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        <h1>c9 Manifesto</h1>

        <p>There is no c9 manifesto but a collection of manifestos found on the
        Internet that share same vision. </p>

        <h2>Making The Network Work</h2>

        <p>From
        <a href="http://www.sterneck.net/cyber/online-communities/index.php">Sternececk.net</a>;</p>

         <pre>
         Every citizen, regardless of their economic circumstances,
         should be able to share the benefits of the Information Age -
         including better communications, greater participation,
         electronic life long learning, and e-commerce.
         To achieve this they should have access to local community
         technology centres, plus public online forums and services
         to create an online community. The centres will provide
         technical support and help 'on the ground', the forums will
         be 'virtual spaces' for online communities related to localities.
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        <h2>Guerilla Open Access Manifesto</h2>

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        Information is power. But like all power, there are those who want to keep it for
        themselves. The world's entire scientific and cultural heritage, published over centuries
        in books and journals, is increasingly being digitized and locked up by a handful of
        private corporations. Want to read the papers featuring the most famous results of the
        sciences? You'll need to send enormous amounts to publishers like Reed Elsevier.

        There are those struggling to change this. The Open Access Movement has fought
        valiantly to ensure that scientists do not sign their copyrights away but instead ensure
        their work is published on the Internet, under terms that allow anyone to access it. But
        even under the best scenarios, their work will only apply to things published in the future.
        Everything up until now will have been lost.

        That is too high a price to pay. Forcing academics to pay money to read the work of their
        colleagues? Scanning entire libraries but only allowing the folks at Google to read them?
        Providing scientific articles to those at elite universities in the First World, but not to
        children in the Global South? It's outrageous and unacceptable.

        "I agree," many say, "but what can we do? The companies hold the copyrights, they
        make enormous amounts of money by charging for access, and it's perfectly legal -
        there's nothing we can do to stop them." But there is something we can, something that's
        already being done: we can fight back.

        Those with access to these resources - students, librarians, scientists  - you have been
        given a privilege. You get to feed at this banquet of knowledge while the rest of the world
        is locked out. But you need not - indeed, morally, you cannot keep this privilege for
        yourselves. You have a duty to share it with the world. And you have: trading passwords
        with colleagues, filling download requests for friends.



        Meanwhile, those who have been locked out are not standing idly by. You have been
        sneaking through holes and climbing over fences, liberating the information locked up by
        the publishers and sharing them with your friends.

        But all of this action goes on in the dark, hidden underground. It's called stealing or
        piracy, as if sharing a wealth of knowledge were the moral equivalent of plundering a
        ship and murdering its crew. But sharing isn't immoral - it's a moral imperative. Only
        those blinded by greed would refuse to let a friend make a copy.

        Large corporations, of course, are blinded by greed. The laws under which they operate
        require it - their shareholders would revolt at anything less. And the politicians they
        have bought off back them, passing laws giving them the exclusive power to decide who
        can make copies.

        There is no justice in following unjust laws. It's time to come into the light and, in the
        grand tradition of civil disobedience, declare our opposition to this private theft of public
        culture.

        We need to take information, wherever it is stored, make our copies and share them with
        the world. We need to take stuff that's out of copyright and add it to the archive. We need
        to buy secret databases and put them on the Web. We need to download scientific
        journals and upload them to file sharing networks. We need to fight for Guerilla Open
        Access.

        With enough of us, around the world, we'll not just send a strong message opposing the
        privatization of knowledge - we'll make it a thing of the past. Will you join us?

        Aaron Swartz

        July 2008, Eremo, Italy
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        c9 team.
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