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PRESS RELEASES

1948

9.11.48
- Paris - Davis’ statement on “leaving” France for U.N. “territory”
9.16.48
- Paris - Davis requests UN Secretary-General to call review conference
10.22.48
-Paris - Press Conference at City Club, Paris - Davis’ position
12.8.48
- Paris - 2nd Press Conference at City Club - Davis appeals for funds; Jean Helion, painter, statement

1953

5.22.53
- London - UK Home Office threatens Davis deportation; His statement

1956

11.11.56
- Tehran - World Police Force offer to UN by World Citizen Garry Davis
12.11.56
- Tehran - Garry Davis expelled from Egyptian Embassy by police - Official “guest” of Iranian government
12.12.56
- Tehran - Egyptian Government refuses visa to World Citizen
12.18.56
- Tehran - World Government bureau opens in Tehran with government sanction

1957

7.15.57
- STATEMENT OF GARRY DAVIS, FIRST WORLD CITIZEN France: ABOARD THE S.S. AROSA SUN AT SEA

1970

11.17.70
- Ramanthali, India - Davis confers honorary World Guard title on General Cariappa, former Commander-in-Chief, Indian Army

1973

5.27.73
- Berkeley, Ca. - Davis Proposes 27th amendment to US Constitution permitting US citizens to claim world citizenship via the 9th and 10th amendment
5.30.73
- San Francisco - Davis launches World Citizen Party from steps of SF Opera House

1974

7.10.74
- Mulhouse - French Government indicts Davis for issuing WSA passport - Davis’ statement

1975

6.10.75
- Basel - Swiss Government charges Davis with entering “illegally.” Davis appeals
9.10.75
- Washington, DC - Davis holds press conference at Lafayette Park across from White House

1976

4.21.76
- New York - Davis flies to France on World Passport to regain “World Territory”
4.25.76
- Paris - French Government allows Davis entry but confiscates his world passport
4.28.76
- Paris - Davis outlines future plans: “Mondialization” of his property at Hesingue; seek recognition of World Citizens under self-determination principle; World Citizen Party plans
7.1.76
- Washington, DC - Davis launches global campaign as World Citizen Party representative

1977

7.8.77
- Washington, DC - US issues deportation order against Davis; World Citizen Assembly and World Constituent Assembly send protest telegram to President Carter
9.26.77
- Washington, DC - Davis Deportation appeal set; his statement; Human rights lawyer David Carliner explains constitutional significance of case

1980

3.15.80
- Hong Kong - WSA passport available through China Trading Company, Hong Kong
3.16.80
- Kennedy Center, Washington, DC - Presentation Statement to Yehudi Menuhin
3.31.80
- Washington, DC - World Service Authority expands agency services to six countries
7.14.80
- Washington, DC - Davis refused Canadian visa to attend 1st Global Conference on the Future
7.20.80
- International Line - Davis camps on “no-man’s land” in middle of “Peace Bridge” between US and Canada
9.27.80
- Washington, DC - Davis seeks “world votes” as candidate for world parliament from U.S. presidential candidates Carter, Reagan, Anderson and Clark
10.09.80
- WASHINGTON, DC - Weltregierung der weltbürger errichtet deutschsprachige vertretung in Wolfach/ Deutschland
12.25.80
- Washington, DC - World Government expands humanitarian services: establishes postal service in problems areas

1981

2.1.81
- World government provides postal service in troubled area, issues first world postage stamp
2.17.81
- U.S. COURT OF APPEALS TO HEAR WORLD CITIZEN CASE MARCH 11
2.27.81
- Washington, DC - World citizen trial in U.S. court of appeals March 11; Davis' statement
3.2.81
- Washington, DC - Davis prepared to take case to Supreme Court
3.11.81
- Washington, DC - World Government issues first world postage stamps

1982

6.25.82
- Washington, DC - Davis asks World Citizen Reagan to join World Government

1984

2.15.84
- Washington, DC - World citizen Davis announces candidacy for world presidency
4.29.84
- Washington, DC - Candidate Davis heads for Tokyo
5.11.84
- Seattle - Davis detained by Northwest Orient airlines at Seattle hotel after immigration refuses re-entry
5.25.84
- Seattle - After mock INS hearing, Davis admitted into US as a World Citizen.
5.28.84
- San Francisco -Davis will pay his Hotel Westin St. Francis in San Francisco with “world dollars”
9.20.84
- Sorrento, ME - World presidential candidate Garry Davis scores national politics as suicidal in new book, World Government, Ready or Not!
11.9.84
- There is no free world without world law", claims world presidential candidate Garry Davis in new book world government, ready or not!

1985

2.12.85
- Sorrento, ME - Davis cites Presidents Reagan and Chernenko as “international felons” in petition to the International Court of Justice at The Hague
4.2.85
- United Nations, NY - Davis claims global political asylum (again) on UN “territory”
5.31.85
- Washington, DC - UN official asks World Citizen Davis to “Keep us informed” if an when ICJ rules on his petition
10.1.85
- New York, NY - World court refuses to identity Reagan and Gorbachev as war criminals, rejecting World Citizen Davis’s petition on technical grounds

1986

1.8.86
- Washington, DC - World citizenship provides only solution to terrorism
4.16.86
- Washington, DC - Haitian human rights group seeks help from World Citizen Davis - He flies to Port-au-Prince
5.5.86
Katherine Dunham, world-renowned social anthropologist, choreographer and producer, appointed deputy coordinator of world cultural commission of world government by world citizen Garry Davis
5.6.86
- Miami - World citizen groups established in Haiti with cooperation of government officials
5.6.86
- Port-au-Prince - Davis declares Soviet nuclear explosions human disasters
8.22.86
- Washington, DC - World citizen candidate for mayor, Garry Davis, files 3200 nominating signatures with D.C. Board of Elections
9.4.86
- Ellsworth, ME - World Government celebrates 33rd birthday as nations continue arms race at $1 million per minute; Davis declares his candidacy for mayor of Washington, DC
10.31.86
- Washington, DC - World citizen mayoralty candidate Garry Davis seeks “world deal” with Mayor Marion Barry: a “swap of votes”

1987

7.13.87
- New Delhi - US presidential candidate Garry Davis in India. On world tour Davis seeks endorsement from world leaders and world citizens abroad before Fall campaign
7.17.87
- Guru Nitya Chaitanya Yati endorses U.S. Presidential candidate Garry Davis' World Citizen platform
10.2.87
- Washington, DC - World citizen Garry Davis’ upcoming French trials at Avignon/Chambery for world passport issuance, poses challenge to President Francis Mitterand

1988

6.7.88
- WORLD CITIZEN GARRY DAVIS CALLS FOR 1990 WORLD CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION
9.4.88
- Ellsworth, ME - World Government of World Citizens is 35 years old. Founder and US presidential candidate Garry Davis calls for world constitutional convention at Ellsworth meeting.
10.5.88
- Washington, DC - World citizen Garry Davis condemns congressional action as imperialist - a system of systemic breakdown - Claims Washingonians must go global to regain their rights
11.17.88
- Washington, DC World Citizen Garry Davis begins world tour tomorrow to found World Citizen Parties

1989

1.5.89
- Auckland - World Citizen Garry Davis proposes to Wellington government that New Zealand be site for world constitutional convention
2.1.89
- Auckland - New Zealanad branch of World Citizen Party formed under coordination of World Citizen Garry Davis, party chief
2.15.89
- Hiroshima - Founder of world government in Hiroshima.
2.24.89
- Tokyo - Davis issues statement for “Structures for Peace” conference in Washington, DC
4.29.89
- Tokyo - Davis establishes Pacific Rim office in Tokyo for “World District III”
7.21.89
- Tokyo - World passport sought by Chinese students in Japan; human rights document issued from Nakano office of WSA
8.18.89
- Tokyo - P.M. Thatcher deputy scores UN impotence in reply to World Citizen Garry Davis; World Government head claims 7 heads of state in Paris endorse world law
11.9.89
- Tokyo - After 9 months in Japan World Citizen Garry Davis departs for Honolulu Saturday
11.12.89
-Tokyo - World Citizen Garry Davis refused permission to leave by Japanese immigration
11.14.89
- Tokyo - Davis twice refused permission to leave Japan by Japanese immigration; officials “advise” China Airlines not to issue Davis boarding pass.
11.17.89
- Tokyo - Davis carries campaign to travel freely to Imperial palace
11.18.89
- Tokyo - Davis receives mandate from Imperial household to seek redress from Immigration department at Otemachi
11.21.89
- Tokyo - Davis can leave Japan says Immigration only if US Embassy OKs US entry
12.4.89
- Washington, DC - World Government links cybernetic process for 1990 constitutional convention - Toronto conference joins world citizens with cybernetician

1990

2.24.90
- Washington, DC - Davis departs for Eastern Europe February 28 to promote World Citizen Party & “Mondialization” for East Europeans3.18.90 - Prague Davis presents honorary World Passport to Czechoslovakia President Vaclav Havel
4.9.90
- Moscow - “Only world law and its institutions can save Perestroika,” claims World Citizen Garry Davis in Moscow to solicit endorsement for Christchurch World Constitutional Convention
4.23.90
- Moscow - Davis presents World Passport to newly-elected Moscow Mayor Gavriil Popov
6.28.90
- Tokyo - World Service Authority passports issued to Professor Fang and Li Shuxian claimed catalysts for release from Beijing US Embassy
11.16.90
- Washington, DC - Davis calls for indictment of 26 heads of state operating in Middle East war zone as war criminals
12.19.90
- Burlington - John Rogers of Burlington, Vermont, to join Gulf Peace Team as human buffer against potentil warring forces - supported by local Quakers, Rogers is registered world citizen and member of the Sovereign Order of World Guards

1991

4.12.91
- Common agenda coalition scores federal budget priorities
4.18.91
- Vermont group scores President Bush's choice of national health model, Arnold Schwarzenegger
10.31.91
- Washington, DC - World Coordinator Garry Davis sends message to Madrid Peace Conference -Invokes peace with justice supported by law in humanity’s name

1992

1.16.92
- NORWICH--At the 1st meeting of 1992 of the Green Mountain Veterans for Peace organization, composed of World War II, Korean and Vietnam veterans, the following statement was endorsed for general release:
3.19.92
- World Citizen Garry Davis to Meet Bay Area Public at Oakland Restaurant April 5
4.16.92
- World Citizen Garry Davis to Speak Saturday
6.13.92
- Rio de Janeiro - World Citizen Garry Davis claims world sovereignty necessary prerequisite for solving environmental problems
7.21.92
- Burlington, VT - Burlington, Vermont, joins “world cities” in council vote - In resolution, links the Earth Summit to need for world law
12.26.92
- Washington, DC - World Coordinator Garry Davis authorizes Israel government to return Palestinians to their homeland

1993

3.17.93
- Washington, DC - World Service Authority celebrates 40th year of providing global human rights documents
6.10.93
- Burlington, VT - Burlington, Vermont, joins “world cities” in launch of “mini- world parliaments”
6.13.93
- World Citizen Garry Davis claims world sovereignty necessary prerequisite for solving environmental problems
6.15.93
- Burlington, VT - World Syntegrity Project to be launched from over 30 world cities
6.20.93
- World Syntegrity Project To Be Launched From Over 30 World Cities
7.21.93
- Toronto - World Citizen Davis arrives in Toronto for the launch of the World Syntegrity Project 1993
9.17.93
- World "Town" Meeting Results To Be Made Public
9.20.93
- Burlington, VT - World “town” meeting results to be made public
10.1.93

1994

9.16.94
- Washington, DC - President Clinton’s threatened Haitian Invasion violates UN’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights, claims World Coordinator Garry Davis

1995

2.1.95
- World Government Is On the Internet!

1996

3.9.96
- World Citizen Feng Wang, Taiwan's Foremost Actor, Film Producer, Industry Leader & Human Rights Activist, Appointed WSA Agent in Far East
3.22.96
- Press release on arriving at Taipei

1997

8.27.97
- Burlington, VT - World Syntegrity Project to bridge warring factions in Sierra Leone