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House Bill is # H.R. 808
There is no bill before the Senate at this time.
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• Peace is practical and cost effective:
Read Peace Alliance's "Hope on the Horizon: Making Cents of Peacebuilding "
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• Read LA Times Feature
"Give Dept. of Peace a chance?"

• Red Hot Chili Peppers
support the DOP
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Watch Streaming
Video of the
Cronkite/Kucinich Conversation

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Listen to excerpts
from
Southern California
Training Day

Featuring:

Lynn McMullen

Learn more about:

• The process for getting the DOP Bill passed.
• How to advocate for the Department of Peace Bill to your Congressional Rep.
• How to connect with DOP supporters in your Congressional District
• How to powerfully talk to friends to invite them to support the DOP
• Creative ways to handle skeptics
• Your personal role in getting the Bill passed.

Meetings in North County are now being held at:
Seaside Church of Religious Science
1613 Lake Drive
Encinitas, California, 92024

Contact Pat Mc Farlane for more info.

CLICK HERE to receive AFDOP Email Updates
with reminders of monthly meetings and regular updates on the progress of AFDOP and the Department of Peace.

ACTION ITEMS AND WORKING TEAMS

"Kids for Peace" Team -
The "Kids for Peace" Team, headed by Jill McManigal and Donna Pinto, blossomed into its own vibrant organization, and has its own website! The group is busy planning events, talks at schools, school "clubs", and school activities regarding the DOP Bill, and the power of peace in the hands of children. For further information, go to the Kids For Peace website!


"City Council and Board of Supervisors Resolutions Supporting the DOP" Team - We have teams working on getting the San Diego City Council (and other, local city councils), and the San Diego County Board of Supervisors, to pass resolutions supporting the passage of the DOP Bill. If you want more information, and/or want to sign up for this Team, simply click here and we will make sure you get to the right person.

"AFDOP Concert for Peace" Team - If you want more information about, or want to sign up for the Team to plan the above-described "Concert for Peace", and the events that will be a part of it (i.e. crafts for children, raffle, tabling for the DOP, American "Potlatch", etc.), simply click here; send your name, e-mail address, and phone number(s), and we will make sure you get to the right person.

Our General Meetings are no longer monthly, but quarterly. Also, location now changes with every meeting as we rotate through the five Congressional Districts in the AFDOP area.
Please check back with this website or sign-up to receive e-mail notices.

AFDOP SUPPORT TEAM:

If you're not able to attend meetings or events, find out how you can help by being part of the AFDOP Support Team. Please click here for more info.

Some Past Events:

• 1st Annual Walk for Peace - Balboa Park
• Tabling at the Red Hot Chili Peppers Concert - outreach to over 700 new people!
• Mother's Day Events - May 12, 2006: visit to San Diego and CA Congressional and Senate Representatives offices. Giving award to Cong. Kucinich and Cong. Filner at the special San Diego event.
• EarthFair in Balboa Park, San Diego, CA
• Valentine Day's State-wide Visit to CA Senators' Offices
• The All People's Breakfast, honoring Martin Luther King
• Participating in the Martin Luther King Day Parade
• Peace Resource Center's Alternative Gift Giving Bazaar
• "Celebrate Peace" National Tour - Workshops and Concert
• Oktoberfest in La Mesa, CA
• Participating in the Annual National Dept. of Peace Conference, Washington D.C. , including visits to our Congressional Representatives in support of the re-introduction of the DOP Bill in Sept. 2005
• Hillcrest CityFest
• Outreach with Marianne Williamson in San Diego, CA
• "Peace wants a Piece of the Pie!" visits to our local Congressional Representatitves
• San Diego's EarthFair in Balboa Park
• Awesome FUN-raiser at Kobey's Swap Meet
• Southern California Training Day, Feb. 12, 2005
• The All People's Breakfast, honoring Martin Luther King
• Participating in the Martin Luther King Day Parade
• National "Peace IS Possible" conference in Berkeley

Americans for the Department of Peace (AFDOP) is a citizens’ group advocating passage of the Bill to establish a cabinet level U.S. Department of Peace.
We are the Southern California chapter of the national organization to advocate for this Bill, “The Peace Alliance”: www.the peacealliance.org