---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Michel Bauwens <[email protected]> Date: Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 3:07 PM Subject: Fwd: International Open Letter on Brazil's Cultural Policy to President Dilma Rousseff, request for signatures, especially for friends and partners of p2p foundation To: p2p-foundation <[email protected]> Cc: Chris Watkins <[email protected]>, Josef Davies-Coates < [email protected]>, Hazel Henderson < [email protected]>, Samuel Rose <[email protected]>, "Paul B. Hartzog" <[email protected]>, Richard Adler < [email protected]>, Elifarley Callado Coelho Cruz <[email protected]>, Marcin Jakubowski <[email protected]>, Franco Iacomella < [email protected]>, Wouter Tebbens <[email protected]>, Richard David Hames <[email protected]>, Suresh Fernando <[email protected]>, Jean-François Noubel <[email protected]>, Franz Nahrada < [email protected]>, Fernanda Ibarra <[email protected]>, olivier auber <[email protected]>, olivierschulbaum < [email protected]>, Marc Dangeard <[email protected]> Dear friends, please consider urgently signing, individually and as organisation, the open letter to defend free culture in Brazil, see http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/open-letter-to-president-dilma-rousseff-signed... send your signatures to: [email protected] Please note, Silke writes: We need the signatures TODAY or TOMORROW (looks like we'll have a meeting with Rousseffs representative here in Dakar!); please add the message I've send with the letter, so that people can let me know ASAP if they sign!!! ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Silke Helfrich <[email protected]> Date: Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 7:06 AM Subject: International Open Letter on Brazil's Cultural Policy to President Dilma Rousseff To: Frédéric Sultan <[email protected]>, Miguel Said Vieira < [email protected]>, Beatriz Busaniche <[email protected]>, Michel Bauwens <[email protected]>, David Bollier <[email protected]>, Carolina Rossini <[email protected]>, Volker Grassmuck < [email protected]>, Hervé Le Crosnier <[email protected]>, Candido Grzybowski <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected], Jose Murilo <[email protected]> *FINAL VERSION!* COLLEAGUES; PLEASE PUT THIS ON ALL RELEVANT MAILING LISTS AND NETWORKS AND HELP US TO COLLECT A REASONABLE NUMBER OF SIGNATURES DURING THE NEXT FEW DAYS. A ALSO ADD A MESSAGE I PROPOSE TO SEND ALONG WITH THE LETTER Thank you so much, David for converting this into a more noble English version! :-). BEST SILKE Dear all, this is a* proposal to launch this week here in Dakar, Senegal, an International Open Letter to Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff on the possible rollback in Brazil's cultural policy. * The Commons Strategies Group (www.commonsstrategies.org) and some colleagues (especially Frédéric, Miguel, Volker and Carolina) cordially invite all of you, international civil society organizations, artists, creators or scientists *to undersign the letter*. Many thanks to all those who have contributed to put the information together. For those who need some more information, one of the many valuable sources is Volker Grassmuck's Website: - the voice of Brazil's civil society (we support by this letter) http://www.vgrass.de/?p=638 - background information http://www.vgrass.de/?p=611 *Please help us to make this a small but powerful initiative by sending a short e-mail to your respective e-mail list and to* [email protected] (Commons Strategies Group) until *Thursday February 10 at 9 a.m. Central European Time* The only reason for the short delay is the following: We just found out, that we have a wounderfull opportunity to launch the letter with the first signatures here at the World Social Forum in Dakar. Support to spread the word was offered by brazilian communication organizations. We tried to find a quit positive, supportive wording for the claim of Brazil's CSOs and even though, we are totally aware of the fact, that some important issues may have been left out, we hope you join the initiative by your signature! The idea is to launch the discussion, each of us can then pick up the left-out issues and add own initiatives, further open letters, articles and so on. All the best Silke -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net Connect: http://p2pfoundation.ning.com; Discuss: http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation Updates: http://del.icio.us/mbauwens; http://friendfeed.com/mbauwens; http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens Commons Strategies Group, http://www.commonsstrategies.org/ -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net Connect: http://p2pfoundation.ning.com; Discuss: http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation Updates: http://del.icio.us/mbauwens; http://friendfeed.com/mbauwens; http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens Commons Strategies Group, http://www.commonsstrategies.org/