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UNITED NATIONS PROGRAMS
AGAINST ARMED FORCE
On Global Day, UN expert urges less military spending, more
investment in development
Weapons collected in Libya
14 April 2014 – Marking the Global Day of Action on Military
Spending, the United Nations independent expert on the promotion of a
democratic and equitable international order called on all governments to boost
transparency and cuts in military expenditures, and increase investments in
nutrition, health, environmental protection and other major sustainable development
challenges.
“Every democracy must involve civil society in the process of
establishing budgets, and all sectors of society must be consulted to determine
what the real priorities of the population are,” Special Rapporteur Alfred de
Zayas said in a statement. “Lobbies, including military
contractors and other representatives of the military-industrial complex, must
not be allowed to hijack these priorities to the detriment of the population’s
real needs.”
The expert urged world parliaments to implement the will of the
people, based on representative opinion polling, and significantly reduce all
military expenditures (arms production, military research, military bases
abroad, surveillance of private citizens, ‘intelligence’-gathering, or overt
and covert military operations).
“Tax revenue must be reoriented toward the promotion of civil,
political, economic, social and cultural rights, for research into sustainable
sources of energy and for the promotion of sustainable development,” Mr. de
Zayas stressed.
According to the Stockholm International Peace Research
Institute, global military spending levels are at an all-time high, reaching a
total of $1.75 trillion in 2012, a number that Mr. de Zayas says constitutes
“an unconscionable use of resources.”
“In a world where millions of human beings live in extreme
poverty, die of malnutrition and lack medical care, where pandemics continue to
kill, it is imperative to pursue good faith disarmament negotiations and to
shift budgets away from weapons production, war-mongering, and surveillance of
private persons, and devote available resources to address global challenges
including humanitarian relief, environmental protection, climate change
mitigation and adaptation, prevention of pandemics, and the development of a
green economy,” he said.
Mr. de Zayas highlighted that such a shift in States’ spending
habits is key to achieving the UN post-2015 development agenda.
“I am surprised that in the current context of global
socio-economic crisis, few have voiced indignation regarding the
disproportionate levels of military spending. The place to exercise austerity
is in wasteful military expenditures, not in social protection,” he insisted.
The Special Rapporteur urged governments to “considerably reduce
funds allocated to the military, not only as a disarmament issue, but also as a
potential contributor to social and environmental protection,” and called for
“the holding of referenda on this issue worldwide.”
Estimating that a 10 per cent annual reduction in military
expenditures would be “reasonable,” Mr. de Zayas also encouraged all States to
contribute to the UN’s annual Report on Military Expenditures by submitting
complete data on national defence budgets.
Independent experts or special rapporteurs are appointed by the
UN Human Rights Council in Geneva
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The current edition
of the War Resisters League's famous "pie chart" flyer analyzes the
Federal Fiscal Year 2015 Budget. Perfect for Tax Day leafletting, as a
focus for forums and panels and workshops and more!
Each year, War
Resisters League analyzes federal funds outlays as presented in detailed tables
in "Analytical Perspectives" of the Budget of the United States
Government. Our analysis is based on federal funds, which do not include trust
funds -- such as Social Security -- that are raised separately from income
taxes for specific purposes. What you pay (or don't pay) by April 15, 2014 goes
to the federal funds portion of the budget.
HOW WERE THE
FY2015 PIE CHART FIGURES DETERMINED?
Current military”
includes Dept. of Defense ($584 billion) and the military portion from other
departments as noted in current military box above ($202 billion). Funding for
the war on terror is listed as “Overseas Contingency Operations” and totals $47
in this breakdown. “Past military” represents veterans’ benefits plus 80% of
the interest on the debt.*
These figures are
from an analysis of detailed tables in the Analytical Perspectives book of the
Budget of the United States Government, Fiscal Year 2015. The figures are
Federal funds, which do not include Trust funds — such as Social Security —
that are raised and spent separately from income taxes.
What you pay (or
don’t pay) by April 15, 2014, goes to the Federal funds portion of the budget.
The government practice of combining Trust and Federal funds began during the
Vietnam War, thus making the human needs portion of the budget seem larger and
the military portion smaller.
*Analysts differ on how much of the debt stems from the military; other groups estimate 50% to 60%. We use 80% because we believe if there had been no military spending most (if not all) of the national debt would have been eliminated.
*Analysts differ on how much of the debt stems from the military; other groups estimate 50% to 60%. We use 80% because we believe if there had been no military spending most (if not all) of the national debt would have been eliminated.
HOMELAND
(IN) SECURITY
The attacks on 9/11
led to the U.S.
- Under the Pentagon’s Excess Property Program,
$4 billion of equipment has been transferred to state and local police
departments since 1990, including grenade launchers, helicopters, military
robots, bayonets, armored vehicles, battle fatigues, etc.
- Even the smallest police departments can
purchase new battle-gear and surveillance equipment with generous DHS
grants—over $34 billion since 2003.
- AR-15 semi-automatic rifles have become a
standard police weapon and school districts from
- Arms merchants are cashing in those DHS grants
with heavy marketing and sales across the
- Urban Shield, a police training and weapons
expo, invites your local cop to shop and train with police around the
world from
- Customs and Border Protection (CPB, part of
DHS) is the largest law enforcement agency in the U.S. Investigations into
dehumanizing detentions, intrusive searches, and killings at the border
reveal an agency operating with impunity, whose policies are shrouded in
secrecy.
- CPB owns 10 Predator drones (operating cost:
$3,000 an hour). From 2010-12, they loaned 700 surveillance flights to
local, state, and federal agencies.
TAKE ACTION:
WHAT YOU CAN DO
Leaflet with
this flyer year-round and on Tax Day, April 15, 2014,
which is also the Global Day of Action on Military Spending.
(demilitarize. org). Be part of the New Priorities Network.
Join WRL’s Facing Tear Gas campaign to end the use of tear gas and related chemical weapons
and police militarization in the U.S. and globally. The campaign is organizing
against paramilitary training “Urban Shield”
sites across the country.
Call for your community to opt out! Stop local law enforcement from accepting military giveaways and DHS grants for weapons of war.
Call for your community to opt out! Stop local law enforcement from accepting military giveaways and DHS grants for weapons of war.
Write letters
to elected officials and local newspapers. Send them copies of this flyer. Demand that the Pentagon budget
be slashed.
Protest with
your money! Sign up at wartax boycott.org.
Refuse to pay all or part of your federal income tax. Whatever you choose to
refuse—$1, $10, or a percentage—send a letter to elected officials and tell
them why. Though illegal, thousands of people openly participate in this form
of protest. Contact us for information or referral to a counselor near you.
Contribute resisted tax money to organizations that support the common good.
Watch Death & Taxes, a 30-min. film
featuring war tax resisters from across the country. Online atnwtrcc.org/deathandtaxes.php.
For more
about refusing to pay for war, contact the
National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee, PO Box 150553 , Brooklyn ,
NY 11215
Read and use War Tax
Resistance: A Guide to Withholding Your Support from the Military,
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Move the Money
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.
The 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.
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1 comment:
It is important our soldiers well equipped with good quality weapons and other advance gadgets which are very useful to win a war. There should also good training for then to operate these weapons well. Also government should make sure that all soldiers get good health service.
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