>Date: Wed, 1 Oct 1997 12:50:36 -0700 (PDT) >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Precedence: bulk >From: "National Centre for Sustainability (Yves Bajard)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: Deep Sustainability <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Information site on the Multilateral Agreement on Investment >Mime-Version: 1.0 > >Dear colleagues: > ... we have, at the National Centre >for Sustainability, in co-operation with the Island Centre for Community >Initiatives in Victoria BC Canada, have undertaken to create an educational >and informational Website on the MAI and its context. > >This Website can be found at: > > http://www.islandnet.com/~ncfs/maisite > >It is still udner cosntruction and will remain live for quite some time, as >updates will be made regularly, according to new data received and comemtns >made by its users.. > >The MAI INFO Website is informational, in that it is open to and makes >cross-references to inputs form all sides, pro or contra. It is organised >for easy consultation and provides many cross-references on facts, opinions, >strategies for and against, other organisations involved, and support to the >strategies. It is a live site, which means that we are updating is >frequently, as new information becomes available or as events change the >evolution of the negotiations and of its wider context. It is educational >in that it proposes to the critical analysis of its visitors, ideas to learn >about democracy, sustainability and the relations (or lack of relations) >between the socio-economic process of globalization/uniformization of >society under way now, and these two very important component of a liveable >society. > >This Website is open to inputs at all levels: information, opinions, and >strategic ideas, as well as indications of how those strategies perform >toward their objectives. It is open to critical analyses, lateral thinking, >attempts at proposing syntheses, etc.. > >We hope that this Website can be used by you as a source of reference and >inspiration for your action from anywhere your are with whatever means are >available to you, in the direction you will choose. > >Please spread the URL of this site as far as you can and want, so that it >becomes a real help in action. Your comments are of course very welcome adn >we will take them into cosndieation top improve it. > > >Best regards, > > >Yves Bajard, D.Sc. Secretary >National Centre for Sustainability >Victoria and Vancouver, BC, Canada >. >For details on education toward sustainability, visit our Website: >http://www.islandnet.com/~ncfs/ncfs/ (Last update, June 16, 1997) >