Re: And there must be no bowing down - Today's Eleven

[Thomas Gramstad]

On Mon, 23 Mar 2020, Patrice Riemens wrote:


On 2020-03-23 20:57, John Hopkins wrote:



Cecile -- plz avoid editorializing on some of these links --
the following "now used against covid19" really is a huge
mis-statement. There is a tiny bit of anecdotal information
that chloroquine mitigates the virus' symptoms/effects... it is
*not* being 'used against'. There has been no clinical testing
on chloroquine/Covid19 that would meet minimum requirements from
any health/medical agency for safe use. *There is no 'cure' or
vaccine and will not be for many months!* Statements that support
a misplaced belief that there is a 'cure' available (such as Trump
has repeatedly made) are irresponsible.


Actually the article specifies that the chloroquine is not a
vaccine, but a medicine that - allegedly - slows down but does
not kill the virus, in that is it combats infection. It has been
included by the State Pharma agency in the provisory treatment plan
against Covid since it had been administered with good results on
patients in China.


What Patrice says is correct. Here in Norway chloroquine is
prescription only, and when the mitigation effect became known, many
medical doctors prescribed it for themselves and their families. But
now the government has stopped all commercial use of chloroquine,
saving all of it for hospital use, and has started conducting clinical
trials of it.

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/03/who-launches-global-megatrial-four-most-promising-coronavirus-treatments

Best,

Thomas Gramstad



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Re: Open letter to the Free Software Movement

[Thomas Gramstad]

Hi,

Thanks to Jaromil for putting forward important considerations
for the Free Software movement.

First of all: No, FSCONS didn't cancel/postpone event because of
anything related to the Stallman incident.
I'm a board member of the FSCONS organization, and also board
chair of FSCONS Norway, a satellite from the organization in
Sweden.

Both organizations are struggling with too few volunteers, the
organization in Sweden being paralyzed; at this point I'm not
even sure if there is a board any more.
FSCONS Norway is still standing and kind of swaying forward, but
the organiztion is not able at this point to organize a 3 track
event by itself alone.

FSCONS is a diversity-inclusive crosspoint of technological,
social and cultural trends, and has always been too edgy to fit
well with commercial and PR interests. I still hope it can be
restored.


Moving on to the Stallman incident and what it may mean:

Stallman is somewhere on the autistic or Asperger spectrum. At
the same time he is also a freewheeling hippie -- or he tries to
be, when his autistic control needs are not in the driver's seat.

We, the community around him, have been lenient in letting him
have his way with small (and not so small) autistic control
needs, in order to give him the freedom to create and advocate.
As a result, he developed more than a few prima donna traits, and
also, he failed to perceive certain changes of the times, changes
in tact, mores and general behavior.

Seen from one perspective, he imploded himself due to a lack of
personal sensitivity to others and to the times. Seen from
another perspective, we the community encouraged him to do this,
and actually drove him and rewarded him to go in that direction,
setting him up to inadvertently present himself as an "old pig"
as we would say in Norwegian, while he himself thought he was
defending a friend's memory.

How much can we blame a leader for prima donna traits that we
have encouraged and rewarded all the way?

I don't have the answer to that question, it's a question that
needs to be addressed by and in our community (and, I'm sure, in
many other communities as well).

I'm actually more optimistic in the long run, because on some
levels the current problems reflect that women and minorities are
claiming their seats at the table, creating more diverse and
equitable communities, where big egos must adapt and learn at
least a few basic social skills, and we all can work against the
cultivation of prima donna character traits.

Thomas Gramstad


On Thu, 26 Sep 2019, Jaromil wrote:


 Original Message 
Subject:  Open letter to the Free Software Movement
Date: 2019-09-26 17:02
From: Jaromil 
To: nettim...@kein.org

This is an open letter to all the people who, in their good faith, are
concerned about the recent events which have shaken the long-standing
leadership of the Free Software Movement and the GNU project.

Online:
https://www.dyne.org/open-letter-to-the-free-software-movement/

RT: https://twitter.com/DyneOrg/status/1177233578771591168

Context:
https://www.wired.com/story/richard-stallmans-exit-heralds-a-new-era-in-tech/

Dear hackers, first and foremost let us say that, as a collective and
in the true uncompromising spirit of the teachings of Free/Libre
Software/Society, we are capable of doing much better than what has
just happened.

Many of us work everyday towards ensuring that everyone, regardless of
their ethniticy, religion, gender, or neurotypicality, can
participate, learn and share in our communities. We do not claim we
are perfect, we sometimes make mistakes, some of them guided by
systemic patterns and structures of power still entangling us, and
some of them just due to our human nature . But we claim our right to
learn every day how to become better at including all contributions
and opinions, and this implies the ability of making mistakes without
being destroyed by them.

In the past years it has become clear that our movement and our ethos
has transformed the world as we know it, with all the courage and all
the mistakes considered; some of us rose to fame, while some others
wore masks, both as a message and as a protection from the regime of
global espionage.  In any case, many of us have sacrificed a great
deal of comfort in life to change what needed to be changed.

Let us not be mistaken about the cause that brought us here and let us
not forget where the injustice comes from.

Let us not forget then what we, the people, have successfully built so
far, resisting to the incredible pressure that corporate corruption
and military regimes have put on us. Let us not forget that the battle
is still raging and we are losing sight and positioning.

Open Source, as an economic model based on knowledge acquisition by
corporate powers, is part of the problem.

Free/Libre Software, as an uncompromising philosophy and ethics
focused on knowledge sharing and participation, is an important part
of the solution.

The era of 

Is UBS better than UBI?

[Thomas Gramstad]

From

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/universal-basic-services-idea-better-basic-income-citizens-social-housing-ucl-a7993476.html




Universal basic services could work better than basic income to 
combat 'rise of the robots', say experts


The state should make shelter, food, travel and IT services 
available to all, free at the point of use, rather than focusing 
on redistributing money, a team at UCL says


Ben Chapman @b_c_chapman 7 days ago 134 comments

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The radical proposals include building 1.5 million new social 
homes to provide rent-free accommodation to those in most need



UK citizens should receive free housing, food, transport and 
internet access to counter a “rise of the robots” that threatens 
to eradicate millions of jobs, new research has suggested.


Experts working for University College London’s Institute for 
Global Prosperity (IGP) say the universal ethos of the NHS should 
be expanded to cover other areas of life to mitigate the 
disruption caused by technological change.


The radical proposals include building 1.5 million new social 
homes to provide rent-free accommodation to those in most need 
and supplying one third of all meals for the estimated 2.2 
million households who struggle to experience food insecurity 
each year.



Half of Britons back plan to pay all UK citizens basic income
The Freedom Pass, which allows disabled people and those aged 
over 60 to travel locally for free, would be expanded to 
everyone. Basic internet and telephone access would also be paid 
for by the state, allowing everyone, including those on low or no 
incomes, to access work opportunities, “as well as participate in 
our democracy as informed citizens”, the IGP said.


The Institute has put forward the set of ideas, which it calls 
‘universal basic services”, as a more achievable and more 
desirable alternative to universal basic income (UBI).





The idea of UBI - paying everyone a guaranteed income regardless 
of whether they are in or out of work - has garnered lots of 
attention recently. But the IGP report’s authors argue that, 
while the aims of UBI may be laudable, the debate should move on 
to focus on more politically attainable goals.


Instead of attempting to alleviate poverty through redistributive 
payments and minimum wages, the state should instead provide 
everyone with the services they need to feel secure in society, 
the report’s authors argue.



0:00
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0:39
What is Finland's universal basic income scheme?


They say UBI is expensive. Paying all UK citizens the current 
Jobseeker's Allowance amount of £73.10 per week would cost almost 
£250bn per year - 13 per cent of the UK’s entire GDP.


By contrast, widening the social safety net through more 
comprehensive services would cost around £42bn, which can be 
funded by lowering the personal income tax allowance from £11,800 
to £4,300, according to the IGP’s analysis.


The experts say an expansion of basic services to everyone is 
highly progressive because those who rely on them will be 
disproportionately the least wealthy in society.


Almost half of the world's jobs, paying almost $16 trillion in 
wages, could be automated just by adapting existing technology in 
robotics, machine learning and Artificial Intelligence, a recent 
report by McKinsey estimated.


Professor Henrietta Moore, director of UCL’s Institute for Global 
Prosperity, said: “Without radical new ideas that challenge the 
status quo, we face a future where the changing shape of our 
society and labour market leaves more and more people struggling 
simply to achieve the basics – let alone having the resources and 
mental energy to allow themselves and their families to 
flourish.”



Business picture of the day
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She said that UBS was a logical extension of the widely accepted 
principle that health and education should be free at the point 
of use to everyone.


Commenting on the report, Labour Shadow Chancellor John 
McDonnell, said that rapid technological changes present a 
“profound challenge” for the economy and society.


“This report offers bold new thinking on how we can overcome 
those challenges and create an economy that is radically fairer 
and offers opportunities for all,” he said.


“It makes an important contribution to the debate around 
Universal Basic Income, and will help inform Labour’s thinking on 
how we can build an economy that truly works for the many not the 
few.”


Speaking at an event in London on Tuesday, the report’s authors, 
Professor Jonathan Portes, Howard Reed of Landman Economics and 
Andrew Percy from the IGP, said they intended their proposals to 
form a starting point for renewed debate on the issue.




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FSCONS highlights -- Oslo, 4-5 november 2017

[Thomas Gramstad]

Please spread this to the farthest reaches of the galaxy!


FSCONS: The Free Society Conference
November 4-5, Oslo, Norway
https://fscons.org/2017/

A meeting place for social change, focused on the intersection between 
technology, culture and society. The conference brings together people from a 
wide range of fields, and merges the technical with the social, seeking both to 
activate and challenge. Your input in open discussion and brainstorming are as 
important as the talks given during the conference.


Here are some highlights of the awesome schedule we are excited to share with 
you:


Keynotes:

Linda Sandvik @hyper_linda, Code Club co-founder, part of the Brexodus.

Linda likes solving problems that make the world a better place and has a 
passion for open data, open knowledge, citizen science and serious games. Come 
to her talk, and discover your natural affinity for teaching yourself new 
things.


Vladan Joler @TheCreaturesLab and Share Lab

Vladan and his Share Labs have mapped the power relations of Facebook CEOs, 
metadata explorations into browsing histories, quantifying political 
information warfare and creating stunning and insightful infographics of this 
data-driven research at https://labs.rs/


Meet Linda and Vladan at FSCONS, get your ticket today at 
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/fscons-2017-oslo-tickets-37008324896


Speaker highlights:

Jérémie Zimmermann, La Quadrature du Net online freedom organization, will 
speak about Hacking With Care, a collective composed of hackers-activists, 
caregivers, artists, sociologist, growing quite literally by contact and 
affinity.


Bradley Kuhn, free software activist, president of the Software Freedom 
Conservancy, on the Board of Directors of the Free Software Foundation, editor 
in chief of copyleft.org, will explain how the basis of free software and free 
culture licensing is crumbling.


Øyvind Kolås @hodefoting pippin, award-winning creator of digital media tools, 
GIMP/GEGL developer, digital artist. Learn how to create minimal graphical 
operating environments with Øyvind.


Vinay Gupta, @hexayurt, re.silience security in critical infrastructure, 
Ethereum release coordinator. Have you ever wondered how user interface shapes 
human identity?


Patricia Aas, @pati_gallardo, Vivaldi browser programmer & security noob, fell 
involuntarily into the media searchlights by asking some hard questions on the 
lack of transparency in the recent Norwegian goverment electronic vote. You can 
hear her story at FSCONS.


Patrice Riemens, cultural/Internet activist, 'FLOSSopher', advocate of Free 
Software, staff member of autonomist journal Multitudes, and member of the 
Dutch hackers club 'Hippies from Hell'. Cryptocurrency meets Universal Basic 
Income: Is this a good idea?


FSCONS also has 20 other speakers speaking on diverse topics ranging from 
digital activism and internet censorship to digital art and hacking.


We also have four hands-on workshops where you can learn video editing, 
lockpicking, how to make peer-to-peer applications and how to hack with care.


This is an intimate conference where you have an opportunity to have a 
discussion with speakers and other attendees.


FSCONS aims to be an accessible conference, and through the support of Fritt 
Ord and NUUG Foundation is able to offer tickets at the low price of 750NOK 
(about 80€)


Get your FSCONS ticket today at
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/fscons-2017-oslo-tickets-37008324896

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The Guardian's Summary of Julian Assange's Interview Went Viral and

[Thomas Gramstad]

https://theintercept.com/2016/12/29/the-guardians-summary-of-julian-assanges-interview-went-viral-and-was-completely-false/

The Guardian?s Summary of Julian Assange?s Interview Went Viral and
Was Completely False

Glenn Greenwald

December 29 2016, 2:41 p.m.

Julian Assange is a deeply polarizing figure. Many admire him and many
despise him (into which category one falls in any given year typically
depends on [1] one?s feelings about the subject of his most recent
publication of leaked documents).

But one?s views of Assange are completely irrelevant to this article,
which is not about Assange. This article, instead, is about a report
published this week by the Guardian which recklessly attributed to
Assange comments that he did not make. This article is about how those
false claims ? fabrications, really ? were spread all over the
internet by journalists, causing hundreds of thousands of people (if
not millions) to consume false news. The purpose of this article is to
underscore, yet again, that those who most flamboyantly denounce Fake
News, and want Facebook and other tech giants to suppress content in
the name of combatting it, are often the most aggressive and
self-serving perpetrators of it.

One?s views of Assange are completely irrelevant to this article
because, presumably, everyone agrees that publication of false claims
by a media outlet is very bad even when it?s designed to malign
someone you hate. Journalistic recklessness does not become noble or
tolerable if it serves the right agenda or cause. The only way one?s
views of Assange are relevant to this article is if one finds
journalistic falsehoods and Fake News objectionable only when deployed
against figures one likes.



The shoddy and misleading Guardian article, written by Ben Jacobs, was
published on December 24. [2]  It made two primary claims ? both of
which are demonstrably false. The first false claim was hyped in the
article?s headline: ?Julian Assange gives guarded praise of Trump and
blasts Clinton in interview.? This claim was repeated in the first
paragraph of the article: ?Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks,
has offered guarded praise of Donald Trump?.?

The second claim was even a worse assault on basic journalism. Jacobs
set up this claim by asserting that Assange ?long had a close
relationship with the Putin regime.? The only ?evidence? offered for
this extraordinary claim was that Assange, in 2012, conducted 8
interviews that were broadcast on RT. [3] With the claimed
Assange-Putin alliance implanted, Jacobs then wrote: ?In his interview
with la Repubblica, [Assange] said there was no need for WikiLeaks to
undertake a whistleblowing role in Russia because of the open and
competitive debate he claimed exists there.?

The reason these two claims are so significant, so certain to attract
massive numbers of clicks and shares, is obvious. They play directly
into the biases of Clinton supporters and flatter their central
narrative about the election: that Clinton lost because the Kremlin
used its agents, such as Assange, to boost Trump and sink Clinton. By
design, the article makes it seem as though Assange is heralding
Russia as such a free, vibrant and transparent political culture that
? in contrast to the repressive west ? no whistleblowing is needed,
all while praising Trump.

But none of that actually happened. Those claims are made up.

Despite how much online attention it received, Jacobs? Guardian
article contained no original reporting. Indeed, it did nothing but
purport to summarize the work of an actually diligent journalist:
Stefania Maurizi of the Italian daily la Repubblica, who traveled to
London and conducted the interview with Assange. Maurizi?s interview
was conducted in English, and La Repubblica published the transcript
online. [4] Jacobs? ?work? consisted of nothing other than purporting
to re-write the parts of that interview he wanted to highlight, so
that he and the Guardian could receive the traffic for her work.

Ever since the Guardian article was published and went viral, Maurizi
has repeatedly objected to the false claims being made about what
Assange said in their interview. But while western journalists keep
re-tweeting and sharing the Guardian?s second-hand summary of this
interview, they completely ignore Maurizi?s protests ? for reasons
that are both noxious and revealing.

To see how blatantly false is the Guardian?s claims, all one needs to
do is compare the Guardian?s claims about what Assange said in the
interview to the text of what he actually said.



To begin with, Assange did not praise Trump, guardedly or otherwise.
He was not asked whether he likes Trump nor did he opine on that.
Rather, he was asked what he thought the consequences would be of
Trump?s victory (?What about Donald Trump? What is going to happen?. .
. What do you think he means??). Speaking predictively, Assange
neutrally described what he believed would be the outcome:

Hillary Clinton?s election would 

Marvin Minsky, Pioneer in Artificial Intelligence, Dies at 88

[Thomas Gramstad]

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Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2016 19:46:06 -0500
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To: Infowarrior List 
Subject: [Infowarrior] - Marvin Minsky, Pioneer in Artificial Intelligence,
 Dies at 88

Marvin Minsky, Pioneer in Artificial Intelligence, Dies at 88

Glenn Rifkin

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/26/business/marvin-minsky-pioneer-in-artificial-intelligence-dies-at-88.html?_r=0

Marvin Minsky, who combined a scientist???s thirst for knowledge with a 
philosopher???s quest for truth as a pioneering explorer of artificial 
intelligence, work that helped inspire the creation of the personal computer 
and the Internet, died on Sunday night in Boston. He was 88.

His family said the cause was a cerebral hemorrhage.

Well before the advent of the microprocessor and the supercomputer, 
Professor Minsky, a revered computer science educator at M.I.T., laid the 
foundation for the field of artificial intelligence by demonstrating the 
possibilities of imparting common-sense reasoning to computers.

???Marvin was one of the very few people in computing whose visions and 
perspectives liberated the computer from being a glorified adding machine to 
start to realize its destiny as one of the most powerful amplifiers for 
human endeavors in history,??? said Alan Kay, a computer scientist and a 
friend and colleague of Professor Minsky???s.

Fascinated since his undergraduate days at Harvard by the mysteries of human 
intelligence and thinking, Professor Minsky saw no difference between the 
thinking processes of humans and those of machines. Beginning in the early 
1950s, he worked on computational ideas to characterize human psychological 
processes and produced theories on how to endow machines with intelligence.

Professor Minsky, in 1959, co-founded the M.I.T. Artificial Intelligence 
Project (later the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory) with his colleague 
John McCarthy, who is credited with coining the term ???artificial 
intelligence.???

Beyond its artificial intelligence charter, however, the lab would have a 
profound impact on the modern computing industry, helping to impassion a 
culture of computer and software design. It planted the seed for the idea 
that digital information should be shared freely, a notion that would shape 
the so-called open-source software movement, and it was a part of the 
original ARPAnet, the forerunner to the Internet.

Professor Minsky???s scientific accomplishments spanned a variety of 
disciplines. He designed and built some of the first visual scanners and 
mechanical hands with tactile sensors, advances that influenced modern 
robotics. In 1951 he built the first randomly wired neural network learning 
machine, which he called Snarc. And in 1956, while at Harvard, he invented 
and built the first confocal scanning microscope, an optical instrument with 
superior resolution and image quality still in wide use in the biological 
sciences.

His own intellect was wide-ranging and his interests were eclectic. While 
earning a degree in mathematics at Harvard he also studied music, and as an 
accomplished pianist, he would later delight in sitting down at one and 
improvising complex baroque fugues.


Marvin Minsky in an undated photo. Louis Fabian Bachrach
Professor Minsky was lavished with many honors, notably, in 1970, the Turing 
Award, computer science???s highest prize.

He went on to collaborate, in the early ???70s, with Seymour Papert, the 
renowned educator and computer scientist, on a theory they called ???The 
Society of Mind,??? which combined insights from developmental child 
psychology and artificial intelligence research.

Professor Minsky???s book ???The Society of Mind,??? a seminal work 
published in 1985, proposed ???that intelligence is not the product of any 
singular mechanism but comes from the managed interaction of a diverse 
variety of resourceful agents,??? as he wrote on his website.

Underlying that hypothesis was his and Professor Papert???s belief that 
there is no real difference between humans and machines. Humans, they 
maintained, are actually machines of a kind whose brains are made up of many 
semiautonomous but unintelligent ???agents.??? And different tasks, they 
said, ???require fundamentally different mechanisms.???

Their theory revolutionized thinking about how the brain works and how 
people learn.

???Marvin was one of the people who defined what computing and computing 
research is all about,??? Dr. Kay said. ???There were four or five supremely 
talented characters from back then who were early and comprehensive and put 
their personality and stamp on the field, and Marvin was among them.???

Marvin Lee Minsky was born on Aug. 9, 1927, in New York City. The precocious 
son of Dr. Henry Minsky, an eye surgeon who was chief of ophthalmology at 
Mount Sinai Hospital, and Fannie Reiser, a social activist and Zionist.

Fascinated by electronics and science, the 

Snowden: Video from Bjørnson prize award 2015-09-05

[Thomas Gramstad]

Hi,

You may find a video recording from the Bjørnson prize award 
2015, given to Snowden, and including an interview with Snowden 
by video conference, here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0Ql0t4YBxY .

Thomas Gramstad
tho...@gramstad.no


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nettime FSCONS 2011, Gothenburg, 11.-13. november 2011

[Thomas Gramstad]

Free Society Conference and Nordic Summit
http://fscons.org/

FSCONS is the Nordic countries' largest gathering for free culture, 
free software and a free society. The conference is organised yearly 
with 250-300 participants primarily from northern Europe. The main 
organiser is the Society for Free Culture and Software.

The date for the next summit is 11-11-11 in Gothenburg (Friday 
November 11 through Sunday November 13).

FSCONS exists to provide a meeting place where subjects covering 
society, culture and technology can be discussed and brought to life 
in peer discussions, without being confined to each particular subject 
area. It should provide both the physical and virtual space where 
people, organisations and governments, with interest in the three 
subject areas can meet in a participatory and constructive dialogue. 
The unique combination of topics creates a platform where 
cross-pollination between the areas can occur, and where new 
co-operations and thoughts can emerge which allows the participants to 
find new inspiration even from areas outside of their own.


Keynotes 2011: Christina Haralanova and Richard Stallman
http://blog.fscons.org/?p=649

Christina Haralanova is a feminist, a Free Software hacktivist and an 
IT trainer. Since fall 2010, Christina does a PhD in Communication 
Studies in Concordia University, under the supervision of Leslie 
Regan-Shade. As a free software hacktivist, Christina has participated 
actively in the creation of the Free Software Association  Bulgaria 
(FSA-BG), and is a member of FACIL  pour lappropriation collective de 
linformatique libre (since 2006) and Koumbit (since 2006) in Montreal, 
Canada. Christina was the Project Leader of the Legal Case Management 
Software (LCM) (2004-2005), an LPI proctor (2003  2005), a SPIP-bg 
translator.

Richard Stallman
Richard Matthew Stallman is a software developer and software freedom 
activist. In 1983 he announced the project to develop the GNU 
operating system, a Unix-like operating system meant to be entirely 
free software, and has been the projects leader ever since. With that 
announcement Stallman also launched the Free Software Movement. In 
October 1985 he started the Free Software Foundation. 

Other speakers
http://blog.fscons.org/


FSCONS Schedule:
http://my.fscons.org/schedule/


Registration:
http://fscons.org/registration


About FFKP

Föreningen fri kultur  programvara (FFKP) is a non-profit 
organisation based in Gothenburg. Since 2005 we've worked in support 
of a modern democratic society through multi-stakeholder open 
discussions around current issues in culture, technology and society. 
The society works as a hub for operations in Sweden and the Nordic 
countries. We work across borders, both geographically and 
organizationally, in order to support the discussion between different 
organisations and people. The society is supported in its projects by, 
among others, the Nordic Culture Fund, Nordic Culture Point, Google, 
Nokia, University of Gothenburg and the Swedish Post and 
Telecommunications Board. 
https://ffkp.se/node/151

Our vision is a modern, open democratic society where policies and 
decisions are made on the basis of the knowledge and opinions from 
multiple stakeholders. We believe that our future society must be 
built with the consideration of multiple stakeholders, and that 
suppressing, ignoring, or otherwise preventing or discouraging 
opinions of some stakeholders is not consistent with a democratic 
society. 

FSCONS Manifesto:
http://fscons.org/manifesto





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