<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tr><td valign="top"><div>Not a great summary because it left out that ICANN considers China a developing country, which is outrageous, for ICANN to deny fellowships to poor people from developed countries and their territories, such as the U.S. Oligarchy, is absurd.  51% of families in the U.S. Oligarchy are living in poverty.  ICANN's arguement is that many of its staff are european, so that is an admission of discrimination against the american and european poor who once against are the victims of their fraud "government", not allwed to apply for fellowships.  And the leadership program, where a poor person from a developed country might have a chance, has only met twice or three times, it's a complete joke, which is what an oligarchy pretending to be. democracy is as well.<br /><br />Ron<br /><br /></div></td></tr></table>            <div id="_origMsg_">
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                                        <td valign="top"><div>Glenn:</div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br clear="none"></div><div id="AppleMailSignature">Thank you for sharing a great summary of the reality of U.S. Territories.  Precisely, here in Puerto Rico we ave been having many dialogues among ISOCPR constituents on how equality in treatment when dealing with grant submission occurs. Puerto Rico is a great example when we talk about who we are representing in ISOC versus ICANN.</div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br clear="none"></div><div id="AppleMailSignature">When we apply for grants and fellowships it is sometimes difficult to give a reality check to those seeing us as U.S. citizens without the full stnading (rights) as &quot;continental&quot; citizens.</div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br clear="none"></div><div id="AppleMailSignature">Great point made when some see us as &quot;inmigrants&quot; in U.S. when we actually have a U.S . passport
 that states that we are &quot;American citizens&quot;, and by the way &quot;not national - but full american citizens&quot;.</div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br clear="none"></div><div id="AppleMailSignature">Again, thanks for sharing...<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Sent from my &quot;iPad Air&quot;<div><br clear="none"><div>Alfredo Calderón </div><div>Email: <a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:calderon.alfredo@gmail.com" target="_blank" href="javascript:return">calderon.alfredo@gmail.com</a></div></div><div>Twylah: <a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="http://www.twylah.com/acalderon52">http://www.twylah.com/acalderon52</a></div><div>Twitter: acalderon52</div><div>Skype: Alfredo_1212</div><div>Business card: <a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="http://myonepage.com/">http://myonepage.com/</a> acalderon</div><div><a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="http://scoop.it">Scoop.it</a>: <a
 rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="http://www.scoop.it/t/aprendiendo-a-distancia">http://www.scoop.it/t/aprendiendo-a-distancia</a></div><div>Blog: <a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="http://aprendizajedistancia.blogspot.com">http://aprendizajedistancia.blogspot.com</a></div><div>Twitter news: <a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="http://paper.li/">http://paper.li/</a> acalderon52</div></div><div class="yqt0135491025" id="yqt94457"><div><br clear="none">On Nov 6, 2015, at 11:03 PM, Glenn McKnight &lt;<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:mcknight.glenn@gmail.com" target="_blank" href="javascript:return">mcknight.glenn@gmail.com</a>&gt; wrote:<br clear="none"><br clear="none"></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>We have  raising the issue  for  a couple of  years of the unfairness of those  US  territories left out our  the  ICANN fellowship program.  Interesting these
 locations  have more issues with their own government  <br clear="none"></div>Here is  John  Oliver&#39;s  piece on the more on the inequity<br clear="none"><br clear="none"><a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CesHr99ezWE">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CesHr99ezWE</a><br clear="all"><div><div><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Glenn McKnight<br clear="none"><a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:mcknight.glenn@gmail.com" target="_blank" href="javascript:return">mcknight.glenn@gmail.com</a><br clear="none">skype  gmcknight<br clear="none">twitter gmcknight<br clear="none">.</div></div></div>
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