“Medium Cool” – Zappa’s Mothers of Invention’s “Who needs the Peace Corps?”

Film-clip from “Medium Cool”, by Haxell Wexler, USA, 1968. The sequence includes the first two tracks off Frank Zappa’s Mothers of Invention album, “We’re Only In It For The Money”: “Are you hung up?” and “Who needs the Peace Corps?”. The film itself is a semi-fictional document of Chicago in 1968, culminating in the action [...]

“Medium Cool” – Zappa’s Mothers of Invention’s “Who needs the Peace Corps?”

Film-clip from “Medium Cool”, by Haxell Wexler, USA, 1968. The sequence includes the first two tracks off Frank Zappa’s Mothers of Invention album, “We’re Only In It For The Money”: “Are you hung up?” and “Who needs the Peace Corps?”. The film itself is a semi-fictional document of Chicago in 1968, culminating in the action [...]

“Impact – 40 Years Later” (Peace Corps Tanzania)

A Peace Corps Story from 2006

Clean Water Project Started by a Public Health Education Peace Corps Volunteer in Moldova

Public Health Education Peace Corps Volunteer Sarah Myers conducts a secondary project involving stream water clean-up in her Moldovan community. Learn more about Public Health Peace Corps Volunteers at www.peacecorps.gov

A Peace Corps for the 21st Century?

As a young federal lawyer in 1960, Bill Josephson co-authored The Towering Task, a bold paper that became the blueprint for the creation of The Peace Corps in 1961. Josephson held a number of key positions with the Peace Corps during the 1960s and has remained a close colleague and friend of Sargent Shriver throughout [...]

Teaching Peace in a Time of War

National Film Board of Canada Production A decade of civil war cost the lives of more than 250 000 people in the former Yugoslavia. The children of this region have been irrevocably afflicted by the violence. Can Hetty van Gurp help teach the language of peace to a generation of kids who have only known [...]

Rewrite the Future: Mairead Maguire on education and peace

Mairead Maguire is one of over 30 Nobel Peace Prize winners, who released a joint letter on 20 November 2008 calling for urgent action to implement quality education for children affected by conflict. The letter was initiated by Save the Children, as part of their Rewrite the Future campaign, focused on ensuring children affected by [...]

Binghamton and its Peace Corps connection

BJ Whetstine with the Peace Corps shares how Binghamton University makes its list of major volunteer-producing colleges and universities in the nation. Since the Peace Corps inception 50 years ago, more than 230 Binghamton University alumni have served in Botswana, Cape Verde, Guatemala, Mongolia, Ukraine and more. Theyve volunteered in all of the Corps programs: [...]

Peace Corps Interview Part 3

ENG Style project

Peace Corps PSA history

Montage of Peace Corps psas

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