No Country No War
That was the believe of today's hero Gary Davis the international world peace activist who created the world passport, a travel document based on his interpretation of Article 13(2) of the Universal Declaration Of Human Rights as well as the concept of world citizenship.
On May 25th, 1948 Davis gave up national citizenship of the United States and declared himself a "citizen of the world" and since that day he remained by choice a stateless man until he died in 2013.
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Interrupting a session of the United Nations General Assembly on November 22nd, 1948 he declared that "We, the people want the peace which only a world government can give. The sovereign states you represent divide us and lead us to the abyss of total war." And I have to say that I agree here with Garry to the contrary of what Ken O'Keefe intended to do with his initiative of World Citizen Solutions he launched in 2015 to try to change the world.
The Registry of World Citizens founded in January 1949 in Paris by Gary Davis registered over 750,000 individuals. In September 1953 he also formed the World Government of World Citizens, with the purpose of furthering fundamental human rights. He formed the governments executive and administrative agency called World Service Authority which issues its own passports and other documents to members.
If you want to learn more about this extraordinary person just visit the page about him on Wikipedia here
I look forward to hear your thoughts about Gary Davis and what he stood for here in the comments below - thank you very much to start the discussion
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STOPWow, so much information on your post. Glad to know that. Supported
Glad to help you @itinerantph share the word with others too - thank you
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Great post.
Thank you so much @chantha
Jeff Berwick of "The Dollar Vigilante" publishes a newsletter and You Tube videos on related topics. That reminds me. I remember him saying in a You Tube video that he posts on Steemit. I'm going to look for his posts.
Yes he does and I like what he does. Just want to suggest heroes here that @jeffberwick can feature so his audience can learn about them too - thank you @judyroberts