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WE CAN TAKE IT, INC is a non-profit grassroots campaign organization to urge the United States government
to reactivate the United States Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC). The CCC provided work and vocational training for unemployed single young men through conserving and developing the
country's natural resources. Our organization is named after the rough and ready unofficial motto of the CCC.
In 1932, President Franklin Deleno Roosevelt was elected promising a America a New
Deal. In response to the depression that hung over the nation, President Roosevelt created many "Alphabet
Soup" programs designed to put Americans back to work. Roosevelt was not interested in the dole and was was
determined, rather, to preserve the pride of American workers in their own ability to earn a living, so he concentrated on
creating jobs.
In his message to a Special Session of the 73rd Congress on March 21,
1933 to create the CCC, he wrote ... "More important, however, than the
material gains from their labors will be the moral and spiritual value of such work."
“I have moments of real
terror, when I think we may be losing this generation.
We have got to bring these young people into the active life of the community. …
It has
been said in this country we should deal with first things first, and in my estimation,
the question before us is action on the problems of youth.”
Eleanor Roosevelt 1934
The 111th Congress and the Obama Administration can take
heed of FDR's Legacy and not re-invent the wheel for a training/work program for young adults. They can re-use the template
of this rugged - time proven - shovel ready - accountable government program
that will give us more bang for our buck.
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THE QUEST FOR WORLD PEACE
Let us pound our swords
in to plowshares and make them into plowshares and plant trees and solar panels!
We Can take It, Inc.
resolves to engage with other governments to adopt the CCC template in their countries and urge FDR's last alphabet soup initiative the UN - United Nations to impliment the Civilain Conservation
Corps to promote peace and promote Human Rights of all people and bring real Democracy worldwide.
It is an historic fact that the United Nations was President Franklin D. Roosevelt's last
alphabet soup government program. He died on April 12 and President Harry Truman signed the UN Charter on April 25, 1945.
We urge that the UN order its multi-national Peacekeepers to perform
a peaceful and practical mission to impliment and organize FDR's concept of the CCC template worldwide. They would enroll and pay single
young adult men and women in needy countries to labor and perform public works on their own lands and waterways
from building infrastruction in roads to home building to reforestation and lastly be on hand for disaster relief.
We can continue the human race in "Turning Our Swords into
Plowshares" and to then plant trees and solar panels. At
this time, the UN can order their blue helmets to bring the CCC to nations that need help as Haiti and Sudan and
Iraq. The CCC would help those involved to gain green job skills, learn
to take matters in their own hands and be brought up to speed in the 21st Century and become future leaders of their
communities, nation and the world and again in the words of FDR ... "More important, however, than the material gains from their
labors will be the moral and spiritual value of such work! "
We Can Take It, Inc ongoing mission will engage on the grassroots level to bring back the CCC first
in the United States and then engage to impliment the template of the CCC program with governments worldwide - preferably
with the help of the United Nations.
Let us pound our swords
in to plowshares and make solar panels!
The UN was
President Franklin D. Roosevelt's last alphabet soup government program, he died before he could sign the UN Charter in April
1945.
We at We Can take It, Inc. asks the PEOPLE
to urge the United Nations to combine his FDR's last alphabet soup government initiative the UN - The United Nations with
his first alphebet soup government initiative the CCC - the Civilain Conservation Corps?
The UN would order with grace and dignity its
blue helmeted Peacekeepers to perform a more peaceful and practical mission to impliment CCC programs in nations in distress
and help organize other CCC programs worldwide.
Historically,
the US Army fielded many work camps across the United States and employed over 3 million single young men and veterans to
perform tasks on our vast system of public lands and waterways. We are now on the verge of CCC reactivation in the United
States. At this time, the UN can do the same thing on a larger scale and order their blue helmets to bring the CCC to
nations that need help as Haiti and Sudan and Iraq?
They
would enroll and pay single young adult men and women and veterans to
labor and perform public works on their own lands and waterways from building infrastruction in roads to home building to
reforestation and lastly be on hand for disaster relief.
They would all gain green job skills and learn to take matters in their own hands and be brought up to speed in the
21st Century and become future leaders of their communities, nation and the world and ...."More important, however, than the material gains from their labors will be the moral and spiritual
value of such work! " President Franklin Delano Roosevelt
The purpose of human life is to serve,
and to show compassion
and the will to help others.
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We have a real opportunity, the first since 1942, to bring back this rugged shovel ready
program.
H.R. 4318 - The 21st Century Civilian Conservation Corps Act
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America
is in a time of distress ...
for
many of our young adults, university graduates, returning war veterans all face rising unemployment rates. In extreme cases of unemployment
rates over 50% on remote Native American Nations. Many older Americans out of work have given up hope of ever finding
employment. Many Americans are working fewer hours than they want and need and more than one in six workers are underemployed
or unemployed that directly links today with the Great Depression. Instead of a Dust Bowl disaster there is global - rapid climate change, mine, fly ashe and oil spill disasters and that here contributes to a world-wide deterioration of the environment.
The survival of the planet and humanity is close to the tipping point. As in 1933, the President and Congress need
to take serious action or humanity on this planet face irriversable environmental change...
I cannot live without the green trees, and nor can
you!
Wangari Maathai
- Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, 2004
Clear and Present Danger
of Rapid Climate Change & Pollution
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Success is not the key to happiness.
Happiness is the key to success.
If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
Albert Schweitzer
HAPPY DAYS ARE HERE AGAIN!
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It has been popular
group-think of late to say "government programs are never the answer." But after a decade of political momentum
on the side of demonizing the government and casting our economic fortunes solely with the private sector, why are so many
people now suffering?
Knee-jerk platitudes and ideological clichés do not help build a country or put food on the table. The Civilian
Conservation Corps, in fact, did just that.
American people must to urge our government to reactivate
and update the template of the CCC program which can put millions of work boots on the ground over the generations in performing and training in real green jobs
as they do actual work on shovel ready public works projects.
Today the drop out rate in our middle and high schools
are higher than ever and when they reach adulthood they are facing unemployment and minimal opportunity. Now all levels
of government in all 50 states, US Territories down to most municipal governments are budget cutting and laying off staff from teachers to police and elimenating social
programs as youth conservation corps programs. They are forced to ignore backlogs of critical ecosystem and infrastructure
repair that are deparately needed on our public lands, shores and waterways. Listen to the fact filled commentary by Jim Hightower on the state of our infrastucture from the American Society of Civil Engineers.
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A SOLEMN REMINDER TO THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA:
A nation that continues year after
year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.
Martin Luther King, Jr
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A Comment from a citizen from OR:
What are your feelings of the state of our environment today?
For the future of our children in these hard times, a chance for them
to learn and grow into responsible and caring individuals.
Why should the US government reactivate this program for us?
My father was in the CCC before WWII. He told me he learned so much from the teachings of foremen and craftsmen
and tradesmen. He learned the "Work Ethic" from them all. It turned him into a responsible adult. He served in
3 different states. He loved it and always commented that it should be brought back. WWII of course brought on its demise.
And my dad served in the Pacific during the war. Make a place for returning vets, and the unemployed, a place called a foundation.
The young of our country need and deserve a foundation, and they need employment. Lets give them both!
Those who contemplate the beauty
of the earth will find reserves of strength
that will endure as long as
life lasts.
Rachel Carson (1907-1964)
Generations of young men
and women would learn real GREEN JOB SKILLS as well as the work and conservation ethic. As in the past, young single adult men and women civilians and would
allow for small percentage to be composed of single and married veterans. Those who qualify and enroll in this program
would have an experience of a lifetime. They would enjoy hard work along with fun, travel and adventure.
They would in most cases, travel far from home and live for 6 months up to two years working to conserve
our vast lands and waters and be on the call for disaster relief. It should be considered an alternative
National Service!
They would earn money and send home a monthly allotment for their
dependent family or if they are independent would save their allotment until they left the CCC program.
All would be given educational opportunities on their off hours and recieve a similar grant for higher education
as the GI Bill after their service. At the end of their obligation, they would either enter vocational training or college,
the public, or private sector with more competence and confidence in themselves. They already know the concept
of teamwork to work in cooperation, show flexability and to hold lasting friendships. As a nation we would gain more capable and
more well-rounded members of society to become our future workforce and future leaders.
The
idea of wilderness needs no defense, it only needs defenders.
Edward Abbey (1927-1989)
CCC
structure that stands today...
The Deception Pass Bridge is a two-lane bridge connecting Whidbey Island to Fidalgo Island in the U.S. state of Washington. It was a Public Works Administration project built by young workers
from the Civilian Conservation Corps.
Completion
of the bridge allowed the United States Navy to build Naval Air Station Whidbey Island
and helped Oak Harbor, Washington flourish. The bridge is a commonly-photographed landmark
of the Puget Sound region.
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| CCC structure in Torreya State Park, Florida that serves as the ranger station , 2009 |
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Another
day, another dollar
A million days
and I’ll be a millionaire!
American saying...from the CCC!
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| CCC enrollee James Wasson (Tell City, Indiana CCC camp) doing telephone line maintenance. |
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Marion
James is reflected in a plaque with the names of men who worked at Camp 3422 in NC.
The plaque hangs
in the Hanging Rock visitor’s center. (Photo by Lauren Carroll)
IMPORTANT NOTICE:
There are not many surviving CCC Alumni that are around today and they all are living treasures. We need to video them for future
generations. PLEASE interview them for 3-10 minutes and tranfer
the recording YOUTUBE and title your interview as (Civilian Conservation Corps Alumni Interview
with (Mr. their name)). Begin with thanking them for thier
service and ask their name, how old they were when thay enrolled in the CCC, and their situation then, their induction place,
their dates of service, camps and their locations and what kinds of work they did and what did they got the most out
of their experience. End with the question, "Would our youth today work as hard as you did and should the President
and the Congress bring back the CCC?"
