Issue No 5. 20/10/05
Determined
The newsletter of the Sapiens Movement.

We have a name for this Newsletter – creatively contributed by Tony Fleming from New York. To quote Tony “This term is used in most international treaties and, in my opinion, reflects
the commitment of world federalists and hopes of everyone.”

The last fortnight has been spent mainly in planning – writing a 16-page plan on the same model as one would write a business plan when establishing a new business. Such a plan, which can be adjusted as time passes, allows a benchmark against which to judge progress (or lack thereof) and also provides a key basis on which to raise funds when that stage is reached. I attach the much briefer “Executive Summary” which is the standard introduction to such planning documents. As will become clear to you on reading it, as our view of our “product” becomes more refined, large areas of our Website are going to require modification. (This third time in 6 months, is par for the course on green field start-ups.)

50 million environmental refugees' warning

United Nations University Institute of Advanced Studies (UNU-IAS)

As Ranks of “Environmental Refugees” Swell Worldwide,
Calls Grow for Better Definition, Recognition, Support

Amid predictions that by 2010 the world will need to cope with as many as 50 million people escaping the effects of creeping environmental deterioration, United Nations University experts say the international community urgently needs to define, recognize and extend support to this new category of ‘refugee’.

Newsletter No 4. EarthTrek


Every day it becomes more evident that the global market requires a global citizenship. Kofi Annan.

An Australian trip on mixed business and pleasure has resulted in a week’s delay in this newsletter – which is still lacking a permanent title. What are opinions on this one? It is taken from a suggestion made in a different context by a new member from Canada, Jim Stark, of whom more later.

TAKING DEMOCRACY GLOBAL : ASSESSING THE BENEFITS AND CHALLENGES OF A GLOBAL PARLIAMENTARY ASSEMBLY


By Andrew Strauss

INTRODUCTION

Increasingly the world’s diverse political communities – local, provincial and national –have at their common core a popularly elected legislative body. This Booklet is dedicated to the proposition that the increasingly powerful international system should no longer stand apart from the movement to democratize planetary social life. Justifying this proposition are the twin realizations that a Global Parliamentary Assembly (GPA) is becoming increasingly desirable and that it is now possible.

The Forge – Newsletter No 3.

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

The last few days have been pretty hectic. I now feel that I have got a better grip on the status of the world-wide movement for DWG – Democratic World Government -and am in the process of drafting a plan of action based on my understanding of the situation. I have made contact with several of the international players and will be asking for both your and their inputs to the draft. A summary of the situation as I see it, is inserted below. You will see that little progress has been made since Socrates’ day – but that now the need is more urgent (and the opportunity for effective action far greater) than it ever has been in the last 2500 years.