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The World – including America -- can’t wait for The power of our example

America’s World Service Corps (AWSC)Dwayne Hunn

This presentation gives an overview

Of world needsUrges you to support sending our

best resources to address those needs

Via helping enact Peoples Lobby’s American World Service Corps Congressional Proposals

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PLEF AP Photo Davis Enterprise, OP Ed David Dionisi 8-6-06

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We need more angels of reason

The World’s More Dangerous

“If you are the top dog, all the other dogs are always biting and chasing after you.”

Keep the top dog healthy by

• Reducing the number of dogs snapping at your heals….

• Making more friends than enemies.

• Or suffer a thousand debilitating cuts…

AdBuster Magazine Jan 2007 7

Is this the answer we want to give the world?

America’s World Service Corps (AWSC) is the answer

• AWSC can reduce the hungry, angry, attacking packs…

• Builds a world of growing, prospering, rational nations -- including ours.

AWSC builds

• Homes, health, understanding, crops, small businesses…

• Reduces poverty, terrorist recruitment, hatreds, aftereffects of disasters…

AWSC is needed now…

• Many world problems stem from …• Ugly perceptions of us growing in

the world• Lack of our grassroots, practical

participation in the world• Wrong kind of participation in the

world.

Our policies… foreign aid, free trade, mega corporate collusions, etc., are increasingly seen by the world’s peoples as…Covers for America’s

Economic Hit men that hurt their nation’s common people.

www.globalissues.org/TradeRelated/Debt/Scale.asp

Flowing US Foreign Aid

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World Bank Rules

“You owe us. Big time..

Debt trap can claim all surplus production

The size of the debt trap can claim all surplus production of a society…. And is harming lesser developed nations.

One trillion dollars compounded at 10% year become $117 trillion in fifty years….

Even US DEBT CEILING was RAISED TO 9 TRILLION March 2006

Debt/Scale.asp

Third World debt compounding over 20%

per year between 1973 and 1993, from $100 billion to $1.5 trillion

Only $400 billion of the $1.5 trillion was actually borrowed money. The rest was runaway compound interest.

If Third World debt continues to compound at 20 percent per year, the $117 trillion debt will be reached in eighteen years and the $13.78 quadrillion debt in thirty-four years.

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US aid to developing countries = .22 % of Gross

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• Includes debt relief to Iraq, Nigeria, Tsunami.

Since 2003 U.S. earmarked

• $3 trillion to a trumped-up Iraq War• Money that could have gone to

– Jobs, education, health care, high speed rail, green tech at home…

– That $$$ could have strengthened our families, provided jobs, and grown our economy…

– We need to be involved with problems to know how to solve them…

Robust AWSC can help this too

Adding $20 billion AWSC cost = U.S. contributes .38% GNI

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• Assumes using 2005 GNP/GNI with no increase.

• Estimate an increase of $800 billion GNP and annual increase reduces Foreign Aid %age.

Middle East Media Research Inst.(MEMRI

UN Intern LaborOffice (ILO) 21

Worst unemployment/productivity

• Middle East & North Africa… – Highest unemployment rate in the world, 13.2%. – Worse than in sub-Saharan Africa.– Iraq – 55%?

• 5.5% GDP growth 1993-2003 – ok but..

• Productivity –- how efficiently GDP resources used – Increased .1% annually. – Better than only one sub-Saharan Africa nation.

• Arab world only area where productivity did not increase with GDP growth.

Africa… Middle East

UN Intern LaborOffice (ILO) 23

Arab Youth

• Nearly 60% of Arab world is under 25 with limited employment opportunities.

• ILO estimates region spinning out 500,000 more unemployed each year.

• India, China turning out scientific, innovative, critical thinkers. Muslim world not keeping pace.

2005 Summary Reprot http://www.irinnews.org/report.asp?ReportID=51994&SelectRegion=Asia

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Arab university system

• “Paksitan’s public universities (and

all but a handful of private) are intellectual rubble, their degrees of little consequence…”

Nuclear physics professor, Pervez Hoodbhoy, of Quaid-i-Azam University in Islamabad.

• Pakistanis registered only 8 patents internationally in 57 years.

Pakistan Council for Science & Technology.

Dwayne Hunn:Dwayne Hunn:

2005 Summary Report National Drug IntelligenceCt. Natl. DrugThreatAssessment

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Arab Educational Results?

• Education in science, modernity declining since the 14th century…

• Therefore, unprepared young easily enraged with modernity.

• Backward religious teachers, madrases, dictators preach and teach their narrow views.

Map from American Hiroshima book 26

21st Century Middle East

Among 460 million…

In the 13 nations of Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Saudia Arabia, Palestine, Israel, Yemen, Omar, Iran, Iraq, Pakistan, and Afghanistan, about 460 million reside…

Peace Corps web site 28

How many Peace Corps volunteers serve there?

•In 2005 … 39 PCVs served.

•In 2006 … 58 PCVs served.

Peace Corps stats 2006 29

Add 134 million more world citizens

Nations

Sudan

Eritrea

United Arab Republic

Kuwait

Turkey

Peace Corps Volunteers (PCVs)

16 …. 1984-860

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In 18 mostly Muslim countries of 578,340,251

In Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Saudia Arabia, Palestine, Israel, Yemen, Omar, Iran, Iraq, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Sudan, Eritrea, UAR, Kuwait, Turkey

One PCV for every 9,971,384 helps build Stability?

Jordan PCV Gallery

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Add Indonesia’s 245,452,739

• Largely Muslim population.• How many PCVs serve there today?

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• How many PCVs have served there since 1961?

47 from 1963-65

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So in 19 mostly Muslim countries of 823,792,990

In Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Saudia Arabia, Palestine, Israel, Yemen, Omar, Iran, Iraq, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Sudan,

Eritrea, UAR, Kuwait, Turkey, and Indonesia

One PCV for each 14,203,327• Presents the building, caring,

educating face of America.

Add Somalia & Ethiopia Population PCVs

2006Somalia 8,300,000 0Ethiopia 74,777,981 0

In 21 mostly Muslim countries of 906,870,971

One PCV for each 15,635,706

• Shares and exchanges American ideas and ideals with their peoples.

• Assist in building stability.

New York Times 6-16-06 6 Nations Urge Talks in Somalia for Exiled Rulers and Islamists

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Our Somalian policyA communiqué issued after the hurriedly convened meeting is filled with diplomatic but nonspecific references to the need for "enhanced multilateral engagement" and "overall coordination of the international community's support.“ The countries in the group are the United States, Britain, Italy, Norway, Sweden and Tanzania. The document represents a resurgence for the State Department, where officials have been critical of the Bush administration's policy on Somalia, which consisted largely of C.I.A. payments to Somali warlords to help them defeat the Islamists.

San Francisco Chronicle Juen 15, 2006

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Islamic militia extends control over Somalia

• “Islamic militants captured the last strategic town held by their warlord rivals Wednesday, consolidating their control over a large swarth of Somalia even as the country’s parliament called for help from foreign peacekeepers.”

San Francisco Chronicle June 15, 2005

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Who knew?.. Islamic militia extends control

over Somalia• Henry Compton, the State

Department counterterrorism coordinator, told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Tuesday that his department didn’t anticipate the events in Somalia and has an “imperfect understanding” of the Islamic group.

Somalias hit streets amid troop proposals 6-17-06 SF Chronicle

Somalia’s Islamic group

More than 10,000 Somalis demonstrated Friday… incensed by rumors that troops from Ethiopia, Somalia’s historic rival… might intervene (with troops)…

The Islamic group, accused by the U.S. of harboring al Qaeda, portrays itself as free of links to Somalia’s past turmoil and capable of brining and unity.

NY Times June 26, 2006

New Militant Leader Emerges in Mogadishu

Rise of Somali Sheik (Hassam Aweys) Tied to Terrorism Is Seen as Blow to US

In recent years, the US launched a covert program to pay Mogadishu’s warlords for their assistance in tracking down those in Somalia with links to terrorism.

The policy backfired, however, when Islamists banded together earlier this year and took on American-backed warlords…

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Kindness counts?

“No act of kindness, no matter how small, goes unrewarded.”

Aesop

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Strength in numbers counts in war or peace?

• Our smart military commanders remind us that in traditional or guerrilla warfare overwhelming force is needed for victory.

• In the end, they repeat, that must include overwhelming foot soldiers.

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Ultimate victory

requires?• General Tony Zinni: “I saw that

military success on the battlefield alone was not going to give us ultimate victory….”

• Today’s smart military commanders know that for 21st century wars one needs peaceful, productive feet on the ground building “stability.”

Battle for Peace p. 77 p. 80 42

General Zinni on NGOs“The military may bring emergency

capacities at scales and speeds that NGOs can’t begin to approach; the NGOs bring a depth of un derstanding of the needs, requirements, and capacities for long-term recovery that we don’t have.”

“I came away from Project Comfort with the realization that NGOs were new partners on the battlefield and we needed to learn how to work together..”

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Developed world’s job Gen. Zinni

• “Our job in the developed world is not to command and direct but to help, support, and empower. And there's a big place in this for every variety of actor: governments, regional organizations, international organizations, NGOs, ad hoc international coalitions, single individuals, groups and organizations within nations . - . anyone who wants to help, who can work with the others, and who can do the job effectively.”

Battle for Peace p 221 44

Not Foreign Aid

“We must think of these actions not as “foreign aid” that tosses billions of dollars down some sinkhole of corruption but as investments in our own security and stability. By helping others--a good in itself--we are also greatly lessening the threats to our own well-being.”

General Zinni

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“Or we can do nothing…” Gen. Zinni

“We have a choice. We can do all we can to create stability ad order in the world. Or we can do nothing, hunker down, and gamble that the instability and chaos out there will not migrate over here – knowing that steel and electronic barricades will never seal our borders.”

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America’s Response

• Build more military bases, deploy more troops, dramatically increase military budgets.

• Kill perceived and “ignorant” enemies.

• Increase public relations, media, Radio America budgets.

• Lecture, talk, pay journalists.

Sarge ShriverPeace Corps First Director

“If the Pentagon’s map is more urgent, the Peace Corp’s is, perhaps, in the long run the most important..... What happens in India, Africa, and South America -- whether the nations where the Peace Corps works succeed or not -- may well determine the balance of peace.”

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“When President Kennedy took office, he put Sarge (Shriver) in charge of making the Peace Corps a reality… As Jack liked to say, he’d rather send in the Peace Corps than the Marine Corps, and Sarge was his Peace Corps commandant who always got the job done, establishing new beachheads of hope and opportunity in lands that had never known them before.

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Send a million… can-do Americans?

• Would sending a million Americans through the Peace Corps, AmeriCorps, Habitat for Humanity, Head Start, Doctors Without Borders, Red Cross, International Rescue Committee, OxFam, Mercy Corps, and State Conservation Corps make a difference?

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Building or bombing?

To build a Habitat home • Global village home: $600 to $8,000• A stateside home: less than $60,000 To arm ourselves

• Kevlar vest: $1,600• An Armored Humvee: $150,000 • One F22: $153 million

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Financing America’s World Service Corps

• Tax Revenues.• Contributions - zero tax paying

corporations -- 82 (2003).

• Donations from Forbes Richest 500.

• NGOs increased participants donations. (Please read the proposed legislation)

InstituteonTaxation Economic Policy (ITEP)

CitizensforTax Justice (CTJ) 52

Zero tax paying corporations

• Corporate tax rate 35%. After 2001, effective tax rate fell from 21.4% to 17.2% in 2003.

• CTJ & ITEP Report on 275 profitable Fortune 500 companies with 1.1 trillion profits 2001-2003.

• 82 paid $0 or less from 2001-03.

Effective Corporate Tax Rates Falling Dramatically

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Why would corporations donate to America’s WSC?

• Corporate executives have families too.• Good will sells.• Increased security costs.• Stable, prosperous nations buy more.• Burdened, taxed, war weary Americans

can find the AWSC web site

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Why would Forbes Richest donate?

• Gates and Clinton could use 100,000 volunteers helping eradicate AIDS.

• Buffet wonders why rich aren’t taxed more.

• Even oil magnates like T. Boone Pickens may see benefits in stability.

• Rich have families too.

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NGOs increased participants donations

• Red Cross, Habitat, OxFam, etc. need more volunteers.

• More volunteers bring more family and friend donors.

• Less drawn on Federal Treasury

New York Time 7-13-06 Rory Stewart Or-Ed

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Even in Iraq All Politics is Local

(as is development)

• The coalitions cannot achieve political change in the absence of strong local support. And when they try to do so, they undermine their local allies. Iraqi and Afghan national and regional leaders have a far better understanding of the limits and possibilities of the local political scenes; they are more flexible and creative in finding compromises; and unlike the coalition officials, they are elected. They must be given real power and authority. This may seem an obvious prescription — but in fact the coalitions are not allowing it to happen

New York Times 7-13-06 Christopher Vorlet

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Send soldiers and wonder if…

NY Times 7-13-06 Even In Iraq All Politics is Local

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And this too often happens

• But the Westerners’ political strategies are too often based more on moral ideals than real information — very few coalition officials serve in these countries for more than a year, even fewer are specialists in the region, and security restrictions prevent them from living in the community.

NYT 7-13-06 60

Even in Iraq, all politics is local

• Many have too much faith in their ability to create a society in their own image and a mistaken belief that they can find clean, technocratic, powerful and liberal alternatives to these local leaders. They prefer to rely on constitutions and abstract economic theories than to engage with local personalities.

Now American commanders are trying something new.

Instead of continuing to fight for the downtown, or rebuild it, they are going to get rid of it, or at least a very large part of it.

They say they are planning to bulldoze about three blocks in the middle of the city, part of which has been reduced to ruins by the fighting…

…nearly all of the fighting has been done by American marines and

soldiers,The Iraqi police patrol the streets in only a handful of

neighborhoods, the ones closest to the American base. In the slow-motion offensive that has been unfolding, in which the Americans have been gradually clearing individual neighborhoods, nearly all of the fighting has been done by American marines and soldiers, not the Iraqi Army.

NYT 7-5-06 63

In Ramadi…Unrelenting Battles

NYT 7-5-06 64

Last week a midnight gun battle between a group of insurgents and American marines lasted two hours and ended only when the Americans dropped a laser-guided bomb on an already half-destroyed building downtown. Six marines were wounded; it was unclear what happened to the insurgents.   

NYT 7-5-06 65

…and Unrelenting Battles

•  The 800-member Third Battalion, Eighth Marine Regiment, which until recently was responsible for holding most of the city on its own, has lost 11 marines since arriving in March. Commanders declined to disclose the number of wounded. Over all in Iraq the number of American wounded in action is roughly seven times the number killed.

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Lancet Medical Journal

• A team of American and Iraqi epidemiologists estimates that 655,000 more people have died in Iraq since coalition forces arrived in March 2003 than would have died if the invasion had not occurred.

• ....Of the total 655,000 estimated "excess deaths," 601,000 resulted from violence....Of the violent deaths that occurred after the invasion, 31 percent were caused by coalition forces or airstrikes, the respondents said.

Washington Monthly, Kevin Drum , Oct. 11, 2006

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Johns Hopkins Study – post invasion death rate

• This is remarkable. If you do the arithmetic, it means that coalition forces have killed 186,000 Iraqis in the 39 months between the invasion and the period when the study was done. That's about 4,700 per month — and the numbers are on a steady upward trend.

2007 Failed States, Foreign Policy Magazine; Fund For Peace

Iraq now ranked second among world's failed states

• David Morgan - Mon Jun 18, 2007

• Iraq has emerged as the world's second most unstable country, behind Sudan, more than four years after President George W. Bush ordered the U.S. invasion to topple Saddam Hussein, according to a survey released on Monday… Iraq suffered a third straight year of deterioration in 2006 with diminished results across a range of social, economic, political and military indicators. Iraq ranked fourth last year.

• Afghanistan, another war-torn country where U.S. and NATO forces are battling a Taliban insurgency nearly six years after a U.S. led invasion, was in eighth place. http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070618/ts_nm/iraq_usa_states_dc;_ylt=ApzO13ro0bdowh8iXkfFZfes0NUE

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Or Send AWSC and rely on practical experiences that engages personalities and builds

community…

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State Department’s International Narcotics Strategy Report,

March 4, 2005

•Afghanistan is “on the verge of becoming a narcotics state.”

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Afghanistan’s Opium Poppy UNDCP Report 1986-2004

1986 ………………………1997….………2001………2004

Confessions of Econoic Hit Man, John Perkins

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One less of an estimated 80 million worldwide beggars

“I don’t like begging… So I grew poppies (opium) to feed my family.”

Afghani farmer after his orchard had been destroyed by warring Russian and Taliban fighters.

Chris Sands, SF Chronicle 5-7-07

Afghan village's currency: opium

Merchants keep track with ledgers -- debts paid after poppy harvest 5-7-07 SF Chronicle

• Shahran-e-Khash, Afghanistan -- The people of this impoverished corner of Badakhshan province rarely have money to buy even the simplest items from their local market. Instead, they use a different currency -- opium.

Afghan village's currency: opium

• "All the children put a little bit of opium on a leaf as payment. They ask the shopkeeper, 'Please give me a pen, give me two notebooks, give me two biscuits and three pieces of chewing gum,' " said a tribal elder who asked that his name not be published to avoid coming under pressure from the government.

SF Chronicle 4-15-06 75

Afghanistan’s drug/warlords

Fears that Afghanistan is becoming a full-fledged “narco-state” are swelling fast. Poppy cultivation dipped by 21% in 2005, … but is expected to to rise sharply this year, according to the U.N. Office of Drugs and Crime. The greatest spike, as much as 100%, is expected in Helmand province, where Adam, the well-known smuggler, lives…

San francisco Chronicle June 15, 2006

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Major offensive targets Taliban in Afghanistan

• The US military and more than 11,000 Afghans, , and Canadian troops will begin “Operation Mountain American, British Thrust” against Taliban fighters today…

• “They have been relatively short of troops, of boots on the ground,” Lt. Gen. David Richards told a Kabul news conference on June 4.

Miami Herald June 10, 2005 77

Rising Opium Production in Afghanistan Funds Terrorism

U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan have driven out the opium unfriendly Taliban making it safe enough for opium war lords to increase opium production 123-fold from 2001-2004, according to this commentary in the Miami Herald. The large profits made under this protection are used, in part, to fund terrorism in Afghanistan and elsewhere. “We are, in essence, holding hands with our worst enemy.” …

June 10, 2005

FISNIK ABRASHI AP 8-24-06

Afghan President Under Fire Over Poverty SNIK ABRASHI AP

• While a small elite has enjoyed unprecedented prosperity, more than half of Afghanistan's 31 million people live below the poverty line and 40 percent are unemployed. Electricity and water shortages are acute. Illicit crops like opium represent more than a third of gross domestic product.

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Afghanistan Opium Cultivation Skyrockets

• Opium cultivation in Afghanistan jumps 60 percent in a year to hit new record, U.N. says

•KABUL, Afghanistan, Sep. 3, 2006MATTHEW PENNINGTON Associated Press Writer

AP 8-24-06

Yet AWSC alleviates poverty, Taliban ... Trouble for Karzai…• Afghanistan relies on foreign aid, about $10.5

billion of which was pledged at a February donor conference in London. Few would deny some progress has been made since the austere days of the Taliban, notably in access to education and health care - but social services remain sparse and infrastructure poor.

• "People want jobs and security, but the government cannot provide them with either," said Akhgar. "People also complain about corruption and government does nothing about it."

Afghanistan Peace Corps Volunteers

•From 1962 – 1979

•1,739 in education, health, • rural community development

•A few more went from 1988-91

SF Chrionicle July 21, 2006 82

Villagers in southern Afghanistan caught in the tug

of war"We have no choice. They come in groups of 5,

10 or 20. Some are local, are speaking Urdu or Arabic. They ask for food, but you can't refuse. You can't argue with men with guns."

Now the meek-looking farmer said he felt trapped between the insurgents and the central government. "To be honest, we cannot fight anyone. We don't like either side."

Mirza, a 26 year old, who uses just one name

SF Chronicle July 21, 2006 83

…caught in tug of war

The U.S. base outside Qalat, a desert citadel ringed by razor wire, provides some security. But 1,000 American soldiers are stretched thin across 6,700 square miles of terrain and face an often-invisible yet agile enemy.

SF Chronicle July 21, 2006 84

Villagers in southern Afghanistan…

One recent day, a U.S. convoy screeched in with three men, blindfolded and at the wrist, hunkered in the back of a humvee. Hours earlier, the Taliban had ambushed a joint Afghan-American patrol, killing four police, two American troops and destroying an armored humvee.

"It's a cat-and-mouse game with the enemy. Every time I get ahead of him, a new tactic comes up," said Sturek, the U.S. commander.

Echoing many Afghan officials, he said the insurgents were streaming across the nearby border, where they attended pro-Taliban Islamic schools. The ones who come shooting hard are straight from the madrassas in Pakistan," he said.

Dave Wilson reflects on his Peace Corps assignment in Afghanistan

Wilson began to bicycle home with another teacher after school each day… became good friends… to that teacher's entire family. Then, communists took over Afghanistan in 1979, and Wilson's life, as well as the lives of everyone around him, changed completely…"I was pulled off my bike and questioned with a gun to my head or my stomach," Wilson said. Worse, Wilson said, was that his new friends were tortured because of their association with him. Still, they remained his friends. "They always took me in as one of their own," Wilson said.

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PIPA .7% GDP to Poverty?

• At 2005 G8 Summit rich nations discussed dedicating .7% GDP to combat poverty.

• PIPA poll support was higher among Democrats (77%), but was still a majority among Republicans (57%).

These are deadly, costly

Ways to win hearts & minds

an hour later this Marine in Afghanistan was dead.

And do nation building…

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Invest in cost effective Americans

• Even though these targets and agendas have been set, year after year almost all rich nations have constantly failed to reach their agreed obligations of the 0.7% target. Instead of 0.7%, the amount of aid has been around 0.2 to 0.4%, some $100 billion short.

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Sending our best – can-do AWSC

volunteers -- is…

• Better than sending mega corporate loans that enriches power brokers and trickles little down to the needy.

• Better at building homes, schools, health, friends, nations; while raising America’s policy making IQ.

12- 23- 2001 - Harrisburg Patriot: AmeriCorps sees historic chance to grow

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Senator Harris Wofford on JFK’s hopes

"He told me he wanted the Peace Corps to reach 100,000 a year," Wofford recalled. "He said it would then be considered serious. In one decade, it would reach 1 million volunteers."

"I don't want AmeriCorps to suffer the same fate," Wofford said. "The time to move is now."

“Where can we give our kids education?

• Asks a former prominent Sudanese teacher from his Darfur refugee encampment. “…It’s been going on so long, people have forgotten about us…” “Darful Crisis “ CNN May 14, 2006

• Answer: A robust American World Service Corps

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General Zinni’s Foxhole understanding of the world

“Our leaders’ error is their simplistic view of what is actually out there, their lack of understanding of the complexities, the fine points, the subtleties of conditions on the ground (an understanding you get from long experience working in the foxhole).”

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Africa… Middle East

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Africa

NY Times June 16, 2006

In Oil Rich Angola, Cholera Preys Upon the Poorest

NYT 10-29-06 98

Africa’s World of Forced Labor, in a 6-Year-Old’s Eyes

NYT 10-29-06 99

“I don’t like it here,” he whispered, out of Mr. Takyi’s

earshot.• He last ate the day before. His broken wooden

paddle was so heavy he could barely lift it. But he raptly followed each command from Kwadwo Takyi, the powerfully built 31-year-old in the back of the canoe who freely deals out beatings.

• Mark Kwadwo is 6 years old. About 30 pounds, dressed in a pair of blue and red underpants and a Little Mermaid T-shirt, he looks more like an oversized toddler than a boat hand. He is too little to understand why he has wound up in this fishing village, a two-day trek from his home.

CoalitonforDarfur.blogspot.com http://www.chgs.umn.edu/Histories__Narratives__Documen/Genocide_In_Our_Time_Darfur_/genocide_in_our_time_darfur_.html

Darfur, Sudan

Lining up for water.

http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/ 2007

Medecins Sans Frontieres in Sudan

• Providing medical and psychosocial care to victims of violence and specifically of sexual violence; treating malnourished children; and providing clean water and improving sanitation to reduce the risk of disease.

http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/news/sudan.cfm 2007

Darfur, Sudan violence for 3+ years

• Nearly two million fled their destroyed villages… • Doctors Sans Borders has nearly 80 international aid

worker working alongside 2,000 national staff in approximately 15 locations in North, South, and West Darfur… Respiratory infections, diarrhea, hepatitis E, and malaria…

• Peace Corps Volunteers = 0

Cholera in Angola

http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/publications/ar/i2006/angola.cfm

“Both medical and logistical staff are working flat out

• the logisticians hastily putting up another tent to house twenty more beds, but the truth is they are running out of space. The CTC itself is quite basic: at the entrance there is a disinfection area where everyone is sprayed with chlorine, to kill the bacteria that cause cholera. Cholera is highly contagious so…. There is also a triage area for newly arrived patients, a pharmacy, water points, latrines, and several large tents with rows upon rows of beds. Each bed has a hole in the middle and two buckets underneath, one labelled ‘vómito’ the other ‘excremento’… but the only way to treat cholera is to allow patients to flush the bacteria out of their bodies and to rehydrate them as quickly as possible

http://www.unicef.org/publications/files/cob_layout6-013.pdf

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11 sub-Saharan nations with >15% orphans

http://www.unicef.org/publications/files/cob_layout6-013.pdf

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Rates of orphaning in sub-Saharan Africa

http://www.unicef.org/publications/files/cob_layout6-013.pdf

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HIV/AIDS hits sub-Saharan Africa hardest

16 Million Refugees in 2008

Half Refugees in 6 countries/regions

26 Million Internally Displaced Persons

Half IDPs in 6 regions

42 Million Displaced by war in 2008

• Do you believe war breeds dislocation, anger, poverty, ignorance, hatred, and terrorists?

• If so, what teams are you sending to heal the wounds of refugees, IDPs, and those angered and hungry?

Fewer friends = more help?

– From 1999 to 2006 America’s favorable opinion has fallen in

• Canada 71% - 59%• Britain 83% - 55%• Germany 78% - 41%• Indonesia 75% - 38%• Pakistan 23% - 23% Zagby Poll

Michael Vines NYT photo 114

“This morning, I didn’t eat. I’m hungry.”

Marin IJ 8-27-06

Children as young as 4 work six and seven days a week in quarries near Lusaka, Zambia, breaking stones into gravel sold at roadside stalls. .. Lacking a hammer, he uses a thick steel bolt gripped in his right hand.

In a good week, he can make enough powder to fill half a bag. His grandmother, Mary Mulelema, sells each bag, to be used to make concrete, for 10,000 kwacha, less than $3. Often, she said, it is the difference between eating and going hungry.

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By the United Nations’ latest estimate,

more than 49 million sub-Saharan children age 14 and younger worked in 2004, 1.3 million more than at the turn of the century just four years earlier

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Children as young as 4 work six and seven days a week in quarries near Lusaka, Zambia, breaking stones into gravel sold at roadside stalls. .. Lacking a hammer, he uses a thick steel bolt gripped in his right hand.

In a good week, he says, he can make enough powder to fill half a bag. His grandmother, Mary Mulelema, sells each bag, to be used to make concrete, for 10,000 kwacha, less than $3. Often, she said, it is the difference between eating and going hungry.

2005 year statistics.. Time 117

China cultivates Africa… We spend on war…

• China has waived about $1.4 billion of debt owed by 31 heavily indebted African countries.

• China owns $321 Billion of our debt

• US Debt $8.5+ trillion, 2+trillion owned by foreigners

• About one $2 Billion week of Iraq War feeds Africa for a year

NYT 11-3-06 China Courts Africa, Angling Strategic Gains

118

“African leaders see China

as a new kind of global partner that has lots of money but treats them as equals,” said Wenran Jiang, a political scientist at the University of Alberta who has studied Chinese-African ties. “Chinese leaders see Africa, in a strategic sense, as up for grabs.”

China’s enthusiasm for Africa has raised concerns among many in the West while the United States is distracted by its efforts to curb terrorism, and France, Britain and other former colonial powers exert less influence in Africa than they once did.

Early 2008 PEW Poll 119

PEW Poll 2006

72% of US Soldiers In Iraq Think US Should Pull Out Within A Year.

It's The Military, Stupid. Coastal Post 3-2008

AWOL (American Way Of Life)

Each American soldier = 16 gallons/day

• Each American soldier fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan to protect the American Way Of Life (AWOL) is using 16 gallons of oil per day.

• Half the oil goes to the Air Force alone, 85% as jet fuel burned up just to move more fuel, soldiers, and supplies to the hundreds of bases and military ventures overseas.

America Our Next Chapter, Chuck Hagel

Initial public offerings… Infrastructure

• In 2000, the United States had 50% of the total valuation of all global initial public offerings (IPOs), while in 2005, United States had only 5%.

• Finally, according to the American Society of Civil Engineers the current condition of our nation’s major infrastructure systems earns a grade of D.

America Our Next Chapter, Chuck Hagel

“… while a third of humanity lives in fear and poverty.”

• The critical reality of our times is that we live in an increasingly interconnected community of 6 1/2 billion people drawn together by a complicated and powerful global economy that rewards many but has left out a significant

number. The world cannot sustain this vast productive machine while a third of humanity lives in fear and poverty. Therefore, the…

America Our Next Chapter, Chuck Hagel

“… who will continue to be the main cause of instability

and insecurity.”• Therefore, the greatest task that we

face as a global community in the 21st century is somehow making a place for 2 1/2 billion people who have been left behind by the advances of the last half-century. It is those wretched of the earth who are and who will continue to be the main cause of instability and insecurity.

America Our Next Chapter, Chuck Hagel p. 136

“… have to focus on them ”

• We can't fix their problem in the next year or the next five years but we're going to have to focus on them not only because we owe it to our fellow humans, but because it is essential for our security as Americans. Addressing the despair, hunger, poverty, and injustice that breed violence and unrest can be the centerpiece for a new global policy.

UNESCO Report New York, Oct 5 2006

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UNESCO Says The World Faces An 18 Million Teacher Shortfall In Coming Decade

• The world will need 18 million new teachers in the coming decade in order to meet demand worldwide for primary education, with sub-Saharan Africa facing the greatest challenge, to boost its teacher force by 68 per cent, United Nations officials said today

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How do we overcome poverty, AIDS, hatred, ignorance,

warfare…• Annually field

peaceful, productive teams of one million Americans for 20 consecutive years…

• ”Kindness beget kindness and the inverse is also true..” American Hiroshima

PLEF 127

And AWSC works at home on Katrina and other disasters..

Build the robust, can-do AWSC teams and volunteers

will come

MV Herald July 4 - 10. 129

Marin high-schoolers doing post Katrina service

“.. It looks like a Third World country….

I had no idea it was that bad…”

Post-Katrina cleanup an inspirational task July 4-10, 2006 MV Herald

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Post Katrina cleanup an inspirational task

“Part of New Orleans is not very wealthy and these houses are pretty much the only things some of the families had and they’re just gone. It looks like a Third World country. It was complete devastation and I did not know that. The media haven’t really displayed that side of the story. I had no idea it was that bad.

NYTimes 8-20-06 Looking for will... PLEF

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Looking for the Will Beyond the Battlefield

And that’s the essence. The other side considers it a privilege to fight and die for its beliefs. Those on the other side cannot wait to line up to blow themselves up for their vision of heaven. On our side, it’s: “Let the other poor sap do it. I’ve got to make money.” How can we fight this fight with the brightest and best educated rushing off and working night and day to do private equity deals and derivatives trading? How can we fight this fight with the ruling class absent by its own sweet leave?

Ben Stein, former advisor to Pres. Nixon

NYT 8-20-06 Ben Stein Op-Ed, Looking for the will..

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Now, who’s fighting for us in the fight of our lives? Brave, idealistic Southerners. Hispanics from New Mexico. Rural men and women from upstate New York. Small-town boys and girls from the Midwest. Do the children of the powers on Wall Street resign to go off and fight? Fight for the system that made them rich? Fight for the way of life that made them princes? Surely, you jest.

Today’s battles are for hearts and minds.

A strategy with too much collateral damage will not win hearts and minds.

The AWSC wins hearts and minds.

Peoples Lobby Educational Foundation

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Ed Koupal. Peoples Lobby’s Co-Founder

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

• “Final authority rests with the people. Therefore, never is final authority delegated.”

“Final authority rests with the people. Therefore, never is final authority delegated.”

Ed & Joyce Koupal

Constitution 136

People can and should lead… it is what America’s reputation is founded

on…

• “We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic tanquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.”

Reserach by PLEF 137

Implementing the American World Service Corps Congressional

Proposals & sending

care for the world

138

Help PLI and PLEF establish critically needed law

• Sign the on-line Petition.• Provide speaking opportunities.• Contact your elected

representatives.• Spread the world.• Volunteer time & talents.• Donate. www.WorldServiceCorps.us• www.PeoplesLobby.us

Product of PLEF & PLE Dwayne Hunn 415-383-7880 dwayne@dwayneHunn.biz

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Help pass PLI’s citizen-initiated AWSC legislation that builds the teams the

21st century needs•www.WorldServiceCorps.us

•www.PeoplesLobby.us

Help educate & spread the word

Purchase for a nominal donation from Peoples Lobby (501c4) or Peoples Lobby’s Education Foundation (501c3).

Use to educate and advocate for passage of PLI’s American World Service Corps Congressional Proposals.

Contact 415-383-7880 www.peopleslobby.us

• Thank Congresswoman Woolsey for offering to introduce PLI’s already written AWSC Congressional Proposals in the 111th Congress. (2009-11)

• Encourage Senators Feinstein and Boxer to do the same in the Senate.

Does too much of this?

Ad Busters 144

And too much of this?

And too much of this?

Ad Buster Magazine Jan. 2007 146

Lead to too much of…

Patrick McCaffrey auding 2004 147

And too much…

Patrick McCaffrey at 34 148

And too much …

Because we don’t do enough..

Habitat Sri Lanka, Fiji... 150

That builds more than walls…

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Gold Star ServiceGold Star Service afterwards who cares?afterwards who cares?

Patrick & Mom Nadia Patrick & Mom Nadia McCafffreyMcCafffrey

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Too manyToo many

►Gold Star Gold Star Moms.Moms.

►Dying soldiers.Dying soldiers.►Troubled Troubled

soldiers soldiers returning.returning.

Too many Too many

► Vets suffering Vets suffering debilitating physical debilitating physical and mental and mental disabilities.disabilities.

Too FewToo Few► Solutions and Solutions and

alternatives.alternatives.

Patrick McCaffrey Patrick McCaffrey “He loved children…”“He loved children…”

““Mom, Dad… I have to serve. I have to do Mom, Dad… I have to serve. I have to do

something.” something.” Patrick Patrick

I have two I have two children and a children and a wife, so I want wife, so I want to serve but to serve but not leave the not leave the countrycountry……

The National Guardsman went The National Guardsman went to serveto serve

He returned homeHe returned home

““He was a natural He was a natural leader with his leader with his care for his fellow care for his fellow soldiers and the soldiers and the way others would way others would look up to him for look up to him for adviceadvice … … He He provided care for provided care for the other soldiers the other soldiers constantlyconstantly.”.”

““When a Combat Life When a Combat Life Saver was called he Saver was called he was always one of was always one of the first, if not the the first, if not the first to respond… . first to respond… . SGT McCaffrey was a SGT McCaffrey was a hard charger and hard charger and very proactive…very proactive…

. He was more than . He was more than just a friend to many just a friend to many of the soldiers, he of the soldiers, he was a brother.”    was a brother.”    

Chris Murphy, brother & Chris Murphy, brother & fellow soldier    fellow soldier          

Some of his friends returned Some of his friends returned with other hidden woundswith other hidden wounds

► Friend Steven EdwardsFriend Steven Edwards

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Iraq Vets need more than Iraq Vets need more than wordswords

Iraq war vets fight Iraq war vets fight an enemy at an enemy at home,home,Experts say up Experts say up to 30% may to 30% may need psychiatric need psychiatric carecare

SF ChronicleSF Chronicle

Monday, January 17, 2005Monday, January 17, 2005

Mission of Patrick McCaffrey’s Mission of Patrick McCaffrey’s FoundationFoundation

… … is to promote mental and holistic wellness is to promote mental and holistic wellness and palliative care among veterans returning and palliative care among veterans returning from the war in Iraq and Afghanistan, from the war in Iraq and Afghanistan, especially those suffering from post especially those suffering from post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), by traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), by providing a live-in retreat village, wherein providing a live-in retreat village, wherein with the help of trained professional staff and with the help of trained professional staff and volunteers, veterans will find inner healing volunteers, veterans will find inner healing and an eventual re-entry into society.and an eventual re-entry into society.

Short term solution: Vet Centers Short term solution: Vet Centers that clear the memoriesthat clear the memories

Build support for and Build support for and pass the PLI’s pass the PLI’s citizen-initiated citizen-initiated congressional congressional proposals that proposals that would create would create Gold Gold Star Moms Star Moms Retreat Centers Retreat Centers for War Ravaged for War Ravaged Soldiers.Soldiers.

Establish a series of regional Establish a series of regional readjustment centersreadjustment centers

► Dealing with some Dealing with some memories.memories.

► Easing post traumatic Easing post traumatic stress syndrome.stress syndrome.

► Reducing lingering Reducing lingering physical and mental physical and mental issues.issues.

► Preparing soldiers for Preparing soldiers for a more productive a more productive futurefuture

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How did this war and its How did this war and its aftereffects happen?aftereffects happen?

►We too often We too often enter the world enter the world unaware of its unaware of its present needs, present needs, dangers, cultures.dangers, cultures.

►Myopic entries Myopic entries into the world do into the world do not build not build domestic and domestic and world-wide world-wide stability..stability..

General Zinni’s Foxhole View of General Zinni’s Foxhole View of WorldWorld

““Our current war in Iraq may be turning Our current war in Iraq may be turning into a repetition of Vietnam. The into a repetition of Vietnam. The military out there goes from operation military out there goes from operation to operation; our leaders in Washington to operation; our leaders in Washington assure us we are powering ahead assure us we are powering ahead success to success; yet our young success to success; yet our young nineteen or twenty-year-old soldiers are nineteen or twenty-year-old soldiers are now asking hard questions: “I can win now asking hard questions: “I can win any battle. any battle. But am I winning the But am I winning the war?”war?” Battle for PeaceBattle for Peace

Downward Spiral or Build Downward Spiral or Build StabilityStability

► ““When institutions that provide for stability When institutions that provide for stability (government, economic, social, religious)(government, economic, social, religious) can’t can’t bear up under those pressures – when bear up under those pressures – when the institutions are destroyed, collapse the institutions are destroyed, collapse or break down – then the standards, or break down – then the standards, rules, systems those institutions rules, systems those institutions enforced and promoted disappear. enforced and promoted disappear. Order collapses, disorder and Order collapses, disorder and stability increase; and if nothing stability increase; and if nothing is done to halt the downward is done to halt the downward spiral , anarchy and chaos will spiral , anarchy and chaos will result.”result.” General Anthony ZinniGeneral Anthony Zinni

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Alternatives ConsideredAlternatives Considered

Continue entering the global village Continue entering the global village with little vision and without a with little vision and without a plan to build world stability. plan to build world stability.

A long term solution: Enter A long term solution: Enter smartlysmartly

► Smartly enter the world with can-do Americans Smartly enter the world with can-do Americans who know how and want to build stability. who know how and want to build stability.

Destroy and Suffer Destroy and Suffer or Build, House, or Build, House, EducateEducate

Solution: Implement visionary lawSolution: Implement visionary law

► For For today’s needtoday’s need, develop and pass , develop and pass Patrick McCaffrey’s) Veterans Centers for Patrick McCaffrey’s) Veterans Centers for Health & Welfare Congressional Proposals. Health & Welfare Congressional Proposals. Address Vets mental & psychological Address Vets mental & psychological

needs.needs. Help make our Vets have productive Help make our Vets have productive

tomorrows.tomorrows.► To To save tomorrowsave tomorrow, pass the American , pass the American

World Service Corps Congressional World Service Corps Congressional Proposals.Proposals. Attack poverty and ignorance.Attack poverty and ignorance. Reduce terrorist recruitment.Reduce terrorist recruitment. Make life safer for young, older, and Make life safer for young, older, and

soldiers.soldiers.

Educate, campaign for the Educate, campaign for the citizen-initiated legislation that:citizen-initiated legislation that:

I.I. Builds Builds Veterans Veterans Recovery Recovery CentersCenters

II.II. Sends the Sends the American American World Service World Service CorpsCorps

Educate, Campaign for the Educate, Campaign for the citizen-initiated legislation that:citizen-initiated legislation that:

I.I. Builds Builds

VeteransVeterans

Recovery Recovery

CentersCenters

Patrick McCaffrey’s CentersPatrick McCaffrey’s Centers

Building much of their own center will Building much of their own center will be part of the veterans therapy. be part of the veterans therapy.

Growing from serving those who Growing from serving those who have served…have served…

►Veterans Villages…. Veterans Villages…. ►Where AWSC volunteers could also Where AWSC volunteers could also

help in the building of centers and in help in the building of centers and in working in them to help vets prepare working in them to help vets prepare for the needs of American life.for the needs of American life.

Patrick McCaffrey’s Wellness CenterPatrick McCaffrey’s Wellness CenterAll the care that will All the care that will

be given to the be given to the Veterans will be Veterans will be palliative care, palliative care, therapy care, therapy care, monitoring, and monitoring, and care. That’s what care. That’s what we have to have we have to have and that’s what and that’s what we will offer to we will offer to build self build self confidence, self confidence, self power, power, understanding and understanding and renewed growth.renewed growth.

. .

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To deal with the mess we have To deal with the mess we have

laid upon laid upon today’s today’s soldierssoldiers

►For the For the short term….short term….

►Pass the citizen-initiated Pass the citizen-initiated legislation that will establish legislation that will establish Veterans Restorative Retreat Veterans Restorative Retreat Centers (Veterans Villages)Centers (Veterans Villages)

IN THE HOUSE OF IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES AND REPRESENTATIVES AND

SENATESENATEA A PROPOSED PROPOSED BILLBILL SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

This Act may be cited as the `Veteran This Act may be cited as the `Veteran Centers for Health and Welfare Act of Centers for Health and Welfare Act of 2006.‘2006.‘

SEC. 2 STATEMENT OF PURPOSE.SEC. 2 STATEMENT OF PURPOSE.This Act is to give our veterans, particularly This Act is to give our veterans, particularly

those exposed to combat or the combat those exposed to combat or the combat environment or experience, quality assistance environment or experience, quality assistance in dealing with the mental, psychological, and in dealing with the mental, psychological, and hidden traumas that too often come with hidden traumas that too often come with putting our solders into or near harms way putting our solders into or near harms way

To honor To honor those families those families like Patrick’s..like Patrick’s..

And those And those brothers and brothers and sisters who sisters who returned with returned with troubles…troubles…

SF Chronicle 8-20-06

““It’s not the same mommy It’s not the same mommy who left…”who left…”

► For Johnson, treatment For Johnson, treatment at Walter Reed made at Walter Reed made things better, with things better, with group sessions, art group sessions, art therapy and combat-therapy and combat-stress counseling. stress counseling. "You're in there with "You're in there with other people who other people who are going through are going through the same things," the same things," she said, "and you she said, "and you kind of feel like, kind of feel like, 'Okay, now I don't 'Okay, now I don't feel crazy.' " feel crazy.' "

SF Chronicle 8-20-06

Iraq war first hard look at Iraq war first hard look at women’s level of combat women’s level of combat

PTSD…PTSD…Johnson received a Purple Johnson received a Purple

Heart for hearing loss in Heart for hearing loss in her left ear but stayed in her left ear but stayed in Iraq for several months…Iraq for several months…

““I just get scared that I just get scared that I’ll be one of those I’ll be one of those homeless people homeless people that you see holding that you see holding signs because I’ve signs because I’ve lost my mind.” lost my mind.”

Trinette JohnsonTrinette Johnson

To avoid future dumb To avoid future dumb policies and resultant wars policies and resultant wars ►Pass the PLI’s American World Pass the PLI’s American World

Service Corp Congressional Service Corp Congressional Proposals. Proposals. www.WorldServiceCorps.uswww.WorldServiceCorps.us

►So for the long-term America will have So for the long-term America will have enough citizens experienced with the enough citizens experienced with the world and our nation’s needs to avoid world and our nation’s needs to avoid unnecessary future wars.unnecessary future wars.

What does Patrick Tillman’s mother believe What does Patrick Tillman’s mother believe about his death in Afghanistan?about his death in Afghanistan?

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Educate, Campaign for the Educate, Campaign for the citizen-initiated legislation citizen-initiated legislation

that:that:

II.II. Sends the Sends the American American World World Service Service CorpsCorps

To avoid unnecessarily To avoid unnecessarily placing soldiers in messes placing soldiers in messes

tomorrowtomorrowLift the world…Have a Lift the world…Have a

million Americans a million Americans a year voluntarily year voluntarily serve nation and serve nation and world via passing world via passing PLI’s citizen- PLI’s citizen- initiated American initiated American World Service Corps World Service Corps congressional congressional proposals.proposals.

Caring, teaching, building, Caring, teaching, building, recycling... makes friends, recycling... makes friends,

erases wars’ horrors...erases wars’ horrors...

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES AND IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES AND SENATESENATE

A A PROPOSED PROPOSED BILLBILL

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLESECTION 1. SHORT TITLEThis Act may be cited as the This Act may be cited as the “World Service Corps “World Service Corps Act:Two Year VolunteeringAct:Two Year Volunteering

SEC. 2. STATEMENT OF PURPOSE.SEC. 2. STATEMENT OF PURPOSE.It is the purpose of this Act to enhance prospects for It is the purpose of this Act to enhance prospects for world peace. The Act does so by promoting world peace. The Act does so by promoting understanding, addressing human, resource, and understanding, addressing human, resource, and developmental needs, and responding to disasters by developmental needs, and responding to disasters by building a World Service Corps that annually deploys building a World Service Corps that annually deploys a million peaceful, productive American at home and a million peaceful, productive American at home and abroad. Americans consistently prove themselves in abroad. Americans consistently prove themselves in serving their country, addressing world needs, and serving their country, addressing world needs, and helping neighbors near and far grow and prosper. helping neighbors near and far grow and prosper.

AWSC Financial AWSC Financial inducementsinducements

Financial inducements. – Financial inducements. – Two years of service will be Two years of service will be required of volunteers in order for those volunteers to required of volunteers in order for those volunteers to qualify for the federal government financing two qualify for the federal government financing two years of community college or equivalent vocational years of community college or equivalent vocational training; training;

Those who have moved beyond the need for tuition Those who have moved beyond the need for tuition payments may invest their post-service grants into:payments may invest their post-service grants into:

IRA and or Medical Health Savings accounts andIRA and or Medical Health Savings accounts andTransfer their educational, Medical, or IRA Account Transfer their educational, Medical, or IRA Account

grants to friends and relatives of their choice.grants to friends and relatives of their choice.Federally registered non-profit foundations that Federally registered non-profit foundations that

will use the donated grants to provide will use the donated grants to provide scholarships to address low and moderate-scholarships to address low and moderate-income students’ educational needs.income students’ educational needs.

COSTCOST. -- The cost of operation of the United . -- The cost of operation of the United States WSC will be funded through:States WSC will be funded through:

► Traditional budgetary appropriations. Traditional budgetary appropriations. ► Donations by the richest 1% of taxpayers. -- Donations by the richest 1% of taxpayers. --

Over the last 30+ years, the wealth of America’s Over the last 30+ years, the wealth of America’s richest taxpayers has increased disproportionately richest taxpayers has increased disproportionately as compared to the stagnated and declining as compared to the stagnated and declining wealth increase among America’s low and middle wealth increase among America’s low and middle classes .. Consequently, a WSC public web site will classes .. Consequently, a WSC public web site will use the The Forbes list of richest Americans who use the The Forbes list of richest Americans who have benefited most from the human and physical have benefited most from the human and physical infrastructure will be listed at the WSC web site. infrastructure will be listed at the WSC web site. Those who live in luxury bestowed in large part by Those who live in luxury bestowed in large part by the skill and education of all Americans will be the skill and education of all Americans will be asked at the web site, “What have you contributed asked at the web site, “What have you contributed lately to help make the world safer for today’s lately to help make the world safer for today’s children? children?

COSTCOST. -- The cost of operation of the . -- The cost of operation of the United States WSC will be funded United States WSC will be funded

through:through:► Donations by certain low tax paying Donations by certain low tax paying

corporations. --corporations. -- A large number of Fortune A large number of Fortune 500 corporations annually pay little or no 500 corporations annually pay little or no taxes, according to such organizations as taxes, according to such organizations as Citizens for Tax Justice (CTJ) and the Institute Citizens for Tax Justice (CTJ) and the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP). These on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP). These Fortune 500 corporations would be asked to Fortune 500 corporations would be asked to donate funds to the WSC to make the world donate funds to the WSC to make the world safer for all of us… The (AWSC web) site will safer for all of us… The (AWSC web) site will remind them, including their stockholders remind them, including their stockholders that by doing good, companies can do well. that by doing good, companies can do well. These donations would be listed alongside These donations would be listed alongside their researched effective corporate tax rates their researched effective corporate tax rates and tax payments. and tax payments.

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How to win and change the life How to win and change the life losing culturelosing culture

►Gain signatures and resolutions of Gain signatures and resolutions of support for each congressional support for each congressional proposal.proposal.

►Publicize, educate, spread the word.Publicize, educate, spread the word.►Get candidates, especially Get candidates, especially

congressional candidates, to support congressional candidates, to support and campaign on these issues.and campaign on these issues.

►Set November 06 and February 07 Set November 06 and February 07 goals of electing 50+ cosponsors.goals of electing 50+ cosponsors.

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Time Table: Time Table: November 06 and February 07…November 06 and February 07…

►Build support among congressional Build support among congressional candidates.candidates.

►Encourage them to support Vets Encourage them to support Vets Readjustment Centers and American World Readjustment Centers and American World Service Corps congressional proposals.Service Corps congressional proposals.

►Elect supporters. Have 50+ cosponsors Elect supporters. Have 50+ cosponsors supporting each proposal.supporting each proposal.

►Pass them early in the next Congress and Pass them early in the next Congress and start building stability at home and abroad.start building stability at home and abroad.

If you want to change the If you want to change the change the country, write its change the country, write its

laws… laws… Ed Koupal, PLI FounderEd Koupal, PLI Founder

► Our public policy Our public policy becomes smarter.becomes smarter.

► Poverty, climate Poverty, climate change, needs change, needs are addressed.are addressed.

► Our soldiers are Our soldiers are less often placed less often placed in harms wayin harms way. .

For today and tomorrow…For today and tomorrow…

Spread the word…Spread the word…

►Purchase for a nominal donation and Purchase for a nominal donation and use in group, teaching, organizing use in group, teaching, organizing sessions…sessions…

►Contact Patrick McCaffrey’s Foundation Contact Patrick McCaffrey’s Foundation

209-814-7182 or209-814-7182 or►Peoples Lobby or Peoples Lobby’s Peoples Lobby or Peoples Lobby’s

Education Foundation 415-383-7880Education Foundation 415-383-7880