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"Premise: By some time in the mid-1990's, over half the humans on earth will be
under the age of 20." pg. 2 of Winter 1989, Whole Earth Review.

To whom it may concern: The Internet is being challenged to help build a Space
Bridge from the Mir Space Station Russian-American crew to youth and adult
participants in the Global Tea Party in Sarajevo on Earth Day April 22, 1995.

The Earth Day Global Tea Party is an interactive video session between
various sites around the world.  Our main goal is to bring together cultures
in an attempt to stifle the disasterous effects of global hatred and
miscommunication.
 
This version of the Earth Day Global Tea Party script outline includes
contributions from individuals addressed personally.  They responded to
accept our proposal to develop this "living" script into their own
interactive global performance.  Now we are putting it on Internet inviting
anybody to become part of this growing unfolding dramatic process and action.
 Our main challenge is to presently is to connect the youth and their guests
in Sarajevo to the Russian-American Crew on Mir Space Station.  Only by the
collective efforts of all fellow networkers around the world can this task be
accomplished, with the hope that grace can triumph over tragedy.

Responses as of April 7, 1995
  1. Daniel Duerr, 17 yr. old of Santa Cruz Harbor HS. "I like your
script-outline, it looks very interesting and very catching." Daniel is the
first teenager who introduced the concept to Internet users and continues to
be the main window to Internet.
  2. Bill Dana AKA Jose Jimenez 70 yr. old decorated combat veteran of W.W.II,
adopted by America's Mercury Astronauts as their Mascot.  He wrote in his
response and evaluation, "The Earth Day Global Tea Party is an excellent
concept...also the high tech/high touch element can be reinforced by an
emphasis on humor. Earth Day as MIRth Day. On April 22, 1995, the 25th
anniversary of Earth Day , through your good efforts the viewers will see the
juxtaposition of hope and tragedy. Laughter is needed to provide a balm for
reality.  A pleasant coincidence: MIRth...I am looking forward to sharing the
drama of the direct dialog of the MIR Space Station's Russian-American crew
talking with teenagers in Sarajevo and all over the world.  Since I'm blessed
with having many of the space pioneers as my extended family I will be happy
to invite them to share in the festivities."
  3. Matt Holdrege an Information Highway Solution Expert of GTE in Long Beach
made the following proposal: "One of the amazing new technologies to utilize
ISDN is telemedicine.  Technically, telemedicine is not much different than
the video conference we are now having.  Telemedicine users simply have
specialized cameras to examine eye, ear, nose, throat, subcutaneous lesions
and other areas.  What is ground breaking about telemedicine is that it can
bring expert health care diagnosis immediately to areas without experienced
medical specialists.
Doctors no longer have to drive or fly out to rural areas, wasting time and
money.  Now, rural telemedicine outposts can be setup with ISDN lines and
special cameras.  Patients can enter the conference room, place the call to
the doctor, and hold up the camera to their affected area, while watching the
remote doctor on their own monitor.  
Instead of talking about this, let me show you."
(Begin show with special cameras)
This is also being used today for remote psychiatry examinations, where no
special devices are needed."

In connection with this script addition he indicated to us his special
interest in reaching people in devastated areas of the world, such as
Sarajevo, Chechnya, Chernobyl, Rwanda... His proposal can be inserted into
the script where experts join with Federico Mayor, Director General of UNESCO
and Zlata in, "How to bring light to Sarajevo."
  4. Borders Books and Music flagship location in San Francisco is ready to
bring the Penguin paperback edition of Zlata's Diary on to the sites of Earth
Day Global Tea Party and to commit a percentage of the proceeds for
interactive communications to Sarajevo, thus contributing to Zlata's desire
to bring light to Sarajevo.  Penguin Publishers also will participate in this
episode.
  5. Martin Luther King Middle School in Monterey, Calif. will host teenagers
and adults from several sites in Calif.  Sev Williams from YES (Youth for
Environmental Sanity) of Santa Cruz Calif. will travel to Monterey with their
troubadour performance program.  It fits into the 15 minutes of music, fun
and games of the Earth Day Global Tea Party.  Dr. Gwendolyn Laster, Principal
ordered Zlata's Diary, "and the students are in the process of completing
them as to make for a more meaningful event."
6. Chris Belknap of Hawaii's Earth Wave is making inquires in order to visit
video conference sites with participants in the Global Internet and World
Wide Web Dialog between practicing Earth Day communities throughout the
world.
  7. Don Kraus and Tim Barnar of the World Federalist Assoc. HQ, Washington DC
are working with UNESCO on connecting Paul Coleman, a Peace Walker, on route
to Sarajevo, arriving on the 20th of April.  They want to include him into
the Earth Day Global Tea Party planting a tree in front of the ruined
Sarajevo Library on Earth Day.
  8. Glen Gaskins, Earth Day USA, Washington DC forwarded to NASA the script
outline and supported our proposal to connect the Russian-American crew of
the Mir Space Station with youth participants in Sarajevo and youth around
the world, via the Houston Space Station.  He included a proposal made to the
Russian government to support this initiative.
  9. A Moscow team of Earth Day Global Tea Party rented a site for the video
conference, and can deliver documents to all essential decision makers and
are open for communication to Mirror for Humanity, via Internet, fax and
telephone.
E-mail is Ashot@alexbank.msk.su        
Tel. and Fax. 01170952148768
  10. Club 'D' of Downey HS, the Down2Eyarthlings, is making an expedition
through many of the flood ravaged counties in California on the way to the
Earth Day Global Tea Party at a San Francisco site.  They are enrolling
others into the campaign for environmental justice as human right for youth,
especially those enduring the unendurable, like the youth in 
Sarajevor Chechnya and Rwanda. 
 

        EARTH DAY GLOBAL TEA PARTY  
   
         Script Outline for Earth Day April 22, 1995

We invite youth and  adult participants to develop this script outline into
 their own interactive global performance. 

GOAL: Interactive groups as the result of EARTH DAY GLOBAL TEA PARTY hosted
by youth will discover a way to build a network of "global interactive
plazas" around the world to help bring life on the planet into balance.

Why a Global Tea Party?  
Popular media used to remind us from time to time of Mao Tse-Tung's phrase,
"A revolution is not a dinner party."  We are not sure about dinner party
either, but as we know from American History, that a tea party could be
revolutionary.

Roger Macdonald of Gorbachev Foundation/USA sent us a message, "your mention
of the 'tea party' quote piqued my curiosity. It was a fairly difficult to
come up with its origin, but I bellieve the excerpt below is probably pretty
close...I just love tracking down things like this, and offer it to you for
your interest." 
 ..., A revolution is not a dinner party or 
 writing an essay or painting a picture or 
 doing embroidery.  It cannot be so refined, 
 so lieisurely and gentle; so temperate, kind ,  courteous , restrained and
magnanimous. 
 A revolution is an insurrection, an act of 
 violence by which one class overthrows another. 
 Excerpt from: "Report on Investigation of the Peasnt Movement  in Hunan, "
March 1927, by Mao Tse-Tung.

A Globa Tea Party is an attempt to introduce a new ritual for people from all
walks of life to come together for gentle natural conversation, art, humor
and motion with courtesy, restraint of manners and contemplation of action. 


We suggest these rotating 10-12 sites: 
The Queen Mary, Long Beach CA;  NASA Space Center, Houston;San Fransisco, New
York (UN related cities);Washington DC; Moscow, Russia: Paris, (UNESCO HQ);
Toronto, Canada; (Bejing, Sidney, Tokyo, Bombay-two or all of these). 
       Site    Total

Self introductions-    1 min.   10 min.  

Brainstorming by youth and particpants on relationship of this interactive technology
to environmental concerns.    2 min.   20 min.   The combination of reflection and
action will lead to creative insights of possible applications for this cutting-edge
technology to local and global problem solving. 

Rank ordering of brainstorming results.  Three of those that look the most promising by
consensus will recieve additional time.     6 min 

Presentations of consensus picks 3 sites x 3 min    9  min.

Music, games, reading, poetry,       15 min.
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End of the 1st hour

Meeting with Russian-American Crew on the Space Ship Mir.  Mir to NASA Space Center,
Houston, to The Queen Mary talking live to cosmonauts and astronaut. Participants in
other sites are observing and contributing by voice, internet and other means.  10 min. 

General Discussion:
Messages from important public figures in arts, science, spiritual and public life
about their evaluations of our time in history.  Youth ask them questions about their
own destiny and rights in the time of the global interactive revolution.       20 min.

General Discussion:
New global rituals and ceremonies as a tool to create a sustainble life of interactive
communities.    15 min.

Fun and games         15 min.
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End of the 2nd hour


"Message to Sarajevo" gives floor to Zlata Filipovic, author of Zlata's Diary, A
Child's life in Sarajevo. and to Dr. Federico Mayor, Director General of UNESCO.
Theme: "How to bring light to Sarajevo?" 
Bringing interactive library to Sarajevo, and healing conflicts between people with
new interactive channels of communication.       5 min.

Technicians and business executives joining them to confirm that they are interested
in building interactive channels for Interactive Library and Interactive Plaza in
Sarajevo. They suggest it could be completed in a month or two with public support
of youth and adults. 10 min.

Rotate to each site for commitments.   1.5 min.  15 min.

Open forum for models, plans, and visions of peaceful sustainable future (with pictures, 
drawingings and other visual forms).   15 min.

Arrangements for next Global Tea Party to commemorate the UN 50th annivrsary,
10 min including new interactive surprises.

What is to be done, to make Earth Day Global Tea Party a new ritual? Actions, invitations,
proposals and deadlines.   5 min.

Network MCI with HQ in Virginia will produce interactive sketches of particpants and
faxing drawings to the sites during all three hours of the Earth Day Global Tea Party.
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End of the third  hour

Three hours of rotated live interactions, between 10 sites, became possible
through the grant of the MCI Telecomunications Corp. and support of other sponsors.

Script Outline of 3/29/95 by Joseph Goldin and Roger Erickson on board The 
Queen Mary.

- Daniel Duerr - Baseline Records
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