[Community-service] service through legislation?

[Darian Smith]

I think I feel much the same way as Chris on this one,
 Legislative work is most certainly important  and ultimately    serves to change the lives  of  the community effected, ideally for the better.
  I Think that the kind of  community service work we talk about, and encourage is along the lines of what Chris has mentioned.  This allows us to get our hands dirty in an issue that is both of interest to us and   important to the community in which we live.
  Imagine  the effect that service can have on top of  everything else we do.  We can show that we expect equal rights in the workplace, the classroom, and in the market place  and show that   we also have a right to have an active part in serving  in our communities and we expect to be able to exercise that right to  tutor, to mentor, to feed, and comfort,  and we intend to exercise that right.
   Thanks so much,
  Darian                 
> On Feb 12, 2015, at 1:54 PM, Chris Parsons via Community-service <community-service at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> This is a really interesting question. My opinion is that activities like this would fall under advocacy rather than community service. As Roanna pointed out, these types of activities do ultimately have the potential to help people in the community, but I think that there is a difference between advocacy activities, which tend to more directly involve politics and legislation, and community service activities, which can certainly involve a specific cause--hunger and homelessness, animal welfare, education, etc., but which I think also involve more direct means of providing help for or impacting a particular population or issue, such as cleaning up a park, volunteering at an animal shelter, or packing food at a food pantry.
> 
> Chris
> 
> 
> -----Original Message----- From: Darian Smith via Community-service
> Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2015 9:03 PM
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> Subject: [Community-service] service through legislation?
> 
> Hi all,
> Something that has  periodically come up  in conversation  as it relates to what we do as the Community Service Division is the idea of activities such as working on legislative campaigns, or pushing local or national legislation and  whether or not it would be considered community service?
> I am most  interested to know your thoughts.
> thanks so much,
> Darian
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