Had a blast in NYC this weekend. Though the city was still recovering from Thursday’s blackout, I took a risk and stood outside the South Norwalk train station after work on Friday hoping to catch a train into the city. One hour later, I saw my first train. Lucky for me, it was heading my …
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Should Peace Corps Volunteers retain first amendment rights?
Last month PeaceCorpsOnline.org ran a story about a group of 60 Peace Corps volunteers in the Dominican Republic who had planned a peace demonstration at the US Embassy against US policy in Iraq in March and asked RPCVs to comment on whether Peace Corps Volunteers retain first amendment rights while serving overseas to protest actions …
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Second Guyana Post Card
I sent of a second postcard to my Guyana Peace Corps friends today. In the next three months, I plan on sending them a card every other week in memory of our times together one year ago. Here’s what the latest card said: Dear Friends, By this time last year, we were all being entertained …
Protest at the Peace Corps
Interesting news. After reading Peace Corps Online’s “Protest at the Peace Corps” story, I placed a little post at the end telling others about my experience with the Peace Corps.” I wrote: Guyana’s Country Director Earl Brown (2002 � 2004) has twice sent volunteers home for expressing their first amendment rights. In August 2002, I …
We were basically silenced
PeaceCorpsOnline.org, an Independent News Forum that is not affiliated with the US Peace Corps, recently posted an article that concerns first amendment rights by volunteers serving in the Peace Corps. Having been kicked out of the Peace Corps for exercising my rights by maintaining a personal Web site, audio diary, online photo albums, and Guyana …