[P2P-F] Fwd: International Open Letter on Brazil's Cultural Policy to President Dilma Rousseff, request for signatures, especially for friends and partners of p2p foundation

Tue Feb 8 09:21:03 CET 2011

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From: Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004 at gmail.com>
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
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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-by-international-nizations-academics-and-activists-in-support-of-the-work-of-the-brazilian-society-and-government-for-the-cultural-commons/2011/02/08

send your signatures to: Silke.Helfrich at gmx.de

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 <Silke.Helfrich at gmx.de>
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 <fredericsultan at gmail.com>, Miguel Said Vieira <
miguelsvieira at gmail.com>, Beatriz Busaniche <bea at vialibre.org.ar>, Michel
Bauwens <michelsub2004 at gmail.com>, David Bollier <david at bollier.org>,
Carolina Rossini <carolina.rossini at gmail.com>, Volker Grassmuck <
vgrass at rz.hu-berlin.de>, Hervé Le Crosnier <herve at info.unicaen.fr>, Candido
Grzybowski <candido at ibase.br>
Cc: dakar at bienscommuns.org, Jose Murilo <josemurilo at gmail.com>

 *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*
Silke.Helfrich at gmx.de (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

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