Blog - /blog/2024/08/04/sonya-masseys-murder-reminder-domestic-and-foreign-violence-are-intertwined/
- Addressing police violence in our communities requires reckoning with America’s militarized foreign policy that leads to wars abroad and at home.
Blog - /blog/2024/07/05/defund-jsf-program-refund-our-communities/
- On the afternoon of March 28, 2024, an F35-B Lightning II fighter jet crashed into a hillside in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The nearly brand-new aircraft, demolished and ablaze, was ...
Blog - /blog/2024/04/30/us-military-spends-more-next-10-countries-2023/
- ...military spending.
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/
- 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/2024/03/04/what-we-spend-epa-compared-pentagon-contractors/
- Each year Congress gives more than 50% of its discretionary budget to the Pentagon. and one of the most wasteful uses of this money is on contract spending.
Blog - /blog/2024/02/07/senates-failed-war-and-border-deal-not-security/
- The $118 billion bill that Senate leaders put forward this week is a deal that never should have been made.
Blog - /blog/2023/12/05/hunger-strike-permanent-ceasefire/
- From left to right: DE State Rep. Madinah Wilson-Anton, Bita iuliano (activist, grassroots organizer), Ashik Siddique, Sumaya Awad (author/activist, Adalah Justice Project), Rana Abdelhamid (organizer...
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/2023/11/09/veterans-day-lets-care-veterans-and-our-communities/
- Even though they often come up short, the U.S. has a good thing in its veterans’ programs. Veterans deserve this level of care and dignity - in fact, we all do.
Blog - /blog/2023/10/25/israel-ukraine-border-whats-bidens-105-billion-military-bill/
- ...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 this thing get so big?
Blog - /blog/2023/10/25/series-ups-and-downs-immigrants-us/
- For much of the past few weeks, there has been so much wrong in the world. However, immigrant advocates show us that there are reasons for hope.
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/
- The 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/2023/05/04/us-still-spends-more-its-military-over-144-countries-combined/
- ...military is a major cause of the crises we face today. But it’s possible to reinvest in real solutions and begin to repair the harm caused by many decades of war.
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/2023/04/19/breaking-down-your-tax-bill/
- ...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/
- The president’s budget proposal for the next fiscal year, released March 9, was heralded by human needs groups for preserving and in some cases expanding critical human needs programs ...
Blog - /blog/2023/03/23/20-years-what-did-iraq-war-truly-cost/
- The war claimed more than lives and treasure — it claimed a future’s worth of lost opportunities. Now, younger generations are demanding them back.
