{"id":8094,"date":"2019-07-20T19:18:56","date_gmt":"2019-07-20T23:18:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peacealliance.org\/?p=8094"},"modified":"2019-07-20T19:18:56","modified_gmt":"2019-07-20T23:18:56","slug":"peace-is-patriotic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peacealliance.org\/peace-is-patriotic\/","title":{"rendered":"PEACE IS PATRIOTIC"},"content":{"rendered":"

Call the “SUMMER 11 for HR 1111” <\/span>
\nMembers of Congress<\/span>
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\nAsk them to<\/span> COSPONSOR
\nDEPARTMENT OF PEACEBUILDING
\nLEGISLATION<\/p>\n

Please Call Between Today & July 25th<\/span>
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\n___________________________________________<\/strong><\/h4>\n

The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.
\n– Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.<\/strong><\/em><\/span>
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n

On July 11, 2001, Ohio Congressman Dennis Kucinich introduced the first ‘modern’ Department of Peace bill which recognized that international and domestic violence are interconnected.<\/strong>\u00a0 The root causes of violence and the root solutions for peace are interdependent.\u00a0 In 2013, California Congresswoman Barbara Lee became the sponsor of this legislation and renamed it the Department of Peacebuilding Act (DoP\/ HR 1111).<\/p>\n

Please take this summer action to add to the number of DoP cosponsors.\u00a0<\/strong> HR 1111 currently has 27 cosponsors — let’s add to this by calling the “Summer 11 for HR 1111” (see list below) today and before the Congressional recess at the end of July.<\/span><\/p>\n

This legislation makes peace and peacebuilding a national priority.<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0 This is part of our national DNA, with Benjamin Banneker — a free African American author, surveyor, farmer and naturalist — publishing in his Almanac during the 1790s an essay by Benjamin Rush — a signer of the Declaration of Independence — calling for an office of peace.\u00a0 “It is much to be lamented that no person has taken notice of the [Federal Constitution’s] total silence upon the subject of an office of the utmost importance to the welfare of the United States, that is, an office for promoting and preserving perpetual peace in our country.”\u00a0\u00a0 <\/p>\n

Throughout the history of this country, numerous peacebuilding bills have been introduced.\u00a0 Our Declaration of Independence provides that all are entitled to certain “unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”\u00a0 Peace is essential to all of these.\u00a0 Peacebuilding is essential to our existence and the existence of the earth<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n

As we commemorate 18+ years of work for a cabinet-level Department of Peacebuilding, 243 years since the Declaration of Independence and many years of work to prioritize peace in this nation, please call the “Summer 11 for HR 1111”<\/strong><\/span> and ask them to cosponsor the Department of Peacebuilding bill<\/strong>:<\/span><\/p>\n