A Special Valentine’s Gift — for all those who LOVE our World!

Jay OwenGlobal Citizen

“Ethical Markets salutes this wonderful movie of the inspiring life of Garry Davis, World Citizen!  Garry visited me years ago and gave me one of his World Passports!  Thanks to  film-maker Arthur Kanegis and Beyond War for this gift!

~Hazel Henderson, Editor“

In collaboration with World Beyond War you can see a free online screening of
“The World Is My Country”!

A Special Valentine’s Gift — for all those who LOVE our World! 
Share the love – invite friends and family — but only for Valentine’s week (FEB. 14-21)

This inspiring new movie is not yet in theaters or on TV.
It’s only playing in film festivals where it has garnered
standing ovations
and sold out theaters!

Watch the screener — and learn how you can help get it
into a festival near you!

Just go to theworldismycountry.com/wbw and enter the code/password:  wbw2018 (lowercase)

The World is My Country:  Important New Film about Garry Davis’s Fight for Global Citizenship

by Marc Eliot Stein, February 8, 2018

Garry Davis was a young Broadway actor in 1941, an eager understudy for Danny Kaye in a Cole Porter musical called “Let’s Face It” about US Army inductees, when America entered World War Two and he found himself heading for Europe in an actual soldier’s uniform. This war would change his life. Davis’s older brother, also now fighting in Europe, was killed in a naval attack. Garry Davis was flying bombing missions over Brandenburg, Germany, but he could not bear the realization that he was helping to kill other people just as his beloved brother had just been killed. “I felt humiliated that I was part of it,” he later said.

There was something different about this soulful young man, whose life story is told in a riveting, deeply inspiring new film called “The World Is My Country”, directed by Arthur Kanegis and currently making the rounds of the film festival circuits in hope of a wider release. The flashbacks that open the film show the transition that now overtook Garry Davis’s life, as he continues to appear in cheerful Broadway shows with performers like Ray Bolger and Jack Haley (Davis physically resembled both, and might have pursued a career similar to theirs) but yearns to answer to a greater call. Suddenly, as if on an impulse, he decides in 1948 to declare himself a citizen of the world…

For the rest of this article click here: worldbeyondwar.org/world-country-important-new-film-garry-daviss-fight-global-citizenship 

For more about this film, or to see the trailer, visit TheWorldIsMyCountry.com.

Watch the film festival screener of the entire movie for one week between February 14 and February 21!
www.TheWorldIsMyCountry.com/wbw and enter the
password “wbw2018” (lowercase)

At the end of the show is a chance to express your opinions in a survey and to learn about how  you can help get this film into a festival in your area.

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