Blog - /blog/2021/05/20/palestinian-lives-matter/
- We can’t say we support justice and human rights in this country while supporting violence and expulsion abroad.
Blog - /blog/2021/06/07/plan-end-poverty-united-states/
- A new congressional resolution asserts it’s not only possible to end poverty, but morally necessary.
Blog - /blog/2021/06/02/biden-unconscionable-military-budget/
- ...military bloat.
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/2021/07/30/dear-us-navy-dont-dump-your-ships-our-oceans/
- ...military has turned retired and decommissioned military equipment-- such as ships and tanks-- into artificial reefs.
Blog - /blog/2021/06/24/fight-poverty-cut-pentagon-budget/
- ...military wasn’t a way out of poverty. Instead, militarism is why so many of us are poor in the first place.
Blog - /blog/2021/05/14/pentagon-increase-size-entire-cdc-budget/
- President Biden proposed a Pentagon budget increase larger than the entire discretionary budget of the CDC.
Blog - /blog/2021/04/30/when-it-comes-climate-does-biden-put-his-money-where-his-mouth/
- Last week the White House convened a virtual Leaders Summit on Climate with forty leaders from the world's largest economies presenting their plans to meet the goals of the 2015 Paris C...
Blog - /blog/2021/04/28/us-now-spends-more-military-next-11-countries-combined/
- ...military expenditures compiled by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). That's a military spending increase of 2.6 per cent in real terms since 2019, even as global gross ...
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/2021/04/08/will-president-biden-continue-astronomical-pentagon-spending/
- Progressives have called for an immediate ten percent Pentagon spending reduction, to be followed by greater reductions. That would take spending closer to where it was under President Obama. We'll so...
Blog - /blog/2021/03/19/18-years-invasion-iraq/
- We’ve had 18 years to learn that the costs of war are just too high. We must end the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the next time our leaders inevitably argue for the necessity of war, it&rsq...
Blog - /blog/2021/03/03/bombing-syria-vs-raising-wages-when-do-rules-apply/
- The Biden administration is bending rules to drop bombs but not raise wages. That’s a mistake.
Blog - /blog/2021/02/26/syria-strike-and-americas-broken-foreign-policy/
- It’s time for a different foreign policy that respects the rule of law, respects the sovereignty of other nations, and respects human life in all nations.
Blog - /blog/2021/02/19/returning-paris-start-next-we-need-new-internationalism-climate/
- The United States' reentry to the Paris Climate Agreement is critical, but far from the sufficient. The path to a livable future requires new internationalism rooted in global cooperation, resour...
Blog - /blog/2021/02/08/tackling-prison-profiteers-will-take-more-banning-private-prisons/
- Biden’s order rolling back for-profit prisons is a good first step. Next we need to end for-profit immigration detention.
Blog - /blog/2021/02/04/after-muslim-ban/
- I’m glad Biden repealed Trump’s Muslim ban, but the work of repairing the harm is just beginning.
