Action! Invite Journalists on this call with Jeff Sachs WEDNESDAY!!!

[Guest guest]

Dear allies,

As you well know, the U.S. delegation to the Millennium

Summit is proposing dramatic changes to the Summit +5 outcome document which

essentially eliminate the poverty focus.

We are hosting an urgent call with Jeff Sachs to bring

attention to this on this Wednesday, August 31 at 1 pm ET. Please invite

members of the media to join this call. There is no time to wait!

Flyer is below and attached. Please contact Kolleen Bouchane

with questions or the names of journalists who would like to join the call.

Thank you for your partnership! Kolleen

Transcript of call will be available. Please do not call in, so that we can keep lines open

for the press.

Aug. 31st Press Briefing by

Conference Call with Sachs — Upcoming Millennium + 5 World Summit,

the Millennium Development Goals and Controversial U.S.-Proposed Revisions to

Summit Document

Is the U.S. backing off on commitments to health, education

and poverty reduction and endangering/undermining global progress?

WHAT: A press briefing by

conference call with economist Sachs on the upcoming September 2005

World Summit of 170 heads of state and government to be held in NYC; the Millennium Development goals and what’s

needed now; and the hundreds of changes proposed by U.S. Ambassador

Bolton to Summit outcome document — deleting references to poverty, AIDS,

and the Millennium Development goals.

Journalists will have the chance to ask questions of Sachs and discuss

the upcoming Summit and implications of U.S. proposed revisions for poverty

reduction around the world. Call sponsored by RESULTS Educational Fund.

WHO: Sachs is Director of The Earth Institute at

Columbia University. He is internationally renowned for his work with

governments and international agencies to promote poverty reduction, disease

control, and debt reduction of poor countries. He is author of The End of

Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time.

WHEN: Wednesday,

August 31, 2005, 1:00 pm ET

HOW: Journalists can be

hooked in from any phone. To sign up for the call, please provide a number

where you can be reached at the call time to Kolleen

Bouchane at RESULTS: (202) 783-7100 x107, or at kbouchane@.... Or dial in at 1-800-260-6066 or outside the U.S. (312) 461-9606 on

August 31 just before 1:00pm ET and ask for

the RESULTS/Jeff Sachs call.

The Millennium Development Goals,

supported by nearly all the nations in the world, stand as the blueprint for

eradicating extreme poverty. These 2015 goals include reducing severe poverty

by half, ensuring universal primary education, universal access to AIDS

treatment, and cutting deaths from AIDS, TB and malaria by half. They are

ambitious goals that are meant to spark dramatic progress against global

poverty.

Newly appointed U.S. Ambassador to

the United Nations, Bolton, has demanded hundreds of changes to the Summit

outcome document that will mean movement in the wrong direction for poverty

reduction. In addition deletion of references to the Millennium Goals

altogether, requested U.S. changes include:

Deleting

support for the elimination of primary school fees, which keep tens of

millions of poor and vulnerable children out of school

Deleting

any language referencing universal access to AIDS treatment

Deleting

reference to “full funding” for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS,

TB and Malaria, despite the fact that African ministers of health and the

WHO declared TB a health emergency in Africa just last week and these

diseases combined, kill over 6 million people a year

Kolleen Bouchane

Global Legislative Associate

RESULTS

440 First St. NW #450

Washington, D.C. 20001

(202) 783-7100 x107

FAX: (202) 783-2818

kbouchane@...

www.results.org

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