Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 20:10:46 -0500 (EST) From: Robert Weissman <•••@••.•••> Subject: [corp-focus] Corp-focus listserve announcement Friends: We are sending out the following message in an effort to build the circulation of corp-focus. If you think the listserve is useful, interesting or amusing, please forward the announcement message below to friends, colleagues and relevant lists. Thanks. Robert Weissman LISTSERVE ANNOUNCEMENT: FOCUS ON THE CORPORATION Corp-Focus is a moderated listserve which distributes the weekly column "Focus on the Corporation," co-authored by Russell Mokhiber, editor of Corporate Crime Reporter, and Robert Weissman, editor of Multinational Monitor magazine. To subscribe to Corp-Focus, send an e-mail message to •••@••.••• with "subscribe" in the text of the message. Or, you can subscribe from the web at <http://lists.essential.org/mailman/listinfo/corp-focus>. 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From: Techeste Ahderom, co-chair, Millennium Forum Date: 8 February 2000 Re: Updated application and registration process for The Millennium Forum PLEASE DISTRIBUTE AS WIDELY AS POSSIBLE PLEASE FORGIVE DUPLICATE POSTINGS Dear Friends, As many of you know, we are fast approaching the main meeting of the Millennium Forum, scheduled for 22-26 May 2000 at the United Nations Headquarters. The Millennium Forum will bring together representatives of civil society from all over the world to consult about humanity's common future -- and, particularly, the role of the United Nations in confronting the great global challenges of the 21st Century. Scheduled for 22-26 May 2000 at United Nations headquarters as part of the preparations for the UN's Millennium Assembly in September, the Millennium Forum in particular seeks to create a process whereby the input from global civil society can be collected in an open, transparent and representative manner and then consulted upon rationally. The Forum will focus on six main sub-themes under the main theme of "The United Nations in the 21st Century." These main sub-themes are: 1) peace, security and disarmament; 2) the eradication of poverty (including debt cancellation and social development; 3) human rights; 4) sustainable development and the environment; 5) the challenges of globalization; and 6) strengthening the United Nations and other international organizations. Our hope is that the Forum will also result in an organizational structure whereby the peoples of the world can participate effectively in global decision-making and in the implementation and follow-up of global plans of action. Our plan is to be as inclusive as possible, by having on-line meetings and satellite teleconferences to the extent that funds allow. Indeed, if you can help with fund-raising, this is also a priority now. However, I wanted to alert you that since the main site for the main Millennium Forum meeting in May is the United Nations headquarters in New York, we must limit participation to roughly 1,400 people. To facilitate the process of application and registration for participation at the main Millennium Forum meeting at the United Nations, we have now placed at our website an on-line registration form. As well, we have also created downloadable registration forms. Our hope is that you all will carefully consider registering for the Forum -- and that those of you with web-capable computers will download and print-out the paper-based forms and then send them along to other groups and organizations in your network that may not have full access to the Internet. Indeed, we are counting on our brother and sister civil society organizations to distribute word of this event and of the need for all to participate in it as far and wide as possible. Accordingly, please examine the on-line registration form at our website, which is located at http://www.millenniumforum.org. Please also distribute word of this new registration process as widely as possible. Then, in the coming weeks and months, please continue to return to the website, which is where our discussion papers and other information about the Forum will be distributed first. Warmest regards, Techeste Ahderom Co-chair, Millennium Forum 866 United Nations Plaza, Suite 120 New York, NY, 10017, USA email: •••@••.••• phone: 212-803-2522 Fax: 212-803-2561 _______________________________________________ Colist maillist - •••@••.••• http://comm-org.utoledo.edu/mailman/listinfo/colist All messages are archived at http://comm-org.utoledo.edu/pipermail/colist/ Please contact original message authors to request permission to forward messages. 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