The US Department of Peace

This coming Fathers Day, dads nationwide will decline the usual panoply of ties, golf tools, and cologne for a gift youd never think of giving a letter to the editor discussing the importance of HR 808, legislation in the House of Representatives that will create a U.S. Department of Peace and Nonviolence.
The Student Peace Alliance (SPA), the youth-led extension of the Department of Peace movement, is taking the lead in this national letter-to-the-editor campaign. As students, said Aaron Voldman, Director of the Student Peace Alliance and a junior at Brandeis University in Massachusetts, we are all too aware that the roots of violence were planted a long time ago and today we bear witness to the impact. We are determined to be part of th
The Fathers Day Campaign comes on the heels of The Peace Alliances successful Peace Wants a Piece of the Pie! action day held just before Mothers Day, during which citizen activists nationwide delivered pies and information regarding the urgent need for a Department of Peace to more than 250 Congressional offices. The Peace Alliance has citizen activists in all 50 states, many of whom are expected to join the students in writing letters to the editor.