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H.R. 808 has 68 co-sponsors, and has been endorsed by over 50 organizations including: the American Psychiatric Nurses Association, Amnesty International, National Organization for Women, Pax Christi USA, Physicians for Social Responsibility, September Eleventh Families for Peaceful Tomorrows, Tikkun, and Veterans for Peace.[3]

Thirty-one city councils and commissions (including those in Los Angeles, Chicago, Atlanta, Minneapolis, Newark, and Detroit), three county boards of supervisors, and one tribal council, have passed resolutions endorsing legislation to establish a U.S. Department of Peace. These combined local governing bodies represent more than 12.5 million people.[4]

Regional Groups Bake and Deliver Pies


Chef Jon Anderson shares pie-making secrets as Mimi and Sherry Fowler look on.

In Charleston, South Carolina, volunteers got together to bake pies at The Fork and Spoon Kitchen, a local cooking school.  Owner, Jon Anderson,[5] donated the space and the ingredients for apple and blueberry pies. 

South Carolina State Coordinator, Dee Partridge, said that they are hoping that their pies may encourage Rep. Henry E. Brown (R-SC) to “bite” on the Department of Peace legislation. His staffers, at least, were delighted with their pies.


Mimi, Peace Pie Maker

Ten-year-old Mimi helped make the apple pies:

Meryl Ann Butler: What do you think about baking pies for peace? 

Mimi: I think it is a good idea. I bet Representative Brown likes getting the pies, because they looked scrumptious!

MAB: What do you think about kids helping to promote peace? Or, do you think it should be a job for the grownups? 

Mimi: That is a hard question. Yes, I do think kids should help to promote peace. Because we are going to be grown up some day and we need to take charge.

MAB: How do you feel that your pies will help with peace?

Mimi: I think my pies are going to help with peace because I was thinking of peaceful thoughts while I was making the pie. So I think that will put a lot of peace into whoever eats it.


Happy pie recipient, Jan Arnow. Photo: Wils Murphy

Kim Summers-Bates, Kentucky State Coordinator, said that her Louisville group delivered pies to a number of delighted recipients, including Jan Arnow, Executive Director of the Center for Interfaith Relations, given in thanks for the center’s continuing support for the Department of Peace campaign activities.

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Fantastic! by Jan Baumgartner on Sunday, May 11, 2008 at 10:21:29 AM
All the World Hungers for a Piece of Peace Pie by Gail Davis on Sunday, May 11, 2008 at 1:37:04 PM
UPDATE! (IM) PEACH PIE GARNERS WEXLER SUPPORT! by Meryl Ann Butler on Saturday, May 24, 2008 at 12:40:15 PM

 
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