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the Global Community  Doug Everingham Dr. Doug Everingham dnevrghm@powerup.com.au ISPO’s Officer and NC for Australia ISPO Governance Taskforce The International Simultaneous Policy Organisation (ISPO) www.simpol.org info@simpol.org  Simultaneous Policy (SP) Former Labor Health Minister and Australian NC for ISPO
 Doug was born in 1923. He has retired from family and hospital medical practice and federal politics. He led or joined several peace groups, was Minister for Health 1972-75, West Pacific regional Vice-President of the 1975 WHO Assembly, represented Australia and New Zealand at the 1982 meeting of International Physicians for Prevention of Nuclear War, and spoke against apartheid at the 1982 UN General Assembly as parliamentary adviser to the Australian delegation. In 1999-2000 he was appointed by the Foreign Affairs and Trade Minister to the National Consultative Committee on Peace and Disarmament.Much of Doug's time is spent digesting, relaying and responding to e-mails concerning world governance and simplified English as a world language. He has three children and seven grandchildren.  for Discussion Roundtables 3, 4, 13, 16, 23, and 27 Participating in Global Dialogue 2005 issues with the theme being The Global Constitution.
Participating in the development of the Global Constitution. The second draft of the Global Constitution is found at: http://globalcommunitywebnet.com/GlobalConstitution/draftofgc.htm
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Dear Germain Dufour and Earth Government members: I welcome your ideals for a just and peaceful world. Sadly, I see your coomitment as rather committed to belief and trust in a single God, which will alienate some world citizens of goodwill without such religious affiliation, or in extreme cases repelled by their impressions or experiences of holy war and bogtry afflicting many Christian and other monoteistic communities.. Confucianists, Buddhists and Hindus are not committed to monotheism and many inhabitants of what is still called 'Christendom' are declared freethinkers, secular humanists, agnostics or atheists. Among them are great numbers of world citizens who express and practice goodwill equally towards people of dogmatic faiths and towards unbelievers. I therefore commend to you that your group indicate a similar tolerance rather than commending to us God's soul or the divine will. Such declaration of a supreme being may serve the highest ethics for some, but for others by repute or personal experience implies submission to infallible holy writ, still a potent cause of intercultural intolerance and war. I therefore urge you to join with other non-denominational groups aiming to establish global justice with separation of democratic governance and religion. Such groups include the Global People's Assembly network www.ourvoices.org , and the International Simultaneous Policy Organization www.simpol.org. I think the most effective outcomes for this forum might be consolidating the separate registries of world citizens * John Bunzl, President, ISPO adopters * Troy Davis' World Citizen Foundation * Philip Isely, Secretary General, World Constitution and Parliament Association * Garry Davis, President, World Government of World Citizens * Douglas Mattern , president, Association of World Citizens (AWC), * The Global People's Assembly Movement * Germain Dufour President Earth Community Organization (ECO) Interim Earth Government * One World Trust * separate World Federal Governmentg promoting organizations * -- etc. I hope many in this forum will urge these groups to * recognize and cooperate with each other * exchanging contact lists or requesting permission of all members to include them in a list identified by a statement upon which all can agree, such as: "We accept an obligation and declare a right for equally sovereign world citizens to develop a peaceful, just and sustainable world order with care for biological and social diversity". FOR OVER 40 YEARS I'VE JOINED NUMBERS OF SUCH ORGANIZATIONS BUT HAVE NEVER PERSUADED THEM TO GIVE THIS UNIFYING PROJECT ANY PRIORITY. I ASK ALL MEMBERS HERE TO DECLARE "WHEN I VOTE FOR ANYONE IN A WORLD CITIZENSHIP MOVEMENT TO REPRESENT ME, MY VOTE WILL FAVOR ONE WHO SEEKS UNIFICATION OF GLOBAL CITIZEN REGISTRIES." If multiple minorities of aware world citizens cannot agree on the first prinmciple of world citizenship, how can we expect the vast majority of less aware citizens to take us seriously or join us in pursuing the objectives we share? ------------- ** Title: What can we do? ** By: Germà PELAYO ... My question to all of you is: what can we do, from now on? ... b) what do we want to do, or what can we do, at a global scale?. .. one party?, one movement?... several things at the same time (party, network, association, center of studies, consultancy, etc.) in order to expect one or some of them to be consolidated and pushing the raising of the others? c) should we build a program? (e.g. a list with some points like eliminating poverty, weapons of massive destruction, requiring the universal income, adopting the simultaneous politics, etc.) or should we focus our message in only promoting the Parliament and global democracy? ... The more answers received, the better. ... ... enumerate and to classify the answers already sent to Troy's message: - pro or against the idea of Global Party; - the different names of the * party * raised and how many people have supported them; - to try to assemble the different arguments (more difficult) etc. ... Dear Germain Dufour, Your proclamation of the Earth Government is not the first I have seen. At the initial UN General Assembly proceedings were interrupted by Garry Davis proclaiming himself World Citizen #1. He renounced his US citizenship and runs the World Government of World Citizens (WGWC) which administers the World Service Authority, issuing passports and other documents to stateless persons and others who might otherwise be deported or interned in every country previously open to them. I think this is a function that must be included in our Earth Government (EG), and would appreciate details of how the EG has attempted to relate constructively with WGWC. The son of Garry Davis, Troy Davis, GPA (the Global People's Assembly network, I have 2 suggestions for redrafting your statement of principles. 1. Seeing that governments representing much more than 51% of humanity have signed Universal Declarations of rights, I think you should replace your aim of replacing the Universal Declaration of Human Rights with your Scale of Human and Earth Rights, and instead propose a broadening of all existing universal declarations. 2. I think your specific commitment to a Divine will and realtionship to God as an essential part of your government policy should be reworded to include an alternative secular ethical view with commitment to nature, the human family and each person's private and personal faith, if any, in a Higher Power or other ethical principal. It is not certain that 51% of humans would prefer theism, which is not an essential part of the life philosophy of Buddhism, Confucianism, secular ethical Humanism and some of the world's great humanitarians. Sincerely Doug Everingham
Subject: Re: Press release: The greatest lesson that the United Nations will need to learn in the coming years
Date: Sun, 6 Nov 2005 11:55:03 +1000 From: Doug Everingham To: Global Dialogue 2006 CC: gdufour@globalcommunitywebnet.com, EarthstaRadio@aol.com, gmartin@radford.edu, randits@vinet.lk, gpaforum@yahoogroups.com, troy_davis@yahoo.com, wcparliament@uswest.net, nicholas.dunlop@e-parl.net, jesper.grolin@e-parl.net President, Global Community Parliament Dear Germain, I agree largely but not entirely with your Press release below. I note that in the Constitution of GCEG posted on your web site besides myself you list among GCEG (Global Community Earth Government) Advisers several supporters and promoters of the CFE (Constitution for Federation of Earth) developed by WCPA (World Constitution and Parliament Association), e.g. Dr. Terence P. Amerasinghe and Dr. Glen Martin. I did not find in your web site any reference to the WCPA or CFE which they and I have supported. I could therefore not support the GCEG while it contains the following claim: ===== Chapter XXVII Article 1: Founding Members of the Global Community and Earth Government Earth Government was first thought out by the Founding Members of the Global Community. The Global Community organization was first discussed in a report on global changes published in 1990 by Germain Dufour. ===== I hope you will acknowledge the decades of extensive discussion, conferences and statute compilations of WCPA involving hundreds of affiliated groups with thousands of members producing a CFE. www.wcpa.biz, http://www.w-g.jp/wgi/wcpa-constitution.htm#article11, http://www.worldparliamentgov.net/constitution.html, http://www.wcpa.biz/english/legislation/world_legislative_statutes_contents.htm I hope your GCEG will converge toward consensus with the WCPA and incidentally produce a much more compact Constitution -- your current draft is marred and interrupted by copious repetition and many pages of exhortation to citizens and policy makers, detailed statistical analyses and other background material. As an Adviser of GCEG I would like to see other changes in the posted Constitution. In particular: I propose that the following three sentences be deleted from the Preamble: ==== The Global Community has taken action by calling the Divine Will into our lives and following its guidance. Divine Will is now a part of the Soul of Humanity to be used for the higher purpose of good and Life's evolution. We will learn to serve humanity and radiate the Will of God to others. ==== My reasons: 1. The first sentence presumes that a majority of people have an image of a God who guides us to do his/her will. This may be true but is irrelevant to the ethical basis of legal governance. 2. The second sentence presumes that humanity's progress towards a common good is inseparable from the will of God. This may be a well-intentioned assertion but has no place in a secular regime reconciling theists with unbelievers and doubters of good will. 3. The third sentence presumes that the writer(s) are further developed than non-believers in learning to serve humanity by illuminating to all God's will. This presumption may encourage an elitist cult -- it tends to excuse intolerant fundamentalism, more notably among theocracies than among the more humanistic ethical systems of Confucius and Buddha. If consensus can be reached on this "separation of church and state" issue I would want to similar revision of other parts of the document referring to religion before giving support to your Constitution. If that disqualifies me from continuing as an Adviser of GCEG I would be grateful for your advice accordingly. -- Doug Everingham === Relayed by Doug Everingham === From: Global Dialogue 2006 Date: Tue Nov 1, 2005 1:53:33 AM Australia/Brisbane Subject: Press release: The greatest lesson that the United Nations will need to learn in the coming years Attachments: There is 1 attachment Press release: The greatest lesson that the United Nations will need to learn in the coming years Press release by Global Community Earth Government (GCEG). http://globalcommunitywebnet.com/GlobalConstitution/ October 27, 2005 Press Release is found at http://globalcommunitywebnet.com/global06/pressreleases.htm
Subject: Re: [Worldcitizen-l] Moving forward
Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2005 11:45:15 +1000 From: Doug Everingham To: simpolicies-general@yahoogroups.com, wcparliament@uswest, GPAforum@yahoogroups.com, Fellow protocitizens, I can't think of any term more appropriate than Richard Mochelle's "protocitizen" to stimulate unpresumptuous constructive thought about evolving world democracy. So I think it may help combine our voices if all groups who seek willing commitment of most of humanity to a fairer and more foresightful world community just acknowledge that we welcome protocitizenship -- involvement of more and more people in constituting a transparent and accountable world order based on rights and responsibilities. Let's acknowledge that there are many tracks up this mountain, including WCPA's Constitution for Federation of Earth, Garry Davis's World Service Authority and Germain Dufour's Global Constitution -- for no-one has a monopoly of raising a beacon on the hill. --- Doug Everingham === From: "Richard Mochelle" Date: Mon Nov 7, 2005 11:38:20 AM Australia/Brisbane To: Subject: Re: [Worldcitizen-l] Moving forward Reply-To: Richard Mochelle Dear friends, I applaud the initiative here to galvanise the thoughts and activities of world citizens. However, to move forward and upward on this new mountain-climbing path, I'd like to propose a small but sophisticated step at this early coalescing stage, before this loose network concretises yet another world citizen website. The proposal is that we refer to ourselves not as world citizens but as world protocitizens. (proto = original, first) Protocitizenship is a role/responsibility prior to citizenship, prior to the constitution that defines what a citizen is. Protocitizens are the constitution makers. They build the forums necessary to facilitate the constitution making process. Protocitizens seek to participate in constitution making in order to constitute themselves as 'citizens' (or some other name) with constitutionally agreed rights and responsibilities. Aristotle was the first to undertake a comparative constitutional study. He studied multiple states in order to compare governance systems and to understand what it is that constitutes a citizen. His answer remains relevant. A citizen cannot be defined apart from the state to which he belongs. Generically, however, a citizen is (and has historically been) a protective member of a state (a protectorate), a soldier-in-waiting, a contributor to the defence and mutual security of a sovereign state. This traditional understanding persists as a solid premise in contemporary political theory and practice. The meaning of citizenship derives from a long history that needs to be understood. In view of this history, I feel very hesitant about the appropriation of the term citizen given that a global polis that does not yet exist. As yet there is no properly constituted world governance regime in which world citizens are members having certain well defined and agreed upon rights and protective responsibilities. In the absence of such system, anyone who wishes may blithely refer to themselves as world citizens, including, as Richard Falk points out, world-trotting corporate execs without any sense of global responsibility. Who are we to say that they are not really world citizens? Of course they are free to call themselves whatever names they want, as are we. But in so doing we may reveal our historical ignorance and political illiteracy. Moving forward and upward on our learning path, we are likely to gain more respect from and attract the politically sophisticated, if we quit referring to ourselves as world citizens, and adopt a term such as protocitizenship which connotes the vitally important, protective role/responsibility of constitution forum building and constitutional deliberation. sincerely, Dr. Richard Mochelle ----- Original Message ----- From: jllortega To: worldcitizen-l@wikicities.com Sent: Monday, November 07, 2005 2:05 AM Subject: [Worldcitizen-l] Moving forward Dear friends, After my resignation as president of the Consultative Assembly of the Peoples' Congress, I feel it is time to move forward with the project of the Community of World Citizens. Let's then remember what the CWC is about. The CWC is intended first of all to be a comprehensive database of world citizen activists. Its members may come to it directly to it on its own initiative, or be directed there from already existent organizations associated with the CWC. The idea is that all individual members, as well as all organizations associated, can interact within the CWC in a many-to-many basis. This means each member being able to contact each other individually, or any sub-set of members, especially those pertaining to a specific organization, to a working group, etc. The aggregated list is bigger than any single organization's, but members or each organization or working group are still able to communicate just among them. This should prove a win-win situation for all, since it is advantageous to the mundialist movement, which has a bigger database of members, and to to the organizations associated, which can take profit of it while keeping contact with their own members when necessary. Until now, the Community of World Citizens has had as resources a very simple database and the wiki site (remember, now changed to http://cwc.editme.com). However, I think we must turn more professional and that means creating an actual online community of world citizens through a convenient management system, even it it has some additional cost. Only this way will the potential benefits of the CWC project be fulfilled. I have been looking around to many potential software for online communities or membership management, but I still don't seem to find exactly what I am looking for. I would like thus to ask for the help of the more technically oriented members of the CWC. Specifically, does anyone know of a system that: • Allows visitors to join as members of the CWC • Allows existent member to change their data, but nobody else's • Allows for custom definition of the fields on the member's database • Allows for definition of categories of members, such as organizations they belong to, working groups they are engaged with, etc. • Allows members to send messages to all other members, or just to members from any category, or just to members that meet some criteria. Ideally, this should be possible either though ordinary email or though aninternal message board • Includes some sections for news, events, file sharing, etc. • If necessary, allows for payment of annual fees and tracks when individual periods end for each member and new fees are due As soon as we have such a system operational, we will be able to more fully function as online community and we will be able to more convincingly invite organizations to associate with the CWC and individuals to join it. Nevertheless, I urge each current member of the CWC to actively pursue new memberships and to all of you who already belong to a mundialist organization to press it for association with the CWC. In this sense, there are two new developments worth mentioning. First, the CWC and a new organization, Sapiens ( http://www.sapiens.org.nz/), will start to act within the CWC conceptual and organizational framework presently. I will inform youmore fully about this in a few days. Also, there has been some talking with the Coalition for a World Parliament and World Democracy to this same end.I will keep you informed. Regards, Josep _______________________________________ WorldCitizen-l mailing list WorldCitizen-l@wikicities.com http://lists.wikicities.com/mailman/listinfo/worldcitizen-l _______________________________________________ Mailing list for http://worldcitizen.wikicities.com/ Unsubscribe and edit options at http://lists.wikicities.com/mailman/listinfo/worldcitizen-l
Subject: Re: [Worldcitizen-l] Proposal for a Peoples Global Action Campaign at Global Symposium
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 15:14:25 +1000 From: Doug Everingham To: robineagle@worldcitizen.org CC: johnw@simsoc.org, WorldCitizen-l@wikicities.com, globalcommunity@telus.net, netcfs@shaw.ca, issues@globalproblematique.net I agree with this approach. -- Doug Everingham === From: robineagle@worldcitizen.org Date: Sat Oct 8, 2005 3:49:27 AM Australia/Brisbane To: wpct@yahoogroups.com, WorldCitizen-l@wikicities.com Cc: Subject: [Worldcitizen-l] Proposal for a Peoples Global Action Campaign at Global Symposium Dear Friends, I am writing to you about the conversation that Josep started at the beginning of summer about creating an initiative to support the adoption of a group of Global Proposals or Initiatives. I am planning to attend the Global Symposium in Lucknow India in December. I have thus submitted a number of Proposals for Workshops and that could be supported by civil society. One of these would be for a Peoples Global Action Campaign to support such a platform of Global Proposals or Initiatives. I am including the proposal I submitted below; however let me also explain how I think that this could work and why it would be advantageous for the World Democracy movement to organize, support, and develop it. As I mentioned earlier, I am still very interested in working on the initiative on global action proposals that was suggested by Josep. It seems to me that we could start the initiative with a small group of people who would develop a structure and processes for the project – thus a Global Policy Board. Initially we could start by endorsing and putting forward a significant number of proposals but only beginning to work on a small manageable number of them, while at the same time developing a framework that would include, over time, all of the primary global issue areas. In the beginning the decisions as to which proposals we would support could be made by those participating in the Global Symposium, by the Alliance of World Citizens and SimPol as a whole, or at least by those people among us who are interested in this. Thus at first all of us could consider and deal with all of the proposals, but over time we could develop separate working groups and processes to deal with each of the different primary issue areas (or what Marie has called Communities of Ideas). However, it may also be possible to begin to create working groups to deal with each of the issue areas during the Global Symposium. We could include both initiatives and proposals that we could support and begin to work on right now; and also others that would not be enacted until they are adopted by a group or all of the governments at once (the SimPol model). The initial role of the Global Policy Board would thus be to put in place a framework that could welcome and include many more people and organizations as we go along. Thus moving toward engaging the leading NGOs that are active within each issue area. In terms of specific proposals that we could start with, ASCOP has already focused on the establishment of a Global Environment Agency (which has already been endorsed by 40 countries) along with an initiative to make war illegal. The UN has also passed hundreds of international agreements and treaties and additional support is needed to ensure that all of these are signed and ratified by all countries. There are also proposals that are relevant to processes that are currently underway in the international arena, such as for an International Sustainable Energy Agency or related to the Millennium Summit +5 process, etc. SimPol also has its own list of proposals that are worth considering. In addition UBUNTU and Reclaim Our UN have put forward a series of proposals that would greatly strengthen and democratize the UN and our other global institutions. And I believe it is essential that we promote various means of establishing a World Parliament and/or other means of strengthening the international rule of law. These then could provide a list of proposals to draw from as we initially put forward a limited number of proposals to further develop and support. While I think it would be fine to try to develop support for these initiatives or proposals in one country or region at first, this must indeed be a global initiative and our supporters and interested organizations will in fact come from all around the world. Thus we also need to create the means to develop the initiative around the world. However, with the internet this should not be too hard to do, especially if we are able to make the needed arrangements for translations. We could thus start wherever we have a significant number of people or activists as well as interest and support for the particular initiatives among the people, organizations, parties, and government officials. Thus we could start this project by finding five or ten people that are qualified and that are willing to serve on the Global Policy Board. Their first task would be to develop or agree on a framework for how the initiative would work – drawing from the proposal made by Josep and the resulting discussion that took place. Then we could make a listing of the initial proposals that are being considered. After this we could develop criteria for considering which proposals we might want to start with; and then agree on a process for selecting the initial set of proposals that we will support. Then the second step would be to determine and develop the specific means that we want to use to promote and support the various proposals. If we are careful about selecting the right initiatives or proposals, then I think that we will find that there are plenty of people and organizations that will want to work on them. I also think that it will be just as important to build public awareness and support for these initiatives as it will be to develop this with parliamentarians, because it is public pressure or interest that largely determines the extent to which politicians are willing to embrace various initiatives. In addition specific public relations campaigns will definitely be needed if we want to be able to accomplish anything significant. In the US we were not able to pass the Nuclear Freeze Initiative, pay our UN Dues on time, or pass many important environmental laws during the past 15 or 20 years, even though more than 2/3rds of the people supported these things. Thus, very careful strategic action and planning is often needed to accomplish ones goals. Finally there are other groups and initiatives that we could work with and through which we could greatly advance this initiative. This would thus include the Alliance for a Responsible, Plural and United World (which has organized quite a number of sectoral and regional working groups and which published 60 proposal booklets in 2001); the World Social Forum (which began to experiment with processes of thematic collaboration this past year and holds regional forums around the world); UN NGO Networks of which there are many focusing on various issue areas at the UN; the e-Parliament project which works with sitting Parliamentarians to address crucial global issues; Earth Action Network – which is a network of more than 2000 organizations that support various Educational Advocacy Campaigns that are endorsed by the Network; and the UBUNTU Forum of Civil Society Networks – focusing on the Reform of the UN and other International Institutions. As we go forward we would need to set up drafting teams to work on proposals in each issue area, along with a means to debate and refine such proposals. In time we could also develop such teams and working groups in each region and for each issue area around the world. One of the most important reasons for organizing this initiative however would be to build support for the efforts to create a democratic and participatory means of global governance and a binding and enforceable international rule of law. As each year passes it becomes more and more obvious that the UN is still not up to the task of seriously addressing our most urgent global problems. Thus by endorsing and working on these initiatives, we could make the point that if we were to create a World Parliament and to establish an International Rule of Law, it could then work on and adopt these various proposals. And in fact those people and organizations that support these proposals would have every reason to support the development of a World Parliament if the world’s governments continue to be slow at adopting, funding, and implementing the global proposals and initiatives that we put forward. Well there you have it. I look forward to reading what you think of this. What follows is the summary of Josep from last June following our discussion and after that the Proposal I submitted for the Global Symposium. Sincerely, Rob Wheeler 1-717-264-5036 ------------------------------ Josep’s message from June: I am back from my weekend, and after reading the many messages dealing with my original new proposal, I would first of all thank you for your contributions. I am glad I can no longer consider it my proposal, but our proposal. Still, I will try to summarize what has been said in a way that allows for further refining and facilitates presentation to others. I apologize if someone feels I have left something out. Please correct me or refer to what is missing, and I will try to include it in the next summary. The idea is to create a Global Policy Board (1), whose aim would be : 1. to identify selected proposals that we think are needed to make progress toward global justice, sustainability and global democratic governance 2. establish some mechanism for agreeing on which initiatives we would want to develop and support (2) 3. contact their original proponents or authors who can convert them into actual policy proposals and offer support on the ensuing discussion 4. collect the names and email addresses of as many parliamentarians from every level of government and as many countries as possible. However, it is not necessary to strive for comprehensiveness, which is probably impossible to achieve. 5. write letters presenting concrete proposals 6. translate them into as many languages as we can as a group 7. create and maintain a multilingual wiki site for gathering information and results on each proposal. 8. post the letter at the wiki, asking for signatures and sending it to any organizations or individuals we think can endorse it. Collecting and publishing the signatures. 9. send the letter to any group of parliamentarians we have data about. Ask them if wish to endorse the proposal either as it is or framed on the basis of the Simultaneous Policy conceptualization. At this moment, the exact structure and wording of questions need further elaboration 10. also ask if they allow their names to be published as endorsers, want to be further contacted with news about this particular proposal, about other proposals. Collecting and publishing the endorsements. 11. keep track of progress made: other and new forwardings, endorsements, signatures, new translations, events, articles, books, etc., but most specially parliamentarian actions, discussions, and votes. 12. update the wiki and create a news letter on each proposal that can be sent to all endorsers (parliamentarians) and signatories to keep them informed of developments. 13. use the wikis and other open resources for mutual collaborative work on each proposal, or using the e-parliament structure and resources when available. Now for the novelties in round two: (1) The Global Policy Board is specifically a structure envisioned within the Simultaneous Policy Organization to do more or less what I proposed in the first place, without knowing of it. So John believes we should avoid competing among ourselves and proposes that we act under the ISPO umbrella. This way, if we, and any other number of non-ISPO organizations proceeded in this way, ISPO could focus on the "SP Political Process" function of getting citizens around the world to adopt SP and, with that pressure, to encourage more and more politicians of all parties to do so too. Let's make this very clear for the sake of discussion and approval. We are being asked to work as the ISPO Global Board Policy, even while each organization continues working on their other tasks and activities. I will make my position clear. I support working as the ISPO Global Policy Board, because it is an establish project with a firm projection and brand name already well known. We endorsed the SP some time ago, so this should not perhaps be problematic, but of course the point is here for discussion. (2) As Rob reminds us of, the mechanism for decision making must be worked out, and I wonder if John has some suggestions to make in this respect. My idea would be to take every proposal though a process including: - Original proposal by any member of the Global Policy Board sent to a Research Writer who then posts the proposal on the Wiki and starts a discussion forum. Each Board member is notified when a new forum is begun though the email list. - Only Board members can start forums and vote. However the general public can watch and participate in the discussion. During this discussion period, members and public can give their opinions and facts to be included in the possible options. The findings are compiled and presented by the Research Writer in the form of a Research Report. - After the Research Report is presented, the proposal is put to a vote. Every member of the Board can vote on and individual basis. If organizations are present in the GPB (this has not been discussed yet) I would suggest they should provide a certain level of consent to be approved (see http://www.sociocracy.biz/). - Once a vote has been tallied the decision is sent to all members and posted on the wiki or other website. The the process of contacting parliamentarians starts. (3) There are two particular organization I would like to endorse and work on this proposal: the Consultative Assembly of the Peoples' Congress and the Peoples' Congress (of which I am president). Rob expresses well that the Peoples' Congress could adopt the proposals as a part of a peoples agenda or platform to show the types of program proposals and action plans that an elected World Parliament could pass. I think Liliane said she could present the proposal in a near meeting of the WCR. (4) One note about Spain. I choosed Spain as example because I am familiar with its many levels of government. But I think that if we decide to go on, first thing to do would be to collect data on parliamentarians from several different countries. I would say we should have at least data on two countries to make a good start. This I think is the current state of the proposal, as should be discussed from now on or presented to other organizations. There are many points to think about, but I think we are making good progress. However, it all depends on some of us being willing to work. I would ask from every member of the list, and specially of any one contributing to this discussion whether he/she would be willing to actually work if other members simultaneously do the same. Best regards Josep ----------------------------- Proposal for a Peoples Global Action Campaign C1: Grass-roots Movements and W2: Democratic World Government Workshop and Plenary Presentation There are many global problems that are still not being seriously, or at least adequately, dealt with by our national governments and intergovernmental organizations. There is thus a huge opportunity for the Global Democracy movement to develop a listing of global proposals that we can support and work for AND once a World Parliament is created that it would address. One of the most productive things that we could do to raise public awareness and interest in World Democracy, would be to organize an active campaign to support the various proposals for dealing with our global problems - which will come out of the Global Symposium. Thus I am asking the organizers of the Global Symposium to lay the groundwork for this proposal before the Global Symposium even starts and to organize the symposium in such a way that it will support the development of such a campaign. First, the Global Proposals should be posted on the CMS and/or another website, along with a web forum where we can discuss each of the proposals and with a means to rank or indicate the degree to which we would support each of them. The discussion forum could also include a place to make suggestions for strategy development, how each of the proposals could be adopted and implemented, to report on progress made to date, to ask for the help that is needed, and to list how one can participate. Then during the Global Symposium we could schedule specific sessions to discuss and create action/strategy plans both for the overall Campaign and for each of the individual proposals. We should also focus on developing specific plans for how we can work together to ensure that each of the proposals will over time be adopted and implemented. I can provide an outline and make suggestions as to how these sessions could be structured, facilitated, and organized if that would be helpful. Thus one of our objectives could be to develop a Global Policy Board (or other such coordinating body) and a process to promote and work for the adoption and development of this platform of Global Proposals or Peoples Agenda. We could invite Simultaneous Policy, the Coalition for a World Parliament & Global Democracy, the World Citizen Alliance, and City Montessori School to help in designing and carrying out this process both before and after the Global Symposium. It was mentioned to me that CMS is planning to publish and distribute a booklet of the Global Proposals. Thus the booklet could also tell people how they can support both individual proposals and the overall campaign. We should work with the Alliance for a Responsible, Plural, and United World; the World Social Forum; UBUNTU; etc in order to develop Working Groups or Activist Communities that would further develop, support, and create strategies to encourage the adoption and implementation for each of the primary issue areas and the global proposals contained therein. The development of this campaign would lead directly to an outcome from the Conference that the participating organizations can support and promote for years to come. It will provide substantive proposals that a World Parliament and Global Democracy can work for and that will draw the interest and support of the world’s people. _______________________________________________ WorldCitizen-l mailing list WorldCitizen-l@wikicities.com http://lists.wikicities.com/mailman/listinfo/worldcitizen-l
Subject: Re: To Doug Everingham from Germain
Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2005 11:49:22 +1000 From: Doug Everingham To: Global Dialogue 2005 CC: humanist@topica.com, ERANet@yahoogroups.com.au, Germain Dufour, Thank you for your message of Jun 27, 2005 ============ [GD:] From: Global Dialogue 2005 To: humanist@topica.com, dnevrghm@powerup.com.au, ERANet@yahoogroups.com.au Subject: To Doug Everingham from Germain with 1 attachment Doug Everingham, Thank you for your recommendations concerning the preamble of the Global Constitution. I agree with you that we should not mix religion with politic for proper Earth governance, and that governance must be based on ethics more than on spirituality or religion. Your ideas have been added as recommendations to the Global Constitution. The new Preamble as you suggested is found at: http://globalcommunitywebnet.com/GlobalConstitution/draftgc.htm ==== [DE:] I copy the last-metioned web page thus and insert ***COMMENTS: -- ======== [GD:] Recommendations concerning the Preamble of the Global Constitution received from Doug Everingham on Thursday, June 9th 2005. dnevrghm@powerup.com.au See Doug Everingham file for Papers and participation in several issues. Preamble ***/// (as proposed by Doug Everingham) /// ==== ***COMMENT: -- [DE:] This takes account of my main suggestions, but I would not wish this version to be attributed to me unless changes are made as below, where I've enclosed my suggested deletions within /// ... /// marks and proposed additions within ++ ... ++ marks: ======== The peoples of all Nations, in creating an ever closer Earth Government among them, are resolved to share a peaceful future based on common values. Conscious of its ***/// spiritual /// ++ cultural ++ and moral heritage, Earth Government is founded on the indivisible, universal values of human dignity, freedom, equality and solidarity; it is based on the principles of democracy and the rule of law. It places ***/// the individual /// ++ individual and collective human rights and respect for our natural environment ++ at the heart of its activities, by establishing the Global Community citizenship of Earth Government and by creating an era of freedom, security and justice. Earth Government contributes to the preservation and to the development of these common values while respecting the diversity of the cultures and traditions of the peoples of all Nations as well as the national identities of Member Nations and the organisation of their public authorities at national, regional and local levels; it seeks to promote balanced and sustainable development and ensures ***///free/// ++fairly regulated ++ movement of persons, goods, services and capital, and the freedom of establishment ***++, association, expression, communication and access to information ++. ///To this end, it is necessary to strengthen the protection of fundamental rights in the light of changes in society, social progress and scientific and technological developments by making those rights more visible in this Constitution./// The Global Constitution reaffirms, with due regard for the powers and tasks of Earth Government and the principle of subsidiarity, the rights as they ***/// result, in particular, from /// ++ are defined from time to time by ++ the constitutional traditions and international obligations common to Member Nations, the Scale of Social Values, or Scale of Human and Earth Rights, adopted by Earth Government and by the Global Council of all Nations and the case law of the Earth Court of Justice of Earth Government and of the Global Court of Human and Earth Rights. Enjoyment of these rights entails responsibilities and duties with regard to other persons, to the human community and to future generations. Earth Government therefore recognises the rights, freedoms and principles set out hereafter. We the Peoples of the Global Community are reaffirming faith in the fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person, in the equal rights of men and women and of nations large and smalll. We the Peoples implies every individual on Earth. Earth management and good governance is now a priority and a duty of every responsible person on Earth. We will establish conditions under which justice and respect for the obligations arising from treaties and other sources of international law can be maintained, and ***/// we/// ++will ++ promote social progress and better standards of life in larger freedom. The ethical belief, universal values, principles and aspirations of the Global Community will be attained by: * practicing tolerance and living together in peace and harmony with one another as neighbours, * promoting the economic and social advancement of all peoples, * maintaining peace and security in the world by using negotiations and peaceful means, * finding unity in diversity with all Life, * establishing the respect for the life-support system of the planet, * keeping Earth healthy, productive and hospitable for all people and living things, and * applying the principle that when there is a need to find a solution to a problem or a concern, a sound solution would be to choose a measure or conduct an action, if possible, which causes reversible damage as opposed to a measure or an action causing an irreversible loss. Realizing that: * the Global Community today has come to a turning point in history, and that we are on the threshold of new global order leading to an era of peace, prosperity, justice and harmony; * there is an interdependence of people, nations and all life; * humanity's abuse of science and technology has brought the Global Community to the brink of disaster through the production of weaponry of mass destruction and to the brink of ecological and social catastrophe; * the traditional concept of security through military defense is a total illusion both for the present and for future generations; * misery and conflicts has caused an ever increasing disparity between rich and poor; * we, as Peoples, are conscious of our obligation to posterity to save the Global Community from imminent and total annihilation; * the Global Community is One despite the existence of diverse nations, races, creeds, ideologies and cultures, * the principle of unity in diversity is the basis for a new age when war shall be outlawed and peace prevail; when the earth's total resources shall be equitably used for human welfare; and when basic human and Earth rights, responsibilities and accountabilities shall be shared by all without discrimination; and * the greatest hope for the survival of life on Earth is the establishment of a democratic Earth Government. We, citizens of the Global Community, hereby resolve to establish a federation of all nations, Earth Government, to govern in accordance with this Global Constitution. The purposes of Earth Government for the Global Community are to: 1. maintain international peace and security in conformity with the principles of justice and global law; 2. promote friendly relations among nations, individuals and communities based on: * respect for the principle of equal rights and self-determination of Peoples; and * symbiotical relationships; 3. promote global co-operation to: * find sound solutions to economic, social, cultural, humanitarian, local and global community problems; and * establish respect for human and Earth rights and for fundamental freedoms for all without distinction as to race, sex, language, or religion. 4. be a home and a global community centre to all nations, people and local communities and help them harmonize their actions to achieve their common goals. 5. promote worldwide *** ++ development of consensus about, and ++ awareness of ***++ this provisional Constitution including: a) the "Beliefs, Values, Principles and Aspirations" of Earth Government, which constitute the Preamble and Chapter 1 to Chapter 10 inclusive; b) global symbiotical relationships amongst people, institutions, cities, provinces and nations of the world, and between Earth Government and all nations, and in the business sector, which constitute Chapters 20.23 and 23.3.2; c) global societal sustainability, which constitutes Chapter 4.4 of this Constitution; d) good Earth governance and management, which constitute Chapter 6.3.2 of this Constitution; e) the Scale of Human and Earth Rights, which constitutes Chapter 10 of this Constitution; f) the Statement of Rights, Responsibilities and Accountabilities of a Person and of the Global Community, which constitutes Chapter 6.3 of this Constitution; g) the Criteria to obtain the Global Community Citizenship, which constitutes Chapters 6.1 and 6.2 of this Constitution; h) consistency between the different policies and activities of Earth Government, which constitutes Chapter 15 of this Constitution; and i) a global market without borders in which the ***/// free /// ++fairly regulated ++ movement of goods, persons, services and capitals is ensured in accordance with this Constitution, which constitutes Chapter 16 of this Constitution; j) ***/// the /// new ways of doing business in the world, ***/// which constitute /// ++ such as those suggested in ++Article 17, Chapter 6, Article 94, and Chapters 16 and 17; k) the Celebration of Life Day on May 26 of each year, which constitutes Chapter 20.7 of this Constitution; l) the finding of an Earth flag, which constitutes Chapter 20.8 of this Constitution; m) the ECO Award, which constitutes Chapter 20.9 of this Constitution; n) the Portal of the Global Community, which constitutes Chapter 20.10 of this Constitution; and o) the concept of a Global Dialogue, which constitutes Chapter 20.11 of this Constitution. Earth Government shall reinforce humanity's new vision of the world throughout the millennium. Humanity's new vision of the world is about seeing human activities on the planet through: a) the Scale of Human and Earth Rights; b) the Statement of Rights, Responsibilities and Accountabilities of a person and the Global Community; and c) building global symbiotical relationships between people, institutions, cities, provinces and nations of the world. ***/// For the first time in human history, and the first time this millennium, humanity has proposed a benchmark:/// ++ This will involve: ++ [COMMENT: This is NOT the first democratic world constitution proposal in history. At least 3 other groups are pursuing this goal and all should co-ordinate, co-operate and eventually merge. -- D E ] * formation of global ministries in all important aspects of our lives * getting ride of corruption at all levels of government * the establishment of Global Police to fight against the growing threat to the security of all Peoples, and to fight against global crimes * the Scale of Human and Earth Rights as a ***/// replacement to /// ++ development of ++ the Universal Declaration of Human Rights * Statement of Rights, Responsibilities and Accountabilities of a person belonging to 'a global community' and to 'the Global Community' * an evolved global democracy based on the Scale of Human and Earth Rights and the Global Constitution * a central organization for Earth management, the restoration of the planet and Earth governance: the Global Community Assessment Centre (GCAC) * the Earth Court of Justice to deal with all aspects of governance and management of the Earth * a new impetus given to the way of doing business and trade * more new, diversified (geographical, economical, political, social, business, religious) symbiotical relationships between nations, communities, businesses, for the good and well-being of all * proposal to reform the United Nations, NATO, World Trade Organization, World Bank, IMF, E.U., NAFTA, FTAA, and to centralize them under Earth Government, and these organizations will be asked to pay a global tax to be administered by Earth Government * the Peace Movement of the Global Community and shelving of the war industry from humanity * a global regulatory framework for capitals, including equitable participation of all stake holders (suppliers, investors, employees, clients and monitoring groups) in ownership and control of group enterprises and their networks, and corporations that emphasizes global corporate ethics, corporate social responsibility, protection of human and Earth rights, the environment, community and family aspects, safe working conditions, fair wages and sustainable consumption aspects * the ruling by the Earth Court of Justice of the abolishment of the debt of the poor or developing nations as it is really a form of global tax to be paid annually by the rich or industrialized nations to the developing nations * establishing freshwater and clean air as primordial human rights Send comments about website to webmaster at gdufour@globalcommunitywebnet.com Copyright © 2005 Global Community WebNet Ltd. ===== [GD:] Please do verify the corrections were made correctly. For any new changes in the Global Constitution you could just send us the modified copy, and I will post it for you. You need only to underline the changes you made from the actual posted draft. Your file has been updated to include your new comments and recommendations. Please verify at: http://globalcommunitywebnet.com/gdufour/2004WorkEveringhamrom.htm ======= [DE:] I copy here the last-mentioned web site text: ======== [GD:] Leaders [ the Global Community ] [ Global Dialogue ] Earth Community Organization (ECO) the Global Community Doug Everingham dnevrghm@powerup.com.au for Discussion Roundtables 3, 4, 13, 16, 23, and 27 Dear Germain Dufour and Earth Government members: I welcome your ideals for a just and peaceful world. Sadly, I see your coomitment as rather committed to belief and trust in a single God, which will alienate some world citizens of goodwill without such religious affiliation, or in extreme cases repelled by their impressions or experiences of holy war and bogtry afflicting many Christian and other monoteistic communities.. Confucianists, Buddhists and Hindus are not committed to monotheism and many inhabitants of what is still called 'Christendom' are declared freethinkers, secular humanists, agnostics or atheists. Among them are great numbers of world citizens who express and practice goodwill equally towards people of dogmatic faiths and towards unbelievers. I therefore commend to you that your group indicate a similar tolerance rather than commending to us God's soul or the divine will. Such declaration of a supreme being may serve the highest ethics for some, but for others by repute or personal experience implies submission to infallible holy writ, still a potent cause of intercultural intolerance and war. I therefore urge you to join with other non-denominational groups aiming to establish global justice with separation of democratic governance and religion. Such groups include the Global People's Assembly network www.ourvoices.org , and the International Simultaneous Policy Organization www.simpol.org. I think the most effective outcomes for this forum might be consolidating the separate registries of world citizens * John Bunzl, President, ISPO adopters , * Troy Davis' World Citizen Foundation , * Philip Isely, Secretary General, World Constitution and Parliament Association , or , , * Garry Davis, President, World Government of World Citizens , * Douglas Mattern , president, Association of World Citizens (AWC), , * The Global People's Assembly Movement , * Germain Dufour President Earth Community Organization (ECO) , , and Interim Earth Government , , ,, , * One World Trust * separate World Federal Governmentg promoting organizations * -- etc. I hope many in this forum will urge these groups to * recognize and cooperate with each other * exchanging contact lists or requesting permission of all members to include them in a list identified by a statement upon which all can agree, such as: "We accept an obligation and declare a right for equally sovereign world citizens to develop a peaceful, just and sustainable world order with care for biological and social diversity". FOR OVER 40 YEARS I'VE JOINED NUMBERS OF SUCH ORGANIZATIONS BUT HAVE NEVER PERSUADED THEM TO GIVE THIS UNIFYING PROJECT ANY PRIORITY. I ASK ALL MEMBERS HERE TO DECLARE "WHEN I VOTE FOR ANYONE IN A WORLD CITIZENSHIP MOVEMENT TO REPRESENT ME, MY VOTE WILL FAVOR ONE WHO SEEKS UNIFICATION OF GLOBAL CITIZEN REGISTRIES." If multiple minorities of aware world citizens cannot agree on the first prinmciple of world citizenship, how can we expect the vast majority of less aware citizens to take us seriously or join us in pursuing the objectives we share? ------------- ** Title: What can we do? ** By: Germà PELAYO ... My question to all of you is: what can we do, from now on? ... b) what do we want to do, or what can we do, at a global scale?. .. one party?, one movement?... several things at the same time (party, network, association, center of studies, consultancy, etc.) in order to expect one or some of them to be consolidated and pushing the raising of the others? c) should we build a program? (e.g. a list with some points like eliminating poverty, weapons of massive destruction, requiring the universal income, adopting the simultaneous politics, etc.) or should we focus our message in only promoting the Parliament and global democracy? ... The more answers received, the better. ... ... enumerate and to classify the answers already sent to Troy's message: - pro or against the idea of Global Party; - the different names of the * party * raised and how many people have supported them; - to try to assemble the different arguments (more difficult) etc. ... Dear Germain Dufour, Your proclamation of the Earth Government is not the first I have seen. At the initial UN General Assembly proceedings were interrupted by Garry Davis proclaiming himself World Citizen #1. He renounced his US citizenship and runs the World Government of World Citizens (WGWC) which administers the World Service Authority, issuing passports and other documents to stateless persons and others who might otherwise be deported or interned in every country previously open to them. I think this is a function that must be included in our Earth Government (EG), and would appreciate details of how the EG has attempted to relate constructively with WGWC. The son of Garry Davis, Troy Davis, , has taken over one of the WGWC functions which sadly seems to be run separately, the Registry of World Citizens pledged to support a global democracy and vote for its parliament. Troy administers the World Citizen Foundation and has declared his support for the World Constitution and Parliament Association (WCPA), which has had several global conferences on different continents over decades, attracting hundreds of delgates representing millions of NGO members and producing a Constitution for Federation of Earth (CFE) much more detailed than your statement copied below. I would consider your proclamation of EG stillborn if it did not attempt a merger, affiliation or dialogue with a view to merger, with WCPA. GPA (the Global People's Assembly network, I have 2 suggestions for redrafting your statement of principles. 1. Seeing that governments representing much more than 51% of humanity have signed Universal Declarations of rights, I think you should replace your aim of replacing the Universal Declaration of Human Rights with your Scale of Human and Earth Rights, and instead propose a broadening of all existing universal declarations. 2. I think your specific commitment to a Divine will and realtionship to God as an essential part of your government policy should be reworded to include an alternative secular ethical view with commitment to nature, the human family and each person's private and personal faith, if any, in a Higher Power or other ethical principal. It is not certain that 51% of humans would prefer theism, which is not an essential part of the life philosophy of Buddhism, Confucianism, secular ethical Humanism and some of the world's great humanitarians. Sincerely Doug Everingham [GD:] Several Global Dialogue 2005 issues were found to relate to your work and were added as well with proper links. So I added your info to those issues of Global Dialogue 2005. We would very much appreciate more information to add to your file.. You will probably be nominated for the ECO Award this coming month of August. Awards will be given during Global Dialogue 2005. If you know someone who could nominate you please do so now. There are several categories listed you could qualify but you can be given only one Award. Check last year recipients of the Award at http://globalcommunitywebnet.com/global06/listofrecipients.htm ======== [DE:] I feel this file is already copious and repetitive so will not raise new issues here. I would be honored to receive an ECO award but solicit no nomination and instead recommend the following to receive such an award : Troy Davis, Président, Association de soutien à l'Ecole de la Démocratie, www.worldparliamentgov.net , Garry Davis, Coordinator, World Government of World Citizens, www.worldservice.org John Bunzl, President, International Simultaneous Policy Organization, www.simpol.org , Josep Lluis Nortega, World Citizens Consultative Assembly, http://ascop.editme.com/wglist , Chris Hamer, President, World Citizens Assembly (Australia), http://www.iso100.net.au/wcaa , Rob Wheeler, Global People's Assembly Movement, www.ourvoices.org Susan Zipp, Global People's Assembly Movement, www.ourvoices.org Best wishes for a convergence of world democracy movements, -- Doug Everingham ======== [GD:] Germain Germain Dufour President Global Community Earth Government http://globalcommunitywebnet.com/GlobalConstitution/ Dear Germain Dufour and Earth Government members: I welcome your ideals for a just and peaceful world. Sadly, I see your coomitment as rather committed to belief and trust in a single God, which will alienate some world citizens of goodwill without such religious affiliation, or in extreme cases repelled by their impressions or experiences of holy war and bogtry afflicting many Christian and other monoteistic communities.. Confucianists, Buddhists and Hindus are not committed to monotheism and many inhabitants of what is still called 'Christendom' are declared freethinkers, secular humanists, agnostics or atheists. Among them are great numbers of world citizens who express and practice goodwill equally towards people of dogmatic faiths and towards unbelievers. I therefore commend to you that your group indicate a similar tolerance rather than commending to us God's soul or the divine will. Such declaration of a supreme being may serve the highest ethics for some, but for others by repute or personal experience implies submission to infallible holy writ, still a potent cause of intercultural intolerance and war. I therefore urge you to join with other non-denominational groups aiming to establish global justice with separation of democratic governance and religion. Such groups include the Global People's Assembly network www.ourvoices.org , and the International Simultaneous Policy Organization www.simpol.org. I think the most effective outcomes for this forum might be consolidating the separate registries of world citizens * John Bunzl, President, ISPO adopters , * Troy Davis' World Citizen Foundation , * Philip Isely, Secretary General, World Constitution and Parliament Association , or , , * Garry Davis, President, World Government of World Citizens , * Douglas Mattern , president, Association of World Citizens (AWC), , * The Global People's Assembly Movement , * Germain Dufour President Earth Community Organization (ECO) , * One World Trust * separate World Federal Governmentg promoting organizations * -- etc. I hope many in this forum will urge these groups to * recognize and cooperate with each other * exchanging contact lists or requesting permission of all members to include them in a list identified by a statement upon which all can agree, such as: "We accept an obligation and declare a right for equally sovereign world citizens to develop a peaceful, just and sustainable world order with care for biological and social diversity". FOR OVER 40 YEARS I'VE JOINED NUMBERS OF SUCH ORGANIZATIONS BUT HAVE NEVER PERSUADED THEM TO GIVE THIS UNIFYING PROJECT ANY PRIORITY. I ASK ALL MEMBERS HERE TO DECLARE "WHEN I VOTE FOR ANYONE IN A WORLD CITIZENSHIP MOVEMENT TO REPRESENT ME, MY VOTE WILL FAVOR ONE WHO SEEKS UNIFICATION OF GLOBAL CITIZEN REGISTRIES." If multiple minorities of aware world citizens cannot agree on the first prinmciple of world citizenship, how can we expect the vast majority of less aware citizens to take us seriously or join us in pursuing the objectives we share? ------------- ** Title: What can we do? ** By: Germà PELAYO ... My question to all of you is: what can we do, from now on? ... b) what do we want to do, or what can we do, at a global scale?. .. one party?, one movement?... several things at the same time (party, network, association, center of studies, consultancy, etc.) in order to expect one or some of them to be consolidated and pushing the raising of the others? c) should we build a program? (e.g. a list with some points like eliminating poverty, weapons of massive destruction, requiring the universal income, adopting the simultaneous politics, etc.) or should we focus our message in only promoting the Parliament and global democracy? ... The more answers received, the better. ... ... enumerate and to classify the answers already sent to Troy's message: - pro or against the idea of Global Party; - the different names of the * party * raised and how many people have supported them; - to try to assemble the different arguments (more difficult) etc. ... Dear Germain Dufour, Your proclamation of the Earth Government is not the first I have seen. At the initial UN General Assembly proceedings were interrupted by Garry Davis proclaiming himself World Citizen #1. He renounced his US citizenship and runs the World Government of World Citizens (WGWC) which administers the World Service Authority, issuing passports and other documents to stateless persons and others who might otherwise be deported or interned in every country previously open to them. I think this is a function that must be included in our Earth Government (EG), and would appreciate details of how the EG has attempted to relate constructively with WGWC. The son of Garry Davis, Troy Davis, , has taken over one of the WGWC functions which sadly seems to be run separately, the Registry of World Citizens pledged to support a global democracy and vote for its parliament. Troy administers the World Citizen Foundation and has declared his support for the World Constitution and Parliament Association (WCPA), which has had several global conferences on different continents over decades, attracting hundreds of delgates representing millions of NGO members and producing a Constitution for Federation of Earth (CFE) much more detailed than your statement copied below. I would consider your proclamation of EG stillborn if it did not attempt a merger, affiliation or dialogue with a view to merger, with WCPA. GPA (the Global People's Assembly network, I have 2 suggestions for redrafting your statement of principles. 1. Seeing that governments representing much more than 51% of humanity have signed Universal Declarations of rights, I think you should replace your aim of replacing the Universal Declaration of Human Rights with your Scale of Human and Earth Rights, and instead propose a broadening of all existing universal declarations. 2. I think your specific commitment to a Divine will and realtionship to God as an essential part of your government policy should be reworded to include an alternative secular ethical view with commitment to nature, the human family and each person's private and personal faith, if any, in a Higher Power or other ethical principal. It is not certain that 51% of humans would prefer theism, which is not an essential part of the life philosophy of Buddhism, Confucianism, secular ethical Humanism and some of the world's great humanitarians. Sincerely Doug Everingham
Subject: Doug Everingham's suggested changes to Global Constitution Preamble
Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2005 15:07:43 +1000 From: Doug Everingham To: GlobalConstitution@telus.net CC: humanist@topica.com, ERANet@yahoogroups.com.au To the Global Community Global Dialogue 2005 http://globalcommunitywebnet.com/GlobalConstitution/draftofgc.htm http://globalcommunitywebnet.com/GlobalConstitution/egindex.htm ** In GREEN suggested additions / amendments, in RED ** suggested deletions and comments by Doug Everingham Preamble The peoples of all Nations, in creating an ever closer Earth Government among them, are resolved to share a peaceful future based on common values. Conscious of its spiritual and moral heritage, Earth Government is founded on the indivisible, universal values of human dignity, freedom, equality and solidarity; it is based on the principles of democracy and the rule of law. It places the individual at the heart of its activities, by establishing the Global Community citizenship of Earth Government and by creating an era of freedom, security and justice. Earth Government contributes to the preservation and to the development of these common values while respecting the diversity of the cultures and traditions of the peoples of all Nations as well as the national identities of Member Nations and the organisation of their public authorities at national, regional and local levels; it seeks to promote balanced and sustainable development and ensures free movement of persons, goods, services and capital, and the freedom of establishment. To this end, it is necessary to strengthen the protection of fundamental rights in the light of changes in society, social progress and scientific and technological developments by making those rights more visible in this Constitution. The Global Constitution reaffirms, with due regard for the powers and tasks of Earth Government and the principle of subsidiarity, the rights as they result, in particular, from the constitutional traditions and international obligations common to Member Nations, the Scale of Social Values, or Scale of Human and Earth Rights, adopted by Earth Government and by the Global Council of all Nations and the case law of the Earth Court of Justice of Earth Government and of the Global Court of Human and Earth Rights. Enjoyment of these rights entails responsibilities and duties with regard to other persons, to the human community and to future generations. Earth Government therefore recognises the rights, freedoms and principles set out hereafter. We the Peoples of the Global Community are reaffirming faith in the fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person, in the equal rights of men and women and of nations large and smalll. We the Peoples implies every individual on Earth. Earth management and good governance is now a priority and a duty of every responsible person on Earth. The Global Community **has taken action by calling the Divine Will into our lives and following its guidance. Divine Will is now a part of the Soul of Humanity to be used for the higher purpose of good and Life's evolution. We will learn to serve humanity and radiate the Will of God to others. ** recognizes the wisdom in Nature that transcends human reason and is seen by some as Divine, evolving towards a common Ethics of Humanity in solidarity with others. COMMENT: A significant and growing proportion of humanity shares with founders of the Constitution of the USA a wish to separate supernatural or religious belief from government. We should avoid the divisions (including warfare) that arise when lawmakers or communities claim to act according to Divine Will as they define, interpret or understand it. Agnostics, atheists and religionists alike have no exclusive good or bad capacities and histories. Many less religious people, while accepting that humans are spiritual beings (in the sense of having aesthetic, ethical and cultural values that seek multicultural consensus and tolerance), nevertheless prefer to avoid professing belief in a personal Soul that some believe existed long before earthly birth and continues after bodily death in superhuman form. Similarly many prefer "ethical / cultural" to describe humanity's common ideals rather than "spiritual" which for many has supernatural connotations. This Preamble seems to exclude secular systems of belief. Some such amendment as I have suggested should be accepted to include world citizens of all harmonious belief systems. -- DE ** We will establish conditions under which justice and respect for the obligations arising from treaties and other sources of international law can be maintained, and we promote social progress and better standards of life in larger freedom. The ** spiritual ** ** ethical ** [** See above COMMENT ** ] belief, universal values, principles and aspirations of the Global Community will be attained by: * practicing tolerance and living together in peace and harmony with one another as neighbours, * promoting the economic and social advancement of all peoples, * maintaining peace and security in the world by using negotiations and peaceful means, * finding unity in diversity with all Life, * establishing the respect for the life-support system of the planet, * keeping Earth healthy, productive and hospitable for all people and living things, and * applying the principle that when there is a need to find a solution to a problem or a concern, a sound solution would be to choose a measure or conduct an action, if possible, which causes reversible damage as opposed to a measure or an action causing an irreversible loss. Realizing that: * the Global Community today has come to a turning point in history, and that we are on the threshold of new global order leading to an era of peace, prosperity, justice and harmony; * there is an interdependence of people, nations and all life; * humanity's abuse of science and technology has brought the Global Community to the brink of disaster through the production of weaponry of mass destruction and to the brink of ecological and social catastrophe; * the traditional concept of security through military defense is a total illusion both for the present and for future generations; * misery and conflicts has caused an ever increasing disparity between rich and poor; * we, as Peoples, are conscious of our obligation to posterity to save the Global Community from imminent and total annihilation; * the Global Community is One despite the existence of diverse nations, races, creeds, ideologies and cultures, * the principle of unity in diversity is the basis for a new age when war shall be outlawed and peace prevail; when the earth's total resources shall be equitably used for human welfare; and when basic human and Earth rights, responsibilities and accountabilities shall be shared by all without discrimination; and * the greatest hope for the survival of life on Earth is the establishment of a democratic Earth Government. We, citizens of the Global Community, hereby resolve to establish a federation of all nations, Earth Government, to govern in accordance with this Global Constitution. The purposes of Earth Government for the Global Community are to: 1. maintain international peace and security in conformity with the principles of justice and global law; 2. promote friendly relations among nations, individuals and communities based on: * respect for the principle of equal rights and self-determination of Peoples; and * symbiotical relationships; 3. promote global co-operation to: * find sound solutions to economic, social, cultural, humanitarian, local and global community problems; and * establish respect for human and Earth rights and for fundamental freedoms for all without distinction as to race, sex, language, or religion. 4. be a home and a global community centre to all nations, people and local communities and help them harmonize their actions to achieve their common goals. 5. promote worldwide awareness of: a) the "Beliefs, Values, Principles and Aspirations" of Earth Government, which constitute the Preamble and Chapter 1 to Chapter 10 inclusive; b) global symbiotical relationships amongst people, institutions, cities, provinces and nations of the world, and between Earth Government and all nations, and in the business sector, which constitute Chapters 20.23 and 23.3.2; c) global societal sustainability, which constitutes Chapter 4.4 of this Constitution; d) good Earth governance and management, which constitute Chapter 6.3.2 of this Constitution; e) the Scale of Human and Earth Rights, which constitutes Chapter 10 of this Constitution; f) the Statement of Rights, Responsibilities and Accountabilities of a Person and of the Global Community, which constitutes Chapter 6.3 of this Constitution; g) the Criteria to obtain the Global Community Citizenship, which constitutes Chapters 6.1 and 6.2 of this Constitution; h) consistency between the different policies and activities of Earth Government, which constitutes Chapter 15 of this Constitution; and i) a global market without borders in which the free movement of goods, persons, services and capitals is ensured in accordance with this Constitution, which constitutes Chapter 16 of this Constitution; j) the new ways of doing business in the world, which constitute Article 17, Chapter 6, Article 94, and Chapters 16 and 17; k) the Celebration of Life Day on May 26 of each year, which constitutes Chapter 20.7 of this Constitution; l) the finding of an Earth flag, which constitutes Chapter 20.8 of this Constitution; m) the ECO Award, which constitutes Chapter 20.9 of this Constitution; n) the Portal of the Global Community, which constitutes Chapter 20.10 of this Constitution; and o) the concept of a Global Dialogue, which constitutes Chapter 20.11 of this Constitution. Earth Government shall reinforce humanity's new vision of the world throughout the millennium. Humanity's new vision of the world is about seeing human activities on the planet through: a) the Scale of Human and Earth Rights; b) the Statement of Rights, Responsibilities and Accountabilities of a person and the Global Community; and c) building global symbiotical relationships between people, institutions, cities, provinces and nations of the world. For the first time in human history, and the first time this millennium, humanity has proposed a benchmark: * formation of global ministries in all important aspects of our lives * getting ride of corruption at all levels of government * the establishment of Global Police to fight against the growing threat to the security of all Peoples, and to fight against global crimes * the Scale of Human and Earth Rights as a replacement to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights * Statement of Rights, Responsibilities and Accountabilities of a person belonging to 'a global community' and to 'the Global Community' * an evolved global democracy based on the Scale of Human and Earth Rights and the Global Constitution * a central organization for Earth management, the restoration of the planet and Earth governance: the Global Community Assessment Centre (GCAC) * the Earth Court of Justice to deal with all aspects of governance and management of the Earth * a new impetus given to the way of doing business and trade * more new, diversified (geographical, economical, political, social, business, religious) symbiotical relationships between nations, communities, businesses, for the good and well-being of all * proposal to reform the United Nations, NATO, World Trade Organization, World Bank, IMF, E.U., NAFTA, FTAA, and to centralize them under Earth Government, and these organizations will be asked to pay a global tax to be administered by Earth Government * the Peace Movement of the Global Community and shelving of the war industry from humanity * a global regulatory framework for capitals ** and corporations that emphasizes global corporate ethics, corporate social responsibility, protection of human and Earth rights, the environment, community and family aspects, safe working conditions, fair wages and sustainable consumption aspects ** including equitable participation of all stake holders (suppliers, investors, employees, clients and monitoring groups) in ownership and control of group enterprises and their networks. ** ** COMMENT: The Sociocratic Center http://www.sociocracy.biz and writings of Shann Turnbull PhD, Principal, International Institute for Self-governance http://ssrn.com/author=26239 explain examples of the democratizing and facilitating aspects of involving stake holders and networking in private and public enterprises, -- DE ** * the ruling by the Earth Court of Justice of the abolishment of the debt of the poor or developing nations as it is really a form of global tax to be paid annually by the rich or industrialized nations to the developing nations * establishing freshwater and clean air as primordial human rights
Subject: Re: Peace message from the Global Citizens Peace Movement
Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2006 13:24:30 +1000 From: Doug Everingham To: globalcommunity@telus.net This message was bounced from yalahanetwork.org-newsupdate-request@yalahanetwork.org, Dagmar@worldpeace.de, worldlaw@surfglobal.net, worldcit@googlegroups.com, wuped@cmseducation.org, info.uk@worldfuturecouncil.org, wilpf@wilpf.org, witlot@tlen.pl, william.truscott@homecall.co.uk, william.truscott@homecall.co.uk, wcparliament@uswest.net, universal-peace-embassy@hotmail.com, universalalliance.org@tinyworld.co.uk, info@universelles-leben.org, TrusteeOne@aol.com, worldharmony@westnet.com.au, tranet@rangeley.org, timothyas@comcast.net, thompson@iaewp.org, twnet@po.jaring.my, tatomir@usa.com, surya@spidernet.com.cy, sri@nrg.com.au, Sociocracy@aol.com, silentminute@iname.com, shishir@cmseducation.org, info@childrensembassy.org.mk, sabine@3dmetrics.co.uk, roth77@wanadoo.fr, Rodney.Shakespeare1@btopenworld.com, robert.mulliss@nhs.net, ring-of-power@sabine-lichtenfels.de, ren@holisticharmony.com, rbrooks@dcs.wisc.edu, racarbonell@edsamail.com.ph, office@positivenews.org.uk, pope@science-art.com.au, pmartin@ngs.org, peterchallen@gmail.com, p.a.white@ukgateway.net, senseadventures@yahoo.com.au, paul@kalgrove.com, optubrookiana@xtra.co.nz, oneworldcamp@hotmail.com, robineagle@worldcitizen.org, office@globalmarshallplan.org, nzaniyep@yahoo.com, nigven@yahoo.com, "nicole.kronfeld@gmx.net" nicole.kronfeld@gmx.net, newgaia.network@virgin.net, mgold@homeplanet.org, mercieca@knology.net, info@loveandlight.co.uk, london@lucistrust.org, ljd@iipt.org, lindamadani@hotmail.com, Lightparty@aol.com, lanayang@comcast.net, infoalba@lgpt.net, kuirtzinstitute@abcglobal.net, kim.thomas20@ntlworld.com, keane@nw.com.au, jvilsgaardp@msn.com, john@courtneidgeassociates.com, ranney@att.net, epmarseille@europarl.eu.int, ionesov@mail.ru, postbox@mail.ipu.org, info@thepeacealliance.org, info@pilion.org, info@peaceoneday.org, info@peaceandprogress.org, info@mysticfayre.co.uk, info@demilitarisation.org, info@che.ac.uk, hwbecker@thelovefoundation.com, hstone@rochester.rr.com, hoh@inter.net.il, art4harp@yahoo.com, h-raanan@zahav.net.il, govt_rules@yahoo.com, gmartin@radford.edu, gendenburg@sociocratie.nl, gangchen@micronet.it, felix@clubofamsterdam.com, fce@evolve.org, fabienne_gim@yahoo.co.uk, elfeuro@compuserve.com, yohr@ukrpost.net, jacobyw@chc.edu, EdElkin@aol.com, c.rielly@snhu.edu, dierk.tietze@web.de, diana.basterfield@ministryforpeace.org.uk, diana@metronet.co.uk, diana.basterfield@ministryforpeace.org, sooriuk@yahoo.com, cveziau@sympatico.ca, countrystyle@mail.infochan.com, chauyen@gispi.com, c4webmaster@itn.co.uk , because none of the recipienTs was recognized. --D.E. ============================== Dear friends of Germain Dufour, I've thanked Germain for the Global Community Earth Government Below is the response I sent with ... extracts ... from his message marked "PM:" and my comments inserted starting with "DE:" Yours for unity in a fragmented world. -- Doug Everingham "SimPol" www.simpol.org provisional co-ordinator for Queensland, Australia. ========================== PM: Global Community Earth Government (GCEG) congratulates volunteers ... promoting peace by actually walking the street with signs and showing an admirable solidarity against the war in Iraq. ... ... The best way to win the war against terrorism is to live a life with principles and showing by example... educate the coming generations with good principles... The Preamble and the first few Chapters of the Global Constitution ... define ... those principles. All religions are required to conduct positive actions for peace, join the Global Citizens Peace Movement, and re-examine scriptures, precepts, practices, ethical and moral values in light of ecological concerns... ... DE: I feel uneasy about declaring all religions "required" to join a Movement with a name bearing Capital Initial Letters. I think "urged" would be fairer. Do you really mean "required" to join a less formal coalition of advocates of peace, morality and ecological concern? Being "required" may suggest to some people of good will that the Movement requires all religion adherents to join formally something like GCEG with a Global Constitution. That may help our common aims, but there are a number of similarly worthy world governance proposals (some of them in your list of Cc addressees which I'm coping here), some spending thousands of person-years refining global constitutions, recruiting and/or registering adherents, some of them joining more than one such group, doubtless including many GCPM and GCEG members . Let's also "urge" (not require) them to affiliate or merge with GCEG. ... PM: . ... We are conscientious objectors, "nonresistants". That word comes from Jesus, opposing the use of violence: "Ye have heard that it hath been said, an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth: but I say unto you, that ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also.".... In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus develops the ethic of nonviolence and love of the enemies. Early Christians were probably the first individuals to renounce participation in war unconditionally. "Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God." And he told Peter, "All they that take the sword shall perish with the sword." Christ has taught us to show mercy, to forgive enemies, to put up patiently with oppression, to return only good for evil and love for hatred and, therefore, war is inconsistent with the Spirit of Jesus Christ. This shows that a Christian should take no part in war, never, in any way. ... God prohibits killing, and no exception at all ought to be made to the commandment that it is always wrong to kill. The sanctity of human life is unconditional. A short while ago God, Allah, has spoken to humanity once more. The New Revelations are His Word. His Revelations are to be added to previous ones revealed thousands of years ago. Together they are God's Word, and they will guide humanity for the thousands of years to come. His Word reinforce His compassion and love for humanity and His care for all living inhabitants on Earth and of Earth itself. God has said: "Thou shall banish war as a solution to problems between communities. All Souls involved with war, directly or indirectly, shall face the Soul of Humanity to be purified. All Souls involved in the making of weapons, war product and equipment shall be facing the Soul of Humanity." ... DE: The "New Revelations" link includes the following extracts, to each of which I've added a the start "PM:" and followed with my "DE:" comments. PM: The Guiding Souls to serve God is a part of a new religion made public for the first time a short while ago on the websites of the Global Community, the Human Family. ... The fundamental beliefs are ...The laws of nature can organize matter to build complex biochemical systems ... The most relevant laws are: biological reproduction, natural selection and mutation. ... ... DE: I see the laws of nature as independent of religion, and certainly widely accepted before the formulation of any recent religion. ... PM: ... Each particle of matter has a Soul. ... existence of Souls does not necessarily imply a special beginning of the Universe. The Universe may have never had a beginning and probably never did. Souls can only guide the matter of the Universe to serve God. ... . The conditions for the formation of life on Earth appeared gradually over the past billion years. Souls were guiding evolution in small ways so as to make it possible for life to be conscious of God. The physical universe is a part of God. God is conscious of us through our Souls. In a way, Souls are 'God's plumbing devices', His ways to communicate with the physical universe, His medium to connect with us. Most Souls as we see them today are not as they were at the beginning of the universe. ... The Primeval Atom was made of the pure light of God and of His consciousness and Spirit, which today we call Souls. Then God allowed the Primeval Atom to explode and space, time and matter were formed and the universe evolved as we observe it today. At the early stage of this expanding universe, every particle in the universe had a Soul each being a small part of the primeval consciousness of God... the essence of a small part of God's Spirit. ... the essence of each Soul is its own Spirit, itself a small part of God's Spirit. ... God exists... in every particle of all galaxies. Souls have an important intrinsic quality, they can merge together, a group of Souls can become one Soul, a brighter one, different. This is what Souls do best, and it is to unify to better serve God. Souls can evolve as well. A Soul's primary goal is to serve God. A Soul can affect matter to some extent so as to achieve God's Will. ... work at all times and everywhere ... Stars are formed when a large cloud of dust particles collapse on itself by gravitational forces and other physical phenomena ... a star system has a lifetime of its own. ... It is very likely that there are billions of star systems with planets ... The ultimate goal is the creation of life on a planet. Life allows Souls to be conscious of God in many different ways, and thus to better serve God. ... life was created to better serve God. ... Souls have guided the step-by-step evolution of life on Earth ... Many groupings of Souls became more complex than others as they were much brighter beings than other groupings, but all serve God in their own special way. One unique and most wonderful grouping was the grouping that made the Human Soul. God loves the human Souls a lot because of their wonderful qualities. Through their Souls human beings became conscious of God in many different ways. Religions of all kinds started to spread on Earth over the past thousands of years to adore God and pray. Different groupings of Souls affected human beings in different ways and Peoples today have different religious beliefs. God is like a river feeding plentifully and bountifully all life and plants. There are many pathways leading to the river. They are God's pathways. God loves diversity in Nature and in Souls. God loves good Souls from all religions. ... . Heaven on Earth is different from God's Heaven. To be in Heaven with God will mean a Soul has left the matter of the universe forever ... ... I have created a new relationship with my Soul whereby I let my Soul to know me and the physical universe I live in, my environment and, in return, my Soul let me know what it means about being a Soul, and about the other Souls, Beings, my Spirit, Divine Love and Divine Will, and help me make contact with God and live a Soul life. My Soul learns from me, and I learn from my Soul. Souls are way more intelligent then we are and are very creative. We both appreciate one another. Our learning is never lost. We are sharing a lot. Human Souls are much more intelligent than the most powerful human minds. There is no comparison here. All Souls are independent living beings, and they exist together elsewhere. They don't resemble our physical forms. There is a Soul in everyone of us. The same Soul stays with us throughout our life. A Soul is a beautiful, wonderful entity who loves us completely. A Soul can have a soulmate. I do! Her physical form died a while ago but her Soul merged with mine and we are now together forever. We are now one Soul, brighter, different, evolving, serving God and seeking His Heaven! The relationship with my Soul has lead me to the discovery of the Soul of Humanity, a wonderful loving Being made of all the Souls of Humanity, the Souls of all lifeforms on Earth and the Soul of Earth itself. Now we all see the place the Earth has in the universe, and that it also has a Soul, the Soul of Humanity. Earth has a Soul just like each and everyone of us. Obviously the Soul of the Earth is different than the Soul of a person, and the Soul of each person is different than that of another person. The Will of God is for life to reach God in the best possible ways. Life is the most precious gift ever given by God to the Universe. Life allows Souls to be conscious of God in as many different ways as possible. Life is the building block through which Souls can have a meaningful relationship with God. ... ... By observing the Universe, the galaxies, we are observing and studying God. We are seeing His magnificence, His greatness, and His complex making. There is more to the Universe we observe today, that is, there is more to God, much more. God is self-existent, eternal and infinite in space and time. ... DE: It is not necessary for people of good will who seek a more harmonious and mature Human Family to believe in Souls outside human personality, nor to believe in God as a form of life or personality outside or beyond or transcending or personifying or realizing nature. ... PM: Follow God's Word. God's Plan was revealed to humanity a short while ago. The Divine Plan for humanity is: a) for everyone to manage Earth responsibly, and b) about to reach the stars and spread Life throughout the universe and thus help other Souls to evolve and serve God in the best possible ways. ... PM: "God's Word" is proclaimed and interpreted in hundreds of different, sometimes ambiguous, contradictory or even apocalyptically dogmatic ways, sometimes backed by force of genocidal intensity, that I see it as a phrase for individual, not globally consensual ideals and actions. Claiming that it has been recently revealed to a particular interpreter may divide its exponents and followers and maydivide rather than unite theists, atheists, pantheists, animists, Confucianists and those non-theological Buddhists who teach that human principles are developed by human good will rather than by divine revelation. Seeking harmony among humans and the biosphere seems to be evolving among all such systems of belief and non-belief. Whether or not it serves God is a matter of personal belief, not infallible dogma. ... PM: A short while ago God said: 1. Thou shall be One with humanity and thou shall have a higher purpose, and that is to propagate Life throughout the Universe. I shall provide you with means to travel the galaxies. ... DE: Many believe such pronouncements, but if they believe in a unitary divinity hey mostly form Labeled F Groups around a leading interpreter, prophet or guru who for them has heard or read a message directed personally to him/her from God. A substantial proportion of the world peace movement do not subscribe to this faith, including such notables as the atheist Bertrand Russell who was perhaps the most prominently courageous peace campaigner of the atomic age. ... PM: 2. Thou shall have another higher purpose, and that is to manage Earth responsibly. ... DE: This ethical imperative is an example of the maturing of human thought, rather than revered scripture or miraculous revelation. Scientific knowledge impels us to acknowledge the limits to human population and exploitation of Earth's resources. We see the unwisdom of Genesis 1:28 "... fill the earth and subdue it. . Rule over the fish ... birds ... and over every living creature ..." ... PM: It was necessary for our species to reach today's population of 6.157 billions in order to leap to our next stage of evolution that will bring us closer to God and propel humanity to fulfill the Divine Plan. ... ... a) for everyone to manage Earth responsibly, and b) about to reach the stars and spread Life throughout the universe and thus help other Souls to evolve and serve God in the best possible ways. .... Soon God will show us the way to reach the galaxies. ... DE: Men have stood on the moon, but the world community or the Human Family did not require belief in God to achieve this. If humans ever reach another planetary home we cannot be sure it will have any more relationship to religious belief or divine guidance than a trip to our moon. ... PM:. ... I do not belong to a Church or a religious organization and will never do so. ... I deal with God and my religious beliefs in the most satisfying ways that makes a lot of good sense in my life. This process will help humanity to think clearly and globally. Your research papers, brainstorming exercises, Vision statements, discussions, comments and recommendations will be well appreciated and reviewed. They will give us a sense of direction and purpose. The end product will also include universal values to connect us together as we all belong to the Global Community. ... DE: This discussion is happening in many internet and forums, including some conducted by your Cc addressees above listed.. ... At his point I have considered only a small part of the "New Revelations" but am reluctant to consider it further or to become more active in the GCEG approach unless it becomes less permeated with Soul theory or more accepting of wider approaches. I resume comment on the Peace Message extracts below. ... PM: There are several reasons for objecting to war: ... St. Augustine. Late in the fourth century he argued that the good Christian, barred from doing violence on his own behalf, could take arms in a war that was just.... It can be debated whether any war has ever satisfied all these reasonable conditions. ... The people of the Global Community are dedicated in using all its resources to resolve conflict, promote democracy, and fight hunger, terrorism, disease, and human rights abuses. In order to bring about the event of peace, the Global Community is offering other good organizations around the world to work together to bring warring parties to peace. ... GCEG has given back responsibility to every citizen on Earth. The Global Constitution and the Global Citizens Rights, Responsibility and Accountability Act ... GCEG can help people realized their actions by coordinating efforts efficiently together. ... DE: I share this hope for a fairer, more sustainable world. I have not visited the Global Constitution or the Act referred to but would welcome any moves to merge it and other draft constitutions for a democratic world, such as Clark & Sohn's World Peace Through World Law, Millard's Freedom in a Federal World, or the Constitution for Federation of Earth of the World Constitution and Parliament Association, evolving after many person-years of discussion ... PM: GCEG warns all global citizens concerning the Global Community Arrest Warrants of: a. George W. Bush, President of the United States, b. John Howard, Prime Minister of Australia. ... DE: I commend moves to prosecute war criminals. A similar action is proceeding against the US regime by Gary Davis worldlaw@surfglobal.net, www.garrydavis.org I wonder why Tony Blair is not listed at least as prominently as John Howard. Yours for a saner world -- Doug Everingham
Subject: Re: Press release: The greatest lesson that the United Nations will need to learn in the coming years
Date: Sun, 6 Nov 2005 11:55:03 +1000 From: Doug Everingham To: Global Dialogue 2006 CC: gdufour@globalcommunitywebnet.com, EarthstaRadio@aol.com, gmartin@radford.edu, randits@vinet.lk, gpaforum@yahoogroups.com, troy_davis@yahoo.com, wcparliament@uswest.net, nicholas.dunlop@e-parl.net, jesper.grolin@e-parl.net President, Global Community Parliament Dear Germain, I agree largely but not entirely with your Press release below. I note that in the Constitution of GCEG posted on your web site besides myself you list among GCEG (Global Community Earth Government) Advisers several supporters and promoters of the CFE (Constitution for Federation of Earth) developed by WCPA (World Constitution and Parliament Association), e.g. Dr. Terence P. Amerasinghe and Dr. Glen Martin. I did not find in your web site any reference to the WCPA or CFE which they and I have supported. I could therefore not support the GCEG while it contains the following claim: ===== Chapter XXVII Article 1: Founding Members of the Global Community and Earth Government Earth Government was first thought out by the Founding Members of the Global Community. The Global Community organization was first discussed in a report on global changes published in 1990 by Germain Dufour. ===== I hope you will acknowledge the decades of extensive discussion, conferences and statute compilations of WCPA involving hundreds of affiliated groups with thousands of members producing a CFE. www.wcpa.biz, http://www.w-g.jp/wgi/wcpa-constitution.htm#article11, http://www.worldparliamentgov.net/constitution.html, http://www.wcpa.biz/english/legislation/world_legislative_statutes_contents.htm I hope your GCEG will converge toward consensus with the WCPA and incidentally produce a much more compact Constitution -- your current draft is marred and interrupted by copious repetition and many pages of exhortation to citizens and policy makers, detailed statistical analyses and other background material. As an Adviser of GCEG I would like to see other changes in the posted Constitution. In particular: I propose that the following three sentences be deleted from the Preamble: ==== The Global Community has taken action by calling the Divine Will into our lives and following its guidance. Divine Will is now a part of the Soul of Humanity to be used for the higher purpose of good and Life's evolution. We will learn to serve humanity and radiate the Will of God to others. ==== My reasons: 1. The first sentence presumes that a majority of people have an image of a God who guides us to do his/her will. This may be true but is irrelevant to the ethical basis of legal governance. 2. The second sentence presumes that humanity's progress towards a common good is inseparable from the will of God. This may be a well-intentioned assertion but has no place in a secular regime reconciling theists with unbelievers and doubters of good will. 3. The third sentence presumes that the writer(s) are further developed than non-believers in learning to serve humanity by illuminating to all God's will. This presumption may encourage an elitist cult -- it tends to excuse intolerant fundamentalism, more notably among theocracies than among the more humanistic ethical systems of Confucius and Buddha. If consensus can be reached on this "separation of church and state" issue I would want to similar revision of other parts of the document referring to religion before giving support to your Constitution. If that disqualifies me from continuing as an Adviser of GCEG I would be grateful for your advice accordingly. -- Doug Everingham === Relayed by Doug Everingham === From: Global Dialogue 2006 Date: Tue Nov 1, 2005 1:53:33 AM Australia/Brisbane Subject: Press release: The greatest lesson that the United Nations will need to learn in the coming years Attachments: There is 1 attachment Press release: The greatest lesson that the United Nations will need to learn in the coming years Press release by Global Community Earth Government (GCEG). http://globalcommunitywebnet.com/GlobalConstitution/ October 27, 2005 Press Release is found at http://globalcommunitywebnet.com/global06/pressreleases.htm As defined in Chapter 10.6.3, Chapter 9 Article 1, Chapter 10.2 Article 3, and Section 4 on the Scale of Human and Earth Rights of the Global Constitution, direct democracy is a community right. Direct democracy is the right of global citizens to hold referendums on important issue -- and to veto legislation. This is a very important concept that the Global Community must deal with now. This is perhaps the greatest lesson that the United Nations will need to learn in the coming years. With a world population still dramatically increasing, a new set of ways of doing things will be more appropriate in dealing with one another. The Global Constitution shows this new way of doing things. There is now a webpage for the ratification of the Global Constitution, and we are asking you to do so now. As a person, you can sign your approval of the Global Constitution. As a government you can ratify it. In my country Canada, direct democracy applies just the same. We are not just talking about a population such as the population of the Province of Quebec going through a referendum to separate from Canada, or for every province of Canada having a veto power at the federal level of government in Ottawa, we are talking about Canada having a veto power in the Global Government of North America (GGNA). We want the population of Canada to hold a referendum on having such veto power, and we dont want to let Ottawa dictate to all Canadians what is good for them. We want no more a Brian Mulroney type of Prime Minister to make deal South of us such as the FTA, or now the FTAA and NAFTA , without asking all Canadians what they really want. All about economics anyway! The wrong kind of economics on that! The United States are bankrupted economically, morally, and intellectually. Who wants to ally with them?! Let us all Canadians veto down the FTAA and NAFTA. We were never asked in the first place. No referendum was ever held on such an important issue with countries South of us.! Let Canadians have a say in major decisions. Direct democracy will allow us to be part of the solution, and to be a responsible and accountable People. Besides, who wants NAFTA when you can have the GGNA. With the GGNA Canadians would have a veto power on decisions concerning all Member Nations. Invading other Nations for their natural resources is certainly not on our Agenda. Abuses of the Earth resources and the destruction of the global-life support systems are totally unacceptable and go against the Global Law described in the Global Constitution. Abusers are criminals and in many ways are worst persons than terrorists. They are threatening the very existence of life on the planet and everyone is affected, all 7 billion of us. For these reasons, the Global Community Earth Government (GCEG) Arrest Warrant takes the form of a judicial decision handed down by a Member Nation for the apprehension and return by another Member Nation of a wanted person to be prosecuted or to have a sentence or a detention order against a wanted person carried out. This system flows from the application of the principal of mutual recognition of judicial decisions in criminal matters, and is intended to replace the system of extradition between Member Nations. Criminals will be prosecuted by the Earth Court of Justice. Direct Democracy implies that: * Global Citizens are willing and able to participate fully in the decision making process on issues that most affect them. Direct democracy is important to sustain life on the planet but its position on the Scale gives it its overall importance. 'Direct democracy' is very much like a voting system based on 'proportional representation'. There are many different aspects of 'direct democracy'. For instance, in a single riding there may be as many as 8 seats and and several candidates running. Parties offer voters a slate of local candidates. Voters can rank candidates of the same party, but may also choose to give support to candidates of different parties. Voters rank as many or as few candidates as they wish. Voters can rank any number of candidates without fear their vote will be wasted by selecting unpopular candidates. A voter’s rankings will be considered in order until that voter’s ballot can be used. When your number one choice is eliminated for lack of support your number two becomes your first choice. When a voter’s ballot is used in support of a given candidate, but that candidate has a surplus of votes, a ballot’s unused portion will be transferred to the voter’s next choice until a ballot’s full value has been used. Most votes will count, little fear of wasting one’s vote, no fear of vote splitting. No need to support a candidate or party you don’t really want for fear of helping elect those you like even less. You can vote authentically. This is freedom for voters. This is how democracy is supposed to work. This voting system empowers voters more than parties because votes are for candidates not for parties. Also, candidate selection will take place at the local riding level, not at party head office. Most importantly, voters will rank candidates of the same party as well as candidates of different parties. It maximizes choice for voters. Competition is not just between candidates of different parties but also between candidates of the same party. This voting system is also a measure of independence from party control and that will make a very significant contribution to greater accountability in government. It will yield a legislature that mirrors the political, social, ethnic, and geographic diversity of a population. Electing candidates in multi-member ridings ensures a broader range of political interests and issues will be represented than is possible under any other system. Preferential voting induces a politics of cooperation, consensus, and civility. Direct democracy comprises a form of democracy and theory of civics wherein all citizens can directly participate in the political decision-making process. Some proposed systems would give people both legislative and executive powers, but most extant systems allow input into the legislative process only. Direct democracy in its traditional form is rule by the people through referenda. The people are given the right to pass laws, veto laws and withdraw support from a representative (if the system has representatives) at any time. Direct democracy in its modern sense is characterized by three pillars: * Initiative The second pillar can include the ability to hold a binding referendum on whether a given law should be scrapped. This effectively grants the populace a veto on government legislation. The third pillar gives the people the right to recall elected officials by petition and referendum. In Canada, the use of citizens' assemblies (also known as an estates-general in the province of Quebec), involving citizen bodies chosen at random, is growing and avoids the disadvantages of older, more plebiscitary forms of direct democracy. The province of British Columbia recently set up a Citizens' Assembly on Electoral Reform in which members were chosen at random for each riding. The citizens' assembly has just recommended the province use Single Transferable Voting (STV) to elect the provincial legislature. In a referendum conducted on May 17, 2005, 57% of the voters approved by this new system of voting. 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