Global Citizens United

No one is calling for a new UN, no one is arguing or promoting it. On the contrary, there is a resounding silence on the subject. The question suggests itself: Why the hell? What is the noise behind the silence that creates it? This is the question we want to explore, document and share in the project - Disturb

A new humanity forum is a great task, and it needs many of us to face and dedicate ourselves to it, everywhere. To strengthen and encourage each other, to complement, comfort and challenge each other. In this project, we want to network and connect with a variety of initiatives and organizations around the world that are pursuing the same vision: Global Citizens United - Connect

A new humanity forum must be able to facilitate a shared understanding of what is at stake for all of us. A touch, guided by more than short-term interests, of what we face - and those who will have to stand on our shoulders - if we do not respond now. Global, local and smart - Touch

Our dear old UN was (and is) designed to prevent world wars from happening: peacekeeping. After all, it has managed that so far, even if sometimes only just, and not for all of us. We thank all those who have helped to ensure that, at least in the old Europe, three generations will grow up in peace. The new UN must be focused on ending our world war against the earth: Securing Life. Never before have our possibilities as citizens of the earth been so great. Therefore, the new UN should not be a confederation of states, but a confederation of people - Effectuate

In 'The sacred cows and the wolves of change' Rainer and Elke wrote almost 15 years ago: "The struggle for access to natural resources is becoming more and more hectic. The disputes over ownership and exploitation of all natural resources are militarizing. The global balance of power is shifting based on this ownership. Tensions between cultures are increasing, and old conflicts seem intractable. And all this against the 'backdrop' of depleting resources (even sand is running out!), contamination of the elements, species extinction, global warming. It is perfectly clear that we are horribly guilty of all creation, including ourselves, if we continue as we are. One of the most endangered species, by the way, is human culture itself: Ninety percent of all languages are expected to die out this century, which means ninety percent of all cultures, which means ninety percent of the ways of being human.

Of course, no single country can solve these enormous, self-created problems, if they can be 'solved' at all. But we also can no longer hide behind the fact that we are just doing what everyone else is doing, and that others will not stop just because we are doing it. There is no hiding from the facts of this change. The earth does not know countries, nature does not distinguish national interests. So a response to this catastrophe is either a united one, an international one, a human one, or it is no response.

What we need in the current transformational crisis of humanity (and of life on Earth) is a meta-culture, a culture of cultures, a renewed humanity constitution that facilitates and coordinates how we respond creatively (not backwards) together and respectively to these epochal challenges.

And we need a globally effective organization that is

•     is committed to the integrity of creation - that which must be sacred to us all
•     finally represents the multipolar rank and power weights of the new world adequately
•     understands and enforces women's rights as human rights
•     translates the values of this post-industrial, post-exploitative meta-culture into concerted global action or supports their implementation regionally.

The 'United Nations' we have now, and especially the all-important 'Security Council', still reflects the conditions after the end of the last world war and before the beginning of the Cold War, and many ethnicities, countries and populations are not represented.

That was in 2007 CE, almost 15 years ago.

In 2021 we realize:

Indeed, this outdated and very imperfect world order is disintegrating, the supranational organizations are being sabotaged, disempowered or even abolished (for example, by termination of funding).

The UN is still the only one we have, and certainly better than none at all. But even this very modest opinion is not shared by everyone anymore: Everywhere in the world there are growing calls for "us first, we don't care about the rest" - without specifying who exactly this "us" actually is. Certainly not the rest of us, and certainly not the rest of creation. So:

We need a new UN. Very urgently.

And it gets even better, or worse: Since the beginning of March 2020 our dear humanity is confronted with the pandemic CV-19. Within a few weeks all our lifestyles worldwide have been questioned, we become victims of our own doing - while the rest of creation, as far as it has survived our economies so far, seems to be okay. The first UN was a response to the global catastrophe WW II. Is the tiny Corona virus the third world war it will take to connect all our better sides?

In any case, our global cooperation is quite urgently needed. It is being hindered by self-centered, puerile potentates who think they can get away with cooking their soup for themselves and their backers. And therefore again, with emphasis, in E-flat major:

We need a new UN. Very urgently.

Let's start a movement! Global Citizens United.

And we are not alone, of course. We have the help of luminaries: