| David Swanson | Senator Bernie Sanders has … proposed to introduce legislation to move a significant amount of money from militarism to human and environmental needs …
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Category: Community Responses and Actions
Audit The Outlaw Military Budget Draining America’s Necessities
| Ralph Nader | Top military, diplomatic, and political leaders have exposed, warned of, and condemned our runaway, unaudited military budgets for decades, to no avail …
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Too Much Military Spending Got Us into This Mess
| Neta C. Crawford and Catherine Lutz | The coronavirus pandemic — and all its far-ranging societal, economic, and global consequences — are the manifestation of four …
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Costs of War and Militarism for New York City
| Lindsay Koshgarian | U.S. cities and states are heavily reliant on federal funds. The average state government receives approximately 30 percent of its revenues from the federal government …
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Why We Can’t Have Universal Healthcare .. Unless ..
| Harold Novikoff | The uproar of the George Floyd phenomenon and the Coronavirus pandemonium demonstrate the urgency for some fundamental transformations in our nation …
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New Haven Ballot Referendum Funds Peace Not War
| Henry Lowendorf | Imagine how $160 million New Haven’s taxpayers sent to the Pentagon could fund educators, first responders, paving roads, and inspecting housing for lead poison.
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The Toll of Poverty
Poverty takes an enormous toll on this country and its people every day. The economic and social costs of poverty and the injustices of systemic racism, militarism and ecological devastation are unsustainable.
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