Are you already looking for nice and meaningful chrismas gifts? This year again, Edwin Ferger produces a picture calendar for the Global Marshall Plan Initiative. The price is 15 € per copy (plus shippment) of which 5 € will be donated to the Initiative. The calendar shows 12 beautiful places and a slogan of the Initiative. View the pictures here.
Please order the calendar at calendar@globalmarshallplan until 11 November, it will be shipped at the beginning of December.

On 13 September 2006, Frithjof Finkbeiner presented the Global Marshall Plan Initiative in Erfurt to representatives of the parliamentary parties of the Thuringian government. The presentation was organized by the Thuringian Global Marshall Plan. They aim at making Thuringia the first German Federal state to officially support the Global Marshall Plan Initiative. In the discussion, which followed the presentation, all parties agreed to jointly file a petition for the state's official support of the Global Marshall Plan Initiative.

Dr. Rupert Neudeck invited the Global Marshall Plan Initiative to support the new project of the organization Green Helmets at the African coast. The project's goal is to show young Africans, who are preparing a flight to Europe, a perspective in their home continent. The Global Marshall Plan Initiative considers to support the project and is thinking about how this could be done. Please let us know your thoughts on this.
Information on the project (pdf, 30 kB)

On 27 September 2006, Christian Mauch and Georg Hintler presented the project "connectingyouths" to representatives of the academic sector in Tübingen (Germany). They want to build a students' network with the aim to start a discussion about the global situation of young people and to initiate activities for a world in balance. The network was initiated in collaboration with the Evangelische Akademie Tutzing (Protestant academy). The headteachers at the conference were inspired by the project which prompted the Regional Commission to order 950 CD-roms with speeches on the Global Marshall Plan Initiative. The CDs will be distributed to schools.
To contact the network, please email us.

Several British NGOs ascribe a key role to the German Chancellor Angela Merkel - the host of next year's G8 summit - in fighting poverty. They call upon the G8 member states to keep their promise and to put the issue onto next year's agenda. The organisations Data, Oxfam, ActionAid, Save the Children and Christian Aid are planning a new worldwide campaign, called Stand up Against Poverty, similar to the one in Glenaegles in 2005. The Global Marshall Plan Initiative aims at contributing the issue of a new global design to the campaign. The Initiative is currently participating in talks with representative of international GCAP partners and German NGOs in Berlin.
Source (FTD) and further information (in German)

Gordon Brown calls for shaping globalization differently. In his article published in the magazine Newsweek on 18 September 2006, the British Chancellor of the Exchequer demanded a new Marshall Plan. He suggested to agree now on the first stages of a manifesto for a globalization that can benefit all.
Article from Newsweek of 18 September 2006 (pdf, 300 kB)

While the UNO met at the East River, Bill Clinton brought decision makers, rich and famous together in his Clinton Global Initiative. And while the participants at the UNO talked, it came to concrete dialogues and donations for a better world at the Clinton congress.
All of the speeches and transskripts are available here.

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