by Vinay Orekondy | Dec 9, 2009 | Global Cooperation, World Citizen
On 19 November, the Senate introduced Senate Resolution 357, encouraging US Citizens to celebrate and take actions in line with Globalfamily Day.
Globalfamily Day, taking place annually on the 1st of January, is a celebration of global citizenship and cooperation to solve global problems.
Before this, Globalfamily Day has twice received the unanimous support of the US Congress (S. Con. Res. 138, S, Res. 582, H. Con. Res. 317), the UN General Assembly (Resolutions 54/29 and 56/2)
Specifically, this Senate request is as follows:
- the people of the United States to observe Global Family Day and One Day of Peace and Sharing with appropriate activities stressing the need–
- to eradicate violence, hunger, poverty, and suffering; and
- to establish greater trust and fellowship among peace-loving countries and families everywhere; and
- American businesses, labor organizations, and faith and civic leaders to join in promoting appropriate activities for Americans and in extending appropriate greetings from the families of the United States to families in the rest of the world.
Citizens for Global Solutions echoes the Senate’s request, and congratulates Linda Grover on her fantastic work in getting further Senate recognition of Globalfamily Day.
by Citizens for Global Solutions | Nov 24, 2009 | World Citizen
GlobalSolutions.org is excited to announce our partnership with Global Family Day this holiday season. At a time in history when we have never had more need for human unity, we can all recognize a practical new tool for peace and sharing that the US Congress and the UN General Assembly have both adopted. What binds us together as true GlobalSolutions.org is our strong belief that we are all, everywhere in the world, connected as members of the Global Family.
In this vein, on January 1st, 2010, we will recognize and celebrate Globalfamily Day, One Day of Peace and Sharing for all faiths, cultures, races, nationalities and economic classes. During the 48 hours of January 1st, 2010, we will break bread together, ring bells, and pledge to find non-violent solutions to all our problems in the year ahead. Celebrate with your friends, your families, your neighbors, your co-workers, and ask them to do the same. Holidays are society’s most powerful tool to inspire and unify individual groups and we will use Global Family day to remember that we are all part of the global family and to remind our leaders that we need global solutions for the world’s most pressing challenges.
On January 1st, at the start of the United Nations Year of the Planet, let’s all gather at our electronic hearth and celebrate life on earth together. Let’s replace hate and hunger with peace and sharing, and begin to unite our global family. Please sign the petition to ask President Obama to celebrate Global Family Day this January 1st and remind us that we are all part of the Global Family.
A little more about Global Family Day Founder, Linda Grover:
Linda has devoted many years of her life to making real her children’s idea of creating a unifying holiday for all people each January 1. Born in New England, daughter of an inventor and an poet, and raised in the military family during WW2, Linda developed a keen early interest in politics and human rights. Completing high school with honors in Las Vegas at 15, (the same year she won the city’s highest beauty award) she worked as a secretary, migrating to Washington, DC at age 19, where she became California congressman Sam Yorty’s DC legislative aide. At 21, she became Clerk of the House Indian Affairs Subcommittee. Grover also worked for the National Committee for an Effective Congress and as a caseworker for the International Rescue Committee following the Hungarian revolution.
GlobalSolutions.org is so excited to be working with Linda on this project and hopes to continue her amazing years of work on creating a global day of peace and harmony.
by Citizens for Global Solutions | Aug 28, 2009 | Human Rights, World Citizen
In a monumental effort to raise the status of women, Nicholas Kristof and his wife Sheryl WuDunn have authored a book titled, “Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide.” One of the many goals of the book is to end discrimination against women and release them into society so they can make valuable economic contributions and ameliorate global poverty. Kristof and WuDunn argue that the greatest unexploited resource in the world are the women and girls. The book can be bought on September 8th. It details women’s stories of success after receving microfinance loans and being given the opportunity to contribute to the economy.
You can buy the book HERE
To learn more about the work GlobalSolutions.org is doing to help women around the world, CLICK HERE
by Diane Hodges | Apr 5, 2009 | Global Cooperation, World Citizen
About 30 international students from North Carolina State University hustled themselves out of bed on a Saturday morning to talk about what it means to be a Global Citizen. CEO Don Kraus met with the students at the CGS office in Washington, D.C., where he emphasized the need to be engaged with the rest of the world by learning, lobbying and traveling.
He demonstrated those points by showing the group the winning videos and animations from our 2008 Multimedia contest.
He also rolled out the first video in our new campaign, “What does it mean to be a Global Citizen?” The massive effort features video of people from all ages and professions, explaining in their own words, the need for global engagement, and the reasons they have decided to become more involved with world issues. The initial video features people ranging from original United World Federalist member Ed Rawson who lives in a Washington, D.C. suburb, to a college student who grew up on an isolated island off the northwestern coast of Washington state.
Don also read the group a quote by Thomas Jefferson that
is engraved on the Jefferson Memorial here in Washington, D.C.:
“… as new discoveries are made, new truths disclosed, and manners
and opinions change with the change of circumstances, institutions
must advance also, and keep pace with the times. We might as well
require a man to wear still the same coat which fitted him when a boy,
as civilized society to remain ever under the regimen of their
barbarous ancestors.”
Don pointed out that the world is at a major crossroads and the key challenge of the next decade that the students will face is how to how to address “the most dangerous deficit facing humanity;” the gap between the need for effective collective action at the global level and the ability of the international community to satisfy that need.
The U.S. government has now taken some major steps towards that goal: recently, the Obama administration announced that the U.S. will run for a seat on the U.N. Human Rights Council; the Administration began the process of reducing our nuclear weapons stockpile to the lowest level since 1955; and the U.S.Senate voted to increase funding for the International Affairs Budget.
These are major achievements that resulted from decades of hard work
by armies of supporters. By speaking to groups of students like
these, Don is helping to ensure that the work will continue in the
decades to come.
by Lenka Andrysova | Oct 30, 2008 | Global Justice, World Citizen
“A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical elusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.”
~ Albert Einstein in Minerva #33, October 2008
by Citizens for Global Solutions | Oct 15, 2007 | Global Cooperation, World Citizen
If you are planning on going to the movies on Friday night you may want to check out the film Rendition by New Line Cinemas . Of course, you may also wonder what lead actor Jake Gyllenhaal was thinking when he said this . Check the full clip out.
Money quote :
“I believe that governments and presidents should act as parents to a country. And I think that there are things that a country needs to know and there are things that it doesn’t…” from CNN’s Showbiz Tonight.
Linda has devoted many years of her life to making real her children’s idea of creating a unifying holiday for all people each January 1. Born in New England, daughter of an inventor and an poet, and raised in the military family during WW2, Linda developed a keen early interest in politics and human rights. Completing high school with honors in Las Vegas at 15, (the same year she won the city’s highest beauty award) she worked as a secretary, migrating to Washington, DC at age 19, where she became California congressman Sam Yorty’s DC legislative aide. At 21, she became Clerk of the House Indian Affairs Subcommittee. Grover also worked for the National Committee for an Effective Congress and as a caseworker for the International Rescue Committee following the Hungarian revolution.