[p2p-research] [fcf_discussion] Internet defense: Successful response of the civil society

Thu Apr 8 08:05:40 CEST 2010

superb  organizing by Simona and her team and all others of the broad
movement who participated, very impressive!

one question though, it seems the US streams video are now 'private' ...

(I was also looking for a beginning to end edit of my own contribution for
later use)

Michel

On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 11:03 PM, simona.conservas.eXgae
<info at conservas.tk>wrote:

> -- Special thanks for the colaboration to Michel Bauwens, Jeremie
> Zimmermann, Ignasi Labastida, YProductions --
>
> Thanks to all, the civil response to the summit of Ministers of Culture
> from the 27 European Union countries and their meeting with the Forum of
> Cultural Industries was a massive success.
>
> The civil society succed to desactivate the lobbies discours.
>
> Down below a report of the last struggle, but first the incredible amount
> of material has been produced over the last few days, so that you can spread
> it and use it.
>
> 1 - Videos to explain our demands. Very didactic ones so that even a
> minister can understand it (In english):
> The Tracks Collector:
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDpFe3CbVBw
> http://d-evolution.fcforum.net/en/areas-de-accion/el-cobrador-del-track/
> WE create, We decide:
> http://www.youtube.com/watch#!v=3wd4FUrzKZc&feature=related
> http://d-evolution.fcforum.net/en/areas-de-accion/nosotros-decidimos/
> Sharing is Necessary:
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpAAJZYVlQM
> http://d-evolution.fcforum.net/en/areas-de-accion/compartir-es-necesario/
> I'm a co-producer:
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oy7s_JoHGQs
> http://d-evolution.fcforum.net/en/areas-de-accion/vicky-cristina-barcelona/
>
> Among other things, a great illustrator, in collaboration with eXgae, has
> synthesized the discourse on net neutrality to make it easily understood:
> THE INTERNET WILL NOT BE ANOTHER TV
> http://internetnoseraotratv.net/en/
>
> To explain ACTA (the 2 best explainations for spanish countries):
> http://d-evolution.fcforum.net/en/areas-de-accion/acta/
>
> To explain The Report 301:
> http://d-evolution.fcforum.net/en/areas-de-accion/amigo-norte-americano/
>
> An then the missing panel just for pleasure:
> http://d-evolution.fcforum.net/en/areas-de-accion/la-ponencia-que-falta/
>
> We hope that all these videos will be useful and that the poster will
> invade the streets.
>
> REPORT OF THE CIVIL RESPONSE TO THE SUMMIT OF MINISTERS OF CULTURE FROM THE
> EU AND THEIR MEETING WITH THE Forum of Cultural Industries
> http://d-evolution.fcforum.net/en/
>
> The parallel citizen summit, the (D') Evolution Summit – which was
> organized in order to put forward specific proposals and urgent demands on
> fundamental rights in Internet, and to give a real-time account of what was
> being said inside the official congress – allowed civil society to keep an
> eye on what was being said about its future.
>
> More than *5000* people (http://www.ustream.tv/channel/d-evolution) were
> able to connect to the live internet broadcast, and 700 social networks
> worked spontaneously to ensure that the information circulated immediately.
> Thousands of blogs helped to spread D’) Evolution (
> http://www.google.es/search?q=
> "(D')Evolution+Summit"&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:es-ES:official&client=firefox-a)...
>
> The fictional character the Tracks Collector (
> http://d-evolution.fcforum.net/en/areas-de-accion/el-cobrador-del-track/),
> an artist who tries to collect his legitimate royalties generated by works
> licensed under Creative Commons, which the cultural industries do not want
> to pay him, attracted more than *1000* fans in a single day.
> The (D’) Evolution action with Leo Bassi called "No pagaremos el pato/We
> will Not Carry the Can for a cultural industry that does not want to
> reinvent itself" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4eAc4uaaZk) was the lead
> image in all the papers.
>
> Every day, half an hour after the end of each session at the Forum on
> Cultural Industries, we broadcast the edited highlights with live
> commentary. The edit showing Eduard Punset directly addressing the Spanish
> Minister, Ángeles González Sinde, which we posted online with the title La
> Leccion de Punset/Punset's Lesson (
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lefG4P0_jRk) had 90,000 visits in the first
> two days, making it one of the *5 most-watched videos* on the net. It has
> now exceeded *150,000 visits*.
>
> What the ministers and industries had come to Barcelona for, didn't go as
> planned.
> We were able to verify, live, that when they are watched over, our rulers
> are not able to favour private interests with impunity, or to implement
> simplistic control policies based on obsolete formulas.
>
> 1 – The speeches supporting the interests of lobbies start to get a bit
> uncomfortable. What they usually do behind closed doors (and will continue
> to do). turns against them when it is discussed in public and has to contend
> with arguments.
>
> This is why:
> a) The grand speeches aimed at industry heavyweights, promising to get rid
> of anything that is not controlled by the multinational industry that is
> monopolizing and hindering the circulation of knowledge, have been strongly
> contested by civil society which responded in real time, by wise men like
> Punset and Bauwens, by a section of some industry participants in the forum
> who are already working on new formats and by a few of the cultural leaders
> from the 27 countries, who do not always share the simplistic propaganda
> they are dealt. We saw how in only 24 hours, the aggressive, manipulative
> speech with which the spanish Ministery of culture opened the Forum, turned
> into ambiguous and confuse speeches, in which nothing precise is said.
>
> b) The EU Commission on Culture and Education decided not to present the
> Green Book on Cultural Industries during the meeting in Barcelona, as had
> been previously announced. Since February, they knew that the meeting would
> be contested on copyright issues, and we were informed that they would not
> present the conclusions in order to avoid “affecting internal equilibrium”.
> So we know that the taliban discourse is being discussed internally and
> we’re glad.
>
> 2 – Another phenomenon that was fascinating to watch is how, with an absent
> gaze, grasping at a pre-digital imaginary in a world that has already
> overtaken them in intelligence and capacity, they go around in circles
> discussing representativity.
> In Spain alone, right now, there are at least 300,000 people actively and
> openly working to defend their rights in the digital environment:
> "The Manifesto in Defense of Fundamental Rights on the Internet" (
> http://wiki.manifiestointernet.org/wiki/Página_Principal<http://wiki.manifiestointernet.org/wiki/P%C3%A1gina_Principal>)
> has been published and adopted by over 150,000 webs in Spanish, and
> translated into 10 languages. Its page on FaceBook currently has more than
> 230,000 members. RedSOStenible (http://red-sostenible.net/) has the
> support of 27,400 web sites. Sinde's List (http://lalistadesinde.net), a
> list of web sites that self-report themselves for supposedly including
> illegal links, is now 1391 pages long.
>
> But many figures from the ministeries say that the proposals coming from
> civil society "don't represent anybody".
> In the current political system there are 2 key things that can
> irredeemably tip the balance one way or another. One of them, civil society
> has no access to: Money. But civil society does have access to the other
> thing. This second thing is precisely about “representatitvity”, which has
> changed its meaning since the Internet started to allow direct democracy:
> Votes. A person is only representative if somebody feels represented by it.
> The Internet represents itself, it speaks loud and clear. Each and every
> one of the 300,000 people who protest do not represent, but simply are, this
> mass movement.
> There is no longer a need for vertical associations in order to make
> ourselves heard. Passive delegation is over, whether they like it or not. We
> elect people every four years so that they can work in the service of the
> common good.
>
> The Internet has a Memory and it will remember those who approve unfare
> laws without the consensus of those who they "represent".
> Citizens have asked to be heard, and put forward solutions (
> http://fcforum.net).
>
> The Ministries has denied an audience, and ignored the solutions. But the
> answer has been brought to us loud and clear by the ninja Van Damme
> (Guillermo Corral Van Damme, General Director of Policy and Cultural
> Industries): This is war. “We have to win the Internet war”.
> Politicians declare war on their constituents. If they want war, they will
> get war. A war where there may be no blood, but what is at stake is the
> intellectual and economic devastation of digital development, handed over to
> directors and entrepreneurs who defend obsolete monopolies and don’t allow
> anything else to grow around it.
>
> There is no doubt that this war will be won by civil society, just as the
> earth was eventually proven to be round and women ended up winning the vote.
> The question is when, and how much suffering and obscurantism we will be
> able to avoid.
>
> Fine. And we continue.
> An other, essential appointment, in Granada, where the EU Ministers of
> Telecommunications and the Information Society will meet. We will be there,
> because THE INTERNET WILL NOT BE ANOTHER TV (
> http://internetnoseraotratv.net/en/)
>
> Here some press realease of the event:
>
> http://www.elpais.com/articulo/tecnologia/Vigilantes/ministros/elpepucul/20100329elpeputec_4/Tes
>
> http://www.elpais.com/articulo/tecnologia/Punset/Hay/tendencia/considerar/Internet/propiedad/Estado/tenemos/evitar/elpeputec/20100330elpeputec_9/Tes
>
> http://www.lavanguardia.es/cultura/noticias/20100329/53898125802/barcelona-campo-de-batalla-digital.html
>
> http://www.elpais.com/articulo/cultura/estrella/copyright/elpepicul/20100330elpepicul_2/Tes
> http://www.publico.es/culturas/303643/sinde
>
> http://www.elperiodico.com/default.asp?idpublicacio_PK=46&idioma=CAS&idnoticia_PK=700835&idseccio_PK=1009
>
> http://www.elpais.com/articulo/cultura/noticias/accion/comun/elpepicul/20100331elpepicul_1/Tes
> http://www.20minutos.es/noticia/665818/0/leo/bassi/internet/
>
> http://www.elperiodico.com/default.asp?idpublicacio_PK=46&idioma=CAS&idnoticia_PK=700611&idseccio_PK=1013
>
> http://www.europapress.es/catalunya/noticia-alternativa-foro-industrias-culturales-ve-obsoleto-no-tener-cuenta-internet-20100329155844.html
>
> http://www.rtve.es/noticias/20100329/punset-no-se-intente-controlar-internet-como-se-hizo-mujeres/325791.shtml
>
> http://www.vilaweb.cat/noticia/3709217/protestes-control-dinternet-tanquen-concert-fossar-moreres.html
>
> http://www.elpais.com/articulo/cultura/contracumbre/creadores/exige/nuevos/modelos/gestion/elpepicul/20100330elpepicul_1/Tes
>
> http://www.elpais.com/articulo/cultura/Compartir/archivos/crimen/elpepicul/20100330elpepicul_4/Tes
> http://www.abc.es/agencias/noticia.asp?noticia=329471
> http://www.rebelion.org/noticia.php?id=103255
> http://noticias.com/leo-bassi-contra-el-control-de-internet.198604
>
> Besos,
> http://d-evolution.fcforum.net/en/
> http://red-sostenilbe.net
> http://exgae.net
> http://fcforum.net
>
> Please, spread, copy and use this material
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