Declaring Highest Civic Ideals™
THE ARC OF RAINBOW STARS™ SYMBOLIZES THE IDEAL OF JOYFUL UNITY IN DIVERSITY FOR ALL. WE CAN BUILD THIS IDEAL IN OUR RELATIONSHIPS & SOCIETY THROUGH UNIVERSAL WISDOM VALUES EDUCATION, & COMMITMENT TO ALL OUR HIGHEST CIVIC IDEALS™.
Introducing The Original Star Alliance, Since 1985
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- 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 key principles — "natural laws" for positive, ethical, sustainable human behavior. Practiced regularly, to our best abilities, they can help create optimal, healthy, productive, fulfilling, and happy relationships at every level of life and society.
- Everyone needs values education and guidance. Values, once internalized, continually influence the behavior of individuals and whole groups. The more our declared STAR ALLIANCE principles of holistic good will integrity — and the instruments of STAR CITIZEN education and commitment we offer to all — are shared with "everyone, everywhere" and actually practiced at every level — from families to the great Family of Humanity — the safer, better off, and happier we will all be amidst our natural diversities. 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 effective values education.
- 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 — is a member of universal society, and 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 we are each 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 big difference by how we engage and interact with others.
- Please do your part in a wonderful, unprecedented global initiative. Let's declare and share — with everyone on Earth — "Our Highest Civic Ideals" by the year 2030! In the Electronic Age, with sufficient commitment and cooperation from established groups and institutions, this is possible: to make the values easily available to all. To start preparing and doing your part, please see the sample Pledge and Declaration documents posted here, 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, too. If you don't like anything you see, please let us hear about it via the "Contact Us" button.
- Now that we have instant worldwide communications, we can create and enjoy a much-refreshed global social atmosphere together, based on guidance from Our Highest Civic Ideals. These timeless principles are newly-framed and expressed in a universal way that can be shared across cultural, political, economic, and circumstantial boundaries.
- 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, other 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 war in Ukraine (and conflicts elsewhere) and 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. Please notice how they make you think and feel, and consider taking a few moments to give us valuable feedback through the chat box. You can make a difference!
- The Mount Everest Peace Flag. Don't miss the dramatic photo accessible via the "Gallery" link above. It shows our flag at the summit of Mount Everest. Well worth the easy trip to see it! :) In 1999, the late, great mountain climber Babu Chiri Sherpa of Nepal carried it aloft as a gift for world peace. Many thanks to Babu's family and his surviving travel business partner (from Nomad Expeditions at that time), Lhawang Dhondup of Berkeley.
- Words of wisdom. We asked Babu, when he returned the flag to us in Berkeley, for some words of wisdom to share with the global public. He was silent for a moment, then stated softly: I think everyone is climbing their own Mount Everest.
- The Wonderful Human Hand and symbolic STAR ALLIANCE logo. The "Arc of Rainbow Stars" logo mimics the open human hand — held with fingers outstretched and splayed. Hold them side-by-side, the logo and the hand, and you'll see the similarity. Each person's hand is a collection of diverse, yet unified members that never fight. Instead, they always cooperate reliably throughout a lifetime! Nature is showing us a vivid example, personal to each individual, of "Unity in Diversity." Our own hands can remind us of "Connected Individuality" and "Responsible Freedoms" every day — IF we will just remember this. The connected-freedoms of our fingers prove that sustainable, dynamic peace IS possible; CAN BE an everyday living reality — even for separate individuals and increasing numbers of people, too — to the extent we realize that similar connections, though more invisible, exist among us and can be consciously strengthened. It's "just" a matter of education, good will, integrity, and communication — generating greater understanding and responsible cooperation among us. The big payoff is that everybody — and every responsible business and institution — will constantly benefit from a better social atmosphere.
- We assert that STAR ALLIANCE declared principles for sustainable relationship are the same "natural laws" at the basis of a healthy relationships at every level of society. If we learn and practice these principles our best, too, in a conscious way; then on the whole, at least, we will all be richly rewarded. It'll definitely be worth the commitment and the effort to try our best.
- Logo Design and Flag notes. Our beautiful, joyful, and meaningful logo was originally designed 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 sewn literally 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 taken to the summit by Babu. Thank you, Cecilia! • This elite club of early flag makers also includes Ms. Usana Purananunt (since married with a name change) of Thailand and the Bay Area, and Ms. Marion Jones of Oakland.
- We'd love to have more flag-club members! Please contact STAR ALLIANCE c/o the chat box here for more information if you'd like to sew a flag and perhaps designate it for a special purpose, or volunteer in any other way.
- Please feel free to share your constructive feedback on any relevant topic via the Contact Us button. Furthermore, our Executive Council meets most Saturdays at 1:00 PM Pacific Time on Zoom. You are welcome to contact us for the Zoom link if you have interest to observe, learn more, and participate.
- Please share awareness of this inspiring vision of "Highest Civic Ideals" with others. Each of our "highest and best interests" in social harmony — from hometowns to the globe we all share — can hardly wait.
- Give a gift whose meaning will last forever! If you agree that this is a much-needed initiative in today's dangerously fractured and polarized nation and world — so much so that we risk triggering Nuclear War and Nuclear Winter daily...in the name of security! — please consider volunteering and/or making a vital gift. Your generosity will accelerate social progress for all through education and inspiration to Our Highest Civic Ideals. Think of the crying need for holistic good will values worldwide! Know that our organization still receives no income from the name we invented in 1986, made word-famous by the otherwise admirable corporate marketing alliance since 1997. Please help. We have endured much confusion and lack of resources for all these years. Yet given the need for what we offer, toward the lasting benefit of our whole world, no gift is too small or too large to help set things right and benefit everyone's interests in lasting peace, love, and happiness — right here on our one, precious Planet Earth.