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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 0 day(s) 91 Articles, 0 Quick Links, 143 Comments, 3 Diaries, 15 Series, 3 Polls
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Saturday, January 17, 2009AWSC National Service Corps That Proves Whether, "Yes, We Still Can." Fielding a robust AWSC National Service Corps of twenty-one million serving Americans: 1) Proves "Yes, Americans still can." 2) Helps right America's Ship of State. Implementing People's Lobby's American World Service Corps Congressional Proposals, which Congresswoman Woolsey is introducing in the 111th Congress, addresses our and world needs better than any national service proposal now being considered in Congress. Series: Needed: AWSC, A Big National Service Program (16 Articles, 43619 views)
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Tuesday, January 13, 2009American World Service Corps robustly addresses Big Problems We need a robust AWSC to tackle today's BIG PROBLEMS. This is the first of eight OpEds, which comprises the sections in People's Lobby's American World Service Corps (AWSC) Report recently submitted to the new administration. Congresswoman Woolsey has offered to introduce the AWSC Congressional Proposals in the 111th Congress, and we need your help in gaining strong bipartisan cosponsors to lead the AWSC to passage. Series: Angry Mother Nature (8 Articles, 14162 views), Needed: AWSC, A Big National Service Program (16 Articles, 43619 views)
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Monday, January 12, 2009Carrots, Foreign Aid, Brown v. Board of Education and Israel /Palestine. January 12th found me at the Book Passages in Corte Madera, California listening to author Melissa Rossi talk about "What Every American Should Know about the Middle East." During the book-signing portion of the evening, I asked several American-born Israelis about People's Lobby's Israel Palestine peace building proposal, which centered on my statement regarding the elction of Barack Obama... Series: Goodwill hunting (30 Articles, 65711 views), Israel & Palestine (2 Articles, 5144 views)
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Monday, January 5, 2009Yes, AWSC Can... lift the world America has BIG PROBLEMS requiring big solutions. People's Lobby's American World Service Corps (AWSC) Congressional Proposals will be the largest national service program considered in this Congress. It provides choices and incentives for young and old to serve at home or abroad in governmental or nongovernmental organizations. This is the first of eight sections culled from the AWSC Report sent to some elected officials. Series: Goodwill hunting (30 Articles, 65711 views) 
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Sunday, December 28, 2008World Service Corps Can Save Our Vets Our veterans will continue being mauled physically and mentally until we make a serious effort to serve and build a more peaceful, smarter world. That safer world won't appear until we have a helluva lot more yanks peacefully and productively serving to build that saner world. Mauled vets know this. People's Lobby's American World Service Corps Congressional Proposals provides the teams that benefit our vets and the world. Series: Needed: AWSC, A Big National Service Program (16 Articles, 43619 views)
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Friday, November 7, 2008Fresh President and Congress need calloused hands of Americans "This country runs on laws. If you want to change the country, write its laws," repeated People's Lobby's founders Ed and Joyce Koupal. If implemented, People's Lobby citizen-initiated American World Service Corps Congressional Proposals will field 21 million volunteers at the grassroots level over 27 years to address people, environmental, educational needs. It is the peaceful 21st century army that proves, "Yes, we can." Series: 2014-15 Reasons for AWSC Congressional Proposal (4 Articles, 11004 views), Needed: AWSC, A Big National Service Program (16 Articles, 43619 views)
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Wednesday, May 7, 2008Winning strategy for Scott Ritter, Sun Tzu, and our Constitutional goal of promoting the general welfare Americans are capable of building and leading a strategy to change the character of America's public policy to one that successfully wages peace via pushing People's Lobby's citizen-initiated American World Service Corps (AWSC) Congressional Proposals. For a nation founded on "We the people..." having citizen-initiated legislation change the world should not be considered too far "out of the box." Series: PLAYERS (24 Articles, 37670 views)
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Monday, March 17, 2008Utopia with a peaceful army and a Forbes 2% Solution? Would you help introduce and enact congressional legislation that would field 21 million American volunteers over the next 27 years to do good at home and abroad if it cost Middle America nothing? People's Lobby citizen-initiated American World Service Corps (AWSC) Congressional Proposals will, with your help, do that. Series: Uber-rich 2% solution for world peace (8 Articles, 20168 views)
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Saturday, December 29, 2007"Yo!... Clinton, Guillani, Obama, Romney, Edwards, McCain... You need a bigger team... "Yo!... Clinton, Guillani, Obama, Romney, Edwards, McCain... Your campaign promises and electing a new president, even you, is not a big enough answer..." Enclosed in this Op-Ed is a robust enough answer to rebuild America's splintering foundation that relies on Americans of characters, and strengthens their ranks. Series: Options:1) Blow-up 2) Build-up (10 Articles, 16846 views), PLAYERS (24 Articles, 37670 views)
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Friday, August 24, 2007Scared, broke, and still marching to stupid wars... We fall into wasteful wars because too few citizens understand domestic and world needs. Our most indelible educations come from first hand experiences. Moving Americans from bumper sticker analysis into meaningful world service does more than screeching complaints about the State of the World. Pressing Congress to enact PLI's American World Service Corps Congressional Proposals provides indelible learning educations. Series: TaxEnomics 101 and more (7 Articles, 15523 views)
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Tuesday, July 10, 2007The 2% Forbes solution to a well-armed Live Earth What better way to: ? Create a Live Earth than by helping People's Lobby's citizen-driven non-partisan American World Service Corps Congressional Proposals become law. ? Build a smarter, more peaceful Earth than by having a million productive American volunteers serving and learning in it. ? Fund the American World Service Corps than to inspire the Forbes Richest 400 to finance it with just 2% of their accumulated wealth. Series: Uber-rich 2% solution for world peace (8 Articles, 20168 views) |
