OUR VISION:
We envision a future in which countries work together to abolish war, protect our rights and freedoms, and solve the problems facing humanity that no country can solve alone. This vision requires effective democratic global institutions that will apply the rule of law while respecting the diversity and autonomy of national and local communities.

OUR MISSION:
We are a membership organization working to build political will in the United States to achieve our vision. We do this by educating Americans about our global interdependence, communicating global concerns to public officials, and developing proposals to create, reform and strengthen international institutions such as the United Nations.

CGS-Minnesota Chapter
5492 Bald Eagle Blvd. E.
White Bear Lake, MN 55110
info at globalsolutionsmn.org

Updated 2010-07-05
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Minnesota Chapter
                                                         IMPENDING CHANGE 
                                   Claude Buettner, Outgoing President

It has been a great privilege and pleasure to lead our chapter for the last three years. But it is time for me to step down. I gladly relinquish the presidency to someone who will, I am confident, be a worthy successor.

It is impossible to know or measure the effectiveness of NGOs such as CGS. Sometimes our faith that the “keyboard is mightier than the gun” suffices to motivate us to plod on. Rest assured that your support and interest is working towards keeping this imperfect global civilization on course to a safer future.

The good news on perhaps the biggest issue, to my thinking, is that the US and Russia have recently agreed on further reduction in their stockpiles of Cold War era nuclear bombs, the original weapons of mass destruction. Together, the US and Russia own over 90% of these weapons. Although some analysts have written that the recent agreement is more symbolic than the numbers at first indicate, it is a clear demonstration by decision makers to continue the long-term trend of nuclear weapons reduction. Only with this trend can the world be made safer and the necessary legitimacy be given to non-proliferation efforts.

Although the world’s estimated population of 6.8 billion people continues to rise, the global birth rate (currently estimated to be 1.1% per year by the US Census Bureau) continues to fall. This is great news as population growth is one of the main “drivers” behind a host of related global problems such as environmental degradation, economic and political instability, and even war.

Currently, there is a test of resolve for the European Union, the most noteworthy on-going experiment in international integration. When things are going well, all parties bask in the success of expanded economic opportunity and rising standards of living. But when many among Europe’s population begin to have misgivings that their stressed economies are subsidizing the most poorly managed or most unfortunate countries, such as Greece, Portugal and others, there are calls to rethink the basic premise of the EU. For the moment the various EU countries are determined to give the needed financial support to Greece. But, if other countries need financial propping up, the mood may change and the EU steadfastness may be tested.

I end with this Haiku to offer encouragement to a world in dangerous times on the cusp of great change:
                                                    Sloughing our past selves,
                                                    We unfold who we are now
                                                    To our amazement!
FUNDING A WORKABLE UNITED NATIONS
Joe Schwartzberg
As many readers of this Newsletter are aware, I have been working for several years on a book entitled Designs for a Workable World. I have just finished Chapter 15 (see outline on p.4), “The Problem of Funding,” and have written some 425 pages out of what will probably come to something over 500. Funding is a topic that would bore most readers to death; but I actually found the problem rather interesting and share with you here a few slightly edited excerpts from the work, [including a few interpolations in square brackets, like this]:

The Regular Budget: Although critics of the UN are wont to complain about the organization’s burgeoning cost, the regular budget has always been remarkably—one might even say incredibly—low. In its first budgeted year, the approved regular budget came to a mere $18.9 million. In percentage terms, growth in the budget was moderately high during the UN’s early years; but, considering the very low starting point, the absolute increases were modest. The $100 million mark was crossed only in 1965, the $500 million mark in 1978, and the billion dollar mark in 1990. The 2010 budget came to $2.5 8 billion, which works out to roughly $0.38 for each person on this planet! (Can the world really justify such extravagance?) [The US share of the current budget, 22% of the total, comes to $568 million, just about $1.87 (or one hamburger) per capita, as against a whopping $0.02 per capita for Bangladesh!] But the figures just cited are in current dollars, as of the dates indicated. When adjusted for inflation, based on the US consumer price index, growth over the past four decades has been quite modest. Using 1971 as a reference year, at which time the budget came to $194 million, the Global Policy Forum found that the nominal budget of $2,073 million for 2007 (the last year for which calculations were made) translated to only $404 million in constant 1971 dollars. In short, in real terms the regular budget slightly more than doubled over a period of thirty-six years. Applying the compound interest formula, this comes to an annual growth rate of approximately 2%. The picture is significantly different, however, in respect to the peacekeeping budget and in programs funded by voluntary contributions.
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The Peacekeeping Budget: In contrast to the highly regulated—even if often contentious—process by which the UN’s regular budget is established, funding for peacekeeping missions since the Suez crisis of 1956, has, of necessity, been carried out on an ad hoc basis in that the need for such missions cannot be reliably forecast and the UN never has a substantial cash reserve on which it can draw when serious emergencies arise. [In 2007, the most recent year for which global data are available, the total peacekeeping budget for sixteen operations was $5.146 billion, of which the US was assessed 27.1%, or $1.395 billion, well below the cost that year of a week’s US military operations in Iraq.]
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Voluntary Contributions: Finally, we come to voluntary contributions [for special programs and funds such as UNICEF, the World Food Program, and the Fund for Population Activities], to which there is no reference in the UN Charter. The volume and distribution of such funding are, arguably, even less predictable than is the case for peacekeeping funds. The determination of which agency gets what, from whom and when is typically based on varying combinations of altruistic, political and economic motives. The purposes for which funding may be used are largely established by leading donor nations. The General Assembly, which—in theory has control over funding, plays a relatively minor role in respect to voluntary funding. It can elect officers for the programs and specialized agencies which such funding supports; but if the individuals elected pursue agendas greatly at variance with the intentions of the donor(s), it is highly likely that the funding spigot will soon be turned off. [The world total for voluntary funds in 2007 was $12.28 billion, of which the US contributed 36%, or roughly $4.42 billion.]
…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………  [Counting two other budgets, not described here, the total spending for the UN system in 2007 was just short of $25 billion of which the US contributed roughly $7.9 billion.]
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(Subsequent text contains ideas from the book, but not in the form of quotes.)
Now suppose that in place of the UN’s present complicated and contentious (take my word for it) budget system, there were a system in which each nation, however rich or poor it might be, was assessed at the very low and easily affordable rate of 0.1% of its GDP. As of 2007, for the world as a whole, that would have generated $60.7 billion in 2007, as against the total of not quite $25 actually budgeted that year. The US share of the new total would have been about $14.2 billion (roughly the cost of seven weeks of the Iraq War), or about $36 per capita, while the total for Bangladesh would be about $79 million, calling for an increase from $0.03 per capita per annum (the total for five UN budgets) to $0.57 per capita. The increase for both countries (and for all others as well) would cause no significant fiscal pain. The UN would have more financial resources than it could efficiently spend with its present staff and would have, I would estimate, at least $10 billion to put into an escrow account to help meet the costs of unpredictable future peacekeeping missions or for dealing with future natural catastrophes.
The US could then no longer complain that it was being unfairly exploited. Nor would the UN have to be a hat-in-hand supplicant for voluntary funding that would be provided only on terms specified by a small number of wealthy donor nations. And there would be no need for biennial budget squabbling in the General Assembly over ridiculously petty differences in assessment rates. While the general principle of progressive taxation would be abandoned at the collection end of the budget process, progressive principles could be applied, with much greater positive effect, in the ways by which funds were disbursed. We could then move more rapidly toward a more just and more peaceful world. Finally, as UN capabilities increased, the uniform assessment rate could be appropriately adjusted, with no appreciable pain to UN member nations for the foreseeable future.
Chapter Outline
DESIGNS FOR
A WORKABLE WORLD

1. Introduction
PART ONE: THE STATE OF
THE EARTH
2. A World of More or Less Sovereign
States
3. Power
4. Problems
5. The Rise of Regionalism
PART TWO: PRESCRIPTIONS
6. Reform of the General Assembly
7. Reform of the Security Council
8. From ECOSOC to ESEC
9. A Human Rights Council
10. Strengthening Judicial Organs
11. A World Parliamentary Assembly
12. Affiliated Agencies
13. Enhancing Human Resources
14. Engaging Non-State Actors
15. The Problem of Funding
16. Peacekeeping and Peace-building
17. A Sustainable Planet
PART THREE: MOVING FORWARD
18. A New Global Architecture
19. Getting There



In March the University of Minnesota’s Office of International Programs honored Joe Schwartzberg with an Award for Global Engagement and bestowed on him the title of “Distinguished International Professor Emeritus.”
AWARD FOR JOE SCHWARTZBERG
CGS MN ANNUAL MEETING INVITATION

Thursday evening, June 17, 2010, 6:00 – 9;00 p.m.
Social Hall, Hennepin Avenue United Methodist Church
511 Groveland Avenue, Minneapolis

ABUNDANT FREE PARKING IN CHURCH PARKING LOT

SCHEDULE: 6:00 Social Hour; 6:30 Served Dinner (vegetarian option available);
7:15 Program; 9:00 Adjournment.

COST: $30 per person; $15 for students and those with limited income.
Reservations should be made by June 10. QUESTIONS? Call Mary Rose Goetz at 612-374-5321.
Keynote Speaker: Secretary of State MARK RITCHIE

THE ROLE OF CIVIL SOCIETY IN GLOBAL GOVERNANCE

Born, raised and schooled in Iowa, Ritchie has lived in Minneapolis for the past
24 years. From 1986 to 2006 he served as President of the Institute for
Agriculture and Trade Policy, a non-profit organization working with businesses,
farm organizations and other civic groups to promote long-term sustainability. A
major concern of IATP has been the effect of trade rules on farm families and rural
communities. In 1994 Ritchie was a co-founder of the Global Environment and
Trade Study, based at Yale University, which investigated international linkages
and synergies between environment and trade . In that same year he organized a
conference at Bretton Woods commemorating the 50th anniversary of the
historic meetings at which the key institutions regulating global finance and trade were designed.
In 2006 Ritchie was elected as Minnesota’s 21st Secretary of State. In that capacity, he oversaw the recount in the 2008 US Senate Election, a task he handled with such skill and fairness that it led to his being named by The Nation magazine the 2008 “Most Valuable State Official in the United States.” An inspirational speaker, Ritchie’s presentations combine great depths of both knowledge and passion.

In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes. Benjamin Franklin

Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons. Woody Allen
WEIGHTED VOTING

A major problem with UN decision-making is that it is neither fair nor realistic. The Security Council is an exclusive club in which the veto-wielding P-5 (the permanent members) are immune from censure and can block any action of which they disapprove. In the much weaker General Assembly, which has binding power only in respect to the budget and appointments, the vote of any one of the smallest, poorest, and weakest of nations is equal to that of the United States or China. Small wonder then that its decisions are routinely ignored by any nation that wishes to do so. In various chapters of Designs for a Workable World (see column to right) I propose for the major UN agencies objective formulae for weighted voting that should be perceived as sufficiently fair and realistic to command the respect of the community of nations. For example, in the General Assembly the proposed formula would be W = (P+C+N) / 3, in which a nation’s voting weight, W, would be the average of three terms: P, its population as a percentage of the world’s total; C, its budgetary contributions to the UN budget as a percentage of the total; and N, its membership as a percentage of the UN total (currently 1/192 or 0.521%). These terms respectively honor the democratic/demographic principle, the economic (capacity to do good) principle, and the legal (sovereign equality) principle and should provide an acceptable compromise reflecting the desires of populous, wealthy, and small states respectively. If the system were in place, it would make the budgetary system proposed on pages 2-3 much more acceptable to the nations who actually pay the bills, and ensure that they actually meet their obligations because they would automatically penalize themselves by failure to do so.
Joe Schwartzberg
                                              NEWSLETTER ARCHIVE
                                          (Click on the date)
May 2010
OUR VISION, OUR MISSION
IMPENDING CHANGE by Claude Buettner, Outgoing President, Minnesota Chapter, CGS
FUNDING A WORKABLE UNITED NATIONS by Joe Schwartzberg
IRD THURSDAY GLOBAL ISSUES FORUM
AWARD FOR JOE SCHWARTZBERG
WEIGHTED VOTING by Joe Schwartzberg
CHAPTER OUTLINE, DESIGNS FOR A WORKABLE WORLD (Upcoming book by Joe Schwartzberg)
CGS MN ANNUAL MEETING INVITATION, JUNE 17, THUR, 6-9 PM; Keynote Speaker: Secretary of State MARK RITCHIE, "THE ROLE OF CIVIL SOCIETY IN GLOBAL GOVERNANCE"
CANDIDATES FOR OFFICERS AND BOARD OF CGS, MN CHAPTER

March 2010
OUR VISION, OUR MISSION
CONTFRONTING FUTURE TERROR by Claude Buettner, President, Minnesota Chapter, CGS
CIVIL SOCIETY TO THE RESCUE by Joe Schwartzberg, CGS Board Member
THIRD THURSDAY GLOBAL ISSUES FORUM
DO YOU WANT A PIECE OF THE ACTION?

January 2010
OUR VISION, OUR MISSION
THE QUEST FOR GLOBAL POLITICAL EQUITY IN THE 21st CENTURY by Claude Buettner, President, Minnesota Chapter, CGS
THIRD THURSDAY GLOBAL ISSUES FORUM
NUCLEAR WEAPONS ARE AN EFFECT by Ronald J. Glossop, President, St. Louis Chapter, CGS
AVAAZ
CGS MEMBERSHIP INFORMATION by Dennis Dillon, Treasurer, MN Chapter, CGS


November 2009
OUR VISION, OUR MISSION
A BINATIONAL COMMISSION WITH RUSSIA by Claude Buettner, President, Minnesota Chapter, CGS
PRESIDENT OBAMA'S NOBEL PEACE PRIZE Slightly edited excerpts from a blog posted by Dick Bernard
THIRD THURSDAY GLOBAL ISSUES FORUM
PROGRESS IN PROMOTING UN REFORM by Joe Schwartzberg
WORLD SAVVY


September 2009
OUR VISION, OUR MISSION
PRIORITIZING ISSUES FOR THE COMING YEAR by Claude Buettner, President, Minnesota Chapter, CGS
THIRD THURSDAY GLOBAL ISSUES FORUM
WORLD PEACE THROUGH EDUCATION (BEST BOOKS AND GROUPS)
KENNEDY AND THE SAD STATE OF OUR MEDIA by Louise Pardee and Joe Schwartzberg
WANT TO HELP?

May 2009
OUR VISION, OUR MISSION
GOING MAINSTREAM WITH GLOBAL THINKING by Claude Buettner, President, Minnesota Chapter, CGS
THE TIDE IS TURNING by Joe Schwartzberg, CGS Board Member
THIRD THURSDAY GLOBAL ISSUES FORUM
CGS ANNUAL MEETING INVITAION, Keynote Speaker: Dean J. BRIAN ATWOOD
CANDIDATES FOR OFFICERS AND BOARD OF CGS, MN CHAPTER
“WORLD AFFAIRS CHALLENGE,” A COMPETITION ABOUT THINGS THAT MATTER by Gail Hughes, CGS Board
DESIGNS FOR A WORKABLE WORLD by Joe Schwartzberg, CGS Board Member
CITIZENS FOR GLOBAL SOLUTIONS NEEDS YOUR MEMBERSHIP


March 2009
OUR VISION, OUR MISSION
ATOMS FOR PEACE NEEDS RETHINKING by Claude Buettner, President, Minnesota Chapter, CGS
MY FIRST MODEL UNITED NATIONS EXPERIENCE by Sutton Higgins
ODDS AND ENDS
THIRD THURSDAY GLOBAL ISSUES FORUM
WANT TO HELP?


January 2009
OUR VISION, OUR MISSION
HELPING TO BUILD THE FUTURE THROUGH THE PARTNERS PROGRAM by Claude Buettner, President, Minnesota Chapter, CGS
THIRD THURSDAY GLOBAL ISSUES FORUM
ODDS AND ENDS
A UNITED NATIONS PARLIAMENTARY ASSEMBLY? by Joe Schwartzberg, CGS Board Member
WANT TO HELP?


November 2008
OUR VISION, OUR MISSION
SHIFTING TO A NEW EQUILIBRIUM by Claude Buettner, President, Minnesota Chapter, CGS
THIRD THURSDAY GLOBAL ISSUES FORUM
ALFRED AEPPLI
GRASSROOTS SOLUTIONS NEEDED FOR GLOBAL PROBLEMS by James W. Nelson
WFM SUPPORTS PROPOSAL FOR FINANCIAL DIALOGUE

September 2008
OUR VISION, OUR MISSION
CELEBRATE CONSENSUS BUILDING by Claude Buettner, President, Minnesota Chapter, CGS
THIRD THURSDAY GLOBAL ISSUES FORUM
THE WEEK THAT WAS by Joe Schwartzberg
SUPPORT CGS-ENDORSED CANDIDATES

May 2008
OUR VISION, OUR MISSION
OVER THE HORIZON by Claude Buettner, President, Minnesota Chapter, CGS
THIRD THURSDAY GLOBAL ISSUES FORUM
IRAQ WHAT TO Do? by Joe Schwartzberg
ANNUAL MEETING THURSDAY JUNE 12, 2008

March 2008
OUR VISION, OUR MISSION
ROOT CAUSE,CORRECTIVE ACTION by Claude Buettner, President, Minnesota Chapter, CGS
THIRD THURSDAY GLOBAL ISSUES FORUM
THE UN AS ELECTION MONITOR by Joe Schwartzberg
RENEW YOUR MEMBERSHIP

January 2008
OUR VISION, OUR MISSION
REFRAMING GLOBAL DEMOCRACY by Claude Buettner, President, Minnesota Chapter, CGS
THIRD THURSDAY GLOBAL ISSUES FORUM
WEIGHTED VOTING AND SECURITY COUNCIL REFORM
2008, A YEAR OF GREAT OPPORTUNITY by Joe Schwartzberg
BOUTROS-GHALI: DEMOCRATIZATION AT GLOBAL LEVEL NEEDED
THANK YOU DICK BERNARD

November 2007
OUR VISION, OUR MISSION
A NEW COMMUNICATIONS REVOLUTION by Claude Buettner, President, Minnesota Chapter, CGS
THIRD THURSDAY (not this time) GLOBAL ISSUES FORUM
2007 ANNUAL NATIONAL MEETING A GREAT SUCCESS
INACTION IS COMPLICITY

September 2007
OUR VISION, OUR MISSION
BUILDING INTERNATIONAL BRIDGES by Claude Buettner, President, Minnesota Chapter, CGS
THIRD THURSDAY GLOBAL ISSUES FORUM
MARTHA PLATT TURNS 100!
CGSers Help Launch New Radio Show: "Truth to Tell"
CGS 2007 ANNUAL MEETING
PROGRESS REPORT ON UN REFORM by Joe Schwartzberg
WORKS TO BE DISTRIBUTED AT NATIONAL MEETING

May 2007
PROSPECTS FOR A BRIGHTER FUTURE by Joe Schwartzberg, President, CGS Minnesota Chapter
ENERGY WORKSHOP
THIRD THURSDAY GLOBAL ISSUES FORUM
REVIEW OF PREVIOUS THIRD THURSDAY FORUMS, 2006-2007
THE MINNESOTA MILLENNIUM INITIATIVE (MMI) by Bharat Parekh, Incoming Board Member
CGS MN ANNUAL MEETING INVITATION
MEETING RESERVATION FORM AND BALLOT
CANDIDATES FOR OFFICERS AND BOARD OF CGS, MN CHAPTER
WANNA GET INVOLVED?

March 2007
UNIVERSAL REGIONAL REPRESENTATION AS A BASIS FOR SECURITY COUNCIL REFORM by Joe Schwartzberg, President, CGS Minnesota Chapter
IS "FREE TRADE" THE ONLY POSSIBILITY IN A GLOBAL ECONOMY? by William McGaughey, CGS Minnesota Board Member
THIRD THURSDAY GLOBAL ISSUES FORUM
A CALL FOR OPEN DISCUSSION OF THE ISRAELI OCCUPATION OF PALESTINE

January 2007
HAPPY NEW YEAR
MEMO TO BAN KI-MOON: TRUE UN REFORM by Joe Schwartzberg, President, CGS Minnesota Chapter
CINDY SHEEHAN EVENT
THIRD THURSDAY GLOBAL ISSUES FORUM
ODDS & ENDS

November 2006
DECISIONS, DECISIONS, DECISIONS by Joe Schwartzberg, President, CGS Minnesota Chapter
CANDIDATES ENDORSED BY NATIONAL ORGANIZATION
Important Coming Events
WHY WE MERIT AND NEED YOUR SUPPORT
SELECTED WORKS BY JOSEPH SCHWARTZBERG RELATING TO UN REFORM

September 2006
JUSTICE AS THE KEY TO PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST by Joe Schwartzberg, President, CGS Minnesota Chapter
A GLOBAL PARLIAMENT?
ANNUAL MEETING A BIG SUCCESS
SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT
THIRD THURSDAY GLOBAL ISSUES FORUM
Lebanon, Sudan: Who You Gonna Call? By Don Kraus
QUOTE by Richard Nixon

May 2006
STEPS ON THE PATH TO GLOBAL JUSTICE by Joe Schwartzberg, President, CGS Minnesota Chapter
HOW DO OUR REPRESENTATIVES IN CONGRESS SCORE ON KEY GLOBAL ISSUES?
WANT NEWS OF COMING EVENTS?
A MESSAGE OF DEEP CONCERN ABOUT THE US AND THE MIDDLE EAST
CGS MN ANNUAL MEETING INVITATION (incl. MEETING RESERVATION FORM, BALLOT, CANDIDATES LIST)
THIRD THURSDAY GLOBAL ISSUES FORUM
Thanks to OUTGOING and CONTINUING BOARD MEMBERS
QUOTES by Felix Frankfurter and Theodore Roosevelt

March 2006
PROBLEMS, RESPONSES AND SOLUTIONS by Joe Schwartzberg, President, CGS Minnesota Chapter
GLOBAL WARMING ACTION ALERT
A UNITED NATIONS ADMINISTRATIVE ACADEMY
TWO GREAT GLOBAL CITIZENS
Eyewitness to Global Warming: Public Forums with Will Steger
THIRD THURSDAY GLOBAL ISSUES FORUM
A TIME FOR ACTION ON IRAQ, JOIN THE DEMONSTRATION ON MARCH 18

January 2006
AN ALTERNATIVE AGENDA by Joe Schwartzberg, President, CGS Minnesota Chapter
A FAIR TRADE LIGHTHOUSE IN HONG KONG By Patricia Jurewicz
THE YEAR 2005 IN REVIEW
POSITION STATEMENTS OF THE MINNESOTA ALLIANCE OF PEACEMAKERS
WOULD YOU LIKE TO HELP?
THIRD THURSDAY GLOBAL ISSUES FORUM
Book Review: SAVING CHRISTIANITY FROM EMPIRE by Jack Nelson-Pallmeyer, reviewed by Louise Pardee
QUOTES by Clyde Prestowitz and Marcus Borg

November 2005
SENSATIONAL SANTA FE by Joe Schwartzberg, President, CGS Minnesota Chapter
ABOUT CGS
WANT NEWS OF COMING EVENTS?
TWO GREAT GLOBAL CITIZENS
PLEASE HELP EARTHQUAKE VICTIMS
THIRD THURSDAY GLOBAL ISSUES FORUM
SIXTY YEARS OF THE UNITED NATIONS by Jay Shahidi
QUOTES by Thomas Paine and Socrates

September 2005
A TIME FOR NEW BEGINNINGS by Joe Schwartzberg, President, CGS Minnesota Chapter
THIRD THURSDAY GLOBAL ISSUES FORA NOTICES
OTHER COMING EVENTS
QUOTES by Paul Streeten and by the House of Commons of Canada External Affairs Committee

Summer 2005
WHO AND WHAT WE ARE by Joe Schwartzberg, President, CGS Minnesota Chapter
BALLOT AND ANNUAL MEETING INVITATION
THIRD THURSDAY GLOBAL ISSUES FORUM: GENOCIDE, 2005: WHAT IS HAPPENING IN DARFUR?
POPE JOHN PAUL II AS A HUMANE GLOBAL THINKER (two quotes)

Spring 2005
WEIRD PRIORITIES AND "SOFT THREATS" by Joe Schwartzberg, President, CGS Minnesota Chapter
"RESOLVED: THE UNITED STATES SHOULD WITHDRAW FROM THE U.N." by Bill McGaughey, CGS-MN Board
CALENDAR
CGS-MN PRESIDENT JOE SCHWARTZBERG NOMINATED FOR MAJOR AWARD by Michael Andregg, Justice and Peace Studies Program, University of St. Thomas

Winter 2004
A BAD YEAR AND THE JOB AHEAD by Joe Schwartzberg, President, CGS Minnesota Chapter
KOFI ANNAN: IS HE 'HISTORY'? Editors comment by Dick Bernard
JOE SCHWARTZBERG PRINCIPAL SPEAKER AT CONFERENCE ON WEIGHTED VOTING AT UNITED NATIONS
PEACE ONE DAY (film)

Fall 2004
FORCE OR LAW? President's column by Joe Schwartzberg
A POST-ELECTION MESSAGE FROM CHARLES J. BROWN, President & CEO, Citizens for Global Solutions
FOUR CGS MEMBER COMMENTS ABOUT NOVEMBER 2
Earth to Mars: CHOOSING A FLAG TO UNITE A PLANET by Tad Daley

September 2004
TWO HEROES President's column by Joe Schwartzberg 
REMEMBERING A VISION OF THE UNITED NATIONS by Dick Bernard, editor
FORGING AHEAD ON UN REFORM


The Newsletter of the Minnesota Chapter of CGS is published in January, March, May, September and November of each year. Member submissions are encouraged and should be sent to Joe Schwartzberg by E-mail at schwa004 at umn.edu (replace at with @) or by post at 5492 Bald Eagle Blvd. E., Whie Bear Lake, MN 55110. You may call Joe at 651-429-9562 (Home) or 612-625-55787 (Office) if you'd like to discuss a submission.
May 2010 Newsletter
 
        CGS-MN is a co-sponsor of this World Savvy event on June 8

On June 8th, World Savvy is pleased to present an evening with Gillian Martin Sorenson, senior advisor at the United Nations Foundation, to discuss Global Citizenship and the United Nations in the 21st Century.
 
              This World Savvy fund-raiser event will be at the Minneapolis Club! 







                                                    Click here for more information.
Mark Ritchie
James Nelson
Dick Bernard
Joseph E. Schwartzberg
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GREAT SUMMER READING!

APOCALYPSE NEVER
Forging the Path to a Nuclear Weapon-Free world
By Tad Daley

Available from Rutgers Press: http://rutgerspress.rutgers.edu/acatalog/Apocalypse_Never.html
(This linked page has a link to a video of Tad discussing his book with readings.)

“In plain, understandable prose, Apocalypse Never makes a compelling case that the continued existence of nuclear weapons, regardless of their ownership, can lead to catastrophic disasters. A must-read.”
—Lt. General Robert G. Gard, Jr., (U.S. Army, Retired)
and chair, Center for Arms Control & Non-Proliferation