On Friday, February 13, 2009, Congressman
Bobby Scott (D-VA-03) and Congressman Mike Castle (R-DE-AL)
re-introduced the Youth Prison Reduction through Opportunity Mentoring,
Intervention, Support and Education, or Youth PROMISE Act into the U.S. House of Represenatives (Bill H.R. 1064). Companion legislation was also introduced in the US Senate (Bill S. 435) by Senators Robert Casey (D-PA) and Olympia Snowe (R-ME).
Download an exploration of the relationship between the proposed U.S. Department of Peace and the U.S. State Department and U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) that was conducted by volunteers in the Campaign for a U.S. Department of Peace.
There is a tremendous amount of data tracking violence and its impact. It's especially valuable to find resources describing the impact of violence in your own community. Below are some sources that we or volunteers in the Campaign for a U.S. Department of Peace have found useful.
Here is the list of Congressional Meeting Reports we have currently received for meetings and/or drop offs done during the 2009 National Conference in Washington, D.C.
More than 400 citizen lobbyists from over 40 states are meeting with their members of Congress today to tell them how Peace directly correlates with economic growth. More than 200 visits are planned on Capitol Hill to lobby for the establishment of a U.S. Department of Peace.
Waking up this morning, I found myself to be in a state of pure
amazement that in a few hours I was going to be on the Hill meeting
with the staff of Colorado Representatives, lobbying for a Department
of Peace. I have lobbied before in Fort Collins, Colorado but lobbying
on the Hill in Washington D.C. was a much different experience. This
morning over ten Colorado constitutes set to the street.
With Rob Atkinson’s passing in the hearts and minds of many of the
conference attendees, a brief memorial was held for him Sunday morning
as a way to celebrate his life and all his work with the campaign.
With this incredible conference entering into its final days, Sunday
morning began with grassroots sharing where the campaign heard about
the various successes across the nation both in the general Peace
Alliance campaign and the Student Peace Alliance.
Today, members of the Peace Alliance and Student Peace Alliance
Conference traveled through an experience that will forever impact
their lives. The morning session was called, “Be the Hero You’ve Been
Waiting For.”
As many of us know, it isn’t often that one crosses an organization
like the The Peace Alliance, and the general Department of Peace
campaign. Tonight we began our conference by reigniting old friendships
from previous events and conferences, both with people inside our
states as well as with people across the nation.
Paul Chepikian out did himself again in creating a fantastic new video and then packaged it with some of our other videos in a new DVD called "Peace Earth."
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