<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>From: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Pasqualino Colombaro <<a href="mailto:pcolombaro@gmail.com">pcolombaro@gmail.com</a>></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Date: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">March 8, 2010 12:17:44 PM EST</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Subject: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>Confirmed --Third round of the Joint reflection on politics, the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>state and the alternatives -- Saturday, March 13, 2010.</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div> </div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Geneva; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div><div style="text-align: center; "><font size="2"><i><b>Eyes wide open: Joint reflection on state, politics, and the alternatives</b></i></font><br><font size="2">Round 3: Saturday, March 13, 2010 - 1:00 PM</font><br><font size="2">Northeastern University, Snell Library - Room 090</font><br></div><br>Dear Participant,<br><br>Just a brief note to confirm our event this coming Saturday and to announce folks who have volunteered the presentations below:<br><br><div>GEORGE MOKRAY on Gandhian Economics.<br></div><div>George says that Mohandas K. Gandhi was not just a political activist. He was also an economic activist. His economics, Gandhian economics, was based upon Sarvodaya, the upliftment of all, Swaraj, self-rule, and Swadeshi, local production. Gandhian economics is grounded in non-violence and non-exploitation. Much of what he wrote and practiced still has validity and, since that time, new techniques like micro-lending have added other tools that can be useful in the practice of Gandhi's economic ideas today. For a more comprehensive treatment of the issue see the attached document.<br></div><br>ERIC BUCK on Juridiphilia.<br>Eric further refined his magnificent piece on "Juridiphilia" or how we unconsciously create and perpetuate the state on the day to day with our own actions. He will share the results with us on Saturday.<br><br>PATRICK BURKE on Electoral action and radical prefigurative politics.<br><br>BRIAN O'CONNELL on Prefigurative living through economic action and artistic expression. Brian may chime in with a piece of his own, I hope.<br><br>KEN RAMSAY on Organized Labor within the state. Ken is President of the Welfare Chapter of SEIU Local 509 and a Social Worker for the Massachusetts Welfare Department for the past 30 years. Ken will give us a brief sketch of his experience with the State and how its "carrot" function links at the local level with the Massachusetts economy.<br><br>ANYONE ELSE? Please let me know ASAP.<br><br><i>Written work produced for this series and available for distribution upon request:</i><br><br>Subrata Ghoshroy, "Abandonment of Military Research as a challenge".<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><font size="2"><span style="color: black; ">Pentagon’s share of overall share of research funding in the US is more than 50% and it<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></font><font size="2"><span style="color: black; ">is dominant in engineering and the physical sciences.</span></font><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>Suren Moodliar, "Beyond tactical unity". Leftists can find substantial areas of productive unity to the degree that they focus on concrete social problems and build alternatives.<br>Eric Buck, "DSM juridiphilia entry".<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><font size="2"><span style="line-height: 11px; ">How Love of Law Undergirds the Social Practice of the State.</span></font><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>Bob Hernandez, "Psychology, identity, mythology and the struggle for the social construction of reality".<br><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">Jake Carman, "Bakunin's simple point".<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times; "><font size="2" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">Socialism—no longer means what it once did.</font><br></span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">Pasqualino Colombaro,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">"Eyes wide open: State, politics and the independent alternatives".<br><br>Some presentations were not submitted in writing yet. You know who you are, please do so ASAP.<br><br>Recordings of the meetings in their entirety (not always clearly audible and at least 5 hours in length) are also available for consultation.<br></span><br><i>Practical reminder on the format of the meeting:</i><br><br>The new, underlying idea is that of free, spontaneous, self-directed improvisation or to manifest, "quake", "shake", "sing" as one is moved. It is about manifesting one's Self, one's historical and current relationship with the state, with the state's historical and current cost and performance and the state's actual and potential role in either hindering or enhancing one's personal and collective life.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br><br>Of particular to interest to the group would be how one perceives/sees/feels the role of the state relative to one's economic activity/role and one's freedom/independence as a "tacit" artist/economic actor. Any ideas, actual facts, analyses, concerns, doubts, hypotheses, critiques, alternatives, dreams, creations or pre-figurative experience that one may want to share in about 10-15 minutes and discuss collectively afterwards are welcome.<br><br>Bottom line question: do we actually need this historical albatross around our neck or could we do without? If so, how and what should go in the place of its currently (real or perceived) positive social functions (social security, education, transportation, infrastructure, etc).<br><br>Reducing one's intervention to writing so that other folks can read it beforehand would be a plus or one can share it later for the live archive.<br><br>Please confirm your participation, if you haven't done so already and that of any friends you have invited. Thanks,<br><br>See you soon,<br><br>Pasqualino<br><br clear="all"><br>--<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>HUMANI NIHIL A ME ALIENO PUTO<br>(I consider nothing that is human alien to me)<br>Publius Terentius Afer (195/185–159 BC).<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br><br>WHERE LOVE RULES, THERE IS NO WILL TO POWER; AND WHERE POWER PREDOMINATES, THERE LOVE IS LACKING. THE ONE IS THE SHADOW OF THE OTHER.<br>Carl Gustav Jung (26 July 1875 – 6 June 1961)<br><br><br></div></span></blockquote></div><span></span></body></html>