In 2005 "Make Poverty History" reached 85% name recognition. That was a
tremendous success. However, the whole campaign was built around
"development aid". Apart from Nelson Mandela on 3 February 2005, no-one
after him broached the issue of structural poverty induced by the globalized
system (unjust trade system). Despite structural poverty being responsible
for about 90% of poverty, it is quite likely that in 2007 too, only the
symptoms will be talked about. In June 2005, Tony Blair seized the UK
campaign's demand to call for a 50 billion dollars debt relief. This leaving
the population with the impression that their government did a good job.
"Make Poverty History" was ended in early 2006.
Analysis of the campaign
Angela Merkel will make a just world order, a global social market economy
an
issue of the G8 summit in Heiligendamm as announced at the WEF in Davos. This
historic chance has to be seized. The planned campaign should broach the
issue of Global Governance when dealing with poverty. We will have to start
our own campaign on "world domestic politics" since development NGOs are
likely to concentrate on aid only in their communicationn. Within the next
eight months a historic window of opportunity opens up. We are accountable
for making use of this timeframe. On the website
www.togetherforequality.org we are collecting and discussing slogans
for this campaign.
A number of organizations and alliances is also preparing for the G8 summit.
Some of the activities have already been started and are presented here:
Attac is planning various activities such as an
alternative summit and demonstrations which are themed "
Keine Macht für G8!" (no power to G8).
GCAP (
Global Call to Action aganist Poverty) the woldwide
alliance, which the Global Marshall Plan Initiative supports, calls on
Chancellor Merkel to deliver results concerning
poverty reduction.
Together with its international partners, in Germany it is "
Deine Stimme
gegen Armut", GCAP demands to
"
Stand-Up Against Poverty" during the
Month of Mobilization (16 September - 17 October 2006).
The UN Millennium
Campaign Germany joined in and plans to
make an impact on 15 / 16 October at the worldwide Stand-Up event.
The
alliance
Gerechtigkeit jetzt! (Justice now!)
proclaimed a year of action which started in May 2006 and will end with the
G8 summit in June 2007. Its slogan ist "WTO – Weltweit Taube Ohren"
(Worldwide deaf ears).
Many of these organizations are represented in the
G8
NGO platform and together are planning
activities such as a series of events on globalization. The Global Marshall
Plan Initiative too is part of this platform.
a) Global Population Blow Up
The book "Global Population Blow Up" is released within the next few days.
The book on demographic change until the year 2100, written by Prof. Dr.
Sergey Kapitza, is published as a Report to the Club of Rome and to the
Global Marshall Plan Initiative. Currently, it is only available in English.
Book(pdf, 1,6 MB)
Cover(pdf, 600 kB)
Order the book by Prof. Kapitza
online.
We offer the following conditions:
>From 1 copy 10 Euros per copy (1 Euro shippment in Germany)
>From 10 copies 6 Euros per copy (7 Euro shippment in Germany)
>From 25 copies 5 Euros per copy (20 Euro shippment in Germany)
>From 50 copies 4 Euros per copy (20 Euro shippment in Germany)
b) Further books
The books "Solidarität, die ankommt" on efficient development cooperation by
Peter Hesse and "Kyoto Plus - So gelingt die Klimawende" on climate change
by Lutz Wicke, Peter Spiegel und Inga Wicke-Thüs will be published in
September. So far, they are available in German only. To find out more,
please go to the
German edition of the newsletter.
6 September marks the 60th anniversary of a landmark speech by an American
diplomat in Stuttgart, Germany, which set the course for U.S. relations with
Europe, laying the groundwork for the Marshall Plan and promising that the
United States would remain engaged in the world instead of retreating to
isolationism.
Read the whole
article from "The Washington File".
Byrnes' speech
At the World Trade Point Federation's (WTPF) assembly on 24 August 2006 in
Hamburg, the organization agreed to officially support the Global Marshall
Plan Initiative. The WTPF was initiated by the UNCTAD and represents several
tentousand enterprises in 90 countries.
The World Trade Point Federation's
webseite.
Students of the universities Lueneburg and Muenster will kick-off the
campaign "A sustainable world is possible" from 17 - 19 November 2006 in
order to use the window of opportunity the year 2007 offers. With the
campaign, the umbrella organization of students' initiatives Lueneburg and
AIESEC Germany want to contribute to the G8 summit. Some of the events are
organized in cooperation with the Global Marshall Plan Initiative.
More information (in German).
"Frithjof Finkbeiner presented the Global Marshall Plan Initiative at the
1st Colloquium on World Domestic Politics which took place in Ingolstadt,
Germany from 7 - 8 July 2006. The audience took interest in the issue and
discussed it lively. The organizer, Professor Ulrich Bartosch was happy to
announce that there will be a second colloquium on the issue next year."
(Klaudius Gansczyk)
Article from the Ingolstädter Zeitung of 8 July 2006 (in German, pdf, 520 kB)
Audio:
"
Wunder sind möglich" interview with Prof. Radermacher on the Global
Marshall Plan (in German).
Broadcast at WDR5 "Neugier genügt" on 29 Juni 2006
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