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yasir ~يا سر | 1 Nov 07:00
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Fwd: Electronic Crimes Ordinance 2007 Requires Serious Revisions

From: Pildat News System <News@...>
Pakistan Institute of Legislative Development & Tranparency

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Electronic Crimes Ordinance 2007 Requires Serious Revisions before it is
passed by the Parliament: PILDAT Legislative Forum

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Islamabad, October 26: The Prevention of Electronic Crimes Ordinance 2007
requires serious revisions before it is passed by the Parliament. This was
the consensus that emerged out of a PILDAT Legislative Forum on the
Prevention of Electronic Crimes Ordinance 2007 that was held here today.

The Forum included as its speakers Mr. Ejaz Khan, techno-legal expert and
Partner Aqlaal Advocates, Mr. Tariq Khosa, Director General of the Federal
Investigation Agency (FIA), Ms. Anusha Rehman Khan, MNA and Ms. Marvi Memon,
MNA.

Speaking at the occasion, Ms. Aasiya Riaz, PILDAT Joint Director, said that
PILDAT organised the forum in order to generate public debate on this
important piece of legislation before it is adopted by the National
Assembly. Earlier, PILDAT had prepared and issued a legislative brief on the
ordinance both in Urdu and English languages which was widely circulated to
the Parliament, the news media and other stakeholders. The legislative brief
has been part of PILDAT's Legislative Development Programme and its
objective was to assist parliamentarians to understand the context,
objective and issues relating to the ordinance and to enable them to
participate in a more informed debate and take well-considered position on
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Inke Arns | 1 Nov 21:03
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Arctic Perspective Initiative announces the winners of its open architecture competition


Arctic Perspective Initiative announces the winners
of its open architecture competition

Three architects – Richard Carbonnier (Nunavut, Canada), Giuseppe  
Mecca (Italy), and Catherine Rannou (France) – have been selected as  
the joint winners of the Arctic Perspective Initiative open  
architecture competition. The challenge of this international  
competition was to design a zero-footprint mobile research unit for  
use by local populations in the Arctic. The unit is intended to  
facilitate a diverse range of technological research opportunities,  
such as remote sensing, environmental monitoring, video editing and  
streaming, and communications systems.

The three winning entries, each awarded €1500, were selected by an  
expert jury from 103 submissions from architects and engineers in  
more than 30 countries. The competition was the first phase of a  
design process, the next phase of which will involve working with the  
winning submissions through a collaborative design effort with local  
community members from Nunavut, Canada. A prototype unit will be  
tested in the field next year in Igloolik, Nunavut, by local media  
workers, hunters, youth and elders of the community.

API is committed to the empowerment and sustainable development of  
Northern communities through the collaboration and combination of  
science, arts, engineering and culture. The unit aims to serve as a  
model for mobile research in the north, incorporating proven local  
expertise, sustainable resources, and high tech solutions, while  
promoting open source data sharing strategies and management. All  
required power will come from green sources.
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dr.woooo | 2 Nov 10:14
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Fwd: NY Thursday Friday Saturday -- Field Trip -- Digital Labor Conference -- 11.12, 13, 14.09


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From: Sixteen Beaver <lists@...>
Date: Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 4:43 PM
Subject: Thursday Friday Saturday -- Field Trip -- Digital Labor
Conference -- 11.12,13,14.09
To: generale@...

Thursday Friday Saturday -- Field Trip -- Digital Labor Conference -
11.12,13,14.09

CONTENTS:
1. Introduction
2. About the Conference
3. Participants

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1. Introduction

What: Conference on Digital Labor&#8232;
When: Thursday, Friday, Saturday November 12,13,14
Where: Eugene Lang College - New School&#8232;
&#8232;Who: Free and open to all (but you must register online)

Following up some of the discussions we have had on notions of labor,
work, and relations to life, we would like to announce a conference being
organized at Eugene Lang College on digital labor entitled: The Internet
as Playground and Factory. It connects nicely to events we have had
recently including our discussion on Saturday with Marcel, and some
upcoming events which we will be announcing. The event looks at the
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micha cardenas / azdel slade | 2 Nov 23:12
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Fwd: Announcing the New $0 Tuition Program to be Initiated November 2, 2009

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From: President Mark Yudof <president@...>
Date: 2009/11/2
Subject: Announcing the New $0 Tuition Program to be Initiated November 2,
2009
To: president@...

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA

BERKELEY ? DAVIS ? IRVINE ? LOS ANGELES ? MERCED ? RIVERSIDE ? SAN DIEGO ?
SAN FRANCISCO ? SANTA BARBARA ? SANTA CRUZ

1111 Franklin Street
Oakland, CA  94607-5200
Phone: (510) 987-9074
Fax: (510) 987-9086
http://ucop.cc/

November 2, 2009
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY

Dear Colleagues:

I write to update you on The Regents? actions this week concerning the
unprecedented acceptance of the UCOP?s $0 Tuition Program to be initiated
November 2, 2009. ( http://ucop.cc/ )

At their meeting on October 30th, 2009, The Regents declared that there
was an extreme financial emergency, a shortfall of over $1 billion during
the 2009-2010 academic year alone. Their leadership, over the last fifteen
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John Hopkins | 1 Nov 23:37
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[Fwd: Center for Icelandic Art seeks new director]

*Center for Icelandic Art seeks new director*

*Deadline for applications: November 23, 2009*

The Center for Icelandic Art was established in 2005 with the key role
of presenting Icelandic visual artists abroad. It is an independent
institution, primarily funded by the Icelandic Ministry of Education,
Science and Culture. All the main visual arts institutions and
associations in Iceland are members of the institution.

The new director will be the successor of Dr. Christian Schoen, CIA.IS’
founding director, who has build up its international reputation over
the past five years. His term will end on February 28, 2010.

*The Goals
*CIA.IS aims at building and strengthening the networks between the
local and international visual art scene and activating the engagement
of Icelandic visual artists and professionals in the international art
scene. In the coming years, among the Center’s goals are to:

- Facilitate the presentation of Icelandic artists abroad in
international galleries, at exhibitions and events of various kinds.
- Facilitate participation of Icelandic art galleries in established art
fairs.
- Initiate collaborations between Icelandic and international artists in
Iceland and abroad.
- Create a residency program for international art professionals in Iceland.
- Extend CIA.IS’ visitor’s program in close collaboration with private
and public institutions.
- Secure Iceland as a host country for international art projects and
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Patrice Riemens | 4 Nov 12:07
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George Monbiot: Why the sudden surge in climate change denial?

Bwo Sarai Reader List/ Jeebesh
With usual apps for X-posting

dear All,

Here is an arresting essay by Monbiot on the climate change denial.  
It's an intriguing reality. Climate change is going to displace  
millions and put substantial ethical pressure on ways of living of  
people used to certain form of material life. This is not going to be  
a simple conflict less process.

Species survival is at risk :)

warmly

jeebesh

"If Dickinson is correct, is it fanciful to suppose that those who are  
closer to the end of their lives might react more strongly against  
reminders of death? I haven???t been able to find any experiments  
testing this proposition, but it is surely worth investigating. And  
could it be that the rapid growth of climate change denial over the  
past two years is actually a response to the hardening of scientific  
evidence? If so, how the hell do we confront it?"

http://www.monbiot.com/archives/2009/11/02/death-denial/

Why the sudden surge in climate change denial? Could it be about  
something else altogether?
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Patrice Riemens | 4 Nov 13:32
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Arundhati Roy: The Heart of India is under Attack

It would look like as if, yet again, the deeds of the Indian State and its 
corporate elite would escape international scrutiny. We could help 
Arundhati Roy in hr effort to change that.
Cheers from the Philippines, patrizio & Diiiinooos! 

Arundhati Roy
The heart of India is under attack

>From The Guardian (UK), Friday, October 30, 2009. 
original at: 
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/oct/30/mining-india-maoists-green-hunt
(this is the full version, the shortened one appeared in the Guardian 
newspaper last Saturday)

To justify enforcing a corporate land grab, the state needs an enemy – 
and it has chosen the Maoists

The low, flat-topped hills of south Orissa have been home to the Dongria 
Kondh long before there was a country called India or a state called 
Orissa. The hills watched over the Kondh. The Kondh watched over the hills 
and worshipped them as living deities. Now these hills have been sold for 
the bauxite they contain. For the Kondh it's as though god had been sold. 
They ask how much god would go for if the god were Ram or Allah or Jesus 
Christ.

Perhaps the Kondh are supposed to be grateful that their Niyamgiri hill, 
home to their Niyam Raja, God of Universal Law, has been sold to a company 
with a name like Vedanta (the branch of Hindu philosophy that teaches the 
Ultimate Nature of Knowledge). It's one of the biggest mining corporations 
in the world and is owned by Anil Agarwal, the Indian billionaire who
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Alex Foti | 4 Nov 10:06
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The Precariat and Climate Justice

For the "Anarchy, Autonomy, Ecology" table and for footnotes (some on
marxian theory of value) please read complete version here:

http://www.greatrecession.info/2009/11/03/the-precarious-question-and-the-climate-struggle/

The Precarious Question and the Climate Struggle
Fighting for Social and Ecological Justice. Because Climate Change
Makes All of Us Precarious.

Alex Foti

Precarity in the Great Recession

The Great Recession is making millions of precarious workers
unemployed. Millions of precarious youth, women, immigrants are being
made redundant. The crisis is swelling the ranks of the precariat, the
new class created by neoliberalism which is the sum of those who are
either unemployed or working under non-standard, temporary, part-time
contracts in service, creative, knowledge industries. Those
responsible for the crisis -- big banks, investment funds, free-market
economists and governments -- whitewash and greenwash without shame
hoping to go on with business as usual. Governments are giving
trillions to the bankers and peanuts to the precarious. Riots and
protests are spreading as a result, also resisting rising
securitarianism and racism, but the fight against political and
economic power to defend society and nature has just begun.

This historic crisis parallels the Great Depression in scope, if not
in depth (extraordinary monetary expansion has so far cushioned the
blow of the financial crisis), and will have similarly far-reaching
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John Young | 4 Nov 22:58
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Re: George Monbiot: Why the sudden surge in climate change denial?

Chickens are coming home to roost for scientists. They have
squandered the credibility they earned in the early days of
public interest scientific research by craven work with the military
and corporations.

Horrible scientific consequences have come to the earth and
its inhabitants by unethical scientists, and the small number who
do public benefit work cannot match the deleterirousness of
harm caused by willingly captive, well-paid scientists and their
technological implementors, engineers.

Health-related scientists and technicians -- medical, pharmaceutical,
profit-making health entrepreneurs -- have become as untrustworthy
as mass-death weapons designers who still abet the huge worldwide
overkill of military and intelligence threat-generation and putative
defenses under the narcotizing rubic "national security."

Why scientists think they should be believed on the basis of
"scientific evidence" is not terribly different from why other
puveyors are hypnotized by their self-referencing conviction.

Scientific advocacy is on shaky ground when it cannot be readily
explained in common sense language rather than by complex,
arcane modelings which appear to be as much shamanism as
biblical certainty. Jiminy, the popularizing sci-fi movie by Al Gore
is shameful as shilling for the health industry.

It is no answer to smear the room temperature-IQ disbelievers.
That smacks of easy greasy condescension in lieu of considering
that scientists -- a huge special interest group -- deserve to be
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Brian Holmes | 5 Nov 21:07
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Re: The Precariat and Climate Justice

Thank you ALEX for writing a great visionary political text that takes 
the strongest theoretical arguments and addresses them directly to the 
people in the streets! I haven't read anything this interesting in a 
dog's age, that is, since 1999...

 > From the ashes of early 21st century
 > free-market liberalism, a new form of social and political regulation
 > of the economy will have to emerge if the crisis is to find a
 > democratic solution. In fact, just like in the interwar period,
 > especially in Europe, the danger of authoritarian and xenophobic
 > solutions to the Big Crisis is significant.

Every half-decent historical theory of industrial capitalism shows that 
after initial technological booms we run into deep regulation crises 
that can only be fixed by changing the institutions of government, 
exchange and redistribution. And every half-conscious theorist knows 
there is no guarantee that it will be done except for the direst 
necessity. "So it falls onto the anarchists, feminists, precarious, 
immigrants, on those radical actors that have a stake in subverting the 
present financial order, to fight for real climate justice, to bring the 
economy back under the control of polities and communities," that's it 
and what a responsibility... For those who haven't read the historical 
stuff I wanna point their braincells to a Left Curve piece you wrote a 
few years ago, which seems like the foundation this new text builds on:

http://www.leftcurve.org/LC31WebPages/Grid&ForkTable.pdf

Compare it to the schema of a smart mainstream theorist like Carlota 
Perez, you can see the overlap and also the kind of depth and detail 
that Alex is working off:
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