[bestbits] OFF-TOPIC - Brazil: Return to Terror

Sun Oct 28 22:14:39 EDT 2018

Wow! I agree with Parminder! Ah!

On Sun, Oct 28, 2018 at 10:13 PM parminder <parminder at itforchange.net>
wrote:

>
> On 29/10/18 3:47 AM, ian.peter at ianpeter.com wrote:
>
> Very sad that this has happened, Carlos. Lurches to the right seem
> commonplace these days.
>
> Brazil was a great leader as regards multistakeholder internet governance
> initiatives, and I do hope that all is not lost with this change. Certainly
> what has been achieved in the past sets a great example and part of history
> which I hope is not forgotten.
>
> Ian
>
>
> I dont want to make capital out of unfortunate times, but truth is as
> important to speak out at such times, if we are not just to make pro forma
> regrets but to look ahead with vision and purpose, and thus any real
> hope....
>
> Dear Ian, do you really think that a multistakeholder model which
> culminated in trying to install a World Economic Forum based global
> Internet Governance regime instead of a UN based one was itself not a lurch
> to right? That is also history that must not be forgotten, and released
> from its responsibilities.
>
> The current Trumpian phenomenon is precisely the product of a
> trans-national elite seeking their common economic advantages often using
> the cover of social liberalism without economic egalitarianism -- where
> market without political governance was to be the defender of rights! This
> is a direct result of promotion of an one-sided talk of human rights --
> only civil and political ones and not social and economic ones, which have
> openly been flouted even ridiculed on , yes, IG civil society lists.... Dot
> ask me for real examples, bec I have followed this and I know many.... Ok,
> take two, the very concept and not just the real implementation of 'public
> interest' has been ridiculed on the NCUC (of ICANN's)website, to which many
> CS stalwarts of IG belong. A key leader of CS community has said 'social
> justice' is a meaningless concept, another that the term 'democracy carries
> baggage', and when appeals (like at UNESCO's key Paris meeting on IG) were
> circulated to simply ensure that social and economic rights get mentioned
> along with civil and public rights in the conf document there wasnt much
> sympathy on these lists.. And yes, also when all progressive civil society
> is fighting for a binding treaty on human rights abuses by corporations,
> key leaders write here why any such thing is a bad idea .... .I can go on
> and on ...
>
> And so lets not assume innocence about this creeping death of progressive
> and democratic ideals that the global trans-national elite has brought on
> us in blind pursuit of their global economic interests (Zizek's 'Clinton
> not Trump is the problem' precisely captures it).
>
> This is the dispossessed reacting against the global neoliberal excesses
> in the only ways they could think of, or were made available to them,
> however deleterious the results are finally going to be for them. But lets
> not look away from what or who is responsible here.....
>
> When we seethe  market, the embodiment of un-restrained self-interest, as
> the institution that will govern us in all areas (which is the definition
> of neoliberalism) including of rights, welfare, etc, then one can very well
> expect a Trump and a Bolsanaro to come along and say, well self-interest,
> fine, this is what it politically is, everyone fending for oneself and
> one's narrow interests, and avowedly and unabashedly so ...  Trump and
> Bolsorno are the other side of the same trans-national neo-liberalism of
> which Internet governance space has been a key, often pioneering arena. It
> is a local, political response of the justifiably angry and dispossessed,
> even if a suicidal one... T and B are simply neoliberalism's narrow
> profession of unbridled self-interest without the spin and false
> sophisticated sheen that is just there to reflect away deserved criticism
> -- it is the proverbial chickens coming home to roost.
>
> With hope and solidarity
>
> parminder
>
>
>
>
>
> ------ Original Message ------
> From: "Carlos Afonso" <ca at cafonso.ca>
> To: "BestBits List" <bestbits at lists.bestbits.net>
> Sent: 28/10/2018 1:29:02 AM
> Subject: [bestbits] OFF-TOPIC - Brazil: Return to Terror
>
> Dear colleagues, this article may give you an idea of what might happen
> in Brazil with the presidential elections tomorrow.
>
> Sorry for this, but the situation may be terrifying for anyone who
> opposes the ultra-right-wing candidate. The article by Pablo Villaça (in
> English) is an accurate review:
>
>
> https://www.rogerebert.com/far-flung-correspondents/brazilian-election-2018-bolsonaro
>
> The article is also attached in PDF.
>
> Bolsonaro threatens to liquidate all NGOs and social movements -- who
> can choose between prison and exile. Fundamental achievements like our
> multistakeholder Internet governance system, our Internet Bill of
> Rights, and many other human rights-related laws are at risk.
>
> fraternal regards
>
> --c.a.
>
> --
>
> Carlos A. Afonso
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