Jose Ramos-Horta:

Foreign Minister, East Timor Nobel Peace Prize, 1996

"I am pleased to confirm to you my interest in endorsing the SP campaign and to be as active in its support as I can."

Changing the World

The International Simultaneous Policy Organisation has been voted one of the "Top 25 Who Are Changing the World of Internet and Politics." Read about it here.

Praise for the 
Simultaneous Policy
There is a mechanism available for politicians to regain the power to act in the interests of ordinary people and for democracy to blossom. The Simultaneous Policy: an Insider's Guide to Saving Humanity and the Planet by John Bunzl is a must for politicians, their constituents and all those concerned with creating a sustainable global economy.

The Simultaneous Policy is a creative proposal to accelerate progress toward a sustainable global economy. Many movements and grassroots globalists working for these goals can coalesce around such innovative initiatives.

The concept of Simultaneous Policy is a wonderful way of implementing cooperation which is the new law of human survival in the globalized world. 
Dr. Farhang Sefidvash
Coordinator, the Research Centre for Global Governance, Brazil 

Your idea for a simultaneous policy is excellent .... Let's hope that people start to listen to this important message.
Helena Norberg-Hodge
Director of the International Society for Ecology & Culture

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How can we make our values their values, values like:

• fair trade and decent livelihoods
• respect for life, health and environmental sustainability
• true democracy – not "corporatocracy"
• freedom, security and equal opportunity for all
• zero tolerance for terror of all kinds – state terror and domestic tyranny included
• unity in diversity among peoples, nations and cultures
• an end to weapons of mass destruction and to war itself as an obsolete means of conflict resolution

Well, there is a way we can vote

The International Simultaneous Policy Organisation (ISPO) is a growing association of citizens worldwide who use their votes in a coordinated, effective way to drive all nations to co-operate in solving our planetary crisis. ISPO goes beyond merely demanding greater political accountability by offering citizens a new way of restoring genuine democracy lawfully and peacefully, one vote at a time. 
 

Respected social justice activists – from economist Hazel Henderson to political analyst Noam Chomsky – believe our plan for a kinder, gentler new world order could work. We need just one thing, something most of us already have, but may have grown cynical about using: our right to vote.

The Simultaneous Policy has as its ultimate aim the transformation of the international economy such that it operates in harmony with the global natural environment and with the needs of human nature. John Bunzl, Founder & Director, International Simultaneous Policy Organisation

Transnational voter action is vital

Today, global markets and corporations so comprehensively overpower individual nations that no politician or political party dares make the first move to solve global problems for fear of putting their own nation at a significant economic competitive disadvantage. Though legislators know that serious world problems such as global warming, monopolistic corporate power, poverty and environmental destruction all demand decisive action, they are loath to implement the policies needed to solve them - policies such as higher corporate taxes and tougher environmental protection laws. They legitimately fear that in today's liberalized global economy, investors, corporations and jobs would simply pick up and leave for more congenial destinations. However good their intentions, governments feel bound to conform to a straitjacket of market- and business-friendly policies. That's why, despite their election promises, even socially progressive parties end up following much the same policies when they get into office, and little, if anything, changes. 
 

SP's package of policy measures is designed by ISPO's citizen members - NOT by politicians, political parties or unaccountable global institutions. SP is our "people's globalization policy": a work-in-progress that all citizens who adopt SP are designing with the help of independent expert policy-makers.

Here’s how our strategy works
 

So, instead of voting for the largely indistinguishable and redundant policies of political parties, by adopting SP we're taking global policy out of the their hands and instead creating our own policy. AND we're turning the tables on ALL politicians, presenting them with a compelling 'carrot and stick' proposition: 

THE CARROT: Since SP is only to be implemented by virtually all nations simultaneously, there’s absolutely no political risk to politicians who sign the Pledge because they need not fear any economic competitive disadvantage. Indeed, they can support SP while continuing to pursue their existing policy programmes until such time as all nations have signed the Pledge and implementation proceeds. And by signing the Pledge, politicians can also benefit from the much needed bloc of electoral support that SP-adopting citizens represent.

THE STICK: On the other hand, failure to sign the SP Pledge could cost politicians something more precious to them than anything else. With more and more citizens adopting SP, and with parliamentary and congressional seats and even entire elections increasingly being won or lost by small margins, they face defeat by rivals who have signed the SP Pledge to attract the growing SP voting bloc. Even if relatively small, that bloc could make the life-and-death difference between winning and losing for individual politicians, parties, and whole governments.

So by adopting SP, we citizens around the world, whether we have a party-political preference or not, can now use our votes in a new and effective way to drive our politicians to cooperate in implementing simultaneous solutions to mounting global problems.
 

SP is also a no-risk proposition even for corporations, many of which would submit to responsible environmental and social legislation if they knew all of their competitors, no matter where in the global marketplace, would be subject to the same laws and regulations. So by adopting SP we're creating a powerful support system for all people and institutions who want to do the right thing. SP becomes the rallying point and strategy for the emerging "superpower of peace and justice" to achieve its aims. It provides a safe, sensible, democratic and lawful way for all people of good will – from citizens to CEOs, from anti-globalists to compassionate conservatives – to take back the world for the good of our planet and for the fundamental social values that bind us. Adopt SP Now

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