Moving to a Culture of Peace

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New Jersey Peace Action Executive Director Madelyn Hoffman had a terrific op-ed in the Bloomfield Life last week, titled Moving to a Culture of Peace linking local gun violence, military spending and how it is robbing our communities of needed investments in human needs, at the federal, state and local levels, and the endless war in Afghanistan. Madelyn cites recent polls showing public support for that war at an all-time low, yet the Obama Administration announced over the weekend an agreement to keep U.S. forces in Afghanistan until at least 2024 (more on that agreement, and what we can do to prevent its implementation, will be coming soon).

And speaking of a culture of peace, our National Field Director, Judith Le Blanc, is currently in Chicago representing Peace Action at an international conference of Nobel Peace Prize Laureates (no, Judith didn’t win the Nobel Peace Prize – not that she isn’t deserving! – she was invited to attend as Peace Action is the largest U.S. member of the International Peace Bureau, which won the peace prize in 1910, yes, over a hundred years ago!). IPB was also the coordinator for the Global Day of Action on Military Spending, which many Peace Action affiliates around the country participated in last week with Tax Day actions.

Watch this space soon for posts from Judith from Chicago. In the meantime, the Chicago Tribune had an interesting story yesterday about the Nobel Peace Laureates conference, it’s worth a read.

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  • Oliver Robinson
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    The war in Afghanistan will soon be history the American people is tire of the amount of money it take for our U.S Troops to to stay in that war, my vision President Obama want to end the war in Afghanistan and when the American people re elect Obama in this 2012 election he will deploy the u.s.troops which is a great plan we here in America,s do not want to wade a and fund a War that the people in Afghanistan can do for from them self,so take it
    from me. from your Anerica community organizer
    useing common ground

    Rev Dr.O.D. Robinson Psy.D.

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