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FORM B:
PROPOSAL FOR PRESENTATION/ WORKSHOP
David Korton, author of The Great Turning, said:
We humans live by stories. The key to making a choice for
Earth Community is recognizing that the foundation of
Empire’s power does not lie in its instruments of physical
violence. It lies in Empire’s ability to control the stories
by which we define ourselves and our possibilities…. To
change the human future, we must change our defining
stories.”
How can we produce new stories that will take off like an
idea virus and inject into the popular culture a new way of
thinking -- as world citizens – at one with nature and
humanity?
How can these new stories help free us from knocking our
heads against the dysfunctional political systems of old,
that plunge our world into chaos, and instead directly
evolve new systems that can actually implement humanity’s
demands for peace, freedom, security and a healthy planet?
At this Global Symposium, I will present the World Première
of our short 4 minute film: One! The Garry Davis Story. I
will also show some additional video clips that are part of
our effort to evolve a new story for humanity.
Workshop Title:
Evolving Earth Operating System 1.0
For the first time ever, One
Films will reveal to the public our innovative plan for
global transformation. First we will create public
awareness through a series of major movies, starting with
the Garry Davis story. Then we will work with both the
existing e-parliament pioneers and with leading technology
companies to create Earth Operating System 1.0, an
e-Congress Web Portal designed to enable the citizens of the
world to collaborate on solving the world’s major problems,
directly engaging in the process of governing our planet:
making proposals, debating, honing and voting on proposed
solutions, imbuing them with the authority of the sovereign
will of the people, then working together to implement them
in local communities around the world. The portal will
be the local entry point to a world of opportunities to
energize global civil society. Employing new tools,
the citizens of the world will be able to work together in
an open-source process for governing our world, evolving a
virtual operating system for our planet that can insure its
survival:
1)
A virtual parliament where world citizens can propose,
refine and pass legislative programs to tackle the
challenges threatening our planet,
2)
A participatory and innovative court system to protect the
rights of all.
3)
A virtual administration to implement the programs through
NGOs, social entrepreneurs, civil society groups,
international agencies, concerned citizens and those local
or national governments who choose to enroll.
Innovative new tools will be
evolved to bring out the best of the collective wisdom of
humanity – avoiding not only the tyranny endemic to existing
governments, but also avoiding the tyranny of the majority
and protecting the rights of all human beings around the
world.
PLEASE
JOIN US IN AN INTERACTIVE PROCESS OF BUILDING THIS FUTURE
TOGETHER.
Arthur Kanegis,
Writer/Producer, is President and
founder of One Films, LLC, a motion picture development and
production company dedicated to producing uplifting
entertainment that makes a difference. He also
founded Future WAVE, a non-profit which aims to shift our
culture of violence to a culture of peace. He owns all
rights to Garry Davis’ story. He was formerly media director
of the Center for Defense Information, an organization of
former military officers speaking up for peace. Prior
to that served for seven years at the American Friends
Service Committee. He was a talk-show host on KSFR FM
in Santa Fe, NM. He review films for Scene 4: The
International Magazine of the Arts and Media, and has
been published in The Nation. The New Republic,
Progressive. The Washington Monthly. Media and Values, In
Context and other journals.
Kanegis produced the
following:
War Without Winners,
narrated by Paul Newman, 1st place, American Film Festival.
It was the #1 selling film distributed by Films Inc.
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The Weapons
Bazaar, a documentary on arms
sales that inspired the Chevy Chase movie “The Deal of
the Century”
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The
Automated Airwar became a key organizing tool
employed by over 1500 activists to help stop the Vietnam
war.
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The Post War War
shown widely the campaign to cut funding for the
“Vietnamized” war.
Kanegis wrote the following
Screenplays:
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“OOOPS!”
An Actors Choice Award screenplay winner. Coverage by
Sundance Institute said “’OOOPS!’
is an exhilarating ride -- brimming with
life, joy, fear, change, hope, and dreams...It's an
absolutely beautiful story with a well-researched
concept that works. Any way you look at it, this one is
very special, clearly destined to make a difference."
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Legend of the
Bullyproof Shields. A
Moondance Film Festival stageplay finalist.
ASTROCOPS:
Peace Engineers of the future. Games, toys and
ancillary products to excite kids imaginations with a
better game than war.
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“One! The Garry Davis
Story” Moondance award winning screenplay.
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“One!” is a labor of love for Kanegis who has
spent 7 years researching and developing the Garry Davis
Story, including taping extensive interviews in France,
Germany and the US not only with Garry, but also with
Esther Peter-Davis, Ginia Davis and others who shared in
the adventures.
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