Re: Geurilla open access cookbook
On Thu, 2013-01-24 at 12:47 -0800, James Salsman wrote:
"The Open Access Guerilla Cookbook" came up in IRC just now. There is a better way to accomplish the same goals for people in the Global South and similar who need access to closed scholarly documents, and much better than forming elaborate conspiracies which could put the jobs of the "traitors" at risk, not to mention the freedom of everyone involved.
This is a specific instance of a very large ongoing debate in multiple different struggles, between supporters of strict pacifism/legalism and supporters of a diversity of tactics. I think that if you are uncomfortable with taking direct action to liberate scientific knowledge, you can still be a valuable participant in this broader movement, using tactics and strategies like the one you've described. However, I feel that it's wrong to condemn those who are willing to take those risks, and betray whatever institutions give them privilege. If we want any movement to grow, we need to be ready to accept a diverse range of tactics from comrades that we may or may not agree with on questions of specific actions, but that we must support writ large, since they are fighting the same battle we are, and we would ask the same of them. So to conclude: you've presented a good idea, and I will support you if you are persecuted for using it, as long as you recognize that those who publish things as the open access guerilla cookbook are trying to achieve the same goals as you, and you support their work towards those ends. (I also don't see how the Global South plays into this, and am not sure why you mention it.) -- Sent from Ubuntu -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "science-liberation-front" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to science-liberation-front+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE
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