 Dwayne Hunn, People's Lobby Executive Director, Sponsor of the American World Service Corps Congressional Proposals, http://peopleslobby.us/awsc-congressional-proposal 415-383-7880, info@peopleslobby.us You can help fund People’s Lobby upcoming Habitat Costa Rica Build with a tax deductible or non-tax deductible donation to People’s Lobby Education Foundation or People’s Lobby. Learn more at: http://peopleslobby.us/how-help/donate. SHARE 
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Dwayne served in the Peace Corps in the slums of Mumbai, India, worked several Habitat Projects, and was on the start-up team of the California Conservation Corps. He has a Ph.D. from Claremont Graduate University, has been a builder, teacher, political organizer, small businessman, affordable housing developer, and a rock-piler at Rubel's Castle. Some pics and stories at http://peopleslobby.us/more-projects/rubelia.
Some story tidbits about his recent well-regarded book about Rubel's Castle are available at http://peopleslobby.us/more-projects/rubelia.
In 2013 Rubelia was designated a National Historic Monument, right up there with Hearst Castle. CBS clip: Rubel's Castle is on verge of listing on National Registry http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2013/08/07/rubel-castle-in-glendora-on-the-verge-of-getting-national-historic-recognition/
Dwayne is presently Executive Director of People's Lobby Inc (PLI, 501c4)and People's Lobby's Education Foundation (PLEF, 501c3). You can read PLI's American World Service Corps Congressional Proposal (AWSC) at
http://peopleslobby.us/awsc-congressional-proposal
Rebuilding People'Lobby web site is available at http://peopleslobby.us/
Congresswoman Woolsey (D, CA) offered to introduce it in the 111th Congress, then retracted. Please contact your Congressional reps and ask them to become an original sponsor or cosponsor. The AWSC citizen-initiated congressional proposals could be, with you pushing your representatives, among the most significant legislation passed and implemented in decades. Imagine having 21 million Americans cost effectively doing good at home or abroad over the next 27 years.
In December 2009 Ralph Nader choose People's Lobby's book, "Ordinary People Doing the Extraordinary, The Story of Ed & Joyce Koupal's People's Lobby" as one of the Ten Best Books to Read for 2009. You can purchase the book from PeoplesLobby.us or learn more at http://peopleslobby.us/more-projects/books.
"This country runs on laws. If you want to change the country, write its laws," People's Lobby's founders Ed and Joyce Koupal used to say. If you want to enlighten public policy, involve millions of Americans in addressing public needs, prepare for climate weirding, etc., help make it happen. The AWSC addresses with people action many of our most pressing and costly needs. To sign the reopened American World Service Corps petition/letter, which contacts Congress for you: Paste http://www.change.org/petitions/view/field_21_million_american_world_service_corps_volunteers_over_the_next_27_years
Please help make the AWSC happen. To learn more about People's Lobby, visit the web site at www.Peopleslobby.us.
Recent books both available on line and from publishers: Every Town Needs a Castle (Prelude to next book, Every Country Needs a World Service Corps)
http://peopleslobby.us/more-projects/rubelia
Ordinary People Doing the Extraordinary (Nader's 2009 TopTen Books to Read List)
http://peopleslobby.us/archives/736
Library: http://peopleslobby.us/organizations/peoples-lobby/library
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Wednesday, December 5, 2018Garth Brooks: Does the theology of his hammer give soul to his Country Western rock and roll dished out at Notre Dame? Jesus was napping in Notre Dame's Touchdown Jesus Tower, when awakened by thousands pilgrimaging to the stadium. Adorned in parkas & cowboy hats, eighty thousand+ jammed ND Stadium through a down pour to sing along with a 56-year-old self-proclaimed "fat kid" whose carpenter's apron hooks his hammer of theology. Does fiddling with Jimmy & Rosalynn Carter move him and Linda Yearwood's music up the staircase to heaven?
Series: PLAYERS (24 Articles, 25454 views), Movies and more (13 Articles, 18733 views)
Sunday, September 16, 2018God Made Bananas, Fish, and Kids. "The Graduate" Made Plastic. So... "The Graduate" made plastic gyres, not God? Mr. McGuire: I want to say one word to you. Just one word. Benjamin: Yes, sir. McGuire: Are you listening? Benjamin: Yes, I am. McGuire: PLASTICS. Benjamin: Exactly how do you mean? Mr. McGuire: There's a great future in plastics. Think about it. Will you think about it? The PLASTICS line is ranked #42 in the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 movie quotations.
Series: Angry Mother Nature (8 Articles, 9466 views)
Sunday, July 8, 2018How the Peace Corps Conspired & Colluded to Deceive this Good Catholic Boy into Worshiping False Gods I don't know what young kids pray to or for in temples or mosques. I know this Catholic kid prayed to a lot of statues to stay out of hell, avoid mortal sins -- like petting, and do well in baseball, football, and basketball. Growing up in suburban Parma, Ohio, where my dad had a union truck-driving job, those prayed-for goals seemed hellishly important. Then the Peace Corps deceitfully led me to worship false gods.
Monday, May 21, 2018007's Aston Corvair Wheels Super-Rich Thru Eye of the Needle? Imagine if the super-rich voluntarily funded a National Service Corps of do-gooders who built health and welfare--thereby reducing stealth and warfare--at home and abroad. People's Lobby has the legislation. It needs you to fire up the imagination and vision of Congress to introduce & implement robust voluntary National Service via a voluntary nontraditional-funding mechanism (NTFM). Imagination and vision. Push for both.
Series: Uber-rich 2% solution for world peace (8 Articles, 13311 views)
Tuesday, March 6, 2018Hire Godfather's 'consigliere' for the kids, or ...? Is this only about "Consiglieres"? In Mario Puzo's Godfather Don Corleone points out, "Lawyers can steal more money with a briefcase than a thousand men with guns and masks." Today, many lawyers work for Don Corleone type families, the National Rifle Association, the American Federation of Teachers... Which set is using its briefcase to steal, harm, or help your family the most? What's the price of a gunned kid?
Series: Needed: AWSC, A Big National Service Program (15 Articles, 28766 views), Goodwill hunting (29 Articles, 45537 views), Movies and more (13 Articles, 18733 views) (View All Series)
Wednesday, February 14, 2018What the hell is a "public citizen"? Only tin & nuts needed to assemble? What is a "public citizen?" Are they necessary? More necessary at some times than others? Is this a time we should try to create more? Are we producing too many shaky tin men that foolishly follow in an age that needs well-rounded, logical, character-rich, steeled individualists?
Series: Spreading JFK's Foreign & Domestic Affairs (6 Articles, 9713 views), Needed: AWSC, A Big National Service Program (15 Articles, 28766 views), Movies and more (13 Articles, 18733 views) (View All Series)
Thursday, January 18, 2018Jousting bloodlessly in King Arthur's Camelot, Sun Tzu's Middle Kingdom, and JFK 's New Frontier? Leaders and thinkers from long ago have consistently provided us programmatic answers on how to build a better world. Some grounded-in-commonsense answers from King Arthur and his band of Roundtable Knights, Sun Tzu and his thoughtful warriors, and John Kennedy and his best and brightest are provided here.
Series: Needed: AWSC, A Big National Service Program (15 Articles, 28766 views), Joint Peace Corps (7 Articles, 10674 views), Goodwill hunting (29 Articles, 45537 views) (View All Series)
Thursday, November 16, 2017Pope: Thou shalt do less MSG, more MDG, and fat cats will happily pay Many complain about failing to think outside of the box, about the world of unmet needs, about inequities... When out-of-the-box solutions are offered, how many do something to implement the answers? What do you do? Do you believe the solutions offered here are too far out of the box?
Series: Uber-rich 2% solution for world peace (8 Articles, 13311 views)
Tuesday, August 15, 2017Ft. Lauderdale's studious spring-breakers now inconveniently handcuffed to ...? As climate change inconveniently sends rising tides to inundate Ft. Lauderdale and Miami on sunny days, a couple of industrious students from a bygone era reminisce and hope to devote some cuffed time to soothe an angered Mother Nature. Oh, for the days when her beaches were enlightened by sun-enriched, bikini-clad, bright art, rather than beleaguered by flooded beaches, streets, storms and dumbing-down Breitbart farks.
Series: Angry Mother Nature (8 Articles, 9466 views)
Wednesday, July 5, 2017Holy smoking tweets! Lincoln vibing Trump and Putin to send Joint Special Forces! Can Putin and Trump think outside the box, as JFK did in birthing the Peace Corps? JFK proposed quickly building the cost effective and admired Peace Corps to one million, and thereby help build shining cities on the hills. War mentalities killed JFK'S dreams. Can Putin and Trump stun the world, reignite Kennedy's dreams, and help build those shiny cities by serving peacefully together?
Series: Goodwill hunting (29 Articles, 45537 views), Joint Peace Corps (7 Articles, 10674 views)
Sunday, May 7, 2017Thank You for Your $3 Trillion "Service" Stupid costly wars continue escalating. Our soldiers are worn, but continue serving. Homeless, refugees, and earthly climatic migraines are burgeoning. Do we have enough visionary leaders to build another army to help turn these problems around? Enough visionary lawmakers to legislate a nontraditional funding mechanism that challenges the mega-rich and costs taxpayers nothing?
Series: Spreading JFK's Foreign & Domestic Affairs (6 Articles, 9713 views)
Tuesday, February 21, 2017The poker table echoed, "What's fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness?" Does the antidote for "dumbing down" a nation include addressing poverty, disasters, and hatreds while serving alongside perceived enemies? How many would sign up to peacefully serve alongside a perceived "enemy" to make more than just "America great again"? How much smarter does such service make a nation?
Series: Joint Peace Corps (7 Articles, 10674 views), Goodwill hunting (29 Articles, 45537 views), Spreading JFK's Foreign & Domestic Affairs (6 Articles, 9713 views) (View All Series)
Sunday, January 22, 2017Trump & Putin buiild army... invade world....world cheers! Two bigheads and big powers who spy on each other and rattle sabers butting heads... Should "We, the people" push them to take "the path less traveled by," and see if that will make "all the difference"?
Series: Joint Peace Corps (7 Articles, 10674 views), Goodwill hunting (29 Articles, 45537 views), Spreading JFK's Foreign & Domestic Affairs (6 Articles, 9713 views) (View All Series)
Tuesday, November 22, 2016Mark Twaining the art of Gandhi, Kennedy, and Trump? What's more important to nation & world welfare--following the news - faked or otherwise, social mediaing, twittering, & apping your 3" phone? Or spending a year in communities different than yours working shoulder to shoulder on needs that never blistered or teared you digitally? Which life produces more true art, as well as social & economic progress? Which path should our super-rich invest in having Americans serve?
Series: Joint Peace Corps (7 Articles, 10674 views), Movies and more (13 Articles, 18733 views), Uber-rich 2% solution for world peace (8 Articles, 13311 views) (View All Series)
Monday, October 17, 2016Pt 2."Where's that damn sandaled, marauding platoon Jesus kept training and droning miracles with?" Jesus Christ and John Fitzgerald Kennedy had their own recognizable gangs. They came to be known as JC's "Apostles" and JFK's "Peace Corps." In crowded India, where I served as a PCV, they were called "Shanti Senna," or Peace Army. Were JC and JFK trying to show us how to build winning, heavenly armies for all times and that after tines?
Series: Spreading JFK's Foreign & Domestic Affairs (6 Articles, 9713 views)
Monday, August 8, 2016Pt 1. Luring JFK into Foreign, Domestic, and Image Affairs First of four-part series on how to cost-effectively improve our foreign, domestic, climatic, and image affairs.
Series: Spreading JFK's Foreign & Domestic Affairs (6 Articles, 9713 views), Movies and more (13 Articles, 18733 views)
Wednesday, July 6, 2016Droning more bombs or penning legislation that invades America and the world? Smart farmers plant healthy seedlings generations before they bear fruit. At home and abroad, did we plant enough healthy seedlings? Are we planting enough today? Would robust AWSC National Service help replace bullets with healthy seedlings? Think Pope Francis would support invading with this bullet laden army underwritten by the uber-rich?
Series: Needed: AWSC, A Big National Service Program (15 Articles, 28766 views), Options:1) Blow-up 2) Build-up (10 Articles, 12217 views)
Monday, April 25, 2016Boxer Tames Growling Bear and Biting Eagle? Could a diminutive mother Boxer tame a growling Bear & biting Eagle with simple words that have those troublesome hot heads play, share, and do nice things together? Would neighborhoods and jungles be safer? Who should lead on this idea -- the Boxer, Bear, or Eagle? And you? What do you do?
Series: Goodwill hunting (29 Articles, 45537 views), Joint Peace Corps (7 Articles, 10674 views), Why not build AWSC? (3 Articles, 7146 views) (View All Series)
Tuesday, March 1, 2016The Nurse, Love at First Sight at My Tint Free Fourth Work SITE. An Urban Community-Development Peace Corps Volunteer reveals his "love at first sight" encounter in Mumbai, India, as he toils with the masses, limousines, paraplegics, 007 agents, rich kids, and the "nurse." This is the essayed version of the Beyond Borders Peace Corps story jam, "Love At First Sight," which is YouTube viewable from link inside.
Series: Goodwill hunting (29 Articles, 45537 views)
Thursday, January 14, 2016Support the "American World Service Corps" Congressional Proposal Student and actor Mandy Patinkin and in-the-trenches Homeland defenders Generals Zinni and McChrystal along with White Knight Francis call for a different defense for the Homeland. It's generationally cheap when compared to not doing it. So, tell us, why don't we do it?
Series: PLAYERS (24 Articles, 25454 views), Needed: AWSC, A Big National Service Program (15 Articles, 28766 views)