Infosetters agreed that World Syntegrity Project has brought them closer to a realization of what is happening the world over, including in Sierra Leone where a rebel war is destroying lives and property. Infosetters urged that a world government be empowered to stop all wars and bring back peace. Peace and justice, it was agreed, will bring prosperity, love, happiness, and development to all mankind.
We recommend that more Infosets be conducted in the war-ravaged nation and that funding be provided to carry out the Syntegrity process in Sierra Leone.
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In Sierra Leone alone, where citizens are afflicted with a senseless rebel war, a single Infoset last August has inspired organizers to plan nearly 15 more. They are filled with the spirit of Syntegrity and have determined to take responsibility for their world-our world-by helping lay the foundation for a democratic world constitution.
Certainly, holding further Infosets in your community, to involve those who have not yet had the opportunity to contribute to World Syntegrity, is one way of continuing the process of positive global political change. Get the word out to your neighbors and friends. If you've already been through the process, help them in their organizing, publicity, and fundraising efforts. Share your experiences with them.
At the World Citizen Foundation, we maintain a data base of names and other information pertaining to previous Infosets. A network is accessible through which all participants can mutually correspond and exchange ideas.
Following a syntegration, Infosetters also can distribute locally the Statements of Importance generated by their group. Local officials, schools, community groups, and the media would be interested to know about the results of the Infosetters' efforts; regional and national leaders should get copies as well. (The Collated Statements of Importance, containing the results of all Infosets held to date, is available for $9.95 through the World Citizen Foundation.)
Registering as a world citizen is a crucial act that should be carried out by all Infosetters, preferably before or, if necessary, after an Infoset. A World Citizen Registration Card can then be proudly displayed as a symbol of your sovereign status.
Another important step Infosetters can take following their syntegration is "mundialization." This is the process of formally declaring your community a world city or world town, thus affirming its connection to and responsibility for the rest of the world. The number of mundialized cities worldwide is in the thousands. (A mundialization packet is available through the World Citizen Foundation.)
For those with access to the Internet, the World Referendum is newly on-line on the World Citizen Web. Individuals everywhere can now vote on common global issues, the four initial questions being concerned with a world referendum, world government, the environment, and the economy. (The address of the World Citizen Web is https://worldcitizen.org.)
In nurturing popular sovereignty in your community, just use your imagination!
The World Citizen Foundation can be contacted at 113 Church Street, Burlington, Vermont 05401, USA; attention: Dianne Tangel-Cate, director; phone: (802) 660-8998; fax: (802) 864-6878. To obtain an application form for a World Citizen Registration Card or any of the other world documents, contact the World Service Authority at 1012 14th St. NW, Suite 1101, Continental Bldg., Washington, DC 20005, USA; phone: (202) 638-2662; fax: (202) 638-0638; or log on to the World Citizen Web.
P Dear Garry,
Thank you for your global love toward building up World Citizenry in Sierra Leone.
The completion of our Infoset meeting has actually sensitized a lot of Sierra Leoneans to realize the need for world citizens to govern the world, replacing the United Nations by the year 2000. The Infoset also enhances the opportunity for every Sierra Leonean to join the campaign for ratification of a world constitution.
Because we now have more than 500 World Citizens as Infosetters in Freetown, the capital city, an office is urgently needed. We are expecting thousands of others to be visiting and requesting world passports and other documents.
The renovation of our 14 Fergusson Lane Syntegrity Project office has become a worldwide concern, thanks to your help. The article appearing in World Citizen News for August/September 1995 has moved one of our Infosetters, John Ganda, to provide WSP Sierra Leone with a consignment of food and building materials offered to him by International Aid, Inc.
In Freetown we have about 550 Infosetters registered, of which only 50 participated in the August 22-24 Infoset. We plan about 15 more Infoset meetings, including one in each of Sierra Leone's 12 districts. Of course, as you are well aware, this will mean providing food for the approximately 1300 participants in the meetings. With the consignment of food from International Aid, Inc., we can feed about 1000 people.
Because we need to transform to world government through implementation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, many displaced people are actively participating in the dissemination of world citizenship information in Sierra Leone, despite the rebel war currently raging.
Thank you for every effort toward one citizenship.
Yours sincerely,
The Rev. Nathanael Thompson-Tarawalli
To start with, the whole world is in a state of topsy-turvy, and we are watching our world being destroyed for generations yet unborn. We are very fed up with the way mankind is dealing with mankind; we don't want to live the way we are living.
The three major factors that act as pivots for mankind's existence-social sector, economic sector, political sector-are all disintegrated. National governments tend not to care about the people; individual interests are the order of the day. If we are going to continue this way, one foresees a world of destruction by the year 2000.
People don't know their rights. What we need is for World Government to spread worldwide and to "control" every national government. We don't see what the U.N. is doing with all the big contributions it receives annually. What is the U.N. for? It cannot control the world.
Take for example the U.N.'s attempt to resolve Liberia's crisis; it's been over five years, and the population is being reduced considerably. Look at Sierra Leone-people are being displaced, killed. What is the U.N. doing?
The United Nations always refers to such wars as internal disputes. Isn't that sadistic? The U.N., as the world's helping hand, sits by and lets everybody die, and at the end of the day it speaks of "internal disputes."
Please, WSA, let's solve this problem before it eradicates mankind. Think of Hiroshima, think of the Gulf War, also of the Kurds, Hutus, Tutsis-we don't want these histories repeated.
World Government, which has the power to affect, should take the place of the U.N. We are very sure that, under pain of World Government sanctions, most individual governments will behave themselves.
Authorities of the world, recognize what we have said, and feel what we are going through.
The writers are residents of Freetown, Sierra Leone in West Africa.