Blog - /blog/2025/06/09/ten-things-we-could-fund-instead-military-parade/
- Here are ten programs President Trump has cut (or threatened to cut) that we could save for about $45 million or less.trill
Blog - /blog/2025/05/12/new-mexicos-national-guard-initiative-highlights-nations-skewed-priorities/
- On April 8, 2025, New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham authorized the deployment of 60 to 70 members of the National Guard to the city of Albuquerque.
Blog - /blog/2025/03/04/watch-what-trump-does-not-what-he-says/
- Tonight President Trump will address Congress, and who knows what he’ll say. But it’s easy to get too swept up in what he says. Instead, watch what he does.
Blog - /blog/2025/02/12/if-pentagon-contracts-were-federal-agency-they-would-be-biggest-federal-agency/
- If some theoretical well-meaning person or effort were looking for ways to save taxpayer dollars, Pentagon contracts would be the place to start. Musk has set his team of DOGE destroyers on agencies f...
Blog - /blog/2024/12/17/peace-justice-and-people-centered-budget-2024-and-beyond/
- ...federal budget that prioritizes people and the planet over power and profit. Next year and onward, we'll continue the fight.
Blog - /blog/2024/12/09/organizing-and-mutual-aid-are-answers-peace-climate-summit-was-anything/
- Militarism and fossil fuel dependency are inextricably linked– yet world leaders ignored this reality when they gathered to hash out global climate goals at the so-called ‘peace&rsquo...
Blog - /blog/2024/11/26/after-cop29-whats-next-international-climate-finance/
- The COP29 climate summit concluded over the weekend with a new global target for international climate finance. The U.S. must rebalance foreign aid priorities to fund life and the well-being of o...
Blog - /blog/2024/11/25/take-7-pentagon-fails-another-audit/
- With big publicity around efforts to cut government spending, we’ll find out whether the incoming administration and Congress are willing to hold the Pentagon accountable.
Blog - /blog/2024/10/02/new-nuclear-era-same-negligent-spending/
- ...federal budget– for something we don’t need or want.
Blog - /blog/2024/04/22/april-climate-and-war-linked-more-ever/
- It’s Earth Day today, and the U.S. and the world seem determined to ignore the climate crisis and instead invest in war. That’s a huge mistake.
Blog - /blog/2024/03/11/militarized-funding-biden-budget-totals-well-over-1-trillion-and-it-will-grow/
- ...budgets makes some important strides forward, this discretionary proposal won’t provide security we need, in terms of costs of living, quality of life, climate change, or securing peace.
Blog - /blog/2023/11/21/pentagon-fails-its-sixth-audit/
- There is an entity whose job it is to prevent this sort of abuse: Congress. With each failure at the Pentagon, Congress is failing, too.
Blog - /blog/2023/10/25/israel-ukraine-border-whats-bidens-105-billion-military-bill/
- ...budget that has been working its way through Congress this year. So, how did this thing get so big?
Blog - /blog/2023/07/06/july-fourth-lets-celebrate-reimagining-immigration-policy/
- It’s not too late for President Biden to set a precedent of treating migrants with care, dignity, and respect, and request that Congress cut spending on deportations and detentions.
Blog - /blog/2023/06/28/peek-poor-people-campaigns-moral-poverty-action-congress/
- Last week, hundreds of people from the Poor People's Campaign assembled in Washington DC to fight against poverty.
Blog - /blog/2023/05/31/parity-schmarity-military-big-winner-fy-2024-budget-deal/
- ...budget deal struck by the White House and House Republicans begins what could be a long-term shift in federal spending from domestic programs toward the Pentagon.
Blog - /blog/2023/04/28/climate-militarism-converges-power-shift-2023/
- Power Shift 2023 makes space for the coming together of ideas and movements, including climate and militarism.
Blog - /blog/2023/03/27/biden-budget-does-some-good-poverty-and-fairness-it-could-do-more-if-it-cut-pentagon/
- ...budget continues to fund the Pentagon and war at levels that far outpace all federal programs for housing, education, public health, and more.
Blog - /blog/2023/03/09/quarter-bidens-budget-will-go-pentagon-contractors/
- ...federal discretionary budget under the president’s proposal would go to the military, fully two-thirds would go to a combination of the military, veterans’ programs, and heavily militarize...
Blog - /blog/2022/05/26/no-digital-prisons-or-physical-cages/
- The Biden administration continues to support increased funding for ICE’s e-carceration and surveillance programs — so-called “Alternatives to Detention.” We must def...
