Posted by Robert Weir, district leader

The Department of Peace campaign is alive and well and growing.

New legislative co-sponsors

Two additional legislative co-sponsors have recently agreed to support House Resolution 808 to establish a Department of Peace. You can help the DoP campaign by calling Rep. John Larson of Connecticut (202-225-2265) and Rep. Fortney Stark of California (202-225-5065) to thank them for supporting this important endeavor. The total number of sponsors for HR 808 is now at 68, the most the bill has garnered at this point in a legislative session.

Government resolutions in Support of the DoP

The city commission of Providence, RI, is the most recent community government group. The vote by city commissioners on July 17, 2007, was unanimous. Providence joins San Francisco, Atlanta, Chicago, Detroit, Cambridge, Newark and other city, town and tribal councils around the country who have supported this effort to place a Secretary of Peace at the President's Cabinet table and the paradigm of peace building and nonviolence within the federal government.

New DoP members and petition signers in SW Michigan

Locally in Michigan's 6th Congressional District, 71 new members have joined the campaign within the past month, and 247 people have signed a petition to Fred Upton, asking him to become a legislative co-sponsor to the Department of Peace bill HR 808.