Request reps support the AWSC
You can help create citizen-initiated congressional legislation that winds down terror, poverty, ignorance...And have your vote make a difference in the world…
A few days ago each of Ohio’s
congressional candidates in its 18 districts (except for a few who had no findable email addresses)
received the attached mailer, requesting they take a stand on Peoples Lobby’s citizen-initiated
American World Service Corps (AWSC) Congressional Proposals.
You can help create the AWSC – and reduce war, poverty, ignorance
-- by contacting your congressional candidates about the need for them to
cosponsor the AWSC legislation early in the next Congress. In that same letter, it would help to tell
them you are supporting another piece of coming Peoples Lobby citizen-initiated
legislation, which will create the McCaffrey Veteran Villages (MVV) to deal
with the too often insufficiently addressed post traumatic stress disorders
from which too many of our troops suffer.
Your congressional representatives --
your employees -- pay more attention to issues on which they feel your
pressure. Since this country runs on
laws, your pressure on them to support the AWSC and MVR congressional
proposals, which will dramatically improve the world and the lives of our
troops, is needed.
Please contact them. If they
refuse to support these common sense proposals, let them know you will vote
accordingly.
Please forward to others who
may help build political support for Peoples Lobby’s citizen-initiated American
World Service Corps and the McCaffrey Veterans Villages congressional
proposals. Thanks.
Incumbents legislative office web sites:
http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm
Call information for candidates offices in your area.
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As candidate, where do you stand on AWSC congressional
proposals?. Will you cosponsor in next Congress?
And win campaign votes?
No political party…
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Pushes a cost-effective plan that Americans understand can win and end
the expanding terror war.
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Lays out a future that reduces the hatred fired at
our troops and the need to keep them in costly battle.
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Offers a means to build stability in struggling nations, as General Zinni reminds us is so essential to the ultimate victory of
world stability.
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Presents a policy that involves Americans in
regaining the stature and respect once synonymous with
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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
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 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%20resolution%20bill%202yr%20volun.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 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
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
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
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 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
Upon completion of service,
volunteers would receive:
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Two years of community college plus two years of state college tuition
(apx. $17,000 in 2004
dollars), or
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An equivalent amount paid into a Medical Savings or IRA account, or
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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:
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Raise
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Reward more Americans with a quality education earned via experiencing
an indelible, practical education in the classroom of the world.
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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.
Implementing the WSC into law strengthens
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Raising
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Winning international hearts and minds.
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Reducing hatred fired at our soldiers.
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Improving living conditions at home and abroad.
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Giving those who serve a solid, real life education in the classroom of
the world on how the world works.
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Involving Americans in the front lines of dealing
appropriately with global climate change.
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Meshing opportunity and responsibility between the
WSC volunteers and those with whom they work and serve.
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Building an army of can-do Americans to handle
hurricanes, earthquakes, refugee sufferings, and other
disasters – natural or manmade.
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Serving as a model for other nations to emulate and thereby have
nations across the world develop and send their own World Service Corps into
doing good in the world’s classroom of needs.
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Strengthening national pride, cohesion and character, and it does this without…
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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
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
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)
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
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
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
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The proposed American World Service Corps Congressional Proposals http://www.WorldServiceCorps.us
strengthens