[NCUC-DISCUSS] FW: Maintaining Systems

[Stephanie Perrin]

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...
Very interesting comments.  I think it is one of the biggest risks 
facing civil society....fake civil society.  IMHO a battle we are losing.
Cheers Stephanie


On 2014-10-27, 10:58, Tamir Israel wrote:
> 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:
>>
>> Very interesting. I bought the book.
>>
>> Assange has some pretty harsh comments about the idea of an 
>> autonomous civil society:
>>
>> "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.
>>
>> 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."
>>
>> *From:*ncuc-discuss-bounces at lists.ncuc.org 
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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
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>> *Subject:* [NCUC-DISCUSS] Maintaining Systems
>>
>> http://www.newsweek.com/assange-google-not-what-it-seems-279447
>>
>> a useful read.
>>
>> xx
>>
>> DeeDee
>>
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