could be supported) so ... what to do, is there anyone around you who
>
> Hi Natacha
>
> I'd like to say that I'm sorry that I haven't been able to react to
> your work, I've been really busy here in Denmark with various things
> that have demanded and still demand all my  attention.
>
> I think getting funding for the continued work with Baobáxia would be
> really important, what exists now is a working system in dire need of
> being upgraded, and it needs professional care on a scale that is
> difficult to achieve without funding - at least for a sprint or so. 
> So my own silence should definitely not be interpreted as unwelcoming,
> I've just been having to focus on some other things, unfortunately.
>
> I'm afraid this is true of many of us, Vince included.
>
> Best
> Carsten
>
> On 5/9/19 8:54 AM, natacha wrote:
>>
>> Ok,
>>
>> Yes I think of answering this also because of too much silence
>> lately, as some of you might have realized, hellekin and I have
>> organised a new research structure not for profit, petites
>> singularités based in Brussels.
>>
>> Since the beginning of this project, our intention has been (and
>> still is) to connect our friends in Brazilian networks with an access
>> we want to build towards eu funding grants. I think our first move
>> was to go meet felipe in Germany to do a video interview, second was
>> to spend a week in Italy at Vicenzo's to discuss baobaxia, and third
>> to write an article in Catalyst Journal for feminist studies about
>> the very unique methodologies of Brazilian independent networks.
>>
>> We had the feeling those tentative were not welcome, no feedback from
>> any of you when we insisted several times that baobaxia should apply
>> to NGI0 funding (where we are mentors), no answer when we asked about
>> feedback on the article when it was being written, no response
>> either; a one liner response to a proposition to come to tropixel and
>> do something together among other things using the incommon project
>> (that has financing).
>>
>> In those conditions, we decided not to make the trip to Brazil this
>> June, because we felt that without prior organisation, spending some
>> weeks in Brazil would not be of any use, and we are very sad about
>> it, because we love you very much and not only we are aware of the
>> difficult situ demandation you are all going through, but moreover we
>> really appreciate your unique work and research in Brazil.
>>
>> So please lets chat a bit more to bring our forces together there are
>> possibilities we can use, please do not give up.
>>
>>
>> Heart
>>
>> Natacha
>>
>> Natacha
>>
>>
>> On 5/8/19 11:54 PM, fabi borges wrote:
>>> I'm going to get into this. 
>>>
>>> My current situation is to be in São Paulo, with no grant for
>>> post-phd, no work, no money, 
>>> with the head full of delusional projects: organizing a
>>> crowndfunding campaign to construct two health posts for the
>>> indigenous Pataxó with the technoshamanism network, and trying to
>>> create a third world singular space/art. Wanting to take the actual
>>> president away, but emerged in the social forces that are contained
>>> and frightened at the moment, with the exception of the indigenous
>>> who are doing an incredible effort of resistance. Living in a
>>> collective house, doing organic gardening and swimming in the
>>> university swimming pool.
>>>
>>>  I'll find a way to go to Tropixel.
>>>
>>>
>>>  
>>>
>>>
>>> Em qua, 8 de mai de 2019 às 17:25, Jean-Noël Montagné
>>> <jnm@??? <mailto:jnm@autistici.org>> escreveu:
>>>
>>>     Salut à toutes et tous,
>>>
>>>     a word on my actual works:
>>>
>>>     less artworks, more political activities, more local activities,
>>>     I will
>>>     never travel again with plane, for political=ecological reasons
>>>     ( since
>>>     2015, my last trip to Indonesia for Transformaking ( hello
>>>     Venzha and
>>>     Argha !)]
>>>
>>>     --------
>>>
>>>     still maintaining the Nicelab.eu hackerspace in Nice, very few
>>>     people in
>>>     it, and our community is shorter and shorter. People are not
>>>     available
>>>     anymore for bricolage  ( may be because of average 2H30 on social
>>>     networks per day in France/ 5 hours per day on Internet...)
>>>
>>>     I try to orient the Nicelab topics on the subject of resilience
>>>     ( food,
>>>     energy, communication) .... the city of Nice have big big problems
>>>
>>>     -------
>>>
>>>     I give a lot of conferences to denounce the destruction of
>>>     democracy
>>>     (and other facts) by social networks  (some slides here
>>>     https://blog.nicelab.eu/conferences2017_18/ )
>>>
>>>     -------
>>>
>>>     in october 2018, I have been organising a huge event in Nice,
>>>     https://at06.eu =  136 conferences about ecological transition, in
>>>     cooperation with Nice university, with 200 attendes ( 70
>>>     researchers).
>>>     It was a huge succes, and we have published a 400 pages book,
>>>     and yes,
>>>     Jaromil,   ;-)  all this was done without a subside, it was a
>>>     completly
>>>     zero-budget event, no social network was used, and all videos of
>>>     the
>>>     event are on Peertube.... https://peertube.scic-tetris.org/
>>>     (server down
>>>     this evening)
>>>
>>>     the university has just provided the conference rooms.  Some
>>>     words in
>>>     English here about our event translated by Patrice Riemens :
>>>     https://at06.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/TransitionConventionNice2018.pdf
>>>
>>>     ----------
>>>
>>>     I try now to mount a municipalist movement in Nice, with the
>>>     help of
>>>     alternatiba network, a lot of other non-profit orgs, the green
>>>     party,
>>>     but the resistance of conservatism is enormous..... The
>>>     situation in
>>>     Nice is politically worse every day.....
>>>
>>>     ----------
>>>
>>>     and I grow my garden, and 2 children (6 and 14) .
>>>
>>>     Welcome aboard !
>>>
>>>     JN
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>     Le 08/05/2019 à 21:03, Patrice Riemens a écrit :
>>>     > Aloha,
>>>     >
>>>     > Ha great Rob, I think 'everybody' should do the same: where r
>>>     u now,
>>>     > what have you been doing ...
>>>     >
>>>     > me: I moved to Italy, in a village (Fiesole) above the big city
>>>     > (Firenze) where life is calmer and socializing (& socialism)
>>>     is still
>>>     > very much part of the local culture. I tend to be very happy
>>>     most of
>>>     > the time. Forthe rest I am an 'Idler' (cf mag.) & a
>>>     'Sl@acker'. But
>>>     > presently I am cat-sitting in ... Oslo.
>>>     >
>>>     > On the subject of abundance vs scaricity I am one with Felipe.
>>>     > Scarcity is an ideological construct that capitalist system
>>>     conform
>>>     > economists have imposed on us to make us fearful, angry, and
>>>     selfish.
>>>     > It completely distorts reality which is made up of abundance -
>>>     if you
>>>     > know where to look for it. Materially speaking resources are
>>>     indeed
>>>     > limited, but as Mahatma Gandhi said, there is enough for
>>>     everybody@s
>>>     > needs, but not for everybody@s greed. Immaterially speaking, the
>>>     > resources are simply endless, think of ideas. True, "Erst
>>>     kommt das
>>>     > Fressen, dann kommt die Moral." (-Brecht, 'first eat then
>>>     think), but
>>>     > then there too there is enough - but like the future of William
>>>     > Gibson, it's not evenly distributed.
>>>     >
>>>     > Ahwell, being rambling again ...
>>>     > Ciao, p+2D!
>>>     >
>>>     >
>>>     >
>>>     > On 2019-05-08 20:25, Rob van Kranenburg wrote:
>>>     >> that too, yes let’s reconnect, I will start by writing a
>>>     short text on
>>>     >> what I have been doing and why and where I am now, will take
>>>     a few
>>>     >> days, rob
>>>     >>
>>>     >>> Op 8 mei 2019, om 20:08 heeft Paula Vélez
>>>     <pvelezbr@??? <mailto:pvelezbr@gmail.com>> het
>>>     >>> volgende geschreven:
>>>     >>>
>>>     >>> it confirms that how lost I am-we are, somepart it the
>>>     stratosphere of
>>>     >>> space and time.
>>>     >>>
>>>     >>> El 8/5/19 a las 19:46, Rob van Kranenburg escribió:
>>>     >>>> I love brico pace.
>>>     >>>> Without a doubt we can say we are not surfing realtime waves :)
>>>     >>>>
>>>     >>>>> Op 8 mei 2019, om 19:38 heeft Felipe Fonseca
>>>     >>>>> <felipefonseca@???
>>>     <mailto:felipefonseca@riseup.net>> het volgende geschreven:
>>>     >>>>>
>>>     >>>>> No Paula, the idea on this thread was indeed next month.
>>>     Ricardo has
>>>     >>>>> just replied a message I sent last november...
>>>     >>>>>
>>>     >>>>> On 08/05/2019 07:25, Paula Vélez wrote:
>>>     >>>>>> @ricardo next year! still time to fasten your seatbelt.
>>>     >>>>>>
>>>     >>>>>> Felipe, Fabi, brazilians collegues,
>>>     >>>>>> from the colombian exils I send you hugs and let's work
>>>     together for
>>>     >>>>>> the Amazonian region and to take down Mr B from the
>>>     landscape.
>>>     >>>>>>
>>>     >>>>>> the subject for the next Tropixel sound prety well. I'll be
>>>     >>>>>> willing to
>>>     >>>>>> see where my projects are for 2020 to join you. I'll let
>>>     you know
>>>     >>>>>> because it motivates me to come.
>>>     >>>>>>
>>>     >>>>>> Paula
>>>     >>>>>>
>>>     >>>>>>
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