To distribute somethings while keeping others central?
This is a speech of Blockchain CEO from July 2015. Obvious from the speech that theirs and some other companies will be the ones hosting the meta-data of all transactions (and transactions related to possible versions of applications, like energy grid, smart contracts, ID verifications) since it is very expensive to do so. However what makes distributed data storage meaningful is all long gone if anyone can not have free access to that data, whenever they want to! As smart as it is, blockchain's openness seems like a marketing trick. Since it is too expansive to store and host such massive amount of data it will due to some cost to access the truth. Now that IBM and others have started to promote this as a good start for Internet of Things, and having a very suspicious emerging history one wonders who and what is behind this technology; and can blockchain be a part and parcel of an ongoing class war. What is Facebook's and Google's take on blockchain and bitcoin will be is another question; since it appears that the position blockchain is gaining is a more strategic (backbone of fully commercial internet) one in comparison to the data gathered by these guys, blockchain can in near future would have the network power to subordinate these giants to itself. What is funny about bitcoin promotion argument though is it is based on Austrian economists' ideology; complaining about the role of state in control of money and corruptness that brought: as if it was not the Wall Street one emerged from very same ideologies that defended private or liberalized financial and monetary policies and 'autonomous polity' from the state?! http://youtu.be/3ehQY6M4X5M # distributed via : no commercial use without permission #is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org # @nettime_bot tweets mail w/ sender unless #ANON is in Subject:
Re: nettime living the end nettimes
Does this mean we enter into a new era, new beginning for, or end of the net-times... is it to be, or not to be, or to stack in the middle of being and can't being? # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org
nettime Free Libre Open Access working class self-learning
https://gnunion.wordpress.com/gnuniversity/ First semester courses are set for the launch on May First 2015! Join the team, self-organise activity, offer courses, support our projects, spread the word! Global Networked Labour University is a Free Libre and Open Source Remote Education System, designed for empowerment of workers, independent labour unionists, community members and organisers via study-circles, self-training, exchange and strategy sessions. Besides, we have been preparing high qulaity licence, masters, and doctorate level free access programs which will be delivered by dedicated and experienced trainers, using Floss platforms like Big Blue Button, Meet.Jitsi, Talky as well as others. The system will include self-organised face to face sessions by and for workers, hackers, designers, artists, peers producers, and commoners. Join our team, organise p2p and worker to worker trainings, conferences, debates, exchange and strategy meetings, to share your knowledge with workers and others. If you are union or community organiser, trainer, or having teaching and pedagogical experience combined with practical or theoretlcal expertise knowledge on any topic, from physics to coding and design, that you can deliver give it a remote-course format and deliver it online please do not hesitate to get in touch with us! If you wish to support GNUnion and our free, libre and open access projects developed by and for precarious or unemployed working people, please do so by using the information here: [2]https://gnunion.wordpress.com/p2psolidarityfunding/ Below programs are currently in progress, being designed and adopted, and they are scheduled to be kicked off as May First 2015. MODULE I: Social media, online networking for organisers, shop stewards and union activists * Introduction * Stronger ties with online networking * Tools for cybermeetings and webinars * Bottom up publishing sharing * Translation and interpretation * Participation/Openness/Security * An Example [3]Download de PDF versie in het Nederlands [4]Türkçe çervirisini PDF olarak indiriniz [5]Download the PDF version in Spanish [6]Download the PDF version in English Wiki: [7]Online collaborative version of the self-training material Presentation I: [8]A Social Media Approach for International Solidarity Presentation II: [9]Social media and online networking guide for shop steewards and union activists Schedule: in progress, plan is to start online courses on May 1st, 2015 Module II (Project in progress): Floss Cirriculum on P2P, Commons and Global Political Economy Program - Licence and Master's Level degree course material for workers Call for Contributors: We are inviting peer producers and commoners alike to join us to peer produce a commons knowledge resource that will include text books, articles, audio, video and other sorts of digital material that will help us to address and broaden the needed dialogue between critical social theories on p2p, commons and global political economy on the other, and the political and cultural praxis towards emancipatory commons transitions that will allow humanity to go beyond the vision promised by capitalisms, while avoiding the worse like fascisms and wars to dominate the planet and destroy more lives. Believeing that it became by now cyristal clear that the humanity is passing through yet another world historical passage of which one side is dark and fearful: Deepening systemic crises, serious threats of regional and global wars, normalisation of extreme right and religious fundamentalisms, as well as natural and human disasters, all caused by the current mode of production. Yet the other side is bright and hopeful: Where the emergence of the new become clear in the realities and practices of the p2p and the commons, which by now proven themselves as not only concepts but also practices that they are bearing `the seeds of the new' potential forms to constitute, what Marx referred as the `associated mode of production' -more then one and a half century ago; while they also promise possibility for creation of what Kropotkin and Buchkin thought as `communal mutual aid society' -in the previous century, yet to be created and consolidated collectively by painful efforts and struggle. Therefore encouraging all those who are interested and can contribute in this special collaborative project through which we want to develop structured and systematic pool of pedagogical material as base for free access self- and floss- high level remote emancipatory education activities orgniased by anyone who wishes. In order to make an entry please register to the P2P-Foundation's wiki page and make sure that your entries comes under the relevant section,
nettime Fwd: The First FairCoop Bulletin | FairCoop
Begin forwarded message: From: Orsan [1]orsan1...@gmail.com Date: 2 Jan 2015 19:42:52 GMT+1 To: [2]networkedlab...@lists.contrast.org [3]networkedlab...@lists.contrast.org Subject: The First FairCoop Bulletin | FairCoop [4]https://fair.coop/the-first-fair-coop-bulletin/ 'The First FairCoop Bulletin Hello friends! This is the first FairCoop Bulletin; we plan on sending these out on a semi-regular, (non-spammy) basis to let you know what's going on in the global Fair.coop movement. The wealth of any movement is its members so please if you have any doubts, questions, suggestions or downright inspirations, please don't hesitate to get in touch and get involved. 1. Participate in defining how FairCoop is going to make decisions! Ok first of all, as you probably know, the decision-making structure of Fair.coop is based around councils, like the branches of a tree, and the `trunk' of this tree is the provisional Ecosystemic Council, which is now beginning to do its work, and as one of its main tasks has developed a draft of the methodological process for making decisions at FairCoop ecosystem level. Right now the draft [5]has been published here. Please have a read - there are two weeks for the document to be discussed and improved in our own social network, the Fairnetwork. These are the complete deadlines that are scheduled: * Draft: 06-18 November * internal discussion on the council: 19-26 November * open discussion on the network: 27 -17 December * draft update with network: 18-21 December * Voting: (to confirm between finals of December and beginnings of January) 2. Internal economics updates FairCoop has received a donation of 12600 euros from [6]lush.com, an international Fair Trade company dedicated to fresh hand made cosmetics, that is involved in helping activists and good causes, like permaculture and animal rights around the world. Our ongoing conversation with Lush continues to make broader collaborations in the near future possible. At the same time that we are able to share this information we have published the incomes and spends of the first three months of FairCoop activity. You can get the info and make comments in this link: [7]https://fair.to/SLgom 3. A new network front page has been released. From here it will be easy for you to browse the different resources of the FairNetwork. [8]https://fair.coop/fairnetwork/ 4. A new local nodes guide has been published, if you are interested in setting up a local node, check out this document! - [9]https://fair.coop/docs/how-to-create-local-nodes 5. The translation to diverse languages continues! German and Romanian, are already translated and we are working for add they in the site. More help is needed for those languages that are in the works, like, Portuguese, Italian, Norwegian, Dutch... Check how to contribute to translations here: [10]https://fair.coop/docs/how-to-cooperate-with-translations/ Also we want to remind you that if you don't feel totally confident writing in English you can write in your own language. To make it easy for everyone to follow the discussions, we would like to suggest using these two forums for multilingual writings: - For asking questions: [11]https://fair.coop/groups/faircoop-community/ask-us-anything/forum/ - For sharing ideas, proposals, thoughts, etc...: FairCoop Community - [12]https://fair.coop/groups/faircoop-community/forum/ 6. Call for the Global South Council. The process for receiving the biographies of the candidates who want to become members of the first (provisional) Global South Council is open. If you are interested in becoming part of the council, please send your bio to any of the Ecosystemic Council members ([13]https://fair.coop/ecosystemic-council/). If you aren't yet in contact with any of us, please contact us at coop at fair.coop References 1. mailto:orsan1...@gmail.com 2. mailto:networkedlab...@lists.contrast.org 3. mailto:networkedlab...@lists.contrast.org 4. https://fair.coop/the-first-fair-coop-bulletin/ 5. https://fair.coop/docs/first-draft-methodological-document-for-the-ecosystemic-decition-process/ 6. http://lush.com/ 7. https://fair.to/SLgom 8. https://fair.coop/fairnetwork/ 9. https://fair.coop/docs/how-to-create-local-nodes 10. https://fair.coop/docs/how-to-cooperate-with-translations/ 11. https://fair.coop/groups/faircoop-community/ask-us-anything/forum/ 12. https://fair.coop/groups/faircoop-community/forum/ 13. https://fair.coop/ecosystemic-council/ # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive:
Re: nettime The World Development Report 2015: Programming the Poor
This 1981 seminal acticle by Robert Cox, in my opinion, provides a good back ground and perspective when looking at transnational-networked capitalist power structures known as global governance, and reading thick reports coming out of the complex web of WB, IMF, UN, OECD, WTO,.. besides the WEF, Trilateral Commission (as well as non-reports or conspiracy on Bilderberg meetings): Social Forces, States and World Orders: Beyond International Relations Theory: [1] http://ic.ucsc.edu/~rlipsch/Pol272/Cox.pdf. This is a classic text opening and flourishing a line of inquiry can be named as introduction to historical materialist critic of global political economy. Hence it is more then worthy for theoretical, ideational, algorithmic and political practitioners who try to understand possibilities and aim for global and transnational radical societal change. Orsan On 23 Dec 2014, at 01:37, Orsan orsan1...@gmail.com wrote: by Paul Cammack (https://www.academia.edu/9868547/The_World_Development_Report_2015_Programming_the_Poor) The World Bank has discovered that people are programmable, and some (poor people) are more programmable than others. So the 2015 World Development Report (Mind, Society and Behavior) has ditched the `rational actor' model on which neo-classical economics was built, as an impediment to the purpos... ... # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org
Re: nettime paying users for their data
What if Facebook users, or users In general get their personal data licensed say under GNU/GPL, and create conflict with user contracts, and take the issue to collective level with the help of wider alliances, by collectivizing users' individual cases, viral campaigning and strike like creative direct action, aiming to push vectoral class towards open/public collective bargaining, or to leave people free. Orsan # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org
Re: nettime [Networkedlabour] tensions within the bay area elites
Thanks for the reply Michel, meanwhile I found a relevant post at p2pf blog that gives a good overview, which allows me to see your point: http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/a-progressive-interpretation-of-transhumanist-politics/2009/02/13 I would suggest others to read it. the author suggests that reactionary transhumanism gained a wider reach then one would expect, while the progressive version had difficulty to articulate itself. It is very informative indeed. Thinking of passing it Justine Tunney of Occupy Solidarity Network with Micah White, who seems to be under the heavy influence of neoreactionary transhumanism as Kevin pointed out. Ideas are strong and seems like making a negative impact on some social forces and can be manipulative on a larger scale then we could guess, especially after the far right entry to the European Parliament, to give this debate wider public visibility is of an high importance I believe. Orsan On 27 May 2014, at 23:18, Michel Bauwens mic...@p2pfoundation.net wrote: dear Orsan, the documentary is actually from 1996-97 but has really stood the test of time , thanks for referring to it. But one thing we should remember: transhumanism is truly a perverted religion, it may animate ... # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org
Re: nettime [Squares] Hang Out around Networked Democracy (Friday)
Dear comrades, activists and those in their networks. For tomorrow we will try to do something new (as far as i know). There will be an experimental Spanish-English simultaneous interpretation, which will be provided by comrades on a Mumble room. Mumble is an Open Source Voip, audio chat, software, needs to be downloaded and installed on your device beforehand here: http://www.mumble.com/mumble-download.php?OKEY=google_mum-download_mumble or from an app-store The interpretation will be in this location on Mumble: Location: Occupytalk.org server Room: Assemblies Round Tables - go to OPEN SPACE How to join Mumble: http://www.global-square.net/how-to-join/ It would work best if participants use two devices if possible - any smartphone/pc/mac/pad combination. To explain it simple terms it works like this: Participants who need interpretation would need two apparatus, these can be two computers or one computer one telephone so on. So all who needs translation shall run mumble and Google hangout at the same time. On one device follow the hangout meeting, and on the other listen simultaneous interpretation on mumble, If all download and install mumble beforehand and log in Mumble room 15 minutes before we could help out to fix their systems and get ready for the meeting. I hope we have thought everything and it would work. Don't forget it is an experimental thing, if it do not work perfect or fails we don't need to worry or get frustrated, we will learn for the next time. In case we develop this it will be very useful for the future meetings and assemblies. In solidarity! Orsan On 12 June 2013 16:51, Bernardo Guti?rrez bernardobra...@gmail.com wrote: Hello you all I am preparing an international session around Networked Democracy and #GlobalRevolution, on friday, 19.00 (GMT+1). It will be in the Spanish glocal platform ThinkCommons.org. Occupations, squares, public space... are quite important points in the Hang Out. We need someone from Istambul. As the language of thinkcommons is Spanish, it would be fantastic if you find any person Spanish speakers. It can be portuguese. If not, no problem, as we have Serkan participating in English I personally will be in Porto Alegre, in the Digital Office of the Governent, probably the most advanced networked democracy in the world. Dom?nico di Siena will be in Madia Lab Prado, Madri. We will have in the Hang Out, guest from 15M, Occupy, #YoSoy132 (M?xico), hackers, activists... Here you have the hang out. We will project the hang out in Madri and Porto Alegre, in order to create hybrid communities (digital+analogic). There will be streaming, a link to watch the glocal-hybrid meeting. It would we fantastic to have someone from Istambul, to explain what is happening. https://plus.google.com/u/0/events/c1mohmvi3rsv7i08g3goha5tu90 Orsan is suggesting to do a translation to a Mumble room, to English. I think it is a great idea! We also need anyone from New York / Occupy, better in Spanish Any other people wanting to participate? Best Bernardo -- www.futuramedia.net www.codigo-abierto.cc www.bernardogutierrez.es http://blogs.20minutos.es/codigo-abierto @bernardosampa (twitter) S?o Paulo +55 11 43044380 (fijo) +55 11 84881620 (celular) Madrid +34 669 098365 ___ n-1 working group: https://n-1.cc/pg/groups/104127/take-the-square-international/ Squares mailing list squa...@lists.takethesquare.net for unsubscribe/etc: https://lists.takethesquare.net/mailman/listinfo/squares or squares-ow...@lists.takethesquare.net # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org
Re: nettime dark days
The darker the day gets, the closer the dust is.. the window for meaningful change is not closing in my opinion. The opposite, it is widening. Many networks getting in touch with each other directly, more than ever. Where ever an uprising we get this gets extended: Greeks with Turks, Kurds and Arabs, Italians and Spaniards are linked to Americans, British, Canadians, and Mexicans.. hackers, artists, whistle blowers, researchers, and activists fighting on the streets are being linked and communicating and working together. Sort of 'mass mutual recognition' and 'free and open rEvolutionary' subjectivity is being built step by step.. True that it goes together with the rising sort of global fascism, racism, sexism and oppression. However contradiction is in the nature of things, as well as synthesis and harmony. I think it is a real net-time, with a great cause. On 12 June 2013 10:13, Felix Stalder fe...@openflows.com wrote: There are dark days, these days. We have the privilege of observing different levels of repression working at the same time, ranging from ... # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org
nettime Fwd: [2011movements-fsm discussion] Police began attacking Taksim
Police begun attacks on Taksim Square early this morning! News feed: http://turkishspring.nadir.org/ live stream by an activist: https://www.ustream.tv/platform/pro#itm_source=ADAPTVitm_medium=HOUSE_ADS_OVERLAYitm_campaign=PRO_BROADCASTING Live Russian TV: http://rt.com/on-air/istanbul-protest-tear-gas/ Halk TV: http://www.halkhaber.tv/ ... and this is a video of Capul City General Assembly, organised on 6th.. with subtitles: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQ1UKAyVqZI photos from uprising: http://occupygezipics.tumblr.com/ a new alternative media tool that covers OccupyGezi: https://www.rebelmouse.com/OccupyGezi/ in solidarity, Orsan -- Forwarded message -- From: david-gabr...@no-log.org Date: 11 June 2013 08:22 Subject: [2011movements-fsm discussion] Police began attacking Taksim To: 2011movements-fsm-wsf-discuss...@lists.openfsm.net Police began attacking with tear gas and water canons. The square is covered with tear gas. Infos from : http://turkishspring.nadir.org/index_eng.html Streaming live http://www.halkhaber.tv/ http://russian.rt.com/article/10491 -- Archive: http://openfsm.net/projects/2011movements-fsm-wsf/lists/2011movements-fsm-wsf-discussion/archive/2013/06/1370932204645 To unsubscribe send an email with subject unsubscribe to 2011movements-fsm-wsf-discuss...@lists.openfsm.net. Please contact 2011movements-fsm-wsf-discussion-mana...@lists.openfsm.net for questions. # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org
nettime an update: today has been the turning point.. route might be revolutionary if we make it
Turkey, 11.06.2013 largest uprising ever in Turkish (including Ottoman) history, Erdogan Government, Erdogan himself, all his puppet ministers, governors, heads of security, the entire state trow lies at public, wide open, publicly... Entire media produce manipulation and lies... They have built an ambush to millions of people, most of them out on the streets this evening, tonight fighting back, furious about what was happeningNumbers are growing.. yesterday there were more than a million people inTaksim Sqaure. Now more figthin back on the streets in almost all the cities. Mainstream media is busy with manuplating and speculating only about Taksim and Gezi Park.. [Taksim Solidarity press release about today: http://taksimdayanisma.org/11-haziran-2013-basin-aciklamasi?lang=en] The state and mainstream media telling lies is probably the case all the time but it was never so naked visible to at least to the eyes of the half of society, 20 million adult...After today, it can not go back to normal, it can never be the same, business as usual... [a note from activists on the ground shared on facebook: Dear friends all over the world, Please share! The government in collaboration with the police and the media staged a theatre play (with terrible actors) at Taksim square early this morning. After announcing that there will be no attacks on the people at Gezi park and Taksim, hundreds of policemen came to collect the banners, at the same time chocking people with tear gas. The media, who has ignored the protests so far was there from the beginning broadcasting (from extremely good shooting points) a play between hundreds of cops and about 30 protesters (still a mystery who they were) who were throwing Molotov cocktails to the police at the square. This act went on for more than an hour. The police, who is capable of breaking up thousand of people (without provocation )within minutes with tear gas and water cannons, only circled around them, gently spraying a little water. In the mean time, on the back streets and around Gezi park, where the media was not broadcasting, the attacks were as usual brutal. The protests until this morning have been peaceful and it is not clear whether these people were extremists from some political groups or some others(??). What is clear is that they do not reflect the spirit of this uprising. Couple of hours ago, police attacked the biggest court house in Istanbul and arrested around 70 lawyers, who were only protesting against the morning attacks, probably as a response to their help with protecting the rights of the people arrested and injured during last weeks protests. In response to today's events, people of Istanbul are going back to Taksim square this evening at 19:00 possibly with larger numbers than the protests on May 31. Please share this information. The Turkish media has failed miserably and it is very important that the world knows what is really going on in Turkey. (please copy/paste rather than sharing)] If today turns into a civil war, all the liars; the media, the state and the capital and their international counterparts that backs the liars will be counted as the responsible... (a good list of some live streamers: http://www.bestanuce1.com/tv/?kanal=tv4) Please spread the word, show your solidarity, join in the streets, squares, assemblies in your country, use online channels, twitter, facebook, what ever... contribute in anyway you can to build and links our revolt globally.it might be the turning point to start an offensive to build the new worlds we have been dreaming about... This might be be a turning point not only for Turkey, but also for Europe, for US, for Asia, for Syria, the Middle East, the greater Middle East, (even for Antarctica).. Everywhere is Gezi, everywhere is resistance! # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org
Re: nettime update Turkey
Yesterday was the largest paticipation since the beginning. Tayyip delivered several speeches in meetings all gathered at various airports during his arrivals and departures in Ankara and Adana. he was very agressive again threathening masses. Police in several cities attacked people with gasses and water cannons,,, Capulcus are very angry... Today is going massive and getting bigger toweards the evening. Seems like Police got the message.. Today a video released showing the killing of a protesting worker by a police, he is being shut by the police from 2 meters, see the video below. this happened In Ankara Declaration Taksim Solidarity (yesterday): http://snuproject.wordpress.com/2013/06/10/taksim-solidarity-press-release-june-8/ Protestor killed in cold blood by Turkish police today - Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5psGJDU2xQfeature=youtu.be Erdogan and the ‘looters’: what’s behind the protests in Turkey: http://www.redpepper.org.uk/erdogan-and-the-looters-whats-behind-the-protests-in-turkey/ What future for the Turkish uprising? | ROAR Magazine http://snuproject.wordpress.com/2013/06/10/what-future-for-the-turkish-uprising-roar-magazine/ ... # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org
nettime Fwd: [WSF-Discuss] a brief update about #OccupyGezi and Capulcu (Looters') Uprising in Turkey
the below was a response in WSF discussion list, copying here with the hope that it could serve as an update on what is happening in Turkey. Apologies for cross posting. Solidairty, Orsan -- Forwarded message -- From: Orsan Senalp orsan1...@gmail.com Date: 10 June 2013 01:40 Subject: Re: [WSF-Discuss] a brief update about #OccupyGezi and Capulcu (Looters') Uprising in Turkey To: Discussion list about the WSF worldsocialforum-disc...@openspaceforum.net Thanks Jai, Piran, Tord and Jan for your emails. Let me reply with another brief update and a correction. The correction is about the general strike. On the 5th of June, when I wrote, it was the 2. Day of the general strike and at the same time it was a religious day (kandil), I wasn???t aware of the kandil, there are several kandils and I don???t remember which one was that one but it was the real reason why the squares started to day quite while there were two general strike put forward by DISK and KESK, two progressive labour confederations. In the last update, I didn???t explain where the term ???Capulcu??? came from and what does it mean? Which would also a good point to enter to the question of the configuration of the masses on the streets and squares, flags, ideologies, alliances we observe so on. The term ???Capulcu??? comes from the prime minister; so-called Hitler Tayyip Erdogan (pity that the subtitles are Turkish but you should see this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUMXAL_5MiA ). Capulcu means looters, marauders, or pillagers. Tayyip used to term to address those people protesting at Gezi Park and therefore protecting the looting of it, the last green space remaining in central Istanbul. He also called them ???two alcoholics??? (Ayyas). Before the police gassed moderate and peaceful environmental or ???right to the city??? activists staying in the Park for several days already -at dust time around 5am in the morning, while in their tents- such aggressive discourse was paving the way to aggression. In response to the way police obeyed the orders, many of us on the facebook and twitter changed our account names and added Capulcu or Ayyas, or both of these, like ???Capulcu Ayyas Orsan?? Recently there were another incident; a similar reaction came from moderate nationalists or Kemalists in reaction to the governments??? move of removal of the ???TC??? phrase (means Turkish Republic) from the official names related to laws and public institutions etc. So this latter Capulcu/Ayyas action was masses a both mas mimicking -to the previous action- but also Tayyip???s agression / antinomy. Actually he was ???the mother of all the looters???, as one activist put it online. Since 2004 rivers, forest areas, public enterprises, education, health,???. He looted everything that was belong to the ???public???, was looted, privatised (http://www.invest.gov.tr/en-US/investmentguide/Pages/10Reasons.aspx) . Anyway, since then ???Capulcu??? has become an overarching meme, an identity for many. As far as I can see, now all the involved parties, from left, to Kurdish or Turkish left nationalists, socialists, anarchists, environmentalist, feminist, right to city activists, unionists, but most importantly those first time activists and non-organisational masses agree on that: We are all Gezi, we are all Capulcu! The fact that since more than 100 years, various groups which were defining each other as enemy could come and fight together, is a brilliant thing. After a long time fight, Ocalan???s arrest was in 1998, in the Kurdish Question, there has been reached to a point where AKP has to launch a ???peace process???, which would make a democratic solution possible. About which Kurdish movement have serious doubts. Now because of the peace process, BDP (Peace and Democracy Party ??? of Kurdish movement) and the Kurdistan region, tough supporting the protests, seeing it legitimate struggle, they do not actively take streets and clash with the state. One important bridge maker has been Sitki Surreya Onder (https://www.facebook.com/sirri.sureyya.1), an independently elected BDP parliamenter, with positive and encompassing opposition to AKP. He stood with those who fight against the HESs (Hydroelectric dams), large Dams, gold mines, forestry massacre so on. Many of those platforms that were formed in last 10 years to organise the rural struggles (https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=494816007255262set=a.155695707833962.38362.155679444502255type=1theater), has links to the key actors and groups that are taking part in the Taksim Solidarity Platform. Sureyya Onder went there to Gezi Park at the first day to stop the demolishing of the Park, and involved in the fight on the ground. Doing so he played a crucial role, independent from the BDP, in linking the left struggle against neoliberalism to the democracy and peace struggle of the Kurdish movement. At the end while BDP and its slogans, emblems, wasn???t there officially Onder???s
nettime Capulcular United / Capulcular Birlesiyor: 8-9 June - Call for Global Solidarity with #OccupyGezi // 8-9 Haziran'da #OccupyGezi ile Dayanışma Çağrısı... invite all, join all! We are all Gezi
Capulcular Birlesiyor: 8-9 Haziran #OccupyGezi ile Kuresel Dayanisma / Tum arkadaslarinizi davet edin, yayin, herkesi arkadaslarini davet etmeye cagirin! acil Capulcular komen samen! 8-9 Juni #OccupyGezi Global Solidarity / Uitnodig alle jullie vrienden! Capulcular United: spread the word, invite your friends! urgent: 8-9 June - Call for Global Solidarity with #OccupyGezi // 8-9 Haziran'da #OccupyGezi ile Dayanışma Çağrısı https://www.facebook.com/events/113758915501912/?fref=ts # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org
nettime Chapuling in the Streets: John Holloway greets #OccupyGezi resistance with solidarity!
Chapuling in the Streets Taksim Tahrir Sintagma Puerta del Sol Plaza de Mayo Zuccotti Square St. Paul?s. Everywhere around the world we are dancing in the streets. Dancing with rage, dancing with joy, dancing gravediggers on the graves of our masters. We are all Turks, all Greeks, all Cypriots. And now we are all chapuling, chapuling as we sing out loud our refusal to accept any more, our refusal to watch them destroy parks to make way for shopping malls, our refusal to accept their obscene injustices, refusal to sit by and let them destroy the planet, refusal to let them take our world from us, refusal to accept their stupid arrogance. So dance Istanbul, dance Ankara, dance Izmir, and the world dances with you. Cairo, Athens, Istanbul, Madrid, New York, London, Buenos Aires, Frankfurt, Cochabamba, Stockholm, and more and more and more and more and more. John Holloway, Puebla, 6 June 2013 Posted: http://snuproject.wordpress.com/2013/06/07/chapuling-in-the-streets-john-holloway-greets-occupygezi-resistance-with-solidarity/ # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org
nettime Quick update from #DirenTurkiye #OccupyGezi
Sultan I. Erdogan insists on the projects for Taksim, get things personal like his processors Ben Ali. Mubarak, El-Assad, en AbdelHamid and with his aggression, over-rules the moderate approach shown by Gul (President) and Arinc (Deputy Prime Minister) in his absence (BTW these two are Gulen's men). Tayyip Sultan being rejected in Tunis and Morocco, protested and critiqued returns to the town with anger. Police attacks with gasses and water cannons in Ankara just before his arrive, at workers striking in solidarity with protesters... in reaction in Ankara tens of thousands people gathers marching all over right at the moment revolting in peace, to welcome the Tayyip Sultan. In Istanbul, Taksim also many tens of thousands are gathering to give a warm welcome to the Sultan The I. Ottoman Empire came out of a small Beylik near Byzantium, The Beylik spread to Anatolia and Balkans, from there to Middle East, and North Africa... this took 700 years New Ottomans under the rule of Tayyip Sultan the Little, now meets with a very new Beylik, a nomad entity, that was founded near Taksim in a small but symbolic park... in one day she spread to entire Istanbul and took over Atolia by the second day. When the third day started it already spread to Balkans and Europe, and even got linked to Latin and North Americas and Asia.. During the the rise of Capulcular, New Ottoman's media was showing a documentary about the penguins of Antarctica... . Things are likely to evolve in the direction that the momentum shall rise for Capulcular Movement. Capulcular might be able to synthesis Arab Spring, Greek revolt, and the 15M and Occupy style resurgence, And they could be a bridge opening the revolution, or spreading the revolt to the inner Asia, Russia, Iran, India, Bangladesh and, who knows may be. hopefully, to China! Where ordinary working people are being slaughtered in their workplaces! Will all the Capulcular of the world Unite? # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org
Re: nettime #occupyGezi
dear Felix, this is Orsan, based in the Netherlands but I have been following Turkey closely since I moved here in 2004. At that time I was working for the DISK, progressive union confederation. I was also working for a PM at the parliament as an adviser. Erdogan government kicked off its full fledged neoliberal offensive towards social and labour rights and nature, but also at the same time towards the 'state class' (traditional secular elite in turkey fusion of large capital groups and military, bureaucratic cadre) just before I left. After that, I have been intensely following and writing about the country, AKP rule within the global political economy context. So I know the organısed elements on the ground, context and have also been followıng the OccupyGezı uprising from the beginning. So I could try to briefly inform you and others: As you know the 'unrest' sparked from the Gezi Park which is located net to the Taksim Square. Where big clashes took place last month between police and the people ıt was about the May 1 mobilisation. The meetings organised by Gezi Parkı resistance platform which is mainly resisting the commodification of the City and public spaces..They started to gather at the Park on the 28 and 29. The engagement with police on the 30st and the brutal attacks came from police on the 31st however sparked the massive nation wide uprising against the government. Social media has been used by actıvısts and cıtızens exactly like it was used in Tunis, Egypt, Spain, 15O and US, Peaceful protest meeting met with brutal oppression by police, pictures and info coming out on that second generated anger and it spread with light speed. There were reports from uprising and clashes at around 70 cities ın 3rd day of the protests, Millions of people went out to the streets, parks and squares, most of the time peacefully in almost each case polıce attacked severely by using strong gasses and chemicals. There were speculations of course but feelings anger and message spread very fast. The main stream Media, almost 30 privately owned TV channels as well as many radio stations didn't put anything on air about what was happening on the street and central squares across the country ın many large cities including largest ones: Istanbul, Ankara, Izmir, Adana, Eskisehir. Since 2 days ago this was the case and,almost 5 days long total black out was adding more people to the revolt. The aggressive and macho reaction of the head of the government towards masses and media's total silence, only grew the anger and participation. Many non party, non organised people followed the events via social media, live streaming, twitter, facebook and went out to the streets. Same as in other cases like Wall Street occupation but here participation went massive in very short time, without mainstream media coverage. Being under attack and huge protests (https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embeddedv=HrXD4UVyDow) now media is apologising now and started to show some moderate and very limited most of the time manipulated news from the ground. The uprising and message went beyond the Park in the first day, democracy become the central issue, people everywhere calls Erdogan to resign, solidarity actions and groups spread across the world, it is feeding in other countries as it happened before with the precious uprisings. At the moment protests and gatherings continue and no one knows where is this headed, the momentum is lower today thogh in comparison to yesterday on the twıtter and Facebook, but also on the streets for the moment. İt might be after the apologies came from deputy prime minister but also president Gul's softer approach. The day before and yesterday we had also general strıkes by two large confederatıons, taking place. So today started as a working day It might get ınore intense towards the evening again. There were also arrests related to tweets sent, and other issues are coming up like the deregulatıon of the status of the national Parks so they could open them to markets. Brıef background for the Turkish context: AKP was very successful in braking the rule of traditional elite structure and capturing the State during its first 2 terms. As one of the AKP ministers said internal and external conditions were overlapping, in favour of AKP. Like the post 9/11 US policy, crisis in the EU, rising of the BRICS etc. By massive privatisations, reforms/deregulation in health, education, social security as well as labour market they could attract massive foreign investments; large portion of the oil profits from the Gulf flew in some says even in cash carried by large planes. Massive infrastructure and City Transformation projects have been launched and tenders given to emerging new 'green' Anatolian capital,.Middle and small sized entrepreneurs transformed and interlocked to these internationalising capital groups. Most importantly traditionally ruling Military cadre jailed and the rest got under control.
nettime Networked Labour Seminar Report
[Also To: esf-l-and-g esf-l-an...@lists.contrast.org, WSF LG wsf-l-an...@lists.contrast.org, netw...@lists.contrast.org -- mod (tb)] Seminar Report Networking for the Emancipation of Labour By Orsan Senalphttp://transform-network.net/en/blog/blog-2013/news/author/Blog//314.html Supported by transform! europe, Transnational Institute, Networked Politics and IGOPNet, an international seminar on Networked Labour was held in Amsterdam from 7 to 9 May. Around 25 activists, practitioners, researchers and theorists from various networks , organisations and backgrounds came together to contribute to the on-going debates on the changing nature of the capitalist modes of production, linking it to emerging new social forces and political actors. The program of the seminar was constructed in an open sourced way. The ?code? draft program was designed and shared online prior to the event. According to it, the focus was the impact of internet and telecommunication on production modes, *work organisation, and political protest and organisation.* Michel Bauwens, one of the participants, formulated the underlying question of the seminar ?How to take labour out of the market??. Participants from the Netherlands, the UK, France, Spain, Italy, Greece, Germany, Austria and the US have built a collective and collaborative space in which labour and possibilities for its emancipation from contemporary capitalism were re-thought openly and creatively. The first day of the seminar was devoted to get to know each other. Informal chats sparked lively interactions during the opening lunch. Participants agreed to start with introductory rounds with a focus on participants? current work and interests. The participants were asked to provide one question or issue to be further discussed in the following days (See below link to a document with some items resulting from the two introduction rounds). At the end of the day, four thematic clusters were formulated: New value creation and production practices, new subjectivities, new organisational forms, issues related to state-regulation-power. On the second day the debate started with a discussion addressing the new value creation practices. Michel Bauwens, Jakob Rigi and Marco Berlinguer gave the opening interventions. Each intervention was followed by an open debate. The next cluster was on new subjectivities. Richard Barbrook, Melissa Gregg, and Phoebe Moore made presentations to start up the round. To open up the third session Sol Trumbo, Paolo Gerbaudo, and Peter Waterman made their interventions. The third day started with issues related to state, power and regulation. Robin Murray and Selcuk Balamir gave the opening presentations, and Michel Bauwens reacted by providing a template for governing the global commons, including labour. The final session was dedicated to talk about ?what is to be done!? ? in order to draw a road map to continue with the fruitful production. Further steps were identified to carry the ideas and energies coming out from the seminar into our daily practices, research, organisational efforts and activism. A concrete accessible publication has been drafted and ideas have been collected to improve the website as an open platform which would ideally serve as an effective tool for the continuation of exchange and spreading its outcomes. The spirits of Networked Politics encounters were back! Website: www.networkedlabour.net Document: http://transform-network.net/uploads/tx_news/Networked_Labour.pdf # distributed via nettime: no commercial use without permission # nettime is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org
