Pentagon Budget

The following came out of our mid-year staff retreat, comments or questions are most welcome! Priorities and Opportunities for Peace Action/Peace Action Education Fund program, organizing, [...]

Today the House of Representatives is considering the Energy and Water Appropriations bill where, surprisingly, much of the United States nuclear weapons programs are funded.  We expect a vote [...]

Today and tomorrow the House of Representatives will decide to write an over  $600 billion check to the Pentagon, while sequester cuts to community programs go on every week in our communities. [...]

In the next few days the House of Representatives will vote on Pentagon funding. Some of our friends in Congress will offer amendments to cut overflowing Pentagon coffers. While our communities [...]

We hope you can attend both these upcoming events “Dirty Wars” Opens in D.C. Weekend of June 7-9 “Dirty Wars”, the new film featuring Jeremy Scahill, is playing every day [...]

–Kevin Martin, Executive Director One of the great benefits of my job is traveling the country and observing/supporting/learning from the outstanding work Peace Action affiliates, chapters [...]

By Judith Le Blanc, Field Diretor Peace Action Sequestration, across the board cuts, is no way to run the federal government. Some say it is stupid or dumb. Plain and simple, it is a bad idea [...]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/pentagon-cuts-can-work-to-our-advantage/2013/05/02/3b75f022-b11a-11e2-9fb1-62de9581c946_story.html Letter to the editor Pentagon cuts can work to our [...]

By Judith Le Blanc Peace Action Field Director On April 30, Peace Action WI did a “bird-dog” action. We mobilized a number of people to attend the Paul Ryan town hall prepared in [...]

http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/economy-a-budget/296397-days-of-blank-checks-are-over-for-nuclear-weapons-establishment By Kevin Martin, Peace Action and Jay Coghlan, Nuclear Watch New [...]