Resolution passed at the
2007
VETERANS FOR PEACE Convention
RESOLUTION
# 1
REACTIVATION OF THE CIVILIAN CONSERVATION CORPS
PROPOSED BY: Jay Alexander of Tampa Bay VFP Chapter
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Approved by the Board
8/16/07
Approved by the Annual Meeting 8/18/07
WHEREAS an updated CCC would be seen as an alternative to military service for single young adults; and
WHEREAS those who enroll would receive competent work supervision with superior
safety training and a living wage. They would be provided after work with free classroom education that would enable them
to enter the private and public sector with confidence; and
WHEREAS the reactivated CCC could provide able manpower at the scene of man-made and natural disasters across
America. They could render assistance to the American Red Cross to aid victims help in the clean-up and rebuilding of infrastructure
and repair damage to the environment; and
WHEREAS
the updated CCC program would be under direct government control and not under any private contractor. Any government agency
or private agency receiving federal funding for similar work would be dissolved and absorbed into the newly formed CCC agency
to prevent overlap and fraud; and
WHEREAS
the reactivated CCC would give veterans preference for leadership and supervisory positions within the agency and help alleviate
the high unemployment among young adults; and
WHEREAS
this popular program has potential to save the planet with imagination as public works programs to bring about short term
job training; therefore
BE IT RESOLVED
that Veterans For Peace calls upon the President and Congress to reactivate and update the template of the Civilian Conservation
Corps, a popular program of the administration of President F.D. Roosevelt.
