Below please find an email posting that would be appropriate to publicize the release of GLOBALIZATION & HUMAN RIGHTS from Globalvision. It would be great if you could forward this to other parties that might be interested. It premieres tomorrow, October 29 at 10 p.m. EST. (on CH 13 in New York) Please call your local PBS station to see when they are airing it--and request that it be aired. Sorry if you receive more than one copy or if we have violated your cyberspace.
Suzanne Stenson Harmon (for Globalvision)
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"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." -Edmund Burke
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Uprisings in Indonesia and Nigeria, massive layoffs of miners in South Africa, and protests against child labor worldwide have all been reported as separate and distinct events. GLOBALIZATION & HUMAN RIGHTS, a new public television special from the producers of RIGHTS AND WRONGS and SOUTH AFRICA NOW, explores how these and other current events are linked to the forces of "globalization," the economic engine that is transforming the world in its own image.
GLOBALIZATION & HUMAN RIGHTS takes viewers on a journey that starts at a summit for corporate decision-makers - the World Economic Forum in the Alps of Switzerland - and travels deep into the gold mines of South Africa, then visits the controversial Shell oil fields of Nigeria and Nike shoe factories in Asia while examining an emerging conflict in a new world order between those making macro-economic decisions and thosestruggling to cope with the impact of those decisions. At the core of the program is the ongoing debate over whether or not human rights concerns should be linked to economic policies.
** For broadcast dates and times of GLOBALIZATION & HUMAN RIGHTS in your hometown, send any message to globaltv-info at igc.org. A computer will answer and send you the complete list, to date.
---------------- ** For information on public television's mission and mandates, go to the home page of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting at http://www.cpb.org --------------- ** Institute for Global Communication has a fantastic set of human rights-related organizations on the web. Find them at http://www.igc.org/igc/issues/hr/ ---------------- ** Create an active electronic community of justice and peace, a community of conscience-partners who engage, study, reflect, change and act at all levels on what causes injustice. http://www.justicenet.org/ ---------------- ** An outstanding collection of justice, peace & environmental links including many links on international issues, including reports on Bosnia, Croatia and Serbia. http://www.ipt.com/htmlpub/jpi/hotlist.htm ---------------- ** On Usenet news, there are two groups you can download whose topics are extremely relevant: soc.rights.human and alt.activism.soc.politics.
---------------- ** Quaker programs addressing human rights...some of them pretty close to home. Imagine that! Here's a place you can get involved. http://www.afsc.org/pindx/humright.htm
** More Quaker programs addressing the global economy http://www.afsc.org/pindx/globecon.htm
** For a full list of programs, including human rights, by location: http://www.afsc.org/location.htm ----------------- ** See our homepage at http://www.globalvision.org for more information about this show and other Globalvision productions. ----------------
** http://www.imf.org Try it. It's very educational. ----------------- ** What is our elected body up to? Try a word search on "human rights"... http://thomas.loc.gov/home/thomas2.html ----------------- ** British Columbia's National Centre for Sustainability's incredible "Globalization & the MAI" pages. (MAI is "Multilateral Agreement on Investment", but maybe you knew that.) http://www.islandnet.com/~ncfs/maisite/ ----------------- ** The way to your heart is through your stomach? Go to Institute for Agricultural and Trade Policy (IATP)'s Globalization and Global Governance page http://www.iatp.org/global/ ----------------- ** If you live in California, you probably already know about this. The rest of us? Let's take a lesson. http://www.emf.net/~cheetham/keys.html ----------------- ** The Steelworkers site, with a lot of current union information, along with background on their own lawsuit against NAFTA. http://www.uswa.org ----------------- ** Visit the web site of ITVS, one of GLOBALIZATION & HUMAN RIGHTS' funders. http://www.itvs.org
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There is so much more out there. The intersection of human rights, labor practices, and the trend toward globalization bring myriad issues together...not just overseas, but here at home. Get involved. Do something. If nothing else, watch the show!
Rory O'Connor & Danny Schechter Producers, GLOBALIZATION & HUMAN RIGHTS