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What do we want to achieve:
Build a space for solidarity around projects we like. 

Project ideas: [moved to http://pad.constantvzw.org/p/courtcases.activities ]

Who do we talk to:
Specialised actors (academics, institutions, cultural producers) or mass mobilization? At this point, the first group?

I propose: A coalition of fellow travellers in support of free libraries. We share books coaltion.

Two key modes of dissemination:
    
    - cultural institutions
    - academic institutions

What are we talking about:
five basic principles, no need to agree on all of them:

• people have a right to access knowledge irrespective of their institutional or geographic position
• people have right to read things in their own way, without supervision of any authority
• act of reading must not be monetized at all times
• people have the right to read together
• people have a right to b uil d /produce knowledge domains
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Two arguments at the same time:

• why the paradigm shifts needs to happen, we need to explain that/why knowledge order based on scarce objects is no longer working
  • prese r ve freedom (privacy)
  • changing patterns of use (large data sets, rather than indivdual texts)
  • inclusion

• what kind of knowledge order / institutions do we buil d under these new conditions of a b undance
  • against new monopolies which are based on the relationships between objects
  • decentralized, diverse in perspectives but accessible

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• people want access to knowledge irrespective of their institutional, economic or geographic position
• we want access to knowledge irrespective of our institutional, economic or geographic position
• people deserve access to knowledge irrespective of their institutional, economic or geographic position
• people should be able to access to knowledge irrespective of their institutional, economic or geographic position
• everybody should have the freedom to access to knowledge irrespective of their institutional, economic or geographic position
• all of us should have the possibility to access to knowledge irrespective of their institutional, economic or geographic position

• people should have a possibility (mmmm) to read things in their own way, without supervision of any authority
• acts of reading must not always be monetized at all times
• it should be possible for people to read together
• people have a right to develop knowledge domains

Not just solutions, but also principles
User/reader. Ref. Free software. Alliance between librarian and reader, developer and user.
Free software embedded in, enforced through intellectual property. What is the enforcement strategy here?

There needs to be a space free of enforcement, free of impositions. Will it be another promise to fail?
connect to multiplicity?
These points align with Public School and aaaaarg as two interdependenendenenened projects.
Solidarity does not come from signing definitions, but we need a hint. Solidarity is also a problematic word.
Is it a traditional, liberal model seeping through. What values are we going to see shine through when we look back. Libraries might be a metaphor, reference we need to go beyond (what about other forms of knowledge).