Dear Chris, the announcement is already on Ning, but thanks for also publishing it on the regular blog, oct 5 or after,<br><br>many thanks!!<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Simona Levi</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:info@conservas.tk">info@conservas.tk</a>></span><br>
Date: Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 7:52 PM<br>Subject: [fcf_discussion] Save de date: oXcars and FCForum 2011.<br>To: <a href="mailto:fcforum_discussion@list.fcforum.net">fcforum_discussion@list.fcforum.net</a><br><br><br>
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<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">27 to 29 of October 2011 -
Barcelona<b><br>
Oxcars and FreeCultureForum 2011<br>
Networks for a R-evolution<br>
�<br>
</b></font><big><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><b>Three
days to think about what the Internet has done for us, and
what we can now do for it ;-).</b></font></big><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><br>
<a href="http://whois--x.net/english/oxcars-and-freecultureforum-2011" target="_blank">http://whois--x.net/english/oxcars-and-freecultureforum-2011</a><br>
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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. <br>
<br>
The #15M movement within the <b>#spanishrevolution</b> 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.<br>
<br>
<b>We have to continue promoting, facilitating and improving the
efficient use of the Internet to achieve mobilization and direct
participation.</b><br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
<b>For 3 years now, the OXCARS and the FCForum</b>, 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.<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
<b>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.</b><br>
<b><br>
Some of the questions that we will discuss this year are:</b><br>
<br>
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 ;-)?<br>
<br>
<b>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.</b><br>
<br>
We believe it will be a very useful space for the empowerment of
the movement.<br>
<br>
We welcome and await you all.<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
<b>Three days to think about what the Internet has done for us,
and what we can now do for it ;-).</b><br>
<br>
Location<br>
Thursday 27th October, 20.30 Oxcars Sala Apolo - Barcelona<br>
Friday 28th and Saturday 29th from 11h to 21h at the Rambla in
front of Santa Monica and at Santa Monica, Drassanes metro stop� <br>
<b><br>
Site:<br>
<a href="http://www.2011.fcforum.net/" target="_blank">http://www.2011.fcforum.net/</a><br>
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Program:<br>
<a href="http://www.2011.fcforum.net/topics/" target="_blank">http://www.2011.fcforum.net/topics/</a><br>
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English translation will be provide.<br>
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