SIMPOL – Global People Power Through Open-Source Politics

All the way up the evolutionary ladder, unsustainable levels of competition challenge life forms to either adapt to reach species maturity, or die off as a failed experiment. Adaption means the creation of new, increasingly complex forms of co-operation. The most profound and topical example of this is that social and environmental problems are now global, requiring a global response, integrating the national and local response. For the first time ever, nature, human nature, is being forced to accept collective responsibility across borders and to organise and act for mutual benefit and for the good of the planet. We certainly have the means and technology to do so.

Presently, national politics isn’t functioning because all governments are threatened by global big business stating that tough regulation will mean jobs and money moving to other, more business-friendly countries. Therefore, demanding change, especially at the national level, is no longer enough on its own. We recognise that ‘international economic competition’ is the underlying problem restricting all governments from acting in the best interest of their citizens and the environment. On moral grounds, ‘international economic competition’ should no longer be accepted as the way things are. How else can or should international competition be overcome, other than by co-operative people power? Therefore global grassroots co-operation is the logical, moral and holistic response.

This is why Simpol “Adopters” around the world are organising the power of our votes to drive governments to work together, therefore solving the cause of the urgent global interconnected security problems, problems such as climate change, bio-diversity loss, unfair economics and war. Simpol aims to encourage strength in numbers to drive the globalisation of peace, justice, sustainability and prosperity.

“Not everybody can be leader, but everybody can be an intermediary.” Theodore Zeldin

Simpol is the International Simultaneous Policy Organisation. Our route to “Global People Power” begins by Adopting Simpol and voting in a new way. Adopting means automatically informing your MP (and MP candidates at election time), that those politicians who sign the Simpol “Pledge” win Adopters votes and those who do not, lose them. In this way Adopters drive politicians of all parties – within reason – to co-operate. Adopters ultimately choose which candidates they vote for, but if the politicians don’t Pledge, they can only pretend to have the means to solve global problems.

24 UK MPs have already Pledged to work cooperatively with governments across the world. There are thousands of Simpol Adopters in over 70 countries. Join the movement for change and come to Brighton Simpol Group meet every 3rd Thursday of the month, 7.30pm to 9pm at BPEC.

Adopters also design Simpol’s global policies in a transparent open-source way, free from corporate influence. When all or sufficient nations have signed up to Simpol, the global policies will be approved by Adopters. The policies will then be implemented by national governments simultaneously and in a fair-for-all way. We also seek to work alongside and link together other specialist NGOs to discern which policies need a global response and which do not, thus hastening the implementation of both. So, alongside the vital campaigns you already support, please support Simpol too. The sooner we all agree to work together, for the common good, to take control using the power we already have available to us, the sooner we can solve the cause of global problems.

What does Noam Chomsky say about Simpol? – “It’s ambitious and provocative. Can it work? Certainly worth a serious try.” www.simpol.org

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