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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 OpEd News Member for 883 week(s) and 0 day(s) 91 Articles, 0 Quick Links, 143 Comments, 3 Diaries, 15 Series, 3 Polls
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Saturday, August 31, 2013The warring army that would make MLK smile & build his "Dream" MLK inspired the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, believing that jobs and peaceful service would bring out and build the best in national character. If we could rebuild our flagging American character and economy by cost-effectively expanding peacefully working platoons we already have deployed, why do we hesitate in expanding them to more quickly build Dr. King's Dream? Series: Goodwill hunting (30 Articles, 54264 views), PLAYERS (24 Articles, 29545 views) 
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Wednesday, July 3, 2013Professor Tzu on JFK, GW, BD, PCVs, and How Ugly Americans Are Remolding AMC Should more serve? Is a peaceful volunteer army needed to combat climate change & growing hatreds? Does America & the world need more development teams that do good? "Labor is the superior of capital,& deserves much the higher consideration." ~ Abe Lincoln. What would Abe say today with who runs the country? Can a million-strong American World Service Corps help win America back for the doers and away from the plutocrats? Series: Goodwill hunting (30 Articles, 54264 views), PLAYERS (24 Articles, 29545 views) 
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Monday, May 13, 2013Will Colbert Nation save the galaxy? Christ marshaled apostles to venture the world to do good, sans guns. Why don't we follow in his sandles? Who can build that peaceful clan of do-gooders? Only someone who can preach to the world. Is Stephen ready to lead the Colbert Nation to a better world? Ask him what he's doing about this letter that crossed his pixels a couple days ago. More info from our monks at the worldservicecorps . us web site. Series: Movies and more (13 Articles, 23127 views), PLAYERS (24 Articles, 29545 views) 
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Wednesday, March 13, 2013What will Hagel's experiences lead to? What do you know about Chuck Hagel? He has more real big guns to play with than anyone in the history of the world. And he has played with guns. And the Republicans don't like him, although he is one of their own. And he will have a great influence of the lives of today's sons, daughters, grandkids, your economy, and the state of the world. So, read him in his own words. Series: PLAYERS (24 Articles, 29545 views) 
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Wednesday, January 16, 2013Zero Dark 30 in the toilet While buying a ticket to view how dark the world was becoming, the movie house manager told a half dozen anxious teenagers trying to buy a ticket to 0 Dark 30, "You need an adult with you," causing them to text someone. Were they like most of us at that invincible age, yearning to see how they too could be buffed-up, high tech heroes? Before it was too dark, would they learn there were other, smarter ways to be heroes? Series: Movies and more (13 Articles, 23127 views) 
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Monday, December 24, 2012Haiti Habitat Carter Build, Precursor of... Will a new Congress have enough vision to address world needs with a peaceful, cost effective army that helps everyone get along and live better? We need to build the ranks of Habitats, Peace Corps, CCC's, etc., to deal with the future, which is what People's Lobby's American World Service Corps Congressional Proposal does. Learn more and help make it happen. Series: Angry Mother Nature (8 Articles, 10823 views), Goodwill hunting (30 Articles, 54264 views) 
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Saturday, November 17, 2012Last minute graphic blitz that turned Ohio around Graphically speaking, are these pictures why Ohio and other Blue States, who provide revenue to the Red States, choose to leave billionaire tv ad campaigns on the fabricated editing room floor and vote to change the enclosed pictures in the real world? Series: TaxEnomics 101 and more (7 Articles, 12860 views) 
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Tuesday, August 21, 2012What's MPC & MPS got to do with me? Understanding MPC & MPS is essential to understanding "What's the Matter With Kansas"" and America. And more Americans need to know how their MPC & MPS is being manipulated, so they can fix what's wrong. Series: TaxEnomics 101 and more (7 Articles, 12860 views) 
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Thursday, July 19, 2012Threshing "tef" in Ethiopia Where are you from? What color was your sperm or ovum? Why did you get the lottery ticket that allows you to read this on the internet? What makes a Bible preaching, chest thumping American so much better than the rest of the world? Didn't many of our ancestors come here as part of the world's discarded riff-raff? "Can't we all just get along?" Does it take a village? Aren't we zygotes from the same village? Series: Goodwill hunting (30 Articles, 54264 views)
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Sunday, April 29, 2012Commuting for American priests & Ethiopian Security As phony & stupid wars bleed economic and human needs worldwide, Americans increasingly hear & vent about race, religion, fear, & one-upsmanship that ballyhoos America as #1, as well as morally superior. Travel that puts dirt under fingernails might help Americans see a more meaningful world and how a nation once blessed with being #1 should react in it, which implementing People's Lobby's AWSC could do. Series: Goodwill hunting (30 Articles, 54264 views) 
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Monday, January 30, 2012State of Our Job Seeking Union: Shrinking our military and employing a new, more needed army. The AWSC Congressional Proposal is a robust 1)Jobs 2)Learning & serving 3)Terrorist erasing 4) Hearts & mind winning 5) Hard to corrupt 6) Cost effective 7)Clean & simple 8)Needed program that, with America's leadership, could drive other nations to build similar peaceful, productive service corps that would in time erase the stupid mentality that keeps waging wars and replace it with one that learns and builds. Series: Goodwill hunting (30 Articles, 54264 views)
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Sunday, January 8, 2012An army of volunteers for peace With 7 billion people stumbling into a resource, climate, and economically challenged 21st century, this updated OpEd is a relevant today as it was when an earlier version appeared in the Marin IJ in January of 2003 calling for a different kind of army to augment our military. Series: Angry Mother Nature (8 Articles, 10823 views), Goodwill hunting (30 Articles, 54264 views)
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Thursday, December 29, 2011Happy Days? Sending a battalion of plumbers... Appreciate what you have and make it and you grow. An exceptional nation grows from expanding the special deeds making ability of its people, which then grows a more involved, smarter, and bigger middle class at home and abroad. It's just what America, and most nations need, amidst today's blabbering-media, post-bubble, trickle-down societies. Series: Options:1) Blow-up 2) Build-up (10 Articles, 13833 views) 
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Sunday, October 9, 2011Needed: Robust 21st Century Jobs Corps that smartens - AWSC We need a jobs program that keeps us out of wars, builds worldwide community, begins making up for the lost opportunities of spending $5.5 trillion in Iraq and Afghanistan, and extends the Fourth Turning. American World Service Corps Congressional Proposal (AWSC) does that. Sign this NEW FRESH White House petition (at WhiteHouse.gov) to have the White House seriously consider implementing People's Lobby's AWSC. Series: Options:1) Blow-up 2) Build-up (10 Articles, 13833 views) 
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Wednesday, September 7, 2011"This is BS..." Trumped-up war, deaths, PTSD, foreclosures... Our active military, National Guard, their parents" pay steep prices for marching us into trumped-up wars. Then too many of their loved ones suffer more with foreclosures, while the uber-rich merely party-on. What's wrong here in America? Is this the kind of country you want to step forward for? Do we need to add another kind of army? One that learns skills, wins hearts and minds, and understands the real world. Series: Gold Star Moms (5 Articles, 10381 views) 
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Tuesday, July 5, 2011Fighting Too Many High-Stepping, Booted Soldiers If Jesus lived as a human to show us "The Way", why don't we emulate and support Christian actions and besmirch the hypocritical stuff that parades as "Christian" done by humans today? Series: Gold Star Moms (5 Articles, 10381 views) 
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Tuesday, May 31, 2011Training Americans for -- or out of -- Dr. Ellsberg's Doomsday Scenario "If you keep doing things in the same dastardly way, bastardly results will keep piling up." It's time to build a 21st century army that makes Doomsday less probable and earthly time in between more bearable. Series: Movies and more (13 Articles, 23127 views), PLAYERS (24 Articles, 29545 views) 
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Thursday, March 3, 2011Could Jesus make it on $1.9m per day? You can send your taxable 2 cents to Congress and learn more about People's Lobby's Fair Tax Bracket Reinstitution Act by visiting a http://www.peopleslobby. You can also learn about People's Lobby's Ordinary People Doing the Extraordinary, which Nader put on his Top Ten Books to Read list for 2009, as well as Dwayne's second public policy book. Series: PLAYERS (24 Articles, 29545 views), TaxEnomics 101 and more (7 Articles, 12860 views) 
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Thursday, December 9, 2010Raping Taxpayers for 50+ years - and it's becoming easier This is a taxing piece about the economic warfare between and among the Morgans, Buffets, and the rest of us. "If the government cannot collect its taxes, a man is a fool to pay them." J. Pierpont Morgan. "There's class warfare, all right, but it's my class, the rich class, that's making war, and we're winning." Warren Buffett. And it has a lot to do with hypnotizing uninvovled Americans into buying Voodoo Economics. Series: TaxEnomics 101 and more (7 Articles, 12860 views) 
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Thursday, November 18, 2010Growing Habitat, AmeriCorps, etc. for today and tomorrows' New Orleans Habitat does wonderful work. AmeriCorps provides great workers learning from and doing needed service. Making such organizations bigger and better makes America smarter and stronger. This piece, based on doing some 2010 New Orleans Habitat work, is intended to help improve both Habitat and AmeriCorps, tying its lessons into the need to implement People's Lobby's American World Service Corps (AWSC) Congressional Proposals. Series: Angry Mother Nature (8 Articles, 10823 views), Options:1) Blow-up 2) Build-up (10 Articles, 13833 views) |
