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-        <h1>Guerilla Open Access Manifesto</h1>
-
-<pre>
-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
-</pre>
+        <h1>c9 Manifesto</h1>
+
+        <p>There is no c9 manifesto but a collection of manifestos found on the
+        Internet that share same vision. Hope you share the same vision.</p>
+
+        <h2>Guerilla Open Access Manifesto</h2>
+
+        <pre>
+        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
+        </pre>
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