DEMOCRATIC WORLD FEDERALISTS
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Articles for This Issue:
DWF NEWS
August 3, 2023
What's So Important About The San Francisco Promise?
Roger Kotila & Suchismita Pattanaik
Enact World Democracy, Starting Now
Byron Belitsos
World Democracy Day, World Voting Districts
Earth Constitution Institute
War made invisible
How to Ignore 4.5 Million Deaths
Bryce Greene
Does China Deserve Our Respect?
Roger Stoll
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What's So Important About The San Francisco Promise?
Roger Kotila & Suchismita Pattanaik
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EXCERPTS
In the bustling San Francisco Bay Area, countless corporate executives perceive airline travel as indispensable. However, it's crucial to acknowledge that commercial, private, and military jet travel significantly contributes to pollution, exacerbating the issue of global warming...
The alarming global crisis of climate change must be dealt with effectively, yet the superpowers USA, Russia, and China are making the crisis worse with their wars and threats of war. We are told that nuclear war could break out at any time. Meanwhile, the world is experiencing extreme weather events such as floods and heat waves from hell.
If the superpowers can't save us, what about the United Nations? After all, global problems call for a global solution. Alas, the UN too, is inadequate for the global crises we are experiencing. Why? The UN Charter is wrong. It is undemocratic and lacks enforceable Law. Each of the 193 nations do their own thing -- national self-interest over world public interest. The superpowers refuse to obey international law. They do whatever they want. The result is war after war. Dealing with climate change is secondary.
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World Democracy Day, World Voting Districts
Earth Constitution Institute
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World Democracy Day, World Voting Districts
Dear world citizen friends and colleagues:
Please scroll down to see our pre-announcement of a special event.
On this day, we initiate the effort
to launch World Voting Districts.
Please mark your calendar!
Updated announcements coming soon.
HELP US CELEBRATE
WORLD DEMOCRACY DAY
GALA ONLINE FUNDRAISING EVENT
to launch Voting Districts for
the Provisional World Parliament
Featured Speakers:
Glen T. Martin, PhD,
Roger Kotila, PhD,
and Laura George, JD
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Sponsor: Earth Constitution Institute
Co-Sponsors: Democratic World Federalists, and Peace Pentagon
A VIRTUAL BLACK TIE EVENT
Mark your calendar: September 16, 1pm–2:30pm ET
WORLD DEMOCRACY DAY
GALA TICKETS:
• $50 for admission
• $100 to receive Glen’s book
• $250 for book + exclusive seminar
• $500 to join Donor’s Circle
MATCH: Let’s match a $5000 contribution!
Other event attractions:
• “Google Earth” demonstration of the 1000 World Districts
• Exclusive introduction to the Provisional World Parliament
• Expert commentary and Q&A on our global challenges
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How to Ignore 4.5 Million Deaths
A review of Norman Solomon’s "War Made Invisible"
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EXCERPTS
Brown University’s Costs of War project released a study this year estimating that US-led wars since 9/11 have contributed directly and indirectly to 4.5 million deaths in the targeted countries. Those countries—Afghanistan, Iraq, Yemen, Pakistan, Libya, Somalia and Syria—have also seen an estimated 40–60 million people displaced from their homes. This refugee crisis is as destructive as any war, and marks the largest number of refugees since the end of World War II. By all accounts, the US-led Global War on Terror has been a disaster for tens of millions of people.
No solemn reflections about the war machine, no policy pieces about how we might avoid such devastation in the future, and certainly no op-eds calling for the wars’ architects to stand trial for their crimes.
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Enact World Democracy, Starting Now
Byron Belitsos
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Support the WCPA’s launch of world voting districts
for the Provisional World Parliament
It’s high time to launch the parliament of humankind. By this I mean the House of Peoples, the grassroots element of the coming world government that is exclusively described in Article 5 of the Earth Constitution.
Seated in the People’s House, one day, will be representatives elected from the one thousand electoral world districts across the globe that are now in formation.
The good news is that getting this process under way is no longer a distant dream, a mere concept for academic debate. For the first time, you’re invited to initiate your district and run your own provisional candidate. We even have a formal launch date for this effort: World Democracy Day 2023 (September 15).
Look for upcoming announcements of this event to be held at 1pm EDT the next day (September 16). This gala event will be a special celebration that includes a fundraiser along with talks by Dr. Glen T. Martin, Reverend Laura George, JD, and Roger Kotila PhD.
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Does China Deserve Our Respect?
Roger Stoll
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EXCERPTS
In the western imagination, China’s citizens are feared for their abject discipline and uncanny competence. Yet the West pities them too, thinking they are ruled by communist overlords in a dictatorship devoid of individual liberties.
In short, to the western world, China is an iconic picture of tyranny, malevolence, and exploitation. Still, China is not unique in its status as a US bogeyman. Whenever the West targets a country militarily or economically, the press always turns the country into a cartoon, invariably the same cartoon: authoritarian, autocratic, led by an evil/mad dictator, e.g., Cuba, Iran, Nicaragua, Russia, Syria, Venezuela, etc.
Which is why we should be grateful for the picture of China drawn in this elegantly concise and easily read book, The East Is Still Red: Chinese Socialism in the 21st Century, by Carlos Martinez (Praxis Press, 2023, 210 pp.). ...
Despite its brevity, the book expertly refutes the West’s blizzard of charges against China. It also sketches China’s 20th century history, its economics and political system, and the ideology that accompanied the Chinese people’s astonishing advance. Martinez analyzes and answers two questions preoccupying many on the political left: Is China socialist? Is it imperialist? (Martinez argues Yes, and No, respectively.)
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