David Couso, Lama Wangchen and former magistrate Manuela Carmena will be the guests
04.07.2014
LEVANTE DE CASTELLÓ BENICÀSSIM The Rototom Sunsplash Social Forum 2014 will be celebrated on Sunday 17 to saturday 23 August at the Benicàssim Festival Site under the motto «Paths of culture and freedom». This ideas laboratory will be a meeting point to reflect on current social problems, with notable guests such as Lama Wangchen, member of the Tibetan Parliament in Exile and president of the House of Tibet in Barcelona, or Manuela Carmena, former magistrate and former member of the General Council of the Judiciary.
Three confirmed debates
on sunday 17 The Forum will be inaugurated with the debate «Live and die on the border», in which the problem experienced on the southern border of Europe in places like Ceuta or Lampedusa will be discussed, with people looking for a better life on the other side of the fences and the sea. Mikel Araguás will participate in the colloquium, general secretary of Andalusia Acoge, one of the groups that work directly with immigrants on the border; and Patricia Orejudo, Professor of Private International Law at the Complutense University of Madrid and member of the Commission Let's Close the CIE of the Clandestine Railway. Ana Álvarez will moderate, from the Diagonal newspaper.
The debate «The mantra of Universal Justice for Tibet» will analyze the latest reform of the Organic Law of the Judiciary in Spain that paralyzed, among others, the cases opened against Chinese leaders for the genocide in Tibet or that of the photojournalist José Couso, killed in Baghdad during the invasion of Iraq 2003. For it, the Social Forum will count on Wednesday 20 August with the participation of Thubten Wangchen, the Tibetan Lama exiled in Barcelona and representative of Tibet in Spain. at the table, which will be moderated by David Couso (brother of José Couso, who already visited the festival in 2011), José Elías Esteve will also participate, the Valencian lawyer who filed the complaint for China's genocide in Tibet, archived last June by the National Court in compliance with the new law after the investigation had been opened in 2006.
Without leaving the judicial theme, the debate «Another Justice, other prisons» will board on Thursday 21 August the penitentiary model. Manula Carmena will intervene, former magistrate and former member of the General Council of the Judiciary. Javier Baeza will accompany him, priest of the Entrevías neighborhood of Madrid known for its different initiatives of social integration and solidarity, and Eduardo Abarca will moderate, of the association Sub-Dignanity and Social Justice.
The debates will be concentrated in two shifts: at 17 and the 19 hours, and will continue with workshops and screening of short films starting at 2.00 of the morning.
As a preview, yesterday the second chapter of 15 minutes of the 8 that form «More than Twenty», a documentary about 20 years of history of the festival since it was born as an association in 1991 and as a festival in 1994. The chapters will be published on Tuesdays and Thursdays in July.
