Is the notion of one world something new
Our ancient Indian philosophers have been preaching this ages back
Is this feasible...Can all the countries come under one umbrella
Who will then lead it...From population perspective it can be by a Chinese or Indian
If resources are distributed equally among all then there there will no poverty...No one dying of mal nutrition
There will no war & trillions will be saved...
We will have 100% literacy
Is this a dream worth pursuing?
Garry Davis has done this...Read on
Man of no nation who saw one world dies at 91
Margalit Fox, NYT News Service | Jul 30, 2013, 06.18 AM IST
NEW YORK: On May 25, 1948, a former United States Army flier entered the American Embassy in Paris, renounced his American citizenship and, as astonished officials looked on, declared himself a citizen of the world.
In the decades that followed, until the end of his long life last week, he remained by choice a stateless man - entering, leaving, being regularly expelled from and frequently arrested in a spate of countries, carrying a passport of his own devising, as the international news media chronicled his every move.
His rationale was simple, his aim immense: if there were no nation-states, he believed, there would be no wars.
Garry Davis, a longtime peace advocate, former Broadway song-and-dance man and self-declared World Citizen No. 1, who is widely regarded as the dean of the One World movement, a quest to erase national boundaries that today has nearly a million adherents worldwide, died in Williston, Vermont.
"I am not a man without a country," Davis told Newsweek in 1978, "merely a man without nationality."
Davis was not the first person to declare himself a world citizen, but he was inarguably the most visible, most vocal and most indefatigable.
The One World model has had its share of prominent adherents, among them Albert Schweitzer, Jean-Paul Sartre, Albert Einstein and E B White.
Davis was no armchair theorist: 60 years ago, he established the World Government of World Citizens, a self-proclaimed international governmental body that has issued documents - passports, identity cards, birth and marriage certificates - and occasional postage stamps and currency.
He periodically ran for president of the world, always unopposed.
To date, more than 2.5 million World Government documents have been issued, according to the World Service Authority, the group's administrative arm.
Whether Davis was a visionary utopian or a quixotic naif was long debated by press and public. His supporters argued that the documents he issued had genuine value for refugees and other stateless people.
Just weeks before he died, Davis had a world passport sent, via Russian authorities, to Edward Snowden, the fugitive former NSA contractor accused of violating espionage laws, whose US passport was revoked. Snowden could not be reached for comment.
Our ancient Indian philosophers have been preaching this ages back
Is this feasible...Can all the countries come under one umbrella
Who will then lead it...From population perspective it can be by a Chinese or Indian
If resources are distributed equally among all then there there will no poverty...No one dying of mal nutrition
There will no war & trillions will be saved...
We will have 100% literacy
Is this a dream worth pursuing?
Garry Davis has done this...Read on
Man of no nation who saw one world dies at 91
Margalit Fox, NYT News Service | Jul 30, 2013, 06.18 AM IST
NEW YORK: On May 25, 1948, a former United States Army flier entered the American Embassy in Paris, renounced his American citizenship and, as astonished officials looked on, declared himself a citizen of the world.
In the decades that followed, until the end of his long life last week, he remained by choice a stateless man - entering, leaving, being regularly expelled from and frequently arrested in a spate of countries, carrying a passport of his own devising, as the international news media chronicled his every move.
His rationale was simple, his aim immense: if there were no nation-states, he believed, there would be no wars.
Garry Davis, a longtime peace advocate, former Broadway song-and-dance man and self-declared World Citizen No. 1, who is widely regarded as the dean of the One World movement, a quest to erase national boundaries that today has nearly a million adherents worldwide, died in Williston, Vermont.
"I am not a man without a country," Davis told Newsweek in 1978, "merely a man without nationality."
Davis was not the first person to declare himself a world citizen, but he was inarguably the most visible, most vocal and most indefatigable.
The One World model has had its share of prominent adherents, among them Albert Schweitzer, Jean-Paul Sartre, Albert Einstein and E B White.
Davis was no armchair theorist: 60 years ago, he established the World Government of World Citizens, a self-proclaimed international governmental body that has issued documents - passports, identity cards, birth and marriage certificates - and occasional postage stamps and currency.
He periodically ran for president of the world, always unopposed.
To date, more than 2.5 million World Government documents have been issued, according to the World Service Authority, the group's administrative arm.
Whether Davis was a visionary utopian or a quixotic naif was long debated by press and public. His supporters argued that the documents he issued had genuine value for refugees and other stateless people.
Just weeks before he died, Davis had a world passport sent, via Russian authorities, to Edward Snowden, the fugitive former NSA contractor accused of violating espionage laws, whose US passport was revoked. Snowden could not be reached for comment.
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