Annual Gauteng Provincial Summit: Please join us and DEMAND YOUR RIGHT TO KNOW
Throughout last year the Right2Know Campaign continued its tireless efforts to build a people’s movement to support community struggles for access to information and freedom of expression.
Join us on 9 Feb as we discuss the way forward in 2015 for R2K in Gauteng and in South Africa.
The R2K Gauteng Provincial Summit will be immediately followed by the JOHANNESBURG BOOK LAUNCH of Jane Duncan’s, The Rise of the Securocrats: the case of South Africa @ 16:00.
(RSVP to Bongani Xezwi at bongani.xezwi@gmail.com)
The legs of the Right2Know Campaign are:
1. STOP SECRECY: stop the Secrecy Bill & any other law or practice that abuses secrecy and limits the constitutional right to openness
2. INFORMATION ACCESS NOW: solidarity with communities and struggles demanding information to protect their rights and win basic services. Everyone has the right to free information, full inclusion & fair process!
3. MORE MEDIA! NOT LESS: promoting a diverse media that is independent of government & corporate control, & calling for affordable internet & telephone access: the right 2 communicate! Demanding a Digital Terrestrial Television process that is fair, open and which democratises the communications space. FREE Set Top Boxes for ALL!
4. JUSTICE FOR WHISTLEBLOWERS: when people become aware of wrongdoing they should be able to blow the whistle without fear. R2K works to give support & solidarity to whistleblowers!
5. THE RIGHT2PROTEST!: Protecting the rights of protesters in South Africa! Fighting the apartheid-era National Key Points Act.
