National Petition for the Reactivation of the US Civilian Conservation Corps
We the undersigned urge the Legislative and Executive Branches of the United States Government to reactivate refund and revamp FDR's popular New Deal program the United States Civilian Conservation Corps(1933-1942). Reactivation, refunding and revamping United States Civilian Conservation Corps(CCC) will give us a proven program with more bang for the buck!
The reactivation, refunding and revamping of the CCC would again be under the direct control of the government and will not be privatized. The CCC would utilize federal agencies such as Labor, Agriculture, Interior, Veterans Affairs and the DOD. The CCC would receive proper appropriations from Congress to perform its duties as required. For the CCC to achieve accountability and to prevent overlap and fraud the federal government would stop all funding to similar federal, state and municipal programs and their personnel would be absorbed back into the CCC.
The CCC would work in the construction, maintenance and carrying on of works in a public nature in the connection of public lands that belong to the United States. States, Native lands and US Territories that are suitable for such cooperative work on their agricultural, park, watershed, and forest lands in forest protection, flood control, erosion control, wildfire suppression, park improvements, park development, wildlife protection, historical restoration, ranch and farmland erosion control, grazing erosion control, disaster relief with agreements with the American Red Cross to help those in distress, clean-up pollution, rebuild housing and infrastructure, and repair damage to the environment, and other services needed that would benefit the United States of America in our public domain. The CCC would be engaged in fighting global warming by planting millions of trees and have the best opportunities to qualify for future green job careers.
The reactivation, refunding and revamping of the CCC would now enroll fit single women and men from eighteen to twenty-five who are US Citizens. The CCC would be considered a national service agency as the Peace Corps without a college degree. The CCC would be an alternative national service for those who do not wish to serve in the military but would rather serve their country on our own soil. The CCC would enroll fit war veterans of any age. The CCC could also consider enrolling US Citizens and war veterans on a case by case basis for those who have non-violent criminal record who have served their time or are on probation and need employment and a second start.
Enrollments would last for six months and can be extended up to two years. The enrollees would also be considered - Government Issue- GIs. The CCC would provide our GIs with a living wage, free medical, dental, clothing, room (barracks) and board and after hours, they would have optional time for vocational training and education. Most enrollees would have to adapt to being far away from home. Our GIs would all have a valuable work experience, make new friends, and have real fun, travel, and adventure. Our GIs could receive time in government service and have access to the GI Bill for post secondary college and vocational education.
Finally, the United States Civilian Conservation Corps would enable the United States with a more confident, competent and reliable workforce ready for employment. As FDR wrote in 1933, "More important than the material gains from their labors will be the moral and spiritual value of such work."
Observations from two famous American Authors and Historians:
James A. Michner wrote in his book - This Noble Land, "I was favorably impressed by the Civilian Conservation Corps, which had, so far as I could see, a faultless program in which young people could do constructive work for their communities while earning a modest salary. I would have hopes for such a program, were one to be reinstituted now."
Howard Zinn wrote, "The CCC was not only one of the greatest innovations of the New Deal, but it provides a model for us today. It is the answer to the double problem of unemployed youth (who turn to drugs, who end up in prison) and the persistence of war, with its enormous drain on the national wealth. The young, instead of being recruited to kill and be killed, or to come home maimed in body or in mind, could be put to work in government programs like the CCC, doing all sorts of constructive things to make our environment cleaner and safer. Such work would have the opposite effect of military action -- that is, it would foster healthy bodies and healthy minds as these young people make a great contribution to the nation. The situation today, with a trillion dollars wasted on war, with young men and women coming home damaged, with a crumbling infrastructure making us vulnerable to more Katrina's, and more human disasters, cries out for such a solution."
We the undersigned urge the Legislative and Executive Branches of the United States Government to reactivate refund and revamp FDR's popular New Deal program the United States Civilian Conservation Corps(1933-1942). Reactivation, refunding and revamping United States Civilian Conservation Corps(CCC) will give us a proven program with more bang for the buck!
The reactivation, refunding and revamping of the CCC would again be under the direct control of the government and will not be privatized. The CCC would utilize federal agencies such as Labor, Agriculture, Interior, Veterans Affairs and the DOD. The CCC would receive proper appropriations from Congress to perform its duties as required. For the CCC to achieve accountability and to prevent overlap and fraud the federal government would stop all funding to similar federal, state and municipal programs and their personnel would be absorbed back into the CCC.
The CCC would work in the construction, maintenance and carrying on of works in a public nature in the connection of public lands that belong to the United States. States, Native lands and US Territories that are suitable for such cooperative work on their agricultural, park, watershed, and forest lands in forest protection, flood control, erosion control, wildfire suppression, park improvements, park development, wildlife protection, historical restoration, ranch and farmland erosion control, grazing erosion control, disaster relief with agreements with the American Red Cross to help those in distress, clean-up pollution, rebuild housing and infrastructure, and repair damage to the environment, and other services needed that would benefit the United States of America in our public domain. The CCC would be engaged in fighting global warming by planting millions of trees and have the best opportunities to qualify for future green job careers.
The reactivation, refunding and revamping of the CCC would now enroll fit single women and men from eighteen to twenty-five who are US Citizens. The CCC would be considered a national service agency as the Peace Corps without a college degree. The CCC would be an alternative national service for those who do not wish to serve in the military but would rather serve their country on our own soil. The CCC would enroll fit war veterans of any age. The CCC could also consider enrolling US Citizens and war veterans on a case by case basis for those who have non-violent criminal record who have served their time or are on probation and need employment and a second start.
Enrollments would last for six months and can be extended up to two years. The enrollees would also be considered - Government Issue- GIs. The CCC would provide our GIs with a living wage, free medical, dental, clothing, room (barracks) and board and after hours, they would have optional time for vocational training and education. Most enrollees would have to adapt to being far away from home. Our GIs would all have a valuable work experience, make new friends, and have real fun, travel, and adventure. Our GIs could receive time in government service and have access to the GI Bill for post secondary college and vocational education.
Finally, the United States Civilian Conservation Corps would enable the United States with a more confident, competent and reliable workforce ready for employment. As FDR wrote in 1933, "More important than the material gains from their labors will be the moral and spiritual value of such work."
Observations from two famous American Authors and Historians:
James A. Michner wrote in his book - This Noble Land, "I was favorably impressed by the Civilian Conservation Corps, which had, so far as I could see, a faultless program in which young people could do constructive work for their communities while earning a modest salary. I would have hopes for such a program, were one to be reinstituted now."
Howard Zinn wrote, "The CCC was not only one of the greatest innovations of the New Deal, but it provides a model for us today. It is the answer to the double problem of unemployed youth (who turn to drugs, who end up in prison) and the persistence of war, with its enormous drain on the national wealth. The young, instead of being recruited to kill and be killed, or to come home maimed in body or in mind, could be put to work in government programs like the CCC, doing all sorts of constructive things to make our environment cleaner and safer. Such work would have the opposite effect of military action -- that is, it would foster healthy bodies and healthy minds as these young people make a great contribution to the nation. The situation today, with a trillion dollars wasted on war, with young men and women coming home damaged, with a crumbling infrastructure making us vulnerable to more Katrina's, and more human disasters, cries out for such a solution."
We the undersigned:
Urge you our elected leaders to recognize the United States Civilian Conservation Corps as the nation's most popular government program and largest civilian workforce that gave us, More Bang for the Buck!
The United States Civilian Conservation Corps would enable a new national service and give our nation a competent and reliable workforce, and more important than the material gains will be the moral and spiritual value of such work.
Thank you for your time and consideration to reactivate, refund and revamp our most popular government program in US History.
The environment is in a dismal condition and getting worse year by year.
The wealth of a country should go first to its men and women who work to produce its wealth, and if the economy has been so badly run or so selfishly run as to deprive them of the opportunity to work for wages, making an opportunity should be the first priority. Moreover, the "privatization" of basic services and the skimping on basic maintenance has left every component of our infrastructure --- transportation, housing, sanitation, water resources and soil conservation at dangerous levels. There is an urgent need for basic repairs and for developing "green" energy resources and energy conservation. The CCC could be a way to deal with both of these enormous areas of need.
The state of the enviroment are inexusable our citizens need to be more active in preserving what is left for our future generations.
This is a wonderful program that promoted discipline and work ethich and educates the youth about the state of our enviroment. I was in the Califirnia Conservation Coprs when I was 18 and it was the best experience of my life as becoming a productive citizen who takes part in the preservation and conservation of our world.
I feel this program will enrich citizen's mind and soul to the love and respect of nature. I believe also that the CCC program will revive and sustain our economy instead of an up and down.
Reactivating the CCC will put so many people to much needed work. The variety of jobs will repair our infrastructure which is in desperate need of repair. How can we not restart this amazing program? a.....JOBS. b.......repairing bridges & roads. Our Country is dangerously in need of everything that was built; created so many decades ago.......which means nearly everything if not everything!!! CCC will accomplish many things at once. CCC will dramatically turn our country forward. Almost nothing is being accomplished now. WE NEED, IN FACT MUST HAVE THE CCC RESTARTED. NOW.
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6:30 am PST, Feb 1,
Aelred Glidden, Michigan
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With the passing of my parents' generation, the skills they learned in organizations like the CCC are passing as well--and they may be the very skills our children and grandchildren will need in what's being called the "post-carbon" world of the future. And the infrastructure built by the CCC desperately needs renewal. This is a "conservatism" that people from every end of the political spectrum can get behind. Let's revive the CCC!
The environment is in a dire situation. We are quickly approaching a tipping point beyond which we may be unable to prevent our habitat from being destroyed and no longer able to support human life.
To save the environment, to provide meaningful jobs and fight poverty, and to provide an opportunity for peaceful national service.
Our environment is in emergent need of restoration and protection.
The CCC would address unemployment, poverty, and economic growth by providing jobs for self esteem, learning, social support and income to support families. I urge the rebirth of the CCC!!
I think we are expected to do so much as in helping our environment that alot of people want to. But, in the situation that we need to be able to live a life, that in order to live we need things to live by, being food shelter, clothing. We live in a quick acting world to where if things arent there to go with then we tend to pick the fist thing that comes along. And when someone offers us a job making 10 dollars an hour we pick that. When we can go and work outside and help the environment. But the issue is, is that we are too tired or run down after the day or certain standards in ethics with people and probably the law (Im not an expert on the law) have things against going out at 3 in the morning to go clean up trash off the side of the road, or go pull tires out of the river when the only time we really have after work might be in the middle of the night. Also we need time to sleep/rest in order for us to function daily accordingly to what we are...humans. We cant be charged up and run 12 days in a row off of nothing and being homeless but helping clean up the environment is really out of the question.
We always say that the government can do better, but Im tired of us wanting to always be better at something we already know. If our government really wants to do things for us then listen AND HELP what we want to do by giving us the freedom to do what we want.
I am very worried about our environment and the lack of jobs in our part of the world
We need to be pro-active.
Our environment needs help and CCC is just the answer to help.
The CCC program is a win win situation. The state wins with lower cost labor and the corpmember wins by learning.
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11:06 am PST, Jan 21,
Sarah Lott, Ohio
Our society and economy desperately need it to be reinstated. It helps all around. |
For too long, America's corporations have had free reign on our most precious resources. We need to come together again and put the environment first by cleaning waterways and replanting forests.
Spending time in Shenandoah Park and witnessing the impact the CCC had there is amazing. From staying in a cabin they built to walking amongst the trees they planted, the CCC proved itself then and most certainly would prove itself again.
It is a downward spiral that we will not be able to stop in our life time but over generations of work we can start to turn it around.
It will work in the same way that it originally did.
I am very concern about our environment today we have almost destroyed our forest, our wild animals and some human are dieing from unclean air and water, we need to get down to the basis of keeping our Land and Air clean. Going green will promote jobs as well as keeping our environment intact.
Only The Government have the Power to help us to get started on improving our Air Water and Environment Congress must reenact the Civilian Conservation Corps(CCC) This will be jobs run by the Government and can not be resourced out it will guarantee many jobs and keep our Country Clean and free from those thing in our air and water safe, for generations to come. Just as Franklin D. Roosevelt did in the from 1933-1943.
We need positive social and ecological transformation towards a truly peaceful, just, and environmentally sustainable future. A new New Deal that is green and democratically socialist like the free and peaceful interconnected societies of Western Europe.
TERRIBLE, We need our tax dollars spent here.
DUH, That's a no-brainer,Economy in the crapper,unemployment at ten percent or higher,roads and bridges crumbling, we better do something quick or we will be at a point of no return.
The CCC was one of the finest Federal programs ever, it needs to be revived.
For people like me who object to the current military-driven mindset of national public service this would offer an alternative course of action, providing a valuable service that would allow us to conscientiously give back to our country.
we are in dire need of co nservation before its too late!
to save our planet!
The infrastructure of the US today is sadly in need of bolstering. We need today what the CCC provided in its day.
Putting people to work, sending money home to the families of those put to work will help spur the economy, and rebuilding the infrastructure of the country all make this an idea whose time has come again.
As the mother of a daughter who, after graduation from college, was first under-employed and is now only temporarily employed, I would welcome the opportunities the return of the USCCC would offer young adults such as my daughter and many of her friends who have found themselves in similar circumstances.
Lip service has been given to this type of effort for too many years. We are at a point in our nation's history where it is imperative that these issues be addressed. Projects such as the CCC and WPA have had a long term positive effect on our country. It's time that they and similar programs be reinstated.
