World Citizen Update

A half century ago, come September 4, a new government was declared on planet Earth, the World Government (of World Citizens). 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.

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. 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.

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.

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 ?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.

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