[A2k] Forum "science and democracy" : Science and social movements

[Hervé Le Crosnier]

	Hello,

	We met during diverses events as WSIS, TCAD conf in Paris,
	a2k in Yale, and some other places. I wish to alert
	your attention on something that's happening, I
	think will be for your interest.

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	Freeing scientific publications, opening labs, acting for the
	knowledge commons, bringing conscience and responsability
	during the scientific process : a new alliance is
	occuring between scientists and the whole society.

	We can go further, and introduce a new challenge :
	"how can scientists fullfill the needs of social
	movements to deal with the new place of science and
	technics in our globalized world" ?

	For the knowledge ecology, to ascertain that new
	discoveries will be shared, particularly with poor
	people and poor countries, it's time to renew the
	links between scientists, their organisations and
	action models, and the others social movements.

	To protect nature and social linking, to avoid war
	and to fight pandemic, we need also to detach science
	from markets and powers, especially monopolist markets
	and military powers.

	The World Social Forum is a good place for such
	an encounter. There, with the whole diversity of social
	movements of the world,  we can exchange points of view and
	draft a perspective that aim to protect the planet and human
	rights. We need to draw a conception of research, from funding
	to sharing results,  that avoid submission to market and
	monopolies, but call for a world-wide social responsability.

	The Call for such an event to occur is on the web :
=09http://fsm-science.org

	I hope you will support it. May be as individuals
	or as associations, journals, institutions,...

	This call is the first step. Many conferences will occurs during
	such an event, and the participants can propose their
	opinion to build the program of the Forum science and democracy.

	Hope we met during this process.

Hervé Le Crosnier
Université de Caen
France