“This country runs on laws.
If you want to change the country, write its laws.”
People’s Lobby Founders,
Edwin & Joyce Koupal
Seven
years after passage, People’s Lobby’s
citizen-initiated American World Service Corps (AWSC) Congressional Proposals
would have one million Americans annually and voluntarily serving for
the ensuing 20 years. They would choose
to serve at home or abroad in their choice of governmental or non-governmental
organizations. Organizations under the
nominally staffed AWSC umbrella would include Peace Corps, AmeriCorps, Habitat
for Humanity, Head Start, Doctors without Borders, Red Cross, International
Rescue Committee, Oxfam, Mercy Corps, State Conservation Corps, etc. Other secular, lesser-known, do-good organizations
would have a process through which they could be added to the list requesting
and receiving AWSC volunteers.
http://www.worldservicecorps.us/world%20service%20key%20proposal%202yr%20volunteer.htm
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The AWSC’s umbrella organization’s small staff would
primarily be responsible for providing the financial incentives promised to
those who serve. The financial
incentives include either: a) paying two years of community plus two years of
state college tuition (approximately
$17,000) -- or the equivalent: b) deposited into IRA or Medical Health Savings accounts; c) used as a home down payment;
d) taken as a tax credit. Volunteers
will also receive a cash readjustment allowance of $225. per month of service,
as Peace Corps volunteers do. Volunteers
may transfer these financial rewards to a person or non-profit institution of
their choice.
In
2007, when hidden, supplemental, off budget, and long-term costs are included,
each one of our 1.4 million military personnel costs American taxpayers about
600,000 per year. In 2009 some estimates put this cost at $1 million per
soldier. Spending the estimated $35,000
per AWSC volunteer saves lots of money.
The AWSC proposal lists six traditional and six
non-traditional financing streams. http://www.worldservicecorps.us/financing_awsc.htm At a time when Americans are becoming increasingly
aware of income and wealth disparities, one of our non-traditional funding
streams, The Forbes 400 Voluntary 2% Solution alone could fund this AWSC governmental
investment of 27 years of having 21 million Americans addressing problems at
home and abroad.
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/07/12/18434960.php
The AWSC Congressional Proposals is much more robust
than the nice Kennedy National Service Bill because the world has big problems
that requires marshalling large forces.
Those suffering from poverty, starvation, natural
disasters, ignorance, as well as American voters and history itself will
recognize the vision of the original sponsors of this needed legislation.
By building
and involving an army of serving Americans, you can help establish healthy,
long lasting, cost-effective change at HOME and ABROAD.
“If the Pentagon’s map is more
urgent, the Peace Corp’s is, perhaps, in the long run the most important.....
What happens in
Sarge Shriver
The Key AWSC
proposed bill is at http://www.worldservicecorps.us/world%20service%20key%20proposal%202yr%20volunteer.htm
AWSC
summary info with links to details
http://worldservicecorps.us/peoples%20lobby%20has.htm
Comcast’s Local
Edition's Jerry Hanson on the AWSC. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFMVeRVTvm4
5 min.
Peace
Conference http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRbaWfRantA
8 min.
KMTV’s VanDusen
PresentsAWSC Congressional Proposals 12-08, 28 minutes
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5412649329836782026
Extensive
print coverage at
http://www.worldservicecorps.us/coverage.htm
ADDITIONAL…
President
uses “Nobel's mo” to change the world, OPed News, Dwayne Hunn 10-15-09 Article Location: http://www.opednews.com/articles/President-uses--Nobel-s-by-Dwayne-Hunn-091012-406.html
Rethinking America 's Involvement, OPEd News, Oct 3, 2009
Time Magazine (9-21-09) again interviews the Obamas on one of their favorite subjects, “Volunteerism,” while headlining how we must become accustomed to high unemployment and underemployment.
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Rethinking-America-s-Invol-by-Dwayne-Hunn-091001-630.html
Hey Russia! Let's team up. DailyKos, July 19, 20000
"It must be a sustained effort among the American and Russian people to identify mutual interests, and to expand dialogue and cooperation that can pave the way to progress."
or paste http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/7/19/755224/-Hey-Russia...-Lets-team-up
Peace
Corps Online: 2009.05.09: May 9, 2009: Headlines: COS ...
By implementing People's Lobby's American
World Service Corps (AWSC) Congressional Proposals, your administration
will score big with today's concerned and ...
http://peacecorpsonline.org/messages/messages/467/3214975.html
Open Letter to General Contractor Barack Obama ,Op Ed News, May 9, 2009 or click to: http://www.opednews.com/articles/Open-Letter-to-General-Con-by-Dwayne-Hunn-090506-959.html
In a resource shrinking global village where WMDs
proliferate, it’s essential that many
more understand the complexities of place and the similarities behind every
face that comes from working with others turning needs into opportunities.
In the developed world where pixels dominate so many
experiences, it’s essential that twittering videos not be the foundation upon
which a nation’s world view, character, and public policy is built.
Need revenues? Add a few flush tax brackets
When today's wealth
accumulation is more concentrated than in 1999, when the richest 1% (about 2.7
million people) has as much to spend after taxes as the bottom 100 million,
isn't it time to go back and add a top tax bracket or two that worked? http://www.opednews.com/articles/Need-revenues--Add-a-few-by-Dwayne-Hunn-090302-292.html
Investing in a peaceful future through an escrowed AWSC account
Our military teams achieve
Herculean feats. Until we field robust nation building teams, our troops will
too often face bloody feats. People's Lobby's American World Service Corps
(AWSC) Congressional Proposals provides creative financing mechanisms that
funds armies of peace, whose feats all admire. Push your Congressional
representatives to join Congresswoman Woolsey in cosponsoring the AWSC
Congressional proposals... or paste
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Investing-in-a-peaceful-fu-by-Dwayne-Hunn-090129-323.html
RADIO, TV…
Jeff Farias Radio Show Thursday 10-8-09 4:00 - 4:30 PAcfic Time, http://www.thejefffariasshow.com/?page_id=5
Bob Kincaid’s Head On Radio, September 15, 2009 archive or
http://www.whiterosesociety.org/content/kincaid/KincaidShow-(15-09-2009).mp3
Move slider to about 37
minutes for 90 minute interview on People’s Lobby, AWSC, public policy,
etc. (877) 443-2366
The Jeff Farias Radio Show
podcast on AWSC, September 2009
http://jefffarias.podbean.com/2009/09/ Click "Listen Now" at bottom left
of this web page
800-385-1566
to call in or leave comment
"The
Full Spectrum Warfare America needs to wage,"
Speech to Marin
Philosophic Society. (5-19-09, about 60 minutes.)
Peter Laufer Show on 9-14-09 on American World Service Corps or paste http://a1135.g.akamai.net/f/1135/18227/1h/cchannel.download.akamai.com/18227/podcast/SANFRANCISCO-CA/KKGN-AM/PeterLaufer_091408_Hr1.mp3?CPROG=PCAST&MARKET=SANFRANCISCO-CA&NG_FORMAT=progressivetalk&SITE_ID=5257&STATION_ID=KKGN-AM&PCAST_AUTHOR=Peter_Laufer_/_Green960&PCAST_CAT=News_%26_Politics&PCAST_TITLE=Sunday_with_Peter_Laufer or play the mp3 at this web site by clicking here
10 minutes with Peter B. Collins on Martin Luther King Day of National Service. 1-19-09 Click her to play from this web site. To listen at radio site, click AWSC on Peter B on MLKing Day . Or search Collins archives at http://green960.com/cc-common/podcast/single_podcast.html?podcast=peterbcollins.xml
Co-author
of Ordinary Citizens Doing the Extraordinary
dwayne@dwaynehunn.biz