(photo courtesy of Becky Hogge)
One of the coolest activities I managed to do during the summit (besides annoying random people with rants about contract law) was to participate in the Free Radio broadcast. As you can see, it is a radio broadcasting outside one of the venues. I managed to play a Latin set (Fabulosos Cadillacs, Molotov, Juanes and Manu Chao) and as you can see from the picture, the crowds loved it… well they were gathered in the picture’s blind side, yeah, they were, truly!
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