Declaring Highest Civic Ideals™
THE ARC OF RAINBOW STARS™ SYMBOLIZES THE IDEAL OF JOYFUL UNITY IN DIVERSITY FOR ALL • LET'S BUILD THIS IDEAL IN RELATIONSHIPS & SOCIETY WITH COOPERATIVE, UNIVERSAL, GOOD WILL VALUES EDUCATION & COMMITMENT TO ALL OUR HIGHEST CIVIC IDEALS™.
Introducing The Original Star Alliance, Since 1985
EXPERIENCE MORE HOPE FOR OUR TROUBLED NATION AND WORLD!
- The Original STAR ALLIANCE™ offers instructional and inspirational public documents aimed at Cooperative Universal Education for Holistic Values of Mutual Good Will and Peace.
- Everyone can be a STAR CITIZEN™ according to all our clearly-declared Highest Civic Ideals™. These are principles or "natural laws" of positive, ethical, sustainable human behavior. Practiced regularly and to our best abilities, they can help create optimal, healthful, productive, fulfilling, and happy relationships at every level of life and society. But it's going to take all of us for best results.
- Everyone needs values education and guidance. Values, once internalized, continue to influence the behavior of individuals and whole groups everywhere. The more our declared STAR ALLIANCE principles of holistic good will integrity are shared with "everyone, everywhere," using the instruments of STAR CITIZEN education and commitment we offer for the benefit of all — and the more they are actually practiced at every level, from families to the great Family of Humanity — the safer, better off, and happier we will all be. "Unity in Diversity!" Due to the ripple effects of every action on its environment, potentially great improvement can be realized with relative speed, consistency, and longevity by attending to cooperative values education for all. With our carefully constructed STAR ALLIANCE educational materials, this can be done in a civic, cross-cultural way supportable by governments, businesses, major religions, and the public.
- No matter who we are, life can be challenging at times. It's the ongoing Challenge of Peace! Yet each and every one of us — and especially all of us together — are members of universal society. We can all help facilitate and accelerate social evolution. Our knowledge, commitments, attitudes, speech, and actions — or lack of them — all make a difference to the social atmosphere that each of us is compelled to "breathe" every minute of every day. Even when our choices are sharply limited by forces and circumstances outside our control, we can and do make a difference — sometimes a big one — by how we engage and interact with others on a daily basis.
- Please do your part in a wonderful, unprecedented global initiative! Let's declare and share humanity's "Highest Civic Ideals" through educational and promotional channels with everyone on Earth. In the Electronic Age, with sufficient commitment and cooperation from established groups, institutions, and governments, this is now entirely possible: timeless principles shared across cultural, political, economic, and circumstantial boundaries. To start preparing and doing your part for the campaign, please see the sample Pledge and Declaration documents posted here on the home page, and the more complete sets under "Good Will Civic Values" on the menu, along with the "Aspirational Reflection for Good Will Over Ill Will" posted there. Please let us hear from you about what these documents do for you, and/or any suggestions you'd like to make to improve them.
- This can be a turning point in all of human history — IF enough people start pulling together and getting these vital principles shared with enough other people and leaders in time. With agreement on these principles as a foundation, many other good projects will become newly possible.
- Imagine the impact when the original STAR ALLIANCE is empowered to organize a series of Global Electronic Town Meetings, for example, successfully to help end the wars in Ukraine and the Middle East, and help create a truly representative Global Democracy in the process!
- This is an interim website. We are in process of updating many of our support materials and modernizing digital infrastructure. Meanwhile, each reader is encouraged to spend quality time with our posted documents.
- The Mount Everest Peace Flag. Don't miss the dramatic photo with our flag from the summit of Mount Everest. It's accessible via the "Gallery" link above and well worth the easy trip to see it! :) In 1999, the late, great mountain climber Babu Chiri Sherpa of Nepal carried it aloft, step-by-step, as a gift to help inspire world peace. (Many thanks to Babu's family and his surviving travel business partner from Nomad Expeditions, Lhawang Dhondup of Berkeley, California.)
- Words of wisdom. We asked Babu, when he returned the flag to us,, for some words of wisdom to share with the global public. He was silent for awhile, then stated softly: I think everyone is climbing their own Mount Everest. How true!
- The Wonderful Human Hand and symbolic STAR ALLIANCE logo. The "Arc of Rainbow Stars™" logo mimics the open human hand. Hold your hand next to the logo, with fingers splayed out, and you'll see the similarity. Each person's hands contain a collection of diverse, yet unified members that never fight! Instead, they always cooperate throughout a lifetime! Their "higher power" is not far away: It's right up there in the brain! Nature is showing us a universal example — yet personal to each one of us — of "Unity in Diversity!" Once we realize this, our own hands can remind us every day of connected individuality and responsible, therefore sustainable freedoms. "Team Work Makes the Dream Work!" Dynamic peace IS possible, and it CAN be an everyday, living reality to the extent people realize that similar connections (though often invisible) exist among us all, and they can be consciously strengthened. It's "just" a matter of education, good will, appreciation, being honest, and communicating regularly. These and associated qualities we declare can generate greater understanding and responsible cooperation among people anywhere and everywhere. The big payoff is that everybody can and will benefit from a better social atmosphere according to these values.
- We assert that STAR ALLIANCE principles for sustainable relationship are the same "natural laws" for this essential achievement at every level of society. If people have the opportunity to learn and practice these principles in a conscious way, especially early in life; then on the whole, we will all be richly rewarded. It'll definitely be worth the commitment and the effort to try sharing these values across "isms," nationalities, races, and economic classes throughout the world.
- Logo Design and Flag notes. The beautiful, joyful, meaningful Arc of Rainbow Stars logo was originally designed in a team effort, and realized by graphic artist Phil Hill in 1987. (Thank you, Phil!!!) The first flag ever made with a heart at the vertex was sewn in 1999 by graphic designer Ms. Barbara "Betsy Ross" Addleman of Piedmont, California. (Thank you, Barbara!!!) Barbara's flag was literally hand-made just-in-time for Babu's historic climb that year. Other early flags were sewn by Ms. Cecilia Franklin of Sew Images in Oakland, California, and also taken to the summit by Babu. (Thank you, Cecilia!!!) • The elite club of early flag makers also includes Ms. Usana Purananunt of Thailand and the U.S./Bay Area (since married with a name change), and Ms. Marion Jones of Oakland. (Thank you, Usana and Maion!!!) • We'd love to have more flag-club members! Please let us know if you are interested!
- Please share awareness of this inspiring vision of "Highest Civic Ideals" with others. Your "highest and best interests" in social harmony — from hometowns to the globe we all share — can hardly wait.
- Contact STAR ALLIANCE c/o the "More" - "Contact" page link and chat box for more information or to offer your helpful service for any of many available skills and tasks. Again: Please feel free to share your constructive feedback on the documents or any other relevant topic. Our Executive Council meets Saturdays at 1:00 PM Pacific Time on Zoom, and we will do Sunday afternoon meetings as needed or on demand. We will be happy to provide an invitation if you have interest to observe, learn more, and participate.
- Give a gift whose meaning will last forever! If you agree that in today's dangerously fractured and polarized world, this is a much-needed initiative for Good Will - Wisdom Principles — so much so that the human race still risks triggering Nuclear War and Nuclear Winter daily in the name of security(!!) — please make a vital gift. The Original STAR ALLIANCE needs your help. Your generosity will accelerate social progress for all through education and inspiration to Our Highest Civic Ideals.
- Governments, businesses, and organizations are invited to cooperate and contract with us for systemic field testing and ongoing use of our valuable intellectual property and consulting services for sustainable peace. Please consider how much can be saved if violence and wars are reduced, and it doesn't take a master economist to realize an investment in our approach is worth a good try!
- Words to the wise about our famous name: Our organization still receives no income from the name we invented for our universal nonprofit purposes in 1986 — even though it has been made word-famous (which we are thankful for) by the admirable corporate airlines marketing alliance since 1997. However, due to a fundamental weakness in the U.S. legal system — where a guaranteed "safety net" for timely legal representation under civil law still does not exist — we have never yet gotten the proper licensing fee we were originally, legally, and morally due when the airlines first approached us on topic. As a result, we have endured much confusion for many years now, and the nation and world have unknowingly suffered much with us as a result. Happily, now, recovery is near, and even private parties can help make it happen for the benefit of all! Given the need for what we offer: toward the lasting benefit of our whole global society and environment — gifts of any size are appropriate. Furthermore: Everyone has a vital stake in lasting peace, love, and happiness on our one, precious Planet Earth! By helping humanity quickly align for our Highest Civic Ideals, together we can and will pull through all this. • "ALL-STAR-ALLIANCE-FOR ALL!!!" •