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Subject: EARTH CHARTER SUMMITS IN USA ON 9/29/01
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 23:38:15 -0700
From: "Dick Burkhart" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dear Friends:
This Saturday, September 29, the Earth Charter Summits will introduce the Earth
Charter to
audiences across the USA. The summits will take place in 12 major cities in
the USA, linked by
satellite feeds. If you live near a city where these events will take place,
please attend. These
summits promise to be wonderfully informative and fun.
The Seattle People's Assembly is co-sponsoring the Seattle event, and key
members of the San
Francisco People's Assembly are participating in the San Francisco Summit.
The Summit will be videotaped and available on the website:
www.earthchartersummits.org
WeTv will broadcast the summits in 40 countries throughout the world. We are
also negotiating
with C-SPAN to cover the event live, but will not have confirmation until
24-hours prior. Check
your local station on Saturday as it might be on tv!
For more information, the press release announcing the San Francisco Summit is
below. Please
convert times to East Coast (add 3-hours), and be advised the program will begin
on the east coast
at 9 a.m. EST.
Warmest wishes,
Sue
Susan J. Zipp, Co-Chair
Global People's Assembly
www.ourvoices.org
For more information on the Earth Charter and the EC Summits, please visit these
websites:
www.earthchartersummits.org
www.earthcharter.org
www.earthsummit2002.org
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P R E S S R E L E A S E
(Please distribute widely. Apologies for duplication.)
EARTH CHARTER SUMMIT -- IN SAN FRANCISCO -- ON SEPTEMBER 29th
This Saturday, September 29th, the Earth Charter Summits will be held throughout
the U.S.A.
You are invited and encouraged to attend the San Francisco Earth Charter
Summit. Please bring
your friends -- the Summit is open to everyone and it's free!
The San Francisco Earth Charter Summit is hosted by the Soka Gakkai
International, and held at
the:
SGI San Francisco Culture Center -- Ikeda Auditorium
2450 17th Street, San Francisco
Tel: 415-255-6007
Summit begins at 8 a.m. and ends at 3:15 p.m., Pacific Time
These meetings will be connected by satelite hook-ups and simulcast in 12
cities, originating on the
East Coast and launched by the Institute for Ethics and Meaning in Tampa,
Florida.
Please visit www.earthchartersummits.org for the latest information about the
9/29/01 programs.
* * * * * * *
INFORMATION:
In the first national gathering since the recent tragedies, American citizens,
celebrities, scholars, and
families will come together in cities across the country in a peaceful and
positive way to choose our
future and to sign the Earth Charter, a Declaration of Global Interdependence.
The Earth Charter --
a worldwide, "people's treaty" -- will be launched from Tampa, Florida on
Saturday, September
29, 2001. This event has been planned for over a year.
The Earth Charter movement seeks to inspire a more compassionate, peaceful, just
world. It was
drafted by thousands of people in 56 countries over the course of 12 years. The
historic launch of
the Earth Charter in the United States will be held simultaneously in 12 cities
connected via satellite.
Concurrent celebrations in Honolulu, San Francisco, Chicago, Seattle, Austin,
Indianapolis,
Boulder, CO, Portland, ME, Jackson, MS, and Philadelphia will create awareness
of the Earth
Charter's principles for nonviolence and peace, a sustainable future, social and
economic justice,
and democracy.
The Earth Charter Summits will be an inspirational and healing day, free and
filled with well-known
speakers, including Danny Glover, David Korten, and Steven Rockefeller, as well
as panel
presentations, discussion groups and entertainment.
Why the Earth Charter?
Part of the unfinished business of the 1992 Rio Earth Summit, the Earth Charter
drafting process
was revitalized in 1994, by Mikhail Gorbachev, president of Green Cross
International and
Maurice Strong, Earth Charter secretary general. Steering committee co-chairs
were Steven
Rockefeller (USA), Kamia Chowdhry (India), Yolanda Kakabadse (Ecuador), and Ruud
Lubbers
(The Netherlands).
The Earth Charter Initiative will seek endorsement of the Earth Charter by the
United Nations
General Assembly in 2002, the tenth anniversary of the Rio Earth Summit.
* * * * * * *
The Earth Charter Summit Program: (times are Pacific Time. Please add 3-hours
for
East Coast time, and note their program begins at 9 a.m. EST)
8:30 to 9:00 a.m. Keynote Speaker
David Korten President of Positive Future's Network, former faculty member at
Harvard Grad
School of Business; publisher of YES! Magazine. Author of When Corporations Rule
the World
and Post Corporate World: Life Beyond Capitalism "From The Love of Money to The
Love of
All Life"
9:00 - 9:30 a.m. Steven Rockefeller
Chair of International Drafting Committee, Earth Charter Commissioner; Chair of
Rockefeller's
Brothers Fund, and Professor Emeritus of Religion at Middlebury College,
Vermont; "The Earth
Charter: Building a Global Culture of Peace."
9:30 - 10:30 Local Activity
10:30 - Noon Panel Presentation
David Korten
Hazel Henderson, economist, syndicated columnist, author and co-developer with
the Calvert
Social Investment Fund of the Calvert-Henderson Quality of Life Indicators
Marjory Kelly, Editor Business Ethics Magazine: A Corporate Social
Responsibility Report
John Anderson, Chair of the Center for Voting & Democracy
Vicki Robin, co-founder of Sustainable Seattle and co-author of bestselling Your
Money or Your
Life about living simply.
Carah Ong, grassroots coordinator, Nuclear Age for Peace Foundation
Mel Hoover, Department Director, Multicultural Initiative, Faith in Action,
national Unitarian
Universalist Assiciation.
Earl Tulley National Indigenous Environmental Network
Each speaker will have five minutes to present the initiative in which they are
involved that is
implementing a principle of the Earth Charter. Panelists will answer three
rounds of questions to
demonstrate the holistic approach to social, environmental, economic and
political problems as
envisioned by the Earth Charter :
How is what you are doing addressing the Earth Charter's principle on:
(1) eradication of poverty
(2) elimination of all discrimination
(3) protection and restoration of the environment
Noon - 12:30 p.m. Break
12:30 - 2:00 p.m. Concurrent Workshops and Facilitated Discussion Groups on "Me
&
the Earth Charter". Participants choose to join discussions on one of the 5
Principled Areas of
the Earth Charter--Economic Justice, Social Justice, Peace & Non-Violence;
Participatory
Democracy; Ecological Integrity.
Resource Directories on groups and organizations implementing the EC
principles will be made
available to summit participants to further encourage creativity and
involvement.
2:00 -2:15 p.m. Break
2:15 to 3:15 p.m. All cities uplink for close
Danny Glover, actor, activist and Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations;
"What the Earth
Charter Means to Me"
Jan Roberts, President of Institute for Ethics & Meaning & National Coordinator
of the Earth
Charter Community Summits: "Five Minute Call to Action"
Round Robin Closing Remarks from all cities & Closing "One Song" with vocalist
Karen
Bonnell, Music Director & Soloist Unity Church, Naples, Florida
