[WSMDiscuss] Make this your list ! A request to you to enlist new subscribers for WSMDiscuss
Jai Sen
jai.sen at cacim.net
Mon Apr 5 18:34:48 CEST 2021
Monday, April 5, 2021
Dear Estelle
Thanks so much for this reply to my post, and for your support to this little project – including your offer to talk with your community about joining. I hope that this works out, and we will get requests for subscriptions ! (So far, and just to put this on the table, we’ve only got one new application since my post. Yes, this has been a little underwhelming !))
You’re the first person to write back on-list – and I appreciate your doing so -, but I’m hoping that others are, perhaps, working offlist to promote the idea and to explore possibilities.
Let me add that I do appreciate the dilemma of this list, insofar as – and you’re so right here – it does try to bridge different worlds and to be an open space for all… But where doing this, surely, is also our challenge, and something that all of us need to try to do ?
Regarding your questions, please of course feel free to forward postings to the people you’re talking with. (Doing that is *absolutely appropriate !)
If you like, and to those you feel that this would be useful (and not too overwhelming !), you could also give them the link to the List archives, which is https://lists.openspaceforum.net/pipermail/wsm-discuss/ <https://lists.openspaceforum.net/pipermail/wsm-discuss/>.
All best – and with thanks once more for your solidarity and support !
Jai
For WSMDiscuss
> On Apr 5, 2021, at 12:01 AM, Estelle Fein <leef at cruzio.com> wrote:
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> This is a wonderful ,important, timely project
> I have been thinking for a long time that WSM needs new input from different sections of the world
> But not sure how to do it
> There is tons of stuff going on on the ground, with young folks, with women,with students etc etc.
> Just not sure how to combine it with the erudite, intellectual nature of most of the posts on this list
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> I will do my part. Will talk to many of the activists and alternative people that I know
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> Would it help to forward postings from my own list or would that not be appropriate?
> Do the conversations have to be directly from people who are engaged in them?
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> I really believe in the WSM project and wish for it to grow and become more inclusive
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> Sent from my iPad
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>> On Mar 31, 2021, at 8:57 AM, Jai Sen <jai.sen at cacim.net> wrote:
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>> Wednesday, March 31, 2021
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>> List admin post :
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>> Greetings all, on WSMDiscuss !
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>> This list admin post is to invite you to help build this list – by encouraging people in your circles to subscribe to WSMDiscuss.
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>> Let me explain : I’m not sure what you all think of this list, but judging from even just 2-3 things, I would guess that we’re doing sort of okay :
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>> 1) The fact that aside from myself, we now have about 6-7 people – from different parts of the world, and ‘located’ differently – who fairly regularly post, and who I anyway therefore think of as being the sustainers of this list. (This is a very healthy sign for a list like this – which we call a ‘self-organising space’ -, and not a small achievement. Each person is totally independent, posting on different subjects, and has come to do what they do absolutely voluntarily, of their own accord.)
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>> 2) The fairly intense participation and discussion that we periodically see, on different issues – most recently and currently, on politics (and cultures of politics), both in Ecuador and internationally / interculturally; and –
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>> 3) The fact that over these past few years, we have had a low but fairly constant rate of requests for subscriptions, roughly 3-4-5 per month; which means that the word – about this list – is spreading. (And a warm welcome to all those of you who have joined more recently !)
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>> All of this is good news, and I’m glad to share it with you; but the reason I'm writing out today is to request each one of you to now help build this list even more – and to make it your personal and political mission to try and get just 2-5 additional people to subscribe (or more !) –
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>> So that even more people can get to see and read what we are privileged to see and read;
>> So that those who post reach an even wider number – and likely, range – of people;
>> So that ultimately, this list becomes even richer, and more substantial; and –
>> So that we also collectively self-organise this list !
>> Towards this, I’m sharing with you below a blurb that I use, when approaching people who I think might be interested in subscribing. Please feel free to use it as it is or to modify it to suit your own language and to say what you think is significant to say to those you are approaching. (The only thing you MUST make sure of including is the last line !)
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>> The one thing you have to keep in mind though, is that as it presently stands anyway, this is a dominantly English-speaking list. And so the people you approach have of course to be fairly comfortable with reading and communicating in English.
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>> One last thing : As mentioned in the blurb below, “WSMDiscuss has a great list membership, with people from many parts of the world including activists, students and researchers, teachers, and others, young and ‘old’, and importantly, located both near 'the centre' and towards 'the margins’ of societies as they today are”. So and in short, I’d therefore like to request you to consider strengthening our diversity and plurality by especially choosing to approach people who especially come from the following categories :
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>> Women
>> Peoples who are structurally / socially located more towards 'the margins’ of the society that you live in
>> Younger people
>> Activists, students, workers, and professionals, as well as teachers and researchers
>> People especially from the ‘global South’ – and by this, I mean not only in the geographical sense (as this important term has come to be misused to represent) but in the structural and political sense : Both from the south in the South and the south in the North; and –
>> People from different fields, experiences, and outlooks.
>> I leave my request with you ! Please do what you can. And if you like, let me know offlist about how things go, with this little project.
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>> With thanks and with warm greetings,
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>> Jai Sen
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>> For WSMDiscuss
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>> WSMDiscuss - World Social Movement Discuss - is an open, unmoderated, and self-organising forum for the critical exchange of information and views on the experience, practice, and theory of social and political movement at any level (personal, local, national, regional, and global), including the World Social Forum.
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>> Inspired by the World Social Forum, WSMDiscuss has grown out of and been built on a list called WSFDiscuss that was set up in 2005 for information and discussion around the World Social Forum and related social movement, and in particular to provide a horizontal space both for those within WSF bodies and also those not in WSF bodies to discuss the WSF.
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>> WSMDiscuss has a great list membership, with people from many parts of the world including activists, students and researchers, teachers, and others, young and ‘old’, and importantly, located both near 'the centre' and towards 'the margins’ of societies as they today are.
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>> To subscribe, simply send an empty email from the eddress you’d like to be subscribed from, to wsm-discuss-subscribe at lists.openspaceforum.net <mailto:wsm-discuss-subscribe at lists.openspaceforum.net>.
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>> ____________________________
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>> Jai Sen
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>> Independent researcher, editor; Senior Fellow at the School of International Development and Globalisation Studies at the University of Ottawa
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>> jai.sen at cacim.net <mailto:jai.sen at cacim.net> & <mailto:jsen at uottawa.ca>jsen at uottawa.ca <mailto:jsen at uottawa.ca>
>> Now based in Ottawa, Canada, on unsurrendered Anishinaabe territory (+1-613-282 2900) and in New Delhi, India (+91-98189 11325)
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>> Jai Sen, ed, 2017 – The Movements of Movements, Part 1 : What Makes Us Move ?. New Delhi : OpenWord and Oakland, CA : PM Press. Ebook and hard copy available at PM Press <http://www.pmpress.org/>; hard copy only also at The Movements of Movements <https://movementsofmovements.net/>
>> Jai Sen, ed, 2018a – The Movements of Movements, Part 2 : Rethinking Our Dance. Ebook and hard copy available at PM Press <http://www.pmpress.org/>; hard copy only also at The Movements of Movements <https://movementsofmovements.net/>
>> Jai Sen, ed, 2018b – The Movements of Movements, Part 1 : What Makes Us Move ? (Indian edition). New Delhi : AuthorsUpfront, in collaboration with OpenWord and PM Press. Hard copy available at MOM1AmazonIN <https://www.amazon.in/dp/9387280101/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1522884070&sr=8-2&keywords=movements+of+movements+jai+sen>, MOM1Flipkart <https://www.flipkart.com/the-movements-of-movements/p/itmf3zg7h79ecpgj?pid=9789387280106&lid=LSTBOK9789387280106NBA1CH&marketplace=FLIPKART&srno=s_1_1&otracker=search&fm=SEARCH&iid=ff35b702-e6a8-4423-b014-16c84f6f0092.9789387280106.SEARCH&ppt=Search%20Page>, and MOM1AUpFront <http://www.authorsupfront.com/movements.htm>
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Jai Sen
Independent researcher, editor; Senior Fellow at the School of International Development and Globalisation Studies at the University of Ottawa
jai.sen at cacim.net <mailto:jai.sen at cacim.net> & <mailto:jsen at uottawa.ca>jsen at uottawa.ca <mailto:jsen at uottawa.ca>
Now based in Ottawa, Canada, on unsurrendered Anishinaabe territory (+1-613-282 2900) and in New Delhi, India (+91-98189 11325)
Check out something new – including for copies of the first two books below, at a discount, and much more : The Movements of Movements <https://movementsofmovements.net/>
Jai Sen, ed, 2017 – The Movements of Movements, Part 1 : What Makes Us Move ?. New Delhi : OpenWord and Oakland, CA : PM Press. Ebook and hard copy available at PM Press <http://www.pmpress.org/>; hard copy only also at The Movements of Movements <https://movementsofmovements.net/>
Jai Sen, ed, 2018a – The Movements of Movements, Part 2 : Rethinking Our Dance. Ebook and hard copy available at PM Press <http://www.pmpress.org/>; hard copy only also at The Movements of Movements <https://movementsofmovements.net/>
Jai Sen, ed, 2018b – The Movements of Movements, Part 1 : What Makes Us Move ? (Indian edition). New Delhi : AuthorsUpfront, in collaboration with OpenWord and PM Press. Hard copy available at MOM1AmazonIN <https://www.amazon.in/dp/9387280101/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1522884070&sr=8-2&keywords=movements+of+movements+jai+sen>, MOM1Flipkart <https://www.flipkart.com/the-movements-of-movements/p/itmf3zg7h79ecpgj?pid=9789387280106&lid=LSTBOK9789387280106NBA1CH&marketplace=FLIPKART&srno=s_1_1&otracker=search&fm=SEARCH&iid=ff35b702-e6a8-4423-b014-16c84f6f0092.9789387280106.SEARCH&ppt=Search%20Page>, and MOM1AUpFront <http://www.authorsupfront.com/movements.htm>
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