Dear Gustavo and other allies,
Hello! have a good week!
It was a poleasure for me seing the "cheminement" of our ideas and seeing
how the idea of the EARTH CHARTER getting a main issue in our assembly "a
pris corps". Definitly the EARTH CHARTER is a main issue for everybody
dealing with an allliance for a sustainable and responsible world.
I would like to add some considerations about the INPUT of Gustavo Marin on
the preparation of the 2.001 Assembly.
l. - I would like to inform you thant in LATIN AMERICA we had a Latin
American Meeting . 5000 people attended. Steven Rockefeller and Maxime
Kallao was here. The EARTH COPUNCIL co-ordinated the process with the
support of a local brazilian comssion.
2. - I have already tried to understand how we could contribute to an
ALLIANCE between the main groups involved: GREEN CROSS- ALLIANCE - EARTH
COUNCIL... so that we can arrive in harmony , with the Earth Charter in the
context we conceive it: a) A TEXT/DECLARATION (on the relations of
peoples/nations with the earth. It would be better no divide "peoples or
Earth. The question to be solved is the relations between humanity and
biosphere, isn't?) b) A PLANETARIAN LEARNING PROCESS c) A PLANETARAN ETHIC
MOVEMENT
It would be good for the allies to receive the information abour the hole
process going on with the different comissions ( green cross, earth
council, alliance) - so that we can follow what is happening in our countries.
3. - BRAZIL - In august we will have in São Paulo an international meeting
of ICEA ( International Councial on Comuniti Education) dealing with the
bencvhmark of the Earth Charter as the main reference for EDUCATION2.000.
4. -0 A global network is starting about the Earth Charter...
As I said, it will be useful for the Alliance to understand the links
between the different movements.
5. I will be interested in receiving the documents produced by Pierre
Calame and Andre'Levesque. I had one las year, I presume that Gustavo
refers to9 another version.
6. I would be greateful receiving algo the FREEDOM CHARTER . I have never
heard about it.
Ok, that's for today.
Many regards,
MOEMA
At 13:01 13/06/99 +0100, you wrote:
>Hello,
>
>Now, I'd like to write a message concerning the first point of the list of
>points for our discussions that I send to you several weeks ago. The first
>point is about *the content* of the 2001 Assembly. Do you remember ?
>
>I keep in mind this message because it helps me to remind what I want to
>discuss with you. Of course, each one of us has his/her own background in
>mind. It's just to identify what we are talking about.
>
>As you can see I'm trying to write in English. It is not easy for me. But
>as I said, I like it and that helps me to write carefully. It will be
>easier for me to write in Spanish and in French later. Sorry for my English.
>
>Concerning the content of the 2001 Assembly, we'll discuss about the Earth
>Charter and the documents about the strategies to enter to the 21st
>century. So the Earth Charter will be one of the main texts we'll discuss
>during the preparatory period of the 2001 Assembly.
>
>You probably know that this project has been launched several years ago. It
>was raised during the Stockholm Conference in 1972.
>The idea is to write a main text as the Universal Human Rights Declaration
>or the United Nations Charter.
>
>Actually, there is a text already written, which has been presented for
>instance, in The Hague Appeal for Peace last May. This document has been
>written by a commission headed by Steven Rockefeller and set up by the
>Earth Council and the Green Cross. If you don't have it we can send it to
>you. The idea is to present and to get the approval for this text during
>the United Nations Assembly in September-October 2000.
>
>Pierre Calame with André Levesque, in the framework of the workshop of the
>Alliance: Human Crossroads, have written a new text for the Earth Charter.
>Since 1997, we have disseminated these documents to the allies and to
>others partners. If you don't have the last versions, we can send them to
you.
>
>In the meantime, the project of thinking and writing an Earth Charter has
>been discussed by several groups of allies. Little by little, allies think
>that this text can be a main contribution of the 2001 Assembly.
>
>In Asia-Pacific, after the Bangalore meeting last March, a group has been
>launched to write an Earth Charter from an Asian view. The idea is to write
>a text deeply rooted in the Asian cultures and, at the same time, to
>express the views of Asian people towards the world.
>
>In Africa, one of the main subjects to be discussed during the meeting
>planned at the end of this month (25-26-27 of June) is the renewal of The
>Freedom Charter written the 25th of June of 1955. This text has been the
>main platform of the South African liberation process. The African allies
>are committed to launch a continental process to encourage social
>movements, artists, intellectuals to write a new Freedom Charter, this time
>not "only" for South Africa, but for Africa as a whole and for the world.
>
>The Freedom Charter is an historical text. In my opinion, it is as
>important as the Universal Human Rights Declaration. In some aspects, The
>Freedom Charter is deeper and richer than The Universal Human Rights
>declaration. And certainly, The Freedom Charter was a "social process".
>More than 3.000 thousands delegates discussed it and wrote it. I can send
>it to you if you don't know it yet.
>
>In Latin America, allies are working in the same project. The goal is to
>write a main text having the Latin American's thoughts and views towards
>the next century.
>
>In some arabic countries, there are allies who are ready to contribute to
>this project too.
>
>This collective process is very important.
>
>The Alliance must be able to enrich this dynamic with an inter-cultural
>approach. As the group of allies who attended the Naxos meeting about the
>Platform have realized and as we can read it in the last Caravan,
>particularly in the pages prepared by Agusti Nicolau, we're building the
>Alliance as an inter-cultural process where the thoughts and views of
>people from differents cultural and historical backgrounds can share a
>singular and global vision, at the same time.
>
>Maybe one of the question we can put to the International Orientation Team
>is how we can help to reinforce this collective process.
>
>I believe that we must have several texts on the table, coming from
>anglo-american, french, indian, chinese, arabic, latin-american, african
>and other views and then we'll be able to write a common text.
>
>The challenge for each one of these contributions would be how to write a
>document deeply rooted in each culture and *at the same time* widely open
>to humanity, as a whole. It is a challenge to think and to act locally and
>globally *at the same time*.
>
>I think that now we must walk a step forward. In 1993 we wrote the Platform
>in french and then we translated it into several languages. It was what
>could be done at that time. The meetings in Laval (June 1996) and in Naxos
>(October 1998) and the articles in Caravan number 3 have done a very
>meaningful analysis of that process.
>
>Then, little by little, we have enlarged the cultural and methodological
>framework of the main themes we are working on. The preparatory steps
>towards the continental meetings of December 1997 helped us to identify the
>main themes and workshops of the Alliance.
>
>Today, as the Alliance is becoming an inter-cultural and a worldwide
>process, we can write an Earth Charter much more richer, more complex. It
>will be a main contribution, not only for the 2001 Assembly, but for our
>generation and for the futur ones.
>
>Furthermore, I think that the Alliance can contribute to transform this
>project in a "social process" as the one that backed The Freedom Charter.
>In this view, maybe we should intend to write a *People's Earth Charter*,
>not only an Earth Charter written only by a commission, even if she is a
>very important one.
>
>I think that I must stop this message here. I don't want to go beyond two
>pages. I'll write a new message about the Main Themes we are working on
>later. They are four: Values, Society, Governance and Biosphere.
>
>(And I have to write this message in French and in Spanish!)
>
>All the best,
>
>Gustavo
>
>
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