Description
Summary
What
is it about?Reasons and objectives
Main features
Current status of progress
Contacts
Alessandro
Andreatta, Mayor of Trento
1.
The Initiative. What is it about?
The World Identity Card (WIC)
"Inhabitant of the Earth" is a proposal drafted and
approved by the Agora of the Inhabitants of the Earth, which was held
in Sezano/Verona from 13 to 16 December 2018 and was attended by
around 200 people, most of them from Europe, but also from Africa,
Latin America and Asia. It consists in the issue by the
Municipalities (or similar communities/local communities) of the
document, World Identity Card "Inhabitant of the Earth" to
any person, of any age, living in the Municipality and who expressly
requests it. The Card has deliberately a symbolic human, social and
political value. The Card has no legal value nor does it give any new
right. The Charter of Universal Human Rights exists and was approved
by the UN. It is not in addition to the official identity card, nor
is it a form of new or alternative passport. The Card is a free act
by municipalities of mutual sharing and support in favour of the
declaration of the people who request it to be "builders of
humanity."
2.
Reasons and objectives of the Card
In the last forty years human
beings have been twice confiscated of their humanity. First as
citizens, because citizens have become subjects of "patrimonial"
property of the "national" States, which have crushed the
nationality (and humanity) by restricting it to a national identity
and subjecting it to the discretionary will of the national
oligarchies' powers. If a human being does not have the adjective
"national" added to the citizen, s/he does not exist as
such, s/he is stateless, s/he is not "one of ours".
Secondly as individuals, because they have been reduced to "human
resources" at the service of the interests of the owners and
merchants of the financial capital.
Being the first organized
basic form of human communities, the Municipalities acknowledge two
key fundamental principles of "living together" by issuing
the WIC-Inhabitant of the Earth: all human beings are inhabitants of
the earth before being yellow, white, black, mixed and Ethiopian,
Afghan, Colombian, Senegalese, Vietnamese, Chinese, Canadian,
Brazilian, Egyptian, German, Italian, English... and, secondly, we
all live in the same place of life, the Earth, the Mother-Earth, our
"common home", from which no one can be legitimately
excluded by anyone, not even by the highest political, economic,
social or moral authorities in the world. Today, however, there are
more than 60 million of human beings wandering around the world in
search of a place to live, and there are billions of people excluded
from the cities, as habitual places of life for human beings, and
relegated to places of exclusion and impoverishment.
Moreover, by issuing the World
ID Card-Inhabitant of the Earth only upon request of the people
themselves, the Municipalities express a vision that goes beyond the
individualistic conscience of life, of the rights and of the future.
At the same time, they reinforce the importance of taking collective
responsibility with respect to the protection and care of the global
life of the Earth and all its inhabitants (including other living
species).
Today, more than ever, the
path to build is moving from a concentrated "Me" to the
broadened "We", in the direction of a Humanity conscious
of the need to act as a "community" and take responsibility
for the integrity and permanent regeneration of the life on earth.
The World ID Card is an act of awareness, of hope and commitment.
Hence the principle that the Card has to be issued only upon request
of the inhabitants.
3.
Main features
The Card will be a common
model throughout the world. Now, among those who are involved in the
post-Agora work, the preference goes to the model below.
It will be the size of a
normal ID card or of a slightly laminated bank card.
On the front of the card, in
addition to the title of the card and the identification number, only
the following elements are mentioned:
- Name and surname
- Date of birth
- Place of residence
According to some members,
it would be preferable not to indicate the place of residence.
Her/his residence is the Earth.
In the back of the Card, there
are:
- The crest, the name of the
municipality and the stamp signed by the municipality
- The phrase of commitment by
the applicant Inhabitant of the Earth "I commit myself to
contribute to the construction of Humanity, capable of safeguarding
the life of the Earth for all its inhabitants, also at the service of
the future generations".
A "younger" Card is
envisaged for people under 17 years of age.
4.
Current status of the initiative
Nine municipalities have
formally joined the initiative before the Agora by Council
resolution: San Lorenzo, municipality in the province of Santa Fe in
Argentina, the municipalities of Fumane, Canegrate, Sommacampagna,
Nogarole Rocca and the 8th sub-Municipality of Rome in Italy, La
Marsa, municipality of Tunisia, Palau Saverdera, municipality of
Catalonia/Spain and Lisbon, municipality of Portugal.
The initiative also received
the support of two national networks of municipalities in Italy: the
network of solidarity municipalities (RECOSOL) and the network of
virtuous municipalities.
The preparatory phase for the
launch of the initiative on a global scale started on the 8th of
February and it is expected to take place at the end of
September/October 2019 in Lisbon.
There have already been
meetings in Italy with the mayor of Trento and, in preparation, with
the mayor of Merano, Gorizia and various municipalities in Tuscany
and Puglia. Contacts are under way with the mayor of Berlin (D),
Rosario (Argentina), in Chile with the national associations, with
the mayors of Liege and Waremme in Wallonia. The awareness raising
activities of the municipalities will begin in March in Brazil,
France and Sub-Saharan Africa.
We plan to extend the number
of municipalities that have joined and the new ones by means of town
twinning networks. The mobilization has begun.
We would like to point out
that in conjunction with the initiative of the World ID
Card-Inhabitant of the Earth we will test the interest and
feasibility of the institution of the "Day of the Inhabitants of
the Earth" with the support of the municipalities on 15 December
of each year starting from 15 December 2019.
5.
Contacts
Sergio
Castioni s.castioni@alice.it
Francesco
Comina francesco.comina@gmail.com
Domenico
Rizzuti mimmo.rz@gmail.com
Sezano, 23 February 2019
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