[P2P-F] Fwd: [fcf_discussion] Save de date: oXcars and FCForum 2011.

Thu Sep 22 08:16:16 CEST 2011

Dear Chris, the announcement is already on Ning, but thanks for also
publishing it on the regular blog, oct 5 or after,

many thanks!!

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From: Simona Levi <info at conservas.tk>
Date: Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 7:52 PM
Subject: [fcf_discussion] Save de date: oXcars and FCForum 2011.
To: fcforum_discussion at list.fcforum.net

 27 to 29 of October 2011 - Barcelona*
Oxcars and FreeCultureForum 2011
Networks for a R-evolution

**Three days to think about what the Internet has done for us, and what we
can now do for it ;-).*
http://whois--x.net/english/oxcars-and-freecultureforum-2011

2011 is the year when the consciousness of a global network has emerged. The
massive and strategic use of social and digital networks has allowed the
movement of citizen empowerment to step up a notch, and has facilitated a
viral uprising of civil society in many parts of the world. The struggles to
defend the Internet have shown to be a fertile breeding ground for such
uprisings.

The #15M movement within the *#spanishrevolution* is organized online. By
the same token, one of its biggest strengths is the feedback process that
happens between the network and the streets, between the internet and the
men and women gathering in streets and squares.

*We have to continue promoting, facilitating and improving the efficient use
of the Internet to achieve mobilization and direct participation.*

During the previous edition of the FCForum it was already discussed that the
intense struggles by civil society within the Spanish state to defend the
Internet against the Sinde Law (a law to stop downloading) were the starting
point for a larger action.

*For 3 years now, the OXCARS and the FCForum*, held in Barcelona, have
provided international meeting spaces in which to build and coordinate
common tools for issues regarding free culture and the Internet. The FCForum
gathers the main organizations and active voices that are working on such
issues, while it is also an open space for all those who wish to understand,
deepen and participate in the responses before the pressing challenges that
face our connected societies.

This year, the FCForum will focus, inevitably, on the experience of the 15M
movement as a case study that can be exported to the global arena.

*The intention of the FCForum 2011 is for all participants to analyze and
build the best tools that the struggle needs at this point, both for its
organization and for the impact it aims to have here in Spain, as case of
study to be applied more globally.*
*
Some of the questions that we will discuss this year are:*

Which tools and methods of online organization and communication have
allowed the emergence of the #15M movement? How can these practices be
improved? How have social networks facilitated a change in the respect shown
between people from different groups? What dangers threaten the neutral,
open Internet which we know and want to preserve, at the local and global
levels? How has the Internet facilitated the creation of new ways of
producing and spreading culture? How can some of those methods become a way
to avoid artists being used as an excuse to privatize the Web? What should
we do with SGAE (the main management organization in Spain) now that its
directives have been taken to court ;-)?

*This gathering of 2 days will be preceded, as always, by the OXCARS, the
biggest free culture event of all time.  A great celebration of free culture
that will serve as a warm-up event.*

We believe it will be a very useful space for the empowerment of the
movement.

We welcome and await you all.

This year we will be helped along in our discussions, amongst many others,
by John Perry Barlow, who in 1996 lit the spark with his ‘declaration of
independence in ciberspace’, Alex de la Iglesia, who stepped down from his
post as Director of the Film Academy in protest against the Sinde law, as
well as many of the hackers and people who have created tools to assist the
actions of the 15M movement, such as the network N-1.cc.

*Three days to think about what the Internet has done for us, and what we
can now do for it ;-).*

Location
Thursday 27th October, 20.30 Oxcars Sala Apolo - Barcelona
Friday 28th and Saturday 29th from 11h to 21h at the Rambla in front of
Santa Monica and at Santa Monica, Drassanes metro stop
*
Site:
http://www.2011.fcforum.net/

Program:
http://www.2011.fcforum.net/topics/

English translation will be provide.
*
Please, help to disseminate the info.*
*
http://oxcars11.whois--x.net/en/
http://whois--x.net/english/the-oxcars
http://whois--x.net/english
http://2011.fcforum.net
http://fcforum.net
http://www.facebook.com/LaEXnet
Twitter at @fcforum_net (inglés)
Identi.ca at @fcforum (inglés)
Twitter at @X_net_ (castellano)

*X.net
**http://whois--x.net*

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