Garry Davis

Garry Davis (born Bar Harbor, Maine, July 27 1921) is a peace activist who created the first "World Passport."

Davis was the son of Meyer & Hilda Davis. He graduated from The Episcopal Academy in 1940 and attended the Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie Mellon University); he also earned an M.A. in Geo-dialectics from the East-West University of Brahma Vidya, Bangalore, India. [ [http://www.worldservice.org/2007/07/open-letter-to-general-david-petraeus.html Garry Davis biography.] ]

A former Broadway actor, after serving in the US Air Force during WWII as a B-17 bomber pilot, he renounced his American citizenship in Paris in 1948 to become a "citizen of the world." Davis interrupted a session of the United Nations General Assembly on November 22, 1948 calling for "one government for one world." He founded the International Registry of World Citizens in Paris in January, 1949 which registered over 750,000 individuals. On September 4, 1953 Davis declared the World Government of World Citizens from the city hall of Ellsworth, Maine, based on fundamental human rights. He then formed the World Service Authority in 1954 as the government's executive and administrative agency, which now issues the passports - along with birth and other certificates - to applicants. Davis first used his "world passport" on a trip to India in 1956, and has been variably admitted into or jailed by countries around the world after using his world passport. Up to 150 countries have purportedly accepted the world passport at one time or another. In France, his support committee was co-founded by writers Albert Camus and André Gide and the Abbé Pierre.

Davis ran for mayor in Washington D.C. in 1986 as the candidate of the "World Citizen Party" receiving 585 votes. He also declared himself as the World Citizen Party candidate for the 1988 US presidential election. Davis has published multiple books in favor of his cause of world citizenship.

Bibliography

* cite book
last = Davis | first = Garry
year = 1961
title = The World is My Country: The Adventures of a World Citizen
publisher = Putnam
* cite book
last = Davis | first = Garry
year = 1992
title = Passport to Freedom, A Guide for World Citizens
publisher = Nwo Pubns ISBN 0929765087
* cite book
last = Davis | first = Garry
year = 2003
title = World Government, Ready or Not!
publisher = BookSurge Publishing ISBN 159457166X
* cite book
last = Davis | first = Garry
year = 2004
title = Letters To World Citizens
publisher = BookSurge Publishing ISBN 0970648375
* cite book
last = Davis | first = Garry
year = 2001
title = A World Citizen in the Holy Land
publisher = World Government House ISBN 0970648340
* cite book
last = Davis | first = Garry
year = 2005
title = Cher Monde, Une Odyssée a travers la planete
publisher = World Government House ISBN 0970648391
* cite book
last = Davis | first = Garry
year = 2006
title = DEAR WORLD, A Global Odyssey
publisher = BookSurge Publishing ISBN 0738826243

ources

*"What's a World Passport?" Daniel Engber, Slate Magazine. http://www.slate.com/id/2138567/?nav=tap3 Accessed March 25, 2006.
*Garry Davis's personal web site. http://www.garrydavis.org/index.html Accessed March 25, 2006.
*Davis v. District Director, INS, 481 F. Supp. 1178 (D.D.C. 1979) http://members.fortunecity.com/legalstuff/481FSupp1178.htm Accessed Nov. 4, 2006.

External links

* [http://www.garrydavis.org Garry Davis' homepage]