{"id":6061,"date":"2017-07-27T22:03:01","date_gmt":"2017-07-28T02:03:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peacealliance.org\/?p=6061"},"modified":"2017-07-27T22:03:01","modified_gmt":"2017-07-28T02:03:01","slug":"peacebuilding-and-pie-go-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peacealliance.org\/peacebuilding-and-pie-go-together\/","title":{"rendered":"Peacebuilding and Pie Go Together"},"content":{"rendered":"

This Land is Our Land: <\/strong><\/p>\n

Mother\u2019s Day Pie Meetings from CA to MA<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Mother\u2019s Day was originally a call for a day of peace<\/strong> by Julia Ward Howe after she nursed and tended the wounded during the American civil war and worked with the widows and orphans of soldiers on both side of the war.\u00a0 The Peace Alliance (TPA) made Mother\u2019s Day a call for our nation to prioritize peacebuilding<\/strong> by establishing a U.S. Department of Peacebuilding and by practicing peace in our personal lives, the community, schools, a more humane justice system, and internationally.\u00a0 This is a long-time and favorite TPA action which many legislative staffers welcome.<\/p>\n

During an extended 2017 Mother\u2019s Day celebration, we advocated for a U.S. Department of Peacebuilding (HR 1111) and other peacebuilding initiatives with legislators throughout the country with Mother\u2019s Day \u201cPeace wants a piece of the federal budget pie\u201d<\/strong> meetings, letters and pie drop-offs with members of Congress and Senators in at least CA, GA, IL, MA, ME and OH.\u00a0<\/p>\n

DoP and peacebuilding advocates, and partner groups such as San Diego Kids for Peace, a middle school principal, and affiliates of the Metta Center for Nonviolence in Petaluma, CA, met with the staffs and\/or the legislators:<\/p>\n