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Ending War Funding Before It Ends Us

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MODEL CAMPAIGNS

Maine Campaign to Bring Our War $$ Home

St. Louis Peace Economy Project

Boston's 25 Percent Solution

PDA's Brown Bag Lunch Vigils in districts everywhere.

Do more than vigiling.

Peaceable Assembly Campaign


LOCAL COST CALCULATIONS

A report from the National Priorities Project (PDF) 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, but multiply it by five. Get cost of military contracts to your area here. Get the amount of money military companies give your representative here. And here's the cost of weapons you give Israel.

LOCAL AND STATE RESOLUTIONS

Pass a local resolution. Even big cities and state labor councils and state political parties are doing it.

Put a cost of war counter on city hall.

ELECTORAL STRATEGY

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David Swanson is the author of "When the World Outlawed War," "War Is A Lie" and "Daybreak: Undoing the Imperial Presidency and Forming a More Perfect Union." He blogs at http://davidswanson.org and http://warisacrime.org and works for the online (more...)
 
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