Agenda 21 is being implemented in our communities without public discussion, by a hoard of UN nongovernment organizations NGOs with private political agendas. Most trusting Americans, and especially the younger generation — victims themselves of our public education system — will wake up when the regulations are implemented and wonder where their freedom went.
This is totalitarianism, and it never ends well. Agenda 21 is akin to a monster attacking every aspect of our lives. Picture a giant octopus in the middle of a city block.
Each tentacle invades a different house. Whether the issue is healthcare, education, forests, food, family farms, water rights, the debt ceiling, war, immigration, smart meters, abortion, ad infinitum, Agenda 21 is literally squeezing us to death. Because we lost the media long ago, most of the populace is unaware.
Without the Internet, the rest of us would be clueless. WEDO co-founder, Thais Corral, together with the Brazilian non-governmental organization Rede De Desenvolvimento Humano, spearheaded a new round of consultations before and during the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg to assess not only the progress of Governments, but also of civil society itself during the 10 years following the Earth Summit.
The Women's Action Agenda for a Healthy and Peaceful Planet defined the new and emerging issues of the twenty-first century. It recognized the growing evidence of climate change and the threat of increased militarism as perhaps two of the greatest challenges of the planet, as well as the need for women to add a new set of instruments to traditional advocacy and action in order to avoid rolling back even the most modest gains that had been achieved since Rio in Looking back on these 20 years, WEDO has tried to draw on the lessons learned since those visionary women transformed negotiations at the United Nations in addition to, as it turned out, many other places.
WEDO and women all over the world have embraced new technologies, working virtually to spread information quickly. Today they are able to organize, agree on and take action with speed. Stopping there, however, does not do justice to the intent and spirit of Principle 20 of the Rio Declaration: "Women have a vital role in environmental management and development.
Their full participation is therefore essential to achieve sustainable development. In , a tribunal of women judges gathered evidence on the hazardous work and environmentally threatening conditions they endured.
Have these conditions changed sufficiently? Women identify numerous areas in which they have not seen progress, or in which progress is being reversed. Women continue to hold the vast majority of non-professional jobs; are in the lower income bracket; live in homes and areas vulnerable to climate change threats; sacrifice education in order to provide food, water and fuel for their families; face violence in the home as well as in society; encounter discrimination when trying to access productive and financial resources; encounter roadblocks to their sexual and reproductive health and rights; contract illnesses from burning biomass in their homes; lose access to communal and traditional land, as both local and international interests take over; and face environmental hazards such as chemical spills and poor sanitation that have long-term health effects.
While the NRA is hardly a hotbed of sustainable activism, it supports several programs that dovetail with Agenda Last year, for example, the group gave money to 4-H, the Boy Scouts of America, and the Texas Wildlife Association, all of which promote conservation and sponsor outdoor education - activities that could easily be linked to the sweeping priorities of Agenda The Texas bill could also have barred nonprofits that work with the UN from receiving any state or municipal funding.
In other words, had it passed the bill, Texas might have cut itself off from hundreds of millions of dollars in charitable funding. While it urges international cooperation , it is hardly the totalitarian, internationalist screed that critics claim. What UN-inspired outrage was on the table for the meeting? A proposal to improve development and reduce traffic around Route 1, which runs up the eastern coast of the state.
Stacy Benjamin, the DOT project manager, says that four or five people she and her colleagues have never seen before showed up at the meeting. During the public comment session, the activists questioned the DOT representatives about Agenda They had handouts.
The scene in Maine is repeating itself across the country. Only sometimes the activists are less polite. One planning consultant I spoke with, who requested anonymity, recalled a recent meeting where he was on the receiving end of tea party rage.
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