An educational project of Peoples Lobby PLEF Educational Foundation and Peoples Lobby PLI'

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The World including America -- cant wait for
The power of our exampleAmericas World Service
Corps (AWSC)Dwayne Hunn

• An educational project of Peoples Lobby (PLEF)
  Educational Foundation and Peoples Lobby (PLI).
• www.peoplelobby.us
• www.worldservicecorps.us

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This presentation gives an overview

• Of world needs
• Urges you to support sending our best resources
  to address those needs
• Via helping enact Peoples Lobbys American World
  Service Corps Congressional Proposals

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• A donation to PLI or PLEF will purchase this
  presentation
• Using it allows your school, group, etc., to
  build support for enacting PLIs AWSC
  legislation.

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We need more angels of reason
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The Worlds More Dangerous

• If you are the top dog, all the other dogs are
  always biting and chasing after you.

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Keep the top dog healthy by

• Reducing the number of dogs snapping at your
  heals.
• Making more friends than enemies.
• Or suffer a thousand debilitating cuts

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• Is this the answer we want to give the world?

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Americas World Service Corps (AWSC) is the answer

• AWSC can reduce the hungry, angry, attacking
  packs
• Builds a world of growing, prospering, rational
  nations -- including ours.

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AWSC builds

• Homes, health, understanding, crops, small
  businesses
• Reduces poverty, terrorist recruitment, hatreds,
  aftereffects of disasters

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AWSC is needed now

• Many world problems stem from
• Ugly perceptions of us growing in the world
• Lack of our grassroots, practical participation
  in the world
• Wrong kind of participation in the world.

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Our policies foreign aid, free trade, mega
corporate collusions, etc., are increasingly seen
by the worlds peoples as

• Covers for Americas Economic Hit men that hurt
  their nations common people.

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Flowing US Foreign Aid

Earmarked
US AID
Big Consulting firms
Mega Corps
Mega Projects
Privatize
Energy Infrastructure Military Cities
Water Manufacturing Farming Military
LDC
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LDCs Big Squueze
Mega Loans

• To Mega-Corps

Mega Projects
Unpayable
Privatize
Debtor Nation
Water Manufacturing Farming Military
Energy Infrastructure Military Cities
World Bank Rules
You owe us. Big time..
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Debt trap can claim all surplus production
The size of the debt trap can claim all surplus
production of a society. And is harming lesser
developed nations. One trillion dollars
compounded at 10 year become 117 trillion in
fifty years. Even US DEBT CEILING was RAISED TO
9 TRILLION March 2006 Debt/Scale.asp
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Third World debt compounding over 20
per year between 1973 and 1993, from 100 billion
to 1.5 trillion Only 400 billion of the 1.5
trillion was actually borrowed money. The rest
was runaway compound interest. If Third World
debt continues to compound at 20 percent per
year, the 117 trillion debt will be reached in
eighteen years and the 13.78 quadrillion debt in
thirty-four years.
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Stable nations are built when..
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US aid to developing countries .22 of Gross
National Income

• Includes debt relief to Iraq, Nigeria, Tsunami.

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Since 2003 U.S. earmarked

• 3 trillion to a trumped-up Iraq War
• Money that could have gone to
• Jobs, education, health care, high speed rail,
  green tech at home
• That could have strengthened our families,
  provided jobs, and grown our economy
• We need to be involved with problems to know how
  to solve them

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Robust AWSC can help this too
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Adding 20 billion AWSC cost U.S. contributes
.38 GNI

• Assumes using 2005 GNP/GNI with no increase.
• Estimate an increase of 800 billion GNP and
  annual increase reduces Foreign Aid age.

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Worst unemployment/productivity

• Middle East North Africa
• Highest unemployment rate in the world, 13.2.
• Worse than in sub-Saharan Africa.
• Iraq 55?
• 5.5 GDP growth 1993-2003 ok but..
• Productivity - how efficiently GDP resources
  used
• Increased .1 annually.
• Better than only one sub-Saharan Africa nation.
• Arab world only area where productivity did not
  increase with GDP growth.

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Africa Middle East
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Arab Youth

• Nearly 60 of Arab world is under 25 with limited
  employment opportunities.
• ILO estimates region spinning out 500,000 more
  unemployed each year.
• India, China turning out scientific, innovative,
  critical thinkers. Muslim world not keeping pace.

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Arab university system
Dwayne Hunn

• Paksitans public universities (and all but a
  handful of private) are intellectual rubble,
  their degrees of little consequence
• Nuclear physics professor, Pervez Hoodbhoy, of
  Quaid-i-Azam University in Islamabad.
• Pakistanis registered only 8 patents
  internationally in 57 years.
• Pakistan Council for Science Technology.

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Arab Educational Results?

• Education in science, modernity declining since
  the 14th century
• Therefore, unprepared young easily enraged with
  modernity.
• Backward religious teachers, madrases, dictators
  preach and teach their narrow views.

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21st Century Middle East
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Among 460 million
In the 13 nations of Egypt, Syria, Lebanon,
Jordan, Saudia Arabia, Palestine, Israel, Yemen,
Omar, Iran, Iraq, Pakistan, and Afghanistan,
about 460 million reside
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How many Peace Corps volunteers serve there?

• In 2005 39 PCVs served.
• In 2006 58 PCVs served.

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Add 134 million more world citizens

• Nations
• Sudan
• Eritrea
• United Arab Republic
• Kuwait
• Turkey

• Peace Corps Volunteers (PCVs)
• 16 . 1984-86
• 0
• 0
• 0
• 0

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In 18 mostly Muslim countries of 578,340,251

• In Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Saudia Arabia,
  Palestine, Israel, Yemen, Omar, Iran, Iraq,
  Pakistan, Afghanistan, Sudan, Eritrea, UAR,
  Kuwait, Turkey
• One PCV for every
• 9,971,384
• helps
• build
• Stability?
• Jordan PCV Gallery

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Add Indonesias 245,452,739

• Largely Muslim population.
• How many PCVs serve there today?
• 0
• How many PCVs have served there since 1961?
• 47 from 1963-65

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So in 19 mostly Muslim countries of 823,792,990

• In Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Saudia Arabia,
  Palestine, Israel, Yemen, Omar, Iran, Iraq,
  Pakistan, Afghanistan, Sudan, Eritrea, UAR,
  Kuwait, Turkey, and Indonesia
• One PCV for each 14,203,327
• Presents the building, caring, educating face of
  America.

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Add Somalia Ethiopia

• Population PCVs 2006
• Somalia 8,300,000 0
• Ethiopia 74,777,981 0
• In 21 mostly Muslim countries of
  906,870,971
• One PCV for each 15,635,706
• Shares and exchanges American ideas and ideals
  with their peoples.
• Assist in building stability.

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Our Somalian policy
A communiqué issued after the hurriedly convened
meeting is filled with diplomatic but nonspecific
references to the need for "enhanced multilateral
engagement" and "overall coordination of the
international community's support. The
countries in the group are the United States,
Britain, Italy, Norway, Sweden and Tanzania. The
document represents a resurgence for the State
Department, where officials have been critical of
the Bush administration's policy on Somalia,
which consisted largely of C.I.A. payments to
Somali warlords to help them defeat the
Islamists.
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Islamic militia extends control over Somalia

• Islamic militants captured the last strategic
  town held by their warlord rivals Wednesday,
  consolidating their control over a large swarth
  of Somalia even as the countrys parliament
  called for help from foreign peacekeepers.

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Who knew?.. Islamic militia extends control over
Somalia

• Henry Compton, the State Department
  counterterrorism coordinator, told the Senate
  Foreign Relations Committee on Tuesday that his
  department didnt anticipate the events in
  Somalia and has an imperfect understanding of
  the Islamic group.

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Somalias Islamic group
More than 10,000 Somalis demonstrated Friday
incensed by rumors that troops from Ethiopia,
Somalias historic rival might intervene (with
troops) The Islamic group, accused by the U.S.
of harboring al Qaeda, portrays itself as free of
links to Somalias past turmoil and capable of
brining and unity.
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New Militant Leader Emerges in Mogadishu

• Rise of Somali Sheik (Hassam Aweys) Tied to
  Terrorism Is Seen as Blow to US
• In recent years, the US launched a covert program
  to pay Mogadishus warlords for their assistance
  in tracking down those in Somalia with links to
  terrorism.
• The policy backfired, however, when Islamists
  banded together earlier this year and took on
  American-backed warlords

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Kindness counts?

• No act of kindness, no matter how small, goes
  unrewarded.
• Aesop

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Strength in numbers counts in war or peace?

• Our smart military commanders remind us that in
  traditional or guerrilla warfare overwhelming
  force is needed for victory.
• In the end, they repeat, that must include
  overwhelming foot soldiers.

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Ultimate victory requires?

• General Tony Zinni I saw that military success
  on the battlefield alone was not going to give us
  ultimate victory.
• Todays smart military commanders know that for
  21st century wars one needs peaceful, productive
  feet on the ground building stability.

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General Zinni on NGOs

• The military may bring emergency capacities at
  scales and speeds that NGOs cant begin to
  approach the NGOs bring a depth of
  understanding of the needs, requirements, and
  capacities for long-term recovery that we dont
  have.
• I came away from Project Comfort with the
  realization that NGOs were new partners on the
  battlefield and we needed to learn how to work
  together..

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Developed worlds job Gen. Zinni

• Our job in the developed world is not to command
  and direct but to help, support, and empower. And
  there's a big place in this for every variety of
  actor governments, regional organizations,
  international organizations, NGOs, ad hoc
  international coalitions, single individuals,
  groups and organizations within nations . - .
  anyone who wants to help, who can work with the
  others, and who can do the job effectively.

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Not Foreign Aid

• We must think of these actions not as foreign
  aid that tosses billions of dollars down some
  sinkhole of corruption but as investments in our
  own security and stability. By helping others--a
  good in itself--we are also greatly lessening the
  threats to our own well-being.
• General Zinni

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Or we can do nothing Gen. Zinni

• We have a choice. We can do all we can to
  create stability ad order in the world. Or we
  can do nothing, hunker down, and gamble that the
  instability and chaos out there will not migrate
  over here knowing that steel and electronic
  barricades will never seal our borders.

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Americas Response

• Build more military bases, deploy more troops,
  dramatically increase military budgets.
• Kill perceived and ignorant enemies.
• Increase public relations, media, Radio America
  budgets.
• Lecture, talk, pay journalists.

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Sarge ShriverPeace Corps First
Director

• If the Pentagons map is more urgent, the Peace
  Corps is, perhaps, in the long run the most
  important..... What happens in India, Africa, and
  South America -- whether the nations where the
  Peace Corps works succeed or not -- may well
  determine the balance of peace.

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• When President Kennedy took office, he put Sarge
  (Shriver) in charge of making the Peace Corps a
  reality As Jack liked to say, hed rather send
  in the Peace Corps than the Marine Corps, and
  Sarge was his Peace Corps commandant who always
  got the job done, establishing new beachheads of
  hope and opportunity in lands that had never
  known them before.

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Send a million can-do Americans?

• Would sending a million Americans through the
  Peace Corps, AmeriCorps, Habitat for Humanity,
  Head Start, Doctors Without Borders, Red Cross,
  International Rescue Committee, OxFam, Mercy
  Corps, and State Conservation Corps make a
  difference?

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Building or bombing?

• To build a Habitat home
• Global village home 600 to 8,000
• A stateside home less than 60,000
• To arm ourselves
• Kevlar vest 1,600
• An Armored Humvee 150,000
• One F22 153 million

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Financing Americas World Service Corps

• Tax Revenues.
• Contributions - zero tax paying corporations --
  82 (2003).
• Donations from Forbes Richest 500.
• NGOs increased participants donations. (Please
  read the proposed legislation)

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Zero tax paying corporations

• Corporate tax rate 35. After 2001, effective tax
  rate fell from 21.4 to 17.2 in 2003.
• CTJ ITEP Report on 275 profitable Fortune 500
  companies with 1.1 trillion profits 2001-2003.
• 82 paid 0 or less from 2001-03.

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Effective Corporate Tax Rates Falling Dramatically
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Why would corporations donate to Americas WSC?

• Corporate executives have families too.
• Good will sells.
• Increased security costs.
• Stable, prosperous nations buy more.
• Burdened, taxed, war weary Americans can find the
  AWSC web site

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Why would Forbes Richest donate?

• Gates and Clinton could use 100,000 volunteers
  helping eradicate AIDS.
• Buffet wonders why rich arent taxed more.
• Even oil magnates like T. Boone Pickens may see
  benefits in stability.
• Rich have families too.

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NGOs increased participants donations

• Red Cross, Habitat, OxFam, etc. need more
  volunteers.
• More volunteers bring more family and friend
  donors.
• Less drawn on Federal Treasury

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Even in Iraq All Politics is Local (as is
development)

• The coalitions cannot achieve political change in
  the absence of strong local support. And when
  they try to do so, they undermine their local
  allies. Iraqi and Afghan national and regional
  leaders have a far better understanding of the
  limits and possibilities of the local political
  scenes they are more flexible and creative in
  finding compromises and unlike the coalition
  officials, they are elected. They must be given
  real power and authority. This may seem an
  obvious prescription but in fact the coalitions
  are not allowing it to happen

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Send soldiers and wonder if
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And this too often happens

• But the Westerners political strategies are too
  often based more on moral ideals than real
  information very few coalition officials serve
  in these countries for more than a year, even
  fewer are specialists in the region, and security
  restrictions prevent them from living in the
  community.

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Even in Iraq, all politics is local

• Many have too much faith in their ability to
  create a society in their own image and a
  mistaken belief that they can find clean,
  technocratic, powerful and liberal alternatives
  to these local leaders. They prefer to rely on
  constitutions and abstract economic theories than
  to engage with local personalities.

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Now American commanders are trying something new.

• Instead of continuing to fight for the downtown,
  or rebuild it, they are going to get rid of it,
  or at least a very large part of it.
• They say they are planning to bulldoze about
  three blocks in the middle of the city, part of
  which has been reduced to ruins by the fighting

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nearly all of the fighting has been done by
American marines and soldiers,

• The Iraqi police patrol the streets in only a
  handful of neighborhoods, the ones closest to the
  American base. In the slow-motion offensive that
  has been unfolding, in which the Americans have
  been gradually clearing individual neighborhoods,
  nearly all of the fighting has been done by
  American marines and soldiers, not the Iraqi
  Army.

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In RamadiUnrelenting Battles
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Last week a midnight gun battle between a group
of insurgents and American marines lasted two
hours and ended only when the Americans dropped a
laser-guided bomb on an already half-destroyed
building downtown. Six marines were wounded it
was unclear what happened to the insurgents.   
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and Unrelenting Battles

•  The 800-member Third Battalion, Eighth Marine
  Regiment, which until recently was responsible
  for holding most of the city on its own, has lost
  11 marines since arriving in March. Commanders
  declined to disclose the number of wounded. Over
  all in Iraq the number of American wounded in
  action is roughly seven times the number killed.

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Lancet Medical Journal

• A team of American and Iraqi epidemiologists
  estimates that 655,000 more people have died in
  Iraq since coalition forces arrived in March 2003
  than would have died if the invasion had not
  occurred.
• ....Of the total 655,000 estimated "excess
  deaths," 601,000 resulted from violence....Of the
  violent deaths that occurred after the invasion,
  31 percent were caused by coalition forces or
  airstrikes, the respondents said.

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Johns Hopkins Study post invasion death rate

• This is remarkable. If you do the arithmetic, it
  means that coalition forces have killed 186,000
  Iraqis in the 39 months between the invasion and
  the period when the study was done. That's about
  4,700 per month and the numbers are on a steady
  upward trend.

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Iraq now ranked second among world's failed
states

• David Morgan - Mon Jun 18, 2007
• Iraq has emerged as the world's second most
  unstable country, behind Sudan, more than four
  years after President George W. Bush ordered the
  U.S. invasion to topple Saddam Hussein, according
  to a survey released on Monday Iraq suffered a
  third straight year of deterioration in 2006 with
  diminished results across a range of social,
  economic, political and military indicators. Iraq
  ranked fourth last year.
• Afghanistan, another war-torn country where U.S.
  and NATO forces are battling a Taliban insurgency
  nearly six years after a U.S. led invasion, was
  in eighth place. http//news.yahoo.com/s/nm/200706
  18/ts_nm/iraq_usa_states_dc_yltApzO13ro0bdowh8iX
  kfFZfes0NUE

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Or Send AWSC and rely on practical experiences
that engages personalities and builds community
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State Departments International Narcotics
Strategy Report,March 4, 2005

• Afghanistan is on the verge of becoming a
  narcotics state.

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Afghanistans Opium Poppy UNDCP Report 1986-2004
1986 1997.20012004
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One less of an estimated 80 million worldwide
beggars

• I dont like begging So I grew poppies (opium)
  to feed my family.
• Afghani farmer after his orchard had been
  destroyed by warring Russian and Taliban fighters.

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Afghan village's currency opiumMerchants keep
track with ledgers -- debts paid after poppy
harvest 5-7-07 SF Chronicle

• Shahran-e-Khash, Afghanistan -- The people of
  this impoverished corner of Badakhshan province
  rarely have money to buy even the simplest items
  from their local market. Instead, they use a
  different currency -- opium.

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Afghan village's currency opium

• "All the children put a little bit of opium on a
  leaf as payment. They ask the shopkeeper, 'Please
  give me a pen, give me two notebooks, give me two
  biscuits and three pieces of chewing gum,' " said
  a tribal elder who asked that his name not be
  published to avoid coming under pressure from the
  government.

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Afghanistans drug/warlords

• Fears that Afghanistan is becoming a full-fledged
  narco-state are swelling fast. Poppy
  cultivation dipped by 21 in 2005, but is
  expected to to rise sharply this year, according
  to the U.N. Office of Drugs and Crime. The
  greatest spike, as much as 100, is expected in
  Helmand province, where Adam, the well-known
  smuggler, lives

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Major offensive targets Taliban in Afghanistan

• The US military and more than 11,000 Afghans, ,
  and Canadian troops will begin Operation
  Mountain American, British Thrust against
  Taliban fighters today
• They have been relatively short of troops, of
  boots on the ground, Lt. Gen. David Richards
  told a Kabul news conference on June 4.

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Rising Opium Production in Afghanistan Funds
Terrorism
U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan have driven out the
opium unfriendly Taliban making it safe enough
for opium war lords to increase opium production
123-fold from 2001-2004, according to this
commentary in the Miami Herald. The large profits
made under this protection are used, in part, to
fund terrorism in Afghanistan and elsewhere. We
are, in essence, holding hands with our worst
enemy. June 10, 2005


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Afghan President Under Fire Over Poverty SNIK
ABRASHI AP

• While a small elite has enjoyed unprecedented
  prosperity, more than half of Afghanistan's 31
  million people live below the poverty line and 40
  percent are unemployed. Electricity and water
  shortages are acute. Illicit crops like opium
  represent more than a third of gross domestic
  product.

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Afghanistan Opium Cultivation Skyrockets

• Opium cultivation in Afghanistan jumps 60 percent
  in a year to hit new record, U.N. says
• KABUL, Afghanistan, Sep. 3, 2006MATTHEW
  PENNINGTON Associated Press Writer

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Yet AWSC alleviates poverty, Taliban ... Trouble
for Karzai

• Afghanistan relies on foreign aid, about 10.5
  billion of which was pledged at a February donor
  conference in London. Few would deny some
  progress has been made since the austere days of
  the Taliban, notably in access to education and
  health care - but social services remain sparse
  and infrastructure poor.
• "People want jobs and security, but the
  government cannot provide them with either," said
  Akhgar. "People also complain about corruption
  and government does nothing about it."

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Afghanistan Peace Corps Volunteers

• From 1962 1979
• 1,739 in education, health,
• rural community development
• A few more went from 1988-91

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Villagers in southern Afghanistan caught in the
tug of war

• "We have no choice. They come in groups of 5, 10
  or 20. Some are local, are speaking Urdu or
  Arabic. They ask for food, but you can't refuse.
  You can't argue with men with guns."
• Now the meek-looking farmer said he felt trapped
  between the insurgents and the central
  government. "To be honest, we cannot fight
  anyone. We don't like either side."
• Mirza, a 26 year old, who uses just one name

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caught in tug of war

• The U.S. base outside Qalat, a desert citadel
  ringed by razor wire, provides some security. But
  1,000 American soldiers are stretched thin across
  6,700 square miles of terrain and face an
  often-invisible yet agile enemy.

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Villagers in southern Afghanistan

• One recent day, a U.S. convoy screeched in with
  three men, blindfolded and at the wrist, hunkered
  in the back of a humvee. Hours earlier, the
  Taliban had ambushed a joint Afghan-American
  patrol, killing four police, two American troops
  and destroying an armored humvee.
• "It's a cat-and-mouse game with the enemy.
  Every time I get ahead of him, a new tactic comes
  up," said Sturek, the U.S. commander.
• Echoing many Afghan officials, he said the
  insurgents were streaming across the nearby
  border, where they attended pro-Taliban Islamic
  schools. The ones who come shooting hard are
  straight from the madrassas in Pakistan," he
  said.

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Dave Wilson reflects on his Peace Corps
assignment in Afghanistan

• Wilson began to bicycle home with another teacher
  after school each day became good friends to
  that teacher's entire family. Then,
  communists took over Afghanistan in 1979, and
  Wilson's life, as well as the lives of everyone
  around him, changed completely"I was pulled off
  my bike and questioned with a gun to my head or
  my stomach," Wilson said. Worse, Wilson said,
  was that his new friends were tortured because of
  their association with him. Still, they remained
  his friends. "They always took me in as one of
  their own," Wilson said.

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PIPA .7 GDP to Poverty?

• At 2005 G8 Summit rich nations discussed
  dedicating .7 GDP to combat poverty.
• PIPA poll support was higher among Democrats
  (77), but was still a majority among Republicans
  (57).

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These are deadly, costly
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Ways to win hearts minds an hour later this
Marine in Afghanistan was dead.
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And do nation building
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Invest in cost effective Americans

• Even though these targets and agendas have been
  set, year after year almost all rich nations have
  constantly failed to reach their agreed
  obligations of the 0.7 target. Instead of 0.7,
  the amount of aid has been around 0.2 to 0.4,
  some 100 billion short.

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Sending our best can-do AWSC volunteers -- is

• Better than sending mega corporate loans that
  enriches power brokers and trickles little down
  to the needy.
• Better at building homes, schools, health,
  friends, nations while raising Americas policy
  making IQ.

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Senator Harris Wofford on JFKs hopes

• "He told me he wanted the Peace Corps to reach
  100,000 a year," Wofford recalled. "He said it
  would then be considered serious. In one decade,
  it would reach 1 million volunteers." "I don't
  want AmeriCorps to suffer the same fate," Wofford
  said. "The time to move is now."

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Where can we give our kids education?

• Asks a former prominent Sudanese teacher from his
  Darfur refugee encampment. Its been going on
  so long, people have forgotten about us Darful
  Crisis CNN May 14, 2006
• Answer A robust American World Service Corps

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General Zinnis Foxhole understanding of the world

• Our leaders error is their simplistic view of
  what is actually out there, their lack of
  understanding of the complexities, the fine
  points, the subtleties of conditions on the
  ground (an understanding you get from long
  experience working in the foxhole).

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Africa Middle East
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Africa
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In Oil Rich Angola, Cholera Preys Upon the
Poorest
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Africas World of Forced Labor, in a 6-Year-Olds
Eyes
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I dont like it here, he whispered, out of Mr.
Takyis earshot.

• He last ate the day before. His broken wooden
  paddle was so heavy he could barely lift it. But
  he raptly followed each command from Kwadwo
  Takyi, the powerfully built 31-year-old in the
  back of the canoe who freely deals out beatings.
• Mark Kwadwo is 6 years old. About 30 pounds,
  dressed in a pair of blue and red underpants and
  a Little Mermaid T-shirt, he looks more like an
  oversized toddler than a boat hand. He is too
  little to understand why he has wound up in this
  fishing village, a two-day trek from his home.

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Darfur, Sudan

• Lining up for water.

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Medecins Sans Frontieres in Sudan

• Providing medical and psychosocial care to
  victims of violence and specifically of sexual
  violence treating malnourished children and
  providing clean water and improving sanitation to
  reduce the risk of disease.

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Darfur, Sudan violence for 3 years

• Nearly two million fled their destroyed villages
  
• Doctors Sans Borders has nearly 80 international
  aid worker working alongside 2,000 national staff
  in approximately 15 locations in North, South,
  and West Darfur Respiratory infections,
  diarrhea, hepatitis E, and malaria
• Peace Corps Volunteers 0

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Cholera in Angola
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Both medical and logistical staff are working
flat out

• the logisticians hastily putting up another tent
  to house twenty more beds, but the truth is they
  are running out of space. The CTC itself is quite
  basic at the entrance there is a disinfection
  area where everyone is sprayed with chlorine, to
  kill the bacteria that cause cholera. Cholera is
  highly contagious so. There is also a triage
  area for newly arrived patients, a pharmacy,
  water points, latrines, and several large tents
  with rows upon rows of beds. Each bed has a hole
  in the middle and two buckets underneath, one
  labelled vómito the other excremento but
  the only way to treat cholera is to allow
  patients to flush the bacteria out of their
  bodies and to rehydrate them as quickly as
  possible

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11 sub-Saharan nations with gt15 orphans
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Rates of orphaning in sub-Saharan Africa
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HIV/AIDS hits sub-Saharan Africa hardest
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16 Million Refugees in 2008
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Half Refugees in 6 countries/regions
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26 Million Internally Displaced Persons
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Half IDPs in 6 regions
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42 Million Displaced by war in 2008

• Do you believe war breeds dislocation, anger,
  poverty, ignorance, hatred, and terrorists?
• If so, what teams are you sending to heal the
  wounds of refugees, IDPs, and those angered and
  hungry?

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Fewer friends more help?

• From 1999 to 2006 Americas favorable opinion has
  fallen in
• Canada 71 - 59
• Britain 83 - 55
• Germany 78 - 41
• Indonesia 75 - 38
• Pakistan 23 - 23 Zagby Poll

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This morning, I didnt eat. Im hungry.Marin
IJ 8-27-06

• Children as young as 4 work six and seven days a
  week in quarries near Lusaka, Zambia, breaking
  stones into gravel sold at roadside stalls. ..
  Lacking a hammer, he uses a thick steel bolt
  gripped in his right hand.
• In a good week, he can make enough powder to fill
  half a bag. His grandmother, Mary Mulelema, sells
  each bag, to be used to make concrete, for 10,000
  kwacha, less than 3. Often, she said, it is the
  difference between eating and going hungry.

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By the United Nations latest estimate,

• more than 49 million sub-Saharan children age 14
  and younger worked in 2004, 1.3 million more than
  at the turn of the century just four years earlier

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• Children as young as 4 work six and seven days a
  week in quarries near Lusaka, Zambia, breaking
  stones into gravel sold at roadside stalls. ..
  Lacking a hammer, he uses a thick steel bolt
  gripped in his right hand.
• In a good week, he says, he can make enough
  powder to fill half a bag. His grandmother, Mary
  Mulelema, sells each bag, to be used to make
  concrete, for 10,000 kwacha, less than 3. Often,
  she said, it is the difference between eating and
  going hungry.

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China cultivates Africa We spend on war

• China has waived about 1.4 billion of debt owed
  by 31 heavily indebted African countries.
• China owns 321 Billion of our debt
• US Debt 8.5 trillion, 2trillion owned by
  foreigners
• About one 2 Billion week of Iraq War feeds
  Africa for a year

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African leaders see China

• as a new kind of global partner that has lots of
  money but treats them as equals, said Wenran
  Jiang, a political scientist at the University of
  Alberta who has studied Chinese-African ties.
  Chinese leaders see Africa, in a strategic
  sense, as up for grabs.
• Chinas enthusiasm for Africa has raised concerns
  among many in the West while the United States is
  distracted by its efforts to curb terrorism, and
  France, Britain and other former colonial powers
  exert less influence in Africa than they once did.

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PEW Poll 2006

• 72 of US Soldiers In Iraq Think US Should Pull
  Out Within A Year.

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AWOL (American Way Of Life)Each American soldier
16 gallons/day

• Each American soldier fighting in Iraq and
  Afghanistan to protect the American Way Of Life
  (AWOL) is using 16 gallons of oil per day.
• Half the oil goes to the Air Force alone, 85 as
  jet fuel burned up just to move more fuel,
  soldiers, and supplies to the hundreds of bases
  and military ventures overseas.

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Initial public offerings Infrastructure

• In 2000, the United States had 50 of the total
  valuation of all global initial public offerings
  (IPOs), while in 2005, United States had only 5.
• Finally, according to the American Society of
  Civil Engineers the current condition of our
  nations major infrastructure systems earns a
  grade of D.

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while a third of humanity lives in fear and
poverty.

• The critical reality of our times is that we live
  in an increasingly interconnected community of 6
  1/2 billion people drawn together by a
  complicated and powerful global economy that
  rewards many but has left out a significant
  number. The world cannot sustain this vast
  productive machine while a third of humanity
  lives in fear and poverty. Therefore, the

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who will continue to be the main cause of
instability and insecurity.

• Therefore, the greatest task that we face as a
  global community in the 21st century is somehow
  making a place for 2 1/2 billion people who have
  been left behind by the advances of the last
  half-century. It is those wretched of the earth
  who are and who will continue to be the main
  cause of instability and insecurity.

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have to focus on them

• We can't fix their problem in the next year or
  the next five years but we're going to have to
  focus on them not only because we owe it to our
  fellow humans, but because it is essential for
  our security as Americans. Addressing the
  despair, hunger, poverty, and injustice that
  breed violence and unrest can be the centerpiece
  for a new global policy.

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UNESCO Says The World Faces An 18 Million Teacher
Shortfall In Coming Decade

• The world will need 18 million new teachers in
  the coming decade in order to meet demand
  worldwide for primary education, with sub-Saharan
  Africa facing the greatest challenge, to boost
  its teacher force by 68 per cent, United Nations
  officials said today

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How do we overcome poverty, AIDS, hatred,
ignorance, warfare

• Annually field peaceful, productive teams of one
  million Americans for 20 consecutive years
• Kindness beget kindness and the inverse is also
  true.. American Hiroshima

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And AWSC works at home on Katrina and other
disasters..
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Build the robust, can-do AWSC teams and
volunteers will come
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Marin high-schoolers doing post Katrina service

• .. It looks like a Third World country.
• I had no idea it was that bad

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Post Katrina cleanup an inspirational task

• Part of New Orleans is not very wealthy and
  these houses are pretty much the only things some
  of the families had and theyre just gone. It
  looks like a Third World country. It was
  complete devastation and I did not know that.
  The media havent really displayed that side of
  the story. I had no idea it was that bad.

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Looking for the Will Beyond the Battlefield

• And thats the essence. The other side considers
  it a privilege to fight and die for its beliefs.
  Those on the other side cannot wait to line up to
  blow themselves up for their vision of heaven. On
  our side, its Let the other poor sap do it.
  Ive got to make money. How can we fight this
  fight with the brightest and best educated
  rushing off and working night and day to do
  private equity deals and derivatives trading? How
  can we fight this fight with the ruling class
  absent by its own sweet leave?
• Ben Stein, former advisor to Pres. Nixon

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• Now, whos fighting for us in the fight of our
  lives? Brave, idealistic Southerners. Hispanics
  from New Mexico. Rural men and women from upstate
  New York. Small-town boys and girls from the
  Midwest. Do the children of the powers on Wall
  Street resign to go off and fight? Fight for the
  system that made them rich? Fight for the way of
  life that made them princes? Surely, you jest.

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• Todays battles are for hearts and minds.
• A strategy with too much collateral damage will
  not win hearts and minds.
• The AWSC wins hearts and minds.

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Ed Koupal. Peoples Lobbys Co-Founder

• This country runs on laws. If you want to
  change the country, write its laws.
• Final authority rests with the people.
  Therefore, never is final authority delegated.

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Final authority rests with the people.
Therefore, never is final authority delegated.
Ed Joyce Koupal
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People can and should lead it is what Americas
reputation is founded on

• We the People of the United States, in Order to
  form a more perfect Union, establish Justice,
  insure domestic tanquility, provide for the
  common defence, promote the general welfare, and
  secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and
  our posterity, do ordain and establish this
  Constitution for the United States of America.

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Implementing the American World Service Corps
Congressional Proposals sending

• care for the world

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Help PLI and PLEF establish critically needed law

• Sign the on-line Petition.
• Provide speaking opportunities.
• Contact your elected representatives.
• Spread the world.
• Volunteer time talents.
• Donate. www.WorldServiceCorps.us
• www.PeoplesLobby.us

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Help pass PLIs citizen-initiated AWSC
legislation that builds the teams the 21st
century needs

• www.WorldServiceCorps.us
• www.PeoplesLobby.us

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Help educate spread the word

• Purchase for a nominal donation from Peoples
  Lobby (501c4) or Peoples Lobbys Education
  Foundation (501c3).
• Use to educate and advocate for passage of PLIs
  American World Service Corps Congressional
  Proposals.
• Contact 415-383-7880
• www.peopleslobby.us

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• Thank Congresswoman Woolsey for offering to
  introduce PLIs already written AWSC
  Congressional Proposals in the 111th Congress.
  (2009-11)
• Encourage Senators Feinstein and Boxer to do the
  same in the Senate.

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Does too much of this?
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And too much of this?
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And too much of this?
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Lead to too much of
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And too much
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And too much
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Because we dont do enough..
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That builds more than walls
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Gold Star Service afterwards who cares?

• Patrick Mom Nadia McCafffrey

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Too many

• Gold Star Moms.
• Dying soldiers.
• Troubled soldiers returning.

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Too many

• Vets suffering debilitating physical and mental
  disabilities.
• Too Few
• Solutions and alternatives.

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Patrick McCaffrey He loved children
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Mom, Dad I have to serve. I have to do
something. Patrick
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• I have two children and a wife, so I want to
  serve but not leave the country

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The National Guardsman went to serve
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He returned home
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• He was a natural leader with his care for his
  fellow soldiers and the way others would look up
  to him for advice He provided care for the
  other soldiers constantly.

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• When a Combat Life Saver was called he was
  always one of the first, if not the first to
  respond . SGT McCaffrey was a hard charger and
  very proactive
• . He was more than just a friend to many of the
  soldiers, he was a brother.    
• Chris Murphy, brother fellow soldier       

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Some of his friends returned with other hidden
wounds

• Friend Steven Edwards

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Iraq Vets need more than words

• Iraq war vets fight an enemy at home,Experts say
  up to 30 may need psychiatric care
• SF Chronicle
• Monday, January 17, 2005

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Mission of Patrick McCaffreys Foundation

• is to promote mental and holistic wellness and
  palliative care among veterans returning from the
  war in Iraq and Afghanistan, especially those
  suffering from post traumatic stress disorder
  (PTSD), by providing a live-in retreat village,
  wherein with the help of trained professional
  staff and volunteers, veterans will find inner
  healing and an eventual re-entry into society.

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Short term solution Vet Centers that clear the
memories

• Build support for and pass the PLIs
  citizen-initiated congressional proposals that
  would create Gold Star Moms Retreat Centers for
  War Ravaged Soldiers.

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Establish a series of regional readjustment
centers

• Dealing with some memories.
• Easing post traumatic stress syndrome.
• Reducing lingering physical and mental issues.
• Preparing soldiers for a more productive future

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How did this war and its aftereffects happen?

• We too often enter the world unaware of its
  present needs, dangers, cultures.
• Myopic entries into the world do not build
  domestic and world-wide stability..

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General Zinnis Foxhole View of World

• Our current war in Iraq may be turning into a
  repetition of Vietnam. The military out there
  goes from operation to operation our leaders in
  Washington assure us we are powering ahead
  success to success yet our young nineteen or
  twenty-year-old soldiers are now asking hard
  questions I can win any battle. But am I
  winning the war? Battle for Peace

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Downward Spiral or Build Stability

• When institutions that provide for stability
  (government, economic, social, religious) cant
  bear up under those pressures when the
  institutions are destroyed, collapse or break
  down then the standards, rules, systems those
  institutions enforced and promoted disappear.
  Order collapses, disorder and stability increase
  and if nothing is done to halt the downward
  spiral , anarchy and chaos will result. General
  Anthony Zinni

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Alternatives Considered

• Continue entering the global village with little
  vision and without a plan to build world
  stability.

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A long term solution Enter smartly

• Smartly enter the world with can-do Americans who
  know how and want to build stability.

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Destroy and Suffer or Build, House,
Educate
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Solution Implement visionary law

• For todays need, develop and pass Patrick
  McCaffreys) Veterans Centers for Health
  Welfare Congressional Proposals.
• Address Vets mental psychological needs.
• Help make our Vets have productive tomorrows.
• To save tomorrow, pass the American World
  Service Corps Congressional Proposals.
• Attack poverty and ignorance.
• Reduce terrorist recruitment.
• Make life safer for young, older, and soldiers.

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Educate, campaign for the citizen-initiated
legislation that

• Builds Veterans Recovery Centers
• Sends the American World Service Corps

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Educate, Campaign for the citizen-initiated
legislation that

• Builds
• Veterans
• Recovery
• Centers

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Patrick McCaffreys Centers

• Building much of their own center will be part
  of the veterans therapy.

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Growing from serving those who have served

• Veterans Villages.
• Where AWSC volunteers could also help in the
  building of centers and in working in them to
  help vets prepare for the needs of American life.

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Patrick McCaffreys Wellness Center

• All the care that will be given to the Veterans
  will be palliative care, therapy care,
  monitoring, and care. Thats what we have to
  have and thats what we will offer to build self
  confidence, self power, understanding and renewed
  growth.
• .

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To deal with the mess we have laid upon todays
soldiers

• For the short term.
• Pass the citizen-initiated legislation that will
  establish Veterans Restorative Retreat Centers
  (Veterans Villages)

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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES AND SENATEA
PROPOSED BILL

• SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
• This Act may be cited as the Veteran Centers
  for Health and Welfare Act of 2006.
• SEC. 2 STATEMENT OF PURPOSE.
• This Act is to give our veterans, particularly
  those exposed to combat or the combat environment
  or experience, quality assistance in dealing with
  the mental, psychological, and hidden traumas
  that too often come with putting our solders into
  or near harms way

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To honor those families like Patricks..

• And those brothers and sisters who returned with
  troubles

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Its not the same mommy who left

• For Johnson, treatment at Walter Reed made things
  better, with group sessions, art therapy and
  combat-stress counseling. "You're in there with
  other people who are going through the same
  things," she said, "and you kind of feel like,
  'Okay, now I don't feel crazy.' "

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Iraq war first hard look at womens level of
combat PTSD

• Johnson received a Purple Heart for hearing loss
  in her left ear but stayed in Iraq for several
  months
• I just get scared that Ill be one of those
  homeless people that you see holding signs
  because Ive lost my mind.
• Trinette Johnson

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To avoid future dumb policies and resultant wars

• Pass the PLIs American World Service Corp
  Congressional Proposals. www.WorldServiceCorps.us
  
• So for the long-term America will have enough
  citizens experienced with the world and our
  nations needs to avoid unnecessary future wars.

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What does Patrick Tillmans mother believe about
his death in Afghanistan?
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Educate, Campaign for the citizen-initiated
legislation that

• Sends the American World Service Corps

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To avoid unnecessarily placing soldiers in messes
tomorrow

• Lift the worldHave a million Americans a year
  voluntarily serve nation and world via passing
  PLIs citizen- initiated American World Service
  Corps congressional proposals.

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Caring, teaching, building, recycling... makes
friends, erases wars horrors...
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES AND SENATEA
PROPOSED BILL

• SECTION 1. SHORT TITLEThis Act may be cited as
  the World Service Corps ActTwo Year
  Volunteering
• SEC. 2. STATEMENT OF PURPOSE.
• It is the purpose of this Act to enhance
  prospects for world peace. The Act does so by
  promoting understanding, addressing human,
  resource, and developmental needs, and responding
  to disasters by building a World Service Corps
  that annually deploys a million peaceful,
  productive American at home and abroad.
  Americans consistently prove themselves in
  serving their country, addressing world needs,
  and helping neighbors near and far grow and
  prosper.

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AWSC Financial inducements

• Financial inducements. Two years of service
  will be required of volunteers in order for those
  volunteers to qualify for the federal government
  financing two years of community college or
  equivalent vocational training
• Those who have moved beyond the need for tuition
  payments may invest their post-service grants
  into
• IRA and or Medical Health Savings accounts and
• Transfer their educational, Medical, or IRA
  Account grants to friends and relatives of their
  choice.
• Federally registered non-profit foundations that
  will use the donated grants to provide
  scholarships to address low and moderate-income
  students educational needs.

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COST. -- The cost of operation of the United
States WSC will be funded through

• Traditional budgetary appropriations.
• Donations by the richest 1 of taxpayers. --
  Over the last 30 years, the wealth of Americas
  richest taxpayers has increased
  disproportionately as compared to the stagnated
  and declining wealth increase among Americas low
  and middle classes .. Consequently, a WSC public
  web site will use the The Forbes list of richest
  Americans who have benefited most from the human
  and physical infrastructure will be listed at the
  WSC web site. Those who live in luxury bestowed
  in large part by the skill and education of all
  Americans will be asked at the web site, What
  have you contributed lately to help make the
  world safer for todays children?

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COST. -- The cost of operation of the United
States WSC will be funded through

• Donations by certain low tax paying
  corporations. -- A large number of Fortune 500
  corporations annually pay little or no taxes,
  according to such organizations as Citizens for
  Tax Justice (CTJ) and the Institute on Taxation
  and Economic Policy (ITEP). These Fortune 500
  corporations would be asked to donate funds to
  the WSC to make the world safer for all of us
  The (AWSC web) site will remind them, including
  their stockholders that by doing good, companies
  can do well. These donations would be listed
  alongside their researched effective corporate
  tax rates and tax payments.

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How to win and change the life losing culture

• Gain signatures and resolutions of support for
  each congressional proposal.
• Publicize, educate, spread the word.
• Get candidates, especially congressional
  candidates, to support and campaign on these
  issues.
• Set November 06 and February 07 goals of electing
  50 cosponsors.

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Time Table November 06 and February 07

• Build support among congressional candidates.
• Encourage them to support Vets Readjustment
  Centers and American World Service Corps
  congressional proposals.
• Elect supporters. Have 50 cosponsors supporting
  each proposal.
• Pass them early in the next Congress and start
  building stability at home and abroad.

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If you want to change the change the country,
write its laws Ed Koupal, PLI Founder

• Our public policy becomes smarter.
• Poverty, climate change, needs are addressed.
• Our soldiers are less often placed in harms way.

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For today and tomorrow
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Spread the word

• Purchase for a nominal donation and use in group,
  teaching, organizing sessions
• Contact Patrick McCaffreys Foundation
• 209-814-7182 or
• Peoples Lobby or Peoples Lobbys Education
  Foundation 415-383-7880