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• Summit 2000 is being organized in Okinawa, Japan. Contact: Mr. Makishi Yoshikazu (family name first, as is customary in Japan), maxi@ryukyu.ne.jp.

• Alliance Cologne 99/Bündnis Köln 99, June 18-20, 1999. A broad alliance of NGOs organized a variety of activities. The organizations included BUND (Friends of the Earth, Germany), Projekt Interkonti, Medico International, Terre des hommes, WEED, Reclaim the Streets (London), Les Périphériques vous parlent, Inter Continental Caravan, Peoples' Global Action, Pericles, France, the youth organizations of the Social Democratic Party and the Green Party (which are now the government), womens' organizations, church groups, immigrant groups, trade unions, human rights organizations, etc.

• TOES '98 - UK was organized by the New Economics Foundation (NEF).

• TOES '97 - Denver.

• TOES '96 - Australia. The TOES movement is alive and flourishing "down under". TOES Australia produces a regular high quality newsletter, which is distributed to members.

• TOES '96 - Lyon, France: "Contre Sommets"
  • There were at least 8 "contre sommets" in Lyon. This site is a sub-site of the home page for the official French government archives of the G-7 summit which are maintained at the University of Lyon. You can access the home page of the archives by clicking on the "Home" icon at the top of the "contre sommet" page. The archive home page lists several other sites critical of G-7 policies besides the "contre sommets" in which TOES participated. The French government seems incredibly tolerant of criticism.

  • Program of "Contre Sommet: Quelles Alternative a la Mondialisation?", with Helena Norberg-Hodge, Vandana Shiva, Susan George and Martin Khor, among others. In French only. If you would like to read some of their work in English, search for them in the People Centered Development Forum archives.

  • Critiques of the G-7 from Lyon

  • Contre Sommet Prospectus (in French).

  • French Government G7 home page, the ordinary G-7 summit's web site (in French and English). Not to be confused with the official archive. This site dispensed information about the G-7 Summit only as it was happening. It's basically an internet version of what the press gets from the G-7 press office. If we wanted the press to come to our conference as well as the ordinary summit, this is where we'd want to be listed.

• TOES '95 - 3rd TOES Australia, held at the University of Adelaide, Adelaide, December 1995. The TOES movement is alive and flourishing "down under". TOES Australia produces a regular high quality news-letter, which is distributed to members. Copies of the Proceedings of the 3rd Australian TOES are still available at a cost of $10.00 per copy (including postage). Requests, together with remuneration, may be forwarded to: 3rd TOES convenor, PO Box 505, Modbury, SA 5092, Australia. Further information about the 3rd TOES may be obtained from the web site of Economic Reform Australia (ERA): http://dove.mtx.net.au/~hermann/erahome.htm, or from Dr. John Hermann, convenor of the 3rd Australian TOES, e-mail: hermann@dove.net.au.

• TOES '95 - Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, at the "People's Summit", June 11-18, 1995.
  • The Halifax Initiative. A long-term project that grew out of responses to the G7 Summit by an extraordinary group of North American environmental and social justice NGOs. One year after the Halifax Summit, they published their excellent First Annual G7 Report Card on Bretton Woods Reform, June 25, 1996.

  • The Halifax Summit, Sustainable Development, and International Institutional Reform: National Roundtable on the Environment and the Economy, ed. by John Kirton and Sarah Richardson. Another extraordinary response by NGOs to the G7 Summit in Halifax.

  • Halifax "People's Summit" home page. Program, events, summary reports, post-Summit updates, etc.

  • "People's Summit" Home Page.

  • Report on the People's Summit.

  • "Greening" the Halifax G-7 Summit: How local NGOs in Halifax persuaded the G-7 Summit organizing committee to have an environmentally friendly Summit.

  • 1995 Sustainable Communities Awards presented at the People's Summit by the Nova Scotia Environment and Development Coalition.

  • NGO Background Documents written in response to Issues Discussed (and not discussed) at the Halifax G-7 Summit

• TOES '94 - Japan. Organized by the Seikatsu Club Consumer Co-op.

• TOES '94 - 2nd TOES Australia - held at University of Melbourne (Melbourne, December 1994).

• TOES '93 - Italy.

• TOES '93 - 1st Australia - held at Sydney University of Technology (Sydney, December 1993).

• TOES '92 - Munich, Germany.

• TOES '91 - London, England.

• TOES '90 - Houston, TX, USA
  • Program. A sort of "Whole Earth Catalog" of Alternative Economics in the United States in 1990.

• TOES '89 - Paris, France.

• TOES '88 - Toronto, Canada.

• TOES '87 - Italy.

• TOES '86 - Japan.
  • TOES in Tokyo, The Other Economic Summit 1986 - Report and Summary, 40 pp, 1986, ISBN 0-9509909-3-0; $2.50 (I-092), available from TOES Books, Suite 3C, 777 UN Plaza, New York, NY 10017; e-mail: cipany@igc.apc.org.

• TOES '85 - Germany
  • In 1985, TOES-UK held a conference in England and then sent a delegation to the G7 Summit in Germany. The alternative economic concepts and strategies developed and showcased during the TOES conferences in 1984 and 1985 are summarized in a very readable book edited by Paul Ekins, The Living Economy: A new economics in the making, Routledge & Kegan Paul in association with Methuen, 1987, ISBN 0-7102-0758-1, hardcover $49.95 (I-581/H). Order from TOES Books, Suite 3C, 777 UN Plaza, New York, NY 10017; e-mail: < A HEF="mailto:cipany@igc.apc">cipany@igc.apc.org.

• TOES '84 - London, England.
  • The TOES conferences in 1984 and 1985 are summarized in The Living Economy, edited by Paul Ekins. See 1985 above for ordering information.

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