[sudo-discuss] Fwd: [FC-discuss] After 9 Years of free culture advocacy, Students for Free Culture is now the Free Culture Foundation

Mon Apr 22 15:12:32 PDT 2013

just sayin, but the free culture party already has its tags up in clarion
and lilac alleys in the mission.

On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 3:10 PM, Eddan Katz <eddan at clear.net> wrote:

> Plus, no one really seemed to get the Berkeley 60s reference to the
> Students for a Democratic Society.
>
> It would make some sense to make stronger connections with the Free
> Culture Forum fcforum.net in Europe, which has been impressively
> successful over the years.
>
>
> sent from eddan.com
>
> On Apr 22, 2013, at 3:02 PM, Matthew Senate <mattsenate at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Free Culture Foundation <webleader+rss-bot at freeculture.org>
> Date: Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 2:15 PM
> Subject: [FC-discuss] After 9 Years of free culture advocacy, Students for
> Free Culture is now the Free Culture Foundation
> To: discuss at freeculture.org
>
>
> We are excited to announce the _Free Culture Foundation_ — the new name
> of the organization formerly known as _Students for Free Culture_. This
> change reflects the evolution of the organization over the first nine
> years of its life to support free culture advocacy in communities beyond
> students, to emphasize coalition building with existing free culture
> organizations, and to renew our commitment to free culture as an issue
> of social justice.
>
> **1. First, this change reflects an expansion of our activism to non-
> student communities.**
>
> Although our organization was started within colleges, universities, and
> high schools, we have grown to involve the work of many non-students.
> Many of our members and leaders have graduated and continue to
> participate in the organization.  We want an organization that not only
> retains its members but has room for those who graduate and still wish
> to be organize around free culture. Many non-students have joined and
> support our advocacy and activism. To acknowledge the fluidity of
> student status as well as the valuable contributions of non-students to
> our organizations, we have selected a more inclusive name that reflects
> the breadth of our constituency.
>
> That said, with dozens of student chapters that have been established
> around the world over the years, our roots and our base will remain in
> the academy. A new name and an increased commitment to non-students does
> not reflect a retreat from our strong commitment to students and to
> student activism in free culture. Although we plan to support local and
> non-academic chapters, our organization will continue a strong emphasis
> on campus organizing.
>
> Just as we have outgrown our name, we have outgrown our old
> institutional structure. With the support of Joseph Dempsey, we are in
> the process of filing as a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization.
>
> **2. Second, as the institutional landscape around free culture has
> evolved over the last nine years, we aim to reflect a changed position
> in an ecosystem of free culture organizations.**
>
> There are many organizations that carry out invaluable work benefiting
> the free culture movement: the [Free Software Foundation][1],
> [Electronic Frontier Foundation][2], [Mozilla Foundation][3], [Wikimedia
> Foundation][4], [ Open Knowledge Foundation][5], [Public Knowledge][6],
> [Creative Commons][7], and many other organizations have been founded,
> grown enormously, and changed, over the last decade. Today, the broader
> free culture movement does much more than our initial goals of promoting
> free software and free cultural works. The Free Culture Foundation seeks
> to fill a space between these organizations and bring them together.
>
> A decade ago, the free culture movement focused on exploring
> possibilities and setting goals. After nine years of work in the broader
> free culture community, we can affirm a strong commitment to successful
> models of free culture put in practice by organizations like the
> Wikimedia Foundation, the [Definition of Free Culture Works][8], the
> open access movement, and the Free Software Foundation. The free culture
> movement has also grown in breadth. Our work no longer involves only
> promoting increased use of free software and free cultural works. With
> our strong history of organizing, we aim to build upon, complement, and
> fill some of the spaces between the many other organizations to support
> a broad range of free culture issues.
>
> **3. Finally, we seek to reiterate a renewed commitment to free culture
> as issue of social justice and to connect more effectively with other
> activists and movements working on these issues.**
>
> As [our annoncement][9] of support for the [Empowermentors
> Collective][10] reads, "It is imperative that we acknowledge that there
> are systemic structures of control embedded in our society which
> permeate our movement. Refusing  to do so in an effort to
> compartmentalize and focus on our own goals is detrimental to our
> success. We cannot afford to be an isolated, inward-facing movement." We
> do not live merely in coexistence with media and technology, but we live
> in and through them. They continuously influence how we communicate,
> frame our understandings of ourselves, and mediate how we experience the
> world.
>
> In our continued advocacy, we want to emphasize that free culture
> reflects not only an approach to sharing but an important way to promote
> autonomy. Our movement should be grounded in the needs of those most
> exploited by private ownership over technology, information, and media.
> Songs, films, books, and apps do not need freedom, people do.
>
> In these next steps, there remain many critical open questions and
> unfilled needs. We invite all free culture activists to participate in
> this ongoing evolution and expansion of our organization and our
> movement over the coming months. We encourage existing or former
> participants to reconnect. To join our community, please subscribe to
> our [discussion list][11].
>
>    [1]: https://www.fsf.org/
>
>    [2]: https://www.eff.org/
>
>    [3]: https://www.mozilla.org/foundation/
>
>    [4]: https://wikimediafoundation.org/
>
>    [5]: http://okfn.org/
>
>    [6]: http://publicknowledge.org/
>
>    [7]: https://creativecommons.org/
>
>    [8]: http://freedomdefined.org/
>
>    [9]: http://freeculture.org/blog/2013/01/31/announcing-the-
> empowermentors-collective-a-group-for-women-of-color-and-queer-people-
> of-color/
>
>    [10]: http://libreplanet.org/wiki/Group:Empowermentors
>
>    [11]: http://lists.freeculture.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
>
> URL:
> http://freeculture.org/blog/2013/04/22/after-9-years-of-free-culture-advocacy-students-for-free-culture-is-now-the-free-culture-foundation/
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