Aug 12,2004 Walter
Cronkite endorsed the DOP in an editorial Read it
here.
Urgent Your help is needed now!
Contact your representatives and ask him to support HR
3760
Now, you can
participate in an historic citizen lobbying effort to create a U.S.
Department of Peace (HR 3760), sponsored in the House of
Representatives by Congressman Dennis Kucinich. This bill
establishes nonviolence as an organizing principle of American
society, providing the U.S. President with an array of
peace-building policy options for domestic and international use.
The peace that this department will uphold, promote and protect is a
part of our heritage. In 1776, the Second Continental Congress
unanimously declared the independence of the 13 colonies, and the
achievement of peace was recognized as one of the highest duties of
the new organization of free and independent
States.
The mission of the new department
will be:
- hold peace as an organizing principle, work proactively and
interactively with each branch of the Federal Government on all
policy matters relating to conditions of peace
- serve as a delegate to the National Security Council
- call on the intellectual and spiritual wealth of the people of
the United States and seek participation in its administration and
in its development of policy from private, public, and
nongovernmental organizations; and
- promote the development of human potential
- work to create peace, prevent violence, divert from armed
conflict, use field-tested programs, and develop new structures in
nonviolent dispute resolution
- take a proactive, strategic approach in the development of
policies that promote national and international conflict
prevention, nonviolent intervention, mediation, peaceful
resolution of conflict, and structured mediation of conflict
- address matters both domestic and international in scope; and
- encourage the development of initiatives from local
communities, religious groups, and nongovernmental
organizations
Find a group of like hearted individuals, let your friends and
neighbors know. Better yet collect signatures on the petitions
available at www.dopcampaign.org and get them to your elected U.S.
Government officials or visit an official yourself. (In the U.K. you
can do the same to support the establishment of a Ministry for
Peace.)
Please do what you can.
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