Raw Food and Peace

[Guest guest]

Thanks for the below posting! As followers of Raw Food many of us

are also in the vanguard regarding Peace and the re-education of our

society as related to problem solving. War and violence and fear

serve no one and never have. It is up to those who are aware of this

to encourage and help raise the consciousness of others.

 

THE ESSENCE OF IT:

> LOBBY WASHINGTON TO CREATE A U.S. DEPARTMENT OF

> PEACE, APRIL 6-8 CONFERENCE IN D.C.; SIMULTANEOUS

> CALLS, FAX'S, EMAILS FROM AROUND THE NATION. ...

> This bill establishes

> nonviolence as an organizing principle of American

> society, cultivating an array of peace-building

> policies and procedures. On April 8th, this historic

> legislation will be introduced for a second time...

>

> HOW YOU CAN MAKE IT HAPPEN:

> I. COME TO OUR CONFERENCE IN WASHINGTON D.C. ON

> APRIL 6-8.

>

> THE LONG OF IT:

>

> Dear Friends and Family,.

> I am committed to this action below. Everything I

> believe and all of my

> actions draw me to this profoundly positive action.

> I feel free in my

> conscience to send it to you for your serious

> consideration.

>

> At this critical time in our nation's history,

> righteous action is the

> antidote to despair. Please participate in a

> powerful citizen lobbying

> effort to create a U.S. Department of Peace,

> sponsored in the House of

> Representatives by Congressman Dennis Kucinich. This

> bill establishes

> nonviolence as an organizing principle of American

> society, cultivating an array of peace-building

> policies and procedures. On April 8th, this historic

> legislation will be introduced for a second time;

> whether or not it becomes law is dependent on

> whether we, the people of the United States, take

> the time to make phone calls, lobby our

> Congresspeople, and in other ways

> create the political will to make it happen.

>

> Please join us, either in Washington D.C. for the

> bill's introduction and our initial lobbying

> campaign, or in your local area, as we blanket every

> Congressional district with a strong message of

> support for a Department of Peace. Written below are

> the relevant details.

>

> Thanks to Michael Lerner for his support of this

> effort, and to the Tikkun Community for its vital

> contribution to the conscious evolution of American

> politics.

>

> In peace and love, Marianne Williamson

>

> LOBBY WASHINGTON TO CREATE A U.S. DEPARTMENT OF

> PEACE, APRIL 6-8 CONFERENCE IN D.C.; SIMULTANEOUS

> CALLS, FAX'S, EMAILS FROM AROUND THE NATION

>

> Congressman Kucinich's legislation to create a

> Department of Peace

> focuses on individual and group responsibilities for

> establishing nonviolence as an organizing principle

> in society. The Department of Peace 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 as or

> before they begin, while improving national

> security, including the protection of human rights

> and the prevention and de-escalation of unarmed and

> armed international conflict.

>

> Let us stand as passionately for peace, as some now

> stand so passionately for war.

>

> HOW YOU CAN MAKE IT HAPPEN:

>

> I. COME TO OUR CONFERENCE IN WASHINGTON D.C. ON

> APRIL 6-8.

> During our conference we will hold seminars on

> Non-Violent Principles

> and Civics/Lobbying Training, led by Marianne

> Williamson and Lynn

> McMullen along with a presentation by Congressman

> Kucinich on the Department of Peace legislation. In

> addition, we will travel together to the Capitol to

> lobby our representatives. It is particularly

> important that as many people as possible come to

> this event in order to lobby our Congresspeople on

> April 8 when the bill is " dropped. " There is

> no political act more powerful than actually meeting

> with your Congressperson. Set a meeting with you

> Member of Congress or April 8th. You can visit

> www.renaissancealliance.org to learn more about how

> to set a meeting with your representative and to

> register for the conference. Web link here!

>

> II. If you cannot come to Washington SET UP A

> MEETING IN YOUR HOME

> DISTRICT WITH YOUR CONGRESSIONAL OFFICE on April

> 8th. Recruit as many people as you can to attend

> this meeting with you. Doing this, we will blanket

> the nation with meetings in support of the bill,

> both in DC and beyond. Our goal is a meeting with

> every single member of Congress or members of their

> staff so we need people from every Congressional

> district in the country to come forward and help.

>

> III. GET AS MANY PEOPLE AS POSSIBLE TO CALL, FAX &

> EMAIL YOUR

> REPRESENTATIVE on April 8th. Your job between now

> and April 8 is to make sure that everyone has the

> name and phone and fax number of their

> Congressperson (easy to find...visit

> www.Congress.org), and to call them on April 7 to

> remind them to make the call. It is a good idea for

> you to keep a list of the people who have agreed to

> call and the needed numbers in case they misplace

> the contact information.

>

> 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 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

> 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-

> graenews

>

> Global Renaissance Alliance

> - P.O. Box 3259 - Center Line MI 48015

> Phone: (586) 754-8105 Fax: (586) 754-8106

> www.renaissancealliance.org

> peace

>

> READ THE BILL: Please visit our website at

> http://www.renaissancealliance.org to read the

> latest draft of the proposed legislation.

>

> " The time for peace is now. At the dawn of a new

> millennium, there is no better time to review age

> old challenges with new thinking that peace is

> not only the absence of violence, but the presence

> of a higher evolution of

> human awareness with respect, trust and integrity

> toward humankind. Our

> founding fathers recognized that peace was one of

> the highest duties of the newly organized free and

> independent states. But too often, we have

> overlooked the long-term solution of peace for

> instant gratification of war. This continued

> downward spiral of violence must stop to ensure that

> future generations will live in peace and harmony. "

>

> -Congressman Dennis Kucinich

>

> 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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