Garry Davis
Garry Davis (born 27 July 1921, Bar Harbor, Maine) is a peace activist who created the first World Passport.
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[edit] Early life
Davis was the son of Meyer and Hilda Davis. He was graduated from the Episcopal Academy in 1940 and attended the Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie Mellon University). Later, he earned a Master of Arts degree in geo-dialectics from the East-West University of Brahma Vidya, Bangalore, India.[1]
[edit] Renunciation of US citizenship
A former Broadway actor, after serving in the US Air Force during WWII as a B-17 bomber pilot, he renounced his American citizenship in Paris in 1948 to become a "citizen of the world." Davis interrupted a session of the United Nations General Assembly on 22 November 1948 calling for "one government for one world". He founded the International Registry of World Citizens in Paris in January 1949 which registered over 750,000 individuals. On 4 September 1953 Davis declared the World Government of World Citizens from the city hall of Ellsworth, Maine, based on fundamental human rights. He then formed the World Service Authority in 1954 as the government's executive and administrative agency, which now issues the passports - along with birth and other certificates - to applicants. Davis first used his "world passport" on a trip to India in 1956, and has been variably admitted into countries around the world using his world passport. Over 180 countries have accepted the world passport at one time or another.[2] In France, his support committee was co-founded by writers Albert Camus and André Gide and the Abbé Pierre as well as Robert Sarrazac, a former leader of the French Résistance who joined Garry in founding the World Cities movement Mundialization.
Davis ran for mayor in Washington D.C. in 1986 as the candidate of the "World Citizen Party" receiving 585 votes. He also declared himself as the World Citizen Party candidate for the 1988 US presidential election. Davis has published multiple books in favor of his cause of world citizenship.[3]
At the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio De Janeiro Davis issued and disbursed a world currency based on kilowatt hours of solar power produced, an idea proposed by Buckminster Fuller. These "kilowatt dollars" were the earliest documented emissions reduction currency.
[edit] Bibliography
- Davis, Garry (1961). My country is the world: The Adventures of a World Citizen. Putnam.
- Davis, Garry (1992). Passport to Freedom, A Guide for World Citizens. Nwo Pubns. ISBN 0929765087
- Davis, Garry (2003). World Government, Ready or Not!. BookSurge Publishing. ISBN 159457166X
- Davis, Garry (2004). Letters To World Citizens. BookSurge Publishing. ISBN 0970648375
- Davis, Garry (2001). A World Citizen in the Holy Land. World Government House. ISBN 0970648340
- Davis, Garry (2005). Cher Monde, Une Odyssée a travers la planete. World Government House. ISBN 0970648391
- Davis, Garry (2006). DEAR WORLD, A Global Odyssey. BookSurge Publishing. ISBN 0738826243
[edit] References
Additional books:
- Dear World, A Global Odyssey, ISBN 0-97064833-1-6
- Views From My Space, ISBN 1-4392-1792-0
- World Peace Is You (ebook)
[edit] Sources
- Garry Davis's blog. Accessed 25 March 2006.
- "What's a World Passport?" Daniel Engber, Slate Magazine. Accessed 25 March 2006.
- Davis v. District Director. INS, 481 F. Supp. 1178 (D.D.C. 1979) Accessed 4 November 2006.
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