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abernard102@gmail.com 2013-04-23

Summary:

"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 ... 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 ... 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 ..."

Link:

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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Tags:

oa.new oa.advocacy oa.crowd oa.students oa.free_culture_foundation oa.announcements

Date tagged:

04/23/2013, 16:07

Date published:

04/23/2013, 12:07