Democratic presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich is scheduled to begin a two-day campaign swing through the Los Angeles area with a fundraiser Saturday night. On Sunday, Kucinich is scheduled to attend fundraisers in Mount Washington and Santa Monica and the Peace Expo in Baldwin Hills. The event marks the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Kucinich, an Ohio representative, has long sought to establish a Department of Peace, which he said would "make nonviolence an organizing principle at home and abroad and dedicate ourselves to peaceful coexistence, consensus building, disarmament and respect for international treaties."
"Violence and war are not inevitable," Kucinich said. "Nonviolence and peace are inevitable."
Kucinich is the first of four Democratic presidential candidates scheduled to be in the Los Angeles area in a three-day period. Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama will conduct fundraisers Monday, while New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson is set to speak at a conference in Century City and hold a fundraising.
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