Votes on HR 1673 - Department of Peace

 Please call your US Representative today to support HR 1673, the bill
to establish a Dept. of Peace (equivalent to Dept. of State, Defense
etc). It is now on the floor of Congress. This is vitally important to
changing the disastrous course of the tanker we are on.

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IMPORTANT CALL TO ACTION
Department of Peace
TAKE ACTION TODAY!

A reminder that we need you help today as we begin our citizen
lobbying at the Capitol in support of the Department of Peace
legislation (H.R. 1673) introduced by Rep. Dennis Kucinich. The bill
is currently in the House of Representatives (read below for details
on the DoP legislation). If you want this legislation to become a
reality, it is critical to our grass roots campaign that we have your
support. Please forward this information to as many people as you can.
Together, we can make this happen!

 WHAT YOU CAN DO:

GET AS MANY PEOPLE AS POSSIBLE TO CALL, FAX AND EMAIL THEIR
REPRESENTATIVE TODAY! The U.S. capital switchboard can be reached at
(800) 839-5276 or (202) 224-3121. Congress is a reactive body, but if
our members of Congress do not hear from us directly, then there is
nothing for them to react to.

We can do this, and the time to do it is now!

For more information on our campaign and how you can become involved,
please visit the Department of Peace campaign website at:
www.dopcampaign.org

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THE DEPARTMENT OF PEACE:

The Department of Peace focuses on individual and group
responsibilities for establishing nonviolence as an organizing
principle in society. The Department would focus on nonmilitary
peaceful conflict resolutions, prevent violence and promote justice
and democratic principles to expand human rights. Domestically, the
Department would be responsible for developing policies which address
issues such as domestic violence, child abuse, mistreatment of the
elderly, and other issues of cultural violence. Internationally, the
Department would gather research, analyze foreign policy and make
recommendations to the President on how to address the root causes of
war and intervene before violence begins, while improving national
security, including the protection of human rights and the prevention
and de-escalation of unarmed and armed international conflict.

You can read the latest draft of the proposed legislation at
www.dopcampaign.org

 HIGHLIGHTS OF THE DEPARTMENT OF PEACE LEGISLATION

-Hold peace as an organizing principle in our society;

-Endeavor to promote justice and democratic principles to expand human
rights;

-Strengthen non-military means of peacemaking;

-Work to create peace, prevent violence, divert from armed conflict,
use field-tested programs, and develop new structures in non-violent
intervention, mediation, peaceful resolution of conflict, and
structured mediation of conflict;

-Address matters both domestic and international in scope;

-Submit to the President recommendations for reductions in weapons of
mass destruction, and make annual reports to the President on the sale
of arms from the United States to other nations, with analysis of the
impact of such sales on the defense of the United States and how such
sales effect peace;

-Encourage the development of initiatives from local communities,
religious groups, and nongovernmental organizations;

-Facilitate the development of peace summits at which parties to a
conflict may gather under carefully prepared conditions to promote
non-violent communication and mutually beneficial solutions;

-Develop new programs that relate to the societal challenges of school
violence, guns, racial or ethnic violence, violence against gays and
lesbians, and police-community relations disputes;

-Sponsor country and regional conflict prevention and dispute
resolution initiatives, create special task forces, and draw on local,
regional, and national expertise to develop plans and programs for
addressing the root sources of conflict in troubled areas;

-Provide for the training of all United States personnel who
administer postconflict reconstruction and demobilization in war-torn
societies;

-Sponsor country and regional conflict prevention and dispute
resolution initiatives, create special task forces, and draw on local,
regional, and national expertise to develop plans and programs for
addressing the root sources of conflict in troubled areas;



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