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/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/2024/03/11/militarized-funding-biden-budget-totals-well-over-1-trillion-and-it-will-grow/
- While the larger 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 securi...
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/
- An extra $105 billion in mostly military spending is no small matter, especially on top of the $886 billion military budget that has been working its way through Congress this year. So, how did t...
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/
- ...federal spending from domestic programs toward the Pentagon.
Blog - /blog/2023/04/19/breaking-down-your-tax-bill/
- Our tax dollars should make life better, not go to waste. But the average taxpayer had to shell out over $1,000 for military contractors alone last year.
Blog - /blog/2023/03/27/biden-budget-does-some-good-poverty-and-fairness-it-could-do-more-if-it-cut-pentagon/
- ...federal programs for housing, education, public health, and more.
Blog - /blog/2023/03/20/immigration-policy-doesnt-have-be-way/
- For 20 years, the Department of Homeland Security has made life a nightmare for millions — but Dreamers like me have seen that there’s another way.
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/2022/08/01/police-violence-gun-violence-too/
- If we really want to curb gun violence in this country, our nation’s police budgets are a good place to start.
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...
Blog - /blog/2022/05/06/beyond-enforcement-paradigm-vision-transformative-budget-us-immigration/
- With our partners in the Defund Hate Coalition, we’re pleased to announce the release of the 2023 transformative budget proposal on U.S. immigration.
Blog - /blog/2022/04/13/biden-fy-2023-budget-maintains-trump-era-spending-ice-cbp/
- The Biden administration came into office promising to dismantle Trump’s harmful immigration policies. But we have been dismayed to see violent and deadly immigration enforcement policies c...
Blog - /blog/2022/03/09/whats-fy-2022-budget-deal-military/
- The budget deal announced today continues a longstanding trend of overfunding the military and underfunding domestic and human needs, providing $782 billion for the miltiary and only $730 bi...
