high-impact policies that meaningfully
reduce financial support for fossil fuels across the G20. In cases where
central banks have integrated climate into their policies, the focus has
been on financial disclosures, stress tests, and encouraging lending
towards green assets, rather than crucial steps to wind down financial
support for fossil-fuel-intensive and ecologically harmful activities.

The authors call for policymakers to urgently remedy this policy shortfall
by taking action to exclude unsustainable activities from the assets they
purchase and accept as collateral for lending, and for financial regulation
to penalise high-carbon lending, with higher capital requirements to more
accurately reflect the risk of fossil fuel investments.

As well as being a necessary prerequisite for central banks’ goals of
maintaining price and financial stability and supporting government policy,
the report also argues that the Covid-19 pandemic, which has origins in
ecological degradation, strengthens the case for central banks taking a
more proactive and interventionist role in promoting sustainability.

Positive Money’s report comes after the 2021 Banking on Climate Change
report from Rainforest Action Network and other NGOs last week revealed
that the world’s 60 largest private banks have financed fossil fuels to the
tune of $3.8 trillion since the Paris Agreement in 2015, with a 10%
increase in fossil fuel expansion projects in 2020.

The report comes as G20 finance ministers and central bankers are set to
meet on 7-8 April to discuss a new Action Plan to address global challenges
including climate and environment-related risks.

David Barmes, Positive Money economist and lead author of the report, s

[P2P-F] Fwd: A Question from Loic

[Michel Bauwens]

-- Forwarded message -
From: Daniel Pinchbeck from Daniel Pinchbeck’s Newsletter <
danielpinchb...@substack.com>
Date: Sun, Mar 28, 2021 at 11:57 PM
Subject: A Question from Loic
To: 


What is to be
done? ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌
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A Question from Loic
What
is to be done?


Daniel Pinchbeck

Mar 28

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Loic Le Meur is a tech entrepreneur who has been studying with indigenous
traditions in Brazil. He wrote this to me:

*Hi Daniel really enjoyed your latest newsletter on Tulum. Do you mind me
asking though? How do you see yourself in the world you describe, since
living in Tulum yourself is just 

[P2P-F] Fwd: This Sunday - TEDx online event featuring Jojo Mehta

[Michel Bauwens]

-- Forwarded message -
From: Stop Ecocide 
Date: Fri, Mar 19, 2021 at 8:55 PM
Subject: This Sunday - TEDx online event featuring Jojo Mehta
To: 


View in Browser Proud to support TEDx Stroud, featuring Jojo Mehta,
Co-founder & Executive Director, Stop Ecocide International Online TEDx
event Sun, 21 Mar 2021, 14:00 -17:00 GMT TEDx Stroud feature

View in Browser



Proud to support TEDx Stroud, featuring Jojo Mehta, Co-founder & Executive
Director, Stop Ecocide International
*Online TEDx event*Sun, 21 Mar 2021, 14:00 -17:00 GMT


TEDx Stroud

features eight speakers to spark deep discussion and connection on the
theme of *emergence*, broadcast from Stroud, a small market town in the
Cotswolds rapidly becoming renowned as a hotbed of progressive thinking and
cutting edge ideas.

In our turbulent world at a time of crisis, what new ways of thinking will
arise, blossom, and take flight to guide us forward?
This event explores emergent ideas ranging from the intensely personal to
the truly global, in a challenging and eye-opening afternoon of short talks
from eight inspiring women
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*A mother’s gift to humanity… period justice**Dr Zareen Roohi Ahmed,*
Founder, Halimah Trust & Gift Wellness

*Reclaiming the art of living well - and why our future depends on it*
*Inez Aponte,* Facilitator, Educator & Consultant, Human Scale Development
Approach

*How I saved a life with fierce compassion*
*Lucy Chan, *Director, Mindful Living Retreats

*The magic of unlikely alliances*
*Nishita Dewan, *Founder, CollaboratEQ

*Facing the past to liberate the present*
*Angela Findlay,* Author & Artist

*Education - What is it good for?*
*Ann Finlayson, *Executive Director & Founder, SEEd

*Ecocide law: protecting the future of life on Earth*
*Jojo Mehta,* Co-founder & Executive Director, Stop Ecocide International

*What is Zero Waste clothing?*
*Shalize Nicholas,* Designer & Director, Madia & Matilda
*Help change the rules to protect the future of life on Earth.*

Stop Ecocide International would like to give you the opportunity to
accelerate our work

to make ecocide an international crime.

Over the last 18 months, a growing number of states

(as well as the Pope and the EU) have publicly expressed interest in an
international crime of ecocide. Top international criminal lawyers

[P2P-F] Fwd:  «Μία νέα αντίληψη για την παραγωγή αξίας από την οικονομία των Κοινών & της ομότιμης παραγωγής στη μετά-Covid εποχή» | Συνέντευξη ΕΝΑ

[Michel Bauwens]

-- Forwarded message -
From: Theodora Kotsaka 
Date: Fri, Mar 19, 2021 at 8:57 PM
Subject:  «Μία νέα αντίληψη για την παραγωγή αξίας από την οικονομία των
Κοινών & της ομότιμης παραγωγής στη μετά-Covid εποχή» | Συνέντευξη ΕΝΑ
To: Theodora Kotsaka 


FYI


*Παρατηρητήριο των Κοινών ΕΝΑ | Συνέντευξη*
*«Μία νέα αντίληψη για την παραγωγή αξίας από την οικονομία των Κοινών και
της ομότιμης παραγωγής στη μετά-Covid εποχή»*



Ο *Michel Bauwens* είναι ιδρυτής του P2P Foundation και του Commons
Strategies Group. Συνεργάζεται με παγκόσμια δίκτυα ερευνητών σχετικά με την
ομότιμη παραγωγή, την τεχνολογία και την επιχειρηματική καινοτομία. Τα
τελευταία χρόνια είναι διευθυντής έρευνας του Commons Transition, μίας
πλατφόρμας για την ανάπτυξη εφαρμοσμένων πολιτικών με στόχο τα κοινά.

Τη συνέντευξη πήρε και επιμελήθηκε η Συντονίστρια του Παρατηρητηρίου των
Κοινών του ΕΝΑ *Δώρα Κοτσακά*.

--

*Θα μπορούσατε να δώσετε έναν ορισμό για τον όρο «βασισμένη στα κοινά
ομότιμη παραγωγή» (commons-base peer production, CBPP) και για ποιο λόγο
εμφανίζεται ως αναδυόμενη τάση στην ανάλυσή σας;*

*Παρά το πλήθος των, προφανώς, αρνητικών συνεπειών της μονοπωλιακής
ιδιοκτησίας των μέσων κοινωνικής δικτύωσης, τα τελευταία έχουν δώσει τη
δυνατότητα νέων μοντέλων δημιουργίας και κατανομής της παραγόμενης αξίας
εξαιτίας της ικανότητας αυτοοργάνωσης δισεκατομμυρίων ανθρώπων σε μεγάλες
κλίμακες. Η παραγωγή συμβαίνει τόσο στα περιθώρια, όσο και στον πυρήνα της
κοινωνίας. Μέσα σε αυτό το πλαίσιο ο όρος P2P (peer to peer) αναφέρεται στη
δυνατότητα σύνδεσης ομοτίμων σε μεγάλους αριθμούς μέσω ψηφιακών συστημάτων,
ενώ τα κοινά περιγράφουν την ικανότητα δημιουργίας ή διαχείρισης κοινών
πόρων με αυτόνομο τρόπο.*

*Στο πρώτο στάδιο, σήμαινε την ικανότητα συν-παραγωγής ελεύθερου
λογισμικού, ανοιχτών σχεδίων και διαμοιρασμένης γνώσης. Σήμερα βρίσκεται
στον πυρήνα του καπιταλισμού. Το 2011 συνιστούσε το 1/6 του ΑΕΠ και έχει
τροφοδοτήσει σε μεγάλη έκταση τις κολοσσιαίες ψηφιακές πλατφόρμες, οι
οποίες διαφορετικά δεν θα υπήρχαν. Ωστόσο, παραμένει μία εκθετικά
αυξανόμενη πρακτική από την πλευρά των πολιτών, η οποία τροφοδοτεί πλήθος
εναλλακτικών οικονομικών εγχειρημάτων. Η ανάπτυξη του κώδικα ανοιχτού
λογισμικού συνεχίζει ραγδαία αυξανόμενη.*

*Το δεύτερο στάδιο προέκυψε μετά τη συστημική κρίση του 2008, όταν
εκατομμύρια κατοίκων των πόλεων άρχισαν να δημιουργούν αστικά κοινά, όπως
αμοιβαιοποιημένα συστήματα προμηθειών. Στη συνέχεια γίναμε μάρτυρες του
δεκαπλασιασμού της ανάπτυξης των αστικών κοινών. Κάτι που μπορώ να
επιβεβαιώσω μετά την καταγραφή αυτού του τύπου πρωτοβουλιών στη Γάνδη το
2017, αλλά και την αποτύπωση της τάσης σε ποικίλες αναφορές προερχόμενες
από διαφορετικές χώρες. Τα περισσότερα από αυτά τα αστικά πρότζεκτ έχουν
αναδιανεμητικό χαρακτήρα, δηλαδή δεν παράγουν τα αγαθά και τις υπηρεσίες,
αλλά τα αναδιανέμουν μέσω οικοσυστημάτων δομημένων γύρω από τα κοινά. Για
παράδειγμα, κοινότητες καταπιστευτηριών γης (land trusts), συνεταιρισμούς
διαμοιρασμού μέσων κινητικότητας και άλλα παρόμοια.*

*Τα τελευταία χρόνια έχουμε μετακινηθεί στην τρίτη φάση, που χαρακτηρίζεται
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που παράγουν υλικά αγαθά. Υπάρχουν σήμερα πρωτοβουλίες και παραγωγικά
οικοσυστήματα όπου ακόμα και η παραγωγή λαμβάνει χώρα με τη χρήση
μηχανισμών στηριγμένων στα κοινά, όπως η ανανεώσιμη ενέργεια και τα
οργανικά τρόφιμα. Πλέον έχουμε τη δυνατότητα ελεύθερης συνεργασίας μεταξύ
ομοτίμων, οι οποίοι συνδέονται μεταξύ τους προκειμένου να παράγουν αξία από
κοινού, σε ανοιχτά συνεργατικά συστήματα που διευκολύνονται από την ψηφιακά
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[P2P-F] Fwd: When Mental Maps shape the Landscape

[Michel Bauwens]

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From: Aline Frankfort & JL Baudoin from The Shapership Call <
shapers...@substack.com>
Date: Fri, Mar 19, 2021 at 8:18 PM
Subject: When Mental Maps shape the Landscape
To: 


Change the maps, change the
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When Mental Maps shape the Landscape
Change
the maps, change the word


Aline Frankfort & JL Baudoin

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As Einstein said, the world we have created is a product of our thought. We
cannot change it without changing our thinking.

Indeed, the VISIBLE Landscape 

[P2P-F] Fwd: [CONVIVIUM] new 11 (1) issue: Katharina Pistor’s The Code of Capital: A Symposium

[Michel Bauwens]

-- Forwarded message -
From: Yuri Biondi 
Date: Thu, Mar 11, 2021 at 1:28 PM
Subject: [CONVIVIUM] new 11 (1) issue: Katharina Pistor’s The Code of
Capital: A Symposium
To: 


CONVIVIUM is quite proud to announce its 11 (1) issue devoted to:

Katharina Pistor’s The Code of Capital: A Symposium

Contributions by Katharina Pistor, Dan Awrey, Lisa Herzog, Matthias
Thiemann, and leon Wansleben

https://www.degruyter.com/journal/key/AEL/11/1/html

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CONVIVIUM annual conference within the SASE 2021 Annual Meeting, to be
held on next 2-5 July, to be held virtually (online only).

Our program includes panels on social innovation with Adrian Zicari,
corporate governance and sustainability, empirical research in
accounting with Jim Ohlson, financial accounting, financial crises,
money, international tax avoidance, and auditing:

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[P2P-F] Fwd: European Community Land Trust Roundtable

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Date: Wed, Mar 10, 2021 at 5:10 AM
Subject: European Community Land Trust Roundtable
To: Michel Bauwens 


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*Scene of Findhorn Bay, Scotland. Photo courtesy of The Findhorn Village
Conservation Company (TFVCC).*

Dear Michel Bauwens,

George Monbiot’s much heralded 40th Annual E. F. Schumacher Lecture, Private
Sufficiency, Public Luxury: Land is the Key to the Transformation of
Society,
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continues to inspire new thinking about community land ownership.

To explore the topic further, the Schumacher Center is holding a series of
virtual Community Land Trust Roundtables. The recording of the first
Roundtable, held on February 18th, with panelists Janelle Orsi, Tony
Hernandez, Çaca Yvaire, and host Greg Watson may be viewed here
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or below. The second Roundtable, highlighting UK and European
practitioners, will be held Thursday, March 18th, at 11 AM EST (3 PM GMT)
via Zoom.

The three panelists are Tom Chance of the National Community Land Trust
Network UK
<https://centerforneweconomics.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=69d509d113032e3126c4543ce=a56639bfde=639a116680>,
Calum MacLeod of Community Land Scotland,
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and Geert De Pauw of the Brussels Community Land Trust
<https://centerforneweconomics.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=69d509d113032e3126c4543ce=22db4ffa77=639a116680>.
This conversation will be moderated by Natasha Hulst,
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European Land Commons Program Director at the Schumacher Center and
co-founder of the Dutch community land trust Grond van Bestaan
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In Scotland, half of the country’s privately-owned land is held by just 432
owners.  Responding to this concentration of ownership, Scotland passed a
series of Acts (2003, 2015, & 2016) that give “representative community
bodies” the right of first refusal to buy land should it come up for sale.
In the case of land abandoned, neglected, or causing harm, Scottish
ministers can compel a landowner to sell if they decide that the sale will
further sustainable development in the area.

*Good place-making can provide communities with an important cultural
context; a sense of pride and belonging; and a sense of local and national
identity. It can provide environments which function well; link well with
surrounding settlements and provide attractive areas in which to socialise,
to move around and to do business.*

– Scottish Government, TFVCC website

To assist community groups in exercising their options, a Scottish Land
Fund of 15 million pounds was established from lottery proceeds.

Community Land Scotland (CLS) was organized to support community groups
taking the step to purchase land under the land reform acts. Much like
a Community
Land Trust
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a qualifying organization represents a defined geographic area with
membership open to everyone in the region. CLS’s infographic
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outlines the steps needed to purchase community land.
* We want to see more of Scotland’s land in the hands of more of Scotland’s
people. *

– Community Land Scotland's website

Involving the local community is a strong component of a successful bid for
land under the acts. The Findhorn Village Conservation Company
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exercised its option to buy the residual Novar Estates land at the center
of the village. The area contains a car park and garage site, meaning the
village can now control conditions of their use, balancing residents' needs
for much-needed income with those of the many tourists to the area.
*G

[P2P-F] new interview, thanks for diffusing in your networks

[Michel Bauwens]

Petar Jandric has done an in-depth conversation with me about the current
work at the P2P Foundation, which is focused mostly on the me of: how can
we produce for human need within planetary boundaries, in the context of
the rapid construction of post-westphalian cyber-physical infrastructure
and autonomous trans-local ecosystems.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s42438-021-00218-8

Excerpt:

Commoning for Planetary Survival and Regeneration
PJ: You recently published a report ‘P2P Accounting for Planetary Survival:
Towards a P2P Infrastructure for a Socially-Just Circular Society’ (Bauwens
and Pazaitis 2020). What is P2P accounting and how does it differ from
traditional accounting?

MB: In the 1930s, there was this big debate between socialists and liberals
called the ‘Socialist Calculation Debate’. On the one side, were Friedrich
Hayek, Joseph Schumpeter, Ludwig von Mises, and others, who argued that
centralised planning could not work. On the opposite side, were Karl
Polanyi, and others, who claimed that socialist planning could work (and in
ways superior to capitalism). For almost one century it seemed that the
leftists had lost the socialist calculation debate. These days, however,
things are changing.

There are three main levels of resource allocation. (1) We have the state,
which represents planning – either full planning as in Soviet times, or
regulatory planning, as in the capitalist system. (2) We have market
pricing, which regulates the allocation of capital. (3) Finally, we have
the emergence of mutual coordination or ‘stigmergy’, which brings open
source commoning into the picture.

Our proposal, ‘P2P Accounting for Planetary Survival: Towards a P2P
Infrastructure for a Socially-Just Circular Society’ (Bauwens and Pazaitis
2020), consists of an integrated vision that combines the three forms, with
mutual coordination at the first level. We now have distributed
ledgersFootnote10 so that we can move from sharing code and knowledge to
sharing transaction data, shared accounting, shared logistics, and so on.
We are moving from the Internet of Communications to the Internet of
Transactions which enables the development of collaborative open ecosystems
consisting of networks of producers. I think this is a very important shift.

PJ: And what about thermodynamic accounting?

MB: Thermodynamic accounting is the ability to see flows of matter and
energy and have them integrated into your accounting system. This implies
that we can create our own data commons, data trusts, data co-ops, and so
on.

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[P2P-F] Fwd: The Future we imagine is the Cause of the Present

[Michel Bauwens]

-- Forwarded message -
From: Aline Frankfort from Shapership. 
Date: Thu, Mar 4, 2021 at 12:49 AM
Subject: The Future we imagine is the Cause of the Present
To: 


Rather than building the Future on Fear, Violence and Despair, we need to
build it on Imagination, Desire and Hope You may have a problem with the
direction the world is taking right now. What do we see happening outside?
Our voracious civilisation is crashing down. So are the “old narratives”,
worldviews and myths which sustain
it. ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌
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The Future we imagine is the Cause of the Present



Aline Frankfort

Mar 3

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[P2P-F] Fwd: Growing New Farmers report, work with us, why we need food sovereignty, producers in the spotlight

[Michel Bauwens]

-- Forwarded message -
From: Open Food Network Australia 
Date: Thu, Mar 4, 2021 at 11:36 AM
Subject: Growing New Farmers report, work with us, why we need food
sovereignty, producers in the spotlight
To: 


Recommendations for overcoming challenges for young farmers, access
resources and events, and build your understanding of food systems.
New projects and new thinking to build a better food system
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Hello!
We're in the midst of adding more than 15 people to our team, and it's
incredibly exciting - we can't wait to introduce you to the awesome people
who will be working on regional food systems!

Read on for:

   - the *Regeneration - Growing New Farmers* report released by Farmer
   Incubator and Young Farmers Connect
   - a spotlight on two producers using our software platform who are doing
   exciting things
   - why we need food, tech and data sovereignty
   - software support over the Easter holidays
   - the software release of the month
   - volunteering and other opportunities to be part of the restoration
   from bushfires

*Growing New Farmers*

*New report published*

Farmer Incubator and Young Farmers Connect have just released *Regeneration
- Growing New Farmers*

.

The report shares the unique challenges new and young farmers face getting
started as they attempt to farm regeneratively, address food and land
justice, gain entry into the value chain and become viable.

Find out what you can do to help address these challenges, with
recommendations for everyone from food citizens to policy makers.

Watch the report launch presentation and panel discussion recording here

.

We're proud to have provided strategic advice and oversight on this report,
and to be working with Farmer Incubator their new SEED project putting some
of these ideas into action!
Download the report

*SEED pilot project*

Farmer Incubator's SEED pilot will build on experience with the Pop Up
Garlic Farmer (PUGF) program and research to develop and test a model for
growing new farmers *on-farm* before introducing it on a larger scale.

Alongside offering learning and resources, the SEED project will facilitate
access to

   - land by working with landholders
   - mentors who are existing regenerative farmers
   - markets by working with localised food distribution networks.

The goal is to be able to replicate this model across Australia, cycling
aspiring farmers through the on-farm incubation sites every 2 years,
equipping them with the skills and knowledge to run their own successful
farming enterprises and feeding the local community while they learn.

If you are a landholder interested in growing new farmers, learn more about
the SEED pilot by reading the project brief

.

If you would like support and education to explore becoming a farmer, enrol
in their Pop-Up Garlic Farmers Program

.

Image courtesy of Farmer Incubator
*Work with us!*
The *Open Road Coordinator* role in Victoria is still open for
applications. This is an opportunity to be part of a bold and ambitious new
solution, build your networks in food hubs across Victoria, and connect
with our national and global partners also experimenting with solutions to
the logistics challenges of short supply chains.

We will also be opening applications for two Open Road Logistics Officers
soon. Read the position descriptions here

.
Apply here

*Financial support available*
*Grants *

The *Small-Scale and Craft Program*

targets Victorian agribusinesses looking to scale-up operations, diversify
product lines or expand outreach. Grant applications close on 26 March 2021.

Open Food Network can help with applying for grants and offer customised
business and online solutions as well as lean enterprise support. In the
past, farmers have used these grants to get our help on projects like:

   - Setting up an online shop for their farm
   - Starting a farmer-led 

[P2P-F] Fwd: Natural Origin or Lab Escape? The Emergence of SARS-CoV-2 (3 Online Lectures)

[Michel Bauwens]

-- Forwarded message -
From: Jonathan Latham 
Date: Tue, Mar 2, 2021 at 2:53 AM
Subject: Natural Origin or Lab Escape? The Emergence of SARS-CoV-2 (3
Online Lectures)
To: bsr-project-eli...@gn.apc.org 


Dear Friends and Colleagues

Today (Mon, March 1st, 2021) we would like to share something new.

It is a series of three talks titled, collectively: *Natural Origin or Lab
Escape? The Emergence of SARS-CoV-2.*
by Dr Jonathan Latham.

The three talks were presented to the EAT online community
 on Jan 8th, Jan 15th and Jan 22nd, 2021.
Each is now published on the Youtube channel of Independent Science News
.
The three talks describe aspects of our current thinking on the origin of
the SARS-CoV-2 virus and the nature of the underlying political/economic
forces attempting to influence public perception, especially of its origins.
These talks are designed for people new to the virus origins debate but
also are designed to important new information to satisfy those who are
already very familiar with the arguments and the evidence.

More details and links are below.

Lecture 1
*Why Wuhan?*
Could SARS-CoV-2 have come from a lab?  As this first talk details, the
evidence for a natural zoonotic origin was always weak. Interestingly, the
case for a natural origin has become ever weaker as the pandemic has
progressed. In stark contrast, the evidence base for a lab origin has grown
steadily. At present, numerous lines of evidence, outlined in this first
talk, point strongly to a lab escape.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAIQ7hH5VKw=461s

Lecture 2
*The Mojiang Miners Passage Theory*
Dr Latham introduces the various lab origin theories for the SARS-CoV-2
coronavirus, the cause of the COVID19 pandemic. In order of appearance: 1)
Sirotkin and Sirotkin, 2) Segreto and Deigin, and 3) the DRASTIC theory. Dr
Latham then discusses the latest thinking on the Mojiang Miners Passage
Theory. This theory originated from the observation that RaTG13 (the
closest related viral sequence to SARS-CoV-2) was sampled in 2013 from a
mine (the Mojiang mine) that had recently been the site of a disease
outbreak. In that outbreak, six miners were hospitalized and three died;
each had COVID-19-like symptoms. The ill miners were diagnosed at the time
as likely suffering from an unknown coronavirus and it is known they had
been shovelling bat guano. It is known that serum, and possibly other
tissue samples, from four of the hospitalized miners were transported at
the time to the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) for testing. The Mojiang
Miners Passage theory proposes that, by the time these patient samples
arrived at the WIV, the original mine virus had evolved inside the miners
to become a highly adapted human pathogen. According to the theory, it was
this virus which subsequently escaped and caused the COVID19 pandemic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59cXOHj0On8=30s

Lecture 3
*The Pandemic Virus Industrial Complex*
The military has its academic industrial complex and so does virus medical
research. The Pandemic Virus Industrial Complex (PVIC) is busy on many
fronts, only one of which is trying to suppress discussion of the potential
lab origins of the SARS-CoV-2 virus.
In this video, Dr Jonathan Latham, PhD, shares insights into the
functioning and organization of the various elements that constitute the
PVIC. How do its academic, military, and commercial aspects interact? Who,
if anyone, pulls the strings? What does it fear from the revelation of a
lab leak?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mq9HFlpc2uA

Please enjoy these talks and share these links if you find them useful.

Yours sincerely
Jonathan

Jonathan Latham, PhD
Executive Director
The Bioscience Resource Project,
Ithaca, NY 14850 USA

Websites:
www.independentsciencenews.org
www.poisonpapers.org
www.bioscienceresource.org

Tel: 1-607-319-0279
Skype: jonathanlatham2
Twitter and Facebook: @Biosrp
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Notice: Please forgive any delays and slow news. I am writing a book about
genetics and genetic determinism.

It is provisionally titled: *The Myth of The Master Molecule: DNA and the
Social Order*

The contention of the book is that the key organising principle of Western
thought is the seemingly innocuous and seemingly simple idea that
our personal qualities are biologically inherited. That is, our character
derives from our ancestors rather than being an always-adapting product of
our own experiences, decisions, and education. The book makes the case,
first, that genetic determinism is a scientific fallacy. Organisms are
self-organised systems and therefore are not genetically determined.
Second, the explanation for the myth, which predates Mesopotamian cities of
6,000 years ago, is its utility. Genetic determinism rationalises political
systems based on genetic privilege. The result of the 

[P2P-F] Fwd: Don't miss the extended run of the world's first horror movie for machines

[Michel Bauwens]

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From: Furtherfield 
Date: Tue, Mar 2, 2021 at 5:44 PM
Subject: Don't miss the extended run of the world's first horror movie for
machines
To: 


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*Don't miss the extended run of *

*the world's first horror movie for machines!*


*At Furtherfield until 31st March
*

*What they’re saying about UNINVITED:*

‘a newborn networked organism that feeds on human data and keeps evolving
over time through its entanglement with humans and machine learning’
Beth Jochim - Flash Art


‘a puzzling, disturbing but strangely seducing work. It rejects human
viewers as much as it draws them in’
Regine Debatty - We Make Money Not Art


'If robots dream of electric sheep, and computers get sick with digital
viruses, do movies for machines feature heroic OSSs'?'
Rosa Menkman


‘are you ready for a digital splatter film?’
Danae


‘...genuinely freaky’
Nathan Jones


UNINVITED film still: Exploration > Tarmac’ (2020)
image courtesy of the artists Nye Thompson & UBERMORGEN

By popular demand, we are extending the run of this ground-breaking
collaboration between leading digital artists Nye Thompson (UK) and
UBERMORGEN (AT/CH). This on and offline installation is now an
international sensation that explores what happens when networked
surveillance tools and AI capabilities get sick in the head.

Between and even during lockdowns, Furtherfield Gallery

- which features scannable hoarding that reveals what is happening inside -
has been visited (and revisited!) by masses of people. Some major fans of
the work have come multiple times, venturing deep into Finsbury Park, to
sit outside the gallery and watch what is going on inside!

UNINVITED: external Furtherfield Gallery image (2020). Image courtesy of
Studio Hyte
Returning UNINVITED viewers

*UNINVITED is composed of:*


The installations of UNINVITED feature self-evolving networked monsters
inside a mechatronic shell that generate and watch a ‘horror movie’ from
surveillance footage they have collected. Each monster moves across the
empty art gallery on rails, projecting the horror movie onto the wall as it
tries to examine and make sense of it. If fear comes from the unknown - or
the quest for security in an absence of reliable data - then this is pure
fear!

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   UNINVITED (2020) by Nye Thompson & UBERMORGEN installation image
   courtesy of the artists
   

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   UNINVITED (2020) by Nye Thompson & UBERMORGEN external gallery image
   (back) courtesy of Studio Hyte
   

   -

   UNINVITED (2020) by Nye Thompson & UBERMORGEN installation image
   (Galeria ElectroPutere) courtesy of Galeria ElectroPutere
   



The horror movie these monsters project and pore over is pulled from
streams of closed-circuit TV feeds from all over the planet - taken without
reason or permission by malicious botnets. Together in their networked
mind, they do all they can to understand what they see - analysing harder,
zooming deeper - to no avail. As the monsters try to categorise these
images, the gaps in how it makes sense of data expose how little it
understands of the world around it.

   -

   Movie trailer for UNINVITED (2020) by Nye Thompson & UBERMORGEN
   

   -

   UNINVITED film still: Exploration > Tarmac’ (2020) by Nye Thompson &
   UBERMORGEN image courtesy of the artists
   



The viewing room allows anyone anywhere to try to watch with their own
machine (a computer, tablet, phone, etc). What we see as the real, physical
world is nothing compared to the 

[P2P-F] Fwd: Public launch of my book & materialization of a 10 years dream: Atlas.

[Michel Bauwens]

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Date: Sun, Feb 28, 2021 at 11:18 AM
Subject: Public launch of my book & materialization of a 10 years dream:
Atlas.
To: 


Public launch of my first book, a 10 years prophecy is materializing,
announcement of Atlas Society, a private social network for sustainable
tech
leaders. ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌
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Public launch of my book & materialization of a 10 years dream: Atlas.
Public
launch of my first book, a 10 years prophecy is materializing, announcement
of Atlas Society, a private social network for sustainable tech leaders.


Djoann Fal

Feb 28

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[P2P-F] Fwd: CIRIEC - APCE 2021/1: The New Age of Commons: Innovation or Necessity? in FREE ACCESS

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Subject: CIRIEC - APCE 2021/1: The New Age of Commons: Innovation or
Necessity? in FREE ACCESS
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CIRIEC
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   - The increasing role and the diversity forms of Commons for production
   and preservation of essential goods and services
   

   / *Philippe Bance & Jérôme Schoenmaeckers*

   - Social and solidarity economy and social and solidarity commons:
   Towards the (re)discovery of an ethic of the common good?
   

   / *Andrea Salustri*

   - Commons and cooperatives: A new governance of collective action
   

   / *Alexandre Guttmann*

   - Cooperative conversion and communalization: Closely observed
   interactions between the material and the mental
   

   / *Hervé Charmettant & Yvan Renou*

   - Résilience d'une méta‐organisation : Le cas d'un commun de
   l'alimentation
   

   / *Alexandrine Lapoutte*

   - Elements of the institutionalization process of the forest and pasture
   commons in Romania as particular forms of social economy
   

   / *Irina‐Sînziana Opincaru*

   - Do socially motivated self‐help groups perform better? Exploring
   determinants of micro‐credit groups’ performance in Eastern India
   

   / *Anirban Pal & Piyush Kumar Singh*

   - Public good, collective action and financial regulation
   

   / *Faruk Ülgen*

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[P2P-F] Fwd: EU supports recognition of ecocide

[Michel Bauwens]

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See here for web version. Sign up here EU supports recognition of ecocide
Dear friends - after a break in January we’re back with news a-plenty! EU -
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Dear friends - after a break in January we’re back with news a-plenty!

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   EU - Parliament votes
   

   to encourage EU members states to recognize ecocide, while environment
   committee votes
   

   to examine the possibility of EU ecocide legislation
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   Canada
   

   & Luxembourg
   

   both state that they will follow international ecocide law conversation
   with interest
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   Ecocide expert drafting panel
   

[P2P-F] Fwd: Cross-party report urges green recovery from Covid: Positive Money response - embargoed Weds 17 Feb at 0.01am

[Michel Bauwens]

thanks for respecting the embargo

-- Forwarded message -
From: Anna Pick 
Date: Tue, Feb 16, 2021 at 5:19 PM
Subject: Cross-party report urges green recovery from Covid: Positive Money
response - embargoed Weds 17 Feb at 0.01am
To: Michel Bauwens 


Good morning,

Below is Positive Money’s embargoed response to the Environmental Audit
Committee’s latest report: ‘Growing back better: putting nature and net
zero at the heart of the economic recovery’.

Please get in touch if you would like more information or to arrange a
briefing with a spokesperson.

Many thanks,
Anna


-


UNDER STRICT EMBARGO 00:01 WEDNESDAY 17 FEBRUARY

Research and campaign group Positive Money welcomes a new report from MPs
on the Conservative-led Environmental Audit Committee (EAC) which concludes
that Covid-19 is a symptom of environmental breakdown and sets out how the
government can enable a green economic recovery from the crisis.

Titled ‘Growing back better: putting nature and net zero at the heart of
the economic recovery’, the report was a result of the EAC’s ‘Greening the
post-Covid recovery’ inquiry, for which Positive Money presented oral
evidence.

Among the recommendations, the report calls for the government to clarify
the Bank of England’s mandate to include climate and nature objectives, to
take steps to reduce the carbon intensity of financial markets, as well as
a range of fiscal and financial incentives for a green recovery.

The report comes as the Chancellor is expected to make key changes to the
Bank of England’s mandate alongside the March Budget, which will enable it
to take more action on climate change.

Simon Youel, Head of Policy and Advocacy at Positive Money, said:

“For all the talk of ‘build back better’, the government’s response to
Covid has so far bailed out an environmentally destructive and unequal
‘business as usual’, which drove us towards this crisis in the first place.

“The Environmental Audit Committee’s report puts further pressure on the
government and the Bank of England to get their act together and take
concrete steps to green the economy ahead of this year’s crucial COP26
climate summit in Glasgow.

“The government has a huge opportunity to kickstart a fair and green
recovery in the March Budget. Alongside wide scale public investment in
green jobs, the Chancellor needs to make sure his changes to the Bank of
England’s mandate are as strong as possible, to allow our central bank to
do everything necessary to shift billions of pounds away from fossil fuels
and towards green alternatives ahead of COP26.”

Notes


   1.

   In January, the Conservative MP and Chair of the Environmental Audit
   Committee, Philip Dunne, wrote to the Bank of England calling for it to
   align its bond purchases with 1.5C ahead of COP26:
   
https://positivemoney.org/2021/01/environmental-audit-committee-blasts-bank-of-england-for-high-carbon-stimulus/
   
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   2.

   The chancellor is expected to make changes to the Bank of England’s
   mandate in his March Budget:
   
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/chancellor-rishi-sunak-to-strengthen-bank-of-englands-green-remit-amid-oil-bonds-outcry-3t3qkcf2p
   
<https://positivemoney-org-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/Redirect?ukey=1W5tFRRsXSdHdLBk76REF5HeDUh9I2jqIiehrGYBBT10-2043125258=YAMMID-70762309=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thetimes.co.uk%2Farticle%2Fchancellor-rishi-sunak-to-strengthen-bank-of-englands-green-remit-amid-oil-bonds-outcry-3t3qkcf2p>

   3.

   A letter from 125 experts (including Nouriel Roubini, Mariana Mazzucato
   and Willem Buiter) outlined what the Bank of England should be doing to
   support the government’s climate targets, 16 November 2020:
   
https://positivemoney.org/2020/11/sunaks-green-finance-plans-come-under-fire-from-experts-press-release/
   
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   [see Guardian coverage here:
   
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/nov/16/bank-of-england-needs-more-powers-to-decarbonise-economy-say-experts
   
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   ]
   4.

   Positive Money campaigns for a money and banking system which supports a
   fair, democratic and sustainable economy. Set up in the aftermath of the
   financial crisis, Positive Money is 

[P2P-F] Fwd: [commoning] Workshop »Envisioning Post-Capitalist Societies via Simulation«

[Michel Bauwens]

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From: Stefan Meretz via Commoning 
Date: Sun, Feb 14, 2021 at 2:26 PM
Subject: [commoning] Workshop »Envisioning Post-Capitalist Societies via
Simulation«
To: Commoning 


Dear all.

On February, 18th/19th, 2021, the project „Society after Money“ is
holding a workshop online: „Envisioning Post-Capitalist Societies via
Simulation – Critique, Utopias and Agent Based Modelling“.
PDF-Flyer:
https://nach-dem-geld.de/wp-content/uploads/Post-Capitalist-Utopia-Poster.pdf

How might a post-capitalist society look like? How can we conceive modes
of production and coordination that no longer rely on money, markets and
the state? Is this possible on a large-scale, not only as small
community projects, but society-wide?

The interdisciplinary research group „Society after Money“ (funded by
the Volkswagen Foundation), whose goal is to build an Agent Based Model
of a post-capitalist economy that can serve as a laboratory to foster
thinking about a society after money via experimentation, has invited
scholars from respective fields to debate the nexus of critique, utopia
and simulation.

Find more informations on the project’s website:
https://nach-dem-geld.de/2021/online-workshop/

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[P2P-F] Fwd: Welcome to Voicecraft Collective. Discernment on the Way.

[Michel Bauwens]

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From: Tim Adalin 
Date: Sat, Feb 13, 2021 at 1:04 PM
Subject: Welcome to Voicecraft Collective. Discernment on the Way.
To: 


Thank you being here. Here's a little on what to expect.
View this email in your browser

Welcome here,

In the noise of our digital age I hope the signal here is worth your while.

My name is Tim Adalin - a made up name that's more real than my real name,
which isn't really real at all.

In terms of artefacts, this project is about creating philosophical art --
generative conversations about what's really real, and how we can come to
be in right relationship with it.

In terms of embodied vision, it's about co-developing a coordinating
channel for artful communication, living philosophy, and wiser action in
the world.

If you're new to this project, I've included links to the podcast below,
along with some choice sensemaking articles and resources I hope you find
helpful.

All is not right in our world. And yet there is the next right action.

Here we go.

*Sensemaking Resources*

Civilization Emerging

- a wonderful resource to inform better sensemaking about the relation
between individual, culture, and nature in our present day, by Daniel
Schmachtenberger.

An overview of John Vervaeke's thought

- Awakening From The Meaning Crisis professor and guest of the Voicecraft
podcast John Vervaeke recently presented a summary of his 50 part lecture
series in this interview. Vervaeke is a pioneering cognitive scientist with
some of the most salient frameworks to help make sense of the state of self
and society.

The Internet Of Beefs

article by Venkatesh Rao - a helpful frame through which to see the present
deterioration of communication in the online world.

*Subscribing to the Voicecraft podcast.*

Subscribe to the Voicecraft podcast here.


*A network to join*

If you find the podcast resonant, you might consider participating in
artful conversations with the network. Explore here.


*Something to listen to*

An invitation to appreciate Being
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courtesy of the genius Max Richter

Discernment on the Way,

Tim

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[P2P-F] Fwd: Modernism and Psychedelics

[Michel Bauwens]

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Date: Thu, Feb 11, 2021 at 8:43 PM
Subject: Modernism and Psychedelics
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How visionary intoxication informed Western
culture ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌
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Modernism and Psychedelics
How
visionary intoxication informed Western culture


Daniel Pinchbeck

Feb 11

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[P2P-F] Fwd: Second book launch webinar of Rebuild: the Economy, Leadership, and You -- on 23 February

[Michel Bauwens]

-- Forwarded message -
From: Graham 
Date: Tue, Feb 9, 2021 at 9:22 PM
Subject: Second book launch webinar of Rebuild: the Economy, Leadership,
and You -- on 23 February
To: Hi Michel 


We are running the first online book launch on  Tuesday February 23, please
invite everyone that might be interested, and of course join us yourself
Stakeholder Capitalism: why the toolkit in Rebuild makes it robust and
natural.
23 February second book launch webinar
Register for the 23 February webinar / online launch



I hope you'll be able to attend the second online book launch webinar. Jack
and Graham will both be in the call.

We plan to spend about 30 minutes diving deeper into the key theme of the
FairShares Commons all-capitals all-currencies company, and why this
naturally builds a Stakeholder Capitalism without any further intervention.
Then we'll break up into discussion groups for another 30 minutes, followed
by a final 30 minutes of us answering your questions

Please share the invitation broadly to anyone you think might benefit from
it.
Read more about the book, download a pdf, buy it

Before attending watch the video of the first event

Get your copy: printed, epub, or free pdf

If you've not yet bought or downloaded the book, go to the link above.

And if this book is new to you, here's our intent: this book is
for everyone working on rebuilding our world to one where all can thrive.
Startup founders, experienced leaders, consultants, team members, activists
and academics; if you want a better world, one where you can do what you
enjoy doing, where you can express who you are and what you stand for
through your work -- we have written this book for you.

And because we want everyone who might benefit from it to read it,
regardless of how much money they have, we will always have a pdf available
to download on a "contribute what you can" basis in the link below.

The toolkit is filled with cutting edge tools you can use in rebuilding:

   - yourself, so that you are better equipped to thrive in the challenging
   world of today;
   - our startups and mature businesses, so that they can create thriving
   employment, products and services; sustainable, circular, regenerative;
   - our economy, and the economics discipline, to one that works for all

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[P2P-F] Fwd: What's Your Money Doing Tonight?

[Michel Bauwens]

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Date: Sat, Feb 6, 2021 at 9:50 PM
Subject: What's Your Money Doing Tonight?
To: Michel Bauwens 


view this email in your browser
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*Railroad Street, Great Barrington photographed by Julie Bidwell, 2016*

Dear Michel Bauwens,

Do you know what your money is doing tonight? Community bank depositors can
be pretty sure theirs is supporting local businesses on their respective
Main Streets. Unlike their Wall Street counterparts, community banks are
often owned and operated by members of the local community who understand
the needs of their neighbors and are well-equipped to make lending
decisions that benefit local consumers and producers. Put simply, big banks
*remove* capital from communities while community banks *circulate* it,
invigorating the local economy.

Community Banks like Lee Bank, Salisbury Bank and Trust, and Pittsfield
Cooperative Bank are almost like bond investors in the local community. But
this is what we should be doing because the capital we’re leveraging was
built up over years and years from deposit (funding) and lending (interest
income) activity here in the Berkshires. All of us also take this a step
further and invest tremendously in our employees so they feel good about
their employer and their employment situation and in turn have the
confidence to spend some of their discretionary or non-discretionary income
locally.

Chuck Leach, President and CEO of Lee Bank

On Thursday, February 11th at 2 PM EST, the Schumacher Center for a New
Economics and BerkShares, Inc. will host a virtual Community Banking
Roundtable
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with presidents Jay Anderson of Pittsfield Cooperative Bank, Rick Cantele
of Salisbury Bank and Trust Company, and Chuck Leach of Lee Bank to
highlight the role and defining characteristics of community banks. The
speakers represent the three banks that partner with BerkShares Inc
<http://www.berkshares.org>. to distribute the local currency throughout
the Berkshire region. These banks’ scale and focus encourage and facilitate
the partnership.

This conversation will be moderated by Alice Maggio, former director of
BerkShares, Inc., a corporator of Lee Bank, and member of the Schumacher
Center's Board of Directors. This free webinar will take place from 2:00 to
3:30 PM EST via Zoom. Register here.
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Please join us on February 11th for this discussion.

Wishing All Well,
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[P2P-F] Fwd: Invite to my new talk at the Long Now Foundation on Feb 9th

[Michel Bauwens]

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From: Peter Leyden 
Date: Thu, Feb 4, 2021 at 7:00 PM
Subject: Invite to my new talk at the Long Now Foundation on Feb 9th
To: 


I’ll be giving a talk version of The Transformation next week at the
prestigious seminar series founded by Stewart Brand.

*Come to the talk version of The Transformation this coming Tuesday at The
Long Now Seminar Series*

I’m honored to be giving the next talk

in the prestigious Seminar Series for Long-term Thinking at the Long Now
Foundation that will be streamed to the public this coming *Tuesday, Feb.
9th, at 5 pm Pacific*.

I have attended dozens of these talks over the last 20 years featuring some
of the most innovative minds in the world laying out their latest ideas.
The series was founded, curated and hosted by the legendary Stewart Brand,
who is now handing over the series to the next generation. I’m humbled to
be the next one up.

This will be the first talk I have given on the body of work that went into
creating The Transformation
,
a series of six stories recently published in Medium that tell the largely
positive story of America and the world from 2020 to 2050. Those of you on
this newsletter are aware of that series, which you can review below.

This new talk version of The Transformation will make a compelling case
that we are heading into a series of tech booms that will drive a
world-historical economic boom and lead to a societal transformation that
eventually will be understood as the beginning of civilization change by
the end of the century. I’ll lay out the argument, using data and
infographics, that we could largely solve many of our daunting challenges
like climate change through the course of The Transformation.

Consider watching my optimistic take on what lies ahead in the next several
decades, streamed live on *Tuesday, Feb. 9th at 5 pm PST*, and join in the
live Q after the talk. The entire program

will last about an hour and be available a few days later as a video or
audio podcast.

Feel free to spread the word and invite others who might be interested in
hearing someone counter the pervasive mood of despair and convince you that
great progress lies just ahead.

Peter Leyden
Email: pe...@leyden.org

Web: peterleyden.com


*6/6 The civilization to emerge from The Transformation arguably will
supersede that of The Enlightenment*
This final story

in the series makes the case that The Transformation of our lifetimes will
rival The Enlightenment of the 18th century, the last time we watched a new
civilization emerge. All the mega-innovations of The Enlightenment that
defined how the world operated for the last few centuries will be
superseded by parallel mega-innovations over the course of The
Transformation: digital computers, clean energies, biological production,
sustainable capitalism, digital democracy and global governance.

*5/6 The controversial case that the 2020 election marks the cusp between a
conservative & progressive era*
Will the election of 2020 mark a watershed in American politics like those
of 1932 or 1980? This story told from 2100 makes that case and shows how
our current polarized and paralyzed politics increasingly opened up a
new politics through the 2020s and beyond. Read this 5th installment

to see how a new majority coalition came to drive big economic changes
through society and began to evolve capitalism itself.

*4/6 How we fully dealt with Climate Change by 2050*
Can we solve climate change in the next 30 years? Yes, we can mitigate the
worst effects and adapt our society to thrive through the coming century if
we mobilize quickly and scale the technologies already available. That's
the story told in this 4th installment

of the series that explains from the year 2100 how America turned the
corner on climate change from 2020 to 2050.

[P2P-F] Fwd: Back to Business as usual!

[Michel Bauwens]

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Date: Tue, Feb 2, 2021 at 6:47 PM
Subject: Back to Business as usual!
To: 


Global Innovation Coop Summit



*Back to Businessas usual!*
  * Global Innovation Coop Summit's first edition.*



The first edition of the Global Innovation Coop Summit took place on
December 30th, 2020, and was completely digital and free. The 90 minutes
live event was designed to be a space dedicated to the leaders and experts
of cooperatives from all sectors internationally, to share, discuss, learn
and build a more cooperative, inclusive plural economy.



The main goal of the Global Innovation Coop Summit was to bring to the
global cooperative movement new trends in the areas of innovation,
leadership, and technology; thus preparing the cooperative sector for the
new challenges that we are facing and will continue to in the coming years.

The event's first presenter was *Navi Radjou*, speaker, author, and
Innovation & Leadership Advisor, and he brought to the table the theme
“Towards a frugal economy”. Drawing on concrete examples from different
sectors and regions of the world, *Navi Radjou* identified the crucial
changes to be made - in terms of culture, structure, and leadership - which
allowed the spectators to understand and fully integrate into the
generating “frugal economy” profit while contributing to the “triple
regeneration” (individual, social and ecological).

After Mr. Radjou's speech, the stage was set for *Nathan Schneider*,
author, and professor of media studies at the University of Colorado at
Boulder, who presented the idea of a shared agenda for shared ownership.
Nathan discussed how we can think beyond old habits and how to develop
policies and strategies that will put cooperation at the center of the
global economy.

The final part of the event was a roundtable coordinated by *Mr. Jean-Louis
Bancel*, president of Cooperatives Europe, with Mr. Radjou, Mr. Schneider
and 3 other participants: *Samara Araujo*, the Innovation Coordinator in
Organization of Brazilian Cooperatives (OCB), Brazil; *Lorenzo Novaro*, the
Project coordinator in Cooperatives Europe, Brussels; and* Mr. Eric Brat*,
the Director of the Alphonse and Dorimène Desjardins International
Institute for Cooperatives, at HEC Montréal.

The roundtable supported an important discussion on how the cooperative
business model can reinvent a more efficient, agile, socially inclusive,
and ecologically beneficial economy. It also included a dialogue on how
technology contributes to social innovation and the leaders' visions of the
post-COVID-19 new normal for cooperatives and their capacity to innovate.

*Global Innovation Coop Summit was viewed by 458 people from 82 different
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[P2P-F] Fwd: California has legalized public banks. Should Illinois follow its lead?

[Michel Bauwens]

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From: The Lane Report 
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Subject: California has legalized public banks. Should Illinois follow its
lead?
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California has legalized public banks. Should Illinois follow its lead?

By Marc J. Lane

Let's consider democratizing capital in Illinois and putting the public in
control of its own future.

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For just the second time in a century, a people-powered coalition
successfully overcame the clout of big finance when California’s Gov. Gavin
Newsom signed a bill late in 2019 allowing the state's municipalities and
counties to organize their own nonprofit lending institutions. Their
mission: to hold public funds and deploy them – along with money they’ll be
eligible to borrow at low rates from the Federal Reserve – for socially and
environmentally impactful purposes. Before long, such banks in California
and elsewhere will operate free of the pressure commercial megabanks face
to fund outsized executive pay packages while delivering healthy investment
returns to their shareholders.

Until California acted North Dakota has been the only state that operates a
public bank wholly backed by the deposit of government funds. The bank was
founded by community activists in 1919 to protect wheat farmers in the
state, then a banking desert, from predatory out-of-state lenders as well
as grain dealers who suppressed grain prices. Today the bank offers
residents and businesses low-cost services including checking accounts and
loans. More important, it funds economic development initiatives in
partnership with other local banks.

North Dakota's bank turns a significant profit – more profit, in fact, than
Goldman Sachs -- which is plowed back into the state's coffers and offsets
the financial burden its taxpayers, without the bank, would bear. So
everyone benefits from the government funds that would otherwise be
deposited each year in distant commercial institutions.

California’s cities have deposited billions of taxpayer dollars in Wall
Street's biggest banks every year which too often have been invested them
in private prisons, Saudi Arabian oil, derivative securities and other
assets deemed antithetical to the state’s values and policies. Worse yet,
the nation’s largest commercial banks, as a group, have justifiably earned
a reputation for exploiting unwary consumers.

But now, thanks to the efforts of a diverse group of labor unions, climate
justice groups and civil rights organizations, cities and counties there
will be able to launch their own banks to leverage public funds for local
impact. Although public banks will be barred from competing with commercial
banks at the retail level, they are expected to make low-cost loans for
renewable energy, affordable housing, small business expansion, transit and
other public needs, cutting the financing costs of infrastructure projects
in half.

Similarly, Chicago, Cook County, and other cities and counties throughout
Illinois might benefit from state-sanctioned public banks which could
invest in infrastructure, housing, schools and other worthy projects,
including those that private banks decline to fund. Public banks could also
unleash the state’s medical and recreational marijuana industry, denied
access to private banks because the possession or sale of cannabis remains
illegal under federal law.

Opponents of public banks have raised legitimate concerns about political
influence which could lead to corruption, self-dealing and risky lending.
But there's no reason community stakeholders can't actively participate in
the governance of a public bank ensuring the accountability the public
deserves.

Public banks inform a new and worthwhile discussion about sustainability
and growth. Let's consider democratizing capital in Illinois and putting
the public in control of its own future.

*Marc J. Lane is an attorney and financial adviser, and the author of "The
Mission-Driven Venture: Business Solutions to the World’s Most Vexing
Social Problems."*

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[P2P-F] Fwd: Call for Speakers & Projects: FOSSASIA Summit 2021, March 13-21 (Online)

[Michel Bauwens]

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From: FOSSASIA 
Date: Wed, Jan 27, 2021 at 5:49 PM
Subject: Call for Speakers & Projects: FOSSASIA Summit 2021, March 13-21
(Online)
To: Michel Bauwens 


Dear Friend of FOSSASIA,

We are excited to announce that the FOSSASIA Summit 2021
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will take place ONLINE this year. The event will spread out over the week
of March 13 - 21 and will run on our own open source virtual event platform
‘eventyay
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’.

We would love to see you at the summit. Get your ticket here
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!

Speakers interested to submit an online live talk, panel or workshop
please propose
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before
4th February (soft deadline).

At the event we are connecting local hubs, makerspaces, clubs and
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support. If you would like to become a virtual exhibitor or sponsor please
contact us through the event site.

All the best, stay safe and healthy,

Your FOSSASIA Team

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The current situation around the world shows us that open global
collaboration is the way to solve the problems of our time. Now we would
like you to share your hands-on examples at the FOSSASIA Summit Online of
topics such as how to:

   - Take on the fight against COVID-19 with open health technologies
   - Solve everyday problems with AI
   - Tackle climate change with an open source approach
   - Create open hardware solutions for science and biohacking
   - Run DevOps in a distributed team in home office
   - Implement continuous delivery and sovereign cloud stacks with diverse
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   - Establish a friendly, welcoming and collaborative project culture
   - Ensure digital sovereignty and independent data governance
   - Get privacy and security right
   - Customize Linux for lightweight hardware and special use cases
   - And what are best practices for open access education

.. and many more topics about Databases, Web and Mobile Technologies,
Robotics, and Compliance. Please find the complete list of tracks on the event
site and submit your proposal
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.

We are looking forward to inspiring sessions.

*Important Dates*

   - CFS soft deadline: 4 February 2021 (submissions receive priority)
   - Late submission cut off date: 11 February 2021
   - Event dates: 13 - 21 March 2021


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*Welcome the Visdom Data Visualisation Project at FOSSASIA Now under Apache
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the FOSSASIA organization. As part of this transition it has been
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visualizations of live, rich data. It aims to facilitate visualization of
(remote) data with an emphasis on supporting scientific experimentation.

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[P2P-F] a contribution on migration and living together in the european context

[Michel Bauwens]

from my friend dyab abou jajah

"We should express to the native Europeans that what we often tell each
other secretly. And no, it is not that we are conspiring to take over as a
community, or that we want to replace the native Europeans. It is the
opposite. We tell each other that we hope that Europe will remain Europe.
That it will not decay due to bad management of its politicians. That it
will not lose its character. That it will not compromise on its values. Our
fellow citizens who belong to the native community must know, that even
though we will never accept discrimination or racism, and that we will
always stand up for our rights as equal citizens and as human beings,
whenever it comes to defending their identity, culture and heritage, they
will always find us on their side. Whenever extremists from our midst,
because of a religious ideology, or another ideology, shall turn against
Europe and its natives,  we will stand in their way, and we will defend
Europe and its culture and identity. This is the time for a new historical
deal, that will allow us to create a more solid community of citizens.
Within that deal, we will hear the native claim, and we will acknowledge it
as justified and legitimate. And even though I do not believe that ethnic
Europeans will ever be a minority in Europe, our pledge should be to
preserve European heritage and identity and languages under any
circumstances. But also, and together with the native Europeans, we must
defend the rule of law, democracy and human rights. There is no
contradiction between these two platforms, they are complementary. Turning
them against each other like the extremists on both sides do nowadays is
destructive for everything that Europe represents. European identity and
culture and its democracy, open society and human rights are so connected
that they will fall together or triumph together. Let us make sure that
they triumph together for the sake of all of us."

https://www.aboujahjah.org/articles--columns/towards-a-new-deal-on-accepting-the-european-native-claim-while-upholding-liberal-democracy

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[P2P-F] New report about mutualizing urban commons, thanks for spreading if possible

[Michel Bauwens]

if possible, thanks for spreading this in your networks and social media!


fyi:

a new report on urban commons and public-commons cooperation protocols:

"So imagine this: faced with weakening nation-states that are unable to
solve planetary emergencies and their local effects, city-based commons
movements ally themselves to instantiate new global infrastructural
projects to mutualise provisioning systems; then imagine, the nation-state
follows their example by instituting commons-supporting initiatives that
align states with these cosmo-local flows. After a period of chaos
following the often ecologically self-destructive policy options of the
populist right, I imagine there will be a growing clamour for transnational
institutions to act as global solutions networks aimed at tackling the
growing planetary emergencies. It is to be noted, finally, that many
movements dealing with the climate, such as the climate strike movement, or
extinction rebellion, but also many reconstructive movements such as
transition towns or the permaculture movement, are now coordinated at the
global scale." (Bauwens)

https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Mutualizing_Urban_Provisioning_Systems?

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[P2P-F] Fwd: Ronin Public Seminar: Open Science, Culture Change, and You

[Michel Bauwens]

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From: Ronin Institute 
Date: Sat, Jan 9, 2021 at 6:12 AM
Subject: Ronin Public Seminar: Open Science, Culture Change, and You
To: Michel Bauwens 


Presented by Bruce Caron
Please join us for our Ronin Institute Public Seminars series, where we
feature presentations by our Research Scholars.
Register for the seminar
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*Open Science, Culture Change, and You*

Presented by:

Bruce Caron
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Ronin Institute Research Scholar
*Date*:  Jan 29, 2021
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Abstract
For open science to transform the academy, technology is not sufficient.
Culture changes in hundreds (thousands) of academy organizations will need
to be contemplated, discussed, argued, and implemented. But how do you, as
a working scientist, become an open science culture change agent? Where do
you start? What do you need to know? You already know that culture can work
against your interests, and against the interests of scientific work
(perverse incentives, etc.). How can you make culture work to nourish the
new, transparent, open, generous, abundant, and kind outcomes that are the
promise of open science.? Take a look at the Open Science Handbook
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It’s a reference work you can use to become an open science change agent in
your department, laboratory, college, learned society, or research agency.

The next step is to work together to build “play books” that capture the
actual culture change experiments from organizations around the globe.  I’m
looking for culture change agents who want to create collective
intelligence around the work of culture change for open science!

*Fun fact from Bruce: *
My database for this book has 3500 items with 24 million words.

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[P2P-F] Fwd: Work Organisation, Labour & Globalisation goes Open Access!

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We're happy to announce that the Journal has been flipped to Open Access on
JSTOR and is free to read for all.

*Work Organisation, Labour & Globalisation goes Open Access!*
In this this newsletter from Work Organisation, Labour & Globalisation,
we're happy to announce that the Journal has been flipped to Open Access on
JSTOR! This means you'll be able to read our upcoming articles for free and
access many of our back issues on JSTOR
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*Our move to Open Access*

The Journal's publisher, Pluto Journals
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successfully
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Open Access from 2021 onwards. The project “Pluto Open Journals” was
realised in partnership with Knowledge Unlatched
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Access. Pluto Journals has asked those libraries and institutions currently
subscribing to any of the journals to renew for 2021 on a S2O basis, thus
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This presents a great opportunity for the Journal and for
authors submitting their research, such as in our upcoming call for papers
here
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You can now read our back issues from 2008 onwards online for free and our
future issues will be Open Access. When we established the Journal in 2006,
we aimed for it to be international, interdisciplinary, accessible to
non-academics and to contribute to the development of a dialogue among
scholars and policy makers about the future of work. We hope that the move
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[P2P-F] Fwd:  "CAPITALISM AND THE COMMONS" by Adam Arvidsson

[Michel Bauwens]

strongly recommended!!

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[P2P-F] Fwd: [CommonGood] For those interested: The Brexit Deal

[Michel Bauwens]

-- Forwarded message -
From: Birgit Daiber 
Date: Wed, Dec 30, 2020 at 2:20 AM
Subject: [CommonGood] For those interested: The Brexit Deal
To: commong...@listi.jpberlin.de 


Dear Friends and Colleagues, Micheal Roberts gives a much better analysis
of the Brexit Deal than all the information I read up to now.
Please find his text below. Yours, Birgit

Birgit Daiber
CP 28 I-98055 Lipari (ME)
www.birgitdaiber.eu
+393664207762
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*From:* Michael Roberts Blog 
*Sent:* Tuesday, December 29, 2020 6:43 PM
*To:* bir@hotmail.com 
*Subject:* [New post] The Brexit deal

michael roberts posted: "The UK finally leaves the European Union on 31
December, after 48 years of membership.  The initial decision to leave,
made in the special referendum back in June 2016, has taken over four
tortuous years to implement.  So what does the deal mean for Briti"
Respond to this post by replying above this line
New post on *Michael Roberts Blog*

The
Brexit deal

by
michael roberts

[P2P-F] Fwd: [r3.0 Newsletter] RIP Steering Board Member Brendan LeBlanc / Multicapitalism White Paper Released

[Michel Bauwens]

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From: r3.0 
Date: Tue, Dec 22, 2020 at 7:58 PM
Subject: [r3.0 Newsletter] RIP Steering Board Member Brendan LeBlanc /
Multicapitalism White Paper Released
To: Michel Bauwens 


View this email in your browser
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*Dear Michel,   *

Just when we thought 2020 couldn't take anything more from us, we get news
that it has shuffled off the mortal coil of our beloved Steering Board
Member Brendan LeBlanc. Our sadness is compounded by the intense irony that
he passed away only a week before we now release our first White Paper, *From
Monocapitalism to Multicapitalism: 21st Century System Value Creation, *which
he played an instrumental role in seeding. We consider this White Paper a
gift to Brendan's memory, and a holiday gift to you, our community.

This season also invites reflections on the year past and the year to come,
so we bring you our latest Medium article, which reviews 2020 and previews
2021.

Since the last newsletter earlier this month, we kicked off the Thresholds
of Transformation Project to pilot test the UNRISD Sustainable Development
Performance Indicators, and we have a few final slots remaining for this
Project before the training in early January.

Our ecosystem of Partners have been very active in recent weeks, so this
newsletter documents r3.0-related activity by Academic Alliance Member
Delphine Gibassier and Advocation Partners Daniel Christian Wahl and Mark
McElroy.

Finally, we add one new Steering Board Member and one new Advocation
Partner. Now, the bullets:

   - *RIP Steering Board Member Brendan LeBlanc *
   - *Multicapitalism White Paper Released *
   - *r3.0 2020 Reveiw / 2021 Preview *
   - *UNRISD Thresholds of Transformation Pilot Project Kickoff *
   - *Partner News *
   - *New Steering Board Member & Advocation Partner*

We wish you all a relaxing, connective, and safe holiday season!

*The r3.0 Operations Team*
*Alexandra, Bill, Cleophea, Peter & Ralph*
RIP Steering Board Member Brendan LeBlanc
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As you can see from these pictures with Bill & Ralph, Brendan was a
consummate joker whose humor slyly invited us to laugh at our humanity --
both our shortcomings and our potential. Here's how we memorialized Brendan
in the dedication to the *Multicapitalism*White Paper:

*Dedicated to Brendan LeBlanc, who passed away unexpectedly just before
this White Paper was released. Brendan was a close friend and colleague who
we remember for his keen intelligence and wicked good sense of humor. As a
r3.0 Steering Board Member, he championed this White Paper in particular
(you wouldn’t have it in your hands now without Brendan’s tireless
advocacy) and the work of r3.0 more broadly — particularly our work on
Sustainability Context and the Carrying Capacities of the Capitals.
Brendan’s fingerprints are all over the famous Paragraph 58 in the
International Integrated Reporting Council’s Background Paper on Value
Creation
<https://r3-0.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=749af2e0ab2f54ee18b2482c5=e069973327=e9fc303c86>,
which integrates carrying capacity and thresholds & allocations
prominently, and we remember him for his most memorable quote: “The only
thing more dangerous than no progress is the illusion of progress.”
<https://r3-0.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=749af2e0ab2f54ee18b2482c5=b62c7f054b=e9fc303c86>
But
ultimately, we remember Brendan for the deep belly laughter he inspired
every time we were together. The world is a much better place for his
having been here.*
Multicapitalism White Paper Released
<https://r3-0.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=749af2e0ab2f54ee18b2482c5=e64837ab5c=e9fc303c86>

"It's been a long time coming," writes Bill in the Author's Foreword
(quoting David Crosby
<https://r3-0.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=749af2e0ab2f54ee18b2482c5=de7b8980b2=e9fc303c86>)
about this, our first White Paper: *From Monocapitalism to Multicapitalism:
21st Century System Value Creation*. More than three years, to be precise.
But we think it's worth the wait -- and hope you agree! The project started
as a partnership with the International Integrated Reporting Council; when
we delivered the final draft, they considered it an "important and
provocative paper."
*So provocative*, in fact, that IIRC recognized they would need to request
significant changes to be able to publish it under their name, and they
showed respect by refraining from asking us to dilute the message to
satisfy their more conservative base, and instead invited us to publish it
solo
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[P2P-F] Fwd: The Small, the Various, and the Personal

[Michel Bauwens]

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Date: Tue, Dec 22, 2020 at 11:27 PM
Subject: The Small, the Various, and the Personal
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*“When distance and convenience sets in; the small, the various and the
personal wither away.” ― Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American
Cities*


Dear Michel Bauwens,

2021 is sure to generate a contagious celebration of neighborhoods and of
the small, locally-owned businesses that shape those communities.

The events of 2020 have demonstrated how fragile yet vital these businesses
are. Their style, diversity, and idiosyncrasies create the unique character
of our respective Main Streets. Their storefronts and products reflect
regional tastes and aesthetics; they provide places to gather, share
information, and practice the art of citizenship. They offer our youth
their first jobs. They sponsor play groups, diversity training workshops,
children’s choruses, and food pantries – not tackling the big national
problems, but certainly making headway on the small, stubborn, local ones.
Shopkeepers and restauranteurs reinvented their operations and menus as the
virus spread, pivoting quickly to curbside pickup and outdoor dining to
continue serving their communities even during a pandemic.
*Jane Jacobs*
 Jane Jacobs, keen observer of city life and re-imaginer of economic
theory, saw in this very diversity the seeds for revitalization and growth.
She bemoaned the outcomes of conventional planning in which old buildings
are replaced with uniform high-rises that separate living spaces from the
animated traffic of commerce. She cheered the messiness and inconvenience
of towns that lead residents to cross streets and duck into shops, engaging
in unplanned meetings and conversations that act like petri dishes for new
enterprises and ideas.

Under the seeming disorder of the old city, wherever the old city is
working successfully, is a marvelous order for maintaining the safety of
the streets and the freedom of the city. It is a complex order. Its essence
is intricacy of sidewalk use, bringing with it a constant succession of
eyes. This order is all composed of movement and change, and although it is
life, not art, we may fancifully call it the art form of the city and liken
it to the dance — not to a simple-minded precision dance with everyone
kicking up at the same time, twirling in unison and bowing off en masse,
but to an intricate ballet in which the individual dancers and ensembles
all have distinctive parts which miraculously reinforce each other and
compose an orderly whole. The ballet of the good city sidewalk never
repeats itself from place to place, and in any once place is always replete
with new improvisations.
 ― Jane Jacobs, *The Death and Life of Great American Cities*
Local economies may not be the most efficient economies, but they are the
richest. They engage citizens not just as consumers, but rather as
multi-faceted human beings. The result is a daily life constructed not
around superfluous *stuff*, but connection to the people, stories, and
landscapes that make a community.
*Downtown Great Barrington, MA during a previous year's Holiday Stroll
hosted by the Southern Berkshire Chamber of Commerce.*
For forty years the Schumacher Center has innovated programs that encourage
citizen support for local businesses and local economies. Local currencies
<https://centerforneweconomics.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=69d509d113032e3126c4543ce=85ffdf8104=639a116680>
keep the wealth of a region circulating in the locality, identifying and
uplifting home-grown enterprises embedded in their communities and
strengthening local supply chains. Face-to-face transactions mediated by
paper currency bring users to town where they meet shopkeepers and
recognize the many ways their lives intertwine as parents, board members,
theater enthusiasts, hospital volunteers, trail hikers, and more.

Community land trusts
<https://centerforneweconomics.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=69d509d113032e3126c4543ce=5b07e339a3=639a116680>
(CLTs) provide low-cost access to manufacturing sites, retail space, and
productive farmland, as well as workforce housing. CLTs are catchers’ mitts
for donated land, putting it under permanent community control and offering
98-year leases for uses determined in collaboration with the donor, such as
designation as an apple orchard, food processing plant, or local bookstore.
CLTs give citizens a way to foster development while allowing new
enterprises to build equity in buildings and other improvements to the
land.

Community Supported Industry
<https://centerforneweconomics.

[P2P-F] Fwd: Empowered or Entasked? Distributed Organizing's Unfulfilled Potential

[Michel Bauwens]

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From: Micah L. Sifry from The Connector 
Date: Wed, Dec 23, 2020 at 12:56 AM
Subject: Empowered or Entasked? Distributed Organizing's Unfulfilled
Potential
To: 


Dems are getting good at distributed campaigning, but is that
enough? ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌
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Empowered or Entasked? Distributed Organizing's Unfulfilled Potential
Dems
are getting good at distributed campaigning, but is that enough?


Micah L. Sifry

Dec 22




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[P2P-F] Fwd: Call To Artists

[Michel Bauwens]

-- Forwarded message -
From: Liam Murphy 
Date: Mon, Dec 14, 2020 at 8:55 PM
Subject: Call To Artists
To: , Daniel Harris 


Hi,

The arts have been strongly affected by this year's developments and we are
reaching out to artists from all backgrounds, but particularly visual
artists, who might be interested in developing their digital practice a
little further...

Whether that means improving your archiving and inventories, working with
multiple platforms, handling online sales and accounting, using social
media, online marketing and communications or something else, we (Kendraio
and CultureBanked) would like to initially interview 10 artists about their
online habits and needs to see how we can work together.

Currently we have resources to work directly with users and have
opportunities for artists to develop useful and powerful tools according to
their own purposes.

There is no charge to the artist and all we require is a commitment of an
initial hour for the interview plus any further time spent working on
developing your own stuff!

I'd be really grateful if you would forward this email to any artists or
contacts you think might be interested and thanks for reading.

Please reply to: m...@culturebanked.org

Best wishes,

Liam Murphy

https://www.culturebanked.org/

( see also: https://www.kendra.io/ )


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[P2P-F] Fwd: ALL FOR ONE - Campaign conclusion and conference highlights

[Michel Bauwens]

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From: CECOP 
Date: Mon, Dec 14, 2020 at 9:40 PM
Subject: ALL FOR ONE - Campaign conclusion and conference highlights
To: 


Worker-owned cooperatives & non-standard work
*ALL FOR ONE*
Conference highlights
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*ALL FOR ONE - Conclusion of campaign and conference highlights*


Our campaign and conference may be over, but we are not done promoting
cooperative solutions for non-standard work challenges!

As you may know, CECOP released a report titled ALL FOR ONE

that shows the contributions made by worker-owned cooperatives to the
issues related to non-standard employment, such as precariousness, low
income, insufficient social security coverage and workers’ isolation.

Originally planned through a live conference, our promotion effort was
transformed into a pandemic-proof dissemination strategy: an online
campaign topped with an online conference.

*The campaign*

We had a month-long communication campaign on social media, in which we
conveyed the key political messages of the report through several visuals
containing quotes from CECOP members (#CECOPvoices), and a three-part
docuseries

.

The protagonists of our docuseries are Tommi Viitamies, from Lilith
Cooperative (Finland), Francesca Martinelli, researcher on platform coops,
from Fondazione Centro Studi Doc (Italy), and CECOP President Giuseppe
Guerini. If you haven't had the chance to watch it, we highly recommend it!

Would you like to see all of our visuals released during the campaign? We
made an album! Take a look at it here

.

*The conference*

Our flagship conference happened on December 3rd. We discussed strategies
undertaken by several worker-owned cooperative models and their reactions
to the challenges of non-standard work. We had some great active speakers,
and more than 100 participants from all over Europe.

It was surely an event to remember. Did you miss it? You can read all about
it here

.

That is all for now. We would like to thank all of our speakers, *Sara
Lafuente* (European Trade Union Institute),* Sarah de Heusch* (Smart
Belgium), *Noémie de Grenier* (Coopaname France), *Paloma Arroyo* (COCETA
Spain), *Anna Banczyk* (European Commission), *Giuseppe Guerini* (CECOP
President), and each and everyone of you for following our campaign and
participating in our conference.

Stay tuned, we look forward to seeing you in the new year.

Sincerely,

The CECOP team.
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[P2P-F] Fwd: IHR (London) economic history seminar (Fri 18 Dec) The power of the "commoners": informal patterns of Global Empire building in the First Global Age

[Michel Bauwens]

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> From: EH.net 
> Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2020 at 07:39
> Subject: IHR (London) economic history seminar (Fri 18 Dec) The power of
> the "commoners": informal patterns of Global Empire building in the First
> Global Age
>
>
>
> The sixth and final session of autumn term is this week Friday 18 December
> 1700 London time using the Zoom online platform.
>
> Topic: The power of the "commoners": informal patterns of Global Empire
> building in the First Global Age
>
> Speaker: Amélia Polónia (University of Porto)
> Amélia Polónia is a Professor at the Department of History, Political and
> International Studies of the Faculty of Arts of the University of Porto.
> She is currently the scientific coordinator of the Intersdisciplinary
> Research Centre Culture, Space and Memory (CITCEM - UP).
>
> Her scientific interests include social and economic networks in the Early
> Modern Age. Seaports history, migrations, transfers and flows between
> different continents and oceans, informal mechanisms of empire building,
> women as brokers and go-betweens in overseas empires and the environmental
> implications of European colonization are key-subjects of her current
> research.
>
> Summary:
> For a long time, European historiography has been associating empire
> building processes almost exclusively with state policies and institutions.
> Historical outcomes of the early modern empires tended to be focused
> predominantly on central power strategies and imperial rivalries,
> monopolies, warfare strategies and political disputes between European
> colonisers. This ended up by feeding a nationalist and Eurocentric analysis
> of empire building which cannot fully explain the rise of a Global Age in
> the Early Modern Period. It cannot explain the world-wide scale of
> communications, the building of multicultural societies, or even the global
> transfers between oceans and continents.
>
> This brings up a new set of research questions and hypotheses which many
> researchers in colonial studies are beginning to ask. Could it be that the
> sustainability of empires, in particular the Portuguese multicontinental
> overseas empire, are based on the commoners and their entrepreneurial
> initiatives as much as on central powers policies, military and commercial
> strategies? Could it be that European empires were also, and maybe even
> predominantly, sustained by cooperative patterns and agent-based networks?
> If this turned out to be true, historians would have to leave aside the
> strict focus on the structures, on the systems, on the State, and on the
> macro level. Rather, future research would have to concentrate its
> attention on individuals and their web of connections.
>
> Registration:
> This event is free to all to attend but booking is required. To register,
> sign up via the IHR webpage for this specific session,
>
>
> https://www.history.ac.uk/events/power-commoners-informal-patterns-global-empire-building-first-global-agethe-power-commoners
>
> and click on the "Book now" icon directly below the title of the talk. You
> will then be transferred to an IHR online registration form. When you have
> filled in a few details on the form and submitted it, you will quickly be
> emailed the relevant Zoom meeting ID and password. The event will run
> between 5pm and 7pm; the event's virtual waiting room will be open from
> 4:30pm on the day, with admittance at 5pm
>
>
>
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>
> Professor Extraordinary: *Centre for Research on Evaluation, Science and
> Technology*, Stellenbosch University, RSA.
> Node Head: Department of Science and Technology and National Research
> Foundation *Centre of Excellence in Scientometrics and Science,
> Technology and Innovation Policy*, RSA.
> Chief Director: *Institute for Economic Research on Innovation*, Tshwane
> University of Technology, RSA.
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>
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[P2P-F] Fwd:  "The commons-based international Food Treaty: a legal architecture to sustain the transition" by Jose Luis Vivero Pol

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[P2P-F] Fwd: [r3.0 Newsletter] UNRISD Sustainability Indicators Piloting Project Kicks Off

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To: Michel Bauwens 


And the Educational Transformation Blueprint Working Group is filling up in
preparation for kicking off.
View this email in your browser
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*Dear Michel,  *

We've made it to December, the 36th month of the longest year in history!
;-) We at r3.0 have been busy "making hay," as they say. As you'll see in
this newsletter, we're ending the year with a bang (and we've still got one
more major announcement pending, in our last newsletter of the year, coming
in a couple of weeks.)

The big news now is the kickoff of the UNRISD  / r3.0 Sustainable
Development Performance Indicators Piloting Project. With the Kickoff
Meeting mid-month and the Training early in the new year, now is the time
to claim one of the last remaining seats in this pioneering project!

Likewise, the time is now to join the *Educational Transformation Blueprint*
Working Group, which has grown to over 20 members.

Finally, we're reconstituting our Steering Board, and are glad to announce
two new additions, with more coming in future newsletters. We also have a
slew of new Advocation Partners joining our ever-expanding network!

The Bullets:

   - *UNRISD Indicators Pilot Project Kickoff *
   - *Last Call to Join Educational Transformation Blueprint Working Group *
   - *New r3.0 Steering Board Members*
   - *New Advocation Partners   *

Stay safe as you enjoy this holiday season!

*The r3.0 Operations Team*
*Alexandra, Bill, Cleophea, Peter & Ralph*
UNRISD Sustainability Indicators Piloting Kickoff
<https://r3-0.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=749af2e0ab2f54ee18b2482c5=902fdd8c7f=e9fc303c86>
<https://r3-0.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=749af2e0ab2f54ee18b2482c5=760407de88=e9fc303c86>

r3.0 is partnering with the United Nations Research Institute for Social
Development (UNRISD) to manage the project for piloting a new set of
Sustainable Development Performance Indicators (see here
<https://r3-0.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=749af2e0ab2f54ee18b2482c5=bee141ee8e=e9fc303c86>
for more information). The one-hour *Kickoff Meeting* is scheduled for
*December
16*, teeing up the *Training *for four 1/2 days on *January 7/8/13/14*.

The training cohort is 3/4 filled, with confirmations from 12 Social &
Solidarity Economy Organizations & Enterprises (SSEOEs -- including Cabot
Creamery Cooperative
<https://r3-0.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=749af2e0ab2f54ee18b2482c5=b14f3768eb=e9fc303c86>
 and Laboral Kutxa Cooperative Bank
<https://r3-0.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=749af2e0ab2f54ee18b2482c5=7b9861f7c7=e9fc303c86>
as
well as other Mondragon coops) and 6 For-Profit Enterprises (FPEs --
including GLS Bank
<https://r3-0.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=749af2e0ab2f54ee18b2482c5=90d9061f92=e9fc303c86>,
and SK Telecom
<https://r3-0.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=749af2e0ab2f54ee18b2482c5=8b5a9e6389=e9fc303c86>,
Weleda
<https://r3-0.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=749af2e0ab2f54ee18b2482c5=06112c5098=e9fc303c86>,
among others).

It's not too late to join! If you'd like to fill one of the last open
seats, *please reach out to Bill

and/or Ralph
. *

For background information on the project, see this *article
<https://r3-0.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=749af2e0ab2f54ee18b2482c5=2bc07d595c=e9fc303c86>*
and
the one-hour *video
<https://r3-0.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=749af2e0ab2f54ee18b2482c5=438659ad50=e9fc303c86>*
 and *presentation deck
<https://r3-0.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=749af2e0ab2f54ee18b2482c5=dd6a13a712=e9fc303c86>*
from
our informational webinar, as well as this *summary of the indicators
<https://r3-0.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=749af2e0ab2f54ee18b2482c5=3cba709457=e9fc303c86>*
.
Last Call to Join the Educational Transformation Blueprint Working Group
<https://r3-0.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=749af2e0ab2f54ee18b2482c5=7ca32fa8ff=e9fc303c86>

With over 20 members already, the *Educational Transformation Blueprint*
<https://r3-0.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=749af2e0ab2f54ee18b2482c5=1d47e0d2b3=e9fc303c86>
Working Group is filling up, so this is our last call for members.

To throw your name in the hat,* please reach out to Bill

and/or Ralph
*
with an expression of interest that includes your credentials and
experience.

For background on the project, see the Keynote
<https://r3-0.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=749af2e0ab2f54ee18b2482c5=34f08e071a=e9fc303c86>
by Lead Author Anneloes Smitsman from the r3.0 Conference, and the Breakout
Session
<https://r3-0.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=749af2e0ab2f54ee18b2

[P2P-F] Fwd: [bgcon] SILENT WORKS · Winter School · Projects · Online Now!

[Michel Bauwens]

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Hi,

undoubtedly the heart of the SILENT WORKS conference, five workshops
brought activists, researchers, and cultural workers from more than 20
countries together. To tackle the hidden labor in AI-capitalism, the
workshops took five different approaches: AAI; CAPTCHA Factory; Dull,
Dangerous + Dirty; Logistical Noir; and Invisible Organization.

Using Big Blue Button, an open source alternative to corporate ‘data
surveillance’ tools like Zoom, participants of the three-day online
workshops (November 12-14) were invited to come up with cooperative
projects. The workshop projects are now available as online resources
and include multimedia stories and utopian scenarios. Please check out
the projects by scrolling down.

*AAI*
The term Artificial Artificial Intelligence (AAI) is intended to shed
light on the fact that AI only appears to work autonomously. In reality,
human labor is required to create this magical appearance of
technological autonomy. For this purpose, millions of micro tasks are
distributed to workers via platforms such as Amazon Mechanical Turk.
Their flexible ‘daily work’ impels one to think about the future of
labor as such. Is a liberation from rigid structures under way, or are
new forms of instrumentalization and control emerging?

Felix Diefenhardt, Aslı Dinç, Gosia Jagiello, Holger Kral, Nelli
Kambouri, Katrin Kämpf, Aude Launay, Darija Medic, Shintaro Miyazaki,
Felix Nickel, Andreas Schneider, Catherine Sotirakou, Mira Wallis, and
Jutta Weber looked for answers to this question. The resulting workshop
projects are bundled under the title “The Hidden Human Labor Behind AI.”

https://projekte.berlinergazette.de/workshops/2020/11/14/aai-human-labor-behind-ai/

*CAPTCHA Factory*
It has become a daily routine that users of ‘free web services’ have to
identify themselves as human beings. You are tested as to whether you
are not a bot by being asked to identify hardly legible words (e.g.
“type the letters above”), blurred pictures (e.g. “select all squares
with traffic lights”) or faces (e.g. “identify these people”). Such a
“Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans
Apart” (CAPTCHA) silently enables the outsourcing of tasks that AI
cannot yet do (well enough).

Jose Miguel Calatayud, Géraldine Delacroix, Monisha Caroline Martins,
Julia Molin, Rebecca Puchta, Lira Ramadani, André Rebentisch, Sotiris
Sideris, and Cagri Taskin responded to this practically uncontested
regime of labor with a project entitled “I Swear, I am not a Robot!” and
– in French translation – entitled “Plaidoyer pour des captchas éthiques.”

https://projekte.berlinergazette.de/workshops/2020/11/15/captcha-past-present-and-future-s/
https://blogs.mediapart.fr/geraldine-delacroix/blog/181120/plaidoyer-pour-des-captchas-ethiques

*Dull, Dangerous + Dirty*
One hundred years ago, robots were supposed to take over jobs from
humans that were considered dull, dangerous, and dirty. However,
automation during the industrial revolution did not accomplish this
promise; until the present day, humans are doing “inhuman labor” –
either because machines require their assistance (even to the degree
that humans become an integral part of a machine’s mechanism) or because
humans are still cheaper and more efficient than costly and
maintenance-intensive machines. How will this situation look twenty
years from now?

Sana Ahmad, Desmond Alugnoa, Sabrina Apitz, Miriam Arentz, Susanne
Braun, Masha Burina, Kerstin Guhlemann, Friederike Habermann, hvale,
Kevin Rittberger, Martina Staneva, and Dzina Zhuk responded to this
question with a movie pitch, asking in return “What if Invisibilized
Workers Reclaimed the Future?”

https://projekte.berlinergazette.de/workshops/2020/11/14/what-if-invisibilized-workers-reclaimed-the-future/

*Logistical Noir*
AI-savvy companies are expanding their logistical networks into every
corner of the world. Increasingly, they rely on their employees to
become assistants of intelligent machines that keep immaterial and
material products, goods, and resources moving – like workers at Amazon
warehouses who are subjected to the instructions of self-learning
algorithms. In this context, possible futures of work are negotiated
through new forms of refusal to work (loosely based on the motto: I am
not a robot!). Which labor struggles bring light into logistical noir?

Jochen Becker, Niccolò Cuppini, Régine Debatty, Katharina Höne, Ela
Kagel, Tanja Krone, Jacopo Ottaviani, Oliver Lerone Schultz, Juliane
Rettschlag, Gabriele Schliwa, Nicolay Spesivtsev, and Mathana Stender
looked for answers to this question. One of the resulting workshop
projects is entitled “They Don’t Give You Tips Anymore.”

https://projekte.berlinergazette.de/workshops/2020/11/17/logistical-noir-they-dont-give-you-tips-anymore/

*Invisible Organization*

[P2P-F] Fwd: Christian Fuchs - new articles

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[PDF] Engels@ 200: Friedrich Engels in the Age of Digital Capitalism.
Introduction.

C Fuchs - tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique. Open …
This piece is the introduction to the special issue “Engels@ 200: Friedrich
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[P2P-F] Fwd: Futurized - 1 Dec 2020: The Future of AR, The Future of Peer-to-Peer, Startup mentoring in the UAE, Future Tech preview

[Michel Bauwens]

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Subject: Futurized - 1 Dec 2020: The Future of AR, The Future of
Peer-to-Peer, Startup mentoring in the UAE, Future Tech preview
To: Michel Bauwens 


[image: Futurized podcast - preparing you to deal with future disruption]
<https://yegiiinc.cmail19.com/t/d-l-chtiilk-jliiuhlhf-r/>
*Hi Michel. *

This week, Futurized tackles *The Future of AR, The Future of Peer-to-Peer,
and Startup mentoring in UAE*, in three intriguing interview episodes, plus
has a preview of *Future Tech*, Trond Undheim's upcoming book:

   - The Future of AR
   <https://yegiiinc.cmail19.com/t/d-l-chtiilk-jliiuhlhf-y/> with Ori
   Inbar, Founder of Superventures and also CEO and founder of
   AugmentedReality.org, the organizer of AWE, the world’s most essential
   AR/VR conference since 2010.

   - The Future of Peer-to-Peer
   <https://yegiiinc.cmail19.com/t/d-l-chtiilk-jliiuhlhf-j/> with Michel
   Bauwens, Founder of the P2P Foundation and co-author of Peer-to-Peer: The
   Commons Manifesto.

   - Startup Mentoring in UAE
   <https://yegiiinc.cmail19.com/t/d-l-chtiilk-jliiuhlhf-t/> with Wafa
   Omar, founder of BizWhisper, a startup which is specialized in creative
   problem solving for entrepreneurs in the MENA region through mentoring.

   - Future Tech - a preview
   <https://yegiiinc.cmail19.com/t/d-l-chtiilk-jliiuhlhf-i/>, a
   mini-episode where  futurist Trond Undheim briefly discusses his upcoming
   book Future Tech: How to capture value from disruptive industry trends
   <https://yegiiinc.cmail19.com/t/d-l-chtiilk-jliiuhlhf-d/>, to be
   published by Kogan Page in March 2021

As usual, please find imagery and brief summaries below.

If you like the show, subscribe to Futurized in Apple Podcasts, Spotify,
Google Podcasts, Amazon Music, iHeartRadio or Pandora, review it with a
sentence, and ideally give it a 5 star rating. Also, if you would give our
YouTube channel some love, that would be appreciated, since we'll be moving
aggressively into that format over the next three months.

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TROND JOINS GROWTH STARTUP TULIP AS LEAD ECOSYSTEM EVANGELIST

This week, I'm excited to share that I have joined one of the
leading startups of our time. Tulip empowers the frontline worker providing
a no-code platform everyone can use, improving efficiencies, sharing best
practices, reducing downtime, and increasing the consistency and safety of
manual processes.

My role is to work across the industrial ecosystem worldwide to *usher the
new era of the augmented worker*, matching societal needs during and
post-COVID-19. Together with the World Economic Forum, Tulip is fostering a
global network and learning community (MFG Works) for manufacturing leaders.

The vision is to, by the end of this decade, if not sooner, empower any
worker who has not yet received the full benefits of technology, and
especially restore the tremendous agility and humanity of frontline
workers, through *augmented reality-enhancing technologies* (e.g.
industrial IoT, automation, digital factory, robotics, sensors,
augmentation, industry 4.0, agile manufacturing, additive manufacturing, 3D
printing).

--

Have a great day!

Trond Arne Undheim, Ph.D.

Author of *Pandemic Aftermath* (2020), *Disruption Games (2020), Leadership
>From Below (2008) and Future Tech (2021, forthcoming). See Trond's books
<https://yegiiinc.cmail19.com/t/d-l-chtiilk-jliiuhlhf-h/>.*

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<https://yegiiinc.cmail19.com/t/d-l-chtiilk-jliiuhlhf-u/>

In Anniversary episode #54, The Future of AR
<https://yegiiinc.cmail19.com/t/d-l-chtiilk-jliiuhlhf-o/>, futurist Trond
Arne Undheim interviews Ori Inbar, Founder of Superventures and also CEO
and founder of AugmentedReality.org, the organizer of AWE, the world’s most
essential AR/VR conference since 2010, interviewed by futurist Trond Arne
Undheim.

In this conversation, they talk about community building in the no longer
so embryonic AR/VR space, the emergence of spatial computing, the Augmented
Reality Expo (AWE). They discuss AR/VR venture capital, exciting and
emerging use cases and form factors, market size, mobile AR, and COVID’s
impact on remote tech. They explore the world in 2030 and the threats that
the world is facing.

The takeaway is that augmented reality has come a long way and is no longer
a fringe technology, and the COVID-moment has made progress in the field a
global tech priority. As for VR, the community is growing but developing
true killer apps will take time. Maybe a good thing, because we are not
really ready for what is to come. Will we evolve into a virtual species?
Neither Ori nor Trond think so at this point. Ask them in thirty years,
though.
Listen to Episode #54
<https://yegiiinc.cmail19.com/t/d-l-chtiilk-jliiuhlhf-b/>
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[P2P-F] Fwd: Why the Fed Needs Public Banks

[Michel Bauwens]

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Hi, here is my latest article, posted on  *ScheerPost *–

Why the Fed Needs Public Banks


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Ellen
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[P2P-F] Fwd: Green Academy, Fair and Carbon Free Tourism, #GEJ20 and more.

[Michel Bauwens]

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Be the first to try out our upgraded e-learning platform - Green Academy.
View this email in your browser

DECEMBER 2020
Read through the newsletter to find out about our upcoming events in
December and other exciting opportunities at GEF!
Green Academy is live! *NEW E-LEARNING TOOL*

We're excited to announce the launch of the long-awaited update of our
e-learning website - Green Academy! The website was built with *curious
Europeans of all ages and backgrounds* in mind. We enable them to
develop *knowledge
& skills*, to build meaningful connections, and to *put theory into
practice*.

What's new? We've improved overall *user experience* - from the easy sign
up to learning without distractions. We've also enhanced the
*content interactivity* - making learning deeper and much more exciting. We
now offer access to completely *free, paid or closed courses* - to learn at
your own pace or as part of a broader education programme.

Be the first to take advantage of the improved e-learning experience.
Start learning now!

Fair and Carbon Free Tourism

This project seeks to identify and create conditions for collective action
against detrimental social and environmental impacts of tourism. These
impacts of tourism-induced economic activities are often underestimated,
and while social impacts are increasingly being considered in some tourist
hubs like Barcelona or Dubrovnik, environmental burdens in particular are
often not (yet) addressed. COVID-19 has devastated the tourism industry,
with many livelihoods at stake, but perhaps there is a window of
opportunity to rebuild better.

In December, we offer three webinars that strive to build a community
interested in transforming this sector and steering it towards low or
zero-carbon intensity, while keeping a specific focus on the social
dimension and lessons from the pandemic.
3 DEC 2020
Towards a Fair and Low Carbon Tourism Join us as we chart a course Towards
a Fair and Low Carbon Tourism, with a particular focus on tourism-dependent
Spain.

*Register*

7 DEC 2020
Transformative pathways for tourism Take part in our webinar to engage in
political and expert debate on how the tourism industry can be transformed
in the midst of pandemic and climate crisis!

*Register*

10 DEC 2020
Sun and Sand Tourism Decades of mass tourism have put the Mediterranean
coast under tremendous environmental pressure, yet the livelihoods of
millions depend on it. Join our webinar.

*Register*

Upcoming events
4 DEC 2020
Civil society in action At this conference, we will discuss cooperation and
activism, tackling pressing issues in Polish society from the European
Green Deal to the protection of civil rights.

*Register*

2 - 16 DEC 2020
In Search of a Green City Online Series Join us for a series of webinars
that will search for a Green City across Eastern Europe and the Balkans.

*Register*

11 DEC 2020
Evergreen: Restoring Europe’s Forests If forest losses continue to increase
many ecosystem services in forests threaten to falter. Join our discussion
on illegal logging and its place in our ecological crisis.

*Register*

11 DEC 2020
Greening COP26: Five years after Paris We're marking the 5th anniversary of
the Paris Agreement with this webinar, discussing what's next for the
movement. Join the talk with an inspiring panel!

*Register*

16 DEC 2020
Public Health and Green Recovery We invite Petra de Sutter, Belgian deputy
prime minister and minister for the civil service and public enterprises to
discuss COVID-19 and its impact on public health.

*Save the date*

*GREEN EUROPEAN JOURNAL* Life Under Shock: Understanding the Pandemic

*The new edition of the Green European Journal is out now!*

The health crisis and its tragic consequences have radically changed every
aspect of social life. The implications of Covid-19 go deep, worsening
social inequalities, speeding up disruptive 

[P2P-F] Fwd:  "Commons Transition Policy Proposals for a P2P Foundation" by Leila Corina Videla

[Michel Bauwens]

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[P2P-F] Fwd: Why Did Youtube Censor Us?

[Michel Bauwens]

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From: Douglas Lain from Critical Cuts from Zero Books <
douglasl...@substack.com>
Date: Sun, Nov 29, 2020 at 3:30 AM
Subject: Why Did Youtube Censor Us?
To: 


Politics After the Death of
Ideology ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌
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Why Did Youtube Censor Us?
Politics
After the Death of Ideology


Douglas Lain

Nov 28




On Tuesday the 26th I released a video that I eventually titled
“Christopher Lasch, Paul Sweezy, and the Great RESET” but it didn’t get
many clicks or views. I watched the dashboard of our youtube studio closely
as the video failed to perform and then, after an hour or so, as the video
was removed by youtube. It had, according to them, “violated community
standards on COVID.” That is, it was thought to have disputed the
recommendations of the World Health Organization, specifically related to
social distancing and social isolation. I appealed this action as the video
did not dispute those recommendations. To be clear it is my opinion that
masks are necessary. Lockdowns are often necessary. COVID is real and very
dangerous. It’s much worse than the flu. However, despite the fact that
anyone who watched the video and took in the argument being made within it
would see that the video was not a critique of the World Health
Organization nor an attempt to dispute their guidelines, our appeal of the
decision to remove the video was rejected.

For Zero Books as a youtube channel the takedown of our video and the
attached warning, if we violate community standards again our 

[P2P-F] Projects by P2P Foundation collaborator Rok Kranjc: Serious Gaming and beyond

[Michel Bauwens]

-- Forwarded message -
From: Rok Kranjc 
Date: Mon, Nov 23, 2020 at 7:12 PM
Subject: Re: limits
To: Michel Bauwens I only hoped to relay a few
projects I'm working on, very much aligned I believe with the spirit of
your work - art, design, alternative economies, ecology, participation,
games and co-design. Resources collated below signature. Happy to discuss
them some time, if interested :-)

Warm regards,
Rok

- *Game-Changers: The Game* a mixed digital and analogue generative board
game and platform (description after list)
- *Four Futures Festival + online Anticipedia* open-sourcing
co-generated futures scenarios and scenario fragments to be creatively
combined, and enacted as LARPs
- *A Day in the Life: Public Luxury in 2035
<https://drive.google.com/file/d/1OIU-qQFvKc6ORaW9QBGyd6N_gd59N7S-/view?usp=sharing>*
made
and used to facilitate an exchange between local climate activists and
George Monbiot, pdf worksheet attached
- *Shared Futures <https://sharedfutures.app/> app and toolkit
<https://sharedfutures.net/divistownsend/> *a work in progress,
collaboration with dr. Peter Bloom
- *Our Futures Game* <https://www.nesta.org.uk/feature/our-futures/> in
collaboration with the Global Swarm
<https://actionforesight.net/global-swarm/> and NESTA (recent Space Edition
here
<https://www.eventbrite.com/e/our-futures-a-game-about-participatory-futures-space-futures-edition-registration-121316158897>
)

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퐆퐚퐦퐞-퐂퐡퐚퐧퐠퐞퐫퐬: 퐓퐡퐞 퐆퐚퐦퐞
by RoK Kranjc
FREE OF CHARGE / No special knowledge or skills required, however for
PLAYERS critical thinking and knowledge about alternative economies will be
an advantage

Game-Changers: The Game is a project twining alternatives to capitalism,
theories of transformation, participatory futuring techniques and the
codesign of generative games – digital, real-world and hybrid – as sites,
platforms and protocols of and for transformative knowledge, design and
foresight commoning.

It is at once a story-telling board game and a game codesign springboard,
created to engage player-designers in conversations about the various
discourses underlying emerging »new economy« signifiers, such as sharing,
smart, circular and collaborative. To advance in and ultimately win the
game, two teams embodying seemingly diametrically opposite discursive poles
– e.g. Commonism vs. Capitalism / Degrowth vs. Green Growth – compete in
creating compelling social and sustainability transformation storylines in
order to secure primacy over playing fields, consisting of real-world
initiatives, proposals or ideas.

Players shape these storylines by combining Challenge and Intervention
cards (pre-made and impromptu-made) within distinct playing fields, while
JUDGES assess these stories for their “Plausibility” and “Inventiveness”.
The game operationalizes transition theories such as cooptation and Trojan
horses as mechanics, and includes Wildcards, i.e. chance “external” events
which may hold benefits for either team or in other ways alter the game’s
dynamics.

Participants in this workshop will get the chance to learn about new
directions in futures game design and try out Game-Changers: The Game,
developed over a dozen playtests around Europe at venues ranging from
conferences, summer schools to research institutes and activist meetings.
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[P2P-F] Fwd: New issue of Work Organisation, Labour & Globalisation & survey about the future of the Journal

[Michel Bauwens]

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From: Pluto Journals Ltd. 
Date: Mon, Nov 23, 2020 at 9:34 PM
Subject: New issue of Work Organisation, Labour & Globalisation & survey
about the future of the Journal
To: 


This latest newsletter from WOLG brings you details about a new issue of
the Journal and a survey to help shape its future in the Open Access era.

*New issue and a survey about the future of the journal in the Open Access
era!*
This latest newsletter from Work Organisation, Labour & Globalisation
brings you details about a new issue of the Journal. We are also looking
for feedback from our contributors and readers about the Journal to help
shape its future in the Open Access era, you can find details about this
below. This newsletter also includes new call for papers for our upcoming
special issue, a book promotion on Ursula Huws' new book with a discount
for WOLG newsletter subscribers and a reminder about our previous issue. We
are still accepting papers for our call for papers on our other special
issue on platform labour in the post-COVID city so you can find more
details below.

The latest issue of Work Organisation, Labour & Globalisation brings
together a collection of articles exploring the effects of work
digitalisation and platformisation. Plus articles about high-skilled
migrant workers and the ‘class ceiling’ faced by working class students
entering professions.
View latest issue on JSTOR


*Give your views about the future of the Journal*
When the Journal was established in 2006, we aimed for it to be
international, interdisciplinary, accessible to non-academics and to
contribute to the development of a dialogue among scholars and policy
makers about the future of work. It has developed a profile as a respected
and widely-cited resource on the restructuring of work and the changing
global division of labour and an international community has grown up
around it.

At a time when academic publishing is facing major new challenges, we are
now formulating plans to take the journal forward in a way that makes it
sustainable in the Open Access era, while staying faithful to our original
aims.

We are inviting you, as a member of our global community, to give us your
views about how the journal should evolve in the future and help us develop
initiatives that can open up new forms of dialogue among contributors and
readers.
Take the survey




*Call for Papers*
This special issue on *Researching Precarious, Virtual and Clandestine
Labour: Methodological and Ethical Challenges *focuses on the challenges
posed by researching non-standard work in the 21st century. We particularly
welcome contributions that look specifically at the methodological and
ethical challenges confronting researchers investigating labour in the
context of digitalisation and globalisation based on recent quantitative or
qualitative research, though this is not a requirement for submission. We
welcome articles from a range of different disciplinary perspectives
including (but not limited to) labour sociology, political economy,
economic geography, urban planning, policy analysis, philosophy, research
methods and gender studies. Articles may draw on the authors’ original
quantitative, qualitative or theoretical research but must demonstrate a
clear contribution to knowledge and go beyond mere literature reviews.
The deadline for submissions is March 28th, 2021 and articles should be
submitted to ursulah...@analyticapublications.co.uk
*For all requirements, see the full call for papers here.
*

*NEW BOOK OFFER: 35% off Reinventing the Welfare State: Digital Platforms
and Public Policies by Ursula Huws*
The welfare state is unfit for purpose – how can we transform it into a
force for equality and social justice? As the number of unemployed people
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in the history of capitalism, now is the time to think seriously about
rethinking and rebuilding the welfare state for a broken country.
In this book, leading analyst Ursula Huws proposes new and original policy
ideas, including critical discussions of Universal Basic Income and new
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welfare state' for the 21st century.
These fresh ideas breathe new life into an outdated system, and herald the
start of a new and 

[P2P-F] Fwd: Marxism-feminism, podcasts and events

[Michel Bauwens]

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From: transform! europe 
Date: Tue, Nov 24, 2020 at 5:22 PM
Subject: Marxism-feminism, podcasts and events
To: 


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Newsletter 24 November 2020



*Dear readers! *

On the occasion of next week‘s webinar *The Project of a Marxist Feminist
International* (*2 December, 10am, CET
*),
this newsletter focuses on *current feminist struggles and Marxism-feminism*.
It provides a key text by Frigga Haug (*Thirteen Theses of Marxism-Feminism*),
a commentary on the ongoing feminist protests in Poland, as well as
publications on different feminist issues.
With an analysis of neocolonial discourses in Portugal and the
petition *#Right2Cure:
No profit on pandemics*, the newsletter offers highly topical items
alongside its core theoretical focus.

We are happy to announce that – in cooperation with the Austrian left-wing
platform Mosaik – we have made our webinar series *The Left Reflects*
available also as a *podcast*.

transform! europe continues to provide webinars with left-wing thinkers,
activists, and leading personalities of parties of the European left
discussing crucial political issues – today, Tuesday, with an *interview
with the newly elected **Secretary of the Central Committee of
Syriza-Progressive Alliance *

*Dimitris Tzanakopoulos. Join the discussion on 24 November, 18:00 (CET)
.
*

We wish you stimulating reading!

Michael Hollogschwandtner, web editor, for *transform! europe*
Featured Article
Thirteen Theses of Marxism-Feminism

By Frigga Haug
This foundation for Marxist feminist thinking and action, formulated by
Frigga Haug, is the outcome of a collective process organised around the
Marx-Fem-Conferences.[1] With an introduction by Frigga Haug. [read more...
]

Blog
Commentary
Poland: Revolution in times of the pandemic

By Agata Czarnacka
While the protests are set to drown in a rising wave of the pandemic, we
are witnessing a profound mentality shift in Poland. [read more... ]

Analysis
The living ashes of Portuguese colonialism

By Miguel Cardina
Lisbon, November 2017: Portuguese Prime Minister António Costa speaks at
the 9th edition of the Web Summit, the world's largest tech event that,
every year, welcomes thousands of participants. At the opening session,
Costa recalled Fernão de Magalhães (Ferdinand Magellan), the Portuguese
explorer... [read more... ]

Petition
#Right2Cure: No profit on pandemics

Left-wing forces all over Europe demand free and universal access to a
Covid-19 vaccine and treatments for everyone. [read more... ]

transform! europe Podcasts

transform! europe's online interview series "The Left Reflects" with
Luciana Castellina, Alex Demirović, Nancy Fraser, Leo Panitch, Gayatri
Spivak, and Hilary Wainwright now available as podcast – in cooperation
with Austrian left-wing platform Mosaik. [read more... ]

Calendar
24 November 2020 – 24 November 2020
web interview
transform! europe Meeting the Left: Dimitris Tzanakopoulos

Join our web interview with Dimitris Tzanakopoulos, Secretary of the
Central Committee of SYRIZA-Progressive Alliance and MP of the Hellenic
Parliament. [read more... ]

27 November 2020 – 27 November 2020
transform! 

[P2P-F] Fwd: Sustainable Innovation Forum/Climate Action and Ethical Markets Media Partnership

[Michel Bauwens]

-- Forwarded message -
From: Hazel Henderson 
Date: Wed, Nov 18, 2020 at 3:04 AM
Subject: Sustainable Innovation Forum/Climate Action and Ethical Markets
Media Partnership
To: Larae Long 


*MAINTAINING MOMENTUM TO COP26 FOR THE NET-ZERO TRANSITION*

“Ethical Markets is proud to partner with Climate Action in this weeklong
Sustainable Innovation Forum.  All sessions will be recorded and available
on-demand.  Meanwhile send in your questions, as we have, particularly for
Day 5  on Friday on  Agriculture and Land.   We can all learn a lot from
these discussions!  Enjoy!

~Hazel Henderson, Editor “



1*6 – 20 November 2020  |  Live Online Daily | 2:30-5:30 PM CET / 1:30-4:30
PM GMT*

*COP26 has been delayed.  Environmental diplomacy put on hold.  We cannot
postpone the climate emergency.  Momentum on climate action must be
maintained.*

2020 was meant to usher in a decade of action in our fight against the
climate crisis. Governments and businesses were poised to raise their
ambition but instead have been fighting a difference crisis – the global
pandemic.

As economies begin to rebuild, sectors reopen and society returns the
decisions governments and businesses make today and the industries we
support will decide the future we create.

*EVENT OVERVIEW*

Over the past decade the Sustainable Innovation Forum has been used as a
platform by the United Nations, Heads of State, Government Ministers,
Climate Experts and Chief Executives, to communicate leadership, raise
ambition and forge stronger relationships between the public and private
sectors.

Climate Action has curated a thoroughly researched and validated programme
aligned to the key trends and challenges we face in our collective fight
against climate change. The programme is design to build momentum on
climate action ahead of COP26 in 2021.

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[P2P-F] Fwd: Redemption and Messianic Return

[Michel Bauwens]

-- Forwarded message -
From: Daniel Pinchbeck from Daniel Pinchbeck’s Newsletter <
danielpinchb...@substack.com>
Date: Fri, Nov 20, 2020 at 7:52 PM
Subject: Redemption and Messianic Return
To: 


Some musings on the mythological
future ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌
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Redemption and Messianic Return
Some
musings on the mythological future


Daniel Pinchbeck

Nov 20





Walter Benjamin was a German Jewish critic and philosopher who died while
fleeing from the Nazis in 1938. His subtle, numinous essays make him a
unique thinker of the 20th Century, impossible to categorize. He is one of
my intellectual heroes; I recall a few of his insights or aphorisms nearly
every day. In his writing, he left many puzzle pieces and crystalline
shards to help us reflect on the secret workings of our world.

Writing between World War One and Two, Benjamin foresaw humanity racing
toward yet another catastrophic catharsis. He noted that humans 

[P2P-F] Fwd: Regen Ag knowledge commons launched, collaborative logistics pilot project, Victorian producers - we need your produce!

[Michel Bauwens]

-- Forwarded message -
From: Open Food Network Australia 
Date: Fri, Nov 20, 2020 at 5:50 AM
Subject: Regen Ag knowledge commons launched, collaborative logistics pilot
project, Victorian producers - we need your produce!
To: 


Resources and activities to build a better food system.
View this email in your browser


Open Food Network exists to power fair and transparent supply networks that
reconnect communities and regenerate the earth.

Sometimes it's easier to see the work we're doing in just one part of this
system, but as you read through this month's newsletter we hope you get a
sense of the many ways we're reimagining food systems, supporting people
with the resources and guidance needed, and working hard to power new
possibilities.

Read on for the launch of Australia's first ever database of the evidence
supporting regenerative agriculture, new collaborative logistics projects,
and more.
*New regenerative agriculture resources*

*The solutions are at hand for agriculture to become a driving force in the
regeneration of landscapes, waterways and biodiversity, while sequestering
carbon and actively reversing climate change.*

There are many good reasons to support regenerative agriculture but the
most significant is as a response to the climate emergency. The food system
contributes up to 37% of TOTAL greenhouse emissions.

At Open Food Network we are actively working to support wide-scale uptake
of regenerative agriculture including the major land-use levers to mitigate
climate change.

Open Food Network also works on a key enabler of regenerative
agriculture: values-based supply networks. When farmers receive a fair
price for food, they have more opportunity to shift practices and undertake
regenerative methods.

*New resource launched!*
We have started creating a knowledge commons of resources that provide a
mix of research about regenerative agriculture and the systems that enable
it, stories from regenerative farmers, and more.

This includes the first open database drawing together peer-reviewed
evidence underpinning regenerative agriculture and its uptake.
Access resources

*Open Road: a collaborative logistics project in Victoria*

Open Food Network and a number of partners are currently scoping a pilot
project for a short supply chain logistics service for Victorian producers
called Open Road. We have some seed funding but the scope and location of
the pilot will depend on securing further funds and also on active
collaboration from regional hubs and producers in the Hume, Western/Central
and Gippsland regions of Victoria.

We are planning a webinar in each of these three regions in the coming
months. If you'd like to attend the webinar to learn more about this
project or to get involved as a producer, regional hub or partner, then
please contact Georgia Savage.
Email Georgia


Make sure that you register for our next webinar with Hepburn Shire,
looking at Collaborative Logistics: How to start working with other farmers
to reach customers.
Register here

*Open Food Network Connect*

We now have a dedicated brokering service that helps to connect producers
with supply and community food enterprises with demand!

*WE HAVE DEMAND!*
This month, we have a community food enterprise in Melbourne looking for
the following Victorian-grown produce to be delivered every day, Monday to
Friday:
Potatoes: 100 kgs
Onions: 100 kgs
Carrots: 100 kgs
Apples: 140kgs
Oranges: 160 kgs
Green vegetables (bock-you, choysum, spinach): 150 bunches
Tomatoes: 110 kg

If you're a Victorian producer who could supply one or more produce lines
please get in touch! Orders and delivery times are flexible and open to
discussion.
Contact us now! 
*Learning about food systems*

Listen to Open Food Network’s Kirsten Larsen and Serenity Hill
talk systemic change on the *Futuresteading Podcast*


*Nutrition Society of Australia webinar: Fair and Resilient Food Systems*.
Kirsten helped explore how Australia’s food systems have changed over time,
what we can learn from history, and how nutritionists and consumers can
support a fair and resilient food system.

Watch the recording of Hepburn Shire's *Farmers and Foodies together
webinar* hosted by Open Food Network's Jen Sheridan and Renata Cumming here

and view the slides here

[P2P-F] Fwd: Sanctuaries of Democracy: Building the Christian Left in 2021

[Michel Bauwens]

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From: Christian Socialism 
Date: Fri, Nov 20, 2020 at 6:13 AM
Subject: Sanctuaries of Democracy: Building the Christian Left in 2021
To: 


Now that Biden is president-elect, an organized Christian left is essential.
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*The Institute for Christian Socialism has just released a statement* on
American politics and the urgency of Christians building power with the
left. Now that Biden is president-elect, the need for an organized
Christian left is more urgent than ever.

Christians invested in protecting and deepening democracy cannot replace
the work of politics with moralizing denunciations or platitudes of
opposition and prophetic critique. We cannot settle for pleas to the
powerful to reconsider their attitudes when what is so desperately needed
is a mass movement to dispossess the powerful.

Additionally, we're announcing some exciting ICS initiatives for 2021 that
will provide concrete ways to help Christians and churches organize.


*Read our statement *

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[P2P-F] Fwd: Our Podcast: Why aren’t more people progressive? Part 2

[Michel Bauwens]

-- Forwarded message -
From: Rabbi Michael Lerner 
Date: Fri, Nov 20, 2020 at 6:15 AM
Subject: Our Podcast: Why aren’t more people progressive? Part 2
To: Michel Bauwens 


You can listen now to our podcast Imagine with
Us! ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌
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Imagine with Us Podcast - Episode 2

by Rabbi Michael Lerner and Cat Zavis
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Our second episode of our podcast Imagine with Us is out and yes, it’s
available on Apple podcasts now too! In addition to listening on Apple
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In this episode, Why aren’t more people progressive? Part 2, we step back
and look at the dynamics of human life in the past 10,000 years that
continue to shape how we understand our options for achieving security,
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[P2P-F] Fwd: I Hope It Helps

[Michel Bauwens]

-- Forwarded message -
From: Daniel Pinchbeck from Daniel Pinchbeck’s Newsletter <
danielpinchb...@substack.com>
Date: Wed, Nov 18, 2020 at 9:11 AM
Subject: I Hope It Helps
To: 


My new book tries to find the nuggets of truth in the conspiracy
madness ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌
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I Hope It Helps
My
new book tries to find the nuggets of truth in the conspiracy madness


Daniel Pinchbeck

Nov 18





I just published a short book, *Conspiranoia: The Betrayed States of
America
*.
*Conspiranoia* deep-dives into a range of conspiracy 

[P2P-F] Understanding the Successor Ideology, part 2, articles

[Michel Bauwens]

In order to learn a critical and self-reflexive approach in this subject,
you may look to critique and contextualization from various sources:

   - on the radical left, current critics have been the people working
   around Jacobin magazine (Ben Burgis, Bhaskar Sunkara); with people like
   webcaster Michael Brooks (identified as 'integral left'), and from the
   radical wing of the black African-American left, with researchers on class
   and race such as Adolphe and Toure Reed. Also radical philosophers and
   journalistic commentators such as Glenn Greenwald, Slavoj Zizek, Chomsky,
   and Matt Taibi belong to this broad camp, which was initiated with the
   Vampire Castle essay of Marc Fisher, listed below. (see also the Dyab Abou
   Jahah quote). There is also strong critique emanating from the radical
   feminist camp.


   - on the center left (in the U.S. often called the 'liberal left'),
   there are several groups active: 1) the group of Grievance scholars, i.e.
   Helen Pluckrose, James Lindsay and Peter Boghossian which focuses on the
   genealogy of the current identitiarian ideology (New Discourses; Aero
   magazine); 2) the group around Brett Weinstein, Heather Heying, and Eric
   Weinstein (Dark Horse Podcast, the Portal); 3) the group around Rebel
   Wisdom documentary network and journalist David Fuller.
   - Center-left African-American critique: James McWhorter, Coleman Hugues


Key Articles[edit

]Introductions[edit

]

As recommended by the site, Social Justice Evolution


   - "It will be helpful for visitors to this site to begin with the
   distinction between the Civil Rights movements of the 1950’s and 60’s,
   -which were inspired by the principles of universal liberalism- and
   contemporary Critical Social Justice (CSJ) movements, which draw upon a
   different set of principles including social constructivism and group
   identity. For a concise examination of these differences, we recommend the
   essay, “Identity Politics Does Not Continue the Work of the Civil Rights
   Movements
   

   ”.


   - "It will also be helpful to understand the distinction between the
   general principles of social justice -which most people rightly support-
   and the specific ideology that many are now calling Critical Social
   Justice. For a brief primer on this distinction, we recommend this short
   essay by Rohan Loveland called Universal Social Justice
   
:
   A Necessary Alternative to Critical Social Justice.


More detailed considerations[edit

]

   - How race and class are related
   
.
   By Stan Goff. *(recommended)*


   - A very good introduction of the issues raised, by Micha
Narberhaus: Critiquing
   the Dogmatic Versions of Group Identity Theory
   



   - A must-read and one of the first progressive call to arms: Mark
   Fisher's Vampires’ Castle
   


   - Social Justice Ideology Does Not Foster Egalitarianism
   
.
   By Michael Rectenwald [14]
   



   - Reflections on Intersectionality
   


   - An Open Letter of the Non-Identitarian Left to the Misunderstanding
   Right
   



   - The Myth of Class Reductionism
   . By
   Adolph Reed: "Centrist Democrats and left-identitarians are bound in shared
   embrace of a particularist, elite-driven politics .. This .. political
   vision, - at the expense of long-term, movement-driven, majoritarian
   strategies at all levels of government — threatens to preempt hopes of
   restoring the public-good model of governance that was at the heart of
   postwar prosperity and foundational to the civil rights movement." ; see
   also: The Argument against Race Reductionism
   

;
   By Adolph Reed; New Labor Forum 29(2):36-43 ; May 2020

Key Books[edit

[P2P-F] Fwd: [bgcon] SILENT WORKS · Winter School · Artworks · Online Access

[Michel Bauwens]

-- Forwarded message -
From: Krystian Woznicki 
Date: Thu, Nov 19, 2020 at 4:32 PM
Subject: [bgcon] SILENT WORKS · Winter School · Artworks · Online Access
To: 


Hi,

the Berliner Gazette Winter School SILENT WORKS is making a significant
portion of its on-site exhibition available online, including video and
audio works. More to come. The idea is to create a sustainable public
archive of resources dealing with hidden labor in AI-capitalism.

Emerging at a critical juncture as world society is experiencing one of
its most severe crisis in recent years, the artworks not only reflect
this moment, but also provide timely impulses for emerging struggles.
Remaining accessible for years to come, future viewers and listeners
will be able to look back when likely still struggling to come to terms
with what happened in 2020 when the Covid-19 pandemic caught us on the
wrong foot.

STORIES OF LABOR USUALLY INVISIBILIZED IN THE INFRASTRUCTURE OF
'ESSENTIAL SERVICES'

*Diego de la Vega Coffee Co-op* (Mexico/US)
"We are addressing the conflicting perspectives of workers, activists,
and communities regarding the case of the opening of Awesome in NYC.
Based on our group’s organizing of sustainable alternatives to
contemporary capitalism, we’ll connect our experiences with
systematically invisibilized labor struggles inside the Awesome empire."
https://vimeo.com/476295368

*eeefff* (Belarus/Russia)
"We hired random people from a post-Soviet headhunter platform whose
labor is usually rendered invisible; they work for the machinery of
micro-tasking, crowdsourcing, stress, A/B testing, and do all the work
that is hidden at the end. And we have created a fictional space for
them to talk and live through this alienated work."
https://vimeo.com/474958896

*Melanie Gilligan* (Canada)
"Gilligan’s work subverts and recodes the status quo that defines care
workers as part of the system’s infrastructure, and that – so long as
this infrastructure functions in a frictionless fashion – literally
invisibilizes these very workers. In contrast to that, the artist
presents care workers as an integral but neglected part of (social)
infrastructure, prompting viewers to think about how societies could
ensure that they remain visible, recognized, and valued for the
indispensable work they do."
https://vimeo.com/479369903

*Into the Black Box* (Italy)
"Following their objective of reconstructing the transformations that
Amazon is spearheading in the world of  work, Into the Black Box’s
visual cartography not only enables an elaborate critique of  the Amazon
model and its restructuring of  labor, but also offers a glimpse into
the potential for labor struggles yet to come."
https://berlinergazette.de/wp-content/uploads/Into-the-Amazon-Box.pdf

*Petero Kalulé* (Uganda/UK) and *AM Kanngieser* (Australia)
"With regard to concrete AI labor practices, Petero Kalulé (Uganda/UK)
and AM Kanngieser (Australia) tackle the teaching, training, and
supervising of AI and how they are circumscribed under an AI design and
ethics program. They look at examples of training, teaching, regulation,
and supervision, e.g., online platform content moderators and how their
knowledge as subjects of labor is programmed, classed, and unhumaned on
an ongoing basis as a part of a global capitalist imaginary."
https://soundcloud.com/berliner-gazette/ai-kanngieser-kalule

*Peng* (Germany)
"If Lieferando is somewhat representative of today’s AI-capitalism, then
Peng's action prompts us to think how we can act within, against, and
beyond this dehumanizing system of exploitation, extraction, and control."
https://vimeo.com/478833658

INTERVENTIONS INTO THE UNCONCIOUS AND UNWAGED 'LABOR OF LOOKING'

*Shinseungback Kimyonghun* (South Korea)
"Equipped with a facial recognition system enabling it to detect if a
face presents itself, the mirror questions our relationship to our face
as capital, and our looking as labor that AI technologies render into
value – or don’t."
https://vimeo.com/479338048

*Benjamin Heisenberg* (Swiss)
"In addressing the labor of looking in AI-capitalism, Heisenberg’s work
challenges the widespread assumption that man is no longer key to the
inner workings of the capitalist world, which is ostensibly run by the
high-tech version of Adam Smith’s “invisible hand.” Instead, his work
challenges the visitor to think how we as laborers can reposition
ourselves in the face of an invisible hand that needs us to develop its
power."
https://vimeo.com/479456176

MAKING AUDIBLE OTHERWISE SILENCED STRUGGLES AROUND 'RESEARCH LABOR'

*NoCyberValley* (Germany)
"NoCyberValley is a loose alliance of activists who has initiated
various forms of protest against the emergence of the Cyber Valley –
'Europe’s largest research consortium in the field of artificial
intelligence with partners from science and industry.' The visual
impressions from the protest against Cyber Valley in the diary "unmuted"
– exhibited at SILENT WORKS – are supplemented by an audio-loop 

[P2P-F] Fwd: NEWS (Announcements)

[Michel Bauwens]

-- Forwarded message -
From: Great Transition Network 
Date: Sat, Nov 14, 2020 at 5:26 AM
Subject: NEWS (Announcements)
To: Great Transition Network 


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

I hope you are all keeping well in these strange and troubling days. Who
would have thought that a tilt toward Conventional Worlds politics in the
US would become a cause of celebration, or at least relief? But we’ll take
it: the best path to a GT passes through Policy Reform.

Thanks to the 60+ of you who contributed to the September GTN discussion*
Universal Basic Income: Has the Time Come?* It was an astonishingly
animated, informative, and incisive exchange that left me, for one, with a
lot to mull over. We have now gathered a representative subset of the
comments into a GTI Forum geared to a general readership that is now live
on our homepage  . Please share it,
republish it, blog it.

Our December GTN discussion will examine the relationship of two big ideas:
the Anthropocene and the Great Transition. I will kick things off on soon
with a brief—and perhaps provocative—essay, entitled “Interrogating the
Anthropocene: Truth and Fallacy.”

Please post news on the GTN Bulletin Board
 (submit info to
jc...@tellus.org). The latest announcements include:
•A job opening in sustainability policy and planning at Tufts
•Recent articles, documentaries, and webinars
•New books by Julie Schor, Jennie Stephens, Maurie Cohen, Stephen
Purdey, and Joe Ravetz
•Publication of *The New Systems Reader: Alternatives to a Failed
Economy*, edited by Gus Speth, with contributions from a number of GTNers
(including yours truly).


Onward,
Paul
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Read all comments (or reply) here

Note: Expect a delay between posting and receiving your comment
Need help? Email jc...@tellus.org


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[P2P-F] Fwd: All Struggles Are Connected

[Michel Bauwens]

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Date: Wed, Nov 11, 2020 at 8:37 AM
Subject: All Struggles Are Connected
To: Michel Bauwens 


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*A 1524 European woodcut map of Tenochtitlán, island capital of the Aztec
Empire, situated on Lake Texcoco in the upland Valley of Mexico. Highly
stylized, it is thought to be based on an earlier indigenous map of the
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Dear Michel Bauwens,


In February of this year, the Schumacher Center hosted a two-day meeting of
representatives of foundations and organizations concerned about the
climate crisis. The gathering sought to probe the roots of the crisis and
in doing so, better access where to put our collective energies and
resources to create change. The title of the gathering was, “The Esoteric
Dimensions of Climate Change.”

We relied on transformational thinkers Arthur Zajonc
<https://centerforneweconomics.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=69d509d113032e3126c4543ce=26d371c670=639a116680>
and Otto Scharmer
<https://centerforneweconomics.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=69d509d113032e3126c4543ce=2f1b9d4cb5=639a116680>
to guide the discussion.

Among those attending was Mehul Sangham of Culture Hack Labs
<https://centerforneweconomics.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=69d509d113032e3126c4543ce=2bc39ad128=639a116680>.
He described a process in which Culture Hack intervened in a conflict
between those who wished to expand the Mexico City airport and advocates
for protecting the remaining wetland of Lake Texcoco, the ancient lake
drained over the course of centuries to make room for development of the
ever-sprawling city. It was a classic conflict between environmentalists
and populist developers seeking much-needed jobs for a growing population.

Both sides were right in their own ways. Culture Hack’s approach was to
listen deeply to the language of each side and to abstract the emergent
narrative. Then, with the data in hand, they sought to uncover a
transformative narrative that could move the discussion beyond the
intractable conflict.

In the end they introduced the phrase, *Yo prefiero el lago,* (I prefer the
lake). People on both sides of the issue recalled family outings by the
lake– fond memories connected to people they loved, their youth, and their
community. It did not involve rhetoric about the destruction of nature. It
was not a catalogue of the number of jobs gained or increases in municipal
revenue. It was a new narrative that reframed the debate.

When the airport expansion referendum came forward for a vote, the lake won.

During the gathering at the Schumacher Center’s Library, Mehul and Martin
Kirk proposed applying Cultural Hack’s methods to a transformative
narrative for the climate crisis. Their inquiry soon expanded to include
analysis of the Black Lives Matter movement and the COVID-19 pandemic. They
asked: what is it at this point in Earth’s history and human history that
brings together these multiple crises – social, environmental, economic,
and health? What is the new emerging narrative that can help us transform
these crises and collectively transition to a healing path forward?

We are pleased to report that Culture Hack Labs will host a series of free
webinars to share its findings with the hope of building a critical
community of practitioners engaged in dialogue through these times.

Webinar One:* The Structural Causes of the Transition*
Date:* Tuesday, 24 November 9 - 10:30 am PST / 12 - 1:30 pm EST*

In this introductory webinar, our team outlines the Humanist foundations
that have engendered the current moment of crisis. Specifically, we show
how the story of progress has become the principle orienting narrative over
the last 200 years, resulting in the rampant destruction of human and
non-human life. Finally, we explore the ‘Posthuman’ as a useful framework
for our own evolution.

Register in advance for this webinar:
Register: The Structural Causes of the Transition
<https://centerforneweconomics.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=69d509d113032e3126c4543ce=f7d038e426=639a116680>
Webinar Two: *Two Narratives of Transition: An analysis of COVID-19 & BLM*
Date: *Tuesday, 1 December **9 - 10:30 am PST / 12 - 1:30 pm EST*

Culture Hack collected 30 million tweets, over 150 thousand articles, and a
survey of 1,600 people as a means to understand the emergent narratives of
COVID-19 and BLM during 

[P2P-F] Fwd: The Digital Justice Conversations @ IGF 2020!

[Michel Bauwens]

-- Forwarded message -
From: IT for Change 
Date: Tue, Oct 27, 2020 at 6:38 PM
Subject: The Digital Justice Conversations @ IGF 2020!
To: 


*The Just Net Coalition and IT for Change invite you to the launch of the
Digital New Deal compendium and more!*

*@ the UN Internet Governance Forum (IGF), 2020*


*November 3, 2020 *

*09:20 AM - 12:20 PM UTC / 02:50 PM - 05:50 PM IST*
*06:20 AM - 09:20 AM ART / 05:20 PM - 08:20 PM CST*

Join the Just Net Coalition and IT for Change at our IGF pre-event, The
Digital Justice Conversations
,
on November 3 at 9:20 AM UTC (2:50 PM IST). At this year’s virtual IGF, we
are excited to host a 3-part session that brings together a series of
interactive and interesting dialogues on digital justice.

*Part 1: A panel discussion on*
*‘Global Networking for Digital Justice in the New Age’*

9:20 AM - 10:30 AM (UTC) / 02:50 PM – 4:00 PM (IST)

The digital is on the political agenda today, but how can the global civil
society make social and economic rights *vis-à-vis* the digital a critical
part of this agenda? Attend our opening panel, which kicks off with these
questions and offers directions for the evolving strategy of the Just Net
Coalition.

*Speakers:* Neth Daño, Deborah James, Nandini Chami and Sofía Scarssera

*Session Moderator:* Parminder Jeet Singh

*Part 2: The launch of*
*‘A Digital New Deal: Visions of Justice in a Post-Covid World’*

10:30 AM - 11:20 AM (UTC) / 04:00 PM – 04:50 PM (IST)

Join us for the launch of one of our most ambitious intellectual
undertakings ever — A Digital New Deal: Visions of Justice in a Post-Covid
World. This compendium of essays and interviews from leading global
scholars, activists and practitioners takes stock of the digital realm, and
constructs alternatives to current frameworks, pathways and institutional
arrangements. Hear from visionaries and advocates, engaged in the fight for
a fairer world, about their visions of a future where digital technology is
democratically governed and committed to justice.

*Speakers: *Amba Kak, Amber Sinha, Anita Gurumurthy, Anasuya Sengupta,
Christina Colclough, Emiliano Trere, Francois Soulard, Gianlucca lazzolino,
Jun-e Tan, Kate Lappin, Mariana Valente, Neth Daño, Pu Yan, Richard Hill,
Richard Kozul-Wright, Roberto Bissio, Yoke-Ling Chee and more.

*Visit our IGF event page for a detailed list of contributors and their
topics
*

*Part 3: Reflections by Prof. Saskia Sassen*
Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology, Columbia University
*followed by an open interaction*

11:20 AM - 12:20 PM (UTC) / 04:50 PM – 05:50 PM (IST)

*How to attend:*

If you have *registered for IGF, go to this link

and click on “Add this session to my Schedule”* to get your unique Zoom
link for the session.

If you have *not registered for IGF, visit the IGF YouTube page
*
where the session will be streamed live.
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[P2P-F] Fwd: Food System Innovator’s Handbook released, stories of resilience and collaboration from Open Food Network

[Michel Bauwens]

-- Forwarded message -
From: Open Food Network Australia 
Date: Thu, Oct 22, 2020 at 3:03 PM
Subject: Food System Innovator’s Handbook released, stories of resilience
and collaboration from Open Food Network
To: 


Recognition for our work in sustainable food systems, news from our annual
global gathering, Circular School Food Network and Open Food Connect news
Resilient food systems, Global Gathering 2020, team member introductions
and farewells, software updates and more!
View this email in your browser


Greetings to our growing community of farmers, makers, researchers,
software developers, volunteers and eaters of good body and soul
feeding food! Together we have been busy growing the resilient and
connected food systems our communities need. Grab an apple and munch on
what we've been up to.
*Resilient food systems*


Are you hoping to or already leading initiatives to grow, share, sell and
consume more sustainable foods in your local context? The Food and
Agriculture Organization of the United Nations wrote this handbook
for “sustainable food systems innovators” like you.

Sustainable food systems are fundamental to ensuring that future
generations are food secure and eat healthy diets.

To transition towards sustainability, many food system activities must be
reconstructed. Creating change requires innovation and complex skill sets.

Open Food Network is highlighted as one of the tools making sustainable
food systems possible. Check out what else is available here

!
We're excited and honoured to have been recognised for our contribution to
community resilience this year, as a finalist for the Department of
Environment, Land, Water and Planning Community Resilience Award
,
in the Victorian Regional Achievement and Community Awards. You can also
vote for us in the People's Choice Awards

!

But of course anything we do is so grounded in the community we work with.
And we are in awe of the many food enterprises in our community whose
resilience in the face of 2020 is inspiring. So thank you, to all those in
our community who model every day what resilience looks like.
*Open Food Network Global news*

Open Food Network is a truly global project. We've continued to grow this
year, and there are now Open Food Network local instances in 20 countries,
with more in development.

While we're in constant conversation with our global community, we also get
together in-person each year to work through strategic decisions and tricky
problems that are easier to sort out with lots of talking and planning.
This year, no travel meant that we were able to reimagine our global
gathering to be bigger, better, and more inclusive than ever!

It was an amazing opportunity to spend significant time with the richly
diverse community that makes up our global network.

We heard from one of Open Food Network Brasil's leaders, Thomaz, a food
systems academic based in Belo Horizonte. He shared that the previously
famed food policies in their region have been largely eroded under the
current government, and reminded us all to make as much progress in food
systems when a window of opportunity presents itself - as it currently is
with COVID-19.

Rafat, in Open Food Network Jordan, talked about challenges for farmers and
his vision of global trade enabled by Open Food Network. Davie, from Open
Food Network Ireland, helped us understand more about holacratic
governance. Hector and Hernan, who lead Open Food Network Colombia, shared
their wealth of experience in co-operatives, and explained the unique
challenges facing farmers in their region.

We will be releasing videos from the gathering soon, and we hope you'll
draw the same inspiration and solace from the fact that all over the world,
people are working collaboratively to build a new food system with open
source global commons at its core.
*New team members!*


Meet our new team members, David and Sue :)

David Cook is our new software developer. He grew up in regional Victoria
before moving to Melbourne for university. He volunteered with Open Food
Network in 2013 and we are excited to have him back with us helping build
platforms to facilitate more local, independent food distribution.

Susan Earl, our new UX designer hails from New Zealand and has worked as a
UX designer for 

[P2P-F] Fwd: [CommonGood] Fw: [aepf] Please register for Permanent Peoples Tribunal October 23rd to 25th

[Michel Bauwens]

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From: Birgit Daiber 
Date: Wed, Oct 21, 2020 at 3:27 PM
Subject: [CommonGood] Fw: [aepf] Please register for Permanent Peoples
Tribunal October 23rd to 25th
To: transform-commons...@googlegroups.com <
transform-commons...@googlegroups.com>, commong...@listi.jpberlin.de <
commong...@listi.jpberlin.de>


Dear friends and colleagues, please find below the information of the
important PPT in Berlin. Yours, Birgit

Birgit Daiber
CP 28 I-98055 Lipari (ME)
www.birgitdaiber.eu
+393664207762
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behalf of Chenoy Anuradha 
*Sent:* Wednesday, October 21, 2020 10:04 AM
*To:* AEPF e-group ; chenoy ;
Bishnu Singh 
*Subject:* [aepf] Please register for Permanent Peoples Tribunal October
23rd to 25th


Dear Colleagues in the AEPF Dem/HR and Migration Cluster,

Finally, despite the twists and turns of COVID-19, the Permanent Peoples
Tribunal (PPT) Hearing will be organised in Berlin from October 23-25th -
only 25 people are allowed in-person at any given time...but there is
expectation for a broad online participation. Below the Invitation and the
links for registration - this is urgent and necessary for the access to
interpretation - the main language will be English and interpretation in
Spanish, French and German.

The coms outreach is being co-ordinated with Anu -  Paloma Chen from the
Transnational Migrant Platform-Europe (TMP-E) will be focussing on that.

I will also catch up later with the updated Event Proposal in the context
of the activities - Europe and Asia that we anticipate in the Cluster's
Campaign on the Architecture of Authoritarianism. This PPT Session is
planned as an important moment to gain an overveiw of the current context
for migrant and refugee peoples in Europe and the struggles of resistence
and solidarity.

So counting on your participation and spreading the word!

Warm greetings!

Brid

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*INVITATION TO PERMANENT PEOPLES TRIBUANL (PPT) – HEARING BERLIN *

“As Co-Convenors of the 45th session of the Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal, we
are aware of the challenges raised by the strategies of resistance and the
alternatives that migrant and refugee peoples are building, despite their
exclusion in “no-rights zones”. We will continue working on the demands
formulated during the PPT hearing process and strengthening our alliances
to converge towards a new era of transnational action and solidarity”.



This serves as an *INVITATION *to participate in the Permanent People’s
Tribunal (PPT) Berlin Hearing – which takes place on *Friday October
23-Sunday, October 25.* The PPT Jurors will hear testimonies and Reports
from organisations and experts from different countries in Europe –
Germany, Britain, Greece, Italy, Netherlands and Spain - chronicling the
conditions of racist exclusion on the ground, the root causes of forced
displacement (failed extractivist economies, climate change, war), and the
global restructuring of labour under globalization. The PPT Hearing will
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[P2P-F] Fwd:  "Resources Wastes Enough is Enough Ideas for a Sustainable Economy in a World of Finite Resources The Report of the Steady State Economy Conference" by Robert Sweetman

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You read the paper Socio-technical configurations for green growth
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Resources Wastes Enough is Enough Ideas for a Sustainable Economy in a
World of Finite Resources The Report of the Steady State Economy Conference

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