Want to prevent a flood of disaster?? Want to bring good, balanced government and peace to the world?? ALL ABOARD ARK! The information below has been sent to thousands of women and men citizens and activists for good government. It combines some information also available on the World Wide Web at http://www.geocities.com/ark_earthinbalance/home.html where you can learn about where gender balance that cares about real representation has been achieved in various nations around the world http://www.geocities.com/ark_earthinbalance/allships.html The balanced Stewardship of the United States http://www.geocities.com/ark_earthinbalance/usship.html the current drafted season by season Stewards, and how you can draft more (see growing US Steward list ANNOUNCED below) The balanced Stewardship of the World http://www.geocities.com/ark_earthinbalance/upship.html the current drafted season by season Stewards and how you can draft more (see growing World Steward list ANNOUNCED below) what you can do to bring about gender balance and real representation of the population for the government of your nation http://www.geocities.com/ark_earthinbalance/what.html ANNOUNCING: THE Balanced STEWARDS OF THE STEWARDSHIP OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: an already existing presence of stewardship ready and available to work together for our nation. STEWARDS AND SUGGESTED ORDER OF CO-PRESIDING: Nancy Tate Exec. Dir. of League of Women Voters Walter Mondale Previous US Vice-President Jesse Jackson Jr. US Representative Bernadine Healy President, American Red Cross Patsy Mink US Representative John Gardner Founder of Common Cause Jack Kemp Former Presidential Candidate Pat Shroeder Former Presidential Candidate Elizabeth Dole Former Presidential Candidate Mario Cuomo Former Presidential Candidate and Governor of New York Steve Wozniak Develop of Personal Computer Gloria Steinem Activist Founder of Ms. Rosalyn Carter Humanitarian, Former First Lady Jimmy Carter Previous US President Geraldine Ferraro Former US Vice-Presidential Candidate Gerald Ford Former US President Arun Gandhi Peace Activist and Grandson of Mahatma Gandhi Sarah Feldman President, US Teachers Union Colin Powell Secretary of State Christine Todd Whitman Head US EPA Lucille Roybal-Allard US Representative Geraldo Rivera Lawyer and Journalist Edgar Mitchell Astronaut Mae Jemison Astronomer and Scientist Maxine Waters US Representative Charles Ogletree Harvard Law Professor Joan Claybrook Consumer Advocate and Public Interest Lawyer Wade Horn Head of Fatherhood Initiative John McCain US Senator Ellen Miller Election Reform Activist Dorothy Bush KochWine Industry;Daughter,Sister Tim Russert Journalist Stuart Mott Philanthropist Arianna Huffington Philanthropist and Activist Patrick Kennedy US Representative Rev. Bernice King Minister; daughter MLK and Coretta King Mrs. Coretta King Wife, Mother, Activist Rev. Billy Graham Religious Leader Laura Bush US First Lady and Literacy Activist Christopher Dodd US Senator, Sponsor of Family-Friendly Legislation Prof. Arthur Miller Lawyer and Public Educator Tipper Gore Former 2nd Lady and Developmental Psychologist George Bush Jr. Current US President Oprah Winfrey Television Talk Show and Book Educator Carrie Meek US Representative Ronald Dellums Former US Representative Rev. Joan Brown Campbell Religious Leader Al Gore Previous US Vice-President, Former Seminarian Timothy Hutton Actor and Human Rights Activist Susan Sarandon Actress and Human Rights Activist Hillary Clinton US Senator and Former First Lady T. Berry Brazelton Pediatrician Patricia McBride Election Reform Activist Kweise Mfume President, NAACP Marion Wright Edelman Children's Defense Fund Founder Ralph Nader Public Interest Lawyer, Former Presidential Candidate Lynn Cheney Current Second Lady; Director, Endowment for Humanities George Lucas Director, Star Wars Ossie Davis Actor and Activist Ruby Dee Actress and Activist Barbara Bush Former First Lady Jonathan Kozol Educator and Author Andrea Mitchell Journalist Walter Cronkheit Journalist Connie Morella US Representative George Bush Sr. Previous US President Warren Beatty Actor, Reformer Shirley Maclaine Actress, Transformer Melinda Gates Computer Systems Analyst and Philanthropist John Lewis US Representative, Civil Rights Leader Winona Laduke Economist, Former Candidate for Vice-President Rev. Martin Luther King III Business and Community Leader Dr. Joyce Brothers Psychologist and Public Educator Bill Clinton Previous US President Barbara Ehrenreich Journalist Jeremy Rifkin Futuriest, Thinker Sally Ride Astronaut Dick Cheney US Vice-President Studs Terkel Author Whoopi Goldberg Actress Lynn Martin Former US Transportation Secretary Pat Buchanan Journalist and Former Presidential Candidate Steve Jobs Computer Innovator Lee Grant Director Julie Nixon Former First Daughter Richard Gephardt US Representative Bay Buchanan Journalist James Carville Political Advisor Chelsea Clinton Former First Daughter Jello Biafra Musician and Environmental Activist Sheila Jackson Lee US Representative Bill Gates Businessman and Computer Developer Betty Friedan Woman's Activist Joseph Lieberman Former Vice-Presidential Candidate, US Senator Ted Koppel Journalist Susan Collins US Senator Kathleen Kennedy Townsend Lieutenant Governor Dexter King Justice Advocate Barbara Streisand Singer, Actress, Director James Brolin Actor, Businessman Lenora Fulani Former Presidential Candidate John Hagelin Former Presidential Candidate Marlo Thomas Actress and Women's Activist Phil Donahue Talk Show Innovator and Activist Bonnie Erbe Journalist Michael Moore Humorist, Activist Marianne Williamson Authoress, Democracy Activist Bill Cosby Actor, Producer, Educator Bill Bradley Former Presidential Candidate Gail Sheehy Author, Psychohistorian Louis Farrakan Religious Leader Ezola Foster Former Vice-Presidential Candidate Edward James Almos Actor and Human Rights Activist Chief Wilma (Cherokee) Chief, Women's Activist Geoffrey Canada Author Mrs. Jesse Jackson Wife, Mother Cybil Shepherd Actress and Author Jesse Ventura Governor Amy Carter Former First Daughter, Environmentalist Ron Reagan Jr. Former First Family Son, Journalist Bill Lan Lee Physician Madeleine Albright Former Secretary of State Granny D Haddock Election Reform Activist, Long Distance Heroine George McGovern Former Presidential Candidate and US Senator Betty Ford Former First Lady Robert Dole Former US Senator, Former Presidential Candidate Dorothy Hamill Athlete and Artist Michael Jordan Athlete and Businessman Kerry Kennedy Kuomo Human Rights Activist Andrew Kuomo Former HUD Secretary Eleanor Clift Journalist, Author Tom Brazaitis Journalist, Author Patricia Ireland Women's Rights Activist Frank Fitzimmons Labor Leader Lonnie Guinere Legal Reformer Barney Frank US Representative Kay McVay Head of Nurses Organization of US Largest State, CA Robert Reich Former Secretary of Labor Ellen Goodman Journalist Christopher Reeve Actor, Disabled Persons Advocate Maria Shriver Journalist, Authoress Arnold Schwarzenegger Actor, Business Donna Shalala Former Health and Human Services Director Deepak Chopra Author, Spiritual Leader Steven Spielburg Director Jane Fonda Actress, Businesswoman, Activist Ginny Markell President, National PTA Jerry Lewis Actor, Philanthropist Amy Hoffman Journalist Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr. Activist Martha Stewart Businesswoman, Culturist Ted Turner Businessman, Philanthropist Diane Rehm Public Radio Brian Lamb C-SPAN Broadcaster Eleanor Smeal Women's Activist William Schultz Amnesty International in US David Bonior US Representative Rosa De Lauro US Representative Carolyn Jefferson-Jenkins President, League of Women Voters Carl Pope Executive Director, Sierra Club <br> <p>... many more including... Every living elected legislative or judicial current or past member of the US government and all state governors, legislators, and higher court judges paired in political equality and stewardship with either a spouse, colleague or associate of the other gender Every voter Pairing themselves in thought and awareness with Their spouse or a friend or associate of the complementary gender who they love or care about and many many more AND ANNOUNCING: THE Balanced UNITED STEWARDSHIP OF THE PEOPLE OF THE WORLD: an already existing presence of stewardship ready and available to work together for our world. STEWARDS AND SUGGESTED ORDER OF CO-PRESIDING: Kim Campbell Former Prime Minister of Canada Oscar Arias Sanchez Former President Costa Rica Kofi Annan UN Secretary General Tarja Halonen President, Finland ArchBishop Desmond Tutu, Truth and Reconciliation Leader Mary Robinson UN High Commissioner on Human Rights Liv Ullman Actress, Director Human Rights Activist John Anderson Former US Presidential Candidate, Good Government Visionary El Taller Founder, Woman's World Court Alan Greenspan US Chief Economist Hazel Henderson Visionary Economist Qiao Zonghuai Ambassador to UN, China Violetta Chamorro Past President of Nicaragua Frederick de Klerk Former President, South Africa Helen Caldicott Authoress, Physician, Peace Activist Elie Wiesel Author, Human Rights Activist, Nobel Prizewinner Begum Khalida-Zia Prime Minister of Bangladesh Mikhail Gorbachev Government Reformer, Past Head of State, Former USSR Hosni Mubarak President of Egypt Co-Presiding Diane Feinstein Senator from Largest US State Harry Belafonte Human Rights Activist, Singer Ruth Dreifuss President of Switzerland Jehan Sadat Former First Lady, Egypt Yuval Rabin Israeli Political Leader and Peace Activist Jean Chretien Prime Minister, Canada Tansu CillerFormer Prime Minister, Turkey Ms. Zaoude or Representative, UNIFEM Mr. Truu or Representative, Council of Europe Shamsad Ahmad Ambassador to UN, Pakistan Vigdis Finnbogedottir Former President, Iceland Toni Morrison Nobel Prize, Literature Sir Paul McCartney Musician Kazimiera Prunskiene Prime Minister, Lithuania George Soros Philanthropist, Civil Society Builder Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo Former Prime Minister, Portugal Hector Henrique Cardoso President of Brazil Cora Weiss President, Hague Appeal for Peace Kim Dae Jung Nobel Prizewinner, Peace Edith Cresson Former Prime Minister, France Rahesh Sood, Ambassador to UN, India Nelson Mandela President, South Africa Corazon Aquino Former President, Phillipines Carly Fiorina CEO, Hewlett Packard Octavio Paz Nobel Prizewinner Jean Fitzpatrick Former UN Ambassador US Lech Walesa Former Prime Minister, Poland Jenny Shipley Former Prime Minister, New Zealand Harry Belafonte Human Rights Activist, Singer Benazir Bhutto Former Prime Minister, Pakistan Bernardo Bertolucci Director Jody Williams Peace Activist, Nobel Prizewinner Susumu Tonegawa Medical Research, Nobel Prizewinner Jytte Anderson Gender Balance Official, Denmark Andrew Young Former UN Ambassador, US Rigoberta Manchu Tum Nobel Peace Prize Sir Richard Attenborough Director, Author and many many more FUTURE STEWARDSHIPS INTO INFINITY: Every boy and girl among our children Many more people can be called easily, and added to the ARK website. Suggest/volunteer and add your own stewardship pairs on our Guest Book and consider the following: The above starter list of stewards for the world, and for the US where it is so especially needed, was drafted, recruited, ennumerrated and generated to achieve and model a concept of 50/50 that all could see as present and ready, so it can become practically achieved, more or less, in soon self-transformed government in the US,<A HREF="http://www.geocities.com/ark_earthinbalance/allships.html"> and all in other governments around the planet.</A> It is offered to enliven public interest, awareness, celebration and support for gender balance in stewardship and government to empower what is good in culture and government for the benefit of all. The stewardships of many nations are already launched, and many have already landed. The ARK of the human spirit for natural and good government has been sturdily built in the visions of many human beings, and is sailing the world, cyberspace and world consciousness. Don't let the US or any government be long left behind in the bad-government soup of gender imbalance. ARK Stewardships of Nations Are Always Gender Balanced, Work as a Team, and Serve as Equal Partners in Status and Hierarchy. The term of Co-Presiders is 3 months, with the suggested presiding schedule as follows, starting 3/22/2001; when the shared term of Co-Presiders ends, they of course still remain stewards and in their national stewardship, and of course, in the ARK. But, in a sense, these stewardship are really being launched by all people, in the names of all men and women worldwide; they started as an important sections of ARK, on the First Day of Spring of our New Millennium (3/22/2001). For more information on the tasks of stewards and their national, international and other jurisdictional stewardships,<A HREF="http://www.geocities.com/ark_earthinbalance/tasks.html"> please click here,</A> <A HREF="http://www.geocities.com/ark_earthinbalance/more. html">and here;</A><A HREF="http://www.geocities.com/ark_earthinbalance/land.html"> and here</A> or refer to the contents of the ARK Home Page. StewardShips of nations or for international or world organizations, are Inspirational, Symbolic Transformational gatherings of spirit and action; functioning models, but not governments persay, wherever gender balanced government does not already exist. Actual, official gender balanced governments, where they don't ALREADY EXIST, are being catalyzed by ARK and many others, <A HREF="http.www.geocities.com/ark_earthinbalance/allships.htm"> </A>are hoped to phase in early in the period of service of the stewardships;yet stewards of every nation will continue to coexist with government to symbolize stewardship and will continue as long as they are needed to insure that gender balanced leadership is well understood and brought into being in all major governmental organizations, state governments, and other national governments and the UN, via mutual ARK ambassadorships of good will among nations. WHAT YOU CAN DO 1. Come Aboard the ARK! Explore the ARK website and see who we've already called Aboard to create 50/50 gender balanced stewardship for the US, and see where gender balance has already been successfully launched and landed in other nations. Call and draft other well known women and men for gender balanced stewardship, and sign your name to our ARK Guestbook, and if possible, enter the name of an important person of the other gender to come aboard with you, or a gender balanced group of friends or family members. Recruit others in a like way; famous and unknown --- all are equally welcome on the ARK. 2. Make sure your woman's (or men's, or voter's rights) organization has a prominent section on gender balance and government in their website, comparing and contrasting their nation and its laws on important topics with those of other nations around the world. Such topics would include: gender balance in offices of government and legislatures, family leave, reproductive issues, women and men in peacemaking and diplomacy, violence in society, judicial gender balance, findings on differences and complementarities in women and men's leadership styles, etc. 3. If you are a member of a civic organization, a political party, or the like, ask yourself if its membership and leadership is gender balanced. Express the opinion openly and often that decision-making and official titles should be gender balanced, and sensitive to other important balances that represent the people who are in your actual community. Check to see that the letterhead of your organization is gender balanced. Affirm yourself as you affirm others. 4. Use the Internet to announce the ARK to other people, who are, after all, your sisters and brothers in your area and around the world. Use Internet forums and newsgroups and chats where you participate, and if you are motivated to reach many people, purchase a bulk email program, (many are available when you type 'bulk email' into a search engine) usually affordable to many men and women at between $50-$300. Share your ideas, information from the ARK and other websites on the issue of gender balance in government, such as that of <A HREF="http://www.wedo.org"> WEDO </A> and <A HREF="http://stars.coe.fr/doc/doc99/edoc8423.htm">the European Parliamentary Assembly</A> with your friends or your organization, and enjoy boarding, sailing, and landing in good government and a more balanced and healthy culture and world together! 5. Make it clear to your political representatives and parties that if election offerings are not democratic and gender-balanced, you will register your name and sign in at the polling place but not actually vote if the parties offerings for ALL offices are not gender balanced, and tell them that many nations mandate gender balance on party lists in Europe, Latin America, Africa and all around the world, as you will read at the ARK website. Just say no to gender imbalanced tickets for any office, from highest to lowest. Accept no excuses, and point out the large numbers of talented and literate women graduated from universities (the American Association of University Women has had a t-shirt that reads "I Am A Future President" for quite some time now), in retirement organizations, and so on, who simply need to be treated with long delayed affirmation to participate fully. Tell candidates and organizational leaders that if they are not actively working for naturally gender balanced national referenda of the type that most nations and states ALREADY HAVE, you are not for them in office. Inform them that many nations provide coalition lists involving many parties, instead of encouraging polarization and division among parties, and that the failure to provide political flexibility is an outgrowth of unigender domination modes and hierarchy. 6. When you shop or are telemarketed: Ask the shop manager or telemarketer if the stockholders, stakeholders, and officers of the compan(ies) they serve are about equally male and female. Read the section of the website devoted to world economic organizations and balanced economic modeling, at http://www.geocities.com/ark_earthinbalance/arkecon.html 7. If you live in a family, if possible, see to it that the most important decisions are mutually and lovingly arrived at in a mode of equality and balance. Take stock of the gender balances and imbalances in your own family, their history in relation to the societies in which they have lived, and envision yourself and your family many years and/or generations into the future. 8. If you are in a close relationship with a person of the other gender, romance or please and empower your spouse, significant other or friend by telling them that you want to share the Co-Presidency of your nation with them! 9. Bring a Gender Balance Sign to your local Earth Day Celebration. Signs might read: "Naamah and Noah saved and stewarded their earth, shouldn't we steward ours?". "Think Globally and Act Locally for Gender Balance in Government and a Healthy Sustainable Earth" etc., etc., etc., Draw arks with male and female and/or yin-yang symbols. Use your imagination. Make sure the topic of more or less 50/50 gender balance in government and culture is addressed as an essential aspect of ecological balance and stewardship. 10. If you have more ideas; add them to the ARK Guestbook, or make a website of your own! http://www.geocities.com/ark_earthinbalance/home.html At the website, and more important, in your thoughts and actions: all aboard ark! __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/?.refer=text
