Peace Wants a Piece of the Pie - Department of Peace
Event Description:
Save this Mother's Day for our annual Peace Wants a Piece of the Pie. We will visit our congressional representatives bearing pies and requesting they fund the cabinet level Department of Peace with a small piece of the funding pie (federal budget).
On May 12th, tell Congress that PEACE wants a PIECE of the PIE! Ask your U.S. Representatives to support HR 3760 and Senators to support S1756 to establish a cabinet-level Dept of Peace to begin focusing on proven effective programs that reduce violence. Join us on May 12th (the Friday before Mother's Day), with pie in hand and/or Mother's Day cards and come to the Mickey Leland Building, 1919 Smith St., front entrance on Friday at 11 AM. We are expecting press coverage, so we need a good turnout. And also call your Members of Congress on Friday and ask for 1% of the U.S. budget to create a Department that will research, articulate and facilitate nonviolent solutions to domestic and international causes of violence. Call Senators in D.C. Switchboard: (202) 224-3121 or http://www.congress.org for Representative's local numbers. Ask them to put a focus on reducing violence by cosponsoring HR 3760 or S1756 to establish a Dept of Peace.
Also listen to Kathy's May 3 Open Journal on this topic, on the KPFT archives at http://archive.kpft.org/ - The DoP program starts about 6 minutes into the Open Journal archive for May 3, following the BBC news.
[We also have an action scheduled for Father's Day---Fathers everywhere will send pictures of themselves with their children to their Congressperson requesting them to cosponsor HR3760/ S1756 to establish a cabinet level Dept of Peace and Nonviolence.]
Contact Kathy Kidd at escramble('kathykidd','earthlink.net'); for more information or 713.443.9938 or visit the national website at www.dopcampaign.org
Event Sponsor:
Department of Peace Campaign
Event Contact Name:
Kathy Kidd
Event Phone Contact Information:
713.443.9938
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Event Website:
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