Senate Hearing on Brian Nieves' Agenda 21 Bill (SB265)
Channel: Progress Missouri
Date: 2013-03-08

Background here: 
http://www.newstribune.com/news/2013/mar/07/nieves-and-dozen-witnesses-stop-agenda-21/

A dozen Missourians told a state Senate committee Tuesday that they should pass a bill to prevent the state, county, city and other government bodies from doing anything that supports the United Nations' "Agenda 21."

Sen. Brian Nieves, R-Washington, told fellow members of the state Senate's General Laws Committee that "Agenda 21" is an international effort to give governments more control of land, at the expense of private property owners.

The U.N. says it's a non-binding, voluntarily implemented action plan intended to help combat poverty in developing countries and maintain worldwide natural resources so they last longer.

The United States was among the nations signing on to the policy in 1992.

Nieves gave committee members a booklet, "Sustainable Development or Sustainable Freedom?" which said the plan has its roots in a 1972 U.N. Conference on the Environment.

And by 1976, that booklet said, the U.N.'s "blueprint for comprehensive land use planning" because "private land ownership is also a principal instrument of accumulation and concentration of wealth and therefore contributes to social injustice."