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The Real Democracy Campaign

One of the most un-democratic features of today’s global system is that decisions taken in the stronger countries often have severe impacts on people living in poorer countries. Even when such impacts can have deadly consequences, as in cases of cross-border pollution, trade policy and war, the impacted people in the poorer countries are simply not allowed to participate from the decision-making, due to one of the foundational principles of today’s international system, the principle of complete national sovereignty.

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To protest against this structural injustice and breach of democratic principles, the Real Democracy Campaign aims to assist globally enlightened citizens of the stronger states to give real power in their political systems to  citizens of other countries whose lives are affected by the policies of the stronger state. Through social media, the campaign facilitates a personal connection between those who wish to ‘donate’ their vote and those affected non-citizens who wish to ‘receive’ and use it. Voluntarily, the donor votes in the national elections according to the instruction of the non-citizen receiver, thus making her a political player and giving her some influence over the so-called ‘foreign’ decisions that affect her life so much.

 The campaign began before the UK 2010 elections, when for the first time some British voters organized to give their votes to citizens of countries in Asia and Africa, who are affected by the policies of the UK government. In the 2012 elections in Israel, One World  initiated a similar campaign where Israeli citizens gave their vote to Palestinians of the West Bank, whose lives are extremely affected by Israeli policies, but who have no political influence over them. The campaign was covered in major media outlets such as the BBC, Haaretz and +972.  The campaign inspired similar initiatives in other countries, such as in the German elections of 2013.

 In the 2015 Israeli elections, One World ran the campaign for a second time. This time Israelis gave their votes to a larger group of people whose lives are impacted by the Israeli government, including Palestinians, foreign workers and refugees living in Israel. Again, the campaign has achieved significant media attention with prime time radio interviews in leading radio stations such as Reshet-Bet and 103FM.

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  • "If I can get freedom for India now [...] empire idea dissolves and world-state takes its place, in which all the states of the world are free and equal, no State has its military, there may be a world police to keep order in the absence of universal belief in non-violence."

    Mahatma Gandhi, 1942
    Mahatma Gandhi, 1942
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  • “With all my heart I believe that the world’s present system of sovereign nations can only lead to barbarism, war, and inhumanity. Mankind’s desire for peace can be realized only by the creation of a world government.”

    Albert Einstein, 1945
    Albert Einstein, 1945
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  • "I am a citizen, not of Athens, or Greece, but of the world."

    Socrates, ~400 BC
    Socrates, ~400 BC
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  • "A federation of all humanity, together with a sufficient means of social justice to ensure health, education, and a rough equality of opportunity, would mean such a release and increase of human energy as to open a new phase in human history."

    H. G. Wells, 1920
    H. G. Wells, 1920
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  • “Our task is not to overthrow globalisation, but to capture it, and to use it as a vehicle for humanity’s first global democratic revolution.”

    George Monbiot, 2003
    George Monbiot, 2003
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  • "Faced with the globalization of economy and finance, the mounting imbalance in the distribution of wealth, and asymmetric threats to international security, the answer that is provided by the cooperation of nation-states is often no longer enough. There's an increased urgency that political institutions and instruments of participation and democracy also go through a process of globalization. That's why I support the establishment of a UN Parliamentary Assembly."

    Federica Mogherini, 2013
    Federica Mogherini, 2013
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  • "Today the universal common good poses problems of worldwide dimensions, which cannot be adequately tackled or solved except by the efforts of a public authority [...] which is in a position to operate in an effective manner on a world-wide basis. The moral order itself, therefore, demands that such a form of public authority be established."

    Pope John XXIII, 1963
    Pope John XXIII, 1963
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  • "I have no doubt in my mind that the World Government must and will come, for there is no other remedy for the world's sickness. It can be an extension of the federal principle, a growth of the idea underlying the United Nations, giving each national unit freedom to fashion its destiny according to its genius, but subject always to the basic covenant of the world Government."

    Jawaharlal Nehru, 1948
    Jawaharlal Nehru, 1948
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