Student Peace Alliance
PO Box 27601
Washington, District of Columbia
202-684-2553
PO Box 27601
Washington, District of Columbia
202-684-2553
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Send Congress a Valentine
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Student Peace Alliance | PO Box 27601 | Washington, District of Columbia | 202-684-2553
February 1 - 14 the Student Peace Alliance is encouraging everyone to send valentines to your Senators. In your note, highlight the costs of violence and the measures the Youth PROMISE Act would take to prevent violence while saving money. This year we will also be working with the Valentines Peace Project.
The Schoolcraft Student Peace Alliance Chapter in Michigan is meeting short term goals and creating long term plans in order to establish peace in the community, and for the students, in themselves.
SPA Chapter at Temple start a new class. In a sociology special topics course, college and high school students will work side by side to understand and explain violence in urban areas... The pilot urban violence course is unlike others at Temple. It was created after a campaign by the Student Peace Alliance related to an independent study for SPA Vice President Max Cuddy, a senior sociology and African-American studies major.
Lauren Schorr, Student Peace Alliance organizer from California, was recently recognized by her local newspaper. Lauren serves as the City Organizer for Sonoma, CA.
We are excited to share with you that Costa Rica has recently passed through their legislative body a bill to establish a Ministry for Justice and Peace! This is encouraging news as momentum continues to grow around the world in favor of establishing structures at the highest levels of government that make peace a priority. We congratulate the hard work of the campaign in Costa Rica! And, our own efforts continue to have an impact. 
