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...
Blog - /blog/2022/02/07/us-competes-china-what-cost/
- The House passed a sweeping bill to counter China economically, the America COMPETES Act, with $52 billion for fund the production of computer chips. What else could that pay for?
Blog - /blog/2021/10/20/hypocrisy-federal-spending-debate/
- Why is it controversial to spend on social programs but not the Pentagon? Or to subsidize the poor but not the rich?
Blog - /blog/2021/09/21/npp-trade-offs-tool-shows-us-exactly-what-resources-we-could-invest-when-we-divest-ice-cbp/
- Congress has the resources to invest in our community.
Blog - /blog/2021/06/11/osamas-ghost-economics-overextension/
- Twenty years of military quagmire of the Middle East has contributed to the fraying of the U.S. economy even as China has rapidly become the new center of global capital accumulation.
Blog - /blog/2021/08/09/rural-towns-deserve-better-prison-jobs/
- Rural prison towns need jobs. There are better ones than guarding people in cages.
Blog - /blog/2021/06/30/americas-nearly-13-trillion-national-security-budget-isnt-making-us-any-safer/
- Pouring more money into endless wars, nuclear weapons, overseas bases, and boondoggle weapons programs won't protect anyone.
Blog - /blog/2021/08/04/save-planet-we-need-demilitarize-police/
- Even with climate disasters all around us, nonviolent environmental demonstrations face fierce police repression. Why?
Blog - /blog/2021/04/16/bidens-pentagon-still-trumps-pentagon/
- With his Pentagon budget proposal last week, President Biden made clear his intention to continue in the footsteps of President Trump. The proposal called for an increase in Pentagon and war...
Blog - /blog/2021/04/09/biden-2022-budget-raises-military-spending-past-750-billion/
- Today, President Joe Biden unveiled his administration's FY 2022 “skinny budget” request. While not a full breakdown, the “skinny budget” offers a critical glimpse at topline d...
Blog - /blog/2020/11/16/election-over-congress-must-remember-rest-world/
- Even a lame-duck Congress must remember their actions have global consequences too.
Blog - /blog/2020/10/19/overhauling-us-foreign-policy-bitter-fights-ahead/
- After Election Day, we can’t just go back to the status quo. On foreign policy especially, movements need to be ready to push a new administration hard.
Blog - /blog/2020/10/12/imagining-years-repair-indigenous-peoples-day/
- The Years of Repair shows how we can transform moments of urgent global crisis into catalysts for demanding and achieving a restorative, progressive vision for the future.
Blog - /blog/2020/10/02/pentagon-took-money-ppe-and-bought-weapons/
- Make no mistake: The Trump administration’s heartlessness and militarism are costing lives.
Blog - /blog/2020/09/25/achieve-climate-justice-demilitarize-border/
- Immigrant justice is climate justice. Demilitarization is core to achieving both.
Blog - /blog/2020/09/16/its-pandemic-military-spending-hikes-should-be-off-table/
- Wildly profitable military contractors have been unapologetically shaking down lawmakers for pandemic cash.
Blog - /blog/2020/08/31/15-years-after-hurricane-katrina-its-time-to-demilitarize-disaster-relief/
- Fifteen years after Hurricane Katrina made landfall on the Gulf Coast, it remains a cautionary tale for how distorted budget priorities can result in militaristic, rather than humanitarian, disaster r...
Blog - /blog/2020/08/27/small-towns-dont-need-military-helicopters/
- ...federal program dumps military equipment on local police forces. We need to end it.
