SP Campaigning
Resources
for SP Campaigners
News
releases, newsletters and bulletins
SP Campaign
groups and websites
Briefings,
leaflets and other campaign materials
Articles
Talks and
presentations
Interviews
News
Releases, newsletters and bulletins
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.
SP
Campaign groups and websites
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.
Briefings,
Leaflets etc.
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.
Articles
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.
Talks
and Presentations
Texts of verbal presentations
which you are invited to use as a basis for your own SP presentations
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.
Interviews
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.
For
any further information, please contact jbunzl@simpol.org

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