Hello Everyone,
While I've been quiet since my WTO piece:
http://www.fenello.com/writings/wto1.htm
it is only a result of a busy holiday season.
In actuality, I was pleasantly surprised
with the response to that article. There
appears to be a very broad, and diverse,
convergence of interests in these topics.
So while it is easy to get discouraged
with the blatant exercise of power to
capture Internet Governance, with the
influence of soft money in Washington,
and with the continued consolidation of
power and influence of multinational
corporations, there is much to be
encouraged about.
I'll have more to say about this in the
coming months, but for now, I'd like to
wish everyone (friend and foe alike :-)
a happy, healthy, and prosperous New Year,
New Decade, New Century, and New Millennium.
Happy New Year!
Jay.
P.S. For those who approach the new year as
a time to reflect on the past, present, and
future, here are some questions to ponder:
http://www.isen.com/archives/991209.html
THE MEANING OF WTO by David S. Isenberg
What kind of Global Government do we want? Regardless of
what we think about the WTO, and despite what we think about
its protesters, one thing is clear; in the beginning of the
age of globalization, a Global Government is struggling to be
born. Its first constituents are the multinational
corporations because they are most acutely aware of global-
scale issues that affect them. Other interests are now
catching on, and they want to be represented within the new
Global Government too.
Global Government is coming. What will it look like? Who
will run it? Who will it represent? What will it govern?
And what will it leave to the individual countries, states,
cities, businesses and individuals?
These questions will be decided, if not by us than by others
who care about them more. It is time to take these questions
into open, conscious, public discussion.
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QUOTES OF NOTE: Jay Fenello & Jesse Jackson
"The riots in Seattle [during the World Trade
Organization meetings] are about the loss of
U.S. sovereignty to multinational corporations,
just like the Domain Name Wars [are] about the
loss of the Internet to the same multinational
corporations."
Jay Fenello, via email, December 1, 1999
"The WTO attracts this protest because it reveals
the dirty little secret of the global economy --
that all the talk about free trade is just a put-on.
Free trade requires only removing trade barriers,
not thousands of pages of painfully negotiated
agreements. This is about managed trade and the
use of state power to enforce the rules. The
obvious question is what are the rules -- and
who decides?"
Jesse Jackson in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
December 2, 1999
Copyright 1999 by David S. Isenberg
[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://www.isen.com/ -- 1-888-isen-com
Respectfully,
Jay Fenello,
New Media Relations
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"We are creating the most significant new jurisdiction
we've known since the Louisiana purchase, yet we are
building it just outside the constitution's review."
-- Larry Lessig, Harvard Law School, on ICANN
