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 119
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.
