Kucinich on Peace (Kucinich for Congress)
From the Kucinich for Congress issues page on peace:
A Leader for Peace and Justice
Our Congressman, Dennis Kucinich, has been the recipient of two major peace awards, The 2003 Gandhi Peace Award and the 2002 Cranbrook Peace Prize. In 1999 he was awarded the William Moses Kunstler Racial Justice Award.
His work was honored March 1, 2003 at the Spirit of Peace World Summit in Sydney, Australia, as well as recognized in many other world forums. He is respected internationally as an advocate of peaceful, nonviolent conflict resolution. His proposal to create a cabinet-level Department of Peace is supported by over fifty members of the United States House of Representatives.
Democrats from eight states, including Colorado, Alaska, Hawaii, Washington, Oregon, Minnesota, Iowa and Texas have put support for the Department of Peace into the party platforms of their state! As a result of our Congressman's proposal, a similar plan has been introduced into the House of Commons in London. Legislators from other nations are also considering adapting the Kucinich plan for their own countries.
The Department of Peace seeks to make nonviolence an organizing principle in our society through the creation of a cabinet level position. It would create programs to address directly the challenges of domestic violence, spousal abuse, child abuse, gang violence, racial violence, violence against gays, and police-community relations conflicts. Peace making would become part of the everyday work of our nation. On an international level the Department of Peace would work to head off conflicts before they percolate into violent response.
Recently, Walter Cronkite, one of America's most respected and trusted news anchors, wrote a nationally syndicated column supporting the creation of a Department of Peace.
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