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Democrats for America-Marin 2006

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Resolution of Support

For Peoples Lobby’s citizen-initiated

America’s World Service Corps

Congressional Proposals

  WHEREAS Democrats for America-Marin are dedicated to help fellow citizens to better themselves and to improving their public policy decision making, and

 WHEREAS recent natural calamities, growth in terrorist recruitment ant terrorists acts, spreading pockets of poverty and increasing income disparity remind us of our need to field a respected, effective, and substantial team of peaceful, productive volunteers, which Presidents from John Kennedy through George H. and George W. Bush have urged Americans to build, and

 WHEREAS a preponderance of scientists contend that Global Climate change is underway and our Bay Area will not be exempt from the problems associated with recent hurricanes, tsunamis, earthquakes, tornados, floods, and inadequate disaster responses and

 Whereas within eight years of implementation the Peoples Lobby’s citizen-initiated American World Service Corps (AWSC) proposed congressional legislation, one million additional Americans would be nation building in pockets of need at home and abroad under the umbrella organization of America’s World Service Corps (AWSC), and

Whereas these one million additional Americans would be nation building in pockets of need at home and abroad through established, effective organizations such as the Peace Corps, AmeriCorps, Habitat for Humanity, Head Start, Doctors Without Borders, Red Cross, International Rescue Committee, OxFam, Mercy Corps, and State Conservation Corps,  and

WHEREAS those who live in pockets of need, greed, and ignorance at home or abroad would value and respect the benefits having one million Americans helping them better themselves, and

Whereas Democrats for America-MARIN  supports the nation  building performed by those organizations that would comprise the umbrella organization of America’s World Service Corps (AWSC) and value the work such volunteers do, and

 Whereas Democrats for America-MARIN know, value and understand the need for more Americans to engage in such work in today’s global village of needs, and

 Whereas the voluntary citizen service that will result from implementing America’s World Service Corps exemplifies the progressive ideals that we espouse, and

 Whereas the financial and other incentives offered to those who volunteer are cost effective and strengthen our college, vocation, and graduate education programs and/or our medical and retirement needs, and

 Whereas by having successive waves of Americans practicing these ideals in the classroom of the world’s needs will dramatically raise America’s public policy IQ and thereby make life safer for the world’s and America’s citizens and soldiers.

 

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Democracy For America-Marin on June 29, 2006  urges its elected representatives and citizens of California and the nation to support Peoples Lobby  citizen-initiated America’s World Service Corps (AWSC) proposed congressional legislation www.WorldServicecorps.us <http://www.worldservicecorps.us/> .www.PeoplesLobby.us <http://www.peopleslobby.us/>   We hereby encourage Congressional representatives to cosponsor and pass the proposals into law

 Carole Simon Mills, Co-chair Marin DFA

1008-C Los Gamos Rd.

San Rafael, CA 94903

(415) 246-5837

 

AWSC Supporters

Denis McQuaid, Congressional Candidate, Mayor

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Dwayne,

     The WSC concept is an excellent refinement of the mandatory National Service concept I supported when I ran for Congress 25 years ago. You can certainly use my name as a supporter. I suspect Susan will also support the idea, especially for Michael.

     I will sign the on-line petition.

     Good for you for taking this on as a cause.

              Dennis

 Dennis McQuaid was the Republican candidate for Congress in 1980, 1982, and then served as Councilmember and Mayor of Novato.

 

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Charles McGlashan, Marin Supervisor

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“The WSC could be a critical factor in building a unified marketing approach, to people of all ages, encouraging all of us to participate in national service.  A wide variety of federal programs would benefit, from the Peace Corps, to state conservation corps.  Gaining a million citizens, performing community service at home and abroad, not only would improve our collective international and national policy IQ, it would help us become better ambassadors to all our neighbors.”

Charles McGlashan

Marin Supervisor

Marin County

 

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John Rensenbrink, Co-founder US Green Party

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Rensenbrink WSC endorsement:

Co Founder Green Party of the United States

Dwayne,

The World Service Corps is a World Winner!

The World Service Corps idea, vision, and bill moving before Congress go to the heart of what America is all about. The WSC is a powerful non-partisan call toAmerica’s young people and those who are older who share with them the flame of youthful daring and sense of service.

The idea, the vision, and the bill bring that daring and sense of service to peoples everywhere around the world. It could not come at a better time. Indeed, it is vitally needed as never before. We want to assure peoples everywhere, including our own people in these United States, that we can and will go to work to help them, and work with them, to find solutions together to tough practical problems in their neighborhoods, their farms, their businesses, their factories, their streets, their schools, their hospitals.

The caring and working together is good for everyone, both those who serve and those who are served. The World Service Corps will stand as a beacon of hope and courage. It will go a long way to dissolve the discouragement and even apathy that grips many throughout the world. It will overcome the feeling of powerlessness and loss of life’s spirit and morale. It will channel people’s grief and anger into life productive activity. It will express and demonstrate the true strength of America for all to see and share.

John Rensenbrink

Co Founder Green Party of the United States,
President, The International Society for Universal Dialogue, and
Professor Emeritus, Department of Government, Bowdoin College
March 18, 2006

AWSC Supporters

Charles Brown, Congressional Candidate

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The World Service Corps is an idea whose time has come.  The Peace Corps laid the groundwork by sending citizen ambassadors from the United States to perform humanitarian service throughout the developing world.  The World Service Corps expands upon this mission by providing appropriate volunteer resources to meet the human needs resulting from catastrophic events and mobilizing patriotic Americans to address the root causes of poverty and violence around the world.

 Charles Brown

Candidate, California 4th Congressional District www.Brown4Congress.org

Lt. Col USAF Retired

3-15-2006

 

 

 

AWSC Supporters

Dave Dionisi, Teach Peace Foundation

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“I support the World Service Corps petition. Our country and world will benefit from having one million volunteers. The additional incentives made possible by the World Service Corps are cost effective ways to encourage volunteering. We sometimes forget that the Peace Corps, started in 1961, has less than 8,000 people in the field. America can do a better job of combating terror with this large force delivering goodwill and a non-violent hand-up.”
 Dave Dionisi, Teach Peace Foundation

President, Freedom From War

Author of American Hiroshima

Former Army intelligence officer

 

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Former Congressman Pete McCloskey

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“Of course I will support it.  In 1990-92 I served as Chairman of the first President Bush’s Commission on National Service.”

Pete

Pete   McCloskey

Candidate for Republican nomination for Congress

11th Congressional District

2-10-06

Pete’s advice on how to make the AWSC happen:

“Get a horse.  Get some horses in Congress to carry this through.  Get Boxer…”

At his presentation to the Democratic World Federalists on April 15, 2007.

 

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Democratic World Federalists Support Resolution 2006

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 RESOLUTION TO SUPPORT INTRODUCTION AND PASSAGE OF THE CITIZEN-INITIATED WORLD SERVICE CORPS (WSC) PROPOSED CONGRESSIONAL LEGISLATION IN THE U.S. CONGRESS

 WHEREAS the WSC teaches through its practical, real world work that that the well-being and safety of anyone concerns all of us and,

WHEREAS the WSC confronts global problems, such as misunderstanding, ignorance, poverty, disease, and consequent war, civil conflict, crimes against humanity, environmental degradation and,

WHEREAS the peaceful, productive work of the WSC builds the physical, economic, and human understanding and knowledge infrastructure that allows people to establish and enforce their own just and workable laws and,

WHEREAS the WSC cost-effectively involves a million more skilled, can-do Americans aged 18-60+ into working on world and domestic problems, and thereby gives them a deeper understanding, concern for, and ability to practically address domestic and international policy needs, while raising America’s political IQ and,

WHEREAS the WSC invests in America’s education, health, and economy through tuition, Medical Savings or IRA Account investments, (which at $15,000 is one-sixth of the recruitment bonus presently offered to military recruits) to those who complete WSC service; and thereby helps strengthen our knowledge of world and domestic needs, educational and economic competitiveness, and our citizenry’s understanding of and voting on public policy needs at home and in the world and,

WHEREAS a one-million strong WSC offers a cost-effective, robust, peaceful army to augment our courageous 1.4 million military personnel; and thereby productively answers the increasingly alarming and costly spread of the critically dangerous Ugly American image, terrorist recruitment, poverty, environmental degradation, and misunderstandings that inspire hatred, by involving many more of America’s best assets, its concerned, patriotic citizens, in addressing needs.

WHEREAS THE WSC encompasses the goal espoused by President Kennedy’s words: “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.”

WHEREAS such international cooperation and service increases understanding between the world’s people and the respect for law.

 THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Democratic World Federation proclaims our support for the introduction and passage of the citizen-initiated World Service Corps Proposals into legislation, which by the seventh year after its enactment will add one million additional American volunteers into serving country and world through such organizations as the Peace Corps, AmeriCorps, Habitat for Humanity, Head Start, Doctors Without Borders, Red Cross, International Rescue Committee, OxFam, Mercy Corps, and State Conservation Corps.

 

AWSC Supporters, Support Resolutions

6th Assembly District Support 2006

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RESOLUTION TO SUPORT INTRODUCTION AND PASSAGE OF THE CITIZEN-INITIATED WORLD SERVICE CORPS (WSC) PROPOSED CONGRESSIONAL LEGISLATION IN THE109TH (2005-06) CONGRESSIONAL SESSION

WHEREAS the WSC cost-effectively involves a million more skilled, can-do Americans aged 18-60+ into working on world and domestic problems, and thereby gives them a deeper understanding, concern for, and ability to practically address domestic and international policy needs, while raising America’s political IQ and,

WHEREAS the WSC invests in America’s education, health, and economy through tuition, Medical Savings or IRA Account investments, (which at $15,000 is one-sixth of the recruitment bonus presently offered to military recruits) to those who complete WSC service; and thereby helps strengthen our knowledge of world and domestic needs, educational and economic competitiveness, and our citizenry’s understanding of and voting on public policy needs at home and in the world and,

WHEREAS a one million strong WSC offers a cost-effective, robust, peaceful army to augment out courageous 1.4 million military personnel; and thereby productively answers the increasingly alarming and costly spread of the critically dangerous Ugly American image, terrorist recruitment, poverty, environmental degradation, and misunderstandings that inspire hatred, by involving many more of America’s best assets, its concerned, patriotic citizens, in addressing needs.

 THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the 6th Assembly District proclaim our support for the introduction and passage into legislation, which encompasses the goal espoused by President Kennedy’s words: “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.”

The 6th AD supports the citizen-initiated World Service Corps proposals which by the seventh year after its enactment will add one million additional American volunteers into serving country and world through such organizations as the Peace Corps, AmeriCorps, Habitat for Humanity, Head Start, Doctors Without Borders,Red Cross, International Rescue Committee, OxFam, Mercy Corps, and State Conservation Corps.

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this Resolution be provided to: members of the California Democratic Congressional Delegation; the Democratic Caucus of the California Legislature; all members of the California Democratic Party Central Committee; leaders of member organizations in the California Democratic Council; Chairs of the Assembly District committees; local elected Democratic officials and County Registrars to be introduced and approved at the California Democratic Party Executive Board and the 2006 California Democratic Party Convention.

SUBMITTED BY: The California 6th Assembly District Committee to the Resolutions Committee of the California Democratic Party

Author: Dwayne Hunn, Executive Director, People’s Lobby, 415-383-7880

dwayne@dwaynehunn.biz; www.worldservicecorps.us; www.peopleslobby.us

 

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California Democratic Party Support Resolution 2006

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Support Introduction And Passage Of The Citizen-Initiated World Service Corps (WSC)

 

Resolution Number MAN06.13

WHEREAS:  The World Service Corps (WSC) cost-effectively involves more than a million skilled, can-do Americans aged 18-60+ in working on world and domestic problems, and thereby gives them a deeper understanding, concern for and ability to practically address domestic and international policy needs, while raising America’s political IQ; and

WHEREAS:  The WSC invests in America’s education, health and economy through tuition, medical savings or IRA account investments, (which at $15,000 is one-sixth of the recruitment bonus presently offered to military recruits) to those who complete WSC service and thereby helps strengthen our knowledge of world and domestic needs, educational and economic competitiveness and our citizenry’s understanding of and voting on public policy needs at home and in the world; and

WHEREAS:  A one-million strong WSC offers a cost-effective, robust, peaceful army to augment our courageous 1.4 million military personnel; and thereby productively answers the increasingly alarming and costly spread of the critically dangerous “Ugly American” image, terrorist recruitment, poverty, environmental degradation and misunderstandings that inspire hatred, by involving many more of America’s best assets, its concerned, patriotic citizens, in addressing worldwide needs

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED:  That the California Democratic Party proclaims our support for the introduction and passage into legislation, which encompasses the goal espoused by President Kennedy’s words:  “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.”   The California Democratic Party supports the citizen-initiated World Service Corps proposals which by the seventh year after its enactment will add one million additional American volunteers into serving the country and world through such organizations as the Peace Corps, AmeriCorps, Habitat for Humanity, Head Start, Doctors Without Borders, Red Cross, International Rescue Committee, OxFam, Mercy Corps, and State Conservation Corps

THEREFORE BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED:  That a copy of this Resolution be provided to: members of the California Democratic Congressional Delegation; the Democratic Caucus of the California Legislature; all members of the California Democratic Party Central Committee; leaders of member organizations in the California Democratic Council; Chairs of the Assembly District committees; local elected Democratic officials and County Registrars to be introduced and approved at the California Democratic Party Executive Board and the 2006 California Democratic Party Convention.

Submitted by 6th Assembly District Committee
Author: Dwayne Hunn, Executive Director, People’s Lobby, 415-383-7880

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Adopted by the Executive Board
Of the California Democratic Party
At Its Executive Board Meeting
Manhattan Beach Marriott Hotel
January 28, 2006
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