Economic Human Rights Project "Economic rights ARE human rights"
		An initiative of the Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise in cooperation with the Congress of Racial Equality. Paul Driessen, Director. Niger Innis, CORE National Spokesperson.

It began with a book, Paul Driessen's
Eco-Imperialism: Green Power • Black Death

Paul Driessen is Senior Fellow for the Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise. His message was shocking: opponents of free enterprise were keeping the developing nations from developing.

Eco-Imperialism asserted that the environmentalist political machine was withholding vital foods, pest controls, medications, and energy technology from the poorest countries, a certain recipe for genocide.

One of the nation' s oldest and most respected civil rights organizations, the Congress of Racial Equality, saw these as fundamental civil and human rights issues, and became interested.

Niger Innis, CORE National Spokesperson, wrote the Introduction to Mr. Driessen's book. CORE and the Center decided something should be done to dismantle eco-imperialism.

That was the beginning of the Economic Human Rights Project, an initiative of the Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise in cooperation with the Congress of Racial Equality.

The Project's goals are to loosen the grip of eco-imperialism and let the developing world develop at it sees fit. Period. Free to develop energy, food, shelter, disease control, transportation, and all the other benefits of technological civilization. The same way America did it. Period.

Visit these web pages to see how it all began. Where it's been. And where it's going.

September 10-14, 2003 Pre-publication trip by author Paul Driessen to the World Trade Organization Ministerial Conference in Cancun, Mexico, to announce the forthcoming book and perform some other vital tasks.

January 19, 2004 Congress of Racial Equality Ambassadorial Reception, New York City:

Final agreement for cooperative venture sealed between CORE and the Center.

January 20 Eco-Imperialism Teach-In, New York City.

February 4 Paul Driessen congressional testimony before the House Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee, Barbara Cubin, Chairman.

March 23 Director Driessen presentation to the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. Sponsored by the Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT)

March 24 University of Wisconsin, Madison. Sponsored by Collegians For A Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT)

March 29 National Animal Interest Alliance, Washington, D.C.

March 31 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

April 8 University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law, Tucson

April 20 Earth Day Teach-In on Eco-Imperialism, National Press Club, Washington, D.C.

May 7 Environmental Issues Roundtable, Strat@comm Communications, Washington, D.C.

May 26 ExxonMobil annual shareholders meeting, Dallas, Texas

June 24 Department of Biotechnology, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands

July 21 Freedom 21 Annual Conference, Reno, Nevada

July 23-26 Institute for Humane Studies, Environmental Seminar, Seattle University, Seattle, Washington

July 31 National Black Chamber of Commerce, annual conference, Washington, D.C.

October 2 Atlantic Institute for Market Studies, Sydney, Nova Scotia

October 3 Atlantic Institute for Market Studies, Halifax, Nova Scotia

October 13 Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut

Radio and TV the Economic Human Rights Project in the media

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