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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 OpEdNews Member for 990 week(s) and 5 day(s) 91 Articles, 0 Quick Links, 143 Comments, 3 Diaries, 15 Series, 3 Polls Series Listed By Popularity List Alphabetically 
Goodwill hunting (32 articles)
Building good will builds a a solid, long lasting foundation of peace that repulses ignorance and terrorism? 
Needed: AWSC, A Big National Service Program (19 articles)
Poverty, climate change, militarized U.S. mentality and economy, growing numbers of stealth terrorists, job shortage, dumb-down public policies, involved service shortage, etc... the list of needs that a ROBUST American World Service Corps national service program could address is long.We need to start addressing these needs today in a BIG way so that movies like Zero Dark 30, Day After Tomorrow, and Hunger Games don't become reality tomorrow. 
PLAYERS (25 articles)
Whether by actions, position, or historical impact, these PUBLIC POLICY PLAYERS have made a DIFFERENCE. 
Movies and more (13 articles)
Movies often depict the real, presumed, or the expected world. Many citizens develop their real world view via movies. So... 
Uber-rich 2% solution for world peace (9 articles)
Could the uber-rich contribute less than 2% of their wealth to build a new, different army that changes the world's battlefields and produces what all those sane religious leaders call for?Is there money to be made doing so?
Joint Peace Corps (7 articles)
World needs joint Peace Corps like our proposal that Congresswoman Boxer introduced as HR 1807 of 1989 to address angered Mother Nature, needs, stupidity, and terrorism. 
Options:1) Blow-up 2) Build-up (10 articles)
Over 7 generations what approach benefits you, your loved ones, and the world the most? Are we pouring enough human and financial resources in the approach you feel is best?
Spreading JFK's Foreign & Domestic Affairs (6 articles)
Series starts by details JFK's policies that could have made the world more sustainable and brotherly. 
TaxEnomics 101 and more (8 articles)
Does the use of your, other peoples, and the nation's money complicate, enrich, or monopolize your life?This series will dance with some of the partners who play with money in your or others' lives.
Angry Mother Nature (8 articles)
We've ticked off Mother Nature. Until we clean up our act, all nations will need armeis of do-gooders to deal with her angered wake. 
Gold Star Moms (5 articles)
If we didn't have wars, Gold Star Mom sounds like a wonderful title to have. But we do have wars, an no mom wants the title. Here are some stories tied around Gold Star Moms.
Why not build AWSC? (4 articles)
Some reasons why we should build an American World Service Corps National Service Program...
Israel & Palestine (2 articles)
How does the world help make Israel & Palestine a Holy Land, where peace rules the days?
Story Jams (0 articles)
Norcal Peace Corps story jams with a not-so-subliminal People's Lobby message that the US needs to build a robust AWSC National Service program. www.peopleslobby.us |
