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Mobilization of the precarious movement in Italy this Sunday, June 19th

Via Bertram Niessen:

After the infamous declarations of the Minister for Public Administration and Innovation Renato Brunetta http://anna-marchi.blogspot.com/2011/06/worse-part-of-italy-post-pc-story.html against precarious workers, bottom-up social movements are meeting in Rome, near the parliament, next Sunday.

If you want to follow the story on social…

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Added by Michel Bauwens on June 18, 2011 at 3:46 — No Comments

Ethic panorama of the thinking

by Dr. Vladimir N. Tretyakov

Posted as Lecture 6 at Free School for Panoramic Thinking

The highest wisdom is discerning good and evil.

- Socrates.

Content

*Reason and heart: ethical aspect

*Authoritative and humane ethics

*Application of ethics to school pedagogy

*Application of ethics to international…

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Added by Vladimir Nickolayevich Tretyakov on June 17, 2011 at 20:44 — No Comments

International FabLab Conference in Lima ,Peru August 15-20, 2011.

More info via http://www.indiegogo.com/International-HackerSpaces-Conference-Lima-Peru

The International FabLab Conference organized by MIT's Center for Bits & Atoms will take place in Lima ,…

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Added by Michel Bauwens on June 14, 2011 at 13:34 — No Comments

Pat Kane's new book: RADICAL ANIMAL: Innovation, Sustainability and Human Nature.

RADICAL ANIMAL

We love new stuff - but we're killing the planet...What's to be done?…

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Added by Michel Bauwens on June 14, 2011 at 13:25 — No Comments

International Forum of Social and Solidarity Economy, October 17-20, 2011, in Montreal

International Forum of Social and Solidarity Economy 2011

June 10th, 2011 – The World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters (AMARC), the Québec Association of Community Radio Broadcasters (ARCQ) and the Chantier de l’économie sociale are happy to announce their collaboration on the occasion of the International Forum of Social and Solidarity Economy (FIESS), which will take place from October 17th to 20th, 2011, in Montreal. As the official radio broadcasters of the FIESS,…

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Added by Michel Bauwens on June 14, 2011 at 10:20 — No Comments

CFP: Bio-punks, open hardware, and hackerspaces A special issue of Critical Studies in Peer Production

Mathieu ONeil:

Expanding the frontiers of hacking

Bio-punks, open hardware, and hackerspaces

A special issue of Critical Studies in Peer Production

Edited by: Johan Soderberg and Alessandro Delfanti

Call: 500-word abstract

Both theoretical and empirical contributions accepted

During the past two decades, hacking has chiefly been associated with software development. This is now changing as…

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Added by Michel Bauwens on June 14, 2011 at 10:07 — No Comments

June 19: taking the streets against the Euro Pact

Via Mayo Fuster:

THERE ARE REASONS; ONCE AGAIN, TAKE THE STREET 19th June, hour: 19:00 (GMT+1)

ALL STREETS AND SQUARES OF SPAIN AND EUROPE NO TO THE EURO PACT:

We are not goods in the hands of politicians and bankers.

The EURO PACT: New attack on democracy ONCE AGAIN.

ONCE AGAIN, the EU leaders endorse a policy misleading the public to the benefit of large financial corporations, instead of defending the citizens. On 27th…

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Added by Michel Bauwens on June 13, 2011 at 12:06 — No Comments

19 June Rise up! #Globalrevolution

Via Mayo Fuster:

People of the World, rise up!!! Take the square!!! Take the streets!!! #Globalrevolution

CALL FOR ACTIONS JUNE 19TH: (English, Arabic, French. Portugues, Bulgarian, Italian, Hungarian, Greek, Japanish, German, Castellano, Euskera, Català, Gallego)

(ENGLISH)

Call for actions June 19th: People of the World, rise up!!!

We are the outraged, the anonymous, the voiceless. We were there, silent but alert, watching. Not gazing…

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Added by Michel Bauwens on June 13, 2011 at 7:17 — No Comments

P2P as new model for enterprise and for society - a conversation with Michel Bauwens in Melbourne

Wednesday, June 15, 2011 from 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM (GMT+1000)

Place:

Hub Melbourne

Level 3

673 Bourke St…

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Added by Michel Bauwens on June 13, 2011 at 7:08 — No Comments

Draft Manuscript for Crowdfunding Manual

Via Suresh Fernando:

Request publication via suresh2323@gmail.com

Google doc version via:

* https://docs.google.com/do…

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Added by Michel Bauwens on June 13, 2011 at 7:00 — No Comments

Societing Summer School 2nd Edition Social Movements and Social Innovation in the Mediterranean.

Societing Summer School2nd Edition Social Movements and Social Innovation in the Mediterranean. In many ways, the Mediterranean has been in the shadow of the history of 20th century. But now it emerges anew. The uprisings in Tunisia, Libya and Egypt surprised everyone with the vigor and energy. They might very well spread to Greece, Italy and Spain.

At any rate…

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Added by Chris Pinchen on June 12, 2011 at 7:00 — No Comments

Democracia Real mobilizations - seeds for the transition to a commons-based society?

dear fellow P2P activists!

Plans for the School of Commoning that Mark wrote about here

http://p2pfoundation.ning.com/profiles/blogs/announcing-the-birth-of-the are moving quickly forward.

Mnspired by the blog of Michel Bauwens on the same subject http://bit.ly/k7jijy, we will offer a new workshop:

#SpanishRevolution, and the Commons Here… Continue

Added by George Pór on June 12, 2011 at 6:30 — No Comments

Conference of the Lokavidya Jan Andolan people's knowledge movement in India, November 12-14, 2011

Via Amit Basole:

CALL FOR PARTICPATION

LOKAVIDYA JAN ANDOLAN

(PEOPLE’S KNOWLEDGE MOVEMENT)

FIRST INTERNATIONAL…

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Added by Michel Bauwens on June 11, 2011 at 12:00 — No Comments

June 15: P2P Round table discussion at Melbourne's Caulfield School of Information Technology (Monash)

Round table discussion with Michel Bauwens

Michel Bauwens will be visiting Caulfield campus on Wednesday 15 June for a round table discussion of the social and economic implications of peer-to-peer production.

Michel is an active participant in the P2P Foundation (http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/), and has published, amongst other places, in C Theory, First Monday, and Capital & Class.

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Added by Michel Bauwens on June 3, 2011 at 8:23 — No Comments

Open Design events in June 2011

Via Massimo Menichelli's Open Design Newsletter N°03 June 2011

EDUfashion conference (Ljubljana, Slovenia)

Massimo…

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Added by Michel Bauwens on June 3, 2011 at 8:04 — No Comments

An alternative primer on national and international copyright law in the global South

Via Mat Callahan para CopySouth

info@matcallahan.com

http://copysouth.org/portal/es/manual_es

17 May 2011

If you want a straightforward, but also critical, explanation of the basics of copyright law across South America, Africa and Asia, CopySouth recommends that you read the Spanish edition of its alternative copyright primer which… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on June 1, 2011 at 8:22 — No Comments

Global MegaCrisis: Four Scenarios on the Future of Progress” Special Issue, Journal of Futures Studies

FROM: Michael Marien, William Halal, and Jose Ramos

RE: Invitation to respond to “Global MegaCrisis:

Four Scenarios on the Future of Progress”

Special Issue, Journal of Futures Studies, Dec 2011

INTRODUCTION

The fundamental question in serious futures-thinking has to do with

the idea of human progress. All matters considered, will life be

better for humanity as a whole, for countries and… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on May 31, 2011 at 7:23 — No Comments