Fred Duperrault, Vice President

Fred Duperrault served in the U.S. Army Air Force from 1944 to '46. He received his B.S. in Education from the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, in 1959. From 1970 to 1990, he was a political activist in Wisconsin, during which time he also worked as a member of U.S. Sen. William Proxmire's staff (1972-1989.) In the late 70's, he became an active World Federalist. He was a member of the national WFA Board during much of the 80's and 90's and a member of the Wisconsin Governor's Commission on the U.N. in the mid 80's. During the late 80’s, he became president of the Milwaukee WFA Chapter. He moved to California and became president of WFA’s Northern California chapter.

Fred co-founded the Action Coalition for Global Change and was its President from the mid to late 90's. He also co-founded the Silicon Valley Impeachment Coalition, which is still active. Currently, he is a Board Member of Citizens for a U.N. People's Parliamentary Assembly, a Green Party activist, an anti-war activist in Veterans For Peace and Mountain View Voices for Peace, and the Vice President of DWF. He and his wife Lois have been married since 1949 and have two daughters and two sons.

Shahriar Sharei, Vice President

Shariar Sharei received his B.S. in Business Administration from U.C. Berkeley in 1976 and his M.S. in Computer and Information Science from San Jose State University in 1977. From 1978 to 1992, he worked mostly in the computer field, eventually becoming the Manager of Micro Systems in International Trade for Bank of America. In 1992, he moved to his birthplace, Iran, and founded SAC, a computer networking company with such clients as the UN Human Rights Commission in Iran. He was SAC’s Managing Director until 2000 and is still on its Board of Directors. In 2000, he founded Synergix International L.L.C.

Shariar was exposed to the World Citizen’s Association in 1980 and subsequently became involved. He helped start the newsletter, One World Times, and helped begin the international holiday, Earth Day / World Equinox Day. For one year, he served as President of the World Citizens Foundation. During this time, he also became involved with the World Federalist Association, the Campaign for UN Reform, Amnesty International. He is currently a member of UNA/USA, a Councilor for the World Federalist Movement, and a Vice President of DWF.

Mary Harris, Secretary

Mary Harris received her BA from San Francisco State College (now University,) and went on to receive her MA from the California Institute of Integral Studies. She continued on with her studies and completed post-graduate work at U.C. Santa Cruz, at U.C. Berkeley, at Kaohsiung Medical College in Taiwan, in Sasebo, Japan, and in Paris, France. She received her life-time teaching credential from Laguna Salada School District. Mary taught at an elementary school level in California from 1955 to 1960 and from 1968 to 1983. During the interim period, she taught at schools overseas. In 1983, she became an art teacher and taught at the Sanchez Cultural & Art Center then at the Community Center in Pacifica until 2003.

Mary was Secretary of the A. Philip Randolph Institute of San Mateo County. She became active with the World Federalist Association of Northern California in the 1980’s, eventually becoming Secretary and is now the Secretary of the Democratic World Federalists. She is a member/supporter of the A.C.L.U., Greenpeace, the Southern Poverty Law Center, the Sierra Club, KQED, KPFA, and others. She is also on the Board of Directors of the Sanchez Art Center and the Art Guild of Pacifica.

Roger Kotila, Chairperson

Dr. Roger Kotila is a psychologist and peace activist. Receiving a Ph.D. from Washington State University in 1969, he has worked in community mental health, for the State of California, and in private practice. Dr. Kotila served his clinical internship on a Public Health Fellowship at the Palo Alto Veterans Administration Hospital in conjunction with Stanford University's Dept. of Psychiatry. He has been a radio producer (Earthstar Radio, San Francisco), organized and worked with the homeless, and is an advocate/activist in the nonviolent protest movement for safe energy, human rights, and peaceful solutions.

Roger is USA Vice President of the World Constitution and Parliament Association whose mission is to build a parallel world body to the United Nations, an emerging Earth Federation with a Provisional World Parliament under the Earth Constitution. A world citizen and world federalist, Roger is married with four children and four grandchildren. He resides with his wife, a tax consultant and musician/composer, in Marin County, California.

Paul Anderson

Paul was first exposed to the concept of world federation while in high school after reading excerpts from The Anatomy of Peace by Emery Reves. He is particularly impressed by the message of some of the earlier advocates of world federation (Reves, Einstein, Cousins, Shoghi Effendi, etc.) who emphasized that we are at a critical juncture in the political evolution of our world. Directly related to this, he is interested in the factors that may influence the all-important modification of public opinion. He is currently active in the World Citizens Party of Massachusetts

Peter Bailey

A graduate of Oxford, Peter Bailey worked as an economist in London for several years and then lived in the Austrian Alps pursuing personal philosophical interests for a few more, before moving to Canada. There he joined a Canadian federal agency as an international economist, becoming assistant chief economist and head of the country risk assessment department. In that capacity, he traveled throughout the world to many countries in every continent, and regularly served on official Canadian delegations to international aid conferences and innumerable multilateral debt rescheduling and debt forgiveness negotiations.

Always a European federalist, he attended his first international world federalist conference in Amsterdam in 1966. However, he remained a closet world federalist until his retirement, when he joined WFM-Canada. He is now a member of the WFMC National Council and President of the World Federalist Foundation of Canada on top of his position on the Board of the Democratic World Federalists.

Tad Daley

Tad Daley is a political author, an international policy analyst, and an activist for enduring world peace. He holds a bachelor's degree in political science, a master's degree in international studies, a Ph.D. in public policy analysis ... and a law degree to fall back on if neocon Republicans stay in power forever. He's served as a political advisor to Congresswoman Diane Watson (D-Cal, 2001-Present), the late U.S. Senator Alan Cranston (D-Cal, 1969-1993), and Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio, 1997-Present). He ran for U.S. Congress himself in a 2001 special election to represent mid-city Los Angeles.

He spent many years at the RAND Corporation in Santa Monica, California, the world'slargest think tank. He focuses his research, writing, and advocacy on abolishing nuclear weapons, ending genocide forever, and reinventing the United Nations. He's published about 75 newspaper, magazine, and journal articles on positive future visions and the politics of hope. He's a dynamic public speaker and is presently serving as a Writing Fellow for International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, winner of the 1985 Nobel Peace Prize.

Esther Franklin

Esther Franklin is a retired educator who taught from Kindergarten to University level. She was best known as a Consultant in School Library Services, but was also a Consultant in Global Citizenship Education. She has given various presentations at the Peace & Justice Studies Association's meetings. She also attended the Provisional World Parliaments of the World Constitution and Parliament Association, through which she traveled to Libya for a peace-focused tour. Since retiring, she has devoted her time to writing and is the author of The Others At Monticello and considers herself a "Peace Activist."

Ronald Glossop

Dr. Ronald Glossop is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, where he was also Coordinator of Peace Studies for 25 years. He has authored over 50 articles in professional journals plus three books: Philosophy: An Introduction to Its Problems and Vocabulary (1974); Confronting War (1983; 4th ed. 2001); and World Federation? A Critical Analysis of Federal World Government, (1993). He is Chair of Citizens for Global Solutions/St. Louis Chapter and also serves on the CGS national Board of Directors as well as the DWF Board. He is VP of UNA-St. Louis, President of the American Association of Esperanto Instructors, and Director of the Esperanto organization "Children around the World." He is active in various organizations such as International Philosophers for Peace, Concerned Philosophers for Peace, and the Peace and Justice Studies Association. Glossop is a member of the honor societies Phi Beta Kappa and Phi Kappa Phi.

Debbie Metke

Debbie first heard about World Federation in the early 80's when she lived in San Francisco for 4 years, but didn't rediscover it until the early 90's, when she saw a blurb in the Milwaukee paper saying "Peace Through World Law.” She immediately became involved.

In 1997, she moved to Washington DC and worked as Executive Assistant to the President for the World Federalist Association. In 2001, she moved back to Milwaukee and soon became President of the Milwaukee WFA chapter.

Debbie has also produced three different cable TV shows on the subject, interviewing Milwaukee's former World Federalist Mayor for one. Her main objective is to simplify the message for the masses, attract a younger crowd and get mass media coverage, probably through finding celebrity spokespeople. She has attended international meetings in France, England and Canada and recently became a member of the DWF Board.

Robert Neumann

Mr. Neumann has been fascinated by world government for close to 50 years and an active member of the World Federalist movement since the 1970's. Although he left it unpublished, Mr. Neumann completed an original book of poetry on arguments centered on the need for World Government. He completed his B.A., M.A., and graduate work in the fields of History and Political Science. He taught as a secondary school teacher for 22 years and became a General Contractor in his 50's. In 1992 both he and his wife retired and set out on a grand ten-year world adventure on their 47-foot sailboat. After his travels, Mr. Neumann returned to California in 2002 to resume contracting work and D.W.F. activities.

Hank Stone

Hank Stone, retired Xerox engineer, lives with his wife of 39 years in Ionia, outside Rochester, NY. He has two grown daughters and two (extra beautiful!) grandchildren.

When his children were small, then President Ronald Reagan said that we shouldn't fear nuclear war, because we would "prevail." That terrified Stone, who has been active in anti-war, anti-nuclear, DFWG and environmental groups ever since. He is a member of Peace Action and Education, Genesee Valley Citizens for Peace, American Movement for World Government, Coalition for Democratic World Government, Creating the Future, Citizens for a United Earth, and DWF.

Chuck Woolery

Chuck Woolery attended Colorado State University, graduating with a B.S. in Biology. While teaching, he learned of the horrific global child death toll from easily preventable hunger and malnutrition related to poverty and decided to change careers. After finishing the book, “Ending Hunger: An idea whose time has come,” and organizing political grassroots efforts in California, he moved to Washington DC to become the first Media Director for RESULTS.

He was the first Director of the Alliance for Child Survival and cofounded “The Global Connections Foundation.” He worked with the Global Health Council, the Action Board of the American Public Health Association and as Chair of the United Nations Association Council of Organizations. In 1998, the World Federalist Association hired Chuck as Issues Director.

A year after 9-11, he left WFA and became active on the editorial board of the World Hunger Education Service and a school construction project in Haiti. He now speaks frequently regarding global threats and solutions to large groups of students and teachers, visiting Washington DC through the Close Up Foundation. He lives with his wife, children and assorted pets, in Rockville, Maryland and is working on his book, “The Trilemma: Maximizing freedom and security in an interdependent world.” His speeches, his blog, Do The Freakin Math, and his frequent letters to the editor in national publications continue to educate Americans on the urgent need for world federation.

World Government Visionaries:

Isaac Asimov "It is quite clear that as long as the nations of the world spend most of their energy, money and emotional strength in quarreling with words and weapons, a true offensive against the common problems that threaten humans survival is not likely. A world government that can channel human efforts in the direction of the great solutions seems desirable, even essential. Naturally, such a world government should be a federal one, with regional and local autonomy safeguarded and with cultural diversity promoted."

Winston Churchill "Unless we establish some form of world government, it will not be possible for us to avert a World War III in the future."

Walter Cronkite "It seems to many of us that if we are to avoid the eventual catastrophic world conflict we must strengthen the United Nations as a first step toward a world government patterned after our own government...To do that, of course, we Americans will have to yield up some of our sovereignty. That would be a bitter pill. It would take a lot of courage, a lot of faith in the new order. But the American colonies did it once and brought forth one of the most nearly perfect unions the world has ever seen."

U.S. Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas "World Federalism is an idea that will not die. More and more people are coming to realize that peace must be more than an interlude if we are to survive; that peace is a product of law and order; that law is essential if the force of arms it not to rule the world."

Albert Einstein "Mankind's desire for peace can be realized only by the creation of a world government. With all my heart I believe that the world's present system of sovereign nations can only lead to barbarism, war, and inhumanity."

Mikhail Gorbachev "There is an increasing awareness of the need for some form of global government."

Victor Hugo "I represent a party which does not yet exist, the party of revolution, civilization... There will issue first the United States of Europe, then the United States of the World."

Bertrand Russell "Science has made unrestricted national sovereignty incompatible with human survival. The only possibilities are now world government or death."

Socrates "I am a citizen, not of Athens, or Greece, but of the World."

President Harry Truman "It will be just as easy for the nations to get along in a republic of the world as it is for you to get along in the republic of the United States."

Vice-President Henry Wallace "Continued anarchy among nations in the atomic age threatens our civilization and humanity itself with annihilation...The only ultimate alternative to war is the abandonment of the principle of the coercion of sovereigns by sovereigns and the adoption of the principle of the just enforcement upon individuals of world federal law, enacted by a world federal legislature with limited but adequate powers to safeguard the common defense and the general welfare of all mankind...Such a structure of peace through government can be evolved by making the United Nations an effective agency...Beyond an effective United Nations lies the further possibility of genuine world government."