June 19, 2008
Last week, two Peace Alliance board members flew to DC to join two staff and two Student Peace Alliance members for three jam-packed days of lobbying and meetings on and off the Hill. Eighteen meetings later-with Senate, House, fellow peace advocates, cosponsors and non-cosponsors alike--we walked away with one clear message:
We are right on track.
Everywhere we turned, the power of our grassroots strategy was affirmed. Over and over we heard the message: Nothing is more important than constituent voices. Keep doing what you're doing. Don't give up. Don't let up. Keep making your voices heard--especially in your districts and especially during this election season.
We need to keep this momentum going, and we need your help to do it.
Please
donate to The Peace Alliance today -even just $10 for peace will help us take everything we learned and use it to help make reducing and preventing violence a national priority.
If you can afford to send even $10 please do so today. It may be the best $10 investment you ever make.
Your $10 will support:
- A co-creative national strategy development process to guide this movement through the coming years and ensure our continued collective impact
- Continued support of regional conferences, in Chicago (this weekend), Florida (July 18-20) and California (August 1-3)
- A collaborative process to garner input for a potential bill rewrite
- Expansion of the SPA Coordinating Committee paid interns, helping guide and grow the Student Peace Alliance national movement for a Department of Peace
- New national staff to expand and focus donor cultivation, fundraising, legislative strategy and business management functions
- Design and implementation of a restructured website
- Expanded training in web-based organizing tools-for staff and grassroots volunteers alike
- New brochures and updated materials to support grassroots activism in all 50 states during this critical election year cycle
- Our presence at the Democratic National Convention in Denver this August
- And so much more
It was a profound privilege to participate in last week's meetings, and we would never have been there without the support of your vision, commitment, action and funding.
We must continue to step up our game if we hope to maintain our momentum. If every person in our network gave just $10, we would raise more than $300,000! Imagine the impact of this collective contribution.
And imagine the ripple effect if each of us enrolled one or two more people in also sending just $10-less than the cost of the average trip to the movies.
The potential of such a small individual investment reminds us that collectively, we make a difference exponentially greater than what any one of us could do alone.
Click here to make your $10 donation
Or write your check payable to The Peace Alliance and send it today to:
The Peace Alliance
PO Box 70095
Rochester Hills, MI 48307
Thank you.
The list of offices we met with is below, and some of you can expect to hear more about specific actions related to some of them.
Together, we are making a difference. We are inspiring our members of Congress to be the leaders they truly want to be. We are helping to shape the history of our great nation and to inspire deep and lasting change-for our children, grandchildren, and beyond. It is an honor to share this journey with you.
In Gratitude and Partnership,
