Democratise Global Power

To tackle today’s devastating global challenges, war, pandemics, economic meltdown, climate breakdown, mass extinction, inequality, forced migration, etc. we need wealthy nations to take the lead where they can, and for all nations to cooperate globally with each other too.

Instead of taking individual or collective responsibility, nations focus all their resources on competing with each other. This is driving a geopolitical race to global destruction.

To make matters worse, competition between nations doesn't just occur naturally, it is weaponised in classic Machiavellian style. We call it ‘International Divide-and-Rule’ (IDR).

How International Divide-and-Rule works:

Insidious Neo-liberal IDR: All nations are held to ransom by highly networked multinational corporations and globally mobile plutocrats - fossil fuel, media, weapons, banking etc. Under the threat of relocating to other more “business-friendly” nations, they demand tax-payer subsidization, lower corporation tax, weaker employment and environmental protection rules. In short, they demand fewer regulations whilst funding the most compliant political parties.

With our so-called “world-leaders” merely pretending to be in control having given power and responsibility away to entities that work beyond national borders, they have created a democratic power vacuum.

Overt Authoritarian IDR: This vacuum is being swiftly filled by far-right oligarchs, demagogues and autocrats. Their strategy is to scapegoat other nations, cultures and ethnicities as being the primary cause of problems that they themselves, and their Insidious IDR counterparts exacerbate. By sowing the seeds of chaos and shock they too increase their power over national governments, swell their profits in offshore tax havens all whilst inviting us to buy into a narrative of past nationalistic “greatness.” Their mission is global unity but by connecting border walls of ignorance, fear and hate.

How to decommission International Divide-and-Rule: Earth Citizens Assemblies (randomly selected policy juries) will be tasked with dividing solutions to global problems into two categories. Policies A. are those which each nation can act on alone and immediately without damaging their economy or their national security, and Policies B. policies that could threaten a nation's economic or national security and will therefore require global cooperative implementation.

This strategy would evidence as clear as day how there is far more action governments can take immediately and unilaterally to tackle global problems than they care to admit.

Citizens around the world will therefore be mobilised not only to force their governments to act immediately where they know they can, but also to force all nations to begin the process of cooperating globally too.

One Action: The most powerful form of action to drive systemic change is Non-violent Direct Action (NVDA). The most powerful form of NVDA is for workers to strike. Initially, only 3.5% of the population is needed to succeed.

Global Peace Strike

1-minute silence. 11 am. Local time. Everywhere.

We are leaning over a precipice of nuclear, ecological and economic annihilation because all governments are corrupted by the divisive and dictatorial power that multi-national corporations, globally mobile oligarchs and autocrats hold over them.

Stand wherever you are, where you work, in front of your home, in silence.

As we grow in number, as we begin to sense our collective power, we escalate our action and take the power back.

We demand:

• All sovereign national governments fund the convening of an Earth Citizens' Rapid Response Assembly (ECRRA) to propose a multi-issue global policy package to tackle the immediate threat of interrelated global problems including war, climate breakdown, social and economic collapse.
• To set up National Citizens Assemblies tasked with ascertaining which policies their nation can implement immediately and unilaterally to tackle global problems (Policies A), or which policies require global cooperative implementation (Policies B).    
• To set up a national Preferendum to allow citizens to vote for, against or options in between to implement Policies A and B.

(Caveat: We don't need to ask permission. Let’s start funding the ECRRA ourselves and make the existing system obsolete.)

Together, we will break down the walls that divide us. We will unite across borders to democratise the dictatorial global power held over our national governments and our lives.

Through our global grassroots cooperative action we will decommission the weapon of International Divide-and-Rule, the systemic root cause of threats to all life on earth.

By mobilising from within our communities and across borders we will enable the whole of humanity to assume democratic power and responsibility for peace, justice, sustainability and prosperity for all.