The United for Global Democracy statement was adopted by Occupy London and reached consensus at the General Assembly by St Paul’s Cathedral in October 2011.
On 15 October 2011, united in our diversity, united for global change, we demand global democracy: global governance by the people, for the people. Inspired by our sisters and brothers in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Syria, Bahrain, New York, Palestine-Israel, Spain and Greece, we too call for a regime change: a global regime change. In the words of Vandana Shiva, the Indian activist, today we demand replacing the G8 with the whole of humanity – the G7,000,000,000.
Undemocratic international institutions are our global Mubarak, our global Assad, our global Gaddafi. These include: the IMF, the WTO, global markets, multinational banks, the G8/G20, the European Central Bank and the UN security council. Like Mubarak and Assad, these institutions must not be allowed to run people’s lives without their consent. We are all born equal, rich or poor, woman or man. Every African and Asian is equal to every European and American. Our global institutions must reflect this, or be overturned.
Today, more than ever before, global forces shape people’s lives. Our jobs, health, housing, education and pensions are controlled by global banks, markets, tax-havens, corporations and financial crises. Our environment is being destroyed by pollution in other continents. Our safety is determined by international wars and international trade in arms, drugs and natural resources. We are losing control over our lives. This must stop. This will stop. The citizens of the world must get control over the decisions that influence them in all levels – from global to local. That is global democracy. That is what we demand today.
Today, like the Mexican Zapatistas, we say “¡Ya basta! Aquí el pueblo manda y el gobierno obedece”: Enough! Here the people command and global institutions obey! Like the Spanish Tomalaplaza we say “Democracia Real Ya”: True global democracy now!” Today we call the citizens of the world: let us globalise Tahrir Square! Let us globalise Puerta del Sol!
Guardian article: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/oct/14/manifesto-global-regime-change
I,m with you..You are absolutely right..How can I make a stand for Justice.
Any remaining doubts that Occupy is a puppet creation of the globalist bankers they say they oppose are dispelled by this globalist screed.
By calling for “global government” Occupy are doing the work of the enemy. Shame on them.
Global governance is not global government. There exist many obvious global problems which cannot be solved without global co-operation. Rethink that anything global is hierarchical, it is holarchical, a whole within a whole, consciousness evolving from ego to family and tribe, to nation and religion, to global, then global and inclusive – of previous memes. Using a global Internetocracy approach we can solve problems that are effecting people everywhere in increasingly the same way and in doing so recognise our common humanity. We need to create the web platform for this, local, national and most importantly global policy participative making. We need to invite NGO’s to suggest global policy to give credibility and extra support to the cause. We can all coordinate what power we have, our votes, strategically to drive it to happen by voting only for politicians that vote in parliament for Internetocracy.
Nowhere near all of the world’s population has internet access. How would ‘Internetocracy’ produce global representation?
How would NGO lobbying of governments be any more representative than a corporation lobbying governments? Both are non-democratic organisations.
Hello Robert. Computer access must be made available for all. Shared access will no doubt be necessary, such as at libraries (no matter what they look like). Computers can be donated and recycled to extend the on line community. The funds to do so must be found, or better still, created. Global polices already exist and they are created behind closed doors by the likes of the IMF and World Bank. Humanity bears the brunt of them. The need for global co-operation is apparent in the face of global problems such as climate change and unregulated multinational corporations. People must be enabled to have their say in the decisions that affect them.
Specialist NGO’s would not lobby governments but provide in depth, accessible information on issues and on policy. Citizens partaking in Internetocracy can use or ignore this information. We would understand each NGO’s agenda according to their mission statement and also past achievements. For example, the many NGO’s involved with Stop Climate Chaos might champion the policy Contraction and Convergence. The Robin Hood campaign might promote an International Tobin Tax. No NGO would have voting power, but they would recommend policies. Anyone or any group of people can set up an interest group.