taken from the excellent website http://www.millenniumworld.org

originally: http://www.igc.org/millennium/MI/index.htm

A	K	Q
Abolition 2000	Koynoyna	R
All One Tribe Drum	L	The Race
All the World Sing Praise	Living Universe	Referendum on the 21st Century
B	Long Now Foundation	Religious Working Group: World Bank, IMF
Beacon Millennium	LightShift 2000	Ribbon International
Blue Sky Wisdom Project	M	Rotary International
Business 2010	M2 India Social Infrastructure Development	S
C	Madagascar 2000	Seventy-Two Hours of Peace
Center for Millennial Studies	Megacities 2000	Sister Cities International
Children's Peace Pavillion	Millenarium Millennium Art Proposal	State of the World Forum
Children's UN/World Summit of Children	Millennium Bell Proposal	T
Civitas International	Millennium Children's Conference	Teamwork 2000
Commitment 2000	Millennium Day Broadcast by WGBH	Twenty-First Century Project
Count Up 2000	Millennium Digital Be-In	Twenty-Second Century Group
D	Millennium Day Broadcast by WGBH	U
Drumming in the Year 2000	Millennium Itn'l. Children's Conference	UNESCO
E	Millennium of Peace 2000	UN Millennium Assembly
Earth Charter Millennium Campaign	Millennium Peace Run	UN Youth Assembly Project
Earth Citizens Assembly : Millennium Earth	Millennium People's Assembly Network	United Nations University Millennium Project
Earth Day 2000	Millennium Prayer Vigil	Unity Millennium
Everything 2000 Millennium Events	Millennium Project	Universal Millennium Symbol
F	The Millennium Project24	V
First Night International	Millennium Society	Visions for the Millennium: A World Congress
Foundation for Global Community	Millennium Television Network	W
Foundation for the Future: Humanity 3000	Millennium 2000: Walking the Ways of Peace	Women of the World Leadership Training
Foundation for the Future of Youth	Millennium Weave	World Economic Forum: Europe 2000
Fund for Global Awakening	Millennium Young People's Congress	World March of Women in the Year 2000
G	Moratorium	World Mathematical Year
Global Citizenship 2000	N	World Network of Religious Futurists
Global March for Jesus	O	World Peace Prayer Society
Global Millennium Project	Odyssey 2000	World Peace Through Reverence for Life
Global Peace Initiative	One Day in Peace	World Resources Institute
Global Youth Service Day 2000	Operation Day's Work	World Scout Events
Great Millennium Peace Ride	Orion Society Millennium Conference	World Summit of Children General Assembly
H	P	World Wildlife Fund
Heartbeat 2000 Project	Parliament of the World's Religions	X
I	Peace 2000 Caravan	Y
Indigenous 2000/Indigenas 2000	Peace Child Charitable Trust	Year 2000: Demilitarization for Democracy
Int'l. Children's Games Millennium Festival	Peaceday 2000/2001/2002	Youth for Environmental Sanity
International Peace City 2000	Peace in Prison 2000	Z
J	Pole to Pole 2000
Journey of the Magi	Projects 2000
Jubilaeum 2000	Project Global 2000
Jubilee 2000
Jubillenium

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Abolition 2000

In the summer of 1999, a coalition of 1300 peace groups, ABOLITION 2000, issued a Call for the New Millennium. Just after the Hague Appeal for Peace assembly in May, 1999, which attracted at least eight thousand people, ABOLITION 2000's new global council decided to call for "Global Abolition Days" 1-8 March 2000 as an international week of action, education, and lobbying for nuclear disarmament and also as a means to establish a strong citizen presence at the Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference at the United Nations. At a separate smaller conference organized in May, 1999, by the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, General George Lee Butler, retired USAF, announced the formation of a new but related organization, SECOND CHANCE, to pressure the U.S. military and Congress to eliminate all nuclear weapons.

For more information, contact:

Abolition 2000
c/o The Nuclear Age Peace Foundation
1187 Coast Village Road, Suite 123
Santa Barbara, California 93108
tel: +1 805 965-3443
fax: +1 805 568-0466
e-mail: wagingpeace@napf.org
or Web site: http://www.wagingpeace.org/abolition2000.html

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All One Tribe Drum

 

Unison drumming around the world on New Year's Eve 2000 will take place in many countries as a sign of human beings on the path to unity and as a demonstration of the healing effects of drumming. The event honors the "International Decade of the World's Indigenous Peoples," declared by the United Nations as 1994-2004. The drumming, however, will not be coordinated from a single center, although the All One Tribe Drums Foundation encourages people everywhere to take part. For a list of drummings being organized in various localities, see "Foundation News" on the website.

 

For more information, contact:

Feeny Lipscomb, Director
All One Tribe Drums Foundation
PO Drawer N
Taos NM 87571
tel + 800-442-3786, or +505-751-0019
fax +505-751-0509
email: Beat@allonetribedrum.com or year2000@allonetribedrum.com
website: http://www.allonetribedrum.com

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All the World Sing Praise
January 1, 2000

 

This is a project of the Catholic Youth Ministry Faith Alive in the UK who are members of the Association of Coordinators of Catholic Schools of Evangelisation (ACCSE/2000), a branch of Evangelisation 2000. Its purpose is to create an ecumenical worldwide songs-of- praise event in every capital city of the world for the first day of the next Millennium. The initiative was "kicked-off" in the Coventry Memorial Park on June 30 1996, the day of the Euro 96 Football Competition using a football specially signed by the England Team and another one signed by the winning German Team. Music was supplied by the talented London Community Gospel Choir, the Revelation Rock band (who played a selection for the children who attended from Coventry's schools) with older famous football hymns supplied by the Coventry Festival Brass Band.

 

For more information, contact:

Faith Alive
110 Potters Green Road
Coventry CV2 2AN
United Kingdom
Tel/fax +44-1203-613-847

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Beacon Millennium

 

Also known as BEACON 2000, this was to be the third of three steps in a billion-dollar fundraising project by the Beacon Millennium International Trust on behalf of charities worldwide. First would come The Great Walk, 1 January 1999, where all individuals would walk two kilometers and donate moneys to local charities. Second would come The Glorious Fiesta, 15 August 1999, a festival with proceeds also going to local charities. Third would come Beacon Millennium, in which the year 2000 would be heralded by the successive lighting of beacons across the world on 31 December 1999, starting at the International Date Line and moving westward through New Zealand, Australia, Asia...to its final destination, Honolulu--with fundraising for national charities and for children and the environment all along the way. What remains is the last, organized through the UK, and there associated also with MILLENNIUM PEACE RUN (see below).

 

For more information, contact:

George Rock, Chairman
Tel +44-1725-518-810
fax +44-1725-518-807
See also BEACON MILLENNIUM CANADA

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Blue Sky Wisom Project

 

Drawing upon the experiences and perspectives of educators of many cultures, the BLUE SKY WISDOM PROJECT hopes to foster a global Wisdom Network that will be officially kicked off by a World Wisdom Gathering in Hawaii in early 2001. Before that, a Community Wisdom event will take place on Salt Spring Island, BC, Canada, in May, 2000. On 3 August 1999, project members will have their third annual meeting, with an emphasis on "Community Wisdom," in conjunction with the annual meeting of the Society for Values in Higher Education in Hampton, Virginia. The Wisdom Network is to be worldwide alliance of individuals and organizations working to create a wiser world. Out of respect for Creator and Creation, it does this through: identifying and exchanging wise practices electronically and face to face; developing collaborative partnerships across boundaries--cultural, generational, gender-based, religious, etc.; regarding the arts and sciences as well as humanistic and spiritual traditions as wisdom resources; encouraging playfulness, spontaneity, creativity, and intuition as wisdom ways; recognizing compassion as a necessary partner to wisdom;creating a virtual workspace where those interested in furthering wisdom can collaborate; writing, translating, and disseminating wisdom resource and training materials; and fostering activities that lead to personal, social and global transformation.

 

For more information, contact:

Reynold Feldman, President
Blue Sky Associates
46-259 Kalali Street
Kaneohe, HI 96744-4128
Tel +808-234-1242
fax -8080-236-0516
email: reynfeld@lava.net

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Business 2010

 

Business 2010 an initiative of the State of the World Forum, is dedicated to finding ways to bring business into alignment with a more sustainable future.

 

For more information, contact:

Dan Cohen
760 Market St, #526
San Francisco CA 94102
tel + 415-392-2884

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Carter Cemter Global 2000 Program

 

Among the projects of the Carter Center's GLOBAL 2000 PROGRAM are projects devoted to agriculture and health. The Global 2000 Agriculture Program works to end hunger in developing countries by teaching farmers to be self-reliant through the use of modern agricultural technologies. Global 2000 collaborates with the Nippon Foundation in the sub-Saharan countries of Ghana, Sudan, Zambia, Tanzania, Benin, Togo, Nigeria, Ethiopia, and Mozambique. Through this joint effort, known as Sasakawa-Global 2000 (SG 2000), localagricultural extension agents work side-by-side with farmers, teaching them how to use high yielding seeds, fertilizers, and improved farming methods to grow more corn, wheat, and other grains; how to successfully store their harvest; and how to develop viable commercial markets for their grain. As a result of these efforts, more than 200,000 African farm families have learned new farming techniques that can double or triple their grain production. Another project is the Guinea Worm Eradication Program. Since 1986, The Carter Center's Global 2000 Program has helped lead a worldwide coalition to eradicate Guinea worm disease (dracunculiasis) from India, Pakistan, Yemen, and 16 African countries. By late 1995, Global 2000 and its partners had helped national eradication programs in endemic countries reduce the annual incidence of Guinea worm disease by 97 percent. Guinea worm soon will be only the second disease in human history to be eradicated (the first was smallpox in 1977).

 

For more information, contact:

Andy Agle, Director of Operations
Global 2000 Program
Carter Center
453 Freedom Parkway
Atlanta GA 30307
tel + 1-404-331-3900
website: http://www.cartercenter.org

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Center for Millennial Studies

 

Dedicated to gathering and archiving responses to the end of the second Christian millennium and to other previous "End" events or calendrical moments, the CENTER FOR MILLENNIAL STUDIES promotes the study and analysis of apocalyptic and millenarian movements and their aftermaths. Through newsletters, essays, scholarly papers, conferences, and educational programs, it offers these studies and analyses to the public and serves as a clearinghouse for information about, and the socio-historical contexts of--apocalyptic thought and action. It has also recently become engaged in helping local and governmental agencies appreciate the context and repercussions of apocalyptic fears, especially with regard to the Y2K computer bug and its nexus of Information Technology, cultural anxieties, and societal anticipations.

 

For more information, contact:

Prof. Richard Landes
Center for Millennial Studies
Boston University
704 Commonwealth Ave, Suite 205
Boston MA 02215
Tel +617-358-0226
fax +617-358-0225
email: cms@mille.org or rlandes@bu.edu
webiste: http://www.mille.org

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Children's Peace Pavillion

 

A field-trip center for children, with particular attention to issues of self-esteem, conflict resolution, cultural appreciation, and earth stewardship, the recently-established Peace Pavillion entertains some 1200 children a month.

 

For more information, contact:

Lisa Prosser-Dodds
1001 W. Walnut
Independence MO 64051
Tel +816-521-3033
fax +816-521-3092
email: Kidpeace@rlds.org

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Children's United Nations/World Summit of Children

 

With the ambition of bringing together children of the world to discuss the threats and dangers of tomorrow's problems, this assembly takes place in January 2000 at UN Headquarters in New York. Prior to this, however, the 1999 World Summit of Children Project met in San Francisco on 18-25 July to create a charter for the Young General Assembly, an international body of young people working to strengthen the United Nations and serve as a voice for young people in international affairs.

 

For more information, contact:

Ellen Brorgen
Tel/Fax +1-650-40-8940
email: peaceways@igc.apc.org
or
Brenda Gauthier
email: spittfier@earthlink.net

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Civitas International

 

On 18-21 June 1999, the City of Palermo (Italy), the Italian Ministry of Education, and Civitas International held a Civitas Palermo World Congress to launch an international campaign for education for democracy and a culture of lawfulness. The Congress was attended by First Lady of the US, Hillary Rodham Clinton; the President designate of the European Commission, Romano Prodi; the Nobel Prize winner for Literature, Wole Soyinka; the Mayor of Palermo, Leoluca Orlando; the Italian Minister of Public Education Luigi Berlinger, and hundreds of other educators and civic leaders from around the world. An international consortium for civic education, Civitas aims to strengthen effective education for informed and responsible citizenship in new and established democracies around the world. The Civitas consortium is composed of individuals, non-governmental associations and governmental institutions from many countries as well as international organizations. Civitas was inaugurated at an international conference of civic educators held in Prague in June 1995. More than 450 civic educators from 52 countries met at to discuss the importance of civic culture to the successful development and maintenance of democratic governance. They explored the central role of civic educators in cultivating a democratic culture and pledged to continue their joint efforts to raise the visibility of civic education on the international agenda and leverage their resources through cooperative efforts.

 

For more information, contact:

CIVITAS Palermo Press Office
Andrea Sorosati
tel +39-348-420-6040
fax +39-091-688-6134
email: andscr@tin.it
website: http://ivnet.org
or http://www.civnet.org

CIVITAS PALERMO
World Congress Secretariat
tel +202-393-4275
email: civitas@aol.com

US Information Agency
Catherine StearnsPublic Affairs Specialist
tel + 202-401-1190
fax + 202-619-6988
email: cstearns@usia.gov

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Commitment 2000

 

In 1998 twenty-six Nobel Peace Prize Laureates signed an Appeal which led to the UN declaration of the Year 2000 as an International Year for the Culture of Peace and 2001 through 2010 as the decade for the Culture of Peace and Nonviolence for the Children of the World. Now they are seeking the pledges of one hundred million people to be committed in the year 2000 and thereafter to the principles outlined in their appeal and those inscribed in the relevant UN Declarations.

Here is the text of their appeal:
"For the Children of the World Today, in every single country throughout the world, there are many children silently suffering the effects and consequences of violence.This violence takes many different forms: between children on streets, at school, in family life and in the community. There is physical violence, psychological violence, socio-economic violence, environmental violence and political violence. Many children-too many children-live in a "culture of violence". We wish to contribute to reduce their suffering. We believe that each child can discover, by himself, that violence is not inevitable. We can offer hope, not only to the children of the world, but to all of humanity, by beginning to create, and build, a new Culture of Nonviolence. For this reason, we address this solemn appeal to all Heads of States, of all member countries of the General Assembly of the United nations, for the UN General Assembly to declare:That the first decade of the new millennium, the years 2001-2010, be declared the "Decade for a Culture of Nonviolence";That at the start of the decade the year 2000 be declared the "Year of Education for Nonviolence";That nonviolence be taught at every level in our societies during this decade, to make the children of the world aware of the real, practical meaning and benefits of nonviolence in their daily lives, in order to reduce the violence, and consequent suffering, perpetrated against them and humanity in general. Together, we can build a new culture of nonviolence for humankind which will give hope to all humanity, and in particular, to the children of our world.

With deepest respect,The Nobel Peace Prize Laureates

Signed by : Mairead Maguire Corrigan, Nelson Mandela, Mother Teresa, Aung San Suu Kyi, The 14th Dalaï Lama (Tenzin Gyatso), Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev, Shimon Peres, Elie Wiesel, Mgr. Desmond Mpilo Tutu, Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, Yasser Arafat, Mgr. Carlos Felipe Ximenes Belo, José Ramos-Horta, Norman Borlaug, Oscar Arias Sánchez, UNICEF, Frederik Willem de Klerk, Betty Williams, Lech Walesa, Joseph Rotblat, Henry Kissinger, Jody Williams, John Hume, David Trimble, Rigoberta Menchu Tum and the American Friends Society.

 

For more information, contact:

website: http://www.nobelweb.org

http://www.unesco.org/manifesto2000

 

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Count Up 2000
January 1999-July 2001

 

This is a web effort to link groups that have a positive focus on the millennium.

 

For more information, contact:

See ONE DAY IN PEACE January 1, 2000

Robert Alan Silverstein
P.O. Box 570
Roosevelt, NJ 08555-0570
fax: 609-443-4307
email: info@countup2000.com

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Drumming in the Year 2000: A Global Event

 

People around the world will drum in unison for the final hours of 1999.

For more information, contact:

All One Tribe Foundation
P.O. Drawer N
Taos, New Mexico 87571, USA
tel: 1-800-442-DRUM
email: beat@allonetribe.com
email: year2000@allonetribedrum.com
website: http://www.allonetribedrum.com

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Earth Charter Millennium Campaign

 

The EARTH COUNCIL is sponsoring an EARTH CHARTER, "a people's agreement on a statement of ethical principles to guide the conduct of people and nations toward each other and the Earth to ensure a sustainable future." Newletters, discussions, forums, and papers have contributed to (and appear on the website of) the EARTH CHARTER, which is currently in Benchmark Draft Q8A.The MILLENNIUM CAMPAIGN seeks to catalyze changes in values, behavior, and attitudes of civil society, private economic society, and government, and to do so in part by organizing a People's Earth Charter Millennium Assembly 2000, from which will come a final version of the EARTH CHARTER to be presented to the People's Millennium Assembly at the United Nations in New York during the late summer of 2000. That final version of the charter will also be presented for adoption at the Rio + 10 Conference in 2002.

 

For more information, contact:

Earth Council
Apdo 2323-1002
San José, Costa Rica
tel +506-256-1611,
fax +506-256-255-2197
email: echarter@terra.ecouncil.ac.cr
website: http://www.earthcharter.org
http://www.earthforum.org or www.earthcharter.org
In the USA:
Tom Rogers and Rick Clugston
Center for Respect of Life and Environment
2100 L St. NW
Washington DC 20037
tel +1-202-778-6133,
fax +1-202-778-6138
email: crle@aol.com

Prof. Steven Rockefeller
Committee to Support the Earth Charter
email: rockefel@panther.middlebury.edu

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Earth Citizens Assembly

 

THE ALLIANCE FOR A RESPONSIBLE AND UNITED WORLD, prompted and connected by the FOUNDATION FOR THE PROGRESS OF HUMANKIND, has been considering various proposals for an EARTH CITIZENS ASSEMBLY, starting in 1994 with thee idea of a World States-General as presented in the Platform for a Responsible and United World. At this point, the Assembly would not be a specific event, but rather a process taking place over a period of two and a half years, from January 1999 to July 2001, seeking to demonstrate the collective ability of the citizens of the entire world to take charge of their common problems in all their complexity while respecting their differences. The Assembly will question the institutions holding political, economic and social power and propose concrete strategies for action in the coming century. In organizing the Assembly, the Alliance for a Responsible and United World, far from competing with similar initiatives by others, is striving, on the contrary, to develop partnerships with them and highlight their importance. The first phase, from January 1999 to December 2000, will be devoted to gradually developing proposals based on three types of meetings: *regional*, *collegial* (bringing together people in the same social context or members of the same profession) or *topical* (concerning a specific issue). The second phase, from January 2000 to March 2001, will involve converging marches, marked by festive or symbolic stages or *memory stations* that will serve as vectors for dialogue, discussion, and the dissemination of proposals. The third phase, from March 2001 to June 2001, will be the assembly phase. As opportunities to question those in power and to develop our proposals in greater depth, these assemblies will mark both the ultimate conclusion of the marches and the preparation for the world meeting.The last phase, in June-July 2001, will combine a world meeting of 300-600 people in a non-Western country (e.g. India) with 7-10 regional meetings of about 200 people, and local meetings, the number of which will depend on the allies' initiatives. All will be linked to each other by Internet, thereby forming a single discussion. The meetings will bring together *messengers* who report the conclusions of the previous phases and reflect the diversity of places, contexts and challenges of the next century. Two documents will be conceived, discussed and approved in the course of this process: (1) An Earth Charter, which will supplement the UN Charter and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and formulate the common values upon which the Earth Citizens have agreed for managing the planet (See just above); (2) Strategies for entering the next century, proposing changes to be undertaken over the coming decades in four main areas: values, cultures, art, science and education; economics and society; governance andcitizenship; relations between humankind and the biosphere.

 

For more information, contact:

Pierre Calame, director
Gustavo Marin, vice-president
Fondation Charles Léopold Mayer pour le progrès de l=homme
38, rue Saint-Sabin
F-75011 Paris, France
tel + 33-1-43-14-75-75,
fax +33-1-43-14-75-79
email: paris@fph.fr
or gustavo@fph.fr

FONDATION CHARLES LÉOPOLD MAYER
Longeraie 9Ch-1006 Lausanne
tel + 41-21-342-50-10,
fax -11
email: lausanne@fph.ch

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Earth Council Toward A Millenium Earth Initiative

 

In 1997, the Earth Council organized a Rio+5 Consultation, a series of discussions, papers, and conferences Ain the spirit of the Earth Summit and in preparation for the next millennium. Currently it is undertaking a MILLENNIUM EARTH INITIATIVE focusing on democratization at the local and national levels as the basis for global sustainability.

 

For more information, contact:

Earth Council
Apartado 2323-1002
San José, Costa Rica
tel +506-256-1611,
fax -506-255-2197
email: eci@terra.ecouncil.ac.cr

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Earth Day 2000

 

The wave of public pressure for change that began on the first Earth Day, 22 April 1970, crested in the passage of the Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, and Endangered Species Act in the United States and the creation of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Earth Day 1990 went global, and the public outpouring of support from 200,000,000 people in 141 countries pressured heads of state to participate personally in the United Nations Eareth Summit in Rio De Janeiro and persuaded countries elsewhere to create environmental agencies. For 2000, the Earth Day Network is launching a multi-year campaign aimed at the major environmental issues facing the planet. The Network will use cutting-edge information technology and traditional grassroots organizing to enlist half a billion people worldwide in a movement to embrace the opportunies offered by the new millennium. Already, 1300 groups in 140 countries, along with 33 Strategic Partners, have signed on to the Earth Day 2000 Worldwide Campaign. Under the theme, "New Energy for a New Era," participants will demand a swift transition from fossil fuels and nuclear power to a system based on the efficient use of clean, renewable energy.

 

For more information, contact:

Denis Hayes, Chair
Earth Day Network
or
Mark Dubois
International Coordinator
Earth Day 2000
91 Marion St.Seattle WA 98104 USA
tel + 206-652-2381
fax + 206-682-9937
email: mdubois@earthday.net
or earthday@earthday.net
website: http://www.earthday.net

for events in the following countries, see
Earth Day Canada: http://www.earthday.ca

Earth Day Japan: http://www.jca.apc.org/index?en.html

Earth Day Taiwan: http://www.gcf.org.tw

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Everything 2000 Millennium Events

 

John Locher and his staff intend to "provide a comprehensive resource that helps the world prepare for 2000 and beyond."

 

For more information, contact:

John Locher
Milestone Media
Seattle WA
tel +206-621-0999
email: john@milestonemedia.com
or matt@milestonemedia.com
website: http://www.everything2000.com

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First Night International

 

A non-profit association in more than 150 cities in the United States, Canada, England, and New Zealand, FIRST NIGHT INTERNATIONAL encourages the design of "First Night" (New Year's Eve) celebrations that bring communities together through the arts. Promoting not-for-profit, easily accessible, non-alcoholic, collaborative, innovative festivities and celebrations around New Year's Eve and New Year's Day, First Night groups in the year 2000 will also prompt, devise, develop, sponsor, and oversee a series of projects that will leave a legacy of public investment in the future cultural, social, and ecological well-being of local communities, neighborhoods, towns, and cities.

 

For more information, contact:

Ms. Zeren Earls, President
First Night International
200 Lincoln Street, Suite 301
Boston MA 02111-2418
tel + 617-357-0065,
fax +617-357-0066
email: mainoffice@firstnightintl.org
website: http://www.firstnightintl.org

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Foundation for Global Community

 

Emphasizing the need in the next century to adopt as our primary identity our identity with other human beings everywhere, 2000 AND ONE is a new program of the FOUNDATION FOR GLOBAL COMMUNITY, which is the successor to the Beyond War Foundation, co-founded by Emilia Rathbun, who,at the age of ninety-three, has just received the Eleanor Roosevelt Award for Humanitarian Service from the group, Women of Vision and Action.

 

For more information, contact:

Susan Mokelke
222 High St
Palo Alto CA 94301
tel +650-328-7756,
fax +650-328-778520008
email: one@globalcommunity.org
website: http://www.globalcommunity.org/cgactiv/cgothrac/cg2001/2000&one.html

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Foundation for the Future: Humanity 3000 Symposium
12-16 July 2000

 

The FOUNDATION FOR THE FUTURE was established in 1996 "to promote scholarly research to better understand the factors that may have a major impact on the future of humanity." To that end, it sponsors basic research but focuses its attention on the long-term survivability of humanity and sponsors a series of seminars and synmposia, in particular a series called HUMANITY 3000 that will assess the current status of humanity in the year 2000, identify the most significant factors that affect the quality of life of the people of the Earth, and suggest research areas and actions tobe taken to set the stage for maintaining the quality of life for humanity during the coming millennium.The Year 2000 Symposium will be an international gathering of approximately one hundred of some of the world=s most prominent scholarsB-scientists, philosophers, humanists, historians, technologists, and futurists.

 

For more information, contact:

Dr. Sesh Velamoor, Deputy Director
123 - 105th Avenue Southeast
Bellevue WA 98004-6265
tel + 425-451-1333
fax +425-451-1238
email: carolynhobart@futurefoundation.org
website: http://www.futurefoundation.com

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Foundation for the Future of Youth

 

Dedicated to balancing vision, values, and growth in projects engaging youth of ages 18-25, the Foundation has just received its first major grant to create the Incredible Gathering Of Youth, 12-19 August, 2000, prospectively at the University of Michigan. Fifteen hundred American youth will participate, from every congressional district, state and youth organization, and in so doing they will have implemented a national youth process the like of which have never before existed in the United States. An advisory board of youth has already been working at the Foundation, and prior to the meeting in Michigan, there will be an electronic gathering, bringing other youth together on issue areas in an interactive website. These youth will already have given "gifts" to their communities through service projects and actions on community commitments, and their projects will become the foundation for a database cataloging the great work done by young people in every community in the United States. At the Gathering itself, participants will come to appreciate and understand sustainability and the programs, practices, and policies that can support balanced development in communities. The goals of the Gathering will be to create a strong national youth movement for balance in community development, create consensus on a process to develop a national youth vision by the year 2100, and create action projects highlighting youth participation in every community in the United States.

 

For more information, contact:

David Pines, Executive Director
11426 Rockville PIke, Suite 100
Rockville MD 20852
tel +301-468-9431,
fax +301-468-9612
email: dpines@health.org
website: http://www.shs.net

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Fund for Global Awakening

 

In 1997 this foundation proposed MESSAGES FOR A NEW MILLENNIUM:GLOBAL CAMPAIGN SPEAKING TO THE HEART OF HUMANITY. This would be a comprehensive public communications campaign inviting people the world over "to listen to the original healing voice that lives and breathes within each human heart," and so to restore hope at the threshold of the 21st century, "the doorstep of a new era," in a world filled with despair. The Fund also supports and facilitates projects devoted "to the global awakening process occurring among humanity," and works directly with leaders, teachers, artists, healers, and the general population to discover and establish new patterns for healing, learning, communication, organization, finance, and leadership.

 

For more information, contact:

FUND FOR GLOBAL AWAKENING
P.O. Box 1179
Point Reyes Station CA 94956-1179 USA
tel +1-415-663-8211,
fax +1-415-663-8261
email: info@ffga.org

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Global Citizenship 2000

 

Begun in 1997 with a successful international Youth Congress in Vancouver and a Mosaic Quilt Project, GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP 2000 in collaboration with the International Foundation of Learning may still intend to bring together another Youth Congress in 2000, as part of "a network of all ages who are working together to take greater responsibility for the Earth and all life on it...[as] citizens of the Earth first and nations second."

 

For more information, contact:

Desmond Berghofer and Geraldine Schwartz
Institute for Ethical Leadership, and
Visioneers International Network
209-1628 West 1st Avenue
Vancouver BC V6J 1g1Canada
tel +604-734-2544,
fax +604-734-9723
email: desgerri@direct.ca
website: http://griffin.multimedia.edu/~gc2000 or
http://www.oer.net (for connections)

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Global March for Jesus

 

More than 30 million people will participate in a GLOBAL MARCH FOR JESUS on 10 June 2000, during the week of Pentecost . Described as "A Day on Earth as it is in Heaven," in which no one goes hungry, no child is fatherless, no one suffers alone, and there is singing in the streets, this "Jesus Day" will be focused on doing things for other people in one=s community. People in more than 2000 cities are expected to participate in this procession of prayer and worship and in a wide variety of community projects.

 

For more information, contact:

Stephanie Tucker or Marty St.Onge
March for Jesus
P.O. Box 3216
Austin, TX 78764 USA
tel: +1 (512) 416-0066
email: Mfjusa@compuserve.com
website: http://www.mfj.org or
http://www.jesusday.org

or Global March for Jesus (UK) http://www.gmfj.org

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Global Meeting of Generations

 

Through its COMMON FUTURES FORUM program, "Visionary Leadership for the 21st Century," the GLOBAL MEETING OF GENERATIONS is establishing an international network of young social entrepreneurs, men and women who are committed to their communities and their countries. Using their vision, creativity and determination to improve the human condition, they work in such fields as education, human rights, environment, peace, health, and economic development through micro enterprises and micro credit. The Forum means to promote a "nuclear fusion" among amazing young agents of change who will learn from each other and from international experts about new ways of action to fulfill their dreams for their societies. They will learn how to cooperate effectively at the global level by networking together and interacting with leaders in development from all generations. After a three-year process, 1999-2001, it is hoped that the CFF will become a self sustaining network and an advocacy community for young social entrepreneurs. In 1998 the CFF launched a nomination process that prompted organizations from 70 countries to recognize young social entrepreneurs. Of these, 33 men and 27 women with an average age of 27, from 42 different countries were selected for the CFF. In January 1999, CFF members met for a week of workshops hosted by the Inter-American Development Bank and the World Bank. They then participated prominently in the first GMG Conference. The next CFF workshop will take place early in 2000, and in 2000 and 2001, the GMG will organize two training workshops that reflect on the best ways of promoting social entrepreneurship by youth and implement peer mentor programs to increase the CFF's outreach and sustainability.

 

For more information, contact:

Robert Berg, Managing Partner
c/o International Development Conference
1875 Connecticut Avenue NW, Suite 720
Washington DC 20009-5728
tel + 202-884-8580
fax +202-884-8499
email: idc@idc.org
website: http://www.idc.org/gmg

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Global Millennium Project

 

This is apparently a cyber-movement for world peace which asks for signatures, on site, to a World Petitition for Universal Human Rights and a World Constitutional Initiative, with proposals also for a Millennium World Peace Olympics of globally televised cultural events dedicated to "One world for the one humanity." You may also add a dream for the future to the on-site Millennium Ship of Dreams. The goal ofl this movement is to "mobilize the entire planetary resource base to serve the highest good of everybody on the planet."

 

For more information, contact:

email: worldpeace@millenniumproject.org
website: http://www.millenniumproject.org

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Global Peace Initiative

 

Founded by Dr. K. A. Paul, who was raised in a traditional Brahmin Hindu family but in his youth became a follower of Jesus and later a disciple of Mother Teresa, the GLOBAL PEACE INITIATIVE is "a movement of people throughout the world, joined together by words and deeds of justice and mercy to assert the essential dignity and inestimable value of every person. Through programs of public advocacy, education and human services, it seeks to give voice to those who have no voice, to fortify the conscience of youth, and to provide a helping hand to those who suffer because of ignorance, bigotry and violence." In his native India and elsewhere, the Initiative maintains schools, orphanages, and medical care facilities, and materially supports more than ten thousand widows. On 7 August 1999, on the first anniversary of the bombing of the US Embassy in Nairobi, the Initiative is supporting Kenyan President Daniel arap Moi's call to the people of his country and the leaders of all nations "to remember the suffering and courage of the survivors, and to rededicate themselves to the hard work of peace." President Moi also will award the first Global Peace Prizes as thousands assemble in Nairobi and elsewhere in 250,000 locations across the globe to fast and pray for peace. The Initiative is also supporting AAHA's simultaneous 7 August 1999 gathering for Racial Healing on the Mall in Washington, D.C.

 

For more information, contact:

Mary Scott Wall, Director of Communications
or Natalie Shon
GLOBAL PEACE INITIATIVE
101 North Alfred St, Suite 200
Alexandria VA 22314
tel +703-838-8448
fax +703-838-9244
email: g-peace@msn.com

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Global Youth Service Day 2000

This annual service day, scheduled for 14-15 April 2000, will highlight youth contribution through service around the world.

 

For more information, contact:

Mike McCabe
email: mmccabe@ysa.org
website: http://www.ysa.org

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Great Millennium Peace Ride

Starting with an idea hatched in Athens in 1993 at an impromptu meeting of world cyclists, the GREAT MILLENNIUM PEACE RIDE hoped to set up a caravan of five hundred cyclists representing each country, to bicycle around the world, starting in Vancouver on 6 August 1998 and arriving in Hiroshima on 1 January 2000. What remains of these ambitions is a variety of local peace-and-ecology rides for the millennium, as for example in Senegal.

 

For more information, contact:

n/a

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Heartbeat 2000 Project

 

This is a proposal for "global coherent emotion" in the mode of "group biofeedback," to get millions of people across the planet to maintain a heartbeat matching the natural resonance of the Earth on 31 December 1999, to heal and inspire.

 

For more information, contact:

Crystal Hill
MultiMedia
PO Box 142
Waynesville NC 28786
website: http://www.danwinter.com/hartbeatEarth/Hartbeat.html

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Indigenous 2000/Indigenas 2000

 

To be held around the beginning of the new millennium in four countries of the Americas, this series of gatherings will celebrate the new millennium and give Indigenous leaders an opportunity to meet to reflect on the past, discuss the present and create strategies and partnerships for the health, cultural, economic and educational prosperity of Indigenous peoples in the new millennium. INDIGENOUS 2000 and the Saskatchewan Indian Federated College in Regina (Canada) will host the "Healing/Spirituality" Conference on 24 August--2 September 2000. Participants at this gathering and the other three will include Indigenous people from around the world. Interested non?Indigenous are welcome to participate. Each gathering will be documented and the results will be made available to a wider audience through print, electronic and video media.

 

For more information, contact:

Wes Stevenson
tel +1 -306-779?6267
email: wes@tansi.sifc.edu

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International Children's Games Millennium Festival

 

With the theme, "The Spirit Unites," the Games and Festival will take place 1-7 July 2000, in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. This will be the 30th International Children=s Games; in 1999 the Games were held in Medias, Romania. For young athletes 15-15 years old, the Games promote international peace and goodwill, and the accompanying festival will celebrate the arts and cultural exchange.

 

For more information, contact:

Greg Maychak, General Manager
ICG Millennium Festival
tel: +1-416-546-2000
email: iocf2000@interlynx.net

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International Peace City 2000 Program

 

A collaboration of the International Association of Educators for World Peace (IAEWP) with several United Nations organizations (ECOSOC, UNCED, UNDPI, UNESCO, UNICEF), the INTERNATIONAL PEACE CITY 2000 PROGRAM means to create a vehicle for social change through mayor's offices around the world. With particular emphasis on the UNICEF theme, "Towards Child-Friendly Cities," IAEWP offices in each city will use their UN Peace Messenger Designation to promote peace, global thinking, and local action. In addition, the IAEWP will be helping cities and educators prepare for the 10th WORLD PEACE CONGRESS, to be held in Greenwich (UK) in the year 2000. Concerning millennium events: it should be noted that these are taking place worldwide under the auspices of the IPC 2000 program on the following days: March 21st--Spring Equinox, March 22--World Water Day,April 7th--World Health Day, April 22nd--Earth Day, May 15th--International Families Day, June 5th--World Environment Day, June 21st--Summer Equinox, August 9th--World Indigenous Peoples Day, September (Third Tuesday) - International Peace Day, September 21st--Fall Equinox, October 24th--United Nations Day, December 21st--Winter Equinox, December 31st--World Healing Meditation.

 

For more information, contact:

IAEWP
2 Bloor St. West Suite 100-209
Toronto Ontario M4W 3E2
or Mitchell Gold, IAEWP
tel + 1-416-924-4449
email: mgold@homeplanet.org
website: http://www.homeplanet.org

 

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Journey of the Magi
August 1999-January 6, 2000

 

A pilgrimage retracing the journey of the Magi from Ur (Southern Iraq) to Bethlehem. Four million dollars of humanitarian aid will be initiated through water, housing, and cultural projects.

 

For more information, contact:

Journey of the Magi 2000
P.O. Box 1037
Pinecrest, CA 95634 USA
email: begin@rmii.com

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Jubilaeum 2000

 

The Roman Catholic Church, actively encouraged by Pope John Paul II's Apostolic Letter, Tertio Millennio Adveniente: To the Bishops, Clergy and Lay Faithful On Preparation for the Jubilee of the Year 2000 (1994), is preparing for the two-thousandth anniversary of the birth of Jesus Christ as a major year of jubilee, inviting Christians from around the world to make a pilgrimage to Rome (and to holy sites in Israel and Palestine, such as Bethlehem, Jerusalem, Nazareth, and the Sea of Galilee).

 

For more information, contact:

See also Jubilee 2000, below, and Great Jubilee 2000, under Italy-Rome
Contact: Interconsult S.r.l
Divisione Telematica Multimediale
Via A. Ottoni, 17
62024 Matelica
tel + 39-737-83083,
fax +39-737-787238
email: interconsult@wnt.it
website: http://www.jubilaeum2000.com

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Jubilee 2000

 

An international non-profit organization, JUBILEE 2000 is dedicated to persuading the industrial countries to cancel the burdensome debts of the poorest countries in the spirit of jubilee. Originally a biblical reference to a sabbatical seventh or fiftieth year (at the end of every 7 X 7 years), jubilee has been invoked by the Catholic Church in particular at the ends of centuries, and in 1999 Pope John Paul II called for debt relief in the year 2000--as had, in 1990, the African Council of Churches, and in 1997 the World Development Movement and the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions. On 19 June 1999 the organizers of JUBILEE 2000 organized a human chain at the G-8 Summit to make their presence known to the leaders of those countries who hold most of the rest of the world's debts.

 

For more information, contact:

Patrick Twomey
JUBILEE 2000/USA
222 E. Capitol St NE
Washington DC 20003
tel +202-783-3566
fax +202-546-4468
website: http://www.j2000usa.org
and more widely,http://www.oneworld.org/jubilee2000
or http://www.jubilee2000uk.org (United Kingdom and central offices)
or http://www.jubilee2000.org (worldwide)

Jubilee 2000 Afrika Campaign Secretariat
External Liaison
Desk P0 Box 100 London
SEl 7RT United Kingdom
tel +44(0)1714019999
fax +44(0)1714013999
email: africa@jubilee2000uk.org
website: http://www.jubilee2000uk.org

See also Canadian Ecumenical Jubilee Initiative, under Canada
Ireland-Jubilee 2000

Note also that the St. Anthony Messenger Press has begun issuing a new periodical, Millennium Monthly, designed to prepare Roman Catholic parishioners in the United States for the jubilee, in collaboration with the National Pastoral Life Center.

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Jubillenium

 

JUBILLENIUM is a for-profit organization established in April 1997 to organize international millennium celebrations, events, projects, and donations to charity. JUBILLENIUM aims to inspire and promote a better third millennium: a thousand years of peace, hope, fraternity, friendship and understanding between nations, countries, religions and people. Through its commercial arm, it will devote a significant part of its profits to benefit the children of the world, nature conservation, and improvement of the global environment.

The JUBILLENIUM CHARTER reads in part, "We, the representatives of religions and nations of the world, and of the international community, in cooperation with the World Council of Peoples for the United Nations, hereby proclaim our dedication to the supreme goal of universal peace and harmony for which our world was created. Therefore, we declare our commitment to this spirit of the Jubillenium, of human reconciliation, mutual respect, environmental responsibility and sustainable development, in order to bring about a better world in which the spirit of peace and fellowship among nations and religions shall prevail."

The Organization plans a series of festive concerts to be held at different locations throughout the year 2000, starting on 31 December 1999. In cooperation with the World Council of Religions for Peace (W.C.R.P.), JUBILLENIUM will hold a two-day "Interfaith Convention for World Peace" involving 200 representatives of religions, renowned cultural leaders, and members of international organizations. A "convention without borders," it will take place on a boat anchored at a point touching the borders of Israel, Jordan, and Egypt. Rabbi Rosen and Rafi Luzon will act as main coordinators for this event, 4-6 May 2000.

THE GREAT EMBRACE will be a "Ring of Life Around the Dead Sea" on 31 December 1999 as perhaps 100,000 people from all over the globe join hands to share a millennial moment and high spirits at the lowest point on earth. Children hurt by war or disease, by natural disasters or violence, are invited to help form the great ring as emissaries of hope for a better new millennium.

JUBILLENIUM MARCH, organized by the Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel (SPNI), will take visitors along roads and paths used during the time of Jesus, combining historical visits with tradition and nature, every month until the end of December 2000.

MOTORCYCLE PEACE JOURNEY (Rome-Istanbul-Jerusalem-Bethlehem) will involve some 1000 motorcyclists flying their nations' flags through Italy, Greece, Turkey, Jordan, The Palestinian Authority, and Israel in support of peace, tolerance and fraternity between peoples and faiths. The trip will be launched in Rome at a gala celebration during May 2000 and will last ten days.

A NEW MILLENNIUM PHOTO COMPETITION will take place between September 2000 and the end of 2001, with a $20,000 prize for the best photo from a professional, $10,000 from an amateur.

An INTERNATIONAL YOUTH PARLIAMENT at Netanya, Israel, in March 2000, is being organized in collaboration with Netanya Municipality and Mr. Baruch Heller, Ulpan Akiva and the Netanya Academic College, to provide an opportunity for young persons ages 20-35 to discuss the issues of leadership and world peace. The week-long parliamentary debates will revolve around three themes: the role of young leaders in molding the new generation; the role of identity in modern times, nationality, religion and culture; education in the 21st century. The Parliament will be chaired by the American two-star Air Force General Derrill Schroder and by Nobel Peace Prize winner, José Ramos Horta.

 

For more information, contact:

Jubillenium Ltd.
580 Sylvan Ave., Englewood Cliffs, N.J. USA 07632
tel: 972 (0)9 835 9494
fax 972 (0)9 885?2068
email: info@jubillenium.com
website: http://www.jubillenium.com
or
Orlee Zorbaron
New York Offices
17 E. 45th St, Suite 8806
tel 1-212-531-2000,
fax 1-212-983-7432
email: jubillenium@compuserve.com

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Koynoyna

 

KOYNOYNA is a group within the Methodist church which helps to build personal and inter-congregational links in the world church by many means, including exchange visits. They hope to set up one thousand Millennium Partnerships linking congregations in the United Kingdom and overseas.

 

For more information, contact:

The Rev. Kingsley Halden,
Alandale, Mumby Road,
Huttoft, Lincs LN13 9RF
United Kingdom

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LightShift 2000
When: Every month from now until January 1, 2001

LightShift 2000 is a series of universal global meditations and prayers held at noon on the first of each and every month until January 1, 2001. Simultaneous meditations are also scheduled for January 1, 1999, 2000, and 2001 at 12:12 am. The aim is to illuminate the field of collective consciousness with positive energy as we approach and span the millennial years.

For more information, contact:

Ken Kalb
LightShift 2000
P.O. Box 5796
Santa Barbara, CA 93150 USA
e-mail: lightserver@lightshift.com
or Web site: http://www.lightshift.com

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Living Universe (Formerly First Millennial Foundation)

 

Based on a book by Marshall T. Savage, The Millennial Project: Colonizing the Galaxy in 8 Easy Steps, this foundation encourages thinking, invention, and investment toward the colonization of other planets, on the premise that in the absence of evidence of intelligent life on other planets, it is a human duty to colonize the galaxy.

 

For more information, contact:

Living Universe Foundation
3300 East 14th Avenue, Suite #17
Denver CO 80206
tel + 303 322 5052,
fax +303 322 9692
website: http://www.millennial.org (now Living Universe Foundation http://www.luf.org )

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Long Now Foundation

Established in 1996 by Stewart Brand, founder of the Whole Earth Catalog, the LONG NOW FOUNDATION is dedicated to fostering long-term responsibility. A 10,000-year clockBa millennial clock--and library for the deep future are its founding projects, both of these dedicated to helping people think, understand, and act responsibly over long periods of time. For more detail, see Brand's 1999 book, Clock of the Long Now (Basic Books), which is an argument against short-sightedness and pathologically short attention spans.

 

For more information, contact:

LONG NOW FOUNDATION
PO Box 29462
San Francisco CA 94129-0462 USA
tel +415-561-6582,
fax +415-561-6297
website: http://www.longnow.org

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M2 India Social Infrastructure Development Project

 

A project to increase internet access for India's schools.

 

For more information, contact:

Gerry Morgan
213-9865 W. Saanich Rd
Sidney BC V8L 5Y8 Canada
tel:+250-655-8854
fax +250-655-8859
email: Gerry@morganmedia.com

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Madagascar 2000
6-13 October 2000

 

The Third International Conference on Women in Africa & the African Diaspora will have as its theme: FACING THE NEW MILLENNIUM: GENDER IN AFRICA AND THE AFRICAN DIASPORABRETROSPECTION AND PROSPECTS.

 

For more information, contact:

Obioma Naneameka, Convener
Third WAAD Conference
Women's Studies Program
Cavanaugh Hall Room 001c
Indiana University
425 University Blvd.
Indianapolis IN 46202
tel +317-278-2038 or -274-7611
fax +317-278-2347
email: nnaemeka@iupui.edu
website: http://www.iupui.edu/~aaws/

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Megacities 2000

 

Founded in December 1994 at the request of UNESCO to the International Academy of Architecture (IAA), the MEGACITIES 2000 FOUNDATION is dedicated to collecting and distributing information about the growth and development of large cities. Two lectures have been sponsored, one in 1997 and one in 1998.

 

For more information, contact:

Prof. Jan Hoogstad
Koen Bolt
IAAPO Box 818
3000 AV Rotterdam
The Netherlands
tel + 31-10-436-8062
email: megacities@orion.nl
website: http://www.megacities.nl/main.htm

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Millenarium

 

Beginning as a net survey of the hopes and worries of youth, of which some 45,000 messages had been registered on site by 19 January 1999, MILLENARIUM has now submitted forty-two questions about human and planetary survival to the leaders and participants at the G7 meeting on 18 June 1999 in Germany. By October he hopes to have enough responses to publish an anthology called Millenarium, the first universal book ever written, to be published by Robert Laffont (for France). Six other publishing houses (Italy, Great Britain, Germany, USA, Japan and Canada) will be in charge of translating and publishing the book worldwide. Meanwhile Millenarium has forty-nine regular correspondents around the world gathering the opinions of youth about what needs to be done in the next century. Millenarium's ambition is "to do as much as possible so that the ideas, worries and aspirations of young people of the entire world be taken into account by the political leaders of this planet, since they are in charge of assuring the well-being of the men and women of this earth."

 

For more information, contact:

Contact: Rachid Nekkaz and Leonard Anthony
tel +33-1-53-67-15-55,
fax +33-1-53-67-14-14
email: Rnekkaz@millenarium.org
website: http://www.millenarium.org

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Millennium Art Proposal

 

"To love the earth is to preserve it for the future. The millennium is a perfect time to achieve this. But first of all, mankind has to become aware of the beauty of the earth and discover that our planet is a partner, a provider of life. This positive approach will encourage and inspire people to cherish their environment. To open the eyes of the people, 2000 artists from all over the world will create artistic impressions of a specific location or item, related to the beauty of the earth." Their assignment: "What is your reason to love the earth?"The Millennium Art Collection '2000 Reasons to Love the Earth' will be published worldwide in a colorful book and displayed at five exhibitions spread over each continent during the year 2000.

 

For more information, contact:

website: http://www.millennium-art.nl

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Millennium Bell Proposal

 

"In June of 1995, I [Bruce Hasson] cast and exhibited a 450-pound bell from melted firearms celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the United Nations in San Francisco. This bell has inspired a global project which will recognize human achievements and concerns in relation to world peace in science, the environment, art and culture. With the assistance of the Marinelli bell foundry near Rome, which has been casting bells for a thousand years, seven sculptural bells would be designed and cast for this project, using melted firearms, thus symbolizing the desire for world peace. Marinelli has cast bells for the Kremlin, the Vatican, the Children's Bell Tower in California and for celebration of the first millennium. On the evening of the third millennium, people would gather together at various places where the bells are installed in recognition of the multitude of achievements and concerns for the future of mankind."

 

For more information, contact:

n/a

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Millennium Children's Conference
When: October, 1999

Background: The Rescue Mission project was created out of the energy generated by the Rio Earth Summit. The children's edition of the Earth Summit Agenda 21 was created, and a world wide network of some 500 youth eco groups in 120 countries was established by four UN agencies -- UNICEF, UNDP, UNEP, and UNESCO. Since then, the frustration of young members of this network has steadily mounted as the unwillingness of governments to mount a serious Rescue Mission to Planet Earth became more apparent. This culminated at the UN's Earth Summit Review when it was reveale that, far from providing "new and additional resources" to aid countries of the South to achieve sustainable development, overseas development aid had in fact dropped by 17% between 1992 and 1997. Also, it was clear that, without that aid, countries in the South were not committed to deliver on the promises they made in Agenda 21.

Meanwhile, the same problems were continuing and intensifying: the number of endangered and extinct species increased; water resources declined and became unstable; social and economic problems worsened in many parts of the world, and no agreements could be reached about such vital matters as climate change, rainforest protection, and biodiversity. Governments trumpeted the increase in FDI (Foreign Direct Investment) but most of that went to just three countries, and only 5% to the poorest countries of Africa. Following the Earth Summit review, it became clear that there would be no public outcry: the kind of outcry that greeted the death of a single princess could not be generated by the prospect of the death of an entire planet.

So the young people of the Rescue Mission network figured that it is time to take stock. Many of those in power now will not live long into the next millennium. Some Rescue Mission members will be alive for another 70 years -- until the time that today's ecologists tell us that life on the planet may have become very unpleasant for large swathes of the population. So Rescue Mission decided to call a Millennium Children's Conference -- to review what we have learned from the last millennia, and to set some priorities that will ensure that life will continue for at least another millennium.

Location: Five sites have been selected to bid to host the conference.
Attendance: 1,000 young people and 200 staff.
Language: English, French, Spanish; with whisper translation for other languages.
Focus: 1) Real Work, 2) Serious Debate, 3) Serious Fun.
Duration: 5 days, October 1999.
Age group: Young people aged 13 - 17.

For more information, contact:

Millennium Children's Conference
David Woollcombe and Cecilia Weckstrom
Rescue Mission Planet Earth
The White House
Buntingford, Herts
England SG9 9AH
tel: +44 176 327-4459
fax: +44 176 327-4460
e-mail: 100640.3551@compuserve.com

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Millennium Day Broadcast

 

To herald the start of the 21st century, PBS will mount a massive worldwide broadcast undertaking entitled THE MILLENNIUM DAY BROADCAST. This 24-hour program will involve the cooperation and participation of television networks in more than 40 countries. Viewers will see first-hand how different countries and cultures celebrate the moment of the arrival of a new year, a new century and a new millennium. The program will bring viewers live celebrations, rituals, pageantry and spectacles as they unfold around the world from country to country, with a different nation's broadcast originating live for the half-hour before midnight in all 24 time zones. WGBH-Boston will produce the program in collaboration with the BBC, and the broadcast's overall goal will be to encourage reflection on the challenges all people face in the new millennium. A consortium of thirteen PBS stations, including WGBH/Boston, WNET/New York, and WTTW/Chicago will be responsible for production of the American segments.

 

For more information, contact:

Carole Osterer
Project Manager
WGBH TVB