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7th Annual
Day of
Unity Vigil
AZ DOP Meetings
The Casa
Franciscan Renewal Center
in the "Brother Anthony" room
across from the cafeteria.
5802 E. Lincoln Dr.
Scottsdale, AZ 85253
Doors open: 6:30 pm
Meeting begins @ 7 pm
Our Mission
The AZ Dept. of Peace Campaign empowers civic activism for creating a culture of peace, locally and globally. It educates, inspires and supports participation in a grassroots campaign to establish a cabinet level of the Executive Branch, U.S Department of Peace and advocates for evidence-based legislation & policies that will reduce violence and build sustainable peace domestically and internationally.
Our Vision
We envision a culture of peace that weaves trhough local legislation and those who create it thereby supporting local, national and global Dept. of Peace efforts. |
2009 DOP Conference Summary
The Department of Peace Campaign conference concluded successfully on March 23 at the Hyatt Regency Crystal City Hotel headquarters in Arlington, VA near D.C. 500 volunteers from all over the U.S. attended, including over 100 high school and college Student Peace Alliance members.
Representative Dennis Kucinich is the primary sponsor of HR808 Dept. of Peace legislation. His closing talk to us on March 23 was riveting. Susanna, Rebecca, Mark and I thank all the staff and volunteers at the Peace Alliance for coordinating such an impactful conference.
There are currently 68 sponsors of HR808. We need 218 to move the bill forward in the House. Please continue to call your Rep's office in D.C. to urge them to become sponsors. Go to www.congress.org & type in your zipcode to get contact info for your Representative.
AZDOP Campaign was well represented in D.C. We were impressed with the elevated interest in the revised HR808 Dept. of Peace legislation in every office we visited on March 23 & 24 on the Hill. Our delivery was professional, intelligent, concise, and friendly.
Two key new points for you to be aware of:
- The requested budget will be $10 billion annually
- 85% of the Dept. of Peace work will focus on ending violence in the U.S.
Our friend Cap Dean, former defacto Mayor of Baghdad in 2004, wrote a personal letter to each Representative, asking them to support the creation of the Dept. of Peace. The staff were impressed with his 30 year global service to our country.
We urged the staff in 7 Congressional offices to ask our Representatives to become sponsors of HR808, joining Rep. Grijalva. We urged the staff in Senators' Kyl & McCain's offices to ask our Senators to introduce companion legislation to HR808 into the Senate.
We met face to face with:
- Rep. Raul Grijalva & Daniel Brito: Legislative Assistant
- Rep. Jeff Flake & Colleen Gilbert: Legislative Assistant
- Rep. Trent Franks & Tina Ramirez: Foreign Policy Advisor
We met and talked with these staff in the following offices:
- Rep. Dennis Kucinich: Amy Vossbrinck, Scheduler & Cate Veith, Legislative Assistant
- Rep. Gabrielle Giffords: Liz Berry, Legislative Assistant
- Rep. John Shadegg: Katie Thomas, Legislative Assistant
- Rep. Harry Mitchell: Paul Swanson, Legislative Assistant
- Rep. Ann Kirkpatrick: Mario Bonifacio, Legislative Assistant
- Rep. Ed Pastor: Karen Foster Wright, Legislative Assistant
- Sen. John McCain: Robert Fischer, Press Assistant & Mark Holzrichter, Military Legislative Fellow
- Sen. Jon Kyl: Nathan Hauser: Legislative Fellow
We also had wonderful private tours of the Supreme Court & Capitol and new Visitors' Center. The cherry blossoms and daffodils are blooming, despite the 30-50 degree weather.
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Caitlin Flaherty, New Executive Director of AZDOP 
On April 7, 2009, on the eve of the 6th anniversary of the founding of the Arizona Dept. of Peace Campaign, as well as the national Dept. of Peace Campaign,
Terri Mansfield passes the executive director torch to Caitlin Flaherty, at the monthly AZDOP Campaign meeting.
Terri will be busy writing her peace book, helping with family commitments, and with being a part of Dr. Edgar Mitchell's Quantrek Team, researching consciousness and alternative energies.
For the latest info on
the national movement
www.ThePeaceAlliance.org
Year 2000 was a starting point for a major mobilization as it was the International Year for the Culture of Peace (UN Resolution A /RES/52/15): see IYCP Exhibition. On this special occasion, a global movement for a culture of peace was initiated by the United Nations to create a " grand alliance " of existing movements that unites all those already working for a culture of peace in its eight domains of action. This movement is now growing with the International Decade for a Culture of Peace and Non-violence for the Children of the World (2001-2010) (UN Resolution A /RES/53/25).
ONGOING: OPRAH-ECKHART'S “NEW EARTH” WEBCAST
Wm I. Georgevich Director, Windowpane Observatory
Peace Ambassador: Co-creating Peace on Earth and in Space
www.GalaxiesForPeace.com
505.463.8360 (Supporters of the AZDOP Campaign)
We have created OprahEckhart.com so that Oprah Winfreyand Eckhart Tolle's "A New Earth" live webcast can be seen on the internet on any computer anywhere in theworld. We have donated our time and expertise so that everyone can easily experience this paradigm shift -- at their convenience, anytime, for free. If you missed the live broadcast, you can see it all here in YouTubeformat:
You may also comment on these programs at this blog.
All 90 minutes of each Monday class is posted on Tuesday afternoons. So check back each week at OprahEckhart.com.
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"THE VOICE":
New Documentary
by David Sereda
a film about consciousness and the search for enlightenment.
Terri Mansfield was interviewed on behalf of the Arizona Dept. of Peace Campaign for this project, and appears in the documentary along with many stellar humans.
You can read more about it at this link:
Also interviewed are:
Dr. Gary Schwartz, Summer Bacon, Ann Albers, Crystal Frost, Dr. Stanley Krippner, Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, Bhante Piayananda, Bhante Shibuya Subhuti, Darlene Jaman, Deborah Katz, James Kirkland, Dr. Jeffrey Long, Jennifer Partridge, Jim Law, Joseph Mark Cohen, Krishna Das, Krishna Madappa, Dr. Lynn Sereda, Michael Thomas Mann, Mileece, Mukti Ma, Dr. Robert Thurman, Dr. Roger Nelson...as well as comments by David Sereda.
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