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A GeoPolitical Huladance: Making the Lei of World Peace Overnight -- 1. Introduction: The Linguistic Huladance of Peace: Seeing
NaNas and Na(j)MaMas and their Gentlemen Partners, and far more 2. About Nane Annan and Najma Heptulla and
Others as Sisters for Gender Balance and Kofi Annan, Anders Johnsson
and other Male Leaders as Brothers for Gender Balance 3. About Other Geopolitical Women and their Men's Countries' Officialdoms:
The Partner-Presidents, Partner Prime Ministers, Partner Parliamentarians, Partner Mahatmas and
Potential Partner-Secretary-Genderalls of State and Peace 4. A Proposed Website for NaNa's and NajMaMa's: "My
Day's" for Geopolitical Wives and Husbands, Women Leaders of Office,
and Egalitarian Men Leaders and Husbands on Gender Balance: Our Day's
Have Come 5. More On Kofi Annan and Anders Johnsson, and More
on the Meaning of Wives' and Husbands' Names 6. When Will Life Imitate Gender Balance Art: The Farmer's Daughters
and I Remember MaMa: 7. Ending Genderism, Racism and the Death Penalties
All At Once: 8. The Key to the World's Life: 9. Nanes, NaNas, Najmas, Naamahs and Nadias-Leilas,
and the Names of the Men Who Are Their Partners for World Gender
Balance --- InAllHerandHisNames 10.Links
From One Official Secretary-Genderist to Sharing Secretary-Gen(d)erals --
On Liberat-e-ing Nane(a) Annan and Her Husband Kofi,
Najma Heptulla and Her Colleague Anders Johnnson, their Spouses and Families,
and the EveryPerson Secretary-Gen(d)eral(l)s of All HerandHis Names
of the United InterNetional Community,
and All Geopolitical Wives and Husbands, Women and Men, and their Children
from the Threat Of War and into the Living Paradise of Peace
Via Seeing Gender Balanced Decision-Making in Office and at Home Around the World
Nana Annans, Joan and Eleanor Mondales, Geraldine Ferraros, Cynthia McKinneys,
Winona La Dukes and Catherine Bertinis
Nane, Sandi and Jacqueline, and Kofi and the Jesses
(Jacksons Jr and Sr): and the Queens as well as Kings and new
Mahatmas of new Memphises, rising Atlantases and More:
Couples and Gender Balanced Colleagues Against the Ultimate Death Penalties
The Secretary-Gen(d)eralls of the Internet's Announcements of Gender Balance
as the Defining Aspect of True Government -- Already Made
1. Introduction: The Linguistic Huladance of Peace: Seeing NaNas and (Naj)MaMas and Far More
According the the website http://www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/shows/holomaipele/ multimedia/look1.html "Hula is a living art form that represents life", paradisal (Hawaiian-Polynesian) language and hula dance gesture, whose Cosmology is based on God that can manifest His-Herself as both female and male, the word NaNa means to Look or to See.
In other Indo-European languages that connect Judeo-Christian-Bahai-Moslem, and also Hindu, Nordic and Asian cultures, and many other ones, NaNa or similar sounding words also mean a MaMa of a MaMa of a Daughter (or Son), thus, a Grand-Mother, or a woman seen wise enough to be one, and have the ability to look back on the past to See into the future, and have her ageless wisdom heeded by the PaPas, as both a beloved wife and oracle would?
Whether we say Mahatma or Mahatmia (both words for a Great Soul) our great men and women peace and freedom leaders and their descendants have more and more advocated that women be as represented and recognized as much as men are in making decisions for a peaceful culture and community, both at home and in community-wide office.
This is the first generation of empowered women and empowering men mature enough to be seen and remembered as liberated-liberating NaNas, MaMas (and PaPas) since the great wave of women's liberation, men's empowerment of women and whole self, and more egalitarian couplehood, which expressed a cultural evolution in the 1960's, although its her-historical origins are far older. Their story is now even in books and on the Internet, as well as being lived every day, by the largest number of literate women and men who regard each other as full equals that the world has ever known.
So now, many grandmothers, especially mothers and daughters and granddaughters, and many proudly nonsexist grandfathers and especially fathers, sons and grandsons, have learned about some of our Grandest NaNas and Grand Mamas - like Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Harriet Tubman, Susan B. Anthony, Susan La Flesche, SoJourner Truth, Mary Wallstonecraft, Abigail Adams, Victoria Woodhull, Eleanor Roosevelt, Jeanette Rankin, Rosa Parks, Vigdis Finboggedottir, Gro Harlem, and Bella Abzug, and many others, some who held office and others who paved the way for others and all who believed that regimes run disproportionately by one gender in office were bad for all the people, bad for women and men, and bad for all their children as well.
Many famous women-liberating and respecting PaPas and DaDas who Remembered MaMas and Saw NaNas, like Jesus and many early Christians, Sir Thomas More, Tom Paine, Frederick Douglass, John and Samuel Adams, Henry Stanton, John Stuart Mill, George Bernard Shaw, Martin Luther King Jr., Mohandas Gandhi, husbands and colleagues of these women and many others, too, believed that peace, and interracial harmony, could never happen until women were as equal in community decision-making presence as men; indeed, as equally, democratically-spiritually empowered as their husbands and brothers. They wrote of and recruited NaNas and MaMas as partners and shared heads of more ideal communities decades, centuries and millennia ago.)
But, has the official so-called United States-Britain, or the official so-called United Nations and so many of its member countries, now at an uneasy standoff over world war and world peace, heeded these most famous NaNas and Grand MaMas, and PaPas yet, and when will they? And, even more important, when will all of us, the male and female citizens worldwide, the new Millennial current and/or potential MaMas and PaPas of world culture heed them -- especially here in the Internetional Community?
One key to the answer is our own thoughts on more equally Seeing -- NaNaing -- in Paradisal hula-dance languaage -- all our invisibilized NaNas and MaMas, including one barely known by far too many Nane, (here we symbolically call her Nana, as her name is actually pronounced that way) Annan, the wife of Kofi Annan, and the beautiful possibilities presented by this couple, and other famous female-male leading pairs as well, such as the enormous gifts of Najma Heptulla and Anders Johnnson of the IPU Gender Balance Partnership. And these four as a model for a world of similar others, (as discussed in the section below: NaNas, Najmas, Naamahs and Nadias, and the Names of the Men Who Are Their Partners for World Gender Balance --- InAllHerandHisNames)
(For, the other key to peace is the intentional gender balance awareness of the civil society/peace organization community. and the even larger Internet community, where the every- people, women and men, and especially those who can think and communicate, such including some some ladies with some very similar names are all already equal Secretaries-Gen(d)era(l)ls. But more about that later)
Shouldn't we start with better seeing Nana Nane Annan, the wife of the man who up until now most of the world has thought of as the only Secretary Gen(d)eral, and Najma Heptulla, her sister at the UN's partner organization, the InterParliamentary Union or IPU, as the now Seen and Remembered first two of four Partner Secretary-Gen(d)erals of a new World?
Currently and wisely, the InterParliamentary Union and the United Nations have no Vice-Secretary General, perhaps because the word "Vice" is a habit of artificial and unnecessary hierarchy that denies partnership in favor of dominance, and most often denies women in favor of men. If world culture is to grow and survive the present crisis, it is time to think of all who inspire others to unity and peace as Partner Secretary-Generals, drawn from a whole world of more and more women and men who are skilled in sharing mutual leadership at home and in the community, the men and women of interdependent egalitarian couplehood and collegiality.
But before we can go there, we must first look at and clearly see the current disempowered. sometimes unnecessary self-disempowered predicaments of our great NaNas, especially our geopolitical wives, symbolized, of course, by Nane Annan, to begin with.
What are Nana Annan's visions for her world? How many even know? If we search very hard, we can learn she is a mother, and has been a lawyer and artist as well. She met Kofi as a student in Minnesota's Macalaster College. She is Swedish by nationality. But, how many know her political background on women's and other political issues, and her wishes for this moment and the future. Isn't it reasonable to assume she would like a UN at least as gender balanced and peaceful as the Riksdag of her native Sweden has been in the past few years and decades?
In the meantime, it must already be asked about Nana Annan: in a UN founded by another geopolitical wife who was an outspoken liberal progressive who sought to make World War II the world's last war -- the first world citizen of human rights, Eleanor Roosevelt -- why has, Nana Annan's lovely face and leadership been so invisible to us in so much of the world? Why have the men who run the US media corporations gone to apparent lengths to see that Americans have not known her for so many years?
And being of the Swedish heritage which should make her expect about equal numbers of women in office for any body to be acceptable to most of her country's and region's women and men of these years, why have Nana Annan been thus far somewhat invisibilized and silenced on the issue of women's proportional representation at the UN when world peace and the protection of women's values for conflict resolution and human respectful bonding is at stake? Is this fitting a woman as gifted as she is? Is her seeming silence on gender balance at the ambassadorial and membership level really serving her husband, or is it hurting him and his world?
Why has she seemed so quiet, even on the web, while Najma Heptulla who is also a mother and concerned world citizen as well as a Senator in the Indian Parliament, and other geopolitical wives and women like Sylvianne Agacinksi Jospin, and other women leaders like Anna Karamanou, have been more open on the issue? Why hasn't Kofi seen his position as an opportunity to empower his NaNa and all Na(j)Na/MaMas even more to overcome the numerical residues of patriarchy, and why hasn't his and his wife's unique couplehood been known well enough to serve to better unite the women and men of the world as both gender equals as well as racial equals in full partnership yet? Were their pressures against him doing so? Can he and they still make the matter highest priority now?
And shouldn't NaNa be expeditiously assisted and encouraged by all the world's women and fair men, to act as mutually assistive sister to Najma and all these others in helping all the world's women be restored to the political representation which they were all too long denied and delayed by centuries of force, followed by unfair laws, unfair systems, and entrenched socially destructive habit?
If you search for "nane annan" on the UN website, a scant 42 citations are referenced. A few more appear for "nana", but these do not refer to Nana Anna, but to other women leaders like Awa Leni Nana of Togo and Nana Moukouri of Greece. If you look for other UN leading women by name, there are only 219 for Mary Robinson, the highest office-holding woman at the UN in recent years) compared to 2559 for Nana's husband Kofi. Unlike Najma whose biography on the IPU website indicates a whole person who is both a wife and mother and involved in the IPU community, which balances her biography with that of Anders Johnnson/http: there is as yet no biography available for on the UN's gifted NaNa that the world has had so little chance to see, just as there is comparatively little on women represented in numbers that balance men and as full partners in the UN organization -- yet.
There is a loving reference to her on Kofi's biography at http://www.un.org/News/ossg/sg/pages/sg_biography.html but is that nearly enough for an egalitarian first couple of the world? The most revealing reference is on a new millennial document listed as 07 Sep 2000 GA/19756/Rev.1, in which the concept of gender 50-50 in at the UN is tactfully alluded to at a meeting where Nane was present. But repeated full focus on this issue by Nane herself is not there to be seen on the UN search engine -- yet.
Has NaNa Nane read Rianne Eisler's best-selling classic on gender balance and peace, the Chalice and Blade, given it to her husband, and discussed it over the breakfast table, and with her children? Is she familiar with her native Swedish Parliament, which monitors its own functioning to assure between 40-60 and 50-50 on gender, and the gender gap closing affirmative action programs and achievements of many UN member countries and international women's and pro-womens ngo groups, and other countries including several in Kofi's native Africa/? Has she read of the 37.5% minimums for both genders set forth by the Universal Declaration on Gender Interdependence, available at http://www.oocities.org/theuniversaldeclaration/thedeclaration.html as a criteria for determining the presence of real democracy and true government in any existing officialdom? If so, shouldn't she speak to world sisters about it in the most prominent way possible, assisted by her husband and all the women of the UN. Or did her spousehood disqualify her from political, pro-women expressions such as these? But this concern is in no way to single Nane out or blame her. The pressure on leading women to be soft on this issue has been apparently and, for world peace and progress, disturbingly intense:
Of course, Nane Annan's unnecessary invisibility is not completely unusual. Many geopolitical wives have been recently become strangely more and more stifled or censored in this way, without any public explanation, or comment of concern by their staff's and husbands. Their stifling not only acts as a damper to all progress. It also demeans the wholeness of humanity which allows us all, to both love our spouses and their gender, but also care deeply about respect for our own gender as part of our own self-respect, and whole community's balance, whether we are male or female.
For example, in a Britain that still deeply misses the peace leadership of Diana whose life ended in a back-seat of a car which she trusted a man to drive, for example, it was recently said of Cherie Booth Blair, on the women's Internet I-Village's profiles of prominent women:
"What ever happened to Cherie' political (visibility)? It is almost as if when she married Tony, she made a decision to become a back-seat driver, keeping a low profile and trying not to get involved with her husband's politics." But as soon as Cherie Blair's husband becomes a gentleman enough to see and suggest his wife as a prospective first Partner Prime Minister, and the couple announces urgent gender balance for the British Parliament, as Jospin and Agacinski did in France, the majority of those who mourned Diana would celebrate just as wildly, and Diana (and her lover, a man of a heritage also struggling to come out of patriarchy) would not have died in vain.
In another example, look at the mess in the United States:
The publically cuckholded Hillary Clinton of the so-called "United" States allows herself to be a more and more tokenized and dominatrixed hack within the US system, voting with the male party leadership to unleash war against the advice of most women who once believed in her party. Perhaps this is not so surprising of a woman who only cryptically and obliquely mumbled to an audience of billions, about obscure, undefined right-wing "conspiracies" against her intern-haremizing husband, while failing to tell her countrywomen and fair men, that a very visible and specific Gender Parite was being enacted by the French Prime Minister and his wife at that very same moment. What a missed opportunity of air time then -- just one sentence about Gender Parite would've stopped the hypocritical impeachment nonsense of the nearly 90% male US "Congress" cold.
Like Hillary, Tipper Gore and Hadassah Lieberman saw no need to empower someone of their own gender after 200 years of all male Presidents yes-manned by subordinate hierarchical Presidential-Vice-Presidential genderism, and acted as if they have never heard of gender balance (and racial affirmation) for the so-called Congress when a 90% male joint session headed by Al Gore tipped the US into undemocracy by choosing the ungenderbalanced, undemocratic Electoral College anachronism over the American people. But, if she had held the gavel in a gender balanced Congress, Tipper Gore would likely have been woman enough to tip the gavel, and world, toward democracy, and there would be world peace right now. With earth in the gender balance and more of the women and men of the Internet aware of their lapse, are she, Hillary and Hadassah, ready to address this publically yet, and have their husband's unite with and and all States to join them in the announcment of Scandinavian type gender balance for the "US" and all the world?
And Laura Bush, and the several other Bush women, including her mother-in-law, aunts and daughters (are they sadly too addicted and dysfunctionalized by their family's profound patrarchy to speak out for a better world as the then younger Amy Carter once did?) have been as silent on the issue of non-token representation for women as a Saudi oil sheik's or Iraqi dictator's veiled or home-imprisoned consorts who appear to be this administration's current most sympatico allies or mirror image foes. Lynn Cheney, too, fails to talk about the fact that the American officialdom is having a failure of heart for peace and wise policy because it is devoid of proportion of gender in office that reflects the gender balance of the American population's body politic. She is indeed a wife of a democracy- destructive, anachronistic Vice - patriarchy and genderism and a chainees of gender denial that is rampant in the so-called United State's nearly 90% male officialdom.
None of the Bush women, nor Alma Vivian Powell, wife of Colin Powell, nor his token Condoleesa Rice, (a hierarchy-obsessed arrangment that replaced instead of partnered a woman as US Secretary of State and saw the US's nearly 90% male Congress and its chosen group of patriarchs abolish the US Commission on Women while the UN accepted its ambassador without protest), has yet had green light to publically work to invite a non-partisan gathering of geopolitical wives on world gender balance with all the women of the world in mind: Women like Ri Hui Ho, wife of South Korean Kim Dae Jung and her sister in the North who empowered, who would choose family reunification over fear and proliferation, if they knew of a context of worldwide gender balance. Women like Dr. Bayan Al Aaraji of the exiled Iraqi National Congress which provides little hope as long as it is as gender imbalanced as the Bush regime itself, which is not different on gender balance from than that which held Salida Hussein and the many women of that family held under house arrest by fathers and brothers. Why doesn't more of our world share the insight to realize that the women of both North and South Korea and Iraq are the key to deescalation of world tension. Is it too late? Maybe Laura Bush, like the women of all these regimes, is under a kind of house arrest. Or perhaps she and too many sisters in both major parties are just too psychologically habituated to patriarchy, and substance abuse, instead of partnership, to think or speak freely, at all? Yet, it is still not at all impossible that Secretary Condoleesa Rice, finding self-respect not only as a black but equally important as a woman, and an empowered Secretary Genderall Alma Powell, will together and with the help of many other women, assist a renewed Secretary-Genderall Colin to join them in endorsing true affirmative action - that is gender balance a well as racial empowerment for their white male king-crowning Congress of Regress and unelected so-called government. Working with the people's Kings and Queens of Atanta and a gender balance empowered peace and justice community as well as Nane and Kofi Annan together (see section 7 below), they may yet see that gender balance is happening in Africa, Europe and all over the world. Then they, their families and staffs can all move from being "house niggers" in the House of an unseeing hierarchical master, to the most beloved Secretary Genderalls of a State and Army of peace that begins transforming all the world's swords into ploughshares, and brings the errant mistresses and masters equally to See the Higher Mistress/Master that loves all people equally, and equally condemns the arrogance of both gender and race.
Will Armageddon have to start before we, the world watching, see all their importance and predicament, unseen under our bad habit of world-wide shrugging acceptance of gender imbalance in the political realm? All of these women would be empowered for peace if we looked at them seriously as real human beings every bit as capable and even more deserving of official leadership than their husbands in regimes of gender imbalance. Working together with empowered gender balance in office that comes from seeing all the world as home, they are all potential partners of peace.
Even a noble geopolitical corporate monitorer like Ralph Nader allowed his campaign with Vice (instead of Partner) Winona LaDuke to fail to mention gender balance and the recent achievement of Gender Parite in France. They failed to tell Americans that gender balance is not only the mode of operating at most US Green meetings, but also as a characteristic of the Green parties of Europe, and a major issue under consideration at the European Union and Parliament of Europe. For all its concern about globalization, the Green campaign in the US was run in a vacuum of nationalism when it comes to the issue of gender balance, and Winona missed the opportunity to unite women of all races, including First Nations aboriginal women, in teamwork with descendants of slaves and immigrant families of all the world's nations. In what is the most racially and ethnically rich country of the world, what a wasted opportunity, but perhaps the context wasn't ready yet. But for world survival, now must be the time, and it is certainly not too late for American Greens to join with worldwide Greens, and all parties and people seeking gender balance in all lands, to lead a turnaround to gender full partnership now, with the help of Laura Naders, Winona Ladukes, and many others as a full partners in change as much as their brother Ralph was, and seen and visible in making such an announcement alongside him.
The women of Japan, including the Empress Masako, are particularly underrepresented as are those of the US -- hovering near or not much above 10% of their national legislatures. The same is true for countries we would have thought were important to holocost and World War II survivor Hadassah Lieberman, like Poland and Israel. Both these privileged women certainly must notice the same level of standstill on gender progress for sisters in both the US, Japanese, Polish and Israeli officialdoms. Ludmila Putin's country is also falling behind. As they interact with their own and allied countries that could and should lead the world in preventing another holocost or Hiroshima and Nagasaki anywhere, women from all these countries now live under nuclear and biowarfare threats from a growing list of countries' and terror organizations whose regimes are rather similarly lacking the women's proportion. Ironically, Doris Shroeder-Kopf's country, Germany, has achieved far better balance; close to the critical range of 37.5% for each gender needed for geopolitical sustainable life, and along with the Netherlands, Spain, France and many other European countries and parties, has begun to seriously adopt the Scandinavian PartnerLand instead of Vaterland approach which still plagues these other countries.
And given our forgiveness of the evolved de Klerk, should the name Winnie Mandela, or that of Mandela's new third wife (which was invisible to be found on the Internet), be so profoundly less forgiven than de Klerk's and so unremembered compared to Mandela's own? Shouldn't his and Winnie's daughters, Zendizwa and Zenani, be interviewed routinely, too and tell us all clearly that they and parents both support the women who are bringing the Scandinavian high thirty and forty percent levels of gender balance to South Africa, Mozambique and Namibia. This is certainly a good path if the Mandela's are to be a wholly effective family of liberation for the continent, and not find themselves once again allowing Africa to slip into a yet another new face of globalized patriarchally predictable slavery or cooptation turned against the already victimized and poor.
Seeing even more clearly, let's look at the importance of seeing Sonia Gandhi, and the current many women and men leaders of partnership in the Indus continent, including sisters in struggle for gender fairness such Benazir Bhutto of Pakistan as well as the above mentioned Najma Heptulla, but also another important supporter, Sonia's daughter Priyanda, and their ground-breaking and gentlemanly husbands and family, leaders as well, whose role in inspiring and/or supporting these great women is equally profound, among many millions of supporters worldwide and not only in Pakistan and India, but also Europe and throughout the world, and recognized for their importance by millions European, North American women and pro-women gentlemen and Australian and New Zealand leaders and citizens, women and men alike.
Using what she learned from the memory of Mohandas, a great Indian who was the only Mahatma we saw before we began to think geopolitically and we realized that many women and other men, like many saints like Kasturba Gandhi, Mother Theresa, and great leaders like Rosa Parks, Alice Paul, Susan B. Anthony and Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela and too many unnamed heroes and heroines of all these struggles, too, for example, might be called Mahatmas, too, in more cross-cultural and gender inclusive languaging, let's look at the efforts of Sonia Gandhi
Starting in 1998 in India, Congress Party leader Sonia Gandhi, a geopolitical wife and widow of Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and daughter in law of Indira, and women and men of her and other parties, across party lines in some cases, held several week long sit-ins in the Lok Sabha, one of the Houses of the Indian Parliament. The news of these profoundly important sit-ins was suppressed by monogender- controlled patriarch-run television, radio and pring media in the United States and other monogenderments around the world. Even more sadly, some tokenized women politicians in the United States and other countries failed to inform the women of North America about these sit-ins. Did their dominant male party leaders forbid them to speak of this, or were their nationalistic blinders so great that they failed to see the relevance for women and fair men in their own countries, or around the world? Nevertheless, the timeless truth of the Internet can allow us all to connect these (see http://waw.indiaabroad.com/news/1998/jul/13quota.htm) invisibilized and unseen sit-ins and the suppressed news of their Mahatma women leaders and equally great male partners, with the underlying truth about the world's current moment of fear of escalating terrorism and world unnecessary Armageddon. Here is how the situations were connected:
Not long after the gender balance legislation which these sit-ins proposed was tabled and deferred by current patriarchs in India, mostly monogender fundamentalist groups felt emboldened enough to bomb the monogender Indian Stock Exchange, in a very similar precursor to the 911 attack on the icon of the mostly-monogender economic model, New York's World Trade Center. The Trade Center stood in the same state where the 1998 Seneca Fall's Women's Suffrage celebrations failed to mention the women's representation sit-ins which were occurring during literally the same week in India. Thus, it is not women's empowerment, but the failure to work at it globally, and take it seriously enough to bring it about without delay, that endangers both India and the United States.
The death tolls of the Indian Stock Exchange and the World Trade Center included people of both gender, many men corporate heads and stock brokers, but too, many women -- secretaries, mostly entry level stock brokers, shopkeepers, janitorial staff, and left many widows and orphaned children. But, the connection between all these events have still not been seen by enough yet. The connection is simple: delay geopolitical progress on gender representation, and you ironically and inadvertently empowers the fundamentalism and terrorism that endangers both genders equally, and unites all countries and genders in death.
Sadly, this is what comes of not only male, but female nationalism instead of geopolitical seeing, of the importance of not delaying gender balance. It is what comes of ignoring, overnationalizing, and tokening the importance of women, and invisibilizing geopolitical women, leaders and wives both, women like Sonia Gandhi, who are heroically acting as Mahatmas for the women of the world, in the name of all sisters, including Benazir Bhutto, Sylvianne Agacinski, Tipper Gore and Hillary Clinton, Cherie Booth Blair, Doris Shroeder-Kopf, Empress Masako, Zendizwa, Zendani in reconciliation Winnie Mandela, as well as unrepresented native women like Winona LaDuke and her counterparts in Canada, New Zealand, Hawaii, and around the world. It is what comes of failing, or being impeded from seeing, the peacemaking possibilities of all these women's public connection with each other, across party and national boundaries, with all the world paying attention, watching, seeing and helping.
It is what comes of ignoring the possibilities of the gender balancing sisterhood of Najma Heptulla and Nane Annan, women as both colleagues and wives and mothers, working on gender balance as a standard of democracy, and coordinating daily with geopolitical women and fair men across all boundaries. It is what comes of the still mostly-monogender UN calling one of its all male Security Council's country's unelected good ol boys, a President, while ignoring the just as serious invisibility and codependency of his wife and daughters, whose countrywomen have a token 13% presence in the mostly-monogender Regress that offers a willingness to start Armageddon without a shred of real representation behind its authorizations of war.
It is what comes of ignoring that the US's monogender Regress, along with Hillary Clinton and her no Parite-bill-introducing Bill, co-optedly applauded, while an invisible Tipper's monogender ticket-topping Al crowned an even more monogender party's spiritually poor corporate puppet President, along with his equally genderist Vice, by disenfranchising most American women as well as fair men, tipping the world toward an unnecessary Armageddon. This is what comes of Tipper Gore's accepting the wifey role concept, of Hillary accepting 13% women in Congress without any sit-ins of her own, of both ignoring their sister Mahatmas and Gender Parite couples across the ocean. By letting Hillary and Tipper do this kind of isolationist non-seeing without protest or comment, the Americans and whole world took collective part in letting Hillary and Tipper Tip themselve, all women, and real representation of both genders, toward invisiblity and nationalistic disconnection, disconnection from women like Sonia Gandi, Syvlianne Agacinksi, the brave men of their parties, and the issue of world gender balance itself, at the time when all these women's countries desperately needed to empower and connect them.
Despite this unseeing lapse, can these wives and the "power-couples" become egalitarian and sharing enough to still redeem themselves by publically uniting to discuss overdue world wide gender balance as a definitional criteria of democracy and true government, in time to help all people stop an unnecessary Armageddon? Of course they can. Time will tell if they all do, or the "little people" and the Higher Power will have to do it all without them. But wouldn't it be great for her, for them both, if Tipper Gore Aitcheson and Al Gore-Aitcheson, along with Hillary and Bill, re-deemed their error, and held a joint televised conference with also "defeated" Sylvianne Agacinski and Lionel Jospin, and also "defeated" Sonia Gandhi, on the issue of gender balance, joined by the leading couples of other parties, like also "defeated" Laduke and Nader, as well as those of many parties of many countries, gender balanced countries, and altogether tipped us toward peace and partnership in all their people's names, instead of just the names of men only, Gore and war?
Why, George and Laura could even join them in a show-stopping call for gender balance, and a declaration that they would not serve again with a gender imbalanced Congress, and do not want to be remembered as the unelected pair that starts/enables Armageddon. Of course, this would take great love and courage. Yet, anything is possible, when we begin to see our NaNas as well as our Papas. Under threat of global disaster, even politicians may rise to the occasion of gender balance. Then, the whole world would win that election!
But, instead, right now, at this late moment, still lacking sight and insight of the geopolitical importance of fully representative gender balance, monogenderism attacks itself in the name of nationalistic and racial prides, and the entire rest of the world, male and female, is held hostage by fear and marginalization by their own monogenderdoms. Patriarchal regimes are still pretending to govern this or that country in each respective countrypeople's names, when in fact, the names of women are unrepresented, tokenised and disenfranchised along with the names of gender fair-men. Of course, such names are either only tokenized or absent, in the war and terror rooms that would not exist if we had already seen the importance of gender balance for real democracy and respecting of nature, when Nane Annan's native Sweden did, in the 1970's.
Seeing Sonia Gandhi's name and her non-violent leadership reminds us too of the tradition of her precursor in India, Mohandas, the first Mahatma (Great Soul) the world has called as such, whose dream of a united, religiously tolerant Indus peninsula in which the people of Pakistan and India were loving friends and neighbors instead of armed, divided enemies, was lost, in part, too because the world continues to not see the name of his wife, another once forgotten but now here seen NaNa, Kasturba. Kasturba was, in fact, a Mahatma, too, but she and we, did not realize it yet. Both members of this couple were Mahatma(i), and though born Hindu, considered themselves children of an everseeing One pervasive spirit that manifests as male and female, As Kasturba's husband said, we are all simultaneously "Hindus, Moslems, Buddhists, Christians and Jews" when we love each other and peace.
Today, there are many Moslem husbands and men who support women, like Benazir Bhutto, Tansu Cillar of Turkey, women leaders of Indonesia, Bengladesh, Sri Lanka, and their men, and other lands both Hindu and Moslem, who are striving, with equally great soul, for gender balance too, seeing that Allah includes the names and rights of All. Their names and pictures are available at websites like http://www.womenworldleaders.org and http://www.guide2womenleaders.com. and the gender balanced http://www.oocities.org/ark_earthinbalance/whotruegovt.html. But much of the world goes on unseeing, and lurches toward the failure of the dream of peaceful unity, toward an unnecessary Armageddon ominously threatening in many places. The world will remain in danger until it will see its NaNas and all their sisters as full decision-makers with their men.
As new Mahatmas' family, not just in the Great Indus peninsula, but in the US, such as Sunanda Gandhi as much as her husband Arun, their children and their men and women colleagues and equally important spouses of both genders, unite their names and work for peace with the gender balance sit-ins of Sonia Gandhi; as they seek geopolitical gender balance with the nearby Martin Luther Kings and their now uninvisbilized Queens of Kings: Yolanda, Bernice and a reempowered Coretta and all their sisters and brothers of a risen new Memphis and new Jerusalem (see section 7. below), as well as New Delhi and all the capitals of the world, as we all See to it that this happens, then will we all be that generation that brings forth not unity to one nation, but world unity, not justice for just two races, but justice for all races, and a world of love and peace for every religion, all in common good will, that is possible only with geopolitical gender balance in decision-making, in office and at home everywhere.
But this hasn't happened yet. Does the current model of our collective worldwide toleration for wifely and sisterly invisibility and co-opted tolerance for women's non-representation in their husband's officialdoms "give peace a chance", as Yoko and John sang together to the world, as equals looking beyond nationalistic divisions and boundaries and highlighting the political cooperative potential of empowered couplehood? On the day that we together See gender balance, we will not only "give peace a chance", but, See and Be that "One" day that Oko and John also sang about together in mutuality and equality: when all men and women "Join" equally..."and the world will be as One."
All geopolitical wives, and sisters, mothers and daughters are capable of being seen and heard more on behalf of gender balance, and better capable of speaking out to empower their sisters in true, non-token levels of representation above 37.5%. So the real question is which of them enjoy marriages and communities egalitarian and mutual enough to empower them on behalf of their unrepresented sisters yet, to publically call for gender balance throughout their husband's officialdoms of gender usurpation, and quickly save and benefit their world? Which NaNas have marriages that empower them to speak out on behalf of their sisters for gender balance both nationally and worldwide?
As long as political wives, grandmothers, sisters and daughters are comparatively as silent on gender balance, and allow their countrywomen to be almost as unseen in office as women were prior to the first wave of women's liberation in the 1960's and 1970's when Ferraro was given Vice instead of full partnership, all women, even those in elected office, must overcome the hurdle of their invisibilized co-optation or silence, and their failure to lend a hand to centuries overdue, now critically needed gender balance in all geopolitical office. Our collective lack of comment on the silence of the wives on gender balance perpetuates gender tokenism and cooptation for all women, including themselves and their daughters, and artificially sets up wifehood and familyhood as a second class political status, a "dequalification" of the very experiences that make women brilliant leaders of peace.
But all these are very talented women, and members of powerful couples and communities. As they turn toward the empowerment of women, as well as more egalitarian sharing and freedom of expression, what good all these NaNas and MaMas, and their transformed husbands and brothers, could easily do! As we help them, and every common citizen, to urgently speak out to officially empower each other and all their sisters via gender balance, we help them bring peace to themselves, their husbands and their world.
In the days when her husband was President, when they were both planning the UN, Eleanor Roosevelt wrote a column called "My Day" which was syndicated in her and many other countries newspapers. Why not bring this up-to-date in the information age for geopolitical couples:
Whether they are the person holding office or whether their spouse, brother or son is, all geopolitical spouses easily could share a web dialogue on the internet with hosted by Secretary-Gen(d)erals Nana Annan and Najma Heptulla, linking the un and ipu websites with the websites of women who have headed governments such as such as the website of the Council of Women World Leaders at http://www.womenworldleaders.org, and the websites of Commissions on Women/Gender Balance of their countries' officialdoms or those of other countries if their husband's officialdoms do not yet or any longer (abolished in the US by the current officialdom) have one.
They could invite their office-holding Secretary-Gen(d)eral Husbands and Colleagues, as well as non-office holding husbands and wives as equally important guests, on a linked related website which they could call the Council of World Partner Couples and Colleagues.
For only when all spouses, and female and male colleagues, are democratically seen in office and ceremony, and yet also seen as just plain parents, lovers, friends and citizens who are just part of the pool from which democratic, gender balanced representation is elected, will the women's (r)evolution be a fully balanced more whole humanness (r)evolution, in which becoming a spouse and parent is not a disqualifier from free political expression and office, and political self-determination is not a disqualifier for a domestic life and fulfilling parenthood, for either women or men.
Maybe these wives and couples just haven't thought of making their own shared global website for gender balance in politics yet -- it's certainly not too late to do just that. But a mutually empowering dialogue with current former women Presidents such as Kim Campbell, Corazon Aquino, Benizar Bhutto, egalitarian Male heads of state such as Lionel Jospin and First Ladies such as Sylvianne Agacinski Jospin, and First Gentlemen such as Pentii Arajarvi of Finland and his wife President Tarja Halonen, and major women potential President partners like Sonia Gandhi, who once was a wife of a Prime Minister and will likely herself also oneday be one, and Margarita and Oscar Arias, and now many others, would be very interesting and quite easy to do on the Internet. Only when office holders and office-holders spouses of both genders are all seen as politically important and equal candidates for gender balanced government and social service, including parenting, will there be sustainable peace on earth. And Nana Nane's Name literally spells out the opportunity - she can become the Great Nana-e, of electronic forum and dicussion, especially as we all recognize her importance as such. Her name and importance for gender 50-50 at the UN can be mentioned e-verywhere.
But right now, such discussions are seldom if ever to be seen or heard. The lack of such public global sisterhood among political wives and other women in diplomacy, resulted in the acceptance of legitimacy at the so-called UN of in fact illegitimate monogenderment: of too many regimes that exist only because their people's votes, especially women's, were manipulated and disenfranchised by $"Election" Commissions, "Congresses" and "Courts" where women and men of fairness are disproportionately absent. Now, these regimes are hurtling toward Armageddon. Only by erroroneously thinking of such monogenderments as real government do we hurtle with them, and only by recognizing gender balance as the true government, already spread throughout the earth, do we stop the death Fall and begin the greatest living sustainable Ascent of Humankind. This is what Jesus, Mary and other early Christians described. But their words were edited by, you guessed it, monogenderments. But this time, any further editing will only bring down the monogenderment error itself. For it cannot stop the E available to Every Nana and Papa of equal mutuality.
5. More On Kofi Annan and Anders Johnsson, and More on the Meaning of Wives' and Husbands' Names
So, while Kofi is increasingly somewhat famous by going from unsatisfactorally handled crisis to escalating or costly crisis, he, he and his wife Nana as an equal and mutual couple, and world peace itself, do not get as much "airplay" as the nationalistic games and fames held by each male patriarch within his patriarchal respective national or regional or corporate sovereignty. And day after dangerous day, the UN and IPU remain critically ineffective as agents a united peace culture!
It takes the cooperation of many egalitarian couples and women and men colleagues working mutually to empower each other to bring about a peace culture. But shouldn't the Annans be assisting this more clearly? The key is also in Kofi's name, translated into Paradisal language. The word Koena in Paradisal language (Hawaiian) means balance or remainder, The word Kohua in Hawaiian means to aid or assist. As we better see the meaning of Kofi Annan's name in Paradisal language, the importance of his personal assistance of his wife and other women into immediate and full gender balance, becomes clear and visible. His task is to assist that remainder of humanity that was disempowered by patriarchy into full partnership. We would all like to know Nane's born name, too. And even his and her married last name points to Kofi's need of his wife and other unseen NaNas as a full equals to succeed. Annan pronounced backwards spells NaNa, perhaps what Kofi and men other men heads of state called their politically unrepresented mothers or grandmothers or beloved mammies and a-nannies as a child before being grown-up enough to suppress their inner child in the name of patriarchy instead of partnerhip. NaNa also means to see in Paradisal language of the hula dance. Until the Annans make this Nana and her sister Najma, all NaNas and MaMas and all grandmothers, mothers and daughters into full political official partners instead of anonymous, the world will not See Peace. The name Annan also suggests that he and NaNa work more with the prominent Annas-NaNas of gender balance, Sylviann(a) Agacinksi Jospin of Gender Parite, and Anna Karamanou of the European Parliament. Every sign of name and language synchronistically points to the same message: It is time to empower men and women as equals in office. It's time for Gh-ana's Lion Kofi to work with Sylvianne's and Anna's Lionel on Gender Balance for all the world; so that the lions of male-dominated corporations can be made to lay down with the ewes and lambs of of women's and peace organizations, and civil society, in balance. It is a gift now overdue for several generations quite aware of this. In its Old English root, the sound alike, anon, means immediately, derived from (an)in On (One), in God's good One moment, when all which seems divided is brought together as One, in a loving instant of omniscient seeing insight: Nana Annan and her Kofi. Will they live up to the meaning of their names? Will we all help them to do so InAllHerandHisNames?
And similarly, Swedish Anders Johnsson whose very name means "Others" and the son of common men, suggesting that he and Najma Heptulla compose the reciprocal partner colleagues to Kofi and Nana Annan. Anders is similarly strangely disempowered from being an effective peacemaker in the current patriarchal arrangement of titles and offices. He has, for the moment, allowed Najma Heptulla's term ended without calling her his Partner Secretary General, and has allowed her Executive Council term to end while his continues. Why not do some international partnerhood exchanging, declare Nanna Annan an official Partner Secretary General of the IPU serving with Anders, and declare Najma Heptulla a Partner Secretary General with Kofi? It is likely that Najma's husband, and Ander's wife, who is from Mexico, and their children will also rejoice at this, and say so, along with all other IPU officers capable of being the Mr. and Mrs. of Paz, such as new President That will make it clear to the world quickly that gender balance -- at home and in office, is the fast track, and indeed, the only viable path to emergency-urgent world peace, and sustainability, and that a son of Scandinavia has the Viking spirit to explore this kind of undiscovered new Green Land called Partnership - and Peace.
Yes, there is a remedy, if these geopolitical couples will act together with many other men and women pairs, sets of united fully egalitarian couples and colleagues, working explicity together to reform the UN working with the IPU, and all and world officialdoms toward real government, on presence of gender in their daily votes, legislatures and other offices. But more on that below.
But, so far, we haven't seen (NaNa'd in Paradisal Huladance language) to it, and NaNa Annan hasn't done this. Eleanor Roosevelt's UN ghost is turning in her grave and so is her husband, who would now say with her "We have nothing to fear but our fear of gender balance". and the spirits of both are right now fearing that all the generations they had hoped would have peace may instead soon join her and Franklin there in death, and peace buried with us. With the world moving toward nuclear and germ warfare confrontations, and prematurely implemented biotechnology, NaNa, when will it be your day on behalf of all the NaNa's, and MaMa Najma's, too, of women's representation? After it's too late? After the mostly-male UN has failed like the mostly-male League of Nations failed before it? It is time to NaNa, to See, Our Way to a Better Path.
Instead of being the saving Swedish intrepid but compassionate Viking heroine, Nana Annan has so far too often been allowing herself to be portrayed as the smiling but self-effacing, silenced Swedish pretty but dumbed blonde - a wifey and nothing more, instead of a whole human being.
In the award-winning film, "The Farmer's Daughter" made in the late 1940's when the UN was new, a Scandinavian immigrant to Minnesota, main character Kristin -- yes, as in a symbolic cosmic political savior -- (played by Loretta Young) confronts war politics, emphasizing her presence as a women for peace forthrightly, and breaking the then gender barrier for office. In the film, she is deeply supported by many men of peace (Joseph Cotten's character, who loves her forthrightness as much as her beauty, and most women and men everywhere) for doing this, as well, and brings helps bring forth empowerment of all women, by speaking out actively and often.
But since then, neither the official US regimes or the official UN has made enough progress on gender as the Scandinavians in their home country, and the contrast is not being talked about or NaNa'd (seen, in Paradisal language and Cosmology) by any liberated NaNas and gender balance empowering PaPas in the UN and the US yet. The result: the corrupt war system that the Kristin character warned us about. Apparently Nana Annan and Kofi Annan haven't seen the film, or they'd have made more prominent the gender success of Scandinavian governments already to the US audiences whose parents and grandparents once saw this film in theaters.
The Farmer's Daughter is set in a US farm state -- Minnesota, and is also about world agricultural and environmental policy, and turning swords into ploughshares of wholesome, small farmer's values of love, family and work. So we have to ask, has Catherine Bertini, the new UN CFO, seen the film, and compared the UN's failures on gender in office and home to the success of Scandinavian's in their Nordic lands? Will Bertini become an American caged and gilded bird-token or dominatrix, too? Or, will she and Nana Annan speak together to equally empower any farmer's daughters and granddaughters? Women like Joan and Eleanor Mondale right alongside their her native sisters like Winona La Dukes, women Venturas willing to Venture into political empowerment, and others from a Paul Wellstone's and Jess Ventura's Minnesota where too many wives and daughters have thus far been wifely, but unlike the Kristin character, unable to speak in any legislature and save their world as full partners, for themselves and alongside their husbands?
Isn't it time these wives and daughters worked together to openly support gender balance alongside Nana Annan and Najma Heptulla, finally catching up with the achievements of their Viking and ancestral Scandinavia of female heroines as brave as male heroes? Indeed, like Nana and Kofi Annan, Joan Mondale went to Macalester College. Will she and her daughter Eleanor (fulfilling Eleanor Roosevelt's hopes) for the UN and US, face the issue? The need of all these women to watch this film together is imperative now.
Will Walter (Fritz) Mondale, who is of Scandinavian heritage, have the wisdom of the Joseph Cotten character and use and share or give his seat -- and urge other overrepresented US male politicians -- to equally empower his own Farmer's Daughter and many women from Minnesota and throughout his land, like her sister Winona La Duke and Georgia's tenant farmers daughter Cynthia McKinneys who are punished by patriarchy, and bring a flood of Kristin saviors of all races into a self-reforming US officialdom that is more racially diverse and gender balanced? Will NaNa Ferraro speak out for this? Or, will this opportunity to change thw world quickly to the good, too, be missed, as we slide into a UN-tolerated male, white patriarchy-Regress that chooses a President without its people's approval, Senators without gender balance and unleashes an Armageddon triggered by US guns in a far off land?
Left all alone with the mostly-male corporate decision-makers, will Bertini become a corporate agribusiness enabler of gender imbalanced pseduogovernment that unleashes a biogenetically induced Nature's backlash of famine and disease on Minnesota and all the world? Or will she be a real NaNa of real presence of women in all office, as Bella Abzug, Patsy Mink, and other not forgotten real Grand Mothers inspired both men, including their husbands, and women to see? Will she stand with the forthright Kristin archetype to seat women in fair numbers, as have Najma Heptulla, Syvlianne Agacinski and Sonia Gandhi in insisting on gender in restorative proportion? Or will she settle for dominatrix Armageddon-unleashing tokenism, as Hillary Clinton and Dianne Feinstein have done thus far?
Will she, too, be silent on the gender balance issue, and deliver the world's poor to unnecessary famine and slaughter by buying into prematurely developed corporate megafarm biotechnology which does not have the grandmotherly watchdogging of sufficient numbers of women, and women esteeming men, simple farmers and farmer's daughters, in office worldwide. One Kristin in office, in 1940's screen reality, was a symbolic start. Now, in 2003, the 13% insufficient gender balance at the so-called US Congress, and 14% worldwide and at the UN, is thus, far, a very dangerous, a nearly cosmic failure, compared to Scandinavia's decades of gender equipresenct real representation in office.
Like The Farmer's Daughter, another very famous movie, "I Remember MaMa" is about a Scandinavian-American family where both parents model of mutuality and egalitarian leadership is present. Written by a daughter in a world where mothers and daughters were not yet taken seriously, the film has strong overtones of the need for women to overtly remember each other in gaining full empowerment in the larger world beyond the home.
So, when will the Mondale's, who are of Scandinavian heritage, yet remember their Minnesota's MaMas and Farmers Daughters, as well as millions of other women who are still, like Abigail Adams ladies (who wanted political voting and office for women of all races in 1789 but was denied by the same Electoral College crowd that selected the current US regime) not yet remembered, despite Abigail's over 2800 year old injunction to "Remember the Ladies". Will the Mondales, or others of Scandinavian heritage be among those to face this, and will they assist Nanna Annan and Catherine Bertini to do so, by being the first sponsors of gender balance legislation that in North America which calls for it at the UN and IPU together, as well. Will they and Nana Anna remember the MaMas and NaNas, and their quietly powerful egalitarian PaPas, too?
If like the daughter narrator of "I Remember MaMa", Eleanor Mondale worked to see that MaMas and PaPas rule the world together, wouldn't that make both MaMa and PaPa Mondale and MaMa Ferraro proud, and perhaps bring both "old" colleagues into office themselves as equal partners, with a new lease on life and health. The Mondales and Ferraros are no older than the age Reagan was when North America took the patriarchal instead of partnership official wrong-turn on keeping one dominant gender in office for North America, which has denied the "States" even the Kim Campbell that Canadian neighbors have had.
Why not have Deja NaNas, like Geraldine Ferraro and WiNo(a)Na and Cynthia McKinney and other women Venturing into leadership working together as equals with Nader, Ventura and Mondale PaPas, joining forces on the issue of gender balance in all branches and partnership in office, instead of finding themselves as second strings under of that chainey (or should we say Cheney) of foolish Vice, party-loyalist gender hierarchy, at divided and conquered odds with each other. In Paradisal NaNa words, wouldn't this Deja be Seeing with a Better and gender balanced Vu? Won't this best protect world agriculture from biotech corn blight prematurity and Paradise Lost? All possible once we recognize Nana Annan and Najma Heptulla as a full partners of Kofi and Anders, and nothing less.
But the situation is just as profoundly poignant for NaNa's husband, Kofi Annan, and his racial brothers of peace in the US, (like the antiwar US Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr., Cornel West and the politically exiled Ron Dellums who nevertheless had the wisdom to empower and work with his successor from Berkeley's district, Barbara Lee), and the sons of Martin Luther King Jr.
Kofi is (and perhaps all these men are) descended from a long line of tribal patriarchal Kings -- missing any ruling Queens -- in Ghana. Perhaps some of Kofi's ancestors were well meant but then illiterate and thus easily duped but tribally all powerful Kings and passive smiling Consorts (but not egalitarian partner couples of whole compassion). While their brothers and sisters were captured as un-named slaves by Roman men-armies first, and later the slaveship Arab-Euro-Anglo consortiums of the slave trade male-run corporations of the 16-1800's, these tribal kings and their second class consorts never thought to empower and meet with the wives of these marauders, and create a true culture of peace and freedom by empowering women as equals of men. There was no Internet where they could converse together then.
The tribal leaders and slave corporation patriarchs on all sides of the slave trade did not see wives and women as their political equals, but instead kept them almost as "protected" fragile but decorative and second class consorts, separated from each other. These men "shielded" their wives from antics and aspects of patriarchal political games, which were played aggressively and hierarchally among all the races, unmitigated by the "interference" of women. Indeed, in the world of power held by men only, a lot of all kinds of hanky-panky went on, and is still undertaken, behind women's backs. But the result of this is continued racial and economic injustice. Indeed, the abolishment of slavery has still not fully succeeded (Reconstruction was undone, followed by Jim Crow and continued poverty associated with race) because of the delay in equal suffrage and political presence for women. Africa is still considered poor, and its tribal patriarchies cripple Africa's progress, and indeed, the progress of most people on earth.
Only by announcing gender balance can Kofi and Nana Annan, working with Africa sisters like Zendizwa and Zenani Mandela and all their MaMas and NaNas, and Mexican women like Anders' wife, redeem such a shameful legacy that depended on past patriarchy among all races. If Nana and he, and Najma and Anders, together address gender balance, as Lionel Jospin and his wife Sylvianne Agacinski bridged their talents to do in France, they can simultaneously break down the world's nonsense on racial/corporate exploitation and on gender, bring forth a Scandinavian North Star, joined by Mexican, African and Indian Stars, a whole constellation, to guide all former slaves and physically conquered and/or spiritually unfree races to full freedom, and pave the way to a non-racist, non-genderist peace culture of whole humanity, as a united couple of whole adults. A world peace culture will result quickly.
But if Kofi is set up by Arab-Anglo patriarchy to speak while his wife and her gender in every land are significantly silenced and officially unrepresented, the result will be again be untold domination, enslavement, and/or war. A Secretary-Genderist of a Mostly-Monogender boy's club of monogenderism cannot be a successful Secretary-General of world peace or democracy. It is that simple. To succeed, he and his wife Nana, and her sister Najma, and all the worlds NaNas and New Millennial Mamas and Papas will have to work together, as equals, aided by other prominent couples, working as equals, and calling for gender balance in all official government and diplomacy.
In the same way, to succeed in the "US" Congress in keeping the "US" from pursuing Armageddon and a prison corporate plantation system, peace-and-democracy seekers like Jackson Jr. and Cornel West will, with wives and sisters, have to insist on enough (at least 37.5% seats) of Cynthia McKinneys, Barbara Lees, Winona La Dukes and 'Kristin' Joan or Eleanor Mondales of all races around, to achieve full gender balance, with every Mrs. Sandi and Jacqueline Jackson' and Ms. West NaNas speaking out loudly for gender balance in office and culture as the central issue for all humankind. And the Jackson's Wall Street Project can include the wisdom of New Zealand's Professor and former Congresswoman Marilyn Waring informed by her essential writing on counting women's work and volunteer work in our economic models, and along with Nobel Prizewinning gentleman of Economics Amartya Sen, Hazel Henderson and many others, listed at sites such as the Ark, and many others listed below. That is, if the Jackson's want to transform Wall Street into any understanding of spiritual wealth.
Such women as Mrs. Sandi Jackson Jr. and Mrs. Jacqueline Jackson Sr., (and Cornel West-ern sisters and mothers in the Green Party like those who fought for a voting Washington DC), women in all generations regardless of party, must be seen as right now, with no more experience than Kristin in the Farmer's Daughter film had, to serve in government office themselves. We must see them now, instead of allowing them to continue to be again cuckholded and/or politically marginalized, and comparatively silenced by our collective habit of seeing only Jackson PaPas, or seeing Ralph but not hearing enough from Laura Naders, Jennifer Belle Deals, Parisi Nourozis.
And it is especially important to see their sisters like Yolanda, Bernice and Nana Coretta King, these Queens of Kings, working just as importantly toward world gender balance with Dexter and Martin Luther King III, and their counterparts among other liberal and progressive parties and organizations around the world, starting with current and upcoming new generations of both female and male Mahatmas, Sunanda as much as Arun and all her and his colleagues in a risen Memphis, (Memphis, Tennessee, where the Civil Rights Museum which details the MLK and others work, and the Gandhi Institute operate.
In ancient Egypt, Memphis was the city of Egyptian, or perhaps we should say, geopolitical Queens like Cleopatra and her Julius Caesar and Mark Antony, and even earlier Nefertiti and her husband Amenhotep (the first known monotheists who some believe were Moses or the mother of Moses and inspired Moses, Zipporah, and Miriam), who visited Memphis, and other cities, like Jerusalem, to rise into a spiritual realm in and near ancient temples, that were not yet temples open to the the common everyqueens or even most everykings of democracy in those ancient days.
These ancient leaders, like nearby Hebrew Esther and her Persian King Ahaseurus, (who offered Esther 50-50 in wealth without thinking to offer her and her gender 50-50 in leadership at a time when neither they nor their citizens thought to ask for the gender balanced democracy of the type that Nane's Annan's Scandinavia, Jospin and Agacinski's Gender Parite France, and the many websites listed below are discussing), did not yet have the benefit of widespread literacy and democracy to Rise to the full Hope of All Ages, that we have today, and did not either consider or achieve gender balance.
In those ancient days, even in ancient Greece which was a temple of democracy for men only, there was as yet no context of gender balanced executives, courts and congresses serving all their people, women and men equally, and thereby, rising to the highest level of spirituality themselves. With the occasional Queen exception which itself derived from an even more ancient agrarian past, even their days were predominantly days of kings only. Then, as until this moment, there was no gender balance. And, then, as still up til now, there was no lasting peace.
But, with widespread literacy and telecommunication connecting us, today is the first set of generations that, together, women and men, can change that. As these communities: Memphis in Tennesse leading the way for Memphis in Egypt, and spouses and communities of other equally famous communities of ancient temples from Jerusalem to London to Paris to Berlin to Shanghai to Tokyo to Athens to New Delhi to Moscow, seek gender balance together, the Queens and everyqueens of this Ode to Joy can be as known and seen as essential as Memphis' Elvis the King is seen to be in Muse-ic, and good Kings like Memphis Martin Luther King is already seen to be in the jubilant music of peacemaking and ending the death penalty. By empowering women like Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King already began the gender balance and cooperation acension that it is now ours, at this critical moment, to complete.
In the activist community, this best song is beginning to be sung, right now. Women like Bianca Jagger, Susan Sarandon, Sunundra Gandhi, and Yolanda King and their sisters will soon be as well known, remembered and heard in singing of peace and freedom as often as Bianca's Mick's songs were sung; as often as Susan's Tim, Sunanda's Arun, and Yolanda's Brothers Dexter and Martin singing Amnesty International's, the King and the Gandhi Centers' of Memphis, Tennesse, and many other similar organizations' songs of peace, now empowered by gender balance in the temples of still delayed (at this moment) but inevitably rising democracy.
The ancient Esthers and Cleopatras and their Princes' fleeting but important attempts to share political power with women and become more compassionate, were echoed in the more modern words of Mohandas and Kasturba Gandhis, and in the words of Coretta and Martin Luther Kings and Rosa Parks, all now better seen drum majorettes as well as drum majors, of the full chorus about meant to be and now about to be sung with their children, female and male together.
Gender balance is the necessary opening chord of the songs that spare each people and all peoples, the songs that put an end to the death penalty worldwide, and the songs that will soon end that greatest death penalty: war. As they sing of geopolitical gender balance for true government together, this is the song available right now to members of all these Centers and organizations, of all races and nationalities, women and men, as full equals in gender balanced spokespersonship and office, in not just a New Memphis, but a spared, gender balanced New York, New Geneva, New Delhi and New Islamabad, a New Jerusalem of every Holy land, including Israel but also each and every Holy Land of an altogether seen (from Space and in all our hearts, female and male) Holy Earth, that links and unite a gender balanced UN and IPU with the gender balanced new capitals of all the world. This worldwide Holy Land already exists in every office and home linked by the telephone, fax machine and internet, when they are used to communicate the importance of worldwide gender balance for real democracy and true governmental office.
Until now, without the focus on gender balance, the geopolitical world and American black male leaders: Annan, the Kings, the Jacksons, and the Wests, in the public eye have been willing to be used and receive little crumbs of recognition thrown to them by the white-male controlled US patriarchal power structure. They, and their wives and sisters have remained disconnected from the Mahatma-like sit-ins of Sonia Gandhi and the women's empowerment of women by men like Amartya Sen in India, and many women and men in New Zealand, and others lands where people of color, as well as whites like the Scandinavians and French, have embraced gender balance more and more as a necessary component of both activism and true representation. Until now, they have almost forgotten that Sonia Gandhi's sit-ins are of the same heritage as the techniques of Martin Luther King that were derived from the hunger fasts and sit-ins of Gandhi, which, he in part, from his mother, a devoutly religious woman who he often wrote about as the one who most taught him abou the humility, patience and self-sacrifice needed to make non-violent change.
Until now, not making these geopolitical and gender balance connections has, at best, given brief moratoriums on the death penalty (Glendenning's and Ryan's toeholds of compassion) but still allows the "dempublican" power structures', our collectively tolerated power structure based on patriarchy instead of gender partnership, to continue its self-damned slide toward war and interracial world conflict that will be the biggest mass death penalty for all humanity ever -- likely including even the patriarchs and their happless First Ladies of disempowerment and codependency, their wives and daughters themselves, right along with the mother's of sons on death row. That is, if black and civil and human rights leaders of any race continue to fail to embrace the issue of geopolitical gender balance, that would empower all women, from the most titled to the humblest welfare-to-worked mothers, at least as important for us to see and think of as their too often violence- prone sons of any class.
Gender balance is the only way to save everyone: the unvoting convict on death row, the vote-deprived citizen, and those still willing to vote in an unfair system, even those who once corrupted democracy and must still be held accountable to fix it, with both genders represented. Gender balance is the only way to save the jailor and jailee, democrat, republican, green, independent, black, brown, yellow and red. Gender balance is the only sure way to beat the death penalty that the Universe may impose on us in every continent if we still continue to not see our NaNas, Najmas, and Mahatmas of the female gender. Without gender balance, all humanity sits on a death row, and the only possible reprieve is our finally, at long last, collectively confessing that it was always a misbegotten belief that gender imbalanced officialdoms could ever have been true government.
Only a worldwide, already existing gender balanced true government, present in office and organization in many places already, but soon fully recognized and in office everywhere, can and will quickly abolish the death penalty, make peace instead of war, and insure that the prison system is not turned into a corporate plantation, but a rehabilitation and reparation system that will spiritually save old jailors and jailees alike.
In that moment, the temples of Kings, and Queens, in old and new Memphis, Delhi, Islamabad, Jerusalem, Moscow, London, Paris, Berlin, Tokyo, Seoul and cities in North as well as South Korea, Beijing, and far more, will unite together, via the shared temple of democracy that is gender balanced. Politics, geopolitics, itself will have become spiritually redeemed to See, NaNa, a mature Paradise on earth that brings together the gifts of technology with the gifts of equality and love. Indeed, the name of the City of Atlanta, where the King Center is based, itself is the risen name of what was Atlantis, a land thought sunk into the sea, when at an ancient time, a peaceful culture, now thought by many anthropolgists and archeologists, such as best selling authoress Rianne Eisler (the Chalice and the Blade), to be the peaceful Minoan culture which had gender balanced rule for centuries but gave way to the adopting male domination under pressure by neighboring male dominated cultures. At this moment, whether coincidence or not, the Island where Atlantis was thought to exist in a kind of Paradise in the Mediterranean, sank in a volcanic eruption.
When gender balance was lost, the ancient capital of peace was lost. But with the King family and surrounding Atlanta now seeing its Corettas and Reverend Bernices and Yolandas as equally important as its Dexters, and Martin Luther IIIs, we can assume this would only delight PaPa Martin Luther King Jr, if he could be with us today, just as Mohandas and Kasturba Gandhi would now together celebrate the gender balance sit-ins of their friend Nehru's great daughter-in-law, in not only Indira's memory, but the everywoman of India and the world who shares in the efforts of Sonia Gandhi, and neighbor Benazir Bhutto and the women of Pakistan, as well. As the King Center connects itself to the worldwide movement toward gender balance in true government, it will assist paradisal equality, this time assisted by modern technology which is empowering women as well as men, to rise again.
As Coretta, Yolanda, and Bernice, in equal partnership with Dexter and Martin Luther III, help Alma and Collin Powell and Condoleesa Rice see that gender balance has already begun occurring in South Africa, Namibia and Mozambique of Kofi's Annan's Africa as well as Nane Annan's Scandinavia that puts the US to shame, they can bring gender balance to a self-transforming US political realm that reenfranchiese all its citizens, and leads the world in turning its armies into peace corps and beating all swords into ploughshares. The Forgotten Woman, and all women, written about by Sunanda and Arun Gandhi will be seen as well as her brothers, and the links with the gender balance workers not of not only the Indus peninsula, but of all the world, will have been made. With gender balance in office, the Paradise of civilizatioon of gender balanced Atlantas, all over the world, is found, renewed, and rising again. Everyman and everywomen is King, and Queen, of gender balanced democracy; every woman and man both Mahatmas. And the spiritual ascension is a living one, a world where technology and prosperity is balanced by ethnics and compassion, right here everywhere on Earth. The Dream will become the reality. Free at Last.
According to a recent PBS Special, both Nana and Kofi Annan wear a gold key on their wrists which they say is the "Key to Life". Let us say here what that Key to Life really consists of for them, for all prominent women, prominent men and couples of the international community, and for all of us, the citizens of the world.
The Key to Life is their (and our) urgent and immediate joint announcement, with IPU leaders and their spouses, and other world assemblies in civil society, of gender balanced democratic leadership as a criteria for viable government recognized as such by the world's people, along the lines now being described on many internet sites (see below).
In the Announcement, they can quote from Nana's Swedish and other Scandinavian Laws and Constitutions, the French Gender Parite Manifesto and Laws, both of which have taken root in Kofi's continent of Africa, in Constitutions in South Africa, Namibia and Mozambique, and the Universal Declaration of Gender Interdependence for True Government, all of which have already been seen announced by billions on the Internet. The Universal Declaration, at Http://www.oocities.org/theuniversaldeclaration/thedeclaration.html set forth a range of 75% balanced, or about at least 37.5% seats held be women and at least 37.5% seats held by men, a more flexible expression of the ideal democratic 50-50 of representation of genders. Of course, 50-50 would not be difficult for a small body like the UN and IPU general assemblies and could set forth the membership criteria of real democracy, including the 75% range of gender balance, of all the comprising countries of the world, which all have male and females in about equal numbers.
As this occurs, Kofi moves from being a False Secretary-Gen(d)erist of a mostly-monogender sham world organization that is really a patriarchal oligarchy that panders about democracy and peace but does not deliver either one and at best delivers a new form of slavery; to a True Secretary-Gen(d)eral, with his female Secretary Gen(d)eral Counterpart in his wife's or a gender balance sister of other similar names brought forth by her, of a world culture united by peace and democracy in every home and office reached by the Internet. Then, the IPU-UN Gender Balance Partnership become hologram of democracy for every community decision-making organization, from the local. to the state, to the national, to the regional and global.
Nana and Kofi can be joined in this announcement by all officialdoms and their spouses that wish their administrations, legislatures and courts, to be recognized as true government by the women and men, and good girl and boy children of all ages, of this world.
But whether they do so or not, make no mistake. The Announcement was already made. By the real Secretary-Gen(d)erAlls -- the People Themselves, And, By a Higher Power.
It will not be Announced by Male-Dominated Media (yet) But it is moment by moment, email by email, fax by fax, internet forum by internet forum, being delivered and delivered again and again to the multitude. All Right Here On the Internet.
You and All who read and Forward This Message Are Making the Miracle. You and All are Co-Creating a new Charter for the UN, and Constitution for every government, that requires restorative balance in government for the umpteen generations of Grand Mothers, NaNas, of all Names, who were deprived of it by force initially by Caesar's Rome, and then kept from political partnership for centuries by cultures of ignorance kept in place by illiteracy and isolation. This is the very opposite of our era of the Internet, where so many millions of women and fair men can forward this message that it cannot be stopped, and where further attempt to discount or stop it will soon be stopped by a Higher Power!
Finally, the other interesting thing about Nana's no longer invisible name is that it is quite similar to a few other extremely important women leaders of full partnership. We've already mentioned one, Mrs. Najma Heptulla, the President of the IPU Gender Partnership and Executive Council who workd for partnership alongside Anders Johnnson.
One other is Mrs. Rabbi Naamah Kelman-Ezrachi, the first woman ordained as rabbi in over 5000 years Israel, now one of many women of all faiths regarded as a harbinger of important female political partnership as well in leadership in the Middle East already emerging in Moslem, Christian, B'Hai, and as well as Hindu, Buddhist, Confucian, Taoist women and other major religions of the world, as well.
Worldwide, virtually all of these religions now have ordained women like Naamah into full leadership, along with their husbands and brothers like Naamah's brother, Levi Weiman-Kelman, also a rabbi in Israel who often works with her. No matter what any current official election tickets are planned in any capital, the next, and indeed, the current true government of all Israel -- of any nation and the World as one Holy World itself, is already and will always be gender balanced, and the women, the NaNas, Najmas and Naamahs will not be Vice anything anymore as listed in patriarchal, hierarchical culture-dominated tickets -- they will full Partners, in virtual and soon, a More Whole and Therefor Virtuous, political reality. But an Israel and Palestine that did not yet give Naamahs and Hanans gender balance in all office with their brothers, has been a Middle East that has been half cursing itself, while whole blessing was there to be seen.
According to several websites on the Internet, such as http://www.oocities.org/ark_earthinbalance/home.html and http://www.simpleliving.org/catalog/FullText/Naamah.html and as told by best selling Nana-Mama Rabbi Sandy Eisenberg Sasso, and her husband Rabbi Dennis Eisenbery (the couple is the first ordained Rabbinical Couple to share Congregational Leadership), and their interfaith active daughter Deborah and son David Sasso, the name, Naamah or should we say naame (where the second a stands for another or all Names of God), Naamah's name is also the name many now ascribe to the wife of Noah of Naamah and Noah's Ark that saved us from the flood. If we as a world wish to avoid the fire (or will it be ice?) this time, that is, the end of our world, can we as a world afford to forget, invisibilize or so blindly fail to see the importance of these and other such women in full partnering leadership with men, to steward our earth? In Polynesian Paradisal language, Noah means a lovely dwelling -- the world saved from floods and fires that men and women can build together with gender balance in decision-making, On the Ark website, Naamah is paired with a Polynesian, Noah Idechong, an environmental great leader from Micronesia.
Another woman with a similar name, Nadia-Leila Assaoui, whose last name appears to be of Arabic derivation, chairs the Yin Yang Section of a new governmental-envisioning alliance for the 21st century, available at http://www.ourvoices.org, to see and name women like Susan Zipp as Partner Presidents (instead of Vices), and work with these and similar assemblies of democracy through the world to respect, reassemble, represent and unite all the languages and peoples in the world in a gender balanced True United Peoples. In this way, the Wheel of Life will Zippitee Do-Da to greet a New Day that is equally hospitable to the God-Goddess of good that exists within, between and among all people.
In this way, they, all (and we all) not Secretary-Gen(d)erists, but partnership transformed Secretary-Gen(d)eral(s) where, the d stands for the divine within us all and the ll stands for the love within each and everyone, will transform political gender hierarchy into the partnership of governed and government that is democracy, and transmute gender, ethnic and racial exploitation, fear and division into political and spiritual gender equality, trust and peace. And Alleleihula or Alleleiu(i)Ya, will mean what it sounds like: All women and men wearing the leis and halos of shared partnered leadership which sees God within all People, InAllHerandHisNames. To See, in Paradisal Hula language, and Namaste, to See God in each other in Hindu, and peace in every language.
This is the time for us to fully see, and to politically fully empower our NaNas, Nanes working with our Najmas, our Naamahs, our Nadia-Leilas, and our remembered Grand Mothers and new Ageless daughters of equality of Every Name, now liberating and liberating, including those of the current 3 generations and those who rely upon us, to come. It is also the time to see the men who honor God's NaNas, MaMas and PaPas, Naamahs and Noahs equally, the loving, non-dominating Grand Fathers of every generation, an increasingly wiser set Noahs: the Frederick Douglasses, the Martin Luther Kings who empowered Rosa Parks, the never doubting Thomas Mores and Paines, yes, the Jesuses of past and Present who recognized and welcomed Mary's as equal leaders, the Mahatmas who so celebrated the leadership of women in India and South Africa, and now, the Lionels, the Pentiis, potentially the Anders and the Kofis, the Michaels (Moore, for example), and yes, new Noahs like Noah Idechong, and many more, each one who is wishes to and is able. The name Noah in Polynesia Paradisal language means to dwell in a lovely home. These men and all men, by Any and Every Name, too, who have stood -- or will soon stand -- for making sure their wives and all women of All Names, could speak and be heard, and be seen for the political wisdom that they have, in numbers in office that fit their numbers in the population, so that all together can make the Earth the lovely home it is meant to be restored to, for females and males both.
Some of the best websites for learning all their names, female and male, are listed in the links below.
These are then, the peacemakers of both genders, who have stood together more and more as equals, against exploitation by the enslavers and slaughterers, who this time, fully endanger themselves, their silenced wives, and daughters and sons when they needlessly endanger with world with potential and unnecessary Armageddon. But, as we have said above, even these couples can still endorse gender balance and save themselves as their world is saved.
Using the Hawaaian, Paradisal world for seeing with the vision of God who can be become manifest in all, in dark skin and light skin, in female and male, the sooner Kofi and Nana (and Najma and Anders working with them fully) see this, or "NaNa" this in the word of the Cosmic Hula Dance, they will make sure that all the New Age NaMas are as present as the NewPas, the non-sexist women and men of every land, who are most fit to represent the world at the beginning of this New Millennium.
But, finally, hopefully, in fact, the most important seeing and speaking is not that of the titled official Secretary-Gen(d)erals or their now equally politically powerful and seen Spouses at all. The most important Seeing and Speaking is that of the everyday common Secretaries-Gen(d)eralls of the Internet. For the d stand for the divine wisdom that we all have that equality and gender interdependence, are endowed gifts of Nature needed by government to function well, or, in this time, at the added l, love of, both genders, of all. Each email and website that posts and reposts this message, and each person who reads and understands it, restores the world to the hope of worldwide democracay and sustainability -- of Paradise on Earth for females and males both.
For links and resources on this topic, visit:
http://www.ipu.org/wmn-e/world.htm
(See at a glance statistics on why the world is at foolish, self-destructive risk)
http://www.ipu.org/wmn-e/classif.htm
(See at a glance statistics of your/all countries' ranks on gender in office)
http://www.un.org (use search - See - No Gender Balance Statistics --
a telltale sign of lack of attention to gender balance of membership Yet!)
http://www.oocities.org/ark_earthinbalance/whotruegovt.html
http://www.oocities.org/ark_earthinbalance/w92x2.html
http://www.oocities.org/ark_earthinbalance/whotruegovt.html
http://www.womenworldleaders.org
http://www.guide2womenleaders.com
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.oocities.org/theuniversaldeclaration/thedeclaration.html
(a full explanation of the "at least 75% gender balanced" standard)
http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/users/sawweb/sawnet/SAW.orgn.html
http://www.oocities.org/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.ifuw.org
http://www.oocities.org/worldofgood/goodhome.html
http://www.europrofem.org
http://www.ids.ac.uk/bridge/
http://www.oocities.org/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://www.interaction.org/library/detail.php?id=1177
http://www.gender-equity.org
http://www.wage.org
http://womenstrike8m.server101.com/English/intro.htm
http://www.oocities.org/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
http://www.alliance21.org (a grass roots online World Assembly
envisioning and working to see the way to everypersons' world
democratic political-decision making, and watching global organizations.
It already has a "yin-yang" task force)
http://www.ourvoices.org (Global People's Assembly, a related grass
roots assembly online observer of global organizations, bringing
people to fulfill the potential of real democracy in world political
decision-making)