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- Date: Mon, 30 Aug 93 15:52:55 PDT From: IGC News Desk <newsdesk@igc.apc.org> To:
- amcgee@netcom.com Subject: PeaceNet World News Service
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- **PeaceNet World News Service**
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- News of the un-reported and under-reported, featuring Inter Press Service (IPS)
- The World's Largest and Oldest Non-Profit News Agency
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- Institute for Global Communications (IGC) 18 De Boom Street, San Francisco, CA
- 94107 415-442-0220 fax: 415-546-1794 e-mail: pwn@igc.apc.org
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- The IGC Networks (PeaceNet, EcoNet, ConflictNet and LaborNet) present a new
- international electronic news publication: the PeaceNet World News Service.
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- PeaceNet World News Service (PWN) delivers the news you need directly where you
- want it most: your e-mail box.
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- PWN's flexible, user-definable "electronic clipping service" brings relevant
- news not found elsewhere. PWN is a non-profit, non- commercial service
- dedicated to a free and balanced flow of multi- sourced news about the survival
- of the planet, featuring international news about the environment, human rights,
- development, the United Nations process, and the work of non-government
- organizations. By using telecommunications technology PWN can bring news and
- information that the profit driven, mainstream media ignore.
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- PWN includes news rarely found in the mainstream press. Sources include The
- Inter Press Service (IPS), the world's oldest non-profit news agency, the
- Pacific News Service (PNS), one of the world's premier alternative news
- services, articles from United States progressive periodicals and news, and
- analysis from non-government organizations world wide.
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- The anchor of PWN is the Inter Press Service (IPS). IPS is ranked the world's
- fifth largest in terms of media clients. Virtually invisible in the United
- States, IPS's aims to improve South->South and South->North news flows. While
- western news agencies tend to focus on political affairs, coups, crises and
- conflicts, IPS delivers news that is analytical and contextualized, news that
- stresses global interdependence. IPS articles appear in PWN three days after
- copyright.
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- "At a time when monopoly control of information is increasing, IPS represents a
- diverse, multi-national source of information the kind which should be of
- interest to all news media organ- izations, as well as serious students of
- international affairs."
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- Larry Bensky National Affairs Correspondent Pacifica Radio
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- "IPS has been invisible in the United States. Why? Because it covers women,
- human rights, development, popular struggles, and the United Nations process
- from a critically supportive position. IPS material deserves a wider
- audience..."
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- Howard Frederick American University, Washington, DC Author: "Global
- Communications and International Relations"
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- "As a former journalist, I'm horrified that major American news- papers do not
- even subscribe to IPS. The American public, out- side of a few alternative
- sources, simply don't hear the voices of the rest of the world. It doesn't bode
- well for planetary survival."
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- Bob Lyons GreenPeace, VanCouver
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- Each day PWN delivers a "news digest" directly to your e-mail box. You choose
- the issue or the world region that you want to follow. Beginning September 1st,
- 1993 the following digests will be available:
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- Africa Latin America and the Caribbean Eastern Europe Aid and Development
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- And the price? PeaceNet World News Service costs only $4 per month for one
- digest, $2 per month for each additional digest. You will receive an average of
- 3-10 relevant articles per day. You can discontinue at any time. Payment
- covers three-month period. PWN can be delivered to practically any e-mail
- address, including Internet, Compuserve*, America Online, FidoNet, the Well,
- etc.
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- In the coming months we will also be offering the following digests:
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- REGION: ISSUE:
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- Africa Aid and Development Eastern Europe
- (includes IMF/World Bank) (including Russia and the CIS)
- Environmental Issues of the Third World Latin America and the Caribbean
- Health (including the AIDS crisis) Middle East Human
- Rights Southeast Asia Media/Communication The Pacific Rim
- United Nations
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- To subscribe, print out the following page out and fax/mail it to us. To
- subscribe with a credit card over the phone call (415) 442-0220 between 9:00 am
- and 5:00 pm Pacific time.
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- Name_________________________________________________________________
- Organization ________________________________________________________
- Address______________________________________________________________ City,
- State, Zip_____________________________________________________
- Telephone____________________________________________________________ E-mail
- address that you want PWN sent to_____________________________ How did you hear
- about PWN? _________________________________________
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- Please mark the digest or digests you want to receive. The cost is $4/month
- ($12 for three months) for the first digest, and $2/month ($6 for three months)
- for each additional digest. We will bill you after the first three months.
- Those paying by credit card will have the amount automatically charged every
- three months.
-
- Please check which digests you are interested in.
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- [ ] Africa [] Latin America and the Caribbean [] Eastern Europe (including
- Russia and the CIS) [] Aid and Development (includes IMF/World Bank)
-
- If you prefer to pay by check, please send a check payable to "IGC Networks" in
- $US to:
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- Institute for Global Communications PeaceNet World News Service 18 De Boom
- Street San Francisco, CA 94107 USA
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