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Arthur Kanegas

Film director, podcaster, and president of Future WAVE nonprofit dedicated to shifting culture from violence to peace through entertainment and media

Jul 16, 2026

6:50
And just like Gary Davis here.
6:53
Yes, Howard Zinn is a fantastic historian.
6:56
And, you know, we have to learn from history because the way we're going to get to a solartopia, and by the way, I love being on this show because, you know, it is exactly what we need and we have the capability to do that.
7:08
But let me continue with the story.
7:10
So he finally made an incredible realization, and that is, in virtually every jurisdiction on earth, it's illegal to murder people.
7:20
It's illegal to rape and kill people, except one, the world.
7:25
In the world, it's perfectly fine.

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12:39
And everybody needs to know this Universal Declaration of
11:48
Right.
11:48
Um, it, uh, it is a normal passport.
11:52
It's a normal passport in that it grows directly out of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights that Gary Davis, the subject of our film, helped trigger.
12:02
So let me tell you what made him do that.
12:05
He was a Broadway actor and he was so excited to get to be Danny Kaye's understudy.
12:11
He was the big guy on Broadway who was one of the top performers.
12:15
He did these fast double talk numbers and He was in movies and so on.

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23:15
And I want to thank you for the work that you did in highlighting something that has such relevance right now.
11:07
What made you just out of the blue pick it up and say, I need to make a movie about this?
11:13
Well, I actually had known Gary Davis for some time, quite a long time, as the fellow who was pushing these world passports and inviting people to have world passports and being citizens of the world.
11:27
and it looks all like a normal, oh, this is my wife's passport.
11:30
It looks like a normal passport.
11:36
It is a normal passport.
11:37
It's a normal passport in that it grows directly out of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights that Gary Davis, the subject of our film, helped trigger.
11:47
So let me tell you what made him do that.

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And I want to thank you for the work that you did in highlighting something that has such relevance right now.

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