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/2024/10/18/hurricane-helene-nexus-climate-crisis-and-us-militarism/
- Last month, people across the southeastern U.S. lost their homes, communities, and lives to the devastating impacts of Hurricane Helene. To protect our shared future, decarbonization and demilita...
Blog - /blog/2024/10/08/2024-climate-week-webinars-divest-militarism-invest-climate-justice/
- Colonial violence and militarism are at the root of global inequality, ecological devastation, and perpetual conflict that is driving the triple planetary crisis.
Blog - /blog/2024/10/02/new-nuclear-era-same-negligent-spending/
- ...military-heavy federal budget– for something we don’t need or want.
Blog - /blog/2024/09/05/costs-us-militarization-philippines-abuse-people-and-planet/
- ...military is getting out of hand in fueling wars abroad–even the ones that haven’t begun.
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.
