Peace Day message from Kucinich
Kucinich released the following statement for International Peace Day
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Hi, this is Congressman Dennis Kucinich, and I want to thank each and every one of you who is participating in our International Day of Peace House Party, and our House Parties across the country. Thank you for your presence, thank you for your commitment, to a world view of interconnection, of interdependence.
The International Day of Peace recognizes that each of us across this nation and each of us around the world has the opportunity to connect and to create new conditions so that we're not trapped by war, we're not trapped by government policies which compel us to support war, but we, through he power of the human heart, have the ability to free ourselves, and the nation, and the world, from this type of thinking which says war that is inevitable.
On this, the International Day of Peace, we get the opportunity to make a connection between the thought of peace, and peace action, and to integrate peace action into the politics of our nation, because it is our campaign which enables us to be able take the message of peace into the narrative of our nation, into the discussions we have in our community. Indeed, into the very homes and places where we're gathered on this day.
We need to let people know that it is peace which is practical and war which is not.
We need to let people know that it is peace which can enable prosperity and war which brings poverty.
We need to let people know that it is our campaign which gives people a hope that we can construct a doable peace based on a commitment to specific policies, embodied in principles of a world as one. Our policies seek to get rid of all nuclear weapons, to get rid of all biological and chemical weapons, America needs to affirm the principles of the nonproliferation treaty and biological and chemical weapons convention by signing those treaties. And, America needs to move forward to get rid of all land mines and small arms which cause a proliferation of combat and wars in many countries of the world. And we need to rejoin the world community by participating in the international criminal court.
The creation of a structure of international peace requires the United States to rejoin the world community in a commitment which is binding, in an upholding of the principles which animated the founding of the United Nations. How ironic it is that America, as the home of the United Nations, has separated itself from the very principles which live and breathe every day in that structure, in New York.
This is the moment where through a political campaign we can help America achieve a transformation and we understand that such a transformation is necessary. With an administration that has inflicted upon this nation the consequences of thinking of unilateral policies, and preeemptive war, the thinking which has produced the nuclear first strike policies, and the builiding of new nuclear weapons. This is the time that we have to reclaim a more beneficiant role for America in the world.
What a wonderful moment, on this, the International Day of Peace, for us to come together, to talk about what we may do to keep America towards a direction where we can affirm our participation in the world community towards peace. So it is your presence here which makes possible this campaign, which makes it possible for this common effort to achieve success. All across this country at this very moment, thousands and thousands of people are gathered, planning a new future for America, planning a direction where we make nonviolence an organizing principle in our society through the creation of a Department of Peace. Planning a new international policy through reconnecting with the world, planning a role where we can truly set down our swords, and beat those swords into plowshares.
This is the moment, and we're the ones we've been waiting for. My friends, your participation in this campaign makes all the difference.
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