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Department of Peace & Non-Violence annual “Peace of the Pie” campaign, on behalf of the "Youth Promise Act" (YPA)

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Department of Peace & Non-Violence annual “Peace of the Pie” campaign, on behalf of the "Youth Promise Act" (YPA)

Time: May 7, 2010 from 1pm to 3pm
Location: Meet at Tally's Restaurant
Street: 1102 South Yale Avenue
City/Town: Tulsa
Event Type: anti-gang-violence, lobbying, courtesy-call, public, relations
Organized By: TPF Steering Committee
Latest Activity: May 7, 2010

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Join the Tulsa Peace Fellowship for participation in the Department of Peace & Non-Violence annual “Peace of the Pie” campaign, on Friday, May 7th 2010, for Mother's Day.

Rather than visit any Congressional Representative, we will promote the anti-gang legislation, "Youth Promise Act," in support of the Tulsa Police anti-gang unit's efforts. This year TPF will visit the East Tulsa police station, on behalf of the DoPNV campaign and the YPA.
More info: http://www.studentpeacealliance.org/act/promise-campaign

Meet inside the restaurant, at 11th & Yale. Ample parking available. Corner entrance.

We will see how many pies we can purchase at the supermarket, and then head to the police station at 11th & Mingo.

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Comment by Tony Nuspl on May 7, 2010 at 10:47am
The Department of Peace (H.R. 808): The most comprehensive bill in Congress to date that creates a Cabinet-level department to prioritize violence prevention and peacebuilding efforts in the Executive branch of our government.
http://www.thepeacealliance.org/content/blogcategory/43/68/

The Youth PROMISE Act (H.R. 1064 & S. 435): A bipartisan bill that funds and implements the best policy recommendations to reduce youth crime and violence through proven prevention and intervention practices, such as mentoring and after-school programs. The bill targets communities with the highest rates of youth crime and gang activity and empowers local communities with control over the use and oversight of resources, while holding communities accountable for their funding through measurement of cost, savings and effectiveness..
http://www.thepeacealliance.org/content/view/688/678/

Early advocates of celebrating Mother's Day in the United States envisioned it as a day of peace, to honor and support mothers who had lost sons and husbands to the carnage of the Civil War. In 1870 - nearly 40 years before it became an official U.S. holiday in 1914 - social justice pioneer Julia Ward Howe issued her famous Mother's Day Proclamation, which called upon mothers of all nationalities to band together to promote the "amicable settlement of international questions, the great and general interests of peace."

This May, at a time when our country is fighting two costly wars abroad and our own communities are torn apart by violence and over-incarceration, it's time for Mother's Day to return to its roots.

Proclamation

"Arise, then, women of this day! Arise all women who have hearts, whether our baptism be that of water or of fears!

Say firmly: "We will not have great questions decided by irrelevant agencies. Our husbands shall not come to us, reeking with carnage, for caresses and applause. Our sons shall not be taken from us to unlearn all that we have been able to teach them of charity, mercy and patience.

We women of one country will be too tender of those of another country to allow our sons to be trained to injure theirs. From the bosom of the devastated earth a voice goes up with our own. It says "Disarm, Disarm! The sword of murder is not the balance of justice."

Blood does not wipe our dishonor nor violence indicate possession. As men have often forsaken the plow and the anvil at the summons of war, let women now leave all that may be left of home for a great and earnest day of counsel. Let them meet first, as women, to bewail and commemorate the dead.

Let them then solemnly take counsel with each other as to the means whereby the great human family can live in peace, each bearing after their own time the sacred impress, not of Caesar, but of God.

In the name of womanhood and of humanity, I earnestly ask that a general congress of women without limit of nationality may be appointed and held at some place deemed most convenient and at the earliest period consistent with its objects, to promote the alliance of the different nationalities, the amicable settlement of international questions, the great and general interests of peace."

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