Peace Pie

A great idea from The Peace Alliance. House parties to start the ball rolling for the Department of Peace. From their site:

 

"Legislation for a cabinet-level Department of Peace will be re-introduced in the House of Representatives on September 12 th , 2005. On May 6 th , in honor of Mother’s Day, citizens around the nation are bringing pies to their congressional office to let their Representative know that “peace wants a piece of the pie!” We urge you to support this and other efforts that cultivate a more peaceful society. This historic legislation establishes nonviolence as an organizing principle of American society, providing the U.S. President with an array of peace-building policy options for domestic and international use.

The Department of Peace will focus on nonmilitary peaceful conflict resolutions, to prevent violence, and promote justice and democratic principles to expand human rights. The Department of Peace would implement measurably effective intervention for issues such as, school and gang violence, racial and hate crimes, domestic violence, reduced prison incarceration rates, and international conflicts i.e., programs and methodologies that are fundamentally more effective than the application of brute force.

For more information on this legislation and our campaign, please visit The Peace Alliance website at: www.ThePeaceAlliance.org. "