1998AWAKE PUBLISHED FOR UNITED NATIONS CONSUMPTION

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MadApostate

SPECIAL AWAKE ISSUE PUBLISHED FOR UNITED NATIONS
A few months back Dino posted this link:
. http://www.unhchr.ch/udhr/materials/articles.htm
This long page showed:
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A Long Job Finished
English, Chinese, French, German, Greek, Japanese
Awake; 22 November 1998; p. 3-5; Watchtower Bible and Tract Society, Inc., 25 Columbia Heights, Brooklyn, NY 11201-2483, USA
http://www.watchtower.org/
Commemoration of the signing of the UDHR and the role of Eleanor Roosevelt
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That page actually links from this page:
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Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Worldwide Collection of UDHR Materials
This section presents OHCHR's worldwide collection of materials on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), including various resources developed by governmental and non-governmental organizations both on the occasion of the Declaration's 50th Anniversary (1998) and prior to/after the Anniversary year. The collection is unique in the world and comprises more than 400 items and includes:
printed material (such as books, books for children, books in braille, newsletters, pamphlets, calendars, articles, photographs, posters, campaigns and documents, etc.), multimedia material (including audio cassette recordings in various national and local languages, CD-ROMs, videotapes and documentaries on the UDHR) and a broad array of souvenirs (bookmarks, key chains, magnets, stamps, pins, postcards, stickers, etc.).
The establishment of this collection - a selection of which is permanently displayed at OHCHR's Headquarters in Geneva - is a contribution to the global dissemination of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, as envisaged in the Plan of Action of the United Nations Decade for Human Rights Education (1995-2004).
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NOW FOR MY POINT!!!
Although the archiving of this article by UNHCHR was briefly discussed, with Hawkaw indicating that he would try to obtain any cover letter that might have accompanied the article (which I can't recall the outcome),
I DON'T RECALL ANYONE EVEN BOTHERING TO POST THE ARTICLE, MUCH LESS DISCUSSING THE ENTIRE AWAKE ISSUE, WHICH WAS OBVIOUSLY PUBLISHED FOR UNITED NATIONS CONSUMPTION. (Please post link(s) if my memory is failing.)
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The FRONT COVER is a collage of 7 photos of people of different racial/ethnic groups from around the world, with the title of the issue:

WILL THERE EVER BE
HUMAN RIGHTS
FOR ALL?
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The INSIDE Front Cover, top half, is also a similar collage. The bottom half is the "index of issue articles", with 2 Articles "specially featured". (More on these later.)
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The feature article is the UNHCHR archived article:
A "LONG JOB FINISHED"
Pages 3-4 is the text, with page 4 including a quarter-page box titled, "What Are Human Rights?"
Page 5 contains a fullpage box entitled, "The Universal Declaration Of Human Rights", featuring a large photo of UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan.
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Pages 6 and 7 feature a one-on-one interview with UN Headquarters Chief Liason for OHCHR, with page 7 including a 2/3 page box titled, "The International Bill Of Human Rights", pasted over a large photo of the UN buildings and emblem.
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Pages 8-11 feature the article, "Human Rights and Wrongs Today", which is a listing of some of the rights in the UDHR, with "evidence" that such rights are NOT being met around the world.
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Pages 11-14 feature the article, "Human Rights For All--A Worldwide Reality", which is a PROMO for the WTS's "worldwide literacy program", as well as AN EXTREMELY TONED-DOWN VERSION of its end-times theology.
Pages 13 and 14 each feature a halfpage box titled, "The Source Of Human Rights", and "Education For Peace".
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SO, THE ENTIRE FIRST HALF OF THIS ISSUE HAS BEEN A DEMONSTRATION OF HOW CLOSELY THE WATCHTOWER SOCIETY AND ITS ACTIVITIES INTERELATE TO THE UNITED NATIONS AND ITS WORK!

Now, what about those 2 Articles "specially featured" on the Inside Front Cover?
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The first of the two appears on pages 19-22, and is titled, "The Edict of Nantes--A Charter for Tolerance?".
Is this article UNRELATED to the theme of this Issue, like the preceding "Lake Victoria" article, or the following "YPA" article?
Well, the title of the halfpage box covering pages 20-21 should anwer that question:
"Religious Freedom In France Today"
Coincidence that this "issue" appears in this AWAKE? I don't think so.
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Now, the second "specially featured" article appears on pages 26-27. Its title is "Russian Judical Chamber Vindicates Jehovah's Witnesses".
Coincidence that this "issue" appears in this AWAKE? I don't think so.
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"Watching The World" includes an article quoting UNESCO re "Water Crisis", as well as one titled "Blood Seminar In Bulgaria".
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"From Our Readers" includes "feedback" on previous articles re "Russian Press", "Family Resists Nazis", and "Racial Pride" (equality).
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First, does anyone dispute that this AWAKE Issue was "put together" for United Nations consumption?
Second, DOES NOT this well demonstrate what I have been telling everyone all along that UN-NGO status was "Step One" in a well thought out strategy to attack "preaching restrictions" all around the globe, which later included appearances at numerous Conferences, Hearings, etc., "association" with numerous HR Groups around the globe, and even taking advantage of the Holocaust to send WTS Reps out to do PR work with unsuspecting groups interested in this topic.
It would be nice if someone who possesses 1998/9 KMs would scour through such to see if there is any mention of this AWAKE and any "special campaign".
hawkaw

For references - this URL links up with the page that has the Awake! article from the UDHR world-wide collection as well as a small note from UDHR..
The UDHR has indicated they do no have any letter that shows how the Awake! document got in the collection but they did receive lot of stuff from DPI.
. http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/forum/thread.asp?id=17361&site=3
hawk
p.s. - the ISP has been having problems lately so you may not see the article depending on what is going on with them
MadApostate

Thanks for posting that link Hawkaw. Evidently that thread was posted at a time when I was extremely busy, because I had forgotten it, assuming I even seen it.
HOWEVER, even though that thread does make some mention of the UN articles, THE ARTICLES RE THE WTS's PROBLEMS IN RUSSIA AND FRANCE WERE NOT DISCUSSED, NOR WAS THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE ARTICLE AS A WHOLE DISCUSSED
NOW FOR A BIGGIE!!!
All AWAKE readers know that practically all issues contain FEEDBACK re previous articles in the "FROM OUR READERS" section.
I'm not going to spoil it for the other researchers here, so fast-forward to later AWAKE issues and take a gander at the FEEDBACK re all the pertinent articles in this issue (UN, Human Rights, Russia, France, etc.)
WAIT!!! Before you LOOK, make a prediction whether JW READERS were "shocked" or "fully supportive" of this "new light position" re the UNITED NATIONS.
hawkaw

Rats,
I didn't find any comments from the readers in the 1999 Awake!s on those UN articles for the Nov 22, 1998. In the Jul 22/99 issue there was something about the Youths without Parents. Then in the Aug 8/99 edition there is something about the Washing hands article and then Children prefer simple pleasures.
I must not be looking properly. Can you give me a hint?
hawk
MadApostate

Hawkaw:
Maybe we should take our discussion to private email so as to not bother everyone else with this nonsense.
OH WELL.
I'm really beginning to doubt your research skills. :)
You mean to tell me that out of all the HUMAN RIGHTS THEME ARTICLES, including those re the WTS's problems in Russia and France, that all the FEEDBACK for this ISSUE that you could find were 4 LETTERS regarding the "Young People Ask" article, 1 LETTER re the short "Washing Hands" article, and 1 LETTER re one of the "Watching the World" blurps?
Surely, you are missing all the FEEDBACK regarding ALL THE REALLY IMPORTANT ARTICLES FROM THAT ISSUE?
hawkaw

Email launched - finally - my ISP and Email is having problems today.
hawk
NameWithheld

MadApostate, I don't have access to those articles - I'd love to know what the feedback was (If any - did the JWs even wake up enough from their brain-deadness to realize that a Pro-UN article had just slipped through their fingers?)
Dino

Hey MA! Thanks for posting this.
I am absolutely swamped with business right now and dont mistake my silence for apathy.
This post in conjunction with your other thread dealing with the smoking gun of the excluded sentence (you know the one) really set my alarm bells off in a way I had not fully considered before.
I intend to peruse the content of these posts and go back to the Awake bound volumes this weekend. When I have my thoughts in a row I will attempt to forward them to you via Hawk without compromising our respective identities.
Thanks again,
Dino
NameWithheld

In a semi-related manner - is there anyone here that would lend a fellow a new WT CD ISO file? I cannot obtain the newest vesion, and my old 95 version doesn't run under Win2K ...
I know we went round about this a day or 2 ago ...
MadApostate

Dino:
My "private email" remark was facetious in light of the post made a couple days ago on the other thread about how UN threads were pushing the "fluff" off page 1.
I think that this week has shown that there is still more to be uncovered on this issue if we go back over our tracks.
I don't have the 1998/9 KMs, so I'm hoping someone who does will parse them for any references to this AWAKE issue.
I get the feeling that this issue caused a "stir" at HQ, as well as with those r&f who actually know to watch the fine points of WTS Pubs.
This AWAKE may have been the very first WTS Pub which contained any significant amount of UN content, which did NOT also include an unmistakable (to the JW audience) concluding condemnation of the UN.
It would be great if someone with the cdrom would post all the UN articles, as well as the ones re Russia and France.
Name: Any research you can do on this issue would be appreciated.

1998AWAKE PUBLISHED FOR UNITED NATIONS CONSUMPTION

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