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NM DPI / The New Mexico Department of Peace
Initiative
The New Mexico Department of
Peace Initiative is an effort inspired by Dennis Kucunich's
bill to create a cabinet level department in the federal government -
equal to the Departments of State, Defense and the others - to
incorporate values of peace and non-violence as organizing principles
of our society and the policy of our government.
The New Mexico DPI is being promoted by a growing statewide
network of citizen activists as similar efforts are being undertaken in
other states to create a national groundswell for a federal
department. It has already been endorsed by Memorials
in the New Mexico House and Senate and is gaining
support as a bill to actually establish an Office of Peace.
We speak with Mary Lou Cook, one of the cofounders of
DPI, Dominique Mazeaud, DPI ambassador, Maria Santelli
of Albuquerque Center for Peace and Justice and long time DPI
associates Virginia Miller, Debra Oliver and Mary
Ellen Gonzalez. They have made remarkable progress in
advancing this project over the last few years but have a long way to
go, not only to establish the Office of Peace but to establish Peace as
an organizing principle of our society and government... and in our
minds and hearts.
Click
here
for NM Department of Peace Initiative Click here for
Allbuquerque Ctr for Peace & Justice Click here
for Dennis Kucinich's
Dept of Peace effort
Click here
for The Peace Alliance national campaign for a US Dept
of Peace & state Depts of Peace
Click here
for Peace Talks' excellent interview w/ Dennis Kucinich
& more
Click here
for NM Senate Mem 22 introduced by Cisco McSorley Click here
for NM House Mem 39
Introduced by Max Coll Click here for the current US House version of the Department
of Peace bill
Many
thanks to
United Methodist Church of Santa Fe for continuing support for
activism and social uplift.
The New Mexico Department of
Peace Initiative is an effort inspired by Dennis Kucunich's
bill to create a cabinet level department in the federal government -
equal to the Departments of State, Defense and the others - to
incorporate values of peace and non-violence as organizing principles
of our society and the policy of our government.