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...trend towards political action is still very small in PBH. The executive board did suggest to the committee chairmen at the time of the Vietnam Referendum that they consider allowing volunteers to canvass for votes instead of fulfilling their PBH responsibilities. They also had PBH cars available to students going down to the peace march in Washington...
...PBH be effective if it does not become politically active? The PBH volunteer through personal communication certainly does achieve positive results for the individual. Mark Petri '69, a member of the PBH executive board, said "The political ideal should take precedence over the social-philanthropic ideal -- while we are helping the individual kid, we're not changing the society in which he lives." He added, "I think PBH has a potential power base within the system which could be used effectively in political terms...
Dyen said, "PBH is finding out that it is impossible to make a big dent in social problems without working politically in some way." And Howard said, "Even the traditionally blandest political group must start swaying to the left." The political and power orientation of SDS and Afro may stifle smaller but positive aims...
...Many PBH projects are moving away from the self-perpetuating service ideal toward a goal of eventually phasing out the non-indigenous volunteer. The Cambridge Friends School program is trying to mobilize interested local individuals and institutions to replace the PBH community service project in North Cambridge. At present, ten neighborhood mothers have been recruited to work with PBH volunteers in an after-school program...
...phasing out of these programs involves acting as a catalyst in community organization. The aim is the development of more community pride and power. In largely black communities, this amounts to the black power ethic. Many of the PBH leaders see the need for black volunteers to work with black children in order to establish a positive racial identity. But there are very few black volunteers in PBH...