Saybrook Alum and Transformative Social Change Faculty Member Bob Flax, Ph.D. to Give Two Presentations in Seattle Area
Bob Flax, Ph.D.
In connection with his new position as Executive Director of Citizens for Global Solutions www.globalsolutions.org, Bob will present an alternative way to govern our world to prevent war, guarantee human rights, and ensure environmental sustainability.
Background: At the end of World War II, many considered ways to make sure we would never have a World War III. That led to the creation of the United Nations, with its primary purpose of
eliminating “the scourge of war”. Sadly, over 250 wars have occurred since the UN Charter was signed, demonstrating the limitations of its current structure. Similar limitations can be seen in resolving other pressing global problems.
However, at the time of the UN’s creation, an alternative way of organizing our world was proposed, which holds great promise for a brighter future. These presentations are about the path not taken . . .
The World is My Country
Burien Library, 400 SW 152nd St, Burien, WA
Wednesday, June 19th from 7-8:30 PM
Event Description:
In today’s world, all of our major problems have gone global; including war, terrorism, environmental crises, economic calamities, pandemics, and social injustice. Many of our human-made systems are global as well. However, the one significant thing that has not gone global is democracy. Could that be the cause of our global problems? This stimulating presentation will describe an alternative way to govern our world, where “We the people” are in charge. Many scholars and laypeople agree that only a global democracy can meet today’s toughest challenges. We’ll explore the history of this idea, the movement that grew out of it, the paths to getting there, and how it might work.
What is World Federalism?
World Federal Government (WFG)
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We share the worries of millions that the looming effects of man-made climate change could soon lead to the collapse of civilization. We also believe that the only way to thwart this will be one offering a democratic global federation, so we’d like to invite you to affiliate your party to the World Federalist Party today. Time is running out. Here’s why: The rampant GREED of a few and short-sighted selfishness of virtually all of us have created unacceptable and unsustainable economic divisions; our NATIONALISM has created unacceptable and unsustainable geographical divisions; and our numerous RELIGIONS have created all kinds of other divisions, most of them wholly irrational. Along with widespread IGNORANCE, these divisive forces are preventing us from dealing with CLIMATE CHANGE, the fifth great divisive force, whose effects, if unchecked, will give us a planet of more hurricanes, more storm damage, more floods, more droughts, more failed harvests, more famine, more refugees, and more terrorist groups, all exacerbating the vicious spiral of wars, hatred and terrorism already being generated by the four primary divisive forces. There can be no healing of these divisions without a route map to the only political solution that can rid us of all of them: a federated world without today’s inequality, injustice, warrior nations and maniacal groups with vain thoughts of religious world domination; and thus without any “wars on terror” or worse; a world in which today’s nation-states, European Union and Caliphate are replaced by a global community of around a thousand regional members, co-operating to achieve sustainable development and to protect human rights. Drafting such a route map could be tricky. Following it would be even trickier. But all other routes will surely lead to an apocalyptic end to our inchoate civilization. Travel along the world federalist route is already overdue. It’s high time for you to take that first small step toward saving civilization.
A WORLD FEDERALIST MANIFESTO
The World Federalist Party seeks to work with existing parties in the UK (Labour, Liberal Democrat, SNP, Plaid Cymru, Green etc.) and with Green and Federalist parties globally, but also calls for a World Constitutional Conference to be sponsored by as many of the world’s people, parliaments and governments as possible, and aimed at producing an instrument for federal democratic world governance that builds on the supranational democracy of international unions such as the EU, and that is fit to replace the UN with a federal democratic global body capable of making and enforcing laws to control MNCs, arms production and the use of arms by nation-states, and to protect humanity from global pollution, climate change and extremes of inequality, and from nationalist and religious fanatics, while facilitating the devolution and localisation of all other aspects of government.
For more information, or to join us, email worldfederalistparty@gmail.com
Background reading: Gwynne Dyer: Climate Wars (Oneworld, 2008, 2010)
Ian Hackett: The Spring of Civilization (CEF, 1973, 2006); Transcending Terror (O-Books, 2004); Succeeding Revolutions (CEF, 2005, 2006)
Leopold Kohr: The Breakdown of Nations (Green Books, 1957,1986, 2001)
Mayne & Pinder: Federal Union:The Pioneers (FTER/Macmillan, 1990)
George Monbiot: The Age of Consent (Harper, 2004)
Barbara Walker (ed.): Uniting the Peoples & Nations (WFM/WFA, 1993)
Ted Wheatley: One Day Wide (CEF, 2008)
BY JOINING THE WORLD FEDERALIST PARTY, YOU CAN SIGNAL THAT YOU WANT TO TRADE THE ROUTE TO AN APOCALYPTIC END TO MODERN CIVILIZATION FOR A ROUTE TO HUMAN WELL-BEING IN A FEDERAL GLOBAL DEMOCRACY THAT CAN ACHIEVE WORLD PEACE AND SUSTAINABLE SHARED PROSPERITY THROUGH USING WORLD LAW TO CURB THE GREED, MYOPIA AND MUTUALLY DESTRUCTIVE PROPENSITIES OF UNFETTERED MULTINATIONAL CORPORATIONS, NATION-STATES AND RELIGIOUS MANIACS; YOU WON’T HELP STEM THE COLLAPSE OF CIVILIZATION BY PANDERING TO THE RICH OR STUPID OR BY HOSTING EXPENSIVE EVENTS FOR WEALTHY PARTICIPANTS. BY JOINING THE WORLD FEDERALIST PARTY, YOU JUST MIGHT.
Comments welcome.
Mita* & Ian** Hackett,
World Federalist Party (世界联邦党 – “Shìjiè liánbāng dǎng”).
* WFP President (1993-);
Reuters TV News Producer (1987-93);
ITV Here & Now Presenter (1984-6);
**WFP Secretary (2008-)
AWF* UK Chair (1991-2) and Treasurer (1983-91 and 2004-8);
Head of the International School of London (2000-1);
One World Trust Director (1994-9);
Author, The Spring of Civilization (1973); Beyond Sovereignty (1985); Transcending Terror (2004); Succeeding Revolutions (2006), The Hackett Chronicles 1012-2012 (2013).
*Association of World Federalists, now part of Federal Union (federalunion.org.uk), the UK organization of the World Federalist Movement (http://www.wfm-igp.org/)
Check also:
http://www.federalunion.org.uk/no-more-trivial-tinkering/
http://www.federalunion.org.uk/the-spring-of-civilisation/
http://www.federalunion.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/34_Succeeding-revolutions.pdf
https://www.facebook.com/pages/World-Federalist-Party-International-Committee-and/1004200162945347
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ieJcSmtjJM
P.S. AN ALTERNATIVE QUATRAIN FOR TODAY
We’re seven billion idiots heading for a fall
We fight or flee for holy lands. We talk of building walls.
Some still deny that climate change is anything to heed.
Some just live for power. Some just live to breed.
AND TOMORROW (2030-2050?)
Eleven billion idiots heading for a fall
More and more are starving now. The writing’s on the wall.
Climate change denied no more. Too late to put it right.
Better press that button, or some foreign idiot might.
AND THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW
Half a billion chastened souls, survivors of the fall,
May yet build on Tennyson’s dream, set down in Locksley Hall:
“When the war drums beat no longer & the battle flags are furled
In the Parliament of Man, the Federation of the World.”
Enjoyed reading through this, very good stuff, thankyou .