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Town Meeting For Jobs Not Wars – October 30, Philadelphia: 10/27/2010

S. Strauss - PA Council of Churches

Town Meeting for Jobs Not Wars


Our National Priorities, The Trend: 10/24/2010

- Went 2 the Bridge

I found an old sign out on the back porch yesterday. It had a pie chart of the FY09 federal budget with 51% for military. Our current pie charts show 54% of the federal budget pie spent on military. If Obama's FY11 budget request is met, the new pies we'll ...


Wars? What Wars?: 10/23/2010

Oregonian Editorial Board - The Oregonian

Repeal health care reform. Reduce the deficit. Cut taxes. Increase transparency. Rein in the banks. Block socialism. Reject the failed policies that drove the country into the ditch. Candidates hustling for votes are sounding a multitude of themes in their campaigns, but by and large are ignoring one that should ...


Npp Fed Budget Bangor Oct 2010: 10/23/2010

lsavage3 - YouTube

Jo Comerford, Exec. Director of National Priorities Project nationalpriorities.org explains the federal budget. Active Community Teach-in sponsored by Peace & Justice Center of Eastern Maine, 10-9-10, Bangor.


A Victory For Counter-Recruitment : 10/22/2010

Kevin Young - The Comment Factory

Young people tend to enlist in the military when they see no better option for their future. Far from being an "all-volunteer" force, as commonly asserted, the US military survives in large part by coercing economically-disadvantaged and jobless youth into its ranks while promising them huge enlistment bonuses, money for ...


Congressional Candidates Face Off In Barnstable: 10/22/2010

Michael C. Bailey - The Enterprise Cape News

As the four men and one woman running for US Representative of the 10th Congressional District took to the stage, the audience erupted in cheers and chants for their chosen candidate.


No Respect, No Peace: 10/21/2010

Cosmo Garvin, Seth Sandronsky and Hugh Biggar - Sacramento News & Review

It's been a tough year for the Peace and Freedom Party in California. In the spring, voters passed Proposition 14, the "top two" primary system, which will probably spell the end of third-party election campaigns in the state. The press, particularly the big dailies, have never been very understanding, or ...


Taxpayer 'Invoice' Might Change The Debate In D.C.: 10/17/2010

Brian Tumulty - Ithica Journal

WASHINGTON -- What if you received an invoice in the mail every year to show just how your federal tax bill was spent?David Kendall of the Third Way, a Washington think tank of moderate liberal policy leanings, broached the idea recently in an article that included a sample invoice.Kendall used ...


Changing The Nation's Spending Priorities From War To Peace: 10/16/2010

By Madelyn Hoffman - OP-ED News

On Saturday, October 2nd, a bus provided by the Communications Workers of America (CWA) left from the Essex Junior Academy, next door to the Bloomfield-based New Jersey Peace Action (NJPA), and traveled to the One Nation Working Together (ONWT) rally on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. NJPA organized 4 ...


Local Grannies Protest Cost Of Afghan War: 10/15/2010

Maud Easter - Albany Times Union

Tomorrow, Saturday the 16th, I'll be out on the sidewalk by Colonie Center, joining other grandmothers – or in my case, grandmotherly aged women – to demand an end to the Afghan War. We'll be there because we know we and our families can't afford this war anymore. Instead of ...