Ditto!

--c.a.

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On 22/01/2010, at 15:57, "Kim G. von Arx" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> I absolutely and wholeheartedly agree with Robin!
>
> Kim
>
> On 22 Jan 2010, at 12:18, Robin Gross wrote:
>
>> ICANN would send a terrible message to the world if it cancelled  
>> this meeting in Nairobi.   Now is when the world is looking to  
>> ICANN to be more international and to open-up its processes away  
>> from only the small handful of privileged Western businessmen that  
>> have traditionally managed the org.
>>
>> I hope ICANN will not perpetuate these overblown fears about  
>> Nairobi and insult much of the world by canceling the mtg. because  
>> certain ($$) people have been frightened by the media into staying  
>> home.
>>
>> If ICANN wants to be a truly international governance institution,  
>> it cannot be afraid of Africa.  Time for ICANN to grow-up and go  
>> into Africa with or without the entourage of elite Western  
>> businessmen.
>>
>> My 2 cents,
>> Robin
>>
>>
>>
>> On Jan 22, 2010, at 3:54 AM, Carlos A. Afonso wrote:
>>
>>> Right now São Paulo is under a wave of protests in the poor comm 
>>> unities
>>> (which is more than 70% of that city of 11 million) against local  
>>> public
>>> policies. This is motivated by the poor record of the local and  
>>> state
>>> government in handling sanitation, flood prevention and urban
>>> development. Some communities are under water and sewage for more  
>>> than
>>> 40 days now. As expected, the local police reacts with the usual
>>> stupidity and violence breaks up. But the big media is aligned  
>>> with the
>>> state government, and nearly no news of these protests circulates,
>>> except in the many alternative blogs.
>>>
>>> Since what happened in Nairobi involves a "fashionable" religious
>>> conflict, big media blew it out of proportion, it seems.
>>>
>>> --c.a.
>>>
>>> McTim wrote:
>>>> Bill,
>>>>
>>>> I haven't cross posted to ALAC or any other list, but want to  
>>>> give NCUC
>>>> members a first hand perspective.
>>>>
>>>> Nairobi is no less safe now than when ICANN decided to hold its  
>>>> March 2010
>>>> meeting here.  Last weeks violence happened because police banned a
>>>> demonstration from happening after Friday prayers.  The Jamaican  
>>>> cleric was
>>>> deported last night.  It was a very, very small scale skirmish.  
>>>> I've been in
>>>> far worse riots in Washington D.C.
>>>>
>>>> It would be an over reaction IMHO to cancel or move the March  
>>>> meeting from
>>>> Nairobi at this point.   Kenyan and other African stakeholders  
>>>> who are
>>>> looking forward to the meeting would be very annoyed indeed, and  
>>>> with good
>>>> reason.
>>>>
>>>
>>> -- 
>>>
>>> Carlos A. Afonso
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