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Understanding Sustainable Development — Agenda 21 Understanding Sustainable Development — Agenda 21 ICLEI: Local Governments for Sustainability is directing policies that cause: - stack 'em and pack 'em surveilled housing - traffic congestion - inaccessible open space - managed control over our lives - mismanagement of water supplies - prohibition on natural resource management that leads to increased fire hazards and private property restrictions Image 2: ICLEI, aka The International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives ICLEI was launched in 1990 at the World Congress of Local Governments for a Sustainable Future. ICLEI is headquartered in Bonn, Germany and has offices around the globe, including a U.S. office in Oakland, California. Its stated mission is to provide policy recommendations to assist local governments in the implementation of Sustainable Development. ICLEI was instrumental in the development of Agenda 21, having drafted Chapter 28 in 1991 in preparation for the 1992 Earth Summit. ICLEI reaffirmed its dedication to the U.N. 2002 Earth Summit mandate: "Local Action 21 strategies will ensure the unwavering, systematic implementation of local action plans over the next decade.."20 Essentially, Sustainable Development claims knowledge of all sustainability issues and has stock solutions that can be applied in Stockholm, Boulder, Santa Cruz — indeed, anywhere. Around the world, ICLEI is responsible for communicating with 20. Otto -Zimmerman, Konrad, Local Action 21: Motto, Mandate, Movement, International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives, Toronto (2003): 2. See ICLEI's website for more information: http://www.iclei.org. local special interests to translate international policy objectives into local and regional legislation.21 Every county in America now has Sustainable Development directives guided by federal agencies, NGOs and/or ICLEI. The number of communities with citizens working to remove ICLEI is expanding as people begin to tie the links between ICLEI and Sustainable Development.22 Regionalism23 The political structure of America has been transformed. This has occurred quietly over the last 50 years without public awareness of the mechanisms underlying the change. Today, the effect of a communitarian philosophic approach to government dominates public expectations and legislative agendas. Gone are the days when government was limited, where individuals were politically acknowledged to possess unalienable rights, and where money was honest. At the core of this transformation is the political process of "regionalizing" the country. Political regionalism is the antithesis of representative government. Regionalism restructures or reinvents the operation of government. Regionalism is the "blueprint" for your serfdom. It has infiltrated cities and counties everywhere, affecting transportation, water, farming and land use systems... literally every aspect of your life. Regionalism is being used to destroy traditional political boundaries, such as county lines. Regionalism ushers in a transformed system of 21. Note that ICLEI's objectives presuppose the notion that the goal of improving the conditions of the world can only be achieved through legislation, denigrating the intelligence and ingenuity of individuals in facing their particular circumstances, and placing them under the increasing oversight of government planners. 22. http://www.freedomadvocates.org/articles/illegitimate_government/iclei_ primer%3 ayouur_town_and_fre edom_threatened_20090 8043 64/ 23. From Michael Shaw's lecture series (Part 1) "The Ultimate War: Globalism vs. America," available at: http://www.FreedomAdvocates.org. — 14 — — 15 —