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Come to ICANN, Tamir! All kinds of soirees, although rarely are we
invited...you have to be willing to crash parties. And raise your
own travel budget...<br>
Very interesting comments. I think it is one of the biggest risks
facing civil society....fake civil society. IMHO a battle we are
losing.<br>
Cheers Stephanie <br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2014-10-27, 10:58, Tamir Israel
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I keep hearing stuff like this. I wish someone would tell me where
we can sign up for our 'soiree' budget.... we've never really been
able to find any such thing..... <br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 27/10/2014 10:54 AM, Milton L
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has some pretty harsh comments about the idea of an
autonomous civil society:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Cohen’s
world seems to be one event like this after another:
endless soirees for the cross-fertilization of influence
between elites and their vassals, under the pious rubric
of “civil society.” The received wisdom in advanced
capitalist societies is that there still exists an
organic “civil society sector” in which institutions
form autonomously and come together to manifest the
interests and will of citizens. The fable has it that
the boundaries of this sector are respected by actors
from government and the “private sector,” leaving a safe
space for NGOs and nonprofits to advocate for things
like human rights, free speech and accountable
government.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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size="2" color="black" face="Calibri"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">This
sounds like a great idea. But if it was ever true, it
has not been for decades. Since at least the 1970s,
authentic actors like unions and churches have folded
under a sustained assault by free-market statism,
transforming “civil society” into a buyer’s market for
political factions and corporate interests looking to
exert influence at arm’s length. The last forty years
have seen a huge proliferation of think tanks and
political NGOs whose purpose, beneath all the verbiage,
is to execute political agendas by proxy.”<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<b><span style="font-weight:bold">On Behalf Of </span></b>DeeDee
Halleck<br>
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Saturday, October 25, 2014 11:10 AM<br>
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Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">a useful read.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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