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People’s Lobby is asking all presidential candidates whether they support the AWSC Proposal, (http://new.dwaynehunn.biz/awsc-congressional-proposal/ ), which places a million Americans a year into peaceful National Service for at least a generation, not by building a new bureaucracy, but through serving in already existing organizations such as: Peace Corps, AmeriCorps, Habitat, Doctors Without Borders, Head Start, Red Cross, International Rescue Committee, Oxfam, Mercy Corps, State Conservation Corps, effective local non-profits, in-need schools, homes for the elderly, therapy wards in hospitals, etc.
Please note that we’re asking for more than a minimalist response that says you support today’s minimalized Peace Corps, AmeriCorps, etc., or that “National service is a good idea…”
Thoughtful responses will include answers to the following questions. Do you believe that?
- Such peaceful service will increase opportunities domestically & reduce tensions internationally?
- More than .4% of Americans (active military) should serve?
- Peaceful, healthy change in many needy areas requires generations to develop & therefore endorse the generation long robust national service “sunset clause” in the AWSC Proposal?
- The good accomplished by investing $40K/year in each AWSC volunteer would in time reduce the $400K attributed to each of our active military and/or the $1 million+ cost for each of our battlefield soldiers?
- Both traditional & nontraditional funding mechanisms (in the Proposal) should be used to field 21,000,000 National Service Americans over the ensuing 27 years.
More info:
- WorldServiceCorps.us & www.PeoplesLobby.us being combined into
- PLI’s beta portal http://new.dwaynehunn.biz/ (not yet assigned new url)
- OpEds, primarily on AWSC: http://www.opednews.com/author/author6270.html
- https://www.facebook.com/peopelslobby
- https://www.facebook.com/American-World-Service-Corps-108491385864236/
Would the world’s people and its environment be better off today if since the 1961 inception of the Peace Corps (a form of voluntary national service) 20 million had served by now (2015) rather than 200,000?
Thanks for providing your stance on the American World Service Corps Congressiona Proposal.