get your city to pass Kellogg Briand Peace Pact Day making War Illegal

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the Vets for Peace in Minnesota have been gathering signature to pass the Kellogg Briand Peace Pact Day
they have enough signatures to get a City Council member to bring up this resolution.
Get or faith organization or group to pass this pact in your city also



PLACE..... St Paul City Hall , Room 300 15 W Kellogg
TIME........3:30
DATE........August 21, 2013
SUBJECT....PROCLAMATION OF KELLOGG BRIAND PEACE PACT DAY
CONTACT...Larry Johnson, President Mpls St Paul Chapter of Veterans for Peace 612 747 3904
Steve McKeown, Kellogg Briand Event Coordinator Veterans for Peace 612 869 2040
[e-mail] Veterans for Peace
1806 Riverside Ave.,#3a
Mpls.,Mn 55454

At 3:30 P.M. on Wednesday, August 21, a resolution will be introduced and voted on by the St Paul City Council. This resolution is being brought forward by Councilmember Dave Thune for the purpose of proclaiming August 27, 2013 as " Kellogg Briand Peace Pact Day " in celebration of the 85th anniversary of the Pact that was signed on this day in 1928 which outlawed war and is still recognized by 84 countries including our own. This Pact which is still U.S. and International Law was engineered by then U.S. Secretary of State Frank Kellogg and co authored by Aristide Briand the French Foreign Minister. Kellogg won the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts in 1928, and is the only Minnesotan to have done so, and for whom Kellogg Boulevard is named after. Briand won this same Prize in 1927 for his Peacemaking efforts.

Councilmember David Thune whose Ward the Kellogg House is in will be introducing this Proclamation at the request of several St Paul residents including members of the Mpls St Paul Veterans for Peace chapter. The Kellogg Briand Pact "renounces war as an instrument of National Policy " which is the exact wording of Veterans for Peace's Statement of Purpose. There will be a Press Conference immediately after the voting in a room next to the Council Chamber. Please come.

ADDENDUM
Frank Billings Kellogg (December 22, 1856-December 21, 1937), was a mostly self-educated farm boy who grew up near Rochester, Minnesota but rose to national and international preemince as a prominent attorney,trust-busting national prosecutor, president of the American Bar Association, U.S. Senator, U.S. Secretary of State, co-author of the Kellogg Briand Pact, associate judge on the Permanent Court of International Justice and the only Minnesotan to win the Nobel Peace Prize. He died in St Paul in the " Frank B. Kellogg House" ( Fairmount and Crocus) that he had made home since 1889 and which in 1976 was listed as a National Historic Landmark.

Although few residents of St Paul presently know much about the once famous Minnesotan, the compelling history behind the Pact bears remembering and honoring....a Pact that legally called for international disputes or conflicts to be settled by peaceful means only, and was the legal basis for prosecuting the Nazis at Nuremberg following World War 11.

This recognition is long overdue! Therefore, in hopes of encouraging awareness of the work of Frank B Kellogg and of the peace movement of the 1920's that moved him to action, the City of St Paul will be presented with the opportunity to officially proclaim August 27th as " Kellogg Briand Peace Pact Day ".

[annm4peace]

1. City of St Paul, MN passed it

now to try and get your City to do the same thing