From vancouverparecon at resist.ca Sat Mar 25 01:27:47 2006 From: vancouverparecon at resist.ca (vancouverparecon at resist.ca) Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2006 01:27:47 -0800 (PST) Subject: [Van-Parecon] Back in Action! Updates & Announcements Message-ID: <2325.64.180.191.195.1143278867.squirrel@mail.resist.ca> Greetings! This message may come as a bit of a surprise seeing as how our mailing list, website, message board and blog have slowed down to a grinding halt over the past few months. Not to worry! After a prolonged hiatus our collective momentum is again picking up steam heading into spring 2006. We've begun to regroup over the past few months and are now beginning another stage of organizing efforts. This year should see the Vancouver Parecon Collective achieve new levels of parecon education, advocacy and organizing. So, with that said, we hope you continue to check us out and maybe even take it to the next level -- getting involved! Now for some updates and announcements... We've recently added some new content produced by our collective members under our "Latest Features" section: >Print: "The Third Wave & the Third Class", published on ZNet: http://www.zmag.org/sustainers/content/2005-11/30spannos.cfm >Audio: One of our collective members was recently interviewed for the BC Institute of Technology's (BCIT) campus radio: http://vanparecon.resist.ca/parecon_files/Matt_Interview_BCIT.mp3 >Print: "Paths Toward an Anti-Capitalist Liberation", again posted on ZNet: http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=26&ItemID=9093 We have a new message board that we've been tweaking over the past few months, now finally being launched! There you can pose questions to the Van Parecon Collective as well as discuss parecon and other social spheres such as Kinship, Community, Culture, Polity and Environmentalism. Registration is free, quick and easy; so log on and give it a whirl! Go here: http://sandbox.oracleatbelfry.com/forums/vanparForum We've also updated our blog with a couple items. We have posted an interview with Michael Albert about his new book "Realizing Hope: Life Beyond Capitalism". We've also posted an item from the hard hitting progressive news wire The NewStandard about their efforts as a self-conscience parecon project, "Equal Pay, Balanced Job Complexes and Other Oddities". All this is available from our homepage, but the direct link to our blog is: http://www.vanparecon.blogspot.com We'd also like to announce two new Canadian parecon projects. This brings the total number of parecon enterprises in Canada up to 5, and 10 internationally! The first new enterprise is "ParIT" an internet technology collective out of Winnipeg. Visit their web site: http://parit.freeculture.ca The second new parecon project is "The Underground Cafe" in Fredericton, N.B. Here is the link to their "about" page which explains their affinity to Parecon values and institutions: http://www.ugcafe.org/nucleus/about.php One more final announcement, on April 22 the Vancouver Parecon Collective will be presenting two workshops for the "Canada22: Envisioning Post-Neoliberalism" series held at SFU's down town campus. Our workshops will address two questions: 1. What will the world look like after neoliberalism? 2. What social and political structures and events will take us beyond neoliberalism? We'll make further announcements of this event closer to date. To find out more now visit their website: http://dgivista.org/Canada22 Thanks! Vancouver Parecon Collective http://vanparecon.resist.ca From vancouverparecon at resist.ca Sat Mar 25 08:15:35 2006 From: vancouverparecon at resist.ca (vancouverparecon at resist.ca) Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2006 08:15:35 -0800 (PST) Subject: [Van-Parecon] Back in Action! Updates & Announcements Message-ID: <2746.64.180.191.195.1143303335.squirrel@mail.resist.ca> Greetings! This message may come as a bit of a surprise seeing as how our mailing list, website, message board and blog have slowed down to a grinding halt over the past few months. Not to worry! After a prolonged hiatus our collective momentum is again picking up steam heading into spring 2006. We've begun to regroup over the past few months and are now beginning another stage of organizing efforts. This year should see the Vancouver Parecon Collective achieve new levels of parecon education, advocacy and organizing. So, with that said, we hope you continue to check us out and maybe even take it to the next level -- getting involved! Now for some updates and announcements... We've recently added some new content produced by our collective members under our "Latest Features" section: >Print: "The Third Wave & the Third Class", published on ZNet: http://www.zmag.org/sustainers/content/2005-11/30spannos.cfm >Audio: One of our collective members was recently interviewed for the BC Institute of Technology's (BCIT) campus radio: http://vanparecon.resist.ca/parecon_files/Matt_Interview_BCIT.mp3 >Print: "Paths Toward an Anti-Capitalist Liberation", again posted on ZNet: http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=26&ItemID=9093 We have a new message board that we've been tweaking over the past few months, now finally being launched! There you can pose questions to the Van Parecon Collective as well as discuss parecon and other social spheres such as Kinship, Community, Culture, Polity and Environmentalism. Registration is free, quick and easy; so log on and give it a whirl! Go here: http://sandbox.oracleatbelfry.com/forums/vanparForum We've also updated our blog with a couple items. We have posted an interview with Michael Albert about his new book "Realizing Hope: Life Beyond Capitalism". We've also posted an item from the hard hitting progressive news wire The NewStandard about their efforts as a self-conscience parecon project, "Equal Pay, Balanced Job Complexes and Other Oddities". All this is available from our homepage, but the direct link to our blog is: http://www.vanparecon.blogspot.com We'd also like to announce two new Canadian parecon projects. This brings the total number of parecon enterprises in Canada up to 5, and 10 internationally! The first new enterprise is "ParIT" an internet technology collective out of Winnipeg. Visit their web site: http://parit.freeculture.ca The second new parecon project is "The Underground Cafe" in Fredericton, N.B. Here is the link to their "about" page which explains their affinity to Parecon values and institutions: http://www.ugcafe.org/nucleus/about.php One more final announcement, on April 22 the Vancouver Parecon Collective will be presenting two workshops for the "Canada22: Envisioning Post-Neoliberalism" series held at SFU's down town campus. Our workshops will address two questions: 1. What will the world look like after neoliberalism? 2. What social and political structures and events will take us beyond neoliberalism? We'll make further announcements of this event closer to date. To find out more now visit their website: http://dgivista.org/Canada22 Thanks! Vancouver Parecon Collective http://vanparecon.resist.ca