TAKE BACK
THE WORLD!
Imagine a world
Where values matter
Where leaders listen
Where the strongest superpower is
We the people.

How can we the people of the emerging Superpower of Peace and Justice get our leaders to listen to us and not just to corporations, trade organizations, wealthy lobbies and superpowers? 

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

  • fair trade and decent jobs 
  • respect for the environment, public health and sustainable development 
  • freedom, security and equal opportunity for all 
  • democracy, not “corporatocracy” 
  • zero tolerance for terror of all kinds—state terror and domestic tyranny included 
  • an end to weapons of mass destruction and the criminalization of war itself. 
By transcending party politics, the Simultaneous Policy provides a powerful tool for citizens to drive politicians and governments to deliver the measures our world so desperately needs.
 If we the people really had a say, would we vote for a world order in which human and environmental welfare take a back seat to corporate welfare? Would we vote for “might makes right” and “money talks” or for the rule of just law and the rights of individuals and communities? Would we vote to share and conserve the planet’s resources, or to hoard and squander them?

Well, there is a way we can vote. 

The International Simultaneous Policy Organisation (ISPO) is a global grassroots movement of voters with a bold plan to take back the world—to restore true democracy, lawfully and peacefully, one vote at a time.

Respected international thinkers—from economist Hazel Henderson to political critic Noam Chomsky—believe our plan to create a kinder, gentler new world order could work. We need just one thing, something we already have in abundance: votes.

Imagine if people like us, academics, NGOs, and other stakeholders in a better future put our heads together and drafted a package of problem-solving policies for the planet, policies such as those embodied in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Earth Charter. Governments today are loath to implement such policies (popular as they may be) for fear it would put their economies at a competitive disadvantage. The problem is we live in a world where governments—whether politically right or left—that dare to adopt policies hostile to transnational corporations, financial markets or powerful nations risk losing jobs, investment and more to governments who aim to please. The result? A destructive “race to the bottom” in our local and global standards of living and our dreams for a healthy future.

But by using our votes in a new strategic way, we can change that to a sustainable voyage to the heights of our human and social potential.

Adopt the Simultaneous Policy and
TAKE BACK THE WORLD

Here’s how. When each of us provisionally adopts the SIMULTANEOUS POLICY (still a work in progress, SP’s final content will be decided by all adopters), we pledge  to make our political candidates “an offer they can’t refuse”:

Provisionally adopt the Simultaneous Policy and pledge to implement it when every other country does or we’ll vote for any other acceptable candidate who does.
As more and more people adopt SP, here’s why our offer will become something all politicians will find hard to refuse: 
  • SIMULTANEOUS implementation removes a government’s dread of first-mover disadvantage. For example, when tough environmental protection laws are implemented everywhere, simultaneously, no government needs to fear that economically vital multinational corporations will pull up stakes for greener pastures. SP LEVELS “THE PASTURE” RIGHT AROUND THE WORLD. It makes green politics a risk-free winner for candidates, voters and even corporations alike. 

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  • SP’s path to greater freedom, justice, security and prosperity will appeal to people everywhere. Yet even when just a fraction of voters have adopted SP, politicians will be wise to adopt it too. As we’ve seen in the American presidential election of 2000 and other tight races, just a few percent can make the difference between win and lose. That’s why SP will be a tempting carrot for any politician—FAILURE TO ADOPT COULD MEAN LOSING THE RACE. 
With the Simultaneous Policy, civil society has the potential to lead governments, not the other way around.
 Here’s what you can do. If you’re willing to vote for ANY POLITICAL CANDIDATE (within reason, of course) who adopts SP, start right now by provisionally adopting SP yourself. It costs nothing. And you’re always free to unadopt it if you change your mind. Just visit our website at www.simpol.org or write or fax us for a form. Questions? Just ask.

Your adoption of SP is key. The more citizen adopters we have, the more electoral clout we have to compel politicians to adopt SP too.

Help us draft SP and spread the word. The more founding fathers and mothers our charter for a just new world has, the better—more representative, more democratic—it will be. We do most of our planning and networking online through our website and announcement and discussion lists. So come grow our bold democratic experiment with us. 

Together we can take back the world.

International Simultaneous Policy Organisation
Using our Votes to Take Back the World

P.O. Box 26547, London SE3 7YT, UK 
Fax: +44 (0)20-8460 2035
info@simpol.org | www.simpol.org

 What people are saying about the Simultaneous Policy (SP)—a grassroots global strategy to take back the world:

It’s ambitious and provocative. Can it work? Certainly worth a serious try.

Noam Chomsky
Political activist, author, 
Manufacturing Consent

[T]he basic concept is excellent… Let me know what develops!
Jakob von Uexkull
Chairman,
Right Livelihood Award Foundation

The Simultaneous Policy is a creative proposal to accelerate progress toward a sustainable global economy.
Hazel Henderson
Futurist, author, 
Beyond Globalization

It is a good idea. What we need is politicians who will give this issue a high priority.
Polly Toynbee
Columnist, The Guardian

. . . by substituting internationalism for globalization, co-operation for competition, humanity for markets and wisdom for materialism you have unlocked a powerhouse for good.
Tony Benn
former Member of Parliament, UK

Simultaneous Policy is an idea whose time has come and an imperative if we are to evolve humanity from its juvenile competitive stage to its cooperative species maturity.
Elisabet Sahtouris
Evolution biologist, author,
Earthdance: Living Systems in  Evolution



British businessman and social activist John M. Bunzl first conceived of the Simultaneous Policy (SP) in 1998. Two years later he founded the International Simultaneous Policy Organisation. Bunzl has detailed SP in many articles and interviews and in his book, The Simultaneous Policy: An Insider’s Guide to Saving Humanity and the Planet. In speeches and workshops, he has shared the SP vision with the World Social Forum, the World Trade Organisation, the Schumacher Society, and the Association of World Federalists, among others.

With adopters on every continent except Antarctica, SP is attracting a diverse and globally representative team of volunteers. They include a distinguished 80-year-old peace activist and former Australian Minister of Health; a self-described “poor recluse writing [strange] music and hard-hitting reality poetry” in England; and a retired US Army Reserve major and author of a critique of modern economics.  SP’s organizational adopters include the Canadian Action Party, the Global Hunger Alliance, and The Institute for Economic Democracy.