1971 Film:
Man's Next Giant Leap

Video Lynn Elling World Peace
on YouTube - thanks to Ann Schwartz, editor, Aitkin MN Independent Age

World Peace Resources:
World Citizen Inc.
2020 Vision Campaign
Citizens for Global Solutions
Mayors for Peace
Minnesota Alliance of Peacemakers
Nobel Peace Prize Festival
PeaceOneDay.org
US Peace Memorial
United Nations Assoc. of MN
Walls to Bridges
WorldPeace.org

Dick Bernard's Venturing

John Denver - Last Night I Had the Strangest Dream

April 24, 1971 video of John Denver singing "The Strangest Dream" at a peace march in Washington DC. The song, written by Ed McCurdy about 1950, became one of the anthems of the Vietnam war era. If you have trouble playing here, click to see it on YouTube.

* Why "A Million Copies"? It's a significant number; an audacious goal. It's a phrase perhaps best defined by Ed McCurdy's lyric in "Last Night I had the Strangest Dream"; "...and when the paper was all signed, and a million copies made..." Listen to John Denver sing these words on this page.

Proposed Declaration of World Citizenship for the 21st Century

Below is the text of a proposed Declaration of World Citizenship for the 21st century. It is also available as a pdf document here to be printed, copied and used by anyone who has an interest.

A Proposal for the 21st Century to promote

Personal Reflection, Interpersonal Dialogue, and Action

A PROPOSED DECLARATION OF WORLD CITIZENSHIP

We the Peoples of the United Nations,

RECOGNIZING the steady and profound increase in social, political, economic and ecological interdependence in the contemporary world;

REALIZING the need for worldwide cooperation in the common interests of the Human Family;

SEEKING to free the world from the scourge of war and to harness all available resources of wisdom, talent and energy in the service of humanity; and

AWARE that we can best serve our community, state or province, and nation when we also think and act as World Citizens;

HEREBY RESOLVES that all people shall enjoy the sovereign right to declare that their responsibilities as citizens extend beyond their respective nations and are free to join with other concerned people in a declaration of shared planetary responsibility and common World Citizenship.  Also, we pledge, as World Citizens, to strive to establish permanent peace based on just world law and to use the world’s resources in service to the Human Family.

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that, in recognition of our obligations as World Citizens, all the nations of the world shall be encouraged to fly the flag of the United Nations, along with their national flag, on the grounds of their respective capitals and other major public buildings.

If you support the project of getting Minnesota Legislators to again initiate a World Citizenship Declaration, this time for the 21st Century, click here to sign an online petition.

Printable fancy pdf version of the above declaration.