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The Tragedy of the Peace Corps

Laurence Leamer | Posted 04.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Obama Peace Corps, Peace Corps, Developing Countries, Shriver, Economic Development, Kennedy, Obama, Development, Politics News

At what should be the most promising moment for the organization in decades, the Peace Corps is at its most dangerous moment in its history.

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Unemployed Journalist Corps

Steven Waldman | Posted 04.16.2009 | Media

Read More: Peace Corps, Death of Newspapers, Journailsm, Media News

We have growing numbers of unemployed journalists. We have zillions of dollars being spent by the federal government, a recipe for mismanagement. Ho...

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Obama's Omission was a Willful Choice

Laurence Leamer | Posted 03.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Leamer, Peace Corps, Africa, Laurence Leamer, Service, National Service, Volunteers, Kennedy, Obama, Congress, Asia, Development, Community Development, Pcv, Shriver, Politics News

It's insulting and isolationist to increase domestic volunteers so dramatically and not the Peace Corps. We are turning away from the world outside our borders.

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The Peace Corps Returns

Josh Ruxin | Posted 02.28.2009 | World

Read More: John F. Kennedy, Rwanda, Health, Barack Obama, Peace Corps, World, Volunteering, Giving Back, Africa, Community, Jfk, Peace Corps., World News

Though the Peace Corps was founded nearly 50 years ago, the program is still extraordinarily vital, and the need for Peace Corps volunteers is greater today than ever before.

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Obama and the Science of Altruism

Jamil Zaki | Posted 02.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Togetherness, Community Service, Helping the Needy, Emotion, Charity, Empathy, Hope, Children, Brains, Altruism, Helping Others, Martin Luther King Jr., Science, Psychology, Obama Community Service, Peace Corps, Barack Obama, Helping the Poor, Giving Back to the Community, Emotions, Neuroscience, Brain, Martin Luther King, Volunteering, Kids, Service, Giving Back, Evolution, Politics News

Why would we have evolved to feel each other's pain? Two aspects of empathy can help explain this, and the reason that evolution may have selected for strong empathizers in the first place.

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Kennedy's Kids Then, Obama's Kids Now

Rajeev Goyal | Posted 02.21.2009 | Living

Read More: Obama Inauguration Coverage, Obama's Inauguration, Obama Inaugural Address, Obama Inauguration, Inauguration, Obama Inaugural, Obama Inaugural Speech, Barack Obama Inauguration, Peace Corps, Barack Obama, Obama Kids, Living News

I marched in the inaugural parade with members of the Peace Corps, and there are three moments that will stay with me forever.

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Memories, Parallels of JFK's and BHO's Inauguration

Lea Lane | Posted 02.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: John F. Kennedy, Peace Corps, Inaugural Speeches, Barack Obama, John F Kennedy, Obama's Inauguration, Jfk Speech, Obama JFK, Inauguration Day 2009, Obama Inauguration, Barack Obama Inauguration, Jfk Obama, Barack Obama Inauguration Speech, Jfk, Obama Jfk Speech, John F. Kennedy Obama, Politics News

Forty-eight years before Barack Obama's inauguration, I was a teenager, sitting in front of a 12-inch Motorola console, watching 43 year-old John F. Kennedy of inaugurated as our 35th President.

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Obama's First Betrayal?

Laurence Leamer | Posted 02.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Obama Peace Corps, Obama Service, Americorps, Service, Barack Obama, Peace Corps, Obama Americorops, Politics News

Has he turned away from his most exalted ideals in an act of such spiritual malfeasance that it will condemn his administration?

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The Business of Service

Jonathan Greenblatt | Posted 02.13.2009 | Living

Read More: Cityyear, Community Service, Ethos Water, Inauguration Day 2009, Obama Transition Team, National Service, Patagonia, Teach for America, Americorps, Youthbuild, GOOD Magazine, Barack Obama, MLK Day, Peace Corps, Cisco Systems, Obama Service, Service, Living News

The corporations and small businesses that power American growth and shape our society could be the fuel that turbo-charges our vision of national service.

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Ask Not What Obama Can Do for You -- Ask What You Can do for Obama

Linda Bergthold | Posted 12.07.2008 | Politics

Read More: President-Elect Barack Obama, Peace Corps, Presidential Election 2008, Obama Election Day, Sarah Palin, Americorps, New York Times, Volunteer Stories Obama, Barack Obama, Politics News

It's not really Obama's responsibility to keep us involved. It really is ours. So here are some suggestions I have for keeping alive his call to service.

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Maria Shriver's Gift to Women

Paige Donner | Posted 11.24.2008 | Living

Read More: Long Beach Convention Center, Governor and First Lady's Conference on Women, Wisdom, Special Olympics, We Invest, We Empower, Strength, Save the Children, Non-Profit, Bono, Madeline Albright, Maria Shriver, California Volunteers, The Women's Conference, Arnold Schwarzenegger, California Women, Peace Corps., Non-Partisan, Safeway Inc., Cnn, Courage, Minerva Awards, Larry King, Condoleezza Rice, Jennifer Lopez, Lean Cuisine, We Care, Night at the Village, Warren Buffett, Sgt. Shriver, Living News

"Be Who You Are" was the theme Maria Shriver designated for this year's California Governor and First Lady's Conference on Women.

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Greening Hollywood: Water Unifies For Running Dry

Paige Donner | Posted 10.26.2008 | Green

Read More: Environment, Global Water Crisis, American Indians, Africa, Running Dry, American States Water Company, Tapped Out, Drip Irrigation, Jim Thebaut, Urban Water Research Institute, Low-Tillage Techniques, Water Conservation, Water Crisis, Las Vegas Valley Water District, Ocean Council, Peace Corps, Usgs, American Southwest Running Dry, Jane Seymour, California Gubernatorial Candidate 2010, Go Green, Haley and Aldrich, Water Cisterns, Environmental Hero, Senator Paul Simon, Lt. Governor John Garamendi, Green Vote, University California Irvine, Makar, Erm, Waterunifies, Green News

University of California, Irvine's Urban Water Research Center hosted an evening in September at the St. Regis Monarch Resort in Dana Point that broug...

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How About a Different Kind of Rescue Plan?

William Fisher | Posted 10.23.2008 | Politics

Read More: Henry Paulson, Soft Power, Relationships, Federal Spending, Peace Corps, Foreign Policy, Politics News

I know, I know. I'm supposed to be writing about Hank Paulson's "rescue" plan, or the wisdom of sending more troops to Afghanistan, or the first presi...

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USW Helps Empower Workers on Firestone Plantation in Liberia

Fred Redmond | Posted 10.16.2008 | Business

Read More: Liberian Supreme Court, Child Labor, Firestone Synthetic Rubber and Latex Co. The Save My Future Foundation, Fortune 500, Africa, General Agricultural and Alliled Workers Union of Liberia, Bridgestone/Firestone, Economy, Latex, United Nations, Bridgestone Corp, “Firestone: The Mark of Modern Slavery”; United Steelworkers, Wildcat Strike, John Sweeney, Firestone Agricultural Workers Union of Liberia, Liberia, Samuel Kofi Woods, Leo W. Gerard, Peace Corps, USW; AFL-CIO Solidarity Center; AFL-CIO, Harmon Lisnow, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, New York Times, Harvey Firestone, Terry J. Renninger, Fawul, Monrovia, Business News

This is what unrestrained, immoral and disloyal multinational corporations have reduced us to: modern slavery.

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A Peace Surge in the First 100 Days

Major R. Owens | Posted 07.23.2008 | Politics

Read More: United States Institute for Peace, Peace Surge, Vista, Peace Corps, 100 Days, Politics News

Ending combat in Iraq is only step one. To facilitate movement with maximum speed and a broad inspiring momentum, there is a dormant federal agency free of partisan blister and scars -- waiting in place.

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