New Year's Message—2003
A half century ago, come September 4, a new government was declared on planet Earth, the World Government (of World Citizens).[1] It was the fulfillment of an age-old prophecy for it was based on the sovereignty of God's laws, the oneness of humanity and the reality of one world.
The locale was the City Hall of Ellsworth, Maine. A mere hundred people were in attendance. But the popular mandate was over 750,000 individuals in 50 countries who had already exercised their sovereign right to choose the status of world citizenship along with their lower levels of civic allegiances.[2]
The member-states of the United Nations through the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
—proclaimed by its General
Assembly December 10, 1948—have also implicitly endorsed its founding
provided by article 21(3): "The will of the people shall be the basis
of the authority of government."
A further sanction of its creation came from one of humanity's latter-day sages, Nataraja Guru, the parampara disciple of the revered Shri Narayana Guru of Travancore, India.[3] The perenniel social contract of "one for all and all for one" politically identifying the new government is the key geo-dialectical formula raised to the global level.[4]
Since that 50-year-old sovereign declaration, hundreds of thousands have registered their claim to world citizenship and been identified as such by the global government's administrative agency, the World Service Authority.[5]
By claiming citizenship of the world, each and all are making peace with and between fellow humans beyond all artificial and institutionalized divisions.
As of August 6, 1945, with the advent of the so-called Nuclear Age, the very survival of humanity became questionable.
The only valid message at the outset of this new year relevant to humanity's survival therefore is the urgent reiteration of the World Government's sovereign existence and dynamic evolution.
For, if war between nations is to be avoided—whose breeding-ground is anarchy[6]—the number of declared and registered World Citizens must be increased by millions.
I myself have been, since May 25, 1948, both politically stateless and a declared world citizen.
Statelessness is also the political condition of humanity.
The documents following further detail this historic development.
And to all registered World Citizens, you must ACT NOW in that capacity as representatives of humanity's and your own survival, security and happiness.
The destiny of the human race along with our fellow species on Earth depends on each of us.
Yours for peace in one world,
Garry Davis
WORLD DECLARATION
Humanity
is one.
Its world
is one.
Its
spirit is one.
Yet the
spectre of omnicide pervades its earthly existence,
Blaspheming
wisdom, betraying common-sense,
poisoning
the heart.
The time
has come for reason and good-will to flood
the human geo-political world:
-
to reject false creeds and prophets;
-
to acknowledge humbly our historic debt to our
forefathers and
foremothers;
- to keep
faith with our children and unborn generations;
-
to sanctify our daily lives;
-
to enfranchise the will of each and all.
In
heralding the birth of the world commonwealth,
In affirming
our human destiny allied with the universe itself,
In
proclaiming our citizenship of the world, and humanity legal,
That each
and all be spoken for, enjoy renewed hope, faith
and
courage,
That
humankind survives, prospers and prevails in harmony with
Nature on
its home planet, Gaia,
THAT WORLD PEACE REIGNS SUPREME
In the
name of the people of Earth, we here proclaim the founding of
THE WORLD GOVERNMENT OF WORLD CITIZENS
September 4, 1953 — Ellsworth, Maine
WHY A WORLD GOVERNMENT
OF WORLD CITIZENS?
On December 10, 1948, the General
Assembly of the United Nations proclaimed the Universal Declaration of Human
Rights as a "common standard of achievement for all peoples and all
nations."
Enshrined in that Declaration was the mandate for a
world democratic order:
"The will of the people shall be the basis of the
authority of government; this will shall be expressed in periodic and genuine elections
which shall be by universal and equal suffrage and shall be held by secret vote
or by equivalent free voting procedures."
(Article 21,3)
The most critically important issues of the 21st
century are world citizenship and world law for they seek the rational and
humane organization of world society.
If humanity is to survive and prosper in a healthy
environment, therefore, a human politics operating from the world level with a
dynamic ethical base is vitally needed.
The World Government of World Citizens thus provides the imperative political vehicle by
which the individual's desire for freedom, peace and well-being can be
democratically represented and implemented by the highest council halls of the
world.
The World Government of World Citizens is the one world government, the government of the
unrepresented, the dispossessed, the downtrodden, the voiceless, the refugee
and the stateless.
It is also the human rights government, the true
freedom government, the government of abundance and social good. It is the
government of youth who are the future of our world and of the elderly whose
wisdom, kindness and experience are vital assets to assure that future.
It is the government of ethnic groups so persecuted
throughout human history, no less today than in yesteryear.
It is the government of humanity.
Finally it is the government of Gaia, Mother Earth
herself, our common nourisher and sustainer without which we have no being.
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STATEMENT OF MANDATE
The mandate of the WGWC is gounded in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights plus ecological rights as outlined in the Stockholm Declaration as well as the rights of ethnic minority groups.
The WGWC therefore will seek at all levels of political activity to sanction and enact legal guarantees and protection for the just and inalienable rights of each human and humankind.
This in turn implies the legal recognition of and protection for the de facto as well as legitimate world citizenship enjoyed by every member of the human race by virtue of the physical reality of one interdependent world and one humankind.
In brief, then, the activities of the WGWC are:
1) The creation of world constitutional law and appropriate governmental organs including a world legislature, a world executive, a world judiciary and a world police or guard force to guarantee and protect fundamental rights and freedoms.
2) The realignment of local and national law to conform to world law applicable directly to the individual and/or ethnic groups.
3) The recognition and representation of ethnic groups in order to guarantee and respect their ethnic-national personalities.
4) The representation of the oceans, the atmosphere, the world's water supplies, its natural resources including the soil and forests against exploitation in the interest of the general and individual good.
5. The representation of refugees and stateless persons.
6) The endorsement of all activities, political, social, economic, educational which serve the above platform, including
a. the mundialization of villages, towns, cities, universities, etc.
b. the promotion of world universities;
c. the endorsement of present organizations, associations, etc. based on the world citizen, world law or world government concept;
d. the endorsement of present organizations, national or international
having the betterment of the human condition in their purposes and goals.
BASED ON
THE UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS, THE WORLD GOVERNMENT OF WORLD CITIZENS SANCTIONS THE FOLLOWING:
1. In conformity with the principle of
freedom of political choice and self-determination of peoples (inter alia), every man and woman has the right to declare him or
herself a World Citizen and to be represented by World Government
in the area of the general good and fundamental human rights; he/she has the
right to obtain and utilize a World Service Authority passport
representing the right of freedom of travel (art, 13(2), UDHR).
2. Every mother and father enjoys the
right to declare their new-born a World Citizen in accordance with the legal
principles of jus soli and jus
sanguinis (art 1, UDHR) and a World
Birth Certificate will be issued by the World Service Authority
which document shall be considered a valid document of world civic status.
3. The right to work (art. 23, UDHR) as
well as participation in the ownership of property, (art. 17, UDHR) i.e., the
means of production, being fundamental to a just economic order, the World Service Authority will
issue to registered world citizens on demand a World Work Permit in
conjunction with a global program for the democratization of capital.
4,. Consistent with human needs and services, a single world
currency based on renewable sources of energy issued by the appropriate organ
of the World Government will govern eventually all transactions.
5. In accordance with the Nuremberg
Principles (inter alia), citizens
of all states have the right to deduct from their national income tax that
portion of the national budget allocated to war-making and war preparation to
be subsequently deposited in the World Government Treasury Acct., Riggs
National Bank. (See Questions & Answers About World Government).
6, In accordance with art. 4, UDHR, the
youth of all countries have the right to serve in the Sovereign Order of
World Guards as a moral and legitimate option to national military service.
(See Declaration of Satya Dharma).
7. All humans now in state prisons or
detention camps for "crimes of omission" such as not having
"proper" or "valid" identification papers, refusing to be
inducted into national armies, or refusal to pay war taxes, etc, to be considered
under the protection of the World Government, and to be identified as
such by the World Service Authority and released forthwith.(Art. 9,
UDHR). In the case of those seeking asylum from persecution, after registering
as World Citizens, they may claim World Political Asylum - sanctioned by art.
14, UDHR - under the aegis of the World Government and receive a World
Political Asylum Card issued by the World Service Authority.
8. All mundialized communities will be
under the sovereign protection of world law represented by the World
Government.
9. A World Court of Human Rights,
mandated by arts 6, 7, 8, and 10, UDHR, shall adjudicate charges by World Citizens of violations of human
rights and fundamental freedoms by public authorities.
10. Crimes against humanity shall be broadened to include environmental
crimes as defined by the World Environment Commission and the World
Judicial Commission in accordance with the Stockholm Declaration of 1972
How to register as a World Citizen
CREDO OF A
WORLD CITIZEN
A World Citizen is a human being who lives intellectually, morally
and physically in the present. A World Citizen accepts the dynamic fact that
the planetary human community is interdependent and whole, that humankind is
essentially one. A World Citizen is a peaceful and peacemaking individual, both
in daily life and contacts with others. As a global person, a World Citizen
relates directly to humankind and to all fellow humans spontaneously,
generously and openly. Mutual trust is basic to his/her lifestyle. Politically,
a World Citizen accepts a sanctioning institution of representative government,
expressing the general and individual sovereign will in order to establish and
maintain a system of just and equitable world law with appropriate legislative,
judiciary and enforcement bodies. A World Citizen brings about better
understanding and protection of different cultures, ethnic groups and language
communities by promoting the use of a neutral international language, such as
Esperanto. A World Citizen makes this world a better place to live in
harmoniously by studying and respecting the viewpoints of fellow citizens from
anywhere in the world.
AFFIRMATION
I, the undersigned, do hereby, willingly and consciously, declare
myself to be a Citizen of the World. As a World Citizen, I affirm my planetary
civic commitment to WORLD GOVERNMENT (of World Citizens), founded on three
universal principles of One Absolute Value, One World, and One Humanity which
constitute the basis of World Law. As a World Citizen I acknowledge the WORLD
GOVERNMENT (of World Citizens) as having the right and duty to represent me in
all that concerns the General Good of humankind and the Good of All. As a
Citizen of World Government, I affirm my awareness of my inherent
responsibilities and rights as a legitimate member of the total world community
of all men, women, and children, and will endeavor to fulfill and practice
these whenever and wherever the opportunity presents itself. As a Citizen of
World Government, I recognize and reaffirm citizenship loyalties and
responsibilities within the communal state, and/or national groupings
consistent with the principles of unity above which constitute now my planetary
civic commitment.
X________________________________________________________
Signature of World Citizen and Date
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APPLICATION FOR A WORLD CITIZEN REGISTRATION
Please type or print all information
FIRST NAME(S):_______________________________________
FAMILY NAME:________________________________________
GENDER: M_____ F _____
BIRTHDATE: DAY
MONTH YEAR
BIRTHPLACE:_________________________________________
TELEPHONE:__________________________________________
FAX:________________________________________________
EMAIL:______________________________________________
OCCUPATION:_________________________________________
CURRENT MAILING ADDRESS:
___________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________
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Please include your US$30 world citizenship registration fee.
Registration fee: US$30; Annual minimum contribution to World Government
(Optional): US$30; Required Postage: US$5. TOTAL: US$65
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World Service Authority Fact Sheet
The
World Service Authority (WSA) was founded in 1954 by Garry Davis, former WWII
B-17 bomber pilot and stateless world citizen, following the declaration of
World Government on September 4, 1953 from the City Hall of Ellsworth, Maine.
This declaration followed the mandate
of approximately 750,000 individuals throughout the world who registered with
the International Registry of World Citizens that Davis founded in Paris on
January 1, 1949.
The WSA is a Washington, DC non-profit
organization (not federal) which serves as the administrative and documentary
agency of the World Government of World Citizens. The WSA has two main offices
for the issuance of documents: Washington, DC and Tokyo, Japan. WSA's World
Judicial Commission and Legal Department are located at its World Office in
Washington.
WSA receives 100,000+ requests per year
for human rights assistance and for its global documents based on articles of
the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
It has issued more than 1.5 million
documents to individuals throughout the world: World Birth Cards &
Certificates, World Passports, World ID Cards, World Marriage Certificates,
World Political Asylum Cards, International Exit Visas, International Resident
Permits, World Press Cards (for professional media), and World Citizen
Registration Cards and Certificates. (In preparation: World Health Card, World
Work Permit and World Tourist & Business Visas)
Of
these, more than 350,000 have been for the World Service Authority World
Passport.
WSA has issued more than 10,000 gratis
World Passports to refugees residing in camps throughout the world. WSA has
documentary evidence that the issuance of such passports may permit refugees to
leave such camps to seek asylum elsewhere or to claim other rights often denied
to refugees.
For more than 25 years, the WSA has
coordinated a World Refugee Fund to accept donations to cover the expenses of
issuing gratis, neutral identification documents to refugees and stateless
persons. WSA passports have also
been issued to individuals held in prisons arbitrarily for lack of identity
documents. Often the fact that the individual so detained possesses a passport
is sufficient to release him/her.
Over 150 nations have recognized the
WSA World Passport either de facto or de jure. (See Government Validation of
the WSA Passport booklet).
All income is derived from donations
and service fees. The WSA has no advertising budget.
WSA's Legal Department responds to
violations of human rights by national officials. Operating for over 10 years,
the World Law Internship Program provides law and graduate students from around
the world with experience in implementing human rights law. A World Citizen Legal Fund was created
to accept donations to cover the costs of providing legal advocacy, amicus
curiae briefs, and letter writing campaigns to individuals throughout the
world. The WSA is developing a
global network of lawyers who will provide pro bon advocacy to individuals
suffering from human rights violations and who will formulate novel approaches
to seeking redress in local courts against national government violators of
universal human rights laws.
The WSA's Human Rights Court Project
has drafted a Statute for a World Court of Human Rights that would provide
standing to individuals throughout the world to file suit against national
governments for violating their human rights. The statute has been submitted to jurists, international
lawyers, legal practitioners and educators for comment and approval. The WSA seeks funding to promote and
implement the Court.
The WSA has recently added two
internship programs: Public Relations & Outreach and Organizational
Administration.
The WSA supervises the programs: World
Syntegrity® Project and Mondialization. The former, based on cybernetics,
is a general system method for evolving a grassroots world constitution and for
empowering world citizens as global decision-makers; the latter is a community
method of claiming a global civic status, allying one's school, town, state,
region or other local community with humanity and the earth as a whole.
The WSA sponsors the Human Rights
Awareness Project, providing thousands of copies of the Universal Declaration
of Human Rights in multiple languages to individuals, schools, churches,
businesses, NGOs, other educational institutions, peace and human rights
organizations, and inter-governmental offices around the world.
WSA's World Citizen Referendum at
www.worldservice.org/wref.html offers an on-line voting opportunity for
individuals to express their opinions on global issues that affect us wherever
we are on the planet. WSA's World Citizen Forum through Yahoo Groups at
groups.yahoo.com offers an online meeting place for individuals to discuss
human rights, world citizenship, world law and world government.
WSA's World Peace Guards, still in the
development stages, is a project for people expressing an interest in
volunteering for a non-violent world peace protection force.
WSA's World Birth Card Project intends
to provide documentation to children around the world who, because of the lack
of birth registration procedures, cannot prove their local civic status and
thus cannot obtain life-sustaining inoculations nor attend elementary schoolin
violation of their rights to adequate health care and to education. WSA is currently working on a pilot
program for populations in Asia.
The World Service Authority and World
Government website is located at www.worldservice.org and the website of the
organization's newsletter is located at www.worldcitizennews.org.The Founder's
website is located at http://www.garrydavis.org.
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Who
Was and Is for World Government?
Given
the growing controversy over the concept of world government, World Citizen News: www.worldcitnews.org, considered it timely and desirable not
to say judicious to list prominent individuals, past and present, who either in
their writings or speeches have advocated a world government to oversee human
affairs in its community. We welcome additions of credibility from readers.
Adams,
Jane
Adler,
Mortimer
Anderson,
John
Baha'u'llah
Barbevik,
Percy
Barr,
Stringfellow
Bergé,
Pierre
Beveridge,
Lord
Bevin,
Ernest
Boult,
Sir Adrian
Bourdet,
Claude
Borgese,
Elizabeth Mann
Bowles,
Chester
Boyd-Orr,
Lord
Breton,
Andre
Bruntland,
Gro Harlem
Camus,
Albert
Caldicott,
Helen
Chanh,
Nguyen Huu
Chisholm,
Brock
Clark
Grenville
Clark,
Joseph
Chardin,
Teilhard de
Churchill,
Winston
Comenius
Cousins,
Norman
Cousteau,
Jean-Jacques
Cranston,
Alan
Cronkite,
Walter
Culbertson,
Ely
Dante
Denis
de Rougement
D'Estaing,
Giscard
Douglas,
William
Dunham,
Katherine
Einstein,
Albert
Erasmus
Fadiman,
Clifton
Fairbanks,
Douglas Jr
Falk,
Richard.
Finletter,
Thomas
Frankel,
Charles
Franklin,
Benjamin
Galbraith,
John Kenneth
Gandhi,
Mahatma
Gide,
Andre
Gravel,
Mike
Grotius
Hammerstein,
Oscar
Havel,
Vaclav
Heater,
Derek
Hutchins,
Robert
Kant,
Immanuel
La
Roque, Adm. Gene
Lloyd,
Lola Maverick
Mann.
Thomas
Marceau,
Marcel
Menuhin,
Lord
Monet,
Jean
Montaigne
Morita,
Akio
Mowrer,
Edgar A.
Mumford,
Lewis
Muller,
Robert
Nataraja
Guru
Nehru,
Jawarhalel
Newman,
Paul
Nitya
Chaitanya Yati
Northrup,
F.S.C.
Oppenheimer,
Robert
Paine,
Tom
Plato
Reagan,
Ronald
Reuther,
Walter
Reves,
Emery
Roberts,
Owen
Roosevelt,
Franklin D. Jr
Rotblat,
Joseph
Rousseau,
Jean-Jacques.
Russell,
Bertrand
Sakharov,
Andrei
Schuman,
Robert
Schweitzer,
Albert
Schwimmer,
Rosika
Socrates
Sohn,
Louis
Stassen,
Harold
Steinbeck,
John
Stewart,
Patrick
Talbott,
Strobe
Tennyson,
Lord
Thirring,
Hans
Toynbee,
Arnold
Usborne,
Henry
Ustinov,
Peter
Van
Doren, Carl
Wald,
George
Warburg,
James
Washington,
George
Wells,
H.G.
White,
E.B.
Woodward,
Joanne
[1] The Ellsworth Declaration, www.worldservice.org/ells.html
[2] The International Registry of World Citizens, Paris, 1949
[3] The Memorandum on World Government, Narayana Gurukula, 8311 Quail Hill Rd., Bainbridge Island, WA 98110.
[4] Ibid, Preamble, (5)
[5] Suite 205, 1012 14th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20005; Email: info@worldservice.org
[6] The Anatomy of Peace, Emery Reves, 1945 (Harpers & Brothers) p. 121