Move the Money Training
2016 Key Issues
Together National Priorities Project, Peace Action and a terrific group of colleagues, have assembled all the materials you need to enter the current national debate about Pentagon spending, while building the capacity of colleagues and allies to join in as well.
Move The Money Training Resources
Designed as a training of trainers, Move the Money’s resources include:
- Training Curriculum provides a detailed blueprint for actual, participatory training
- Materials package includes fact sheets and backgrounders on broad range of topics from the “Elephants in the Room” – or barriers to tackling Pentagon spending – to how to take action.
Move The Money Appendices
You’ll find other things you’ll need in the Appendices:
- Appendix 1: Where Your Federal Income Tax Dollar Went (blank for the workshop, to be enlarged) – Helps you “Spend your Nickels”
- Appendix 2: Where Your Federal Income Tax Dollar Went (complete) – Shows how your Nickels actually got spent
- Appendix 3: Jeopardy Game Board – Everything you need to test what you know about Pentagon spending and the federal budget using the popular trivia game
- Appendix 4: NPP’s “Talking Paycheck” video – See how your tax dollars are spent
- Appendix 5: NPP’s “Pentagon 101” webinar slides (in PowerPoint) – introduces you to many of the critical issues in the Pentagon spending debate
- Appendix 6: “Pentagon 101” narrative for presenters
Finally, when you’re ready to hold training, we have a Training Agenda to guide participants through the day
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Move the Money Resources
- Move the Money Brochure
- Super Committee Flyer (Editable for Super Committee Members)
- Image for Social Media: “When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail”
- B61 Fact Sheet
- How to Organize a Town Hall Meeting
- How to Organize a Move the Money Bus Tour
- How to Organize a Letter to the Editor Campaign
- A Modest Proposal: Proposed Pentagon Budget Cuts from Peace Action
- The Pentagon Budget: Facts and Figures (legal size)