[NCUC-DISCUSS] FW: Maintaining Systems

[Tamir Israel]

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.....

On 27/10/2014 10:54 AM, Milton L Mueller wrote:
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> Very interesting. I bought the book.
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> Assange has some pretty harsh comments about the idea of an autonomous
> civil society:
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> "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.
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> 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."
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> [mailto:ncuc-discuss-bounces at lists.ncuc.org] *On Behalf Of *DeeDee Halleck
> *Sent:* Saturday, October 25, 2014 11:10 AM
> *To:* ncuc-discuss at lists.ncuc.org <mailto:ncuc-discuss at lists.ncuc.org>
> *Subject:* [NCUC-DISCUSS] Maintaining Systems
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> http://www.newsweek.com/assange-google-not-what-it-seems-279447
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> a useful read.
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> xx
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> DeeDee
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