El foro social 'Caminos de cultura y libertad' will open with debates around justice
Judge Manuela Carmena, in a file photo. / Santos Cirilo
The Tibetan Lama exiled in Barcelona, Thubten Wangchen; the lawyer who filed the complaint against Chinese leaders, José Elías Esteve; the former magistrate and former member of the General Council of the Judiciary, Manuela Carmena or the priest Javier Baeza are some of the public figures who will participate in the debates of the social forum of the Rototom Sunsplash Festival 2014, convocado en esta edición bajo el lema "Caminos de cultura y libertad”.
The debates and talks of the Social Forum will take place in the area called No Profit, which is the area of non-profit groups and organizations and cultural dissemination in this event that will take place at the Benicàssim festival site in 16 al 23 of August.
In the debate about The mantra of Universal Justice for Tibet Thubten Wangchen will participate, the Lama exiled in Barcelona and representative of Tibet in Spain; moderator David Couso, brother of José Couso, who was killed in Baghdad during the invasion of Iraq 2003, and José Elías Esteve, the Valencian lawyer who filed the complaint for the Chinese genocide in Tibet, and that the National Court recently filed as a result of the new law on universal justice.
That will be the 20 of August. The next day, The debate will revolve around the title Another Justice, other prisons and will address the penitentiary model. Manuela Carmena will participate, one of the first women to acquire specific weight in the Spanish judiciary; Javier Baeza, priest of the Entrevías neighborhood of Madrid known for its social integration initiatives, Eduardo Barca, of the association Sub-Dignanity and Social Justice, who will act as moderator.
Another table will revolve around Living and Dying on the Border”, on sunday 17 of August, and will feature interventions by Mikel Araguás, general secretary of Andalusia Acoge; Patricia Orejudo, Professor of Private International Law at the Complutense University and member of the Commission Let's Close the CIE, and the journalist Ana Álvarez, who will be the moderator.
Besides, Rototom Sunsplash broadcasts the second chapter of the documentary this afternoon More than Twenty, a documentary dedicated to 20 years of festival history, directed by Tommaso d'Elia and Silvia Bonanni and released last Tuesday with the launch of the first part.
