News releases, newsletters and bulletins
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Briefings, leaflets and other campaign materials
Articles
Talks and presentations
Interviews

Release 1, April 2000. 
This release which initially launched the SP campaign is particularly useful for e-mailing to anyone who looks as if they might be interested in SP. (390 words) 
Available in English, French, German and Portugese. 

Latest press releases can be viewed in the "News" section of this website.

ISPO Newsletter "SP:We're On Board!"
Back copies can be made available – please contact jbunzl@simpol.org. Latest issue can be viewed in the "News" section of this website.

ISPO Monthly Bulletin "ShiP Ahoy!"
Back copies can be made available – please contact jbunzl@simpol.org. Latest issue can be viewed in the "News" section of this website.
 

Simpol-UK
The website of the UK branch of ISPO.

Local SP Adopters Group Network
This UK-based website by Simpol-UK Local Group Network Coordinator, Mike Brady, is a directory of Local SP Adopters Groups and their activities. It also provides information on how to start a "SPAG" wherever you are. If you're starting a SPAG in the UK, Mike can provide direct support and materials and come to your inaugural meeting.

Simpol Canada Blog
A blog by Canadian adopters of SP.

The Simultaneous Policy Blog
A blog for SP adopters worldwide.
 

Briefing 1 (Breaking down the Barriers to Solving World Problems)
This is a 2-sided A4 printed leaflet. It is designed to attract initial interest in SP and to encourage the reader to request further information or to visit the website. It is ideal for including in mail-shots, for giving out at meetings and conferences, etc. Available in English and French. Spanish, German, Danish and Portugese translations available but not printed. 

Briefing 1A (A Radically Innovative Approach to Solving Problems of Corporate Globalisation that Offers Win-Win Solutions...)
This is a 2-sided A4 printed leaflet which offers an alternative to Briefing 1 (above). Printed version available in English. Translations available in Danish, German and Italian. 

Briefing 2 (Policy and Strategy Briefing)
This is an 8-sided A4 printed leaflet. It gives those unable to visit our website all the basic information about SP and includes an adoption form on the back. 
Available in English and French. A combination of Briefings 1 and 2 is available in German and Italian.

Briefings 1 + 2 Combinations
The information in Briefings 1 and 2 is essentially the same as what appears on the website. A printed booklets or leaflets which contain this information are available in Italian and Urdu. Please contact ISPO for details.

Briefing 3 (Use Your Vote to Change the World!)
Like Briefing 1, this is a two-side printed sheet which invites people to find out more about SP. It explains why our votes have become meaningless and indicates how SP can re-empower them. (1125 words) 
Available in English only. French translation available. 

Briefing 4 (Rankin Review)
Like Briefing 1, this is a two-side document ready for printing which quotes extracts from Aidan Rankin's review of John Bunzl's book plus further information. It invites readers to find out more about SP. You can amend the document to suit your audience. 
Available in English only. 

Leaflet 1 (Take Back The World)
This 2003 campaign leaflet is available in several forms suitable for home or professional printing or photocopying as well as a printable colour HTML version. Click on the above link for complete instructions.

Leaflet 2 (Take Back The World)
This is a concise two-sided A6 leaflet, also circa 2003.

Globalize Justice
This is a letter/A4-size campaign leaflet that can also be used as a poster.

Global Warming: More Inconvenient Truths
In response to Al Gore's film, An Inconvenient Truth, activist and campaigner, Diana Trimble, responds with two further inconvenient truths that Gore and we citizens, ourselves, must take on board if we are to solve global warming and many other global problems.

Live 8 -- Making Poverty History? Or Entrenching Our Irresponsibility?
A few powerful men in suits cannot make poverty history, argues John Bunzl, even if they want to. "Does the G-8 really, genuinely, have the power to make poverty history? Does it really have that much power at all? Geldof and Bono by all accounts certainly think so. But are they not, perhaps, simply in thrall to the very attractive idea that some small group of people must have massive power and could change the world if only we put enough pressure on them?"

Restoring Democracy to a Company World
This op-ed by ISPO Creative Director Syd Baumel appeared in the May/June 2004 issue of Union Farmer Monthly, the newsletter of Canada's National Farmer's Union. Baumel introduces SP and argues that farmers and consumers can use it as a political tool to globalize humane and sustainable agriculture. 

"Evolutionary Biology and the Simultaneous Policy"
"Today, as humanity increasingly faces a critical point of crisis in terms of our survival on planet Earth," writes ISPO Director John Bunzl, "it is essential that light now be shed on how co-operation has worked in evolution, and how it can be made to work now if we are to have a sustainable future." Published in Network Review, 2004. View as html or .doc.

"Why Forgiving Ourselves and Each Other is the Path to Global Justice"
This essay by John Bunzl argues that we can best achieve global justice not by blaming competing nations, corporations and leaders, but by using the Simultaneous Policy to turn the world's vicious cycles of destructive competition into cooperation for the good of all. A shorter version was published as a guest editorial at oneworld.net in February 2004.

"Voting Your Global Conscience: The Simultaneous Policy offers an ingenious scheme to take back the world"
Published in the Washington Free Press (Jan/Feb, 2004), this article by SP adopter Syd Baumel quotes supporters and adopters of SP and offers a brief introduction to the subject. For a more detailed version, click here.

"Reform the WTO! - But Where are the Ideas?" (2540 words)

"IMF/WB/WTO: Evil Dictators or Helpless Slaves?" (2650 words)
Both of the above articles attempt to show how the multilateral institutions are, to a large extent, driven by the global competitive market rather than driving it themselves as many believe. Article 1 is also available in French. 

"The Global Economy, the Simultaneous Policy and Satyagraha" (1260 words)
This article appeared in "The Gandhi Way", the newsletter of the Gandhi Foundation in the UK. 

"Competition: Is it All it's Cracked Up to be?" (3000 words)
This article appeared in the AMED quarterly journal "Organisations & People". Whilst politicians and business keep chanting the mantra of competitiveness being synonymous with benefit for all, this article attempts to show the down-side of competition and thus to expose the flawed mind-set of politicians and the multi-lateral institutions. 

"Beleaguered on the Shores of Lac Leman - The WTO Invites the Activists to Tea" (3200 words)
This article is an analysis of the WTO's predicament which shows why it is incapable of achieving its stated objective of producing equitable prosperity and development. It explains how the WTO's mission is based on a false premise and illuminates the wider implications for the global economy. It follows the WTO Symposium on "Issues Confronting the World Trading System" held July 2001 at which John Bunzl was invited to address.

"To Give In to the Protesters would be to Turn Democracy on its Head" (1900 words)
The title quotes UK Prime Minister Tony Blair's response following the G-8 summit in Genoa, July 2001. The article exposes so-called 'democracy' as pseudo-democracy and explains growing global voter apathy. 

Article for World Review (2500 words) 
This article serves as an introduction to John Bunzl's book, The Simultaneous Policy, and puts the SP proposal into the context of the current world predicament of corporate globalisation. 

"Le Pen is Chief Beneficiary of Corporate Globalisation" (2100 words)
This article appeared in Sand in the Wheels, the newsletter of the activist group ATTAC, and explains the links between the rise of the Far-Right, anti-corporate globalisation and voter apathy. Also available in French.
 

Position Paper Prepared for the Global Governance Group Conference, Athens, October 21-23, 2004
John Bunzl describes how the Simultaneous Policy (SP) can achieve beneficial global governance and thus solve many pressing global problems..

Presentation to the World Development Movement
Text of a verbal presentation given to the World Development Movement (WDM) (duration: approx. 15-20 minutes). This is a reasonable introduction to the SP idea and is designed for a short, face-to-face informal presentation. 

Presentation to the World Trade Organisation, I
Text of a verbal presentation given by John Bunzl to the World Trade Organisation's Symposium on 'Issues Confronting the World Trading System' in July 2001. Duration: approx. 10 minutes; 950 words.

Presentation to the WTO, II
Text of a presentation by John Bunzl to the "WTO - Abolish or Reform?" meeting in London, November 2001. The presentation explains why the WTO should not be the prime focus of our attention if we want to solve world problems. Duration: approx. 10 minutes.

Presentation to leaders of major NGOs
Text of a presentation by John Bunzl given to the 'Global to Local' meeting of leaders of prominent NGOs in November 2001. It explains SP's role as a 'technology' for use by the wider 'anti-corporate globalisation' movement. Duration: approx. 10 minutes. Also available in French. 

Presentation at the World Social Forum in Porto Alegre
Text of a presentation by John Bunzl given to an SP workshop held at the World Social Forum in Porto Alegre, Brazil in Feb. 2002. Also available in Spanish and Portugese.
 

John Bunzl interviewed by Lucis Trust
As part of their "Conversation with Inspiring Servers" series, Lucis Trust probes the spiritual basis of the global challenges addressed by the Simultaneous Policy.  Audio and transcript.

Co-op Radio Show featuring SP recorded Vancouver, Canada, May 14th 2001.
This is available on CD. First half hour consists of an interview between presenter, Diana Jewell, and ISPO founder, John Bunzl, concerning the SP concept. Second half hour consists of live listener call-ins and John's responses. 

Interview of John Bunzl by Jay Fenello in September 2001 
For the "Aligning with Purpose" talk-radio show, USA. This can be heard on-line at www.aligningwithpurpose.com/radio.htm but you will need RealPlayer software which can be downloaded free from www.real.com. Alternatively, a file in low-fidelity MP3 format which does not require RealPlayer can be provided.