August 1
Citizens for Global Solutions (CGS)
advances World Federation - a unified system of governance that promotes international cooperation
Meeting # 3,865 - Matt McDonough, Executive Committee Member
For more than 75 years, Citizens for Global Solutions (CGS) has
worked to build the global governance structures needed to address
the greatest challenges facing humanity such as war, climate change,
the erosion of human rights.
Our Vision
A peaceful, just and sustainable world community democratically
governed through a united federation of nations.
Our Mission
To advance global solutions to governance challenges that transcend
national borders, and to build toward a democratic federation of nations
empowered to:
Create just and universally enforceable world law
Abolish war and armed conflict and eliminate nuclear weapons
Advance peaceful means of resolving disputes between states
Uphold human rights and freedoms, prevent atrocities, and ensure accountability for violations of world law
Protect and sustain our planetary home
Our Values
Organizational values provide the core principles by which an organization operates; including how the stakeholders of the organization relate to and treat each other. What ethical principles must be adhered to in order that the organization is respected and listened to by its stakeholders and the outside world.
Speaker Bio
Matt McDonough
At-Large Executive Committee Member
Matt McDonough is a green energy consultant who has been committed to the cause of world federalism for more than four decades. Following two tours as an Air Force rescuer in Vietnam, he joined the World Federalist Association in 1974 and became president of the Amherst, Massachusetts, chapter. He has since served on regional and national CGS boards.
He “continues to believe that the salvation of the planet is reliant on the establishment of a democratic federation of nations and will continue to spread the word to anyone who willing to listen!”
More Information https://globalsolutions.org/
Membership
August 15
Walking Chicago's Coasts:
A 63-Mile Journey to the Indiana Dunes
Meeting # 3,866 - author Michael McColly
"Part memoir, part travel narrative, part environmental reportage, McColly sews together this metropolis as he walks, reflecting on the city's layers of history and its troubling divides as well as muses on his years living in this grand polyglot mecca of the Midwest. In the end, McColly's walk is a form of advocacy in that he asks us to witness where we live from the ground, so that we can cherish and revere the multiple histories—human and nonhuman--that shape our cities, our lives, and our planetary future."
Book Information: https://www.michaelmccolly.net/
