June 3, 2002 - Why PC needs a 4th Goal - The PC Fund - Amerisnitch

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Attend the COS Flag Procession in DC on June 23RPCVs start the Peace Corps Fund
Why the Peace Corps needs a Fourth GoalDirector Vasquez meets with RPCVs
Draft Peace Corps Legislation available for commentInterview with Sam Farr on new Peace Corps legislation
The Case for Peace Corps IndependencePeace Corps returns to Peru after 27 years
The Peace Corps and Homeland SecurityPeace Corps Expansion:  The Numbers Game?
RPCV Congressmen support Peace Corps' autonomyThe NPCA's New Mandate
When should the Peace Corps return to Afghanistan?Bush and JFK
RPCV Character on new Fox SitcomPeace Corps Cartoons


Peace Corps Online - June, 2002


Welcome to Peace Corps Online - June 4, 2002

A summary of Peace Corps News and Issues from around the world.

Also available at:

http://PeaceCorpsOnline.org/messages/messages/2629/7075.html?1017729842


- - - - - - - - - - - - - - I. FEATURE STORIES - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

...........A. WHY THE PEACE CORPS NEEDS A FOURTH GOAL

Sargent Shriver first articulated a new fourth goal for the Peace Corps in
his speech at Yale University last year. Congressman Sam Farr has
included the fourth goal in the new Peace Corps legislation he and Senator
Dodd will soon be introducing in Congress. Now read an op-ed piece by
Ethiopia-Eritrea RPCV John Rude written exclusively for PCOL on why
the Peace Corps needs the Fourth Goal and what it will mean for the
Peace Corps at:

http://PeaceCorpsOnline.org/messages/messages/2629/1008052.html?1022971160


...........B. COME TO THE MARCH TO ARLINGTON CEMETERY

Last year after the Peace Corps 40th was cancelled, the Peace Vigil was
still held at Lincoln Memorial on September 23 which PCOL attended and
reported on at:

http://PeaceCorpsOnline.org/messages/messages/2629/5534.html

This year many volunteers have contacted us about the NPCA's 40th plus
one and asked how they can participate in the program without having to
pay for the entire 40th plus one program.

The best way is to come to the Returned Volunteers Country of Service
Flag Procession from Lincoln Memorial to Arlington Cemetery on Sunday
morning, June 23 and then attend the Closing Ceremony at the Amphitheatre
at Arlington Cemetery. There will be no charge to participate in this event
and we expect many thousands of volunteers will attend. Don't miss this
event because it will not be held again for many years and it may be the
last chance to meet and to honor some of the Charter Volunteers and
Staff who started the Peace Corps forty years ago. Get details on the
Flag Procession to Arlington Cemetery and the Closing Ceremonies at:

http://PeaceCorpsOnline.org/messages/messages/2629/1008066.html?1022976585


...........C. THE PEACE CORPS FUND

Morocco RPCV Barbara Ferris and Ethiopia RPCV John Coyne were two
of the strongest advocates against the nomination of Gaddi Vasquez
as Peace Corps Director. Now these two founding members of the
"Committee for the Future of the Peace Corps" have formed "The Peace
Corps Fund" to provide grants to help promote RPCV efforts to advance
the third goal of the Peace Corps. Read more about the Peace Corps
Fund at:

http://PeaceCorpsOnline.org/messages/messages/2629/1008060.html?1022973880


...........D. AMERISNITCH

With President Bush's Executive Order, the Peace Corps was brought under
the umbrella of the USA Freedom Corps with a number of other volunteer
programs . Among them is TIP, the Terrorist Information and Prevention
System, whose mission is to "report suspicious activity." Learn more about
this "sister" program to the Peace Corps, how it will help Americans
"identify terrorist activity in their neighborhoods" and tell us what you
think at:

http://PeaceCorpsOnline.org/messages/messages/2629/1008055.html?1022971444


...........E. PEACE CORPS CARTOONS

Last month we put up our Peace Corps Cartoon called "Culture Shock"
and asked our readers to come up with the funniest caption. See what
RPCVs wrote and compare it to the original caption. Then, take a look at
our cartoon for this month - "Visit to a PCV in the field" - and come up with
your own caption for it.

http://PeaceCorpsOnline.org/messages/messages/2629/1007685.html


- - - - - - - - - - - - - - II. PEACE CORPS NEWS IN BRIEF - - - - - - - - - - - - -


...........A. PEACE CORPS OPENS PROGRAM IN EAST TIMOR

Read this story on the opening of East Timor to the Peace Corps. The first
twenty volunteers are currently serving in the Peace Corps and were selected
to transfer to East Timor in mid-June. Congratulations to the Peace Corps
on opening a program in the world's newest country. Read the story at:

http://PeaceCorpsOnline.org/messages/messages/2629/1008022.html?1022693340


...........B. RPCV JASON CARTER WRITES BOOK ON SOUTH AFRICA

Read and article about Presidential Grandson Jason Carter's book about
his years in South Africa and the effort to repair some of the damage
done by former president F.W. de Klerk's apartheid regime, by helping
to educate the region's black residents.

http://PeaceCorpsOnline.org/messages/messages/2629/1008031.html?1022693596


...........C. AFRICAN VOLUNTEERS TO COMBAT AIDS IN THEIR OWN COMMUNITIES

Read about a creative initiative to support HIV/AIDS prevention-and-care
efforts by African volunteers, for the communities in which they live,
at the grassroots level in Africa. Africare was founded by RPCVs including
C. Payne Lucas, winner of the Peace Corps' Prestigious Franklin H.
Williams Award honoring Community Service Leaders Nationwide.

http://PeaceCorpsOnline.org/messages/messages/2629/1008007.html?1022692699


...........D. EMAIL CIRCULATES TO RPCV LEADERS ON NEW PC LEGISLATION

David Hibbard is an RPCV who served in Nigeria and is one of the authors
of the "New Mandate" white paper which PCOL previously reported on at:

http://PeaceCorpsOnline.org/messages/messages/2629/6999.html?1013038622

Read the email which he and Roger Landrum have sent to RPCV Group Leaders
in the NPCA asking for names and signatures of RPCVs and groups who
endorse the legislation. A new version of the bill is expected in
early June.

http://PeaceCorpsOnline.org/messages/messages/2629/1008113.html?1023123149


...........E. VASQUEZ INTERVIEWED ON THE ROLE OF PC IN THE WAR ON TERRORISM

Orange County Congressman Chris Cox interviewed Director Vasquez and
talked about the mission of the Peace Corps, its role in the war against
terrorism, the plan to double the number of Peace Corps volunteers over
the next five years and how to become a volunteer.

http://PeaceCorpsOnline.org/messages/messages/2629/1008025.html?1022693436


...........F. RPCV JOINS ARMY TO SHARE EXPERTISE ON CENTRAL ASIA

Read about RPCV Mongolia Nathan Burnore who is now in his first week
of basic military training at Fort Sill, Okla. because he believes his interest
and expertise in Central Asia could be of value to his country.

http://PeaceCorpsOnline.org/messages/messages/2629/1008033.html?1022693777


...........G. THE TWO-AND-A-HALF YEAR RULE AT THE PEACE CORPS

Charlie Peter's writes in the Washington Monthly about the two and a half
year rule he saw applied at the Peace Corps when he was head of the
Evaluation Division in the 1960's.

http://PeaceCorpsOnline.org/messages/messages/2629/1008072.html?1022977609


...........H. SARGENT SHRIVER SPEAKS ON SPECIAL OLYMPICS IN CHINA

PCOL was at the Press Conference in which Founding Director Sargent
Shriver spoke about the announcement that the Special Olympics will be
holding their 2007 games in Shanghai. See a recent photo of Sarge and
read the story at:

http://PeaceCorpsOnline.org/messages/messages/2629/1008019.html?1022693231


...........I. DIRECTOR VASQUEZ VISITS CHICAGO

A story from the Chicago Tribune on Director Vasquez's recent trip to Chicago.

http://PeaceCorpsOnline.org/messages/messages/2629/1008010.html?1022692811


...........J. FORMER DIRECTOR CELESTE NEW PRESIDENT OF COLORADO COLLEGE

Former Peace Corps Director Richard Celeste, 64, becomes President of
Colorado College.

http://PeaceCorpsOnline.org/messages/messages/2629/1008002.html?1022691984


...........K. SINGING ON THE HEAVY SIDE OF THE WORLD

An excerpt from RPCV John Deever's new book on his service in the Peace
Corps in the Ukraine.

http://PeaceCorpsOnline.org/messages/messages/2629/1008073.html?1022977629


...........L. RPCV HELPS NEPAL STUDENTS MAKE LINK

Students at Quabbin Regional High School students were encouraged
by RPCV Peter King who came up with the idea to begin e-mail correspondence
with students from the secondary school in Nepal.

http://PeaceCorpsOnline.org/messages/messages/2629/1007996.html?1022691818


- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - III. SECOND LOOK - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

There have been many posts by RPCVs in the last month commenting
on previous stories PCOL has posted. Be sure and take a look at what
RPCVs had to say about the following stories:


...........A. RPCVS ANALYZE PROPOSED PC LEGISLATION

Read the draft legislation, read our interview with Sam Farr where we raise
the questions that have been posted on our Message Boards, and read
our op-ed pieces by RPCVs commenting on the legislation. This is a
must-read for anyone interested in the future of the Peace Corps. You
won't get this reporting or analysis on Peace Corps issues anywhere
else.

http://PeaceCorpsOnline.org/messages/messages/2629/1007930.html?1021931934


...........B. THE CASE FOR PEACE CORPS INDEPENDENCE

"For Peace Corps veterans the Bush administration's plan to consolidate
several volunteer programs into a new office of volunteer activity named
the USA Freedom Corps calls to mind the well-worn responses of 'been there,
done that,' and 'deja vu all over again'" writes former Peace Corps
Deputy Director David Searles in this exclusive op-ed piece on previous
attempts to merge the Peace Corps at:

ttp://208.234.30.110/messages/messages/2629/1007873.html?1021326408


- - - - - - - - - - - - - - IV. REGULAR FEATURES - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

Peace Corps Online presents it's regular news sections with what is going on
with: This Month's Features, Breaking News, Special Reports, the Archive of
Recent Headlines, RPCV News, Service, the RPCV Directory, Speaking Out,
Peace Corps News, The Third Goal, Advocacy and the Sign up for our Directory at:

http://PeaceCorpsOnline.org/messages/messages/board-topics.html

We are always looking for Returned Volunteers who have something to
say. If you would like to contribute an article about the Peace Corps,
a visit to your Country of Service, work your group is doing, an op-ed piece,
a cartoon, or a story, please contact us at:

http://PeaceCorpsOnline.org/messages/messages/475/6127.html?1007409912


- - - - - - - - - - - - - - V. INFORMATION ABOUT PCOL - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

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