Subject: MAI internet addresses (fwd).....
Date: Thu, 5 Feb 1998 101632 -0600 (CST)
From: "Roy L. Beavers" <rbeavers@llion.org>
To: emfguru@hotmail.com
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Hi everybody:
Some of you have already received this info from Leif Sodergren....
Remember, the importance of the MAI is that it is an _industry
negotiated_ international treaty which (if enacted) will allow
industry to over-ride the local GOVERNMENT decisions of the local
citizenry ... in such matters as environmantal law, placement of RF
and MW antennas, clean air and clean water legislation, perhaps
labor-law legislation, etc.... IT IS A BOLD MOVE BY INDUSTRY -- IF THEY
CAN GET AWAY WITH IT.......
In the U.S., I think it unlikely that it would ever be approved by our
Senate. But!!! I believe the U.S. is NOT the target of this treaty.
The target is the emerging-economic nations (as in Africa, South America
perhaps Asia) where industry fears that local political decisions will
slow down or prevent the rapid penetration of those economies!!!! It
seems to me unlikely that any of the "advanced" economic/democratic
nations would ever allow such outside control over their destiny......
Cheerio.....
Guru
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Leif - some more of that MAI information.
Best wishes.
Rory
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Rory O'Neill, Editor
Workers' Health International Newsletter/Hazards magazine
PO Box 199, Sheffield, S1 4YL, England
Tel: +44 114 276 5695. Fax: +44 114 276 7257.
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From: Bob Olsenby way of "Cathy Walker (CAW)"
To: walkerc@caw.ca
Subject: MAI on-line
Date: 03 February 1998 13:57
Dear Brothers, Sisters, and Friends:
Many of you are interested in the MAI. Here is information for you to
further your knowledge.
In solidarity
The MAI (Multilateral Agreement on Investment) will significantly
limit the power of national, state, provincial and municipal
governments. Then, it will not matter who we elect.
Many people are unaware of the MAI. Others, do not know where to
start to get information. Http://mai.flora.org/homepage.htm is
a very good place to start. A search of the archive of
approximately 3,000 messages (1 Feb 98) reveals hundreds of URLs,
many in different countries, that in turn lead to more information.
You can begin your search at:
http://x1.dejanews.com/filter.xp?groups=flora.mai-not*
See instructions below.
MAI-NOT DISCUSSION GROUP
MAI-NOT DISCUSSION GROUP
MAI-NOT DISCUSSION GROUP
1. Discussion group via email
2. Read Archives of email
3. Search archives of email
4. Library
5. Links to MAI web sites
6. Free-fax to Canadian Members of Parliament
Brought to you by:
The MAI-Not! Project, OPIRG-Carleton, OPIRG-Ottawa
http://mai.flora.org/homepage.htm
Or with frames http://mai.flora.org/
Newsgroup name: flora.mai-not
Email Submission Email address: mai-not@flora.org
1. SUBSCRIBE TO THE EMAIL LIST:
Three types of membership are available. All members can post to
the group, but differ in how they receive messages from the group:
mai-not-mail
This membership sends you all the email posted to the group
mai-not-digest
This membership sends you a digest of the messages.
(approximately daily)
mai-not
This membership allows you to post messages to the group.
You will not receive postings from the group in Email.
This is for people who will read the mail on the WEB site
or Newsgroup forms of this discussion group.
To subscribe, send an Email message to:
majordomo@flora.org
Leave the subject line blank and type the appropriate selection,
listed below, in the BODY of your message. Remove any other text
(auto signatures, for example) from the body of the message.
subscribe mai-not-digest
or
subscribe mai-not-mail
or
subscribe mai-not
You do not need to subscribe. You can read the messages on the
web site at http://news.flora.org/flora.mai-not/ or on a
newsgroup. However, you do need to subscribe in order to post
your messages directly to the group.
2. ARCHIVES: About 2,600 messages have been posted to the list
as of Jan 26, 1998. You can read or search them at...
http://news.flora.org/flora.mai-not/
3. SEARCHING: three different choices
a) Use the search function at the bottom of the list of messages
which will search the subject or author information.
b) You can also search the text of all 2,600 messages by using
Dejanews, which you will find at the bottom of the list of
messages. Click on:
"Do complex searches on group (Via Dejanews)... "
Go to "Search this group"
Type in your search key words
c) Go directly to
http://x1.dejanews.com/filter.xp?groups=flora.mai-not*
Go to "Search this group"
Type in your search key words
4. LIBRARY: http://mai.flora.org/library/
Library Indexes:
- Authors' Index (alphabetically ordered by author's last name)
- Keyword Index (alphabetically ordered by keywords)
5. LINKS go to "MAI sites around the world -- pro and con"
or http://mai.flora.org/osites.htm
6. FAX YOUR MP on the MAI for free: http://mai.flora.org/mp-fax.htm
If you have any questions about this discussion list,
contact Terry Cottam Terry@flora.org
Send technical questions to Russell McOrmond russell@flora.org
MAI Internet Resource List
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From: Terry Cottam
By the MAI-Not! Project, OPIRG-Carleton, 416-520-2757, fax 416-520-3989,
e-mail opirg@carleton.ca
http://mai.flora.org/homepage.htm
The Alliance for Public Accountability is helping us draft a campaign to
hold MP's accountable on the MAI:
http://www.magi.com/~hemccand/cca.html
OUR BEST PICKS
The entire text of the January MAI draft
http://www.essential.org/monitor/mai.contents.html
The text of the May 13th draft (under construction)
http://www.citizen.org/gtw/mainewte.htm
A comparison of the two drafts
http://www.citizen.org/gtw/maitextc.htm
MAI-Day! The Corporate Rule Treaty by Tony Clarke, Director of the Polaris
Institute
http://www.islandnet.com/plethora/mai.html
ALL THE WEBSITES BELOW are linked to our site or these other Canadian
sites:
MAI-No thanks... comprehensive links to organizations, essays on MAI and
related issues
http://www.islandnet.com/plethora/nomai.html
The National Centre for Sustainability, a new MAI information site
http://www.islandnet.com/~ncfs/maisite/
CANADA
Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
http://www.policyalternatives.ca/
Council of Canadians
http://www.web.net/~coc/
Citizens Concerned about Free Trade
http://web.idirect.com/~ccaft/
Mai-not Project (OPIRG-Carleton)
http://www.flora.org/mai-not/
The Sierra Club's Common Front on the WTO
http://www.sierraclub.ca/national/trade-env/
U.S.
People-Centred Development Forum (David Korten)
http://iisd1.iisd.ca/pcdf/
Multinational Monitor
http://www.essential.org/monitor/monitor_resources.html#other
Public Citizen (Ralph Nader)
http://www.citizen.org/
Global Trade Division of Public Citizen
http://www.citizen.org/pctrade/tradehome.html
The Preamble Collaborative
http://www.rtk.net/preamble/
Corporate Watch and TRAC, the Transnational Resource and Action Center
http://www.corpwatch.org/trac/about/about.html#advisor
AUSTRALIA:
http://www.avid.net.au/stopmai/
http://dove.mtx.net.au/~hermann/erahome.htm
THIRD WORLD NETWORK:
http://www.twnside.org.sg/
Proponents of the MAI
The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)
http://www.oecd.org/daf/cmis/mai/mai.htm
The Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade
http://www.dfait-maeci.gc.ca/english/trade/backgr-e.htm
Other pro-MAI sites are linked to the "MAI? No thanks!" site
http://www.islandnet.com/plethora/mai-yes.html
(A more complete list with email and mail addresses will be released later)
Terry Cottam, 30 September 1997 di238@freenet.carleton.ca
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Bob Olsen Toronto bobolsen@arcos.org (:-)
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Reprinted with permission of Roy Beavers, http://www.feb.se/EMF-L/EMF-L.html