Founded by Vermont’s own Garry Davis, the World Government of World Citizens will mark its 60th anniversary in September. That makes it older than the governments of 30 or so of today’s nation-states.
Not familiar with the World Government of World Citizens? Haven’t heard about this self-proclaimed entity that issues passports that have occasionally been recognized at international borders?
An introduction is available Friday evening at Off Center for the Dramatic Arts in the form of a film-in-progress called My Country Is the World and the World Is My Stage: The True Story of Garry Davis. The biopic produced and directed by California filmmaker Arthur Kanegis traces Davis’ colorful career, with a focus on the global authority he unilaterally decreed on September 4, 1953.
That has to rank as one of history’s greatest instances of chutzpah. But while Davis did have experience as a Broadway song-and-dance man, he wasn’t playacting in establishing his very own world government.
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