[PAA-Discuss] Congratulations! You Did It - Press Conf at 9:00 am Eastern

[BART BOYCE]

A moment of hope .  But is still falls under the category of 
 
   " I'll believe it when I see it."  
 
           And white phosphorus bombs scar the landscape of Gaza
    and DIME seared children are murdered hiding in schools and
         hospitals and mosques  ....and mothers weep ....
                    and fathers , too .



#yiv458500179 

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The Peace Alliance






bart...

Congratulations to each and every one of you for helping our dream, establishing a Department of Peace, win on Change.org!

We came in second place, but ALL of the top ten ideas will be featured at the press conference Friday, and the coming months.

For some of you this online contest became your passion and you nurtured our progress day and night. Special kudos to each of you, you know who you are!
Thank you could not be enough.

Others of you voted and sent the request on to your families and a few friends. Thank you as well, for each action you took.

And some of you just voted yesterday. Thanks to you as well. Honestly, it took all of us doing our part to make this moment a reality. In the process we have educated THOUSANDS of people about the Department of Peace and our campaign.

Heart Phoenix of our Board said to me today, that even if we spent 25k on a well planned advertising campaign we could not have reached as many people with our message, so passionately and powerfully. I agree whole heartedly.

You are the miracle and I honor each of you for our partnership.

Today at 9:00 AM at the National Press Club in Washington, DC, Change.org will be announcing the top ten winning ideas to the Obama transition team. The following social network leaders
 will be speaking at the press conference:

Chris Hughes, director of My.BarackObama.com and co-founder of Facebook,

Jose Antonio Vargas, political reporter for the Washington Post,

Joe Trippi, who was Senior Adviser to John Edwards' 2008 Presidential Campaign and Campaign Manager of Howard Dean's 2004 Presidential Campaign, and

Lee Brenner, Political Director at MySpace.
To represent all of us, Kathy Kidd, Wendy Green, Chelsea Allinger, our new legislative intern, and Caitlin Rosser will all be at this press event.
All the ways that winning this challenge will further our mission and goals will take time to reveal.
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This afternoon Kathy and Wendy and I met with Ben Rattray, who founded Change.org, about what this will mean in the future. We are still learning what they want to offer us to aid our campaign, but this is just the beginning. More updates to come.

Congratulations to all!

May peace prevail on the earth.


Lynn McMullen
Executive Director
The Peace Alliance
P.S. CSpan frequently covers events at the Press Club but it is not currently on their schedule. If you read this in time and wish to contact them to encourage them to cover it, the phone number is: (202) 737-3220; Fax:202-737-6226,
email: viewer at c-span.org.
If we learn anything new about media coverage after this email goes out, we will post it on our website.


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