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Contributor: apierre
Date: 2003-03-18 10:49:06
( Part 2 of 2 )
WE CAN MAKE IT HAPPEN:
LOBBY WASHINGTON TO CREATE A U.S. DEPARTMENT OF PEACE.
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IV. PRINT FLYERS (on the GRA website at
www.renaissancealliance.org) Hand them out at Peace
marches and post them in coffee houses, universities,
churches, bus station, staff break room, everywhere you can
think of!
As soon as Congressman Kucinich "drops" the bill, we will post
its number on our website. Between now and April 8, e-mail as
many people as you can, giving them the information about
the Department of Peace lobbying effort. Ask them to help us!
Most importantly, FOLLOW UP. It is not enough to merely let
people know that the legislation is being introduced; our job is
to lobby for it, so that it passes. Congress is a reactive body,
but if our Congress people do not hear from us directly, then
there is nothing for them to react to.
Please send us an email to peace@renaissancealliance.org and
let us know you will be a DOP Activist Leader. This means you
will adopt your Member of Congress and stay with this process
for the duration of this legislative session. You will be
contacted within a week, to follow up. We will give you a new
action each month to forward the bill. On the GRA website you
will also find many additional ways in which you can participate
in your community on an ongoing basis-- to help educate,
speak up, and lobby for this important legislation.
There is much to do, to change the direction of our country.
Each of us can make a difference. The time to do it is now.
For more information on this campaign, or for general or
registration information on our peace gathering in Washington,
visit our website at www.renaissancealliance.org, email us at
peace@renaissancealliance.org or call us at (586) 754-8105.
Please help us spread the word! You can share this information
with everyone you know. If you are a part of an activist
network, please consider sharing this information. To sign-up
to receive email updates on the campaign, send a blank email
to: join-gra-enews@lists.renaissanceunity.org
Global Renaissance Alliance
P.O. Box 3259
Center Line MI 48015
Phone: (586) 754-8105
Fax: (586) 754-8106
www.renaissancealliance.org
peace@renaissancealliance.org
READ THE BILL:
Please visit our website at www.renaissancealliance.org to
read the latest draft of the proposed legislation.
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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