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Earth is our home. Humanity is our family” -
Oscar Rogers. |
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| DEFINITION
OF MUNDIALIZATION |
Mundialization - The declaration of specified territory
- a city, town, or state, for example - as world territory,
with responsibilities and rights on a world scale. |
| MUNDIALIST
MANIFESTO |
(Adopted by the World Council for Mundialization June
22, 1995 at the Ninth International Meeting on Mundialization
in San Francisco.)
Firstly, people say that the 21st century will be an age
of cities and towns and, in other words, an age of regional
governance.
If the 20th century were referred to as an age of confrontation,
including war, with emphasis on national identity induced
from nationalism, language and law within the framework
of a taller wall of national boundary, we may say that
the 21st century will be an age to enlarge comprehensibility
and affinity. These characteristics are integral aspects
of urbanization-lessening, as they do, incompatibility
between peoples and nations.
Therefore, the mundialization movement will undoubtedly
be expected to play its role of strengthening and enhancing
such forms of governance.
Secondly, the power of governance, which can flexibly
and swiftly respond to natural disasters, has proven to
be much more effective at the municipal, or grassroots,
level. In particular, the mundialization movement could
address effectively the aggravated dangers to our ecological
systems as well as the recurrence of terrorism and the
like. Accordingly, the movement will be expected to function
as the core of a new form of governance in the 21st century.
Thirdly, overpopulation of cities is an even greater challenge
to be met in the 21st century. It is an especially troubling
problem in the developing countries, home to more than
a billion severely impoverished people, many of whom are
persistently migrating to cities and towns.
The United Nations Decade for the Eradication of Poverty,
which begins following the International Year for Eradication
of Poverty in 1996, has been acknowledged by the world's
heads of state. However, the social development required
for eradicating poverty will never occur without partnership
between municipalities and NGOs. It is expected that the
mundialization movement should continue to disseminate
this fact all over the world.
Fourthly, because of the continuing increase in the proportion
of the aged in society, the advancement of health, medical
care and welfare will become ever more needed facets of
governance provided by municipalities. It is now obvious
that these problems cannot be solved by central government
alone.
Finally, just as mutual aid and neighborly love are essential
in human society, so too "global ethics" are
required in order to organize a new form of governance
inclusive of the Earth, international organizations, states,
regions and individuals as a whole. Cities and towns must
be regarded as common spaces, regardless of race and nationality.
And due to their inherent absorbing characteristic, they
should become places of even greater affinity, as well
as being expressive of the ethics of civil solidarity.
It is clear the world is now seeking global governance
based on an ethical background in the mundialization movement.
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| MUNDIALIZATION
CHARTER |
The idea of this new technique for promoting global
consciousness and a sense of responsibility to our fellow
world citizens originated in the French Mundialization
Research and Study Center following the wave of enthusiasm
aroused by Garry Davis, then a young, former U.S. bomber
pilot who renounced his nationality in 1948, declared
himself a world citizen and subsequently pitched his
tent on the grounds of the United Nations headquarters
in Paris. Davis, with the Center's members, went to
Cahors, a French town of some 50,000 inhabitants and
formulated the first Mundialization Charter:
WE, THE INHABITANTS OF CAHORS, DECLARE THROUGH THIS
CHARTER THAT OUR TOWN HEREBY BECOMES WORLD TERRITORY.
Our action means that:
- We declare that our security and welfare are linked
to the security and welfare of all towns and districts
of the world - these being like ourselves today under
the menace of totally destructive war.
- We wish to work in peace with all towns and districts
of the world and to cooperate with them so as to establish
a world rule of law which will assure our common protection
under the aegis of a democratically elected and controlled
world federal authority.
- We call on all towns, districts and organizations
of all kinds to join us in sending their delegates
to the first World States General Assembly so as to
prepare world elections for the organization and safeguarding
of world peace.
- We claim the right of direct election to the Peoples'
Constituent Assembly consisting of one delegate per
million inhabitants.
- We request of our own government that funds be
made available from the military budget and transferred
to an international world fund usable for world elections.
- Without renouncing our attachment, duties and rights
with respect to our own region and nation, we symbolically
declare that our territory is world territory and
as such is joined to the community of our whole world.
- We call on all towns and districts of the earth
to join us in this Charter of Solidarity - a Charter
for those who live under the present menace of destruction.
This charter was submitted for approval to the Cahors
Town Council on July 3, 1949. On July 20, the newly-elected
council voted 20 ayes with 7 abstentions. The next day,
a committee initiated a Referendum that resulted in
70% of the voting population responding with 59% ayes,
1% nays. Following the lead of Cahors, many other French
communities subsequently adopted their own Mundialization
Charters.
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