UNA-USA High School Model U.N. Conference

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Invitation

Dear Delegates and Faculty Advisors:

On behalf of the United Nations Associations of the United States of America (UNA-USA), I am pleased to invite you to attend the United Nations Association of the United States of America’s Annual High School Model United Nations Conference. This year the conference will be held at Columbia University and United Nations Headquarters on May 3-4, 2002.

Formerly known as the Metropolitan Model United Nations, this conference hosts over 600 students from the United States and abroad each year. Despite the name change, the 2002 UNA-USA High School Model U.N. Conference will live up to the quality of other UNA-USA programs by providing both novice and experienced delegates with a realistic and lively Model U.N. simulation. This year’s conference will be extra special with our unique committees including a simulation of the Earth Summit 2002. In this committee the delegates will meet separately in regional working groups on the first day and will convene together as an assembly on the second day.

Please look over our registration materials and feel free to contact me with questions between now and the conference. We look forward to seeing you in May,

Yours,
Melissa Yahre
Model U.N. Program Adminstrator
Education and Model U.N.

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For those who need accommodations, special rates have been arranged at the Hotel Belleclaire, 250 west 77th Street, New York, NY 10024. The hotel is near Columbia University and right next to the subway for easy access to the United Nations.

Rates
$110.00 for single/doubles and $120.00 triple/quads. You can contact the hotel directly at (212) 362-1004 or through their web site www.hotelbelleclaire.com/

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The Conference

Location

This year’s conference will be held at Columbia University and the United Nations Headquarters in New York City. On May 3, 2002, students will open their debate at Columbia University. Delegates will have the opportunity to view Columbia’s beautiful campus and take advantage of its resources. On May 4, the conference will continue at U.N. Headquarters, where students will work in the actual meeting rooms that U.N. diplomats use to create their resolutions and decisions.

Secretariat

The UNA-USA Model U.N. Conference is supported by a 30 member secretariat composed of college students from all over the United States. The committees are directed by undergraduate and graduate students who are attaining their degrees from some of the most renowned universities in the country. The conference staff works year-round to ensure a realistic and rewarding educational simulation!

Delegate Resources

Prior to the conference date, the secretariat will mail committee and conference guides to registered schools. These guides will help students understand the structure of the committee, background information on the agenda, rules of procedure and include reference materials for future research.

During the conference, students will have access to a delegate resource room which is equipped with computers to type resolutions and conduct additional research.

Faculty Support

The UNA-USA High School Model U.N. Conference prides itself upon offering support to every advisor who attends our conference. Each school will be provided with an advisor’s guide and preparation materials to assist in preparing the students. During the conference, teachers will have the opportunity to participate in workshops and lectures on current Model U.N. and international education issues.

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Committees and Topics

Earth Summit 2002
The Ten-Year Review of the U.N. Conference on Environment and Development

Commission on Human Rights
Children in Armed Conflict
Trafficking of Women

Commission on Crime Prevention & Criminal Justice
Organized Crime
Bioterrorism

More topics will be announced in January 2002

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Conference Timeline

Registration forms due to UNA-USA	January 15, 2002
Country assignments mailed to schools	January 18, 2002
Preparations materials mailed to schools	February 18, 2002
Administrative forms due to UNA-USA	April 15, 2002
Delegate forms due to UNA-USA	April 15, 2002
Withdrawal deadline	April 15, 2002
Position papers due to UNA-USA	April 15, 2002

Fees

School Fee (includes advisor fees):

$50.00

Delegate Fee:

$25.00

For more information contact:
Melissa Yahre, Model U.N. Program Administrator
UNA-USA
801 Second Avenue
New York, NY 10017
(212) 907-1334
Fax: (212) 682-9185
Myahre@unausa.org
www.unausa.org

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[RippleFire]

Thanks - I forget to address the list

[CalConservative]

I didn't notice any topics on "Usurping National Sovereignty"

[jf55510]

As a college student I would love to go to this. It would be incredibly fun debating on why the UN is usless and the US shoud get out of the UN.

[madfly]

I'm sure they will be glad to have you participate if you tell them you go to

STEPFORD UN-IFIED HIGH

<sarcasm off

[madfly]

oops...just saw that you are a college student.
make that

STEPFORD UN-IFIED COLLEGE STUDENT or
SUCS

FOR SHORT!

Seriously, it's nice to know that you are in College and obviously NOT brainwashed. Are there a lot of Green Groups on your Campus? Do you find any subjects slanted towards Global Governance?

[hedgetrimmer]

They are doing this at our high school. I have been trying to think what to do to protest

[knuthom]

This has been going on for decades. I participated in a "model UN" while in high school in the early '70s. It was very educational. I learned how people from small, insignificant nations can high-jack the adgenda. And how undemocratic the UN can be.

[madfly]

Here's a little something you could print out
perhaps adding a headline like . . .

IS THIS PAGE MISSING FROM YOUR HISTORY/POLITICAL SCIENCE TEXTBOOK???

When Does It Become World Goverment?

When does it become world government?

By Henry Lamb

There are certain similarities between Hitler's quest for global dominance, and the U.N.'s quest for global governance:

• Hitler dreamed his dream long before the rest of the world was aware of it.

• Hitler gathered around him an inner-circle of trusted, like-minded individuals.

• Hitler consolidated his power base before expanding outward.

• Hitler achieved his goals - until he confronted the United States.

World government was an articulated dream a century ago. It was the United States that foiled the first effort - the League of Nations. The world government dreamers, however, gained control of the U.S. government after the great depression, and created a second effort to achieve world government - the United Nations.

Since 1945, the dreamers within the United Nations have been gathering like-minded individuals and consolidating their power base. The outward expansion began about a decade ago, when the U.N.'s forces began mobilizing through an unprecedented series of world conferences:

• on children in New York (1990);
• on the environment in Rio de Janeiro (1992);
• on human rights in Vienna (1993);
• on world trade in Uruguay (1994);
• on world population in Cairo (1994);
• on social development in Copenhagen (1995);
• on sustainable development in New York (1995);
• on women in Beijing (1995);
• on human settlements in Istanbul (1996);
• on global warming in Geneva (1996);
• on the International Criminal Court in Rome (1998);

and on to the Millennium Assembly and Summit in 2000.

The U.N.-endorsed and funded Commission on Global Governance convened in 1993, and in 1995, made public the detailed plan to achieve world government, with the U.N. at the helm.

No one paid much attention.

No one paid much attention to Hitler either, until March 11, 1938, when Hitler invaded Austria. Three days after Hitler invaded Poland, on September 1, 1939, Britain declared war on Germany. The United States began paying attention.

In the comparison to Hitler, world government is somewhere between Austria and Poland. The U.N. made its intentions known with the publication of the CGG report, Our Global Neighborhood, as Hitler made his intentions known when German forces invaded Austria.

When the United Nations gains independent financing, freeing itself from dependence upon the United States, the U.N. will have "invaded Poland," so to speak.

The CGG report is quite specific in its plan to achieve independent financing for the U.N. It calls for consolidation of all international financial and development institutions, under the administrative arm of the U.N. It calls for global taxation - on currency exchange, fossil fuels, and a host of other tax-targets.

The Millennium Summit endorsed these ideas in very generalized language in its Millennium Declaration. A special High Level Panel on Financing for Development was created. A preliminary report issued by the Panel's chairman last September, embodied all the recommendations of the CGG and the Millennium Declaration.

The panel's final draft report issued recently, has softened the language considerably, but still embraces the themes of the CGG report. This special panel is also calling for continuation as a perpetual institution to continue working toward the CGG goals.

Sooner or later the U.N. will achieve independent financing, unless the United States realizes that "Hitler is at Poland's border," and takes action now to stop the invasion. If we again procrastinate, hoping that Hitler will be a good boy, it may take as much effort to defeat world government as it did to defeat Hitler.

There are also differences between Hitler and the U.N. Hitler used bombs and bullets; the U.N. uses propaganda and persuasion. Hitler gave his soldiers much armament and little pay; the U.N. gives their soldiers much pay, and makes up for deficient armament by bloating the bureaucracy.

Hitler's army bit off more than they could chew when they encountered the United States. This too, could be a difference. It is not at all clear that the United States is still willing to defend its sovereignty; many Americans believe that the U.N. is a "good boy," that will not conquer the world.

With each new U.N. treaty, and world conference, the U.N. expands its sphere of influence and consolidates a little more power. Austria, Poland, Belgium, France - when does it become world war? The U.N., UNESCO, ECOSOC, WTO, ICC, IPCC, UNEP, UNDP, UNICEF, IPO, WIPO, UNHCR, UNFCCC, UNCBD, MAB, CITES, RAMSAR...

[jf55510]

The College Greens and the NAEP(Nat'l Association of Environmental Professionals) are active, but not that active. We have a lot of greens on campus but as college students they are apathetic. But our school newspaper is the Free-Mumia, raise taxes, Bush is rabided right-winger, save the planet, capitalism sucks type of people. The profs are not that bad they are about 50/50. Overall my campus is left but it is fun. I am probably the only student of the 23,500 that want the US out of the UN the other 23,499 of them either love the UN or do not know what the UN is really about.

[madfly]

Yes, I understand. Tell me, how is it that you got through all the grade school and high school propaganda, with a mind of your own? Probably enlightened parents, I'm thinking.

I doubt if there are any campus branches of the GOOD GREENS, but I could be wrong. But it would be a lonely fight, with what students are being force-fed on so many issues. Maybe you could get your own website and publish things you see here. You could hand out business cards with your URL on it.

It's still very hard for me to accept the fact that the modern college campus is no longer the breeding ground for debate on both sides of burning issues of the day, as it once was. Sad.

[jf55510]

Yes, I understand. Tell me, how is it that you got through all the grade school and high school propaganda, with a mind of your own? Probably enlightened parents, I'm thinking.

I grew up in Plano, Texas. Very conservative family oriented area. The school district pushed an agenda of cirriculum not propaganda. I cannot remember having a single teacher that was completly left minded. We were never that well off but rich enough to where we could live well. Since I turned 16 I had to work, because that was how my father and mother were raised and it was not going to be any different.

I doubt if there are any campus branches of the GOOD GREENS, but I could be wrong. But it would be a lonely fight, with what students are being force-fed on so many issues. Maybe you could get your own website and publish things you see here. You could hand out business cards with your URL on it.

They are pretty bad but it would be worse, I could be at UC-Berkley. But since I am in Texas it is not that bad. I know that there is at least one of my friends that is here, but I think that he only lurks. And I got my brother who is a freshman at Boston College lurking here as well. I would like to do a website but there are not enough hours in the day right now for all of my work(I guess it would help to get off FR) but I still fight the good fight when I can.

It's still very hard for me to accept the fact that the modern college campus is no longer the breeding ground for debate on both sides of burning issues of the day, as it once was. Sad.

You only have the right to freedom of speech when you agree with other side. When Horowitz came out with his 10 Reasons Reparations are Wrong and Racist To add last year, I proposed that the College Republicans(I am a part of that org.) buy an add in the newspaper and put it in. But I was overruled because they were afraid of the response that we would get, because it was to controversial. Yeah it is sad but hopefully with the older profs leaving the newer ones will be better.

[madfly]

I grew up in Plano, Texas. Very conservative family oriented area. The school district pushed an agenda of cirriculum not propaganda. I cannot remember having a single teacher that was completly left minded. We were never that well off but rich enough to where we could live well. Since I turned 16 I had to work, because that was how my father and mother were raised and it was not going to be any different.

Sounds like a good environment for learning. I also started working when I was 16, at the main library. You can learn alot from being on the same team as people your parent's age or older, when you're young and full of questions. You have excellent writing skills, and this reflects on your earlier education. If you don't have a good understanding of the English language, with all it's complexities and contradictions, before you enter college, you can't play catch up with remedial courses and match what 12 years of grammar, reading, spelling, composition affords you. It's damn good to see a college kid who can write!

You only have the right to freedom of speech when you agree with other side.

This is the result of the absence of DEBATE, or discussion, or reading a good variety of books on a topic, from different views. It's how people are taught to think, deduce, analyze information and ideas. It seems now, kids are taught to pass tests. Outcome based education. I really admire people who homeschool when faced with the "new" teaching methods.

I proposed that the College Republicans(I am a part of that org.) buy an add in the newspaper and put it in. But I was overruled because they were afraid of the response that we would get, because it was to controversial.

Well keep the faith and keep speaking up, because a lot of Democrats don't want to be Democrats anymore. It's hard to believe it's only been a little over a year since he was in command. Even Rosie "loves Bush", lol. I'm an ex-hippie, and leaned towards the rats, although I always register non-partisan. I found my way here, as did a lot of people fed up with 8 years of Clinton. I was a recovering liberal a year ago. Been here long enough to "get over it", thank god.

Yeah it is sad but hopefully with the older profs leaving the newer ones will be better.

So you think the tide is changing and there are budding educators who will not follow the biased university texts. After Dr. Hansen, from NASA, retracted his Global Warming theories recently, along with 3 or 4 more similar scientific reports, I want a CALL for correcting all the children's books that center around GLOBAL WARMING and all the other Agenda 21 plans they are working so hard on. And they can DELETE the endless stories of how we Americans-are-killing-the-world crap!

It would be nice to know that the voice of the people who want to save the constitution has made it's way to the ears of those who will be teaching.

[madfly]

Here's an article from WorldNetDaily on the public school system, by a young libertarian freelancer.

WorldNetDaily: American public schools:
Working just as designed

This is a WorldNetDaily printer-friendly version of the article which follows.
To view this item online, visit http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=26136

Monday, January 21, 2002

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American public schools:
Working just as designed

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By Vox Day

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© 2000 WorldNetDaily.com--> © 2002 WorldNetDaily.com

The American public schools are not failing. Quite the contrary, in fact; they are succeeding at doing exactly what they were designed to do. The problem that has inspired so much press and political action over the past 30 years is one of cognitive dissonance, not performance. Education, you see, in the eyes of the educational establishment, is not about reading, writing and arithmetic, as so many misguided parents believe, but about directing the development of children into the kind of adults the establishment and its supporters want them to become.

As William Torey Harris, one of the fathers of the public school system, once wrote: "This is not an accident but the result of substantial education, which, scientifically defined, is the subsumption of the individual."

Subsumption of the individual to what? The State, of course. There is nothing more dangerous to the would-be Guardians of the State than individuals with a strong moral code who are capable of independent thought. This is why the destruction of the traditional one-room schoolhouse became necessary, and it is also why the home-school movement is considered such a dangerous threat, not only by the educationalists, but also by those who favor a strong central government. Totalitarians have always placed great emphasis on maintaining tight control of the schools, as they know that children free to develop as independent thinkers will inevitably resist control of their minds, bodies and spirits.

Indeed, it may come as a surprise to most to learn that the concept of the classroom was first developed in India, where it was used by the Brahmin caste to handicap the mental development of the far more numerous lower castes to keep them more easily in check. This is why it should not have been a surprise when the Washington Post quoted a study reporting that nine years of home school was essentially equivalent to 12 years in a public school or 11 in a private school.

But what about socialization? Again, the dragon of cognitive dissonance raises its ugly head. The socialization provided by the public schools has nothing to do with learning how to function as an adult in a civil society. Indeed, it is designed to do exactly the opposite by hurling the child into a savage environment where they are literally demoralized in every sense of the word.

I still remember riding on the bus during my last year of public school, sixth grade, and listening to a ninth-grader attempt to talk his girlfriend into sexually servicing his best friend. "But I don't want to f--- with him, I only want to f--- you!" she protested weakly. It was rather eye-opening stuff, even for a kid who'd been through a year of Sex Ed only two years before. Although I switched over to a private school the following year, by that time I'd already been properly socialized.

And let me share something with you parents who think that while most schools are in bad shape, yours is OK, and your good little children are doing just fine. The vast majority of you are totally wrong. They're not OK, and I know it for a fact because I knew parents like you back when I was in high school, when I was out partying with your sons on the sports team and having sex with your daughters in the youth group. The fact that you live in a nice community where everyone goes to church and drives a German import means nothing, and the fact that a school might send a few academic high flyers off to Harvard doesn't indicate that the moral foundation of its students has not been destroyed.

It is important to understand that there is no fix for this, because it is not a problem with the system. The school system we have today is exactly what it was designed to be – a place to detach children from the values of their parents, destroy their moral foundations and degrade their ability to think independently. There is no excuse for any parent who would knowingly sacrifice his son or daughter to the fires of this Moloch, no excuse for wittingly allowing a child to remain within the system for one day longer than necessary!

I have heard it said that home school is not for everyone, but I say that the American public school system is for no one, especially not the children of Christian parents. What fellowship can light have with darkness? Get a clue, and get your children out of the schools!

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Vox Day is a freelance writer.

[madfly]

Ping

[madfly]

GO TO VAX DAY'S ARCHIVES to see his photo and other excellent articles from this young commentator!

[madfly]

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[madfly]

"I have heard it said that home school is not for everyone, but I say that the American public school system is for no one, especially not the children of Christian parents. What fellowship can light have with darkness? Get a clue, and get your children out of the schools!"

Vox Day

A powerful quote.