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Values for the World Parliament
Marie MARTIN-PECHEUX
Saturday, November 02, 2002 2:39 PM
Good evening to you.
Summary: We would wish to give to the Parliament:
some "primary" values, such as Solidarity and Respect, Transparency and
Coherence - and of course Responsibility, the third pillar.
some "secondary" values, such as Protection, real representativeness,
Flexibility and Adaptability, and "Ci-terrestrial-ship" (Earth citizenship).
1) Respect and solidarity
Any kind of sustainable development won't be able to take place on Earth
without a respect for all conditions necessary to life and if we don't
respect eight solidarities that it is necessary to organize, together:
solidarity between generations, solidarity between the different actors of
society, solidarity between the cultures and ethnic groups, solidarity
between territories, solidarity between producers and consumers, solidarity
with the future generations, solidarity with the other living species,
solidarity towards the whole biosphere.
To every voted law, to every taken option it is fundamental that the World
Parliament asks this question: what will this law or option imply for the
future generations?
In particular, it is necessary to establish a hierarchy of the priorities to
be dealt with and about the governing processes. The humanitarian it should
be first than the economic profit: Men must dictate to the market their
rules, limits and role. Not the opposite.
2 - Transparency
Transparency would allow all citizens to keep informed of everything that
happens in the world parliament. Thus, the undemocratic decisions, done in a
hiding place, would not be possible.
3 - Coherence
Coherence is indispensable to avoid that some contradictory laws are voted
and remove all credibility in the parliament. It cannot sustain the criminal
behavior of a state and condemn another state with same behavior... Its
decisions must also have a transversal consistency, each one relating to the
others.
A government must take coherent decisions: - in case of conflict -
concerning the monetary system, - concerning the climatic change, -
concerning the technological options, - concerning arsenals of destruction -
concerning religious or state-controlled imperialisms - coherence in front
of despots, - etc.
And to have also the *means* to apply its decisions!
4 - Protection
The parliament must have a role of *guardian* and of *protector* of the
weakest, in particular of the children. An important task will be: to put an
end to all war, to the craziness of weapons, to all industrial, sexual or
domestic exploitation of humans and other species. Its role is also to
permit the restoration of the ecosystems.
5 - A real representativeness
a- More than a state-controlled or a numerical representativeness, we worked
on a parliament of the "communities of ideas". (see Jean-Marc FLAMENT
contribution, from YHAD group)
It is about, besides the current chambers, setting up a "chamber for the
communities of ideas" or "chamber of proposals". Every citizen would have
the possibility to vote for "dealers of projects or ideas" which would
indeed translate real choices and options of the people.
Associations of individuals or NGOs would carry *one* proposal to every
parliamentary session, and according to the given acceptance, would receive
the means to achieve these proposals. One could imagine that the funds
nourishing the WP and reserved for this chamber would be distributed
according to the percentage received by each proposal. So every session
could put in place a real program, with its own calendar, assessments and
means of adequate actions.
An example of proposals: free schooling for all children, re-fertilization
of the deserts, creation of vegetal sanctuaries, free contraception,
adequate lodging for all, protection of architectural heritage, etc.
b - We wish that the World Parliament would be, in conclusion, a real place
to the children and to our young. The future belongs to them and they are
perfectly capable and have the fundamental right to make good choices for
them.
We cannot support that humanity continue to disregard such an important part
of its population.
We suggest the setting up, besides of the two other chambers, a "Chamber for
Youth" so that their voices are heard and their needs are taken truly into
account. Their proposals would be, as those of the adults, carried to the
"chamber of proposals" for possible adoption.
6 - Flexibility and adaptability:
A global government should allow the society to function at a double level:
- a global level to assure some harmonious and democratic conditions of life
on all continents, (it is the level of *global solidarity*).
- a local level to encourage all exchanges concerning the survival and
autonomous life of people (this level would correspond to *autonomy* and
*local solidarity*).
7 - Ci-Terrestrial-ship (Earth Citizenship):
This concerns the text "first month's agenda, Oct 18-Nov 10"
http://allies.alliance21.org/wp/en/disc/arboresc/000003_20021018_wheeler.html, paragraph
b), concerning "inventing an intercultural principle - to introduce other
values - to show your own vision or social paradigm":
In our opinion, a global government should allow the establishment of a
society respectful of every living being, *human* or *not human*, on a
preserved Earth. Humanism is necessarily tied to the respect of the other
inhabitants of the Earth, animals and plants alike.
A global government giving to all humans a life in the dignity and in the
respect of the fundamental needs, it is indispensable. But if it could allow
the massacre of the ecosystems and the exploitation without conscience of
species, it will drive us to an ecological disaster. We would be at the end,
also their victims.
The work of a WP is therefore to allow each one to be respectful of oneself,
the others, all living beings, all biotopes, all ways of living. This would
correspond both to an active ecology chapter and to an educational chapter.
We didn't find in the dictionary any word to designate this notion of
"responsible, respectful citizen and *lover* of the planet and its
inhabitants". Thus we have invented the words of "ci-terrestrial" and
"ci-terrestrial-ship".
Ci-terrestrial-ship means:
- to consider oneself as a citizen, adult and responsible towards our
similarities, in *respect of all kinds of adherence*, ethnic, cultural,
religious, sexual, or of age. - beyond these adherences, to consider oneself
as member of only one biologic species, the human species. That this one is
*one, multiple and multi-colored* - to consider oneself as belonging to a
global ecosystem, where each living being can and must have its just place,
even plants and animals, in a necessary and harmonious interdependence. - to
like Life under all its representations. - to carry *as a principle* the
fundamental right to be able to have our own choice concerning the
management and the future of our planet.
These are in our opinion, in truth, the values for the 21st century.
We believe that the World Parliament should have therefore as its mission to
allow the exercise of these fundamental rights of individuals and peoples,
and this ci-terrestrial-ship.
Sincerely,
Marie Martin-Pécheux
WP21 Alliance Forum on a World Parliament for the 21st Century
E-mail : world-parl@forums.alliance21.org
Fax 1 717 264 5036
Information, inscriptions, désinscriptions: germa@alliance21.org
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