[1]
MODEL CAMPAIGNS
The Military Industrial Complex at 50 [2]
Maine Campaign to Bring Our War $$ Home [3]
St. Louis Peace Economy Project [4]
Boston's 25 Percent Solution [5]
Bay Area's New Priorities Campaign [6]
Maryland's Our Funds [7]
Pennsylvania's Campaign for Smart Security [8]
PDA's Brown Bag Lunch Vigils [9] in districts everywhere.
Do more than vigiling [10].
Peaceable Assembly Campaign [11]
Code Pink: Bring Our War $ Home
[13]
25 Teachers’ Salaries [14] (California)
Bring the Billion$ Home [15] (Seattle)
MFSO The True Costs of War
[16]
CONFERENCES
The Military Industrial Complex at 50
[17]
LOCAL COST CALCULATIONS
$7.6 Trillion Since 9-11 [18].
A report from the National Priorities Project (PDF [19]) contains on pages 23 and 24 documentation of how investing in military reduces jobs and hurts economy. Get cost of war to your area here [20], but multiply it by five [21]. Get cost of military contracts to your area here [22]. Get the amount of money military companies give your representative here [23]. And here's the cost of weapons you give Israel [24].
Here's a calculator [25] for what particular weapons are costing us.
50 fact sheets, 1 for each state: here [26].
What we give up to pay for weapons [27].
Your 1040 tax form lies to you [28].
Proposed US military spending for 2012 is at least $1.3 trillion [29].
CONVERTING ECONOMY FROM WAR TO PEACE
Draft legislation
[30]
PROPOSED MILITARY CUTS
From Budget Task Force [31]
From CATO [32]
From President's Deficit Commission [33]
From Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky [34]
From Center for Defense Information [35]
LOCAL AND STATE RESOLUTIONS
Pass a local resolution [36]. Even big cities [37] and state labor councils [38] and state political parties [39] are doing it.
Put a cost of war counter on city hall [40].
Here's a kit [41] from Cities for Progress.
Some additional cities that have done this: Newton, Mass., Cambridge, Mass.
Resolution passed by Northampton, Mass [42].
Mayors have backed this agenda in Boston and two other Massachusetts towns.
40 Maryland State Senators and Delegates have asked Congress to take the money out of the military [43]
Resolution passed by Hartford, CT [44].
Resolution passed by SCHOOL BOARDS [45] in California.
Resolution passed by the U.S. Conference of Mayors [46].
Resolution passed by Los Angeles [47].
Resolution passed by Seattle [48].
ELECTORAL STRATEGY
Unelect those who fund wars; someone worse cannot be much worse [49]
FLYERS
Sample Flyer for a Particular Congressional District
[50]
Six Facts No War Supporters Know
[51]
Bring Our War $ Home [52]
Code Pink flyer [53] and other Code Pink resources [54].
Lipstick on Pig flyer [55].
We Call for the United States to End Its Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan [56]!
AVATAR Awakening [57]
POSTERS
Lots to choose from [58]
STICKERS
[59]
[60]
[61]
BANNERS
[62]
PRESENTATIONS
Here's a power point [63] with a handout [64] and a script [65].
Another great power point [66] -- and feel free to modify and adapt it.
ReThink Afghanistan [68]
Why Are We In Afghanistan Again [69]
Arlington West
[71]
Video Contest: What Would You Do With A Trillion Dollars? [72]
Military Math [73] (short cartoon)
US Spending Problem
[74]
ARTICLES
The Military as a Jobs Program: There are More Efficient Ways to Stimulate the Economy [75]
A Unified Theory of War and Taxes
[76]
It's Jobs or Wars, Not Both
[77]
The Peace Movement's Progress [78].
Democrats forced to cheat to fund war [79].
33 Billion Dishonest Excuses for War [80]
Dear Fiscal Conservative War Supporter [81]
Congressman, Vote No on Afghan War Escalation [82]
Afghanistan: Ending a Failed Military Strategy [83]: A Briefing Paper by September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows
Wars have been ended by defunding them [84] before. Many times [49].
The Afghan Marshall Plan, an Exit Strategy [85]
[86]
How to Save a Trillion Dollars
[87]
White House Website Lying About Your Taxes
[88]
LATEST NEWS
War Is A Crime: Afghanistan [90]
BOOKS
The Military Industrial Complex at 50
[2]
When the World Outlawed War [91], by David Swanson
War Is A Lie [92], by David Swanson
Ending the US War in Afghanistan: A Primer [93], By David Wildman and Phyllis Bennis
POLLS
Update: Two-thirds want out [95].
Update: budget people want [96].
Where U.S. public opinion is [97] and where it's moving [98], and even further along [99] -- here too [100].
And how much people know [101].
CREATIVE ACTIVITIES
Hold a drawathon [102]. Here's how [103].
UK
Our allies over there [104]
You can post the ever-changing chart from DefundWar.org [105] below on your own website. Here's the code [106].
Scarves
Stay Warm and Inform with a “Foreclose on War, Invest in People” Scarf
[107]
LATEST DEVELOPMENTS
April 20, 2011, The Obama Gates Maneuver on Military Spending [108]
April 15, 2011, 77 Representatives vote for [109] a budget that defunds militarism.
February 11, 2011, Rep. Pete Stark puts in amendment [110]to cut military
February 2, 2011, Budget Cut Talk Is Not Real [111]
January 4, 2011, Gates Claims He'll Propose Cuts of $100 B [112]
December 29, 2010, Identifying the Congressional Districts to focus on [113].
December 17, 2010, the House passed the military's offense budget 341-48: Here's how they voted [114].
December 8, 2010, the House passed more war funding [115] together with other military funding, with only 35 Democrats voting No when only 4 more votes would have blocked the bill.
November 16, 2010, Schakowsky Produces Sensible Budget Plan: Tax the Rich, Cut the War Industry, Invest in Jobs, Strengthen Social Security [116].
October 13, 2010, letter to the catfood commission from 57 congress members: (PDF [117]).
On July 27, 2010, 115 [118] congress members behaved as if they might be worthy of keeping their jobs. These include 102 Democrats and 12 Republicans who voted no on dumping $33 billion into escalating the war in Afghanistan, plus one more Democrat, Alan Grayson, who publicly lobbied his colleagues to vote No in an unprecedented manner but was unable to be there to vote. Another 317 [118] congress members clearly indicated their worthiness for being unelected, 308 by voting for the money and 9 by not voting. Here is background [119] on how that July 27th vote happened and what it meant. This record can be enriched by looking at previous votes on war-related bills in the chart below.
Please phone your Representative at (202) 224-3121 and ask them to commit to voting No on war funding, and post below what they tell you. Thanks!
The next money is already moving (July 27, 2010, Politico [120]):
"Ambassador Richard Holbrooke is scheduled to testify Wednesday before a House Appropriations panel that had deferred action on the administration's $3.9 billion request for aid to Afghanistan next year. And a second House panel is scheduled to meet behind closed doors Tuesday on the Pentagon's budget, including an additional $157.8 billion for war operations in Afghanistan and Iraq. The Afghanistan portion of these funds constitutes about two-thirds of the total, and this money is sure to become more of a target by the time the bill comes to the floor in the fall — and closer to the November elections."