The current national US Dept of Peace group campaign is to send postcards to President Elect Obama on Inaguration Day asking him to make funding violence prevention programs a top priority of his presidency.
Some suggested ideas you can use or adapt:
- Make violence reduction and prevention a top priority in your first term
- Invest in proven violence prevention efforts for our schools and homes.
- Strengthen peacekeeping efforts internationally through our foreign assistance and diplomacy.
- Lead us to peace with all your efforts.
- As part of the Department of Peace campaign, I am urging that violence prevention and peacebuilding programs and policy be one of the top priorities of your legacy.
In addition, our New Yorkers for a Dept of Peace chapter had the additional idea to try and get 10 "key community leaders" to send postcards. These are people who represent a lot of others, such as the president of a nonprofit organization dong peace work, teachers, policeman, clergy, college professors doing research on nonviolence, etc. Think about who you might know in your community and ask them to write a postcard too!
Collect as many as you can between now and January 20, 2009!
On January 20, 2009, mail all of your postcards to:
Thank you so much for reading - feel free to pass on to anyone you think might be interested!President Barack Obama
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenuew NW
Washington, DC 20500
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