Garry Davis & Arthur Kanegis Garry Davis (born Bar Harbor, Maine, July 27, 1921) is a peace activist who created the first "World Passport." Davis was the son of Meyer & Hilda Davis. He graduated from The Episcopal Academy in 1940 and attended the Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie Mellon University); he also earned an M.A. in Geo-dialectics from the East-West University of Brahma Vidya, Bangalore, India.[1] A former Broadway actor, after serving in the US Air Force during WWII as a B-17 bomber pilot, he renounced his American citizenship in Paris in 1948 to become a "citizen of the world." Davis interrupted a session of the United Nations General Assembly on November 22, 1948 calling for "one government for one world." He founded the International Registry of World Citizens in Paris in January, 1949 which registered over 750,000 individuals. On September 4, 1953 Davis declared the World Government of World Citizens from the city hall of Ellsworth, Maine, based on fundamental human rights. He then formed the World Service Authority in 1954 as the government's executive and administrative agency, which now issues the passports - along with birth and other certificates - to applicants. Davis first used his "world passport" on a trip to India in 1956, and has been variably admitted into or jailed by countries around the world after using his world passport. Up to 150 countries have purportedly accepted the world passport at one time or another. In France, his support committee was co-founded by writers Albert Camus and André Gide and the Abbé Pierre. Davis ran for mayor in Washington D.C. in 1986 as the candidate of the "World Citizen Party" receiving 585 votes. He also declared himself as the World Citizen Party candidate for the 1988 US presidential election. Davis has published multiple books in favor of his cause of world citizenship. [edit] Bibliography * Davis, Garry (1961). The World is My Country: The Adventures of a World Citizen. Putnam. * Davis, Garry (1992). Passport to Freedom, A Guide for World Citizens. Nwo Pubns. ISBN 0929765087 * Davis, Garry (2003). World Government, Ready or Not!. BookSurge Publishing. ISBN 159457166X * Davis, Garry (2004). Letters To World Citizens. BookSurge Publishing. ISBN 0970648375 * Davis, Garry (2001). A World Citizen in the Holy Land. World Government House. ISBN 0970648340 * Davis, Garry (2005). Cher Monde, Une Odyssée a travers la planete. World Government House. ISBN 0970648391 * Davis, Garry (2006). DEAR WORLD, A Global Odyssey. BookSurge Publishing. ISBN 0738826243 [edit] Sources * "What's a World Passport?" Daniel Engber, Slate Magazine. http://www.slate.com/id/2138567/?nav=tap3 Accessed March 25, 2006. * Garry Davis's personal web site. http://www.garrydavis.org/index.html Accessed March 25, 2006. * Davis v. District Director, INS, 481 F. Supp. 1178 (D.D.C. 1979) http://members.fortunecity.com/legalstuff/481FSupp1178.htm Accessed Nov. 4, 2006. Arthur Kanegis is a filmmaker and president and founder of One Films, LLC. . He also founded Future WAVE, Inc., a nonprofit dedicated to shifting our culture of violence to a culture of peace. He holds all film rights to Garry's story.