As candidate, where do you stand on AWSC congressional proposals?. Will you cosponsor in next Congress?  And win campaign votes now? 

 

No political party…

·         Pushes a cost-effective plan that Americans understand can win and end the expanding terror war. 

·         Lays out a future that reduces the hatred fired at our troops and the need to keep them in costly battle. 

·         Offers a means to build stability in struggling nations, as General Zinni reminds us is so essential to the ultimate victory of world stability. 

·         Presents a policy that involves Americans in regaining the stature and respect once synonymous with America.

·         Provides Americans cost effective incentives that dramatically expands voluntary, peaceful, productive national service at home or abroad.

 

Americans can continue the debate about whether invading Iraq rather than concentrating on Afghanistan has expanded worldwide terror and terrorist recruitment.  But more importantly, what Americans want is a workable plan that involves America’s best resources – its can-do Americans -- in cost effectively reducing terrorist recruitment, winning hearts and minds, and beginning again to make life safer and saner for tomorrow’s American and world citizens.

 

Peoples Lobby citizen-initiated, nonpartisan American World Service Corps (AWSC) proposed congressional legislation is the common sense plan that can do that. 

 

Voters need to hear congressional and statewide candidates, and the winners and losers of those campaigns, discuss the AWSC congressional proposals.  American citizens need to know where candidates stand on helping it pass in the 2007 Congress. 

 

Are you open to cosponsoring the AWSC legislation?  The key AWSC proposed bill is at

http://www.worldservicecorps.us/world%20service%20backup%20proposal%201yr%20national%20service.htm

 

Will you lead and inspire people to serve their nation through this robust and voluntary AWSC proposed legislation, so that natural and terrorist made disasters, hatred breeding ignorances, and nation debilitating poverties are strongly addressed by a million can-do Americans serving at home and abroad?

 

If you are a smart, visionary candidate, you have sensed that your fatigued, thoughtful voters desire understandable, doable, proud programs to address today’s problems.  Between now and the next Congress or your entrance into the governorship, detail the citizen-initiated American World Service Corps (AWSC) Congressional Proposals to your voters as a plan you will support and you will move fence sitters to your side.  You will inspire your audiences with a plan they can understand, support, and participate in to improve America and the world.

 

When the AWSC legislation passes in the next session of Congress, it will be among the most significant legislation passed in decades. 

 

The AWSC is a cost effective, inspiring, volunteer program that bolsters our proud American heritage.  It builds the robust teams that will conquer the 21st century frontiers of terror, ignorance, climate change, and poverty.

 

It is time to rekindle the spirit that John Kennedy lit in America and the world…

     And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you--ask what you can do for your country.

     My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.

We and the world can’t afford to wait.

Please send Peoples Lobby a statement on where you stand on the citizen initiated American World Service Corps (AWSC) proposed congressional legislation.  Let us know whether you support, lean toward, or oppose the proposed non-partisan AWSC Congressional Proposals.  Thank you.

 

More detailed information on the AWSC follows.

 

Peoples Lobby Background

Peoples Lobby Inc. (PLI) has a storied history of proposing, initiating, qualifying, and passing laws that benefit ordinary citizens.  www.PeoplesLobby.us Peoples Lobby was an initiative factory and training grounds for grassroots organizations that believed the words of PLI’s founder, Ed Koupal.

 “This country runs on laws.  If you want to change the country, write its laws.”

Today PLI is using its “initiative” history to build a movement that will introduce and pass the citizen proposed World Service Corps legislation that will change the world.  To educate enough Americans to pass that legislation, your help in spreading the word would be invaluable.

  What is the World Service Corps?

If the citizen-initiated congressional American World Service Corps (AWSC) proposals were passed into law in the upcoming year, then seven years from now one million additional Americans (less than 1% of those aged 20-60) would voluntarily serve their nation at home or abroad in their choice of the: Peace Corps, AmeriCorps, Habitat for Humanity, Head Start, Doctors Without Borders, Red Cross, International Rescue Committee, OxFam, Mercy Corps, State Conservation Corps, etc.   The AWSC would not be a large new bureaucracy.  Its small staff would serve as an umbrella organization to funnel America’s best resources – can-do Americans -- to effective, existing organizations.

Upon completion of service, volunteers would receive:

·           Two years of community college plus two years of state college tuition (apx. $17,000 in 2004 dollars), or

·           An equivalent amount paid into a Medical Savings or IRA account, or

·           That amount donated to relatives or community scholarship foundations for use on vocational or academic educational costs.

When passed, the AWSC legislation would be among the most significant legislation passed  – and produce the most inspiring results -- in decades.  It will: 

·      Raise America and the world’s future policymaking IQ to a common sense and admirable level. 

·      Reward more Americans with a quality education earned via experiencing an indelible, practical education in the classroom of the world. 

·      Build a peaceful, productive army, slightly smaller than our military army, that the 21st century needs to nation build and erase ignorant stereotypes that lead to costly war and terrorism.

What the WSC would do

Implementing the WSC into law strengthens America at home and abroad by:

·         Raising America’s political IQ and thereby allowing us to implement better means of dealing with the world.

·         Winning international hearts and minds.

·         Reducing hatred fired at our soldiers.

·         Improving living conditions at home and abroad.

·         Giving those who serve a solid, real life education in the classroom of how the world works.

·         Involving Americans in the front lines of dealing appropriately with global climate change.

·         Meshing opportunity and responsibility between the WSC volunteers and those with whom they work and serve.

·         Building an army of can-do Americans to handle hurricanes, earthquakes, refugee sufferings, and other natural or manmade disasters..

·         Serving as a model for other nations to emulate and thereby send their own World Service Corps into the world’s classroom of needs.

·         Strengthening national pride, cohesion and character, and it does this without…

·         Creating a vast new bureaucracy but instead by strengthening existing governmental and non-governmental agencies with serving Americans.

 

Details and the full bills are at the web site www.WorldServiceCorps.us.

 

The key WSC proposed bill is at http://www.worldservicecorps.us/world%20service%20resolution%20bill%202yr%20volun.htm.

 

Some publications, Op-Eds, etc. on the WSC are at

http://www.worldservicecorps.us/coverage.htm.

 

Comcast Local Edition and 100 minutes of televised interviews at

http://www.worldservicecorps.us/television_radio.htm.

A quick five minute video overview at  http://www.worldservicecorps.us/VTS_01aug0556k.wmv

Power Point slide shows that provide info on projects as well as economic and policy reasons for implementing them.  (If trouble opening, first download to desk top.)  TV & Radio & Power Point presentations

http://www.worldservicecorps.us/television_radio.htm

 

 

Sponsor of the WSC legislation is Peoples Lobby (501c4) and Peoples Lobby Educational Foundation (501c3 pending) at

www.PeoplesLobby.us.

 

Some events, such as Commonwealth Club Presentation of July 24th, at

http://www.worldservicecorps.us/events.htm

 

Commonwealth Club, July 24th  radio broadcast of an hour presentation on Peoples Lobby's citizen-initiated proposed congressional legislation.

 

World Service Corps: Making International Development Personal and Effective 

          Dwayne Hunn [7-24-06]
Complete [54:22]

 

http://www.commonwealthclub.org/archive/index.php?yearRecording=2006&sort=letter%2CH  then click to Dwayne Hunn

 

 

PLI WSC pamphlets at (you may need Publisher program to print in pamphlet form)

http://www.worldservicecorps.us/pamphlets.htm

 

California Democratic Party’s unanimous Resolution of Support for WSC at (We seek bipartisan support and support from all groups)

http://www.cadem.org/site/c.jrLZK2PyHmF/b.1409503/apps/nl/content2.asp?content_id={037848C7-B0EB-4720-B68F-E60324E281B9}&notoc=1

or

World Service Corps web site:

http://www.worldservicecorps.us/wsc%201-%202006%20resolutions%20california%20democratic%20party.htm

 

Some Questions and Answers on cost and other issues:

http://www.worldservicecorps.us/q%20and%20a.htm

 

Some support statements from veterans and others at:

 http://worldservicecorps.us/supporters.htm 

 

Please sign the on-line Petition at

http://www.worldservicecorps.us/sign_the_petition.htm

 

In 1989, I campaigned to obtain a Buck Trust Grant to establish an American Soviet Peace Corps, which was inspired largely by my Peace Corps service.  The campaign and writings prompted then Congresswoman Boxer to introduce my proposal as House Resolution 1807 in the 101st Congress.  http://www.worldservicecorps.us/hr1807congress%2031289.htm  When the Soviet Union fell apart, HR1807 fell to the wayside.  Back then, the world was endangered by observable nuclear weapons buried in silos.  Relatively thoughtful governmental leaders, operating out of marbled and civilized capital corridors, controlled those weapons of mass destruction.  Today, a dangerously growing number of undetectable leather soled delivery systems, ignitable by uneducated souls lead by crazed zealots operating from dank caves, drive today’s critical need for a World Service Corps. 

 

Thanks.

 

Want to reduce terrorism, poverty, ignorance, genocide, refugees?  Better handle tsunamis, hurricanes, earthquakes? 

Raise our nation’s public policy making IQ?

 

Then you can’t top the return on investment that working to implement America’s citizen-initiated World Service Corps congressional proposals produces.

 

Dissatisfied with Congress, politics, politicians?

Sometimes think concerned citizens could do a better job?

Think common folk ought to have a Peoples Lobby Inc. to offset all those other lobbies writing legislation?

 

Then give an hour a month to build a citizens movement that can introduce and pass America’s World Service Corps (AWSC) legislation (and other legislation after that) that benefits all Americans.

 

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The proposed American World Service Corps Congressional Proposals http://www.WorldServiceCorps.us strengthens America.  Sign the on-line Petition that encourages more congressional co-sponsors.  Good law survives political promises.  Donate to Peoples Lobby Inc. (501c4); tax deductible donations to Peoples Lobby Educational Foundation (501c3).
Dwayne Hunn, Peoples Lobby Executive Director, 415-383-7880.  http://PeoplesLobby.us