The MEC Newsletter: Issue 33 - Winter 1999-2000
- Critique of Corporations
by Editor's Notes
- Intro to issue #33 which focuses on corporations
- The Coporations and the World
by Albert Krauss
- Serious Problems, and a Challenge for Citizen Action. An good overview of how multinational corporations are working to position themselves over government.
- Natural Step
- A Model for Sustainability. A set of conditions that can be used by business to contribute toward a sustainable earth.
- Challenge the WTO!
- Short on the upcoming WTO protest in Seattle
- Supporting the MEC
- What the MEC needs from its supporters in the way of help, equipment, and equipment.
- Special Premium
- Get a free one year subscription to E Magazine with a new membership to the MEC
- State of the MEC
by Lynda McClure
- What has been happening with and around the MEC since the last issue, and what is planned in the future.
- Artists Wanted
- Artists needed to help design note cards
- The Crisis From Capitalism
by Bruce Haldane
- The lure of capitalism, whose appeal is great but it's costs even greater.
- Emergency Shelter Moves Forward
by Doug Strong
- About a Board of Supervisors policy statement to address homelessness
- Volunteers Wanted
- Volunteers needed for the MEC
- World Atomic Safety Holiday
by Compiled By Vicki Oldham
- A look at the potential for nuclear disaster at Y2K and the World Atomic Safety Holiday (WASH) declaration asking for governments to take nuclear weapons off alert over the millenium change.
- Y2K Progress?
by Bruce Haldane
- A look at what is being done locally to prepare for possible problems at Y2K
- Voluntary Simplicity
by Vicki Oldham
- Y2K: Crisis and Opportunity. Knowledge is the first step in Y2K preparedness...The Y2K problem is truly an opportunity to change society for the better.
- Lincoln-Peters Defense Alliance
- The group decides to continue for the purpose of advocating for local Native Americans in the legal system.
- Human Rights Monitoring Project of Mendocino and Lake Counties
- Short on HRMP activites.
- Let's Free the Slaves
by Jan Allegretti
- About the "They Are Not Our Property, We are Not Their Owners" campaign
- MEC Affiliates
- Short on the groups which use the MEC as a base for their community activities.
- Alliance for Democracy
- Short on the growing movement to challenge the rights of corporations doing harm to the earth.
- Bari Bombing Case
- Finally, The Tables Turn... Mahor victory in the civil rights lawsuit against the FBI and the Oakland Police Dept., as the Appeals Court denies OPD motion to be released from the case.
- MEC To Lead Cleanup of Upper Russian River
- Coastal Conservancy funds MEC to organize cleanup of Russian River in Mendocino County.
- Russian River Watershed Council Meeting
by Denny O'Brien
- What the Watershed Council has been doing.
- Watersheds Can't Vote, It's Up To You!
- Attempt by Colorado to re-apportion voting districts by geography rather than population gets nixed by courts. What is left is citizen power to protect nature. Register!
- Corporate Forest Liquidation
by Lang Russel
- About the forest liquidation practices of Mendocino Redwood Company.
- Desert Terror
by David Smith-Ferri
- The effects of the American war and bombing on Iraq. A local resident visits hospitals and talks with the people.
- Calendar of Events
- November to December environmental events in the area
- Business Sponsors
- Local businesses whose products and services are consistent with MEC values and who support the MEC in various ways.