Concerned World Citizen, Student, Educator, Office-Holder and Activist: (This and similar messages are being shared by email and/or fax among female and male students, faculty, staff, activists, citizens and gender balanced officeholders, in over 80 institutions and at least 45 countries, who are already among the peaceful leaders of the True Government(s) of the World, which is Already Spread Throughout the Earth:
There is an urgent and yet timelessly human distinction all need to make right now in our personal and collective thinking, in order to save our planet from looming self-destruction. Do you know that their is a world of difference, of Peace and Sustainability instead of War and Breakdown, between gender balanced True Government(s) in contrast to gender imbalanced Mostly-Monogenderment(s)? Do you know which countries and global organizations and institutions are which? For example, did you know that the balance of gender in office in Sweden and Finland has been reliably in the range of 55%-45% for many years with other Scandinavian countries near that level, that much of France has recently reached 50-50, and that the the US and UK are grossly imbalanced at around 87-13 and 83-17, respectively, and much more imbalanced than Germany, the Netherlands, Costa Rica, Argentina, Canada, South Africa, New Zealand, Australia, China and a long list of other countries? Many True Government(s) exist (and more are daily emerging)-- as the governments of many countries on several continents, and at colleges and universities, in major organizations, including unions, many political parties, and professional, philanthropic and most civil society organizations. The links below will allow you do identify many gender balanced True Governments around the world, and where the officials have fallen behind in progress on gender. The facts may have come as a surprise to you (because too often yet, much of monogender-controlled media has worked hard to keep people from knowing them.) A True Government is defined (see links below) as being at least 75%-gender balanced, that is, at least 37.5% of offices held by women as well as at least 37.5% of offices held by men, and thus, no more than 62.7% seats of only one gender. Only this range of ratio can sustain both prosperity and peace indefinitely. True Governments practice and encourage inclusive democracy, and seek to empower all citizens, including women as much as men and racial and ethnic minorities. They tend to seek non-violent conflict resolution and world peace as well as a social safety net for health, social well-being, human rights, prosperity with sustainability, and protection and quality of life. Mostly-Monogenderment(s) are defined as being less than 75% gender-balanced, that is, over 62.5% seats held by one gender only, and the other gender at a token level, under 37.5% of seats, or absent from office, and influencing official decision making only marginally and indirectly, if at all. Mostly=monogenderments practice political domination, pseudo-democracy, fail to empower most citizens - both male and female, while overempowering subgroups defined by gender and often race or ethnicity. They tend to resolve conflict by deal-making, corruption, intimidation and threat or use of force. Culture itself becomes affected by dominatioment, and cultures under dominatioments have higher rates of violence, including domestic violence, child abuse, adult crime, interracial and interethnic violence, and international violence and/or war-based, less stable economies. Like ancient Rome and lesser monogenderments, they eventually breakdown. The distinctions of political system based on gender balance in office are relevant because of human hormonal and other physio-behavioral patterns which become magnified in group contexts such as legislatures and official decision-making groups. These patterns have been repeatedly observed not only in historical analysis and anecdote, but sociological, psychological and anthropological studies of men and women in groups in almost all cultures. A large number of countries (including so-called modern countries like the UK, and the US, among a few others) are still extreme mostly-monogenderments, and not surprisingly, their systems and actions are now immediately endangering their own well-being, as well as entire world, with potential world war, environmental and genetic recklessness, economic troubles and international and domestic social discord and dysfunction. However, many countries, such as France, Germany, South Africa, India, the Netherlands, China and many others that used to be mostly-monogenderments have recently moved dramatically toward becoming gender balanced True Government(s) as part of a long-term plan of both prosperity and peace. The so-called "United Nations" is not yet united because it fails to unite the genders of the peoples of the world in shared peace-making. Most of its ambassadors are men only, appointed in countries by other mostly-male officials and assemblies. Therefore, the "UN" is a ununited unbalanced mostly-monogenderment - many are now beginning to call it UUMM instead of UN, although it also includes many staff, both men and women, who are activists seeking to achieve gender balance and reform it from within. The sister-brother organization to the so-called UN, the International Parliamentary Union or IPU, has an active gender balance program which has sought to reform the the so-called UN and all member countries in the areas of gender balance and real, inclusive democracy, for True Government(s). Are your and your neighboring countries' officials True Government(s) or world-endangering mostly-monogenderments, and are Are you using accurate words and meaningful language when you discuss them or interact with them? The following countries and organizations are a few examples of thoses that deserve the name government or True Government i.e. the Government of Sweden, the Government of Finland, the Governments of the Cities of France, many cities in India, China, many cities in, and the delegations of California (although the "US Congress" is an 87% male mostly-monogenderment that does not look at all like the American people by gender, as well as racial composition), Gender balance is widespread in political parties throughout Europe, Africa, India, Canada, Costa Rica, Argentina, South Africa, Mozambique and many other places. In contrast, accurate language would NOT use the word government in describing the following, and instead would call them mostly-monogenderments: the Unbalanced Mostly-Monogenderment of the "United Kingdom" or UKUMM, the Unbalanced Mostly-Monogenderment of the "United States" or USUMM, the mostly-monogenderment of Iraq or Iraq UMM, the Japanese UMM, the Korean UMMs, and so on. Using accurate language is a simple and powerful way that everyday world citizens can daily prevent World War and environmental destruction, because it awakens all citizens of a shared planet to the realities of democracy or lack thereof, instead of disguising injustice and gender dividedness through habitual terminology and misapplied, outmoded concepts. If you think about it, a system of imbalance and domination cannot be a government, because the word government is based on the concept of a system that balances its own functioning to keep itself running well without self-destructive breakdown. Domination-suppression inevitably leads to periodic abuse, breakdown, conflict and over enough time. It brings about eventual fall or self-destruction, and is therefore, not balancing and governing, but, destroying or abusing its own parts and systemic well-being or self-government. Cumulative domination inevitably brings total system breakdown, to both its over-functioning and under-functioning parts. At this point, it can destroy life on earth by war, genetic-environmental carelessness, and social overcontrol (Big Brotherism) disguising increasing social chaos. At its final stages, if it doesn't improve quickly enough to recover from the imbalance in priorities it has already cumulatively wrought, it becomes as dangerous to males as it has been to females - the injustice can come full circle to engulf all who have perpetuated and enabled it. The current extreme world problems are at a ominous stage of system breakdown, due to too often "accepted", taken for granted pattern of domination or mono-genderment instead of human balance and True Government. The domination of women, and the misperception of tokenism for sufficiently reparative progress, is often so habitual that it has been accepted as "normal", just as a steady diet of mostly fast-food only can be thought normal until it one day produces terminal cancers or heart attacks and death of uninformed consumers as well as an end to the life-giving rain forests as well as the pure polar icecaps. All imbalance has systemic consequences, especially after a long time. So it is with poltical gender imbalance. Over enough time, the political diet of gender imbalance, of politically induced endangerment, produces the breakdown of the entire system. The World has now reached that time, unless it intentionally balances itself before it is too late. And the most important seat of all government and source of change is what we think of and call government, at all, in our minds, and in our words. So it is important to understand that mostly-monogenderment is NOT true government. It was originally imposed by force, not wisdom. Yet, thankfully now, in many places our wisdom is transcending our addiction to the outmoded habits of force and fear. There is a better way - the way of balance, with women fully joining men to bring the best gifts of real, true government. True Government(s) are already spread upon the Earth. Many of them are official governments of the most stably properous, socially harmonius, and highest technological leaders of the world. Today, true governments also exist among the world's best informed and educated at many universities and organizations of higher education and philanthropy. They are superior in their outcomes or long-term future potentions for quality and sustainability of life than mostly-monogenderments, and offer models for how any place in the world can quickly attain True Government(s) for itself and for all the people of an interconnected and now extremely endangered earth. The links below will help you identify many True Government(s), and give you ideas on how to think and communicate about these concepts in such a way as to bring sustainably properous and peaceful True, Good Government, to Global Organizatins, your and/or other Countries that do not yet have True Government, and All on this Planet 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 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.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://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 These link to many more. Your mostly-monogender media may not have told you this, yet. But now you know. With this information, It's Time To Recognize that gender balanced True Government is the only Real Government. Billions of people, and Nature itself, already know this to be the truth, the essential truth, to save and sustain, indeed to Bless this Good Earth. Tell others quickly - before it becomes too late.
