"If you would be happy for a lifetime, grow Chrysanthemums." (a Chinese philosopher)
Mums and Moringa for Malaria Movement
Please find below a link to the discussion last night on Change the Narrative, regarding to issues we would like to be addressed in the domain of International RElations/National Security, Globalization and Culture, Energy and Environment.
You can see the details of this event by going to: http://my.barackobama.com/page/event/detail/gpt7m5
Senator Obama on the death of his Grandmother
Time Heals
The United States is a melting pot for people from almost every country on the planet. Which means that every country has at least one family member or friend who is a citizen of the United States.
I would like to create a movement in these important last days of the campaign to urge all countries around the world to exhort their families and friends who are citizens of the United States to VOTE, FIRST OF ALL, and of course, vote for Obama/Biden ticket.
From Albania to Zimbabwe and all countries in between - text/email/blog/skype/call your families and friends, citizens of the United States and remind, urge, implore, tell them to VOTE. VOTE EARLY, VOTE NOVEMBER 4, 2008, VOTE, VOTE, VOTE...
Yesterday at the closing session of the Clinton Global Initiative, Gordon Brown, Prime Minister of England, urged all members to continue working together to create a better world, as globalisation is now the new narrative
Read more here
http://muriella.wordpress.com/2008/09/27/gordon-brown-on-global-peace-corps-cgi-2008/
Re The Summit on Service at Columbia University organized by Service Nation in which Presidential Candidates John Mc Cain and Barack Obama shared their views on service.
The debate brought back to me memories of collaborating with the Peace Corps in farflung and distant communities during my career at the United Nations.
Listening to the forum prompted me to make this post, which is the same as I posted earlier.
I would hope that honoring those who served in the Peace Corps could be the subject of a future show (Larry King, Oprah, the Daily Show) and introduce the new concept of a global youth corps below.
Global Youth Corps for Sustainable Development - mission to have peace break out in the world.
I collaborated with the Peace Corps during my career at the United Nations, and remember the energy and enthusiasm of those American youth, open to learning local languages, foods, culture, and sharing info about the USA with communities.
This prompted me to suggest to the presidential candidates during the primaries that they should consider having a platform on service and youth which would not be unidirectional, like the Peace Corps, but involve youth from around the world.
This Global Youth Corps would be multidirectional, where youth from each country, not only from USA, would traverse the globe armed with PCs/laptops,iPods... United Nations Instruments - like the Convention on the Climate Change, the Declaration of Human Rights, the Goals of the UN - Millennium Development Goal, etc...working on connecting, linking, cooperating.
A network of youth, exchanging skillsets, learning languages, music, appreciating and understanding cultural and behavioural practices and differences, knowing that, though we live in different climes, and different lands, we are basically the same - human beings.
These differences can be made clearer when youth are grouped by eco-zone: youth from mountains, small island states, deserts, forest environments, all having specific adaptive and cultural behaviors which disappear or metamorphose when thrown into foreign environments, usually the urban areas. Now the world can benefit from the knowledge and efforts of these youth.
Global youth corps for sustainable development would be of value as the youth involved would become future leaders and their participation in this movement would help make the world a better place - they would be in the drivers' seats for the creation of a better world based on service
Hello to You World would be the goal as we connect, communicate to create a better world . The project below is one way going forward
http://www.membersproject.com/project/view/O3YPNO
Expansion of Peace Corps for Sustainable Development
What are your impressions about a Global Youth Corps for Sustainable Development, beginning with a simple hello?
The current political process in the US has mobilized a multitude of young people to participate. If just like the Peace Corps, but with more outreach and interchangeability, being multidirectional, a Global Youth Corps could be supported whereby young people, armed with skillsets, open minds, technology (laptops, cell phones/ipods, gps...) etc., be supported to traverse the planet, moving from country to country and interacting with others; sharing about life and culture in their countries and learning about life and culture in country they are in...what kind of world would ensue?
Let us discuss this possible expansion of the Peace Corps in today's Globalizing World, as a direction for youth participation, for community organization at a global level, to create a better world.
Incidentally, today 5 September 2008 on CNN International there was a story of a South African Explorer/Adventurer who will sail around the world for 4 years with a group of young people (about 125) of them engaging in eco-friendly activities on an eco-friendly yacht. His name is Mike Horn. He has an almost similar idea using the sea/oceans to unite us, as after all , they do.
