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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 989 week(s) and 6 day(s) 91 Articles, 0 Quick Links, 143 Comments, 3 Diaries, 15 Series, 3 Polls
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Thursday, October 7, 2010Golden Moms, Sisters of Fallen Heroes We have sports like football. Challenges like war. Are there other ways for people to be heroes? Outlets that keep heroes growing with families, friends, and us? When we lose heroes to a trumped-up war, how angry should loved ones and we be? Two special Patricks grew to be heroes to their families and friends. Both have similar traits and stories. One has a movie made about him that you should see --" The Tillman Story. Series: Gold Star Moms (5 Articles, 11994 views) 
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Monday, July 5, 2010Hey, Generals McChrystal, Petraeus... "Can we win it?" Here's the answer for: General McChrystal "For every innocent person you kill, you create 10 new enemies." Former UN Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick "It will take more than commandos to win the war on terror." President Bush ".. create conditions so that the - those who use terror as a tool are less acceptable in parts of the world." How will you help make it happen? Series: PLAYERS (24 Articles, 37666 views) 
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Friday, June 25, 2010Generals wish America had this AWSC policy 20 years ago Had America had a robust American World Service Corps for 20+ years, today's costly military engagement in Afghanistan would have been unnecessary. General McChrystal's COIN goals would have been doable, because we would have built a more solid, educated community during less violent times. Why not urge those who have served, like Congressman Sestak PA.,to push the AWSC forward? Series: Goodwill hunting (30 Articles, 65709 views), PLAYERS (24 Articles, 37666 views) 
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Thursday, June 17, 2010Empathy Kills Can Christ help win the terror wars? Can citizens initiate the law that fields a big band of apostles that uses Christ's teaching to win the wars? Has a nation of doers become too pathetic to wage an empathetic war that defeats terror? Do political or religious leaders even care? What differentiates a religious talker from a spiritual doer? Are you a talker or doer? Series: Goodwill hunting (30 Articles, 65709 views) 
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Monday, May 31, 2010Masters of Disasters -- Stranded on the Sidelines When you create legislation that involves the hearts, minds, and the peaceful bodies of Americans in benefiting Mother Nature and learning from other peoples, does the world become safer for you and yours? If we sent Mr. Smith or his legislation to Washington today, could such healthy legislation be introduced and passed without a People's Lobby comfortably ensconced on K Street? Series: Angry Mother Nature (8 Articles, 14161 views), Options:1) Blow-up 2) Build-up (10 Articles, 16845 views) 
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Wednesday, May 12, 2010Mimes and Ravi Eradicate Terrorists Now we're worried about American citizens becoming terrorists. "We've got to grow the military"" is not the answer. A nation wins the hearts of Ravis at home and abroad by fielding a different army. Deploying ten brigades of soldiers for the foreseeable future insures we quickly replicate the Roman Empire's final years. We need a smart 21st century army that peacefully and economically wins hearts and minds. Series: 2014-15 Reasons for AWSC Congressional Proposal (4 Articles, 11002 views), Goodwill hunting (30 Articles, 65709 views)
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Wednesday, May 12, 2010Warrior Darth or Weary Luke Winning Galactic Coastal Media Wars? As media concentrates and opinion dominates, the phytoplankton of the news chain sink. In coastal Bolinas, California, with its chopped down tourist sign, a long time hard news slinger and salon owner fights to keep his Coastal Post doing an I. F. Stone thing. Recently Sonoma State's Peter Phillips, The Nation's John Nichols, and KPFA's Bonnie Falkner came to help pass the hat to keep his rag on your toilet's reading rack. Series: Movies and more (13 Articles, 29478 views) 
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Friday, March 12, 2010Combatting Critical Mass so Life Rules Humanely Reading good books is not enough to deal with the earth's looming critical mass of problems. American and world citizens must do more than read, write, and express disdain about the state of community and world. They need to serve in correcting what is wrecking the earth, which is why People's Lobby's American World Service Corps (AWSC) Congressional Proposals should be the action part of insuring that Life Rules humanely. Series: Goodwill hunting (30 Articles, 65709 views) 
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Sunday, February 21, 2010Who Cares for the Gold Star Moms Who Care for Our Vets? In today's dollars, WWII cost us $3 trillion, which all Americans paid for with blood and War Bonds. The Bush administration nailed that coffin by refusing to tax even the megarich to pay for the $3 trillion WMD-less Iraq War. Today a broken middle class bears Iraq's cost., including lost health care for even its Gold Star heroines. Is this how even a second rate economy should handle its heroes? Series: Gold Star Moms (5 Articles, 11994 views)
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Friday, January 29, 2010Twelve Questions and Answers for Hard Working Joes Are you happy with America's health care, political reform, tax structure, wealth disparity, disaster response, military usage, mercenary growth, service options, public policy IQ, and our national character? Here are a dozen questions and answers that address then that require only a little initiative and action from you to make them happen. Take the initiative and help. Series: Needed: AWSC, A Big National Service Program (16 Articles, 43617 views) 
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Thursday, December 10, 2009Fresh Afghanistan Warriors the President Needs America and the world needs a fresh, new, robust army. We need new carpenters and tools in a 21st century tool box. We need to shift how we and other nations interact because our 20th century army and habits will continue throwing too many in the world into strife. People's Lobby American World Service Corps Congressional Proposals (AWSC) gives us that fresh, new, robust army. Series: Goodwill hunting (30 Articles, 65709 views), PLAYERS (24 Articles, 37666 views) 
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Wednesday, November 4, 2009Building New Armies Builds World Peace? Few know what the President will do with tomorrow's policy issues. However, his ghostly Presidential chronicler can give you a good idea of where his policies are heading. He tells us the President wants another much bigger army to help win the terror wars, build America's economy, and make the world safer. Is he right? Will the American World Service Corps lead other nations to build similar armies? Series: Needed: AWSC, A Big National Service Program (16 Articles, 43617 views), PLAYERS (24 Articles, 37666 views) 
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Thursday, October 15, 2009President uses ââ?¬Å?Nobel's moââ?¬Â to change the world One person doesn't make peace. One person can add momentum, or lead â??people,â? toward peace. America's economy is shaky, the world's in great need, and people are searching for ways to work themselves out of the inherited mess. To address all that, Obama should use his â??Nobel Moâ? to implement the American World Service Corps Congressional Proposals to turn the mess around. If not now, when? Series: PLAYERS (24 Articles, 37666 views) 
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Saturday, October 3, 2009Rethinking America's Involvement As the world tumbles from crisis to crisis, we need to rethink more than just Afghanistan. How about our military involvement that is breaking our economy? Our belittled diplomacy? Our public policy understanding? Kennedy's laudable National Service Act was a start, but too small to address looming crises. The answer? Involve 21 million Americans in voluntary national service, as the American World Service Corps would do. Series: Goodwill hunting (30 Articles, 65709 views), PLAYERS (24 Articles, 37666 views) 
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Sunday, July 5, 2009The Next Needed Greatest Generation These words ring even louder today. Today, however, we need to field robust working teams that improve America and the freedom of man. "And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world, ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man." JFK inaugural 1961 Series: Goodwill hunting (30 Articles, 65709 views), PLAYERS (24 Articles, 37666 views) 
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Saturday, May 9, 2009Open Letter to General Contractor Barack Obama America needs rebuilding. Our general contractor drives well to the hoop, but hasn't driven many nails. Luckily, how many nails he's driven is not important. What's important is the character and experience of the crews he must inspire over the years to build our New Foundation. As the foundations of our infrastructure, finance, and ethics crumble, our worker' skills and character are about to be tested as seldom before. Series: Goodwill hunting (30 Articles, 65709 views), PLAYERS (24 Articles, 37666 views) 
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Sunday, March 29, 2009Education for the long run - Raising our public policy IQ for generations to come Do we walk enough in troubled neighbors' shoes? Taste the experiences of the unemployed, poorly schooled, homeless, refugeed? We elect public policy doers who impact such experiences. Until MANY, MANY more walk miles in others' shoes, our public policies will not be as good as they should. The AWSC Congressional Proposals build on the GIVE and Serve America Proposals by GOING BIG ENOUGH to make us as smart as we should be. Series: Options:1) Blow-up 2) Build-up (10 Articles, 16845 views) 
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Friday, March 6, 2009Need 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? Series: TaxEnomics 101 and more (7 Articles, 15522 views)
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Friday, January 30, 2009Investing 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. Series: Uber-rich 2% solution for world peace (8 Articles, 20167 views)
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Friday, January 23, 2009Why Build the American World Service Corps? About a third of the world has been left behind--living in fear and poverty. Planting seeds among them are crazed terrorists who perceive Americans as evil. Manning 737 American military bases will not reverse that trend. America needs to field a 21st century American World Service Corps that builds a peaceful America and world. Implementing Peoples Lobby's AWSC Congressional Proposals builds that Corps and world. Series: Goodwill hunting (30 Articles, 65709 views), Options:1) Blow-up 2) Build-up (10 Articles, 16845 views) |
