At the end of November the next box of books will be shipped to our subscribers. It contains the following editions:
- Global Marshall Plan Initiative und P. Hesse (eds.): Solidarität die ankommt - Ziel-effiziente Mittelverwendung
- S. Kapitza: Global Population Blow Up and After
- J. Kaup: Gebt uns keine Fische ...
- C. StĂĽckelberger und H. Hoppe: Globalance
- F. J. Radermacher: Globalisierung gestalten
- CD-Rom Global Marshall Plan und Bildung
We are currently negotiating with several publishers to purchase the following books (German editions) to include them in one of the next shipments:
- J. Diamond: Kollaps
- D. Meadows, J. Randers, D. Meadows: Grenzen des Wachstums. Das 30-Jahre-Update
- E.U. v. Weizsäcker: Limits to Privatization
- M. Gladwell: Der Tipping Point
- T. L. Friedman: The World Is Flat
If you are interested in subscribing, please contact us. For only € 12 per month you will receive several deliveries of books on the issues of globalization and the Global Marshall Plan Initiative per year.
More information can be found in our flyers or at the
website.
The books are also available in our
book shop.
a) Global Marshall Plan CD-Rom
The new CD-ROM with materials on the Global Marshall Plan will probably be finished on 17 November 2006. It contains several presentations, audio and video files as well as a link collection. Most of the information is in German.
You can order the CD-ROM at
our website. It will also make an informative present for your family and friends.
The CD-ROM is available for a nominal charge, plus shipment:
- one copy € 4,00
- from 10 copies € 2,50
- from 100 copies € 1,50
We are looking for a meaningful name for the CD-ROM. Suggestions so far are:
- "Wissen (Aufklärung/Bildung) gefährdet die Dummheit" (knowledge / education / enlightenment endangers stupidity / ignorance)
- "Wissen verändert die Welt" (knowledge changes the world)
The layouts for the cover, the label and the CD's initial page can be viewed here:
We welcome you comments on the project. Please send them to
Sabine Stoeck.
b) Calendar
This year again, Edwin Ferger produced a Global Marshall Plan calendar. It is available for € 15 (plus shipment) of which € 5 will go directly to the Initiative. The calendar shows 12 beautiful places around the world combined with a slogan of the Global Marshall Plan Initiative. It makes a nice Christmas present.
Have a look at the pictures
here.
Order the calendar until 11 November and it will be shipped to you in early December. To order it, send an email to
Edwin Ferger.
a) G8 agenda presented
On Thursday the German Government presented the agenda for next year's G8 presidency. Growth and responsibility will be central themes. Shaping globalization and helping Africa to develop will be key focuses of the summit when it is held in Heiligendamm from 6 to 8 June 2007.
More information can be found in the Government's
press release.
b) A common slogan for the civil society
Together with a number of German civil society organizations, the Global Marshall Plan Initiative is preparing for the G8 in Germany in 2007. The group agreed that a common motto is needed. A working group, which the Global Marshall Plan Initiative is part of, is currently looking for a slogan for the NGOs. Several of your supporters already contributed their ideas. And we are still collecting more. You can post them at
www.togetherforequality.org
The working group identified the issues social justice, protection of the environment and peace as a common basis of the different actors. This could be the basis to develop a slogan, You can post your ideas for a slogan at
http://www.togetherforequality.org/slogan .
To a detailed presentation on finding a common slogan (in German, pdf, 180 kB)
To the website of the NGO coordination group.
a) Towards global justice
Almost 250 visitors came to the panel discussion organized by the Düsseldorf local group of the Global Marshall Plan Initiative. It took place in the Görres-Gymnasium on 30 October 2006. The audience showed great interest in ways of making the world a more just place. The panel which consisted of people from various spectrums discussed in a constructive way.
Franz Josef Radermacher and Peter Hesse not only described the extent of the global imbalance, but also showed that the Global Marshall Plan is a realizable concept to manage making this world a more just place.
To the detailed report (In German) and photos by Jörn Wiertz
here.
b) Support through the Federal State of Vienna
Vienna will be the seventh of Austria's Federal States to officially support the Global Marshall Plan Initiative. Governor Dr. Michael Häupl announced this on a letter to Dr. Franz Fischler.
c) New regional groups
Michael G. Franz invites all who are interested to join him on 27 November 2006 at the Hemmingway Lounge in Wiesbaden for the founding of a regional Global Marshall Plan group in the Rhine-Main area. Purpose of the meeting is also the discussion of the Initiative's issues.
To the invitation (in German, pdf, 30 kB)
Please register for the meeting.
If you live in or close to Bologna and want to engage with the Global Marshall Plan Initiative, please contact
Flavio Conti who is in the process of establishing a group in the area.
In Maastricht,
Christopher Hosang is planning to promote the Global Marshall Plan. He is looking forward to collaborate with everyone interested in the Initiative and its issues.
a) Texts on the Global Marshall Plan
Speech by Dr. Josef Riegler held at the 5th KAB (Katholische Arbeitnehmer-Bewegung) congress in Nitra on 21 October
here (in German, pdf, 60 kB).
Interview with Prof. Franz Josef Radermacher on sustainable energy and the Global Marshall Plan
here (in German, pdf 30 kB).
b) Recommendation: An Inconvenient Truth
"With wit, smarts and hope, "An Inconvenient Truth" ultimately brings home Gore's persuasive argument that we can no longer afford to view global warming as a political issue - rather, it is the biggest moral challenges facing our global civilization".
Source and more information on the movie.
a) AIESEC
AIESEC Germany presented its plans to support the issues of the Global Marshall Plan Initiative. Next year the focus is on Germany's dual presidency in the G8 and the EU. The organization is preparing a campaign called "A sustainable world is possible" to bring in the perspective of students into the process.
More informationen on the plans can be found in the
AIESEC newsletter (pdf, 20 kB).
b) Seminar games theory
The chair of economics of the Technical University of Dresden made the seminar "Games theory and international organizations: The Global Marshall Plan" a mandatory subject of the masters program International Relations.
More information on the seminar
here (in German, pdf 20 kB).
On 6 September 2006 the Austrian Social Partnership presented a common declaration in which they manifested their support of the Global Marshall Plan Initiative within the framework of a global social partnership.
To the declaration (in German, pdf, 240 kB).
On Monday, the former chief economist of the World Bank, Sir Nicholas Stern, presented a study in London in which he warns of the economic consequences of climate change. According to Stern the world's economic output will drop by 20 per cent and a depression worse than the one in the 1930s is to expect if nothing is done to stop global warming.
Executive summary (pdf, 300 kB)
Presentation (pdf 320 kB)
Overcoming poverty as prerequisite for peace - a wise decision of the committee to honor this. Only few people have done more to show people a feasible way out of the vicious circle of poverty. On average five people benefit from one credit. Hence it is estimated that about 100 million people altogether have benefited from credits like the ones of the Grameen Bank.
The Global Marshall Plan Initiative issued a press release on the granting of the Nobel Prize for Peace to Muhammad Yunus.
To the press release (in German, pdf, 60 kB) http://files.globalmarshallplan.org/pm_yunus.pdf
Klaudius Gansczyk wrote two letters to the editor on the issue and linked it with the idea of a Global Marshall Plan. They were published at
www.zeit.de (both letters in German):
- Globale Gerechtigkeit- Frieden- Naturbewahrung (13.10.2006) - Link
- Vorbilder fĂĽr das 21. Jahrhundert (13.10.2006) - Link
To the Nobel Peace Prize's website
To the Grameen Bank's website
In the report "Doubling Aid: Making the 'Big Push' Work", issued by UNCTAD on 20 September 2006, the organization welcomed the call for a Marshall Plan for Africa. A key demand of the report is the establishment of a new framework for development assistance to enable countries to fulfil the
Millennium Development Goals. More information in
Bridges Weekly Trade News Digest.
There are currently no international Global Marshall Plan events planned. For events in Germany and Austria please visit the German Newsletter or go to the
Global Marshall Plan website.
Please send us your comments on this newsletter, our
website or the Initiative itself:
office at globalmarshallplan.org.
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