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OMNI ANNUAL GLOBAL DAY OF ACTION ON MILITARY
SPENDING, US TAX DAY, APRIL 15
2013. Compiled
by Dick Bennett for a Culture of Peace, Justice, and Ecology.
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Contents 2013
Global Day of Action
Peace Action, Move the Money
War Resisters League, Budget Pie
War Tax Resistance Committee
Historians Against the War
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Global Day of Action on Military Spending: GDAMS
demilitarize.org/
Join us in this Global Day of Action on
Military Spending! ... It is also Tax Day in the US
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GDAMS
In 2011, global military spending surged to US $1.74 trillion. Given the numerous crises facing the planet — economic, environmental, health, diplomatic — it is imperative that we create a global movement to shift this money to human needs. We know that there are thousands of organizations and millions of individuals who support this point of view – what is needed is to begin a serious mobilizing effort to make it visible.
We are organizing a Global Day of Action on
Military Spending each year in April to coincide with the release of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute’s (SIPRI)
annual figures on world military expenditures. It is
also Tax Day in the US
While each location will craft its own approach, there will be a
common focus on calling attention to the overall size of global military
spending. This would need in most cases to be
linked to a national, local or international issue, such as the Afghanistan war
and other wars, the anti-bases efforts, arms trade deals, work against small
arms and nuclear weapons, resources for nonviolent conflict resolution, Article
9 campaign etc. We very much hope that peace groups will use this as an
opportunity to connect up with development, anti-poverty, environmental,
pro-democracy organizations and others who share our perspective.
As for types of
actions: a whole range is possible — from street theatre/demonstrations,
putting up banners to seminars, signature collection, flash mobs and much more.
A key aspect is the visual side. By generating some captivating images, we plan
to attract widespread media coverage and make available photos of our rallies
and events. See the pictures from around the world in the GDAMS Flickr page which
document the global movement and accompany our stories and the SIPRI
report.
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Move the Money CAMPAIGN 2013
While the recommendations of the Sustainable Defense Task would cut over one trillion dollars from the Pentagon budget over the next 10 years, this would still leave the Pentagon a ten year budget of over six trillion dollars.
Today, military spending accounts for more than half of the
federal government's entire discretionary budget. Nuclear weapons spending
alone accounts for over $40 billion annually, and is scheduled to
increase. There is an obvious connection between the bloated Pentagon
budget and the critical budget shortfalls facing virtually every community in
the country.
Peace
Action is partnering with Peace Action Education Fund on its Move
the Money Campaign. This
effort will serve as a platform for average people to voice their opinions and
demands regarding military spending. Communities will utilize public
forums, education, public demonstrations, local resolutions and petitions as
tools to influence decisions made by our elected officials.
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following are goals that Peace Action’s Move the Money Campaign has for 2013:
- Build stronger alliances between the peace
movement and labor, economic justice and human needs groups, whose
constituencies have been devastated by the economic crisis.
- Raise the stakes for President Obama and other
elected officials in the 2014 elections as they define their
positions on military spending issues through Peace Action’s Peace Voter
2014 organizing,
- Develop educational tools on the federal budget and the impact of
military spending on their communities for
local organizers to use in
their outreach.
- Work in key states to raise awareness and public
support for reducing military spending by 25%.
- Support the local efforts of Peace Action
affiliates and chapters in strengthening local alliances with civil
rights, labor and other community groups and build city, state and
national coalitions focused on reductions of military spending to meet
human needs, and encourage participation in the Congressional budget
process in 2013 and beyond.
Recent Blog Posts
The political frame of our work is building a ...
There is a lot of hype around the showdown over sequestration or
the across the board cuts in the federal budget. The worst f...
What’s notable about this is it’s not just the usual suspects,
which is likely why ...
One of the best ways to reduce the deficit is to put people back
to work. It’s time to invest in our people, and our comm...
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As the debate continues on the automatic spending cuts, the
deficit, and the 2013 federal budget, it may seem like there is n...
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When Congress came to a deal over the budget negotiations
earlier this month, they finally agreed to make the top 1% pay thei...
Just a few points to add to Brother Matt Rothschild’s
comprehensive commentary on the speech: It took the presid...
Tuesday night, President Obama delivered his first State of the
Union speech of his second term. While it was a mixed b...
That’s right the Congressional Progressive Caucus just released
its alternative budget called the ...
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Lockheed Martin lobbyists and their friends are working to
squeeze millions of dollars from Montgomery
County
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Lockheed Martin Made How Much Money Last Year? And They Still Need to
Shake Down Maryland Taxpayers?
Thanks for Stephen Miles of Win Without War for this legwork. To
put this amount of money in context, Lockheed Martin’s...
Great job by Peace Action Wisconsin Program Director Mike
Helbick, who got help on this from our friends at the Coalition for...
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Resources
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ACTIVIST
PROFILE
Brandywine Peace Community,a long-time WRL
affiliate, has been throwing their support behind the Occupy
movement with "Welcome, Occupy Philly" signs and banners that made the
connection between the corporate control of U.S. democracy and the corporate
militarism of such war profiteers as Lockheed Martin, the world's #1 war
profiteer and Pentagon weapons producer.
IN MEMORIUM
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  (TESA),
WRL is releasing NEW educational resources this Tax Day--from role plays to
handouts to conversation starters to group activities--designed to help you
put the WRL Tax Day
flyerinto practice, whether on the street as you hand it
out, in community groups, or in classrooms. Add your (war) tax day event to
this list!This week, Portland, OR, Belfast, ME, Los Angeles,
Cleveland, Phoenix, Bristol, RI joined the list of US cities where
activities to mark Tax Day and the Global Day of Action on Military
Spending (GDAMS) will occur. On Also check out the National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee's nationwide Tax Day actions here: http://nwtrcc.org/taxday2013.php  The War Resisters League's famous "pie chart" flyer analyzes the Federal Fiscal Year 2014 Budget (released in early 2013). Perfect for Tax Day! ORDER THE NEW PIE CHART FOR FY2014 NOW!!  Spring
is here and WIN wants to talk about healthcare. We all know that Obamacare
doesn't cut it for the millions without health care, but what's the
alternative? This issue of WIN contains stories of the obstacles, struggles,
and movements to making health care for all a reality. Only weeks before the 50th anniversary of the Great March for Jobs and Freedom (which former WRL staffer and Civil Rights movement leader Bayard Rustin organized), WRL will hold our 90th anniversary conference: Revolutionary Nonviolence: Building Bridges Across Generations and Communities. It will be held at  Facing Tear Gasis a
story-telling project of War Resisters League by and for people that have experienced
tear gas all over the world. By making the links between these stories we
hope to bring those that profit off of tear gas further into the public
consciousness and, along with that, the inspiring movements the gas is used
to squelch. This is part of a broader campaign to end the Check out our new Tumblr: facingteargas.tumblr.com/
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DEMOCRACY NOW, WAR TAX RESISTANCE
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Tax Day: While Millions Rush to Meet Deadline, Resisters
Continue ...
www.democracynow.org/2013/4/15/tax_day_while_millions_rush_to
6 hours ago – To protest paying for
lethal weapons, some Americans are taking a stand by
personally refusing to fund the military. ... We speak with Ed Hedemann of the National War
Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee. ... Apr 12, 2013 | Story .... our defense budget—is,
in itself, an act of aggression against the poor.
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HISTORIANS AGAINST THE WAR
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Tax Day and the Pentagon | Common Dreams
https://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/04/14-1
1 day ago – Last weekend, Historians Against the War hosted an ambitious, ... D.C. Days, for
strategizing, training and lobbying on nuclear weapons, power, waste ...article titled Our Tax Dollars are off the War – 2013 edition on Daily Kos ...
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Notes and Sources - Tax Day 2013 - Analysis - National Priorities ...
nationalpriorities.org/analysis/2013/taxday-2013/notes-and-sources/
Tax Day 2013 shows how federal funds
were spent during fiscal year 2012, the time ...National defense,
nuclear weapons activities, war costs, and international ...
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Press
Release: Tax Day 2013 - National War Tax Resistance ...
www.nwtrcc.org/taxdayPR-2013.php
5 days ago – 30 years of Tax Day anti-war protests, refusing to
pay for cruise ... and other weapons, and led to the 1982
formation of the National War Tax ...
END GLOBAL DAY OF ACTION ON
MILITARY SPENDING 2013
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