Let's work for each nation to establish a civics day of of their own, as Canada has done, reflecting upon and reinforcing our civic structures and their vital importance nationally and internationally.
Let's work as engaged and enlightened citizens of the world by making CIVICS DAY, March 23, the Earth Day of its times.
The instinctive, relentless and accelerating destruction of natural resources and each other combined with an explosion of media propaganda and falsehoods makes the teaching of civics and CIVICS DAY a rational imperative.
EARTH DAY was started by United States Senator Gaylord Nelson in 1970 by building a movement from the campuses up. So to CIVICS DAY seeks to begin building the same enlightenment and resurgence of knowledge and skills of good civics 50 years later at the educational forums to prepare the future generations of citizens and leaders.
The CIVICS DAY view and practice is not about promoting a particular form of government or cultural heritage. Rather it seeks to promote the rational and equitable establishment, enforcement and adaptation of effective and productive relationships and behavior of rulers to citizens, citizens to rulers, rulers to each other and citizens to each other.
How else can lasting peace, prosperity and innovation be built without an enduring foundation of mutual trust, respect and a fundamental capacity for reasoning and open mindedness?