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2008.08.25: August 25, 2008: Headlines: Figures: COS - India: NGO's: Sierra Club: Environment: RPCV Groups: Reporter Herald: 150 RPCVs attend Peace Corps reunion in Fort Collins where Sierra Club leader Carl Pope is keynote speaker
150 RPCVs attend Peace Corps reunion in Fort Collins where Sierra Club leader Carl Pope is keynote speaker
He also told the Peace Corps volunteers that they should mentor younger generations, who have “incredible potential” and who will “face a more challenging world than we did.” The reunion, which was sponsored by Beet Street, the Fort Collins Downtown Development Authority’s arts and culture initiative, featured a photo exhibition, concerts and speakers. There were about 150 former Peace Corps volunteers who attended the entire weekend event, and others who came and went, said Allyn Harvey, event spokesman. Sierra Club President Carl Pope served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in India in the 1960's.
150 RPCVs attend Peace Corps reunion in Fort Collins where Sierra Club leader Carl Pope is keynote speaker
Sierra Club leader Carl Pope speaks at Peace Corps reunion in Fort Collins
By Marisa Beahm
Loveland Reporter-Herald
FORT COLLINS — America’s global dominance is fading, said the Sierra Club’s executive during a visit to Colorado on Sunday.
Carl Pope, who has been a Sierra Club leader since 1992, was the keynote speaker for a weekend-long Peace Corps reunion in Fort Collins.
His speech, titled “America’s Role in a Post-American World,” addressed what he sees as America’s shrinking power as more countries become developed.
“It doesn’t mean we are going away; we’re just not running the show,” said Pope, who was a Peace Corps volunteer in India in the late 1960s.
He spoke to an audience composed of former Peace Corps volunteers and community members at the Northside Aztlan Community Center, 114 E. Willow St.
Pope said the problem with the United States is, “We’ve treated globalization as an opportunity to make us an all-or-nothing society, rather than a we’re-all-in-this-together society.”
Globalization has unpopular connotations in America, such as illegal immigration and outsourced jobs.
Also, free-trade agreements have made people in blue-collar and human-service sectors feel like they don’t matter, he said.
“Two-thirds of Americans don’t think global engagement is a benefit to them,” Pope said.
Countries that are gaining ground through globalization are those that have more social cohesion, Pope said.
The United States is at risk of becoming a third-rate power unless people invest in social commons, such as education, that benefit everyone, Pope said.
Also, America must make sure that it has real markets, where people pay for what they take, own what they sell and choose what they buy, Pope added.
He also told the Peace Corps volunteers that they should mentor younger generations, who have “incredible potential” and who will “face a more challenging world than we did.”
The reunion, which was sponsored by Beet Street, the Fort Collins Downtown Development Authority’s arts and culture initiative, featured a photo exhibition, concerts and speakers.
There were about 150 former Peace Corps volunteers who attended the entire weekend event, and others who came and went, said Allyn Harvey, event spokesman.
The Peace Corps reunion was conceived about a year ago to raise awareness about Colorado State University’s involvement with the Peace Corps.
The federally sponsored international organization was based on a model developed by three Colorado State University employees, Pauline Birky-Kreutzer, who died Thursday, Maurice Albertson and Andrew Rice.
The three were honored during the celebration.
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