The Georgist News   May 4, 1999 / Vol. II, Iss. #5x
    Weekly News of The Georgist Movement Worldwide
    Table of Contents

    I. EDITOR'S NOTE
    Georgists Seeing Red?

    II. ACTION
    May Day, Yes; MAI-Day, No
    Media Derides March for "Cop-Killer" Journalist on Birthday
    Mexican Rebel Marcos Expresses Geo-ism, Solidarity w/Mumia
    McConnell Honored / 'Other' Earth Day Backing Off
    Dodson/Progress Report Seminar: "The Democratic Imperative"
    Foldvary Sparks Rent Debate at Ottawa Lib Seminar
    Geo-Advocacy Training; Who Has Enough?

    III. INFO-WAR
    NEWS-WATCH:
    Biggest Coincidence of All Time ... Every Day
    NEWSPEAK UPDATE
    Genocide (n.) - The forceable acquisition of land?
    WATCH-WATCH: Flushing Out 'Alternative News' Decoys
    Libertarian Journalists Miss Boat: Prior Commitment?
    After Geo-Exposure, Carolyn Chase Shames Conservative Econs
    THE REAL NEWS: Georgist Media Action
    Primo New Geo-Lib Sites - Altman, Foldvary
    Magnificent Source of Georgist News Returns - !
    The Physiocrats' Newest Site
    New Earth Day Site Probably Best Yet!

    IV. NETWORKING NEWS
    Hague Appeal for Peace
    Foldvary Meets Jerry Brown
    Durning Speaks at Colorado Sustainability Summit
    Terrain: A Journal of the Built & Natural Environments
    "Help!" - Teachers

    V. COMMENTS, REMINDERS AND PERSONAL NOTES
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    Section 1. FROM THE EDITOR

    Dearest Georgists,
    Admittedly, it could just be my perspective, but there seems more and more going on with the Georgist Movement every week! I've so much more great news for you than I can squeeze in here, I'm already planning another huge issue in about 48 hours! At that point though, I think I'll have you fully abreast, so if all goes well behind the scenes here, you can expect GN's more periodic release thereafter. Whew!

    Now, if "in war, truth is the first casualty," public enlightenment would make war impossible! The war to end all wars, then, must be a war of words. (And while the landed control education, we can say, "in school, truth is the first casualty.")

    The Balkan conflict, by polarizing views among them, has forced news agencies to report on inaccuracies, manipulations and bias in reports from 'the other guys.' In the wake of renewed public interest in media bias this has stimulated, there has been a sudden wave of humble introspection by journalists for being such NATO-lackeys. Even though they aren't touching the idea that 'who is whose lackey' is debatable, a rapidly swelling public mistrust of mainstream news sources assures the aperture of the Georgists' window of opportunity is, yet, still waxing. Never before, it seems, has the public ear been such fertile ground for the seed of Geo-Wisdom. Perhaps the time has come for the fabled 'great push.'

    Georgists, as we know, come from the left, right and completely non-political segments of society. Lately, though, due primarily to the increased ease of mass communication, but accentuated by the lop-sided war in Kosovo, left-ish news sources, competing also among one another, seem to, more and more, reflect the Georgist paradigm, poverty's and war's only antidote, that all-important "public enlightenment" to which I refer above.

    George Truly,
    Adam Jon Monroe, Jr.
    Editor, The Georgist News 212.613.5766 georgist@aol.com

    PS - Thanks for promoting The Georgist News! More new subscribers are signing up all the time! Yes! Keep it going!
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    Section 2. EVENTS

    "WTO, Meet My Friend, WWW"
    Earth's owners were mighty cocky to schedule the secret signing of the MAI (Multilateral Agreement on Investment) for May Day last year. May Day has been, for over 100 years, the international labor movement's official day of protest. The MAI would have severely limited national authority in dealings with international corporations, which would have been given rights in those countries equal or beyond even their citizens'. The thinking was that if all the "big boys" signed up (knowing they'd be on the right end of the deal), all the smaller nations would have to sign up in order to trade profitably. Voila - instant world government!

    Use of the Internet by alternative journalists is largely credited with fostering the public scrutiny and NGO mobilization which kept the MAI from moving forward. Happy May Day! MAI-Not Home Page: http://mai.flora.org
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    Pat Aller's great '97 MAI article:
    http://www.henrygeorge.org/cultsex/12497.htm
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    The MAI was judged by Project Censored, 1998's #1 most censored news item:
    http://www.sonoma.edu/projectcensored
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    Seoul - Using May Day as a focus, hundreds of thousands of South Korean workers took to the streets Saturday in a demonstration of dissatisfaction with new government rules for corporations there, which have resulted in substantially greater unemployment: http://www.labourstart.org

    Privately conducted analyses of recently released government statistics from 1993 by Yoon-Sang Kim, writer of the Korean translation of Progress and Poverty, reveal the root of South Korea's labor unrest. Among households, the richest 5% own over 50% of Korean land value and 33% of households own no land value. The top 1% of land-owning corporations possess two thirds of all corporate-owned land value. To no surprise, South Korean land value tax rates are estimated to be a fraction of 1%. (Is there a list anywhere of "Worst Practices"?)
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    It's thought an American creation, but Australia may hold the legitimate claim to originating May Day as a modern labor movement holiday:
    http://www.comatonse.com/ultrared/mayday.html
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    Some trace the May Day tradition to even deeper roots:
    http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/5202/mayday.htm
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    Philadelphia, PA - Saturday (4/24/99) was extremely important for a mighty movement affiliated indirectly(?) with ours, to stop the execution of Mumia Abu-Jamal. Begrudgingly, local news agencies lobbed a few token reports on the Philadelphia "Millions for Mumia" march marking his birthday. Sufficient public attention could save Mumia's life, but journalists in the major TV and newspaper markets describe him, as though in choral union, "the convicted cop-killer" and marvel at peoples' call to spare his life.

    For what may seem to us rather obvious reasons, Georgists, therefore somewhat by default, are opposed to capital punishment. More and more, however, some are also becoming highly dubious of the circumstances surrounding Mumia's arrest, trial, conviction, sentencing and the slew of genuinely suspicious motivations of his opponents in the case. These are, after all, the very same people whose scandalous justice system Mumia's radio show was bringing under public scrutiny week after week. This fact and Philly's reputation for corruption among police and city officials are reason enough to wonder, but rarely mentioned in the mainstream press.

    Both San Francisco and Philadelphia recorded crowd sizes for the march ranging (source-dependant) between 10,000 and 30,000. Well organized Fake Earth Day events among college students in the Philadelphia area began Monday and ended Friday rather than go through Saturday, "Mumia Day." Official invitations to the FED festivities made no reference to the march, however.

    On the day before the march, the online front page of The Philadelphia Inquirer contained this immodestly Anti-Mumia article which, despite itself, tends to cast serious doubt whether Mumia isn't, as is said, scheduled to die because of his political views:
    http://www.phillynews.com/inquirer/99/Apr/23/front_page/CAUS23.htm

    Associated Press' online article for AOL titled "Crowd Rallies for Convicted Killer" was urbanized for more sympathetic Chicago Tribune online readers, to "THOUSANDS RALLY IN PHILADELPHIA ON DEATH ROW INMATE'S BEHALF." Both versions of the article, however, imply that Mumia is surely guilty even while they acknowledge his version of the facts have yet to be heard:
    http://chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/article/0,1051,SAV-9904250226,00.html

    Americans were not harshly critical of an obvious media bias against OJ Simpson's acquittal, but is it, therefore, now OK for every black man to be assumed guilty by the press? Is it now OK to assume, therefore, that every verdict handed down by the courts is probably correct?
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    Real revolutionaries usually don't have any problem at all understanding "how, in this modern age, land can be considered of any great significance." Georgists, therefore, may not be surprised to read extremely Georgist-sounding rhetoric attributed to the leader of Mexico's insurgent force, Subcomandante Marcos.

    "These lands are rich with oil, uranium and precious lumber. The government wants them for the great transnational companies. We want them for all the Mexicans. The government sees our lands as a business. We see our history written in these lands." - Excerpt from a letter to Mumia Abu-Jamal on his birthday, penned last month by Subcomandante Marcos.

    Here is the full text of Marcos' letter quoted above, plus one he sent to Pennsylvania Governor Tom Ridge:
    http://www.dejanews.com/=aol/getdoc.xp?AN=470246646

    Mumia mobilizations are massive: http://www.iacenter.org/actnmaj.htm
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    Los Angeles, CA - Another Georgist public figure in peril, John McConnell, was among several individuals chosen by the prestigious Los Angeles-based environmental group, The Wyland Foundation, to receive an award for service to Earth's oceans. Ironically, but, somehow, rather appropriately, he received his award Thursday, April 22. Wyland is dedicated to preserving Earth's oceanic life, a frighteningly necessary effort.

    Georgists, perhaps even more than any other group, realize that a sincere desire to do so is all too often insufficient to assure that one's efforts advance life's cause. Indeed, it may well be that Wyland's noble intentions were but fertile soil for explanations of the Earth Day hoax disseminated on the Internet by Georgists and others concerned for society's relationship with nature (See next item).

    500-600 people attended the posh, hi-tech Wyland ceremony at the Director's Guild of America. A massive video screen was used to present among many other things, a video, by Jill Remington, about John McConnell and the real Earth Day. Many Hollywood celebrities and other environmental leaders attended and McConnell says he had a very good talk with Bob Hunter, Greenpeace Founder.

    McConnell seemed grateful for Wyland's brave move in paying him such recognition and for flying him and his wife to California to accept the award, where they were also able to visit close family members.

    [Thank you, Wyland Foundation, and good luck. Without the life of Earth's oceans, which is also beautiful, humanity would probably die, even if only from sadness.]

    Wyland World Headquarters
    5 Columbia, Aliso Viejo, CA 92656
    (800) WYLAND - 0 foundation@wylandfoundation.org
    http://www.wylandfoundation.org/awards.html
    (See several related items in Section III & IV of this issue.)
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    Other April 22 organizers are suspected of developing reservations about the interests backing Fake Earth Day. One year ago, the phrase "History of Earth Day" in a search engine would have yielded a huge selection of sites. Today, that will not happen. And if you try to visit the resulting links, ... the pages are now missing ... Yes, the Internet is, indeed, a powerful tool.
    Gone: http://www.earthday.org/edhistry.htm
    Gone: http://envirolink.org/earthday/history.html
    Gone: http://www.cfe.cornell.edu/Earthday/about/about.html
    Other Earth Day sites, unlike a year ago, now have no reference to Earth Day's fake history: http://www.earthday.net
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    This just in:
    New York, NY - This past weekend at the Community Church in New York City, Mr. McConnell served on a panel to submit recommendations to the United Nations for "Agenda 21," (the UN's agenda for the 21st Century).

    If you can, help promote public awareness of the landed media's cynical effort to rewrite history and, at the same time, help a brave, fellow Georgist fight back against those attempting to squash his name and noble effort from social understanding. If you can, write a check of any amount payable to Earth Trustees, Inc. and mail it to: John McConnell
    1933 Woodbine St.
    Ridgewood, NY

    THE EarthDay web site: http://www.earthsite.org
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    Beginning Saturday, 5/1/99, the Banneker Center for Economic Justice is sponsoring a two week online seminar/discussion about democracy moderated by Eward Dodson, Director of the School of Cooperative Individualism.

    The launching point for the discussion is one of Dodson's crafted teaching aids, a paper, entitled "The Democratic Imperative." This document, a general invitation and a sign up page for the event are here:
    http://www.progress.org/democracy

    Mr. Dodson is welcoming your questions or comments about the event:
    ejdodson@msn.com
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    Late last month, leading Georgist advocate and Professor of Global Economy at JFK University, Fred Foldvary, made a presentation at the "Liberty and Anarchy" seminar at the University of Quebec at Hull (near Ottawa*).

    [*The Ottawa Citizen, a leading newspaper there, has been publishing more and more Georgist-leaning articles, such as "Greening the Tax Man," which was circulated widely in various ecological news discussion groups earlier this year. In general, Canada seems increasingly open to the ecotax idea (See GN-1/6/99). - AJM]

    "It was well received," he writes, "and there was a lively discussion. One person asked a lot of questions about using rent for public revenue, but that was good, since this meant he was interested."

    At his new web site [See Sec. III, below.], you can access the document upon which Foldvary's Quebec talk was based, "Between State and Anarchy: A Model of Governance": http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Oracle/9252/quebec.html

    Fred Foldvary's new web site: http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Oracle/9252 The Anarchy and Liberty Seminar Series:
    http://www.pierre-lemieux.net/A&Lposter.html
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    Geo-Advocacy Training Seminar

    As mentioned in GN Section 5 last week, this summer's annual conference of the Council of Georgist Organizations (CGO) seems to bear outreach potential far beyond all those previous. A major bonus opportunity though is what may well be our most significant "inreach" event, the Georgist Education Conference. This will take place in the single tax community of Arden, Delaware and immediately follow CGO's in nearby Washington, DC.

    If you're afraid studying "education" techniques might be a bore, take a look at some of what is currently on the docket and think again! (As Lindy puts it, when it comes to Georgist activism, "education IS activism.") Monday morning, experts in their area will share techniques for addressing such (seemingly) diverse target audiences as Libertarians, Greens and religious groups. After that, Josh Vincent explains why he and the HGFA (Henry George Foundation of America) have been able to move the Georgist agenda so far so fast with the two-rate proposal. Then, the ever-enlightening Harry Pollard will make the case for a more macro approach. The design progresses thusly with "More Than Just Economics," a discussion led by Pat Aller, on the Georgist philosophy in culture and history and how to broaden our focus to strengthen our message. And this is all before 2:30 PM on the first of a three day affair ... get the picture?

    Many others with geo-educational techniques to share have signed up to participate in concurrent sessions and you, too, are invited to share yours. If you would like to explain your most effective info-strategies, contact conference organizer, Lindy Davies so he can sign you up. There's a lot more about this event you'll appreciate knowing, so visit the web site of the Henry George Institute where a detailed schedule is currently posted: http://www.henrygeorge.org

    Lindy Davies, Director
    The Henry George Institute
    RR 1, Box 1137
    Brooks ME 04921
    207-722-3042 teacher@henrygeorge.org
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    Section 3. INFO-WAR

    NEWS-WATCH: (Even a cat can look at a king)
    If the Georgist perspective is ever considered by the public at large, some folks are going to look mighty silly. Unfortunately for them, only by exposing the pro-landlord bias among our socially revered information industries, esp. of news and education, can Georgists explain civilization's failure, thus far, to enact even one sane economic system anywhere in the world nor the abnormal degree of public ignorance of the land question and its theorists.

    Of all the journalistic disingenuousness regarding land reform exposed so far by The Georgist News, this may yet be the most grotesquely obvious (though, of course, it could just be article number one million and one in our list of those which, somehow, accidentally appear to be thoroughly disingenuous and are actually sooooo sincere and unknowingly forwarding misinformation from others): http://www.gazette.com/archive/99-04-07/opin1.html

    NEWSPEAK UPDATE: Defining New Landed Media Terminology
    I thought, at first, journalists would realize how silly they sound and quit doing this, but TV news people, especially, can't seem to stop referring to "people who have been ethnically cleansed." What does a person look like after they've "been ethnically cleansed"? A renter? No wonder street people don't take showers! Oh, to be ethnically dirty again!

    Some pols are even going so far as to say the definition of genocide includes kicking people off their land. Small farmers around the world who have lost their land to speculators, however, are not advised to expect any NATO-assisted repatriation.

    WATCH-WATCH: Flushing Out 'Alternative News' Decoys
    And finally, here's an item for any Georgists with some lingering doubt about whether Earth Day is a Left-Right issue or a Geo-Neo issue.

    Libertarians Choke On Earth Day
    Internet - Here are several recent articles, by so-called 'libertarians,' about Earth Day and how the (not-) free market is actually better for the ecosytem than are regulations. While they all take the opportunity to criticize what Earth Day has come to represent, none of them contain the faintest peep about historical revisionism and intentional public misdirection. With avowed leftists, one might expect even the sincere to shy away from thinking about such a gory scandal, but what are these peoples' excuse?

    Two of the articles even mention John McConnell, so, especially in their case, it's pretty inexcusable. Libertarians claim to be neither left nor right, but if they really wanted people to reconsider their political loyalties in light of this special occasion, why don't they expose the Earth Day hoax? Has the Libertarian Party been taken over by Leftist "shills"?

    http://www.reason.com/9905/co.ts.april.html
    http://www.heartland.org/environment/REDessays/jbast.htm
    http://www.ethanallen.org/commentaries/earth.html
    http://www.free-eco.org/free/pubs/990414jb.html
    http://www.cei.org/update/1999/4-99-ja.html
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    The "Earth Day Information Center" contains the longest list of "Right-Wing environmentalist" articles I've ever seen. Pro-Sprawl?? Beyond disingenuous, of course, the pieces are farcical, so who do these guys think they're fooling? Anyone can see these articles are not about conserving the environment, they're about condemning Left-wing environmental policies. So, why would they go out of their way to support, rather than expose the Earth Day hoax? Huge print there reads, "In Response to Your Many Questions: Earth Day is April 22, and it Falls on the Same Date Every Year":
    http://www.nationalcenter.org/EarthDay98.html

    Articles there pretend to prove that 'sprawl is good' ... or that Earth's ecosystem is impervious to damage by any human activities ... While one of their pages bewails Earth's "overpopulation"!!!:
    http://www.nationalcenter.org/EarthDay99Quotes.html

    Awareness of the Earth Day hoax (or of the overpopulation hoax) would change how the public views the press, educators, political representatives and society's relationship with nature. Not too sure about that? Next item, please.
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    Carolyn Chase, Director of The Earth Day Network (an April 22 Org), is thought to have visited The Progress Report at least once last year to read the article in which she was interviewed, Earth Day Secrets. Now, her web site is no longer focused on Earth Day. No longer is "The History of Earth Day" on her site. The Earth Day links there are still to Fake Earth Day org.s, but hey, ... a little truth goes a long way, doesn't it? Yup; compare the circuitous, superficial logic of the above referenced Right-Wing journalists with what Ms. Chase has to say (don't miss the last part):
    http://www.sdearthtimes.com/et0499/et0499s1.html

    Can you imagine? She's the "wacko-commie-regulatory-tree-hugger" and those other writers are the "principled" ecological economics "experts"? Did the Left and Right swap platforms while I was in the other room? Well, as a matter of fact, Carolyn even seems to have all these guffawing Libertarian curmudgeons whipped pretty embarrassingly in the political analysis department as well: http://www.sdearthtimes.com/et1098/et1098s0.html
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    Maybe it isn't a tidal wave of enlightenment, but just to prove that many journalists out there are prime candidates for 'cat-vision,' consider this, from a recent piece by Alan Bock, "America's Courtier Press":

    "Could it be that the war is at least as much about control of natural resources as it is about self-determination and humanitarian impulses?

    "A genuinely independent press might look behind official platitudes to delve into such possibilities, ... "

    Thanks for the plug, Mr. Bock! And I'll take this opportunity to remind readers this isn't the first time I've located sensible reporting such as the above through World Net Daily. Bock's article:
    http://www.worldnetdaily.com/bluesky_bock/19990416_xcabo_americas_c.shtml

    THE REAL NEWS: Geo-Media Advances
    The Internet being the fastest and least expensive means of reaching the greatest number of people and Georgists being both economists and evangelists, naturally our presence in cyber-space is a focus of thriving activity.

    Two of the newest Georgist sites to have been developed are also among the most political (perhaps, another trend). "Todd's Home Page" is a deceptively humble title for one of them, a "Neo Vs. Geo" site on par with Dan Sullivan's powerfully persuasive and historically fascinating "Geo-Libertarian Home Page." The other is also from the movement's Geo-Lib sector, but rather than a novice, is from a guru, Prof. Fred Foldvary.

    Notable in this regard, Foldvary's latest, a "Dictionary of Free Market Economics" from Edward Elgar Press, was named March's "Book of the Month" by the popular libertarian Internet network, "Free-Market.Net,":
    http://www.free-market.net/features/bookofthemonth

    Prof. Foldvary on his new site:
    A few years ago, not liking any of the economics textbooks, I wrote my own, titled "The Science of Economics." A publication plan in the UK did not pan out, so I have now posted the manuscript in my website at: http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Oracle/9252/economics.html

    Links to a wide assortment of Foldvary's highly regarded books, papers, articles and editorials are also accessible there: http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Oracle/9252

    Senior Editor of The Progress Report, Georgists' most referenced web site, Fred Foldvary is likely the most prolific and widely read Georgist journalist today. And while most pundits want to give every possibility a "5.5" or play both sides of, for example, the Balkan issue, The Progress Report is straight. You know why - Georgists are not confused. This is the refreshing, clear and enlightened perspective for which the world is searching: http://www.progress.org
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    This major news just in: "The Geonomist" is back!
    Jeff Smith, President of The Geonomy Society (possibly Georgists' most hyper-active American group), has just published a Spring issue of his dynamic periodical, The Geonomist. If you find Georgist journalism helpful and inspiring, you are in luck; it doesn't get much better than The Geonomist. Georgists are not fully up to date unless they read this, so don't delay: http://www.progress.org/geonom49.htm

    The Geonomy Society: http://members.aol.com/geonomy/geonomy.htm
    1611 SE Nehalem St., #2
    Portland, Oregon 97202-6700
    503-236-1968 Fax: 503/760-4932 geonomist@juno.com
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    Internet - Roy Davidson has just finished a web page on the role of the French Physiocrats in the development of classical political economy, called "Physiocrats and the Impot Unique." The physiocrats might well be the most under-taught and mis-taught of all economists. Good going, Mr. Davidson: http://www.angelfire.com/az/physiocrat
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    Internet - Carmen Colombo, proprietor of the dynamic WOW Zone (Wish Only Well), has created a massive, beautiful new array of interactive Earth Trustee web sites, like the Earth Day Assembly, a discussion board where messages can be translated into various languages with two clicks of your mouse - pretty useful! http://assembly.nerdworld.com/assembly.asp?assembly=Earth.Day.Assembly

    EarthDayOne is another new web site dedicated completely to the REAL Earth Day and might be the best yet. It's vast, sophisticated and inviting. Bookmark this and use it as a reference for not only fact-finding, but site-hosting: http://www.earthdayone.org
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    From Todd Altman -
    On the inside cover of the Robert Schalkenbach Foundation's 1998 Catalog (the page with the table of contents), there's a typo with respect to their 1-800 number. It currently reads 800-269-2555. The correct number is 800-269-9555. Be sure to correct that before handing it out to a friend or family member.
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    Section 4. NETWORK NEWS

    From The Hague Appeal for Peace:
    Netherlands - The Hague Appeal for Peace Civil Society Conference will be held from May 11 to 15, 1999 in The Hague, The Netherlands: http://www.haguepeace.org
    [See related item in Sec. V, below.]
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    Indiana's Mayor Stephen Goldsmith gave a talk based on his new book, "The 21st Century City: Resurrecting Urban America," at the Independent Institute on Tuesday April 6th. In attendance were, among others, Prof. Fred Foldvary (See Section III, above) and Oakland's Mayor Jerry Brown, the former Governor of California and US Presidential candidate.

    Foldvary asked Mayor Brown if he was familiar with Henry George's proposal to only tax land rent, to which Brown replied that he had heard of George but didn't know much about this. The Professor was, then, able to explain the concept for a couple of minutes, before attention was diverted. Not a bad start though! Jerry Brown's web site: http://www.wtp.org
    Independent Institute: http://www.independent.org
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    From Chris Toto / Urban Ecology List -
    Denver, CO - The 1999 Colorado Sustainability Summit started Saturday (5/1/99) in Denver, Colorado and will continue through tomorow, May 5th.

    Georgists are familiar with keynote speaker Alan Thein Durning of Northwest Environment Watch, author of the popular book, Tax Shift*, which did not fail to reference Pennsylvania's Georgist revolution. Durning's book also earned him the keynote speech at the 1998 conference of the Council of Georgist Organizations** in Portland, Oregon.

    Find out more about the Denver Summit here: http://www.sustainablecolorado.org
    *Tax Shift is available here: http://www.progress.org/books
    **The CGO's exciting 1999 conference schedule and other related upcoming
    events are at the new and improved CGO web site: http://www.progress.org/cgo
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    From a Press Release to Sierra Club's Sprawl List:
    "Terrain: A Journal of the Built & Natural Environments" is now accepting submissions in all categories - poetry, essays, fiction, articles, and artwork (ARTerrain) - for Issue No. 4, "The Suburban Frontier." Submissions are due by May 10 for publication on June 10, 1999. For more information, visit Terrain's web site: http://www.terrain.org - editors@terrain.org
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    Georgists might have some ideas for these teachers asking how to teach their students about the environment: http://www.wowzone.com/etqac.htm
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    Internet - Apparently in even greater need of exposure to the Georgist perspective are participants in the new "Earth Forum." One major topic of discussion there is the focus of its sister site, "Earth Charter." While national leaders, happily, are in no rush to establish more and more powerful institutions of planetary government, global finance groups and many environmentalists are becoming scarily chummy on the topic.
    Earth Forum: http://www.earthforum.org
    Earth Charter: http://www.earthcharter.org
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    Section 5. COMMENTS, REMINDERS AND PERSONAL NOTES

    Correction re: Sec. V-GN 4/15/99 from Al Hartheimer - Victoria Woodhull, not Carrie Catt, was the first woman to run for Presidential office in the US: http://www.glue.umd.edu/~cliswp/Bios/vwbio.html

    [Woops! Uh, ... I was just testing you! {= ) No, really, thanks, Al! -AJM]
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    "Brilliant! Intelligent! Articulate! I savor every well thought out word. Also, thanks for the great "links" to some wonderful information." - Mrs. J.C. Martin
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    "Once again, an excellent edition of GeoNews. I looked up the Scottish Greens site for info on their LVT approach to land reform, which I will include in my presentation to the Lancaster Greens in PA at their May 6 meeting.

    "And I read through the Progress Report article by Foldvary on Kosovo to get ideas for a paper to present at the Hague Appeal for Peace conference next month." - Alanna Hartzok
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    YES! Terrific! Thanks, Alanna!

    See, folks? This Georgist News stuff can be really helpful, so keep it coming and stay tuned!

    Sincerely George,
    Adam Jon Monroe, Jr.
    Editor, The Georgist News 212-613-5766 georgist@aol.com
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