Celebrating Every Mr. and Mrs. Clause - Delivering Best Gifts: Gender Balanced True Government, and the Blessings of Provident Prosperity and Peace
(Please Note: A Set of Links for Further Information is Available at the End of This Message. This message is being read by millions over the Internet, at scores of universities, organizations and online forums linked by email, in over 45 countries and on all continents.) Even most little children know that Santa Clause is not a bachelor. This Season and Year, and Every Season and Year to Come, Look Up through the mist and You Will Finally See both Midnight and Midday Clear, a very beautiful Mrs. Clause very clearly sitting next to her now Agelessly handsome and Egalitarian Mr. Clause. They both are equally and joyfully together, delivering the Gifts of Promised and Lasting Providence and Peace, wrapped in the Words and gender balance Clauses of many countries' reformed Constitutions, and international commitments, announcements and globally drafted declarations defining true and wholly human government as gender balanced (as distinguished from mostly-monogenderment), now daily shared over the Internet and fax machines of millions of more and more self-esteeming women and pro-balance men. After all, the gender balanced governments of Scandinavia were never very far from the North Pole, and now the gifts of their several decades of gender achievements in consciousness and government are being seen and sought in the laws of many countries, and the charters of global organizations. Definitions of gender balance in government as a natural, Creator-endowed and inalienable right for citizens of inherently gendered humanity everywhere, are becoming the best word on government, via modern non-hierarchical, egalitarian telecommunications. The Internet, as well as use of fax machines and telephones is gender balanced, and the Good News of the gender balance Laws and gender balanced True Government-defining Clauses is travelling as fast as the mythic sleigh. And, in the words of the song, the bad ol' boys and their bad ol' girl enabler wives and dominatrix tokens of gender imbalanced monogenderment, pseudogovernment and dominant male corporatism, "better watch out" if they want to receive any credit for these gifts (instead of public shame amidst world crises and near zero public confidence in mostly-monogender official politics.) For the new generations of youthful Mr. and Mrs. Santa Clauses are everywhere and are "coming to town" - to every capital and respect-worthy international organization everywhere, via every telecommunications equipped home, dorm room and office. Public expectation of gender balance in the world's governments and corporate boards is now openly matching the progress already achieved in all other sectors of civil society in so much of the literate world. The Bad Olds - old male dominated corporate news media and bad ol' boy politics has been trying hard to hide the Good News for years, but via the decentralized Internet and fax, the True Word is getting around in good time for the Holiday Season. A significant and critically sufficient number of nations, states, university and student governments, and international organizations and global political parties, and many internet discussions on good government, now exhibit balance of gender in office, and seek reasonable balance of gender roughly similar to that of nature, by intention. Many have proudly displayed manifestos, constitutions and constitutional models, and declarations, made by men and women citizens of every continent and every land, that contain gender balance clauses, sometime called "Mr. and Mrs. Clauses" and/or "Mr. and Ms. Clauses". And now, in this Season, because these clauses also right a centuries old spiritual wrong and bring forth promised provident spiritual and providently natural and prosperous gifts to the world, some are, tongue inside every girl and boy rosy cheek, calling them the real "Mr. and Mrs. Santa Clauses". These Documents and Clauses set forth observable gender balance in political candidacy and office as a necessary hallmark, standard and a defining indicator of true government, true election and fully human democracy that recognizes the importance of mutual gender respect. This is contrasted with pseudo-government, manipulative selection, and dehumanizing gender and other correlated forms of domination and exclusion, such as racial, caste and ethnic, that are called mere monogenderments and mostly-monogenderments, and residues of a low-literacy, information over-centralized, outmoded world past. Such Clauses and documents usually pinpoint gender balance in political office as the prerequisite and necessary co-factor, imbedded in the hard-wiring of nature and human nature, for bringing forth racial and ethnic, as well as economic, world reconcilitation, and the blessings of inclusive nature-protective environmental providence, peace culture and blessed prosperity, as well. For example, despite the usual setbacks, the French Gender Parite Law of 1999 continues to inspire daring progress throughout Europe and around the world, (even in France!) for Joyeous Noels and Noelles that will soon maximize on including the Vive le Differene equally in governmental decision-making. The Gender Parite Clauses will prove that their co-authors, Professor Sylviane Agacinki Jospin and her husband, former Prime Minister Lionel Jospin, are indeed, Mr. and Mrs. Clauses, not just for their country, but for the whole world. Similarly, so are Sonia Gandhi, in the memory of her husband Rajiv, for her gender balance sit ins in the Lok Sabha (Indian Parliament) to support proposed gender balance legislation with the men of India, such as Mobel prizewinning, womens' work counting economist Amartya Sen. So are the Nobel prizewinning and prizeworthy couple, Mr. Oscar and Mrs. Margarita Arias Sanchez of Costa Rica, for their achievements on the gender balance issues - Costa Rica is one of the most gender balanced countries of the world currently, and an important cultural player in the "UN" University and forward-looking culture at the "UN". Many other such Mr. and Mrs. are doing the same all over the globe. And most internationally and clearly originating among the well- informed grass roots of a worldwide internet connected community, the Universal Declaration of Gender Interdependence for True Government, http://www.geocities.com/theuniversaldeclaration/thedeclaation.html was first published on Easter 2002 and circulated widely on Earth Day 2002, and thus, especially of relevance to the 2002 Christmas and Earth's Winter Holiday Season. It declares the "at least 75% gender balanced" standard, in which at least 37.5% of offices and seats are held by women as well as at least 37.5% of offices and seats are held by men, as a definitional requisite of non-destructive true government worthy of worldwide international citizen recognition as real government, in contrast to dominationment. The Universal Declaration describes how dominationment was achieved in humanity's more primitive, less self-aware past, by a small subset of the most dominant of one gender, slightly over-endowed with testosterone, which motivates aggression and hierarchical dominance of this subset of one gender over both genders, which are then kept, or unwittingly keep themselves, politically unmutual and divided by a false hierarchy of cognitive decision-making inequality, which then drives setting up rigid divisions and rigid hierarchies of race, ethnicity, caste, income, alienation from Nature, and individualism at the expense of, and out of balance, with the factors which bind the whole for optimal and harmonious functioning. Initially a temporary material (though not spiritual) advantage in primitive times, the arrangement eventually becomes a world destructive one, both spiritually and materially, in conditions of large population and developed technology. Fully human, gender balanced True government allows for a more optimal balancing of testosterone related energies of aggression and individualism with social whole protective energies, related to a sufficient presence of estrogen and its effects on group functioning. Again, this is especially important in large populations endowed with powerful technologies that make cognitive aggression and domination tendencies have more seriously destructive effects when insufficiently influenced by the cognitive intelligence of the nurturing and binding forces. With advanced technologies present, the imbalance could destroy the earth in several scenarios. It is now widely discussed and acknowledged with some chagrin, even among many self-reforming political and corporate decision-making "scrooges", that mostly-monogender officialdoms, such as the US, UK and Iraq, have been posing the greatest danger to themselves, each other, their families, their own populations' freedom and safety and the earth and environment. Most importantly, until the so-called "United Nations" and other global organizations successfully achieve gender balance, they insufficiently impact these dangerous mostly- monogenderments, and over the long haul, unwittingly perpetuate, become drawn into, and magnify their effects by failing to articulate and uphold a worldwide standard of gender balance that could really mitigate the real and social-anthropological source of the danger, which has now become fully global. Many also believe that gender balanced True Governments, such as the International Parliamentary Union (IPU) Gender Balance Partnership http://www.ipu.org, as well as national officialdoms such as those at the top of the ipu website gender balance rankings (see links below) -- such as Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Costa Rica, and Iceland, and an even longer list that are very nearly balanced such as Netherlands, Germany, France (Parite), Argentina, Mozambique, South Africa, New Zealand, Canada (Senate), India (legislation in progress) and many others -- as well as many state, (California, and many in China and India), municipal (all French cities by law and thousands of others in many countries) and union federations, universities, colleges and many philanthropic and good government organizations worldwide, and **especially* the grass roots, in world citizen political discussion forums of the gender balanced Internet, and their increased connection and contact with online world citizen empowerment organizations such as the Global People's Assembly and many other groups listed below (which are watching the "UN" on democracy and are becoming more empowered by the gender balanced True Government concept), are now sustaining the earth, peace itself, and the hopes for democracy of its naturally gender balanced total population. until such time as all officialdoms, especially the IPU and/or "UN" adopts worlwide standards of gender balance that achieve the viable balance to protect the planet. (And at this season, certainly it is time to say that nowhere would world progress on the gender balance model be more helpful than in suffering Jerusalem and Bethelem, and all the Middle East. Gender balance in Scandinavian, "UN" and other international diplomacy, openly discussing gender balance in office in the "UN" and especially the "Security Council" itself, as a prerequisite to also discussing it in that region with Jewish, Moslem, Christian and B'Hai women and their husbands, sons, brothers and fathers, as voting citizens who deserve more than the errors of global monogenderment, is clearly the Magic key (this time the "Magi" come in gender balanced pairs!) to peace and reconciliation of the descendants of Abraham, Hagar and Sarah's family - David, Jesus, Joseph and Mary's family, as well, and many women and men in civil society in those regions and of all these religions worldwide have already said so. It may also safeguard the whole planet from testosterone-heightened nuclear reactivity in the region, which is very sensitive to both male dominance hierarchy and genocidal threat, that might otherwise be precipitated within the usual gender imbalanced, monogender context). The upsurge in Internet communication on the world gender balance issue was necessitated by the failure of television, radio and newspaper corporate media to carry news and information about gender balance in representation. Corporate media are currently still controlled mostly by monied older men of domination but have become increasingly distrusted by the general public because of their ommission these and other important news, and their high priced sale of political public speech in the form of a sound-byte advertisement culture. The newer, more interactive and less hierarchical technologies of communication of internet and fax are allowing large numbers of activists and concerned citizens to share gender balance news that has been available in several organizations' newsletters and websites (see below) for years and in some decades, but was not reaching the general public. But now, in recent months, it has been reaching many worldwide by increasingly apparent greater use of public forums and mass email. Most activists are now encouraging the use of these new methods publically and/or privately, with an affirmative sense of world-saving urgency and bold empowered entitlement to compensate for centuries of suppression and censorship, still daily occuring in television, radio and print media. The irony is that those perpetuating gender domination are unwittingly lessening and shortening their own quality and longevity of life. Monogenderment not only threatens world catastrophe, but it shortens every person's individual life span. Most informed thinkers and observers agree that including the wisdom of women along with the wisdom of men in governmental decisions will result in policies that assist a science that is more harmonius with nature, reduce the likelihood of environmental and public health collapse, and will lower waste and stress in such a way to greatly expand the human vital and natural life span, allowing humanity to focus on peaceful exploration of space, as well. Many believe that mutual gender respect in decision-making is a necessary aspect of "the universal fountain of youth", that also affords social health and stability to allow a young "late adolescent" planet like earth to sustain itself while becoming mature enough to explore space in peace. A ranking of officialdoms for the presence of both genders is available at http://www.ipu.org/wmn-e/classif.htm due to the work of the IPU, the InterParliamentary Union, a prestigious "partner" organization to the "UN" which has recently increased its operations as an observer of the "UN" (Some prefer to call the "UN", the "UUMM" - Ununited Unbalanced Mostly-Monogenderment, because of its failure to reform its own lack of gender balance in offices and ambassadorships). In light of the IPU rankings and database, women and men of the United States (shameful rank of 58) and England (shameful rank of 47), and the world watching them, have learned that many men and women in these once leading countries have been lulled into complacency about gender fairness progress, by being misled by their misogynist television, radio and newspapers, and assuming progress made in all other areas, such as gender presence in education, universities and major professions like medicine, social work and law, was also reflected in politics. The failure in gender balance progress is directly related to the backsliding on many aspects of democracy. This confusion was also perpetuated by short sighted leadership in certain women's groups. This leadership had been preoccupied with national, insular party politics, defensive issues such as defending abortion rights in male dominated legislatures and courts, and influenced by political ambition of a very few powerful women who had prematurely accepted and even abetted the assumptions of nationalistically focussed, centralized and male dominated, hierarchical political contexts. These groups had failed to work with men to articulate balance concepts that mutually protect both genders from dominationment by the most overaggressive few. But, increased international and global focus on gender balance, communicated easily over the Internet and fax, are now beginning to increase rank and file input, which is beginning to move these groups' spokewomen to articulate about national in the context of world gender balance, and mobilize more public support from men on the balance and representation issues. More and more activists are globally linking issues such as reproductive education and choice, family leave, real welfare and other family-work law, poverty, peace and other issues to definable, observable, proactive, affirmative, minimally high presence of women and exploited minorities in office itself, via asserting observable standards of adequate representation and human ratios in candidate lists and in legislatures, courts and executive office, as the very definition of humanity and democracy, or true government that protects all human rights. The urgency of the gender balance issue regarding world peace and environmental and biogenetic protection of nature, including the issue of eliminating poverty and disease in sustainable ways that respect nature, is increasingly agreed to by many, probably most, of the rank and file women and men who actually sustain the troubled, still officially mostly-monogender so-called "United Nations". There, the IPU leaders-observer-consultants like Najma Heptulla and Anders Johnsson, and other leaders of other observer organizations are now making more high profile suggestions and consultation, as well as communicating over the Internet, to achieve world gender balance in political office. The IPU and many other organizations listed below are helping the world face, without continued and dangerous denial, the gender imbalance of the so-called "Security Council" and "General Assembly" and too many of their member countries, which have used political anachronisms and machinations to avoid reforms and have remained grossly gender imbalanced to the unnecessary detriment of world peace and security for too long. Even most little children know that Santa Clause is not a bachelor. This Year, and Every Year to Come, Look Up and You Will See a Forever Young and Beautiful Mrs. Clause sitting next to her Good Empowering Husband, who is looking younger and younger underneath his curly beard, like the archetypal universal Mother Earthly Nature and Father Heavenly Eternal-Time. Together, they, and the gender balance Santa Clauses of the world's constitutions and declarations on True Government, are gently and joyfully delivering the Gifts of Gender Balance, Providence and Peace. So, in the words of the song, be Good, and Think of Your Officialdom/Call it a Government or a Uniting Organization Only When It Becomes Officially Gender Balanced, for Goodness Sake! Listen Carefully... Ho, Ho, Ho is partnered by a Joyous woman's voice. "Peace on Earth, Good Will to Humankind"-- As Every Good Girl and Good Boy Joyously Sing the Verses of the Clauses of Gender Balanced True Government The Long Awaited Chorus of Joy and Harmony! LINKS: http://www.ipu.org/wmn-e/classif.htm (at a glance statistics of your/all countries' ranks on gender in office) http://www.nikk.uio.no/oversikter/lige_e.html http://www.angelfire.com/folk/announcepeace/index.html http://www.annuaire-au-femin.tm.fr/englMANIFESTO96.html http://www.geocities.com/theuniversaldeclaration/thedeclaration.html (a full explanation of the "at least 75% gender balanced" standard) http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/users/sawweb/sawnet/SAW.orgn.html http://www.pinn.net/~sunshine/book-sum/gouges.html http://www.pinn.net/~sunshine/gage/features/seneca.html http://www.geocities.com/genders2peace/index.html (includes a section on how to telecommunicate gender balance information inexpensively and effectively) http://www.qweb.kvinnoforum.se http://wedo.org (see gender and governance section) http://www.cld.org http://www.international-community.de/ic0400/frm_int.htm http://www.nomas.org http://www.ifuw.org http://www.geocities.com/worldofgood/goodhome.html http://www.europrofem.org http://www.geocities.com/ark_earthinbalance/wheretruegovt.html http://www.ids.ac.uk/bridge/ http://www.geocities.com/urgentupdate_genderandgovernment/excerpts.html (excerpts from Constitutions of countries and global declarations on gender balance) http://www.michaelmoore.com (best selling male author who advocates equal presence of women in leadership) http://www.oxygen.com http://www.gender-equity.org http://www.wage.org http://womenstrike8m.server101.com/English/intro.htm http://www.geocities.com/globallysistrata/globallysistrata.html http://www.socintwomen.org/QUOTA/QUOTAEng1.html (a partial sample listing of the many world political parties monitoring their own gender balance) http://www.idea.int/gender/index.htm http://www.partnershipway.org http://www.ourvoices.org (Global People's Assembly, a grass roots observer of the "UN" bringing all people more directly into world political decision-making) and there are many others An archetypal Happy Holidays to all religious traditions...From All the Mr. and Mrs. Clauses of Women and Men as fully represented political and spiritual equals, around a World of Growing Democracy via Gender Balanced True Government, and Peace __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? 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