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Comment by Chris Aquino on February 20, 2010 at 10:16am

New Mexico is hosting The Peace Alliance Mountain States Regional Conference on June 18-20, 2010. Speakers will include. Marianne Williamson and Congressman Dennis Kucinich. There will be a Banquet on the evening of June 19. The Banquet is included in the price of the Conference. Also tickets for the Banquet can be purchased separately. All info for the conference will be available here on DoPeace soon!!

Comment by BK on January 20, 2010 at 9:37pm

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Comment by BK on December 20, 2009 at 12:17pm

Local Youth Awarded Scholarship to National Convention

A diverse group of New Mexico citizens working together to explore ways to support and create sustainable peace gather on the 3rd Saturday of every month at the Mountain View Market in Las Cruces NM. Their citizen lobbying efforts have allowed Las Cruces to join Albuquerque, Santa Fe and Silver City by successfully leading the way for Las Cruces to adopt a city-wide Peace Resolution. They are currently working to secure similar accomplishments at county and state levels in the national effort (HR 808) to establish a US Department of Peace.

On Saturday, December 19 the group awarded scholarships to local youth active in the Student Peace Alliance in order that they might attend the upcoming 2010 Student Peace Alliance National Conference at Southwestern University. Those receiving the scholarships Abbey Carver, 16 of Las Cruces High School and Andra Olney-Larson, 18 of Alma d’ Arte Charter High School. Both young women have demonstrated consistent commitment and citizenship at local and national levels this year; Abbey in her tireless lobbying efforts resulting in the adoption of the Las Cruces Peace Resolution and Andra as the New Mexico youth representative at the Peace Alliance National Convention in Washington DC.
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Comment by BK on November 18, 2009 at 8:56am

Sending HOORAYS & THANKS to Tim Reed of Las Cruces for securing TWO scholarships for local youth to join us in attending the SPA Nat'l Convention in Feb!

Comment by Megan Argo on September 6, 2009 at 3:07pm

Great site! Thanks Jodee and the New Mexico Peace team for moving the cause forward and connecting us to this site!! For anyone interested, I also made a blog post on here called "Us Against Them" presenting an argument for the DOP and something simple we can all do to move towards non-violence and cooperation. Feel free to share all or part as it works in your efforts to spread the word.

Comment by Jodee Oyas on September 5, 2009 at 12:15pm

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Comment by Jodee Oyas on July 7, 2009 at 5:50pm

The NM DOP had a great meeting with Virginia Miller yesterday in Santa Fe. She has agreed to introduce a resolution to the mayor and the city council. We believe we will have a resolution by the end of summer. She felt that the mayor would also endorse. Thank You Chris, Patty and Virginia for all the hard work.
Virginia Miller is a state Legislator in New Mexico. She has introduced the Office of Peace bill into the state assembly since 2003. She is just wonderful.
We have agreed to add her office of peace bill into our resolutions in NM.
Patty Duncan is introducing a resolution to the village Council of Peralta tomorrow night. Wish her luck!

Comment by Chris Aquino on July 2, 2009 at 10:58am

Let's not forget that Las Cruces just passed a resolution and that our group down there is very active!

Comment by Jodee Oyas on June 30, 2009 at 10:53am

Lets make that 3 city Council Resolutions! Our Leader Down South, Chris Aquino has done it again! We now have the City of Las Cruces saying YES to a Department of Peace! Way to go Chris!

Comment by Jodee Oyas on June 18, 2009 at 10:01am

The wonderful "Land of Enchantment" New Mexico.
The New Mexico Dept. of peace currently has 2 city council resolutions
(ABQ and Silver City), 1 county commission Resolution ( Grant County) and meetings set-up with our congressional leaders! We also have 3 active groups in NM , ABQ, Silver City and Taos that meet monthly.
For info about the NM DOP, please email jodee at jodeeoyas@yahoo.com