Senator Dayton introduces Department of Peace legislation in the Senate!

[goodhue]

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Subject: Senator Dayton introduces Dept of Peace legislation!
From: "The Peace Alliance- Dept. of Peace" <[e-mail]>
Date: Fri, September 23, 2005 11:32 am
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Senator Dayton introduces Department of Peace legislation in the Senate!

Dear Friends,

On September 22nd, 2005, Senator Mark Dayton (D-MN) introduced the Department of Peace legislation into the U.S. Senate (S. 1756), calling for an elevation of the Reagan-established "Institute of Peace" to a Cabinet-level position.

This is a huge moment for our campaign, and for the future of the Department of Peace! Senator Dayton's leadership and enthusiastic support will take us to the next level in our work as we continue to advocate for this historic legislation.

Speaking from the Senate floor, Dayton said, "If we are to remain the world's leader, and if we are to lead the world into a more secure and more prosperous future, we must become better known and more respected for our peacemaking successes than for our military forces. Peace, to have any lasting value, must be advanced, expanded and strengthened continuously. Doing so requires skill, dedication, persistence, resources, and, most importantly, people."

Appropriately, Dayton's legislation coincides with the 44th anniversary of the nation's oldest federal agency dedicated to peace. On September 22nd, in 1961, President Kennedy signed legislation that created the Peace Corps, an idea originally proposed by Senator Hubert Humphrey in 1957.

Many thanks to our Department of Peace activists from Minnesota who met with Senator Dayton this past week at our conference and
encouraged him to take this on. In particular we thank three of our youth leaders: Chelsea Skog, Eric Skog and Raven Kinnell who also met with the Senator. Senator Dayton said he was doing it for them, and for all our youth.

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[bullimiami]

1. This was originally an idea of George Washingtons.

More recently Dennis Kucinich has mentioned it.

Wonderful idea. The hate-mongers will shoot it down though im sure.

[goodhue]

2. *** CALL YOUR SENATORS ***

*** CALL YOUR SENATORS ***

We ask that each of you help continue this momentum by calling your own Senators today and urging them to support (bill # is S. 1756). Contact your Senator at the U.S. capitol switchboard: [phone]. To find your Representative, visit http://www.vote-smart.org Tell the staffer who answers your call that you want your Senator to sign on as a co-sponsor of the Department of Peace legislation. Request a written response explaining your Senator's position and the reasoning behind it. It's most effective if you call first, then follow-up with a fax or email.

[goodhue]

3. Particularly Boxer!

[goodhue]

4. nonviolent kick

[Silverhair]

5. Yawn. Snowball's chance in hell. Symbolic only.

We can't even get the 41 votes to stop Roberts, and somebody things this is going to fly?

[converted_democrat]

6. I think that's the point......

It won't pass, but it's far from a bad idea. I think he is trying to show that this administration and puke party is uninterested in peace. Dayton gave a speech that was breath taking a few months ago, about how he wished that he had never voted for the Iraq war, and how he did not like being lied to by this administration. He was shaking by the end of it, it was amazing.

[eridani]

7. Yes, that speech was pretty good

Too bad he's retiring. It is the exact speech that we need to hear from every Dem who voted for the IWR.

[goodhue]

8. Yes, but Dayton voted against IWR

He was one of the 23 no votes in the Senate.

http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=107&session=2&vote=00237

NAYs ---23
Akaka (D-HI)
Bingaman (D-NM)
Boxer (D-CA)
Byrd (D-WV)
Chafee (R-RI)
Conrad (D-ND)
Corzine (D-NJ)
Dayton (D-MN)
Durbin (D-IL)
Feingold (D-WI)
Graham (D-FL)
Inouye (D-HI)
Jeffords (I-VT)
Kennedy (D-MA)
Leahy (D-VT)
Levin (D-MI)
Mikulski (D-MD)
Murray (D-WA)
Reed (D-RI)
Sarbanes (D-MD)
Stabenow (D-MI)
Wellstone (D-MN)
Wyden (D-OR)

[converted_democrat]

9. Whoops....

Maybe he was just saying that the war was a mistake....But he damn near had a coronary on the Senate floor during his speech. He said he deserved better and Americans deserved better than lies. His face got really red and he was drenched in sweat before he was finished. It was amazing, I'm sad he is stepping aside.

[Silverhair]

10. What you need to make it a political reality.

You need some really good PR. You need to let the public know what it WOULD do.

Right now, just the name: "Dept of Peace" sound naive. It sounds like you expect to do a Care Bears Stare and solve the problem of genuinely hostile states.

The public rejected that with McGovern.

You are going to have to show the public that promotion of peace does not mean becoming defenseless. You need to show the public that you have a Daddy face as well as a Mommy face.

[goodhue]

11. kick

[NVMojo]

12. A congresswoman talked about this at the DC rally yesterday ...

[Rex]

13. A vote against this is a vote against Jesus Christ.

Nice to see it will go on record.

[Mr_Spock]

14. Like we need any more proof that Republicans hate Jesus!!

They are amazingly sick people over there.

[goodhue]

15. peace kick