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Published on: 10/30/2001
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Many of the rabble-rousers >>in Seattle fall into this group. >> >>According to Ed Miller, a program director for the Charles S. Mott >>Foundation, as much as $5 million has been given to NGOs by big foundations >>expressly to focus public attention on the World Trade Organization. >>Environmental Media Services, a public relations firm, was paid $200,000 to >>get NGO spokesmen connected with journalists during the Seattle fracas. >> >>The National Environmental Trust (NET) is spending $11 million on a >>propaganda campaign about global warming.Pew Charitable Trusts has >>announced >>it would make $20 million available to civil society NGOs for land use >>control programs.Three primary civil society NGOs, IUCN, NRI, and the World >>Wildlife Fund (WWF), were listed as "Executing Agency," or "Collaborating >>Organization," on 45 projects totaling $847 million in the U.N.'s Global >>Environment Facility report last June. >> >>There is no shortage of money for civil society. >> >>Ironically, many of the same organizations whose members carried signs in >>Seattle, promoting national sovereignty as a defense against the WTO, are >>the >>same organizations that insist on U.N. enforcement of environmental >>regulations.The fact is that they are not at all concerned about national >>sovereignty; they are concerned about controlling the WTO as they control >>many of the other U.N. agencies and organizations. >> >>That's what the World NGO Conference is all about: how to get a more >>influential role in the activities of the United Nations. >> >>Global governance is still a work in progress.The United Nations, as well >>as >>civil society have long ago agreed that world government is the only way to >>assure sustainable development, the equitable distribution of the earth's >>resources, and global disarmament.The only questions that remain concern >>precisely how world government should be organized. >> >>All of the various scenarios for world government have several points in >>common.One of these is the creation of a permanently constituted body of >>NGO >>representatives that serve as the voice of the people, providing advice to >>the U.N. General Assembly and to the various U.N. agencies. >> >>Our Global Neighborhood, the report of the Commission on Global Governance, >>calls this group "The Peoples' Assembly."