Article - /pressroom/articles/2020/06/17/morning-defense-support-for-deep-pentagon-cuts/
June 17, 2020 - Lee’s nonbinding resolution calls for reductions of up to $350 billion in the defense budget and recommends, among other options, winding down long-running wars and shuttering 60 perce...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2020/06/16/barbara-lee-unveils-plan-cut-350-billion-pentagon/
June 16, 2020 - "Redundant nuclear weapons, off-books spending accounts, and endless wars in the Middle East don't keep us safe."
Analysis - /analysis/2020/us-over-investment-pentagon-left-us-vulnerable-coronavirus/
June 15, 2020 - Congress allocates hundreds of billions of dollars to the Pentagon and militarized policing and immigration systems in the name of security, while underinvesting in priorities like health care, medica...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2020/06/09/demilitarizing-police-fruitful-rallying-cry-defund/
June 9, 2020 - ...military-style equipment for law enforcement functions that don’t benefit from having it. “Police departments can ask for almost any piece of military equipment and get it with little scru...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2020/06/08/morning-defense-senate-begins-ndaa-markup-today/
June 8, 2020 - “At a minimum,” the defense budget should be reduced “by cutting war spending and unnecessary weapons and service contracts,” says Lindsay Koshgarian, program director of ...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2020/06/08/defund-the-police-vijay-prashad/
June 8, 2020 - Greg Speeter, the founder of the Northampton-based National Priorities Project, used to say that the values of a society should not be judged based on its Constitution; the values are clarified by the...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2020/06/02/peace-referendum-advances/
June 2, 2020 - ...military funding to address city-level priorities, including education, employment, and sustainability.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2020/05/27/america-needs-coronavirus-cure-not-more-war/
May 27, 2020 - Progressive democrats look to reduce the defense budget.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2020/05/20/asian-american-groups-demand-biden-take-down-ad/
May 20, 2020 - A confrontational U.S. posture towards China, no matter who is in the White House, has dire implications. "If China and the United States get into an arms race, we will be taking those resources away ...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2020/05/08/first-military-spending-last-in-covid19-response/
May 8, 2020 - COVID-19 is a dress rehearsal for the climate crisis, and right now we're failing.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2020/05/06/spending-trillions-defense-unprepared-disasters/
May 6, 2020 - ...military is mainly concerned with improving its own ability to cope with the effects, not building the proactive societal response that's necessary.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2020/05/05/climate-crisis-war-slow-streets/
May 5, 2020 - A new report by the National Priorities Project at the Institute for Policy Studies, released on Earth Day, has pointed to something seldom acknowledged within the U.S. climate movement: Put simply, w...
Analysis - /analysis/2020/no-warming-no-war/graphics/
April 29, 2020 - Share graphics from our new "No Warming, No War" report on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram using the hashtag #NoWarmingNoWar, or spread in your own networks:&nb...
Analysis - /analysis/2020/no-warming-no-war/alternatives-greening-military/
April 29, 2020 - ...military, here are three suggestions for Pentagon policy that would drastically reduce greenhouse emissions, free up resources for green policies, and reduce U.S. reliance on militarism and war:
Analysis - /analysis/2020/no-warming-no-war/why-not-green-military/
April 29, 2020 - ...military requires significant investment in carbon-intensive infrastructure and gas-guzzling equipment. The carbon footprint of the military is tremendous. So why isn’t “greening the milit...
Analysis - /analysis/2020/no-warming-no-war/talking-points/
April 29, 2020 - General talking points on climate and militarism from the "No Warming, No War" report.
Analysis - /analysis/2020/no-warming-no-war/discussion-guide/
April 29, 2020 - Discussion guide to "No Warming, No War" report
Article - /pressroom/articles/2020/04/27/halt-madness-trillion-global-military-spending/
April 27, 2020 - ...military spending and global instability over the well-being of our people."
Article - /pressroom/articles/2020/04/24/how-militarism-fuels-climate-crisis-sonali/
April 24, 2020 - ...military itself…is a huge polluter — and is often deployed to sustain the very extractive industries that destabilize our climate. This climate chaos, in turn, leads to massive displaceme...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2020/04/23/no-warming-no-war-report-militarism-climate-crisis/
April 23, 2020 - A new report examining the federal budget illuminates the deep connections between the climate emergency and the U.S. military, arguing that the shift to a green economy requires a just transition awa...
