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Things Congress Could Do for Peace, From Easiest to Hardest

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Pass the Berta Carceres Act to end U.S. funding of killers in Honduras.

Pass a resolution renouncing and apologizing for the Monroe Doctrine.

Pass legislation banning the U.S. military from openly or secretly paying sports leagues to celebrate militarism.

Pass legislation requiring that for every dollar the U.S. government spends advertising militarism, it spend a dollar advertising nonviolent peace forces and unarmed civilian protection.

Pass legislation defunding any government agency that does not pass an audit within a year.

Pass legislation closing U.S. military bases in nations ruled by dictatorships.

Pass legislation requiring that U.S. military bases remain open or get built only in nations where a majority of the local population supports keeping the base open or creating the new base in an internationally verified and open public referendum.

Ban the training or arming of U.S. domestic police by the U.S. or any foreign military.

Ban gun training in U.S. public schools.

Ban drone murders.

Announce a global challenge: a reverse arms race.

Pass military funding that meets your required reductions.

Pass economic conversion legislation that provides retraining and support to anyone impacted.

End military "aid" and the practice of referring to it as having been aid.

Pass legislation requiring that actual humanitarian aid be based on level of need, not a military agenda, and that U.S. foreign aid exceed, by per capita and per GDP measures, that of any other country.

Take all available measures to support U.S. participation in the Paris Climate Agreement; the Convention on the Rights of the Child; the International Convention on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights; the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights optional protocols; the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women; the Convention Against Torture optional protocol; the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families; the International Convention on the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance; the Convention on the Rights of Persons With Disabilities; the International Convention Against the Recruitment, Use, Financing, and Training of Mercenaries; the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court; the Convention on the Non-Applicability of Statutory Limitations to War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity; the Principles of International Cooperation in the Detection, Arrest, Extradition, and Punishment of Persons Guilty of War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity; the Convention on Cluster Munitions; the Land Mines Convention; the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons; the proposed treaties banning the weaponization of space and banning cyber crimes.

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