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Connecting the Dots
How your city gets its direction from the United
Nations through the International Council for Local Environmental
Initiatives
You
will learn from this page how Sonoma County, which includes Forestville, is
dedicated to the implementation of United Nations’ Agenda 21 and how this
cancer grows and how its tentacles came all the way to Middletown.
(1.)
First is the
United Nations’ Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD) who oversees
implementation of Agenda 21.
(2.)
Next you
will see the link between the CSD and the International Council for Local
Environmental Initiatives (ICLEI)
(3.)
Then you
will find a list of ICLEI members where you will find Sonoma County as well
as other cities in Sonoma County.
This now completes the link between UN Agenda 21 and Sonoma County,
CA.
(4.)
Next you
will read excerpts from a letter to the Editor written by Mr. John Peschon
who is a founder of the Voice of Middletown (VOM) and who has invited the
FPA to Middletown to implement Agenda 21.
You will, in that letter, find the link between the Board of
Supervisors of Sonoma County and the FPA, which completes the FPA link to
UN Agenda 21.
(5.)
That will be
followed by excerpts from the FPA website stating how their BOD is not
elected by the citizens where they state it is elected/appointed. Where they have assumed authority to
speak for the community making decisions that will impact the citizens of
the community.
(6.)
Next you
will find the directive in Agenda 21 that calls for these councils.
(7.)
That is
followed by the definition of a “soviet”.
(8.)
Finally you
will find the call to action by the UN.
It all
starts here:
Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD)
Mandate of the Commission on Sustainable Development
·
to review progress at the international,
regional and national levels in the implementation of recommendations and
commitments contained in the final documents of the United Nations
Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED), namely: Agenda 21;
and the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development.
In our role as organizing partner for the Local Authorities
Major Group, ICLEI coordinates local government representation at the
United Nations Commission for Sustainable Development (UN-CSD). ICLEI, with
local government input, has produced a number of background papers and
research documents for UN-CSD.
ICLEI Members
ICLEI is a membership association of local governments and
national and regional local government associations that have made a unique
commitment to sustainable development. More than 400 local governments,
representing nearly 300 million people worldwide, constitute ICLEI.
U.S.A.
- Ann
Arbor & Washtenaw County, MI
- Annapolis,
MD
- Arlington
County, VA
- Aspen,
CO
- Atlanta,
GA
- Austin,
TX
- Berkeley, CA
- Brattleboro,
VT
- Burlington,
VT
- Cambridge,
MA
- Carrboro,
NC
- Chapel
Hill, NC
- Chicago,
IL
- Chula Vista, CA
- College
Park, MD
- Decatur,
GA
- Denver,
CO
- Duluth,
MN
- Healdsburg, CA
- Honolulu,
HI
- Irvine, CA
- Los Angeles, CA
- Louisville-Jefferson
County Metro Government, KY
- Madison,
WI
- Marin County, CA
- Miami-Dade
County, FL
- Minneapolis,
MN
- Muncie,
IL
- New
York, NY
- Newark,
NJ
- Olympia,
WA
- Orange
County, NC
- Overland
Park, KS
- Portland,
OR
- Rohnert Park, CA
- City
of Saint Paul, MN
- San Anselmo, CA
- San Diego, CA
- San Francisco, CA
- San
Miguel County, CO
- City of San Rafael, CA
- Santa Cruz, CA
- Santa Monica, CA
- Santa Rosa, CA
- Seattle,
WA
- Sebastopol, CA
- Sonoma County, CA
- Takoma
Park, MD
- Tucson,
AZ
- Windsor, CA
Members in U.S.A.: 50
Editor,
Re: Voice of Middletown talk
at the Luncheon Club on Oct. 19 Joan Riback, founder of the Forestville
Planning Alliance (FPA) was invited by the Voice of Middletown to describe
the interaction between the unincorporated area of Forestville and the
Sonoma County government. The creation of the FPA was encouraged by the
Forestville area supervisor, Mike Reilly, who felt that the .Board of
Supervisors could do a more effective job if it had access to the opinions
and desires of a majority of Forestville residents, as opposed to
individuals who might call, visit, or complain in letters to the editor.
Forestville Planning Association
Voice of the Community. Forestville has an active and effective voice in
its future that is attained through regularly-scheduled and well-publicized
town meetings in conjunction with a proactive FPA that is comprised of an
elected/appointed board of directors, a number of active committees, and a
network of neighborhood groups.
The board of directors is empowered to speak for the community before a
variety of local boards and commissions, many of which have the authority
to make decisions that impact Forestville citizens. The FPA is a
clearinghouse for citizen concerns and in turn keeps them well informed of
the issues.
“(g) Empower community groups, non-governmental
organizations and individuals to assume the authority and
responsibility for managing and enhancing their immediate environment
through participatory tools, techniques and approaches embodied in the concept
of environmental care.” SOURCE: United Nations’ Agenda 21, Chapter 7,
Promoting Sustainable Human Settlement Development
A soviet is a council.
A soviet system of government is a system of councils that become
the main form of government at all levels: enterprise, village, city,
region, etc., and eventually up to the apex council, the supreme soviet. (Not
A Democratically Elected Representative Government! )
Local Action 21
Moving from Agenda to Action
During the Local
Government Session at the World Summit in Johannesburg, South Africa
(August 2002), local government leaders from around the world, as well as
representatives from the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP),
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), UN-HABITAT and the World
Health Organization (WHO), joined ICLEI in launching Local Action 21 as the
next phase of Local Agenda 21 (LA21). Local Action 21 will support local
governments' ongoing efforts in response to Agenda 21, the Rio Conventions,
the Habitat Agenda and the Millennium Declaration.
Local Action 21
was launched as a motto for the second decade of LA21. It is a mandate to
local authorities worldwide to move from agenda to action and ensure an
accelerated implementation of sustainable development. Local Action 21 will
strengthen the LA21 movement of local governments to create sustainable
communities and cities while protecting global common goods.
The movement from
LA21 to Local Action 21 will reflect the following advances in local
sustainable development planning and management. First, the creation of
sustainable communities and cities will be furthered by identifying and
removing barriers to sustainable development.
Barriers such as
poverty; injustice, exclusion and conflict; an unhealthy environment; and
insecurity, will be proactively addressed through strategies to create
viable local economies, just and peaceful communities, eco-efficient
cities, and resilient communities and cities.
Secondly, Local
Action 21 will reduce cities' further contribution to the worldwide
depletion of resources and environmental degradation, which have severe
repercussions for cities and their inhabitants. Local government
involvement in global campaigns and programs such as the Water Campaign,
the Cities for Climate Protection Campaign, and others, will work to
protect global common goods.
Thirdly, Local
Action 21 will introduce management instruments that will ensure unwavering
implementation, effective monitoring, and continual improvement of
municipal sustainability management. Municipal sustainability management
will incorporate practices such as eco-procurement and instruments such as
ecoBUDGET® or triple bottom line reporting, to anchor these concepts in
political and administrative routines. The adoption of principles such as
the Earth Charter or the Melbourne Principles will serve to guide these
actions.
Local Action 21
will unfold as local governments take up the challenge, and as national
governments and supra- and international organizations provide support.
END
· The very worst thing about “Agenda 21”
is, they are implementing it in an un-American way because it is anti-
American. They know if we the people
were asked to vote on it and ratify it by each state, it would never pass.
· They are all guilty. This is not about being a Democrat or a
Republican it’s about being an American.
Every elected official who is sneaking this past the citizens of
this country is not worthy of calling themselves an American.
· There is no middle road here. You either support implementing Agenda 21
or you oppose implementing Agenda 21.
Which flag is your flag?
AGENDA
21
FREEDOM 21
 
· Make “Agenda 21” an election issue for
your Congressman.
· “Agenda 21” should be a public debate
issue. Let’s bring “Agenda 21” out
of the closet and shine the bright light of scrutiny on the subject so all
Americans know what’s happening.
· Become an anti-soviet, become a Freedom
21 Fighter.
· To be a Freedom 21 Fighter you don’t have
to join anything. You don’t have to
pay any dues. You don’t have to
attend any meetings. You just have
to learn about Agenda 21 because you can’t fight something you know nothing
about. Then you must share your
knowledge with your friends and neighbors.
And the next time you meet someone who is running for elected
office, any office, ask them where they stand on Agenda 21 “sustainable
development”. Be a Freedom 21
Fighter!
· May GOD Bless the United States of
America.
LINKS:
· Maurice Strong Architect of Agenda 21
· Local Agenda 21 – The U.N. Plan for
your community
· ICLEI Members
· Henry Lamb @ World
Net Daily
· Freedom 21 –
Advancing the Principals of Freedom in the 21st Century
· U. N. Watch
· The Earth Charter
and the Ark of the Gaia Covenant
· Sirolli Institute
and Lake County, CA ‘Lake County’s Spirit of Entrepreneurs’
· HOME
© copyright Bill Wink July 1, 2005
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