(fwd) rachel-weekly: Good sense about movement strategy…

1998-10-09 Richard Moore ———————————————————————— Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1998 To: •••@••.••• Subject: Rachel #618: Bridge to the High Road, Pt. 1 From: •••@••.••• Sender: •••@••.••• Reply-To: •••@••.••• =======================Electronic Edition======================== . . . RACHEL’S ENVIRONMENT & HEALTH WEEKLY #618 . . —October 1, 1998— . . HEADLINES: . . BRIDGE TO THE HIGH ROAD, PT. 1 … Read more

GRI.c6 (2/2) — Collaborative internationalism

1998-10-07 Richard Moore [continued…] ———————————————————————— The question of world government ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Above, under the assumption that most nations had achieved functional democracy, I observed that the UN would very likely become a hotbed of enthusiastic international cooperation, and that initial attention would most likely be focused on the creation of a stable framework for international … Read more

GRI.c6 (1/2) — Collaborative internationalism

1998-10-07 Richard Moore Globalization and the Revolutionary Imperative Part II – Chapter 6 – preliminary Copyright 1998 by Richard K. Moore Last update 7 October 1998 – 4810 words comments to: •••@••.••• book maintained at: http://cyberjournal.org/cadre/gri/gri.html —————————————————————————- Part II – Envisioning a livable world: common sense, not utopianism —————————————————————————- Chapter 6 – Collaborative internationalism: culture-diversity … Read more

reader submissions: Tobin tax, PGA, disarmament conference

1998-10-07 Jan Slakov Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1998 15:25:49 -0400 To: •••@••.••• From: Hans Sinn <•••@••.•••> Subject: Tobin Tax & UN Reform This in response to Roberto Magellan’s observations about the Tobin Tax. Dear Roberto, I completely agree with your outline of the conditions, implications and difficulties of introducing the Tobin Tax. I also agree … Read more

RN: MAI web sites

1998-10-05 Jan Slakov Dear RN list, Oct. 5 Ole Fjord Larsen, secretary of the formative World Parliament of THE UNITED PEOPLES, sent this list of addresses linked to anti-MAI activism. Janet Eaton (a well-known systemic change agent, researcher and educator here in Nova Scotia) did up a very complete list of web sites (annotated), which … Read more

fwd: CONFERENCE ON THE EVOLUTION OF WORLD ORDER

1998-10-02 Richard Moore ———————————————————————— Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1998 Sender: World Order Conference List <•••@••.•••> From: Helmut Burkhardt <•••@••.•••> To: •••@••.••• Dear members of the Evolution of World Order Discussion List, The state of the world, economically, socially, politically, and ecologically and the direction of changes are worrisome to many. Climate change threatens our environment … Read more

Nov 7-9, Phillipines: International Conference on Alternatives to Globalization

1998-09-28 Richard Moore ———————————————————————— Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1998 00:42:41 +0800 To: •••@••.••• From: “Ibon Foundation Inc.” <•••@••.•••> Subject: International Conference on Alternatives to Globalization Mime-Version: 1.0 International Conference on Alternatives to Globalization November 7-9, 1998 Development Academy of the Philippines Tagaytay City, Philippines Draft Program November 6 Arrival/Registration November 7 8:00 Registration 10:00 Welcome … Read more

GRI.c5 (2/2) — re: achieving functional democracy

1998-09-28 Richard Moore [continued…] ———————————————————————— Functional democracy — is it a utopian vision? ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ So far this chapter has been an investigation into functional democracy, an attempt to identify why Western systems fail to be democratic, and an attempt to identify the processes necessary for functional democracy. In this investigation, perhaps ironically, models from sound … Read more