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Book Club | My Country is the World (Session 1)

Name: Book Club | My Country is the World (Session 1)
Start: 2020-10-10T00:00:00-04:00
End: 2020-10-10T23:59:59-04:00

October 10, 2020

About the Book

My Country is the World tells the remarkable story of Garry Davis, who renounced his American citizenship after World War II to declare himself a world citizen. The book chronicles his bold acts of civil disobedience and his lifelong campaign for world government.

About the Author

Garry Davis (1921-2013) was a former Broadway actor and World War II bomber pilot who became the most visible advocate for world citizenship in the 20th century. He founded the World Service Authority and issued World Citizen passports.

Discussion Highlights

In Part 1, the book club explored Davis’s early life, his wartime experiences, and the transformative moment when he renounced his national citizenship to declare himself a citizen of the world, sparking a global movement.

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Date: October 10, 2020
Event Category: World Citizen Book Club

Kehkashan Basu

Influencer, educator, environmentalist, feminist, champion of women and children’s rights, TEDx speaker, Climate Reality Mentor, author, musician, peace and sustainability campaigner

Kehkashan Basu, M.S.M., MBA is an iconic global influencer, educator, environmentalist, feminist, champion of women and children’s rights, TEDx speaker, Climate Reality Mentor, author, musician, peace and sustainability campaigner. She is the recipient of Canada's Meritorious Service Medal and the only Canadian to win the International Children’s Peace Prize. A Forbes 30 Under 30 and the first-ever Winner of the Voices Youth Gorbachev-Schultz Legacy Award for her work on nuclear disarmament, Kehkashan is a United Nations Human Rights Champion, a National Geographic Explorer, a UNCCD Land Hero, a UN Habitat Young City Champion, the Regional Organizing Partner for North America for the NGO Major Group and one of Canada's Top 100 Most Powerful Women.

Kehkashan is the Founder-President of global social innovation enterprise Green Hope Foundation, that works at a grassroots level in 28 countries, empowering over half a million young people and women, especially those from vulnerable communities, turning Education for Sustainable Development into ground-level action by harnessing clean energy technology for social good. She has spoken at over 500 United Nations and other global fora. She is the Co-President of the World Federalist Movement/Institute for Global Policy, Trustee of the Parliament of the World's Religions, Co-Lead of UN Women Generation Equality Forum's Action Coalition on Feminist Action for Climate Justice and a member of the World Humanitarian Forum Youth Council.

She is the recipient of several awards that include the Spirit of the United Nations Award, World Literacy Award for Significant Contribution to Literacy by a Young Person, Canada's Global Energy Show Emerging Leader Award, Dubai Supreme Council of Energy's Emirates Energy Award and the Pax Christi Toronto Teacher of Peace Award. Kehkashan was listed as one of the Top 100 SDG Leaders in the world in 2019 and was named the 2019 Innovator of the Year at the HundrEd Innovation Summit for her global work on Sustainability Education. Kehkashan holds an MBA from Cornell University and an Honours BA with High Distinction in Environmental Studies from the University of Toronto.

Book Club | My Country is the World (Session 1)

About the Book

About the Author

Discussion Highlights

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Kehkashan Basu

Augusto Lopez-Claros

Manu Bhagavan

Cinthya Calderon-Hernandez

Drea Bergman

Keshet Benschikovski

Anthony Vance

James Lowell May

Jon Kozesky

Helen Caldicott

Blanche Wiesen Cook

David Cortright

Andrea Cousins

Gary Dorrien

Oscar Andrew Hammerstein

Gordon Orians

William Pace

James T. Ranney

Rick Ulfik

John Stowe

Barbara Smith

William J. Ripple

Mark Ritchie

Kim Stanley Robinson

Leila Nadya Sadat

Martin Sheen