[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 163 (2017), Part 11]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page 15972]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




   COMMEMORATING THE 60TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE FOUNDING OF PEACE ACTION

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                        HON. SHEILA JACKSON LEE

                                of texas

                    in the house of representatives

                        Monday, October 16, 2017

  Ms. JACKSON LEE. Mr. Speaker, I rise to pay tribute to Peace Action, 
the nation's largest grassroots peace network, on its 60th Anniversary.
  Founded as `SANE' in November 1957 in New York City by Lenore 
Marshall and Norman Cousins and others in response to the nuclear arms 
race, the organization was renamed Peace Action in 1993.
  Among the organization's most notable members and supporters in its 
long and illustrious history are former chaplain of Yale University and 
pastor of New York City's Riverside Church, William Sloane Coffin; 
Marlon Brando, Henry Fonda, Marilyn Monroe, Arthur Miller, Harry 
Belafonte, Ossie Davis; Martin Buber, Pablo Casals, Bertrand Russell 
and Albert Schweitzer.
  For 60 years, Peace Action has worked for an environment where all 
are free from violence, war, and the proliferation of nuclear, 
biological, chemical, and other weapons of mass destruction.
  A core principle underlying the work of Peace Action is that 
longstanding global conflicts require long-term solutions and that U.S. 
foreign policy has a lasting effect on the world.
  That is why Peace Action advocates on behalf of American foreign 
policy that supports peace, human rights, and democracy and organizes 
against pre-emptive wars and bellicose militarism.
  Every day Peace Action chapters and affiliates in states across the 
country are working every day to promote a new U.S. foreign policy is 
based on peaceful cooperation, diplomatic engagement, and collective 
action to confront the greatest common threats to humankind--war, 
famine, disease.
  Peace Action understands that war cannot be the appropriate response 
to every international or domestic conflict is not a suitable response 
to conflict and is committed to working toward the day that every 
person on earth can live in a world without war or threat of nuclear 
annihilation.
  That is what Peace Action and its legions of peace warriors have done 
for the past 60 years and it is the work they are committed to today 
and will be committed to until the job is done.
  Happy birthday Peace Action, and I thank them for their tireless and 
unceasing efforts in pursuit of a more peaceful world.

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