Re: Sanders Global Sustainable Development Resolution

[Robert Weissman <rob@essential.org>]

PLEASE DISTRIBUTE FAR AND WIDE!
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To:Progressive Community and Cosponsors: 

 The Forum on Global Financial Architecture and Rep. Sanders Global
Sustainable Development Resolution (available at<< www.netprogress.org>>) on
April 26th to which many of you signed on to, will be as follows in flyer
below. The original format with Reich, Robinson, Pope, Galbraith, etc. has
had to be postponed due to scheduling conflicts. We hope to hold it in May
or June. Thanks for the overwhelming support from groups nation-wide. If
your organization has not signed on and would like to, please email
kdolan@igc.org, also to sign-on to the broader, national progressive agenda,
the Fairness Agenda for America. thank you.


An Alternative Global 
Financial Architecture

Monday, April 26, 1999
11am-1 pm
2237 Rayburn House Office Building



- A Forum on Capitol Hill -

The Board of Directors of the World Bank and the IMF will be gathering
in Washington from April 26-28 to offer their proposals for a "New
Architecture" they have been devising for the global economy.

On the day the meetings begin, representatives of those excluded from
their deliberations - labor, environment, religious, and other groups
from here and abroad - will critique the official proposals and unveil
their own proposals for a more just and stable global financial system. 
Among these will be the "Global Sustainable Development Resolution"
proposed by Rep. Bernie Sanders (I-VT).


Moderator:  	John Cavanagh, Director, Institute for Policy Studies

Speakers:       Robert Blecker, Economic Policy Institute and
American University and author of just-released Taming Global Finance

Brent Blackwelder, President, Friends of the Earth

Robin Round, Coordinator of the Halifax Initiative, Canada

Tom Palley, Assistant Director of Public Policy, AFL-CIO

Njoki Njehu, 50 Years is Enough Network

Oscar Ugarteche, Jubilee 2000 Latin America, Peru

Mark Weisbrot, Preamble Center


Contacts:		Karen Dolan:  202/234-9382, ext. 228
			Carol Welch:  202/783-7400


CoSponsored by:	


Africa Faith and Justice Network - Washington, D.C. 
Americans for Democratic Action
Preamble Center - Washington, D.C.
Public Citizen Global Trade Watch - Washington, D.C.
America's Future - Washington, D.C.
Alliance for Global Justice - Washington, DC
Alliance For Democracy
Campaign for Labor Rights - Eugene, Oregon
ACERCA - Burlington, Vermont
Nicaragua Network - Washington, DC
Left Business Observer - New York, New York
Latin America Emergency Response Network - Washington, DC
Witness for Peace/Mid-Atlantic Region - Lower Gwynedd, Pennsylvania
Kentucky Interfaith Task Force on Latin America & the Caribbean -
Louisville, KY
Boston Women's Health Book Collective - Boston, Massachusetts
EPICA - Washington, DC
Vermont-Nicaragua Construction Brigade - Montpelier, Vermont
Global Exchange - San Francisco, California
California Fair Trade Campaign - San Francisco, California
Public Domain - Atlanta, Georgia
Peaceworks - Morristown, New Jersey
Sisters of Notre Dame Justice & Peace Network - Washington, DC
Interhemispheric Resource Center - Albuquerque, New Mexico
Rural Vermont/Rural Education Action Project - Montpelier, Vermont
Committee for Health Rights in the Americas - San Francisco, California
Economic Justice Now - Oakland, California
Office of the Americas - Los Angeles, California
Witness for Peace - Washington, DC
Casa Baltimore/Limay - Baltimore, Maryland
Grassroots International - Boston, Massachusetts
Center for Global, International and Regional Studies - Santa Cruz,
California
Baltimore Action for Justice in the Americas (BAJA) - Baltimore, Maryland
Sisters of the Holy Cross - Notre Dame, Indiana
Just Act: Youth Action for Global Justice - San Francisco, California
International Innovative Revenue Project/Tobin Tax Initiative - Arcata,
California
Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns - Washington, DC
International Labor Rights Fund - Washington, DC
Washington Peace Center/Economics for the People! - Washington, DC
Marin Interfaith Task Force on Central America - Marin County, California
Guatemala Human Rights Commission/USA - Washington, DC
Mercer County Peace Coalition/WILPF
Sustainable North Bay - Inverness, CA
Peace and Justice Center of Eastern Maine
Progressive Challenge
Preamble Center
Institute for Policy Studies- Global Economy Project
United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America - Pittsburgh, PA
Asia Pacific Center for Justice and Peace
Stakeholder Alliance
Veterans For Peace
Building Opportunities for Self Sufficiency - Berkeley, CA
Friends of the Earth- Washington, D.C.
Development Gap
Housing America
The Foundation for Educational Renewal, Inc.
National Catholic Social Justice Lobby
Orono Peace Group
McKeever Institute of Economic Policy Analysis
Institute for Cultural Ecology
United Church of Christ Network for Environmental and Economic
Responsibility
Washington Office on Africa
Center for International Environmental Law
Equal Exchange Coffee Company

Karen Dolan, "Progressive Challenge" Director, Institute for Policy Studies
733 15th St NW, Suite 1020
Washington, D.C. 20005
kdolan@igc.org
www.netprogress.org
ph:(202) 234-9382
f: (202) 387-7915