Congratulate Obama on Nobel Prize, and Share Your Hopes for Peace

The 2009 Nobel Peace Prize committee has awarded President Obama with this year's honor, citing his "extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples" exemplified in his April 5 speech in which he called for a world without nuclear weapons.

He has many opportunities to be a peace advocate today, as his Administration considers:
* the course of the wars in Central Asia and Iraq,
* how diplomacy can resolve tensions with Iran and North Korea through dialogue better than violence,
* a federal budget that devotes too much money to weapons and too little for families struggling to get by in this economic crisis, and
* how to create the nuclear-free future that Obama has strongly articulated.

Today is a golden opportunity to show that a pro-peace majority supports the President's first steps toward peace and will help him take the next steps as well.

Congratulate Barack Obama and share with him your vision of how we can all help wage peace.