[Community-service] Community-service Digest, Vol 60, Issue 7

[Jordan Mirander]

Dear Chris Parsons, I disagree with YOU.  I feel that volunteering on
a political campaign does efect the people in our community.  So, I
feel that it is community service.  What a politician does affects
everyone.  So, I feel that it should go under community service.  Too.
In my opinion,  advocacy is when you attend meetings, conventions,
seminars, and conferences that are for a specific cause.  Like, for
example, I am probably going to the Riverside County Transportation
Commission meeting on March 7, because public transportation is a big
issue with people who are Blind.

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> I think doing this kind of work is community service it is important to do
> work like this legislative campaign can help others in the community
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>> On Feb 11, 2015, at 10:03 PM, Darian Smith via Community-service
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>> 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?
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>> I am most  interested to know your thoughts.
>> thanks so much,
>>  Darian
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> Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2015 15:54:20 -0600
> From: "Chris Parsons" <christine-parsons at sbcglobal.net>
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> Subject: Re: [Community-service] service through legislation?
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> Hi all,
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> 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
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> -----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?
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> Hi all,
> Something that has  periodically come up  in conversation  as it relates to
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> 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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JORDAN XAVIER MIRANDER