Benchmarks
Essential documents, critical facts, galvanizing images and enduring quotes.

Environmentalists make terrible neighbors, but great ancestors. -- Dave Brower

• Benchmarks:
  US Interventions -- 1798 to the Present
  Global Policy Forum (5/3/06)
• Earth Magna Charta by John McConnell
  Each year on Earth Day, March 20-21, the Peace Bell at the United Nations is rung at the moment spring begins. As this occurs, a celebration of life will cover our globe as bells ring in every community and people join in heartfelt love and devotion to the care of this nest in the stars: Earth, our wonderful home. (03/15/04)
• "The People's Health Charter." "Health is a social, economic and political issue and above all a fundamental human right." The Peoples’ Health Charter incorporates the views of citizens and people's organizations from around the world. It was approved and opened for endorsement at the People's Health Assembly in Savar, Bangladesh, in December 2000. (12/17/03)
• "Impeachment Resolution against President George W. Bush," by Francis A. Boyle, Professor at Law (1/31/03)
• The People's Communication Charter (11/8/02)
• The Earth Charter (08/16/02)
• Contract with the Planet (08/09/02)
• An Urgent Call to End the Nuclear Danger (07/12/02)
  
• Universal Declaration of Human Rights (05/22/02)

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