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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Ah, Milton at his counter-hegemonic best… :)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>In solidarity,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>M<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> governance-request@lists.igcaucus.org [mailto:governance-request@lists.igcaucus.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Milton L Mueller<br><b>Sent:</b> Friday, November 02, 2012 12:04 AM<br><b>To:</b> governance@lists.igcaucus.org; Fouad Bajwa; Izumi AIZU<br><b>Subject:</b> RE: [governance] Fwd: IGF 2012 - Bilateral meeting<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D'>5 or 6 people, max? Ridiculous. This is an inherently bad, undemocratic method. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D'>Governments such as the EC try to impose false notions of “representation” on civil society, by seeking a few “spokespersons” or “representatives.” Their only real object is to make their job easier. We should decline to cooperate with this political version of artificial scarcity, and just insist on an open meeting. I am serious. If you are so flattered that they asked for your opinion, but go along with their attempt to reduce civil society to a few privileged voices, you are completely missing the point. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-left:solid blue 1.5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 4.0pt'><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 2:05 PM, Izumi AIZU <<a href="mailto:iza@anr.org" target="_blank">iza@anr.org</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Following the one in Nairobi last year, European commission and European Parliament <o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>people want to hold an informal meeting with civil society members and <o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>asked Wolfgang to coordinate.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Since this is an informal meeting with limited space, we need to find and decide who will<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>be there. Around 5 or 6 people, max.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>