Here you have the opportunity to sign the petition to build the American World Service Corps, which judges people by the content of their character rather than by the color of their skin while building economic opportunity and peace.
And here on our original petition you can support the AWSC Congressional Proposal and leave your email address, which allows us to periodically update you (4 to 6 times a year).
Had People's Lobby's America's World Service Corps (AWSC) Congressional Proposal been implemented 27 years ago, by now about 21 million Americans would have voluntarily served in their choice of Peace Corps, AmeriCorps, Habitat, Doctors Without Borders, Head Start, Red Cross, International Rescue Committee, Oxfam, Mercy Corps, State Conservation Corps, Heifer, TechoServe, effective local non-profits, in-need schools, etc.
AWSC volunteers working through Head Start and as teaching assistants could have lowered class ratios; expanded Head Start to the 50% of un-served Head Start children; and enhanced the effectiveness of local community development movements.
Instead, today we rattle on about our rockets' red-glare about to be soaring over Syrian air where, it is interesting to note, a Peace Corps volunteer has never served.
Before it's too late we had better start giving more Americans and world citizens the opportunity to know each other better while building and spreading peace and economic opportunity before the air is filled with angry workers' demonstrations, saber-rattling rhetoric, exploding rockets, bloody lethal drone warfare, and suicidal terrorism.
Sixteen-medaled Marine Gen. Smedley Butler was right. War is a racket fought on behalf of rich, comfortable, vested interests by the poor and politically illiterate.
We should all have a dream
to build a different kind of war machine
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