Category: Fund the People, Not the Pentagon - Page 11

House Hikes Pentagon Budget, Rejects Most Pro-Peace Amendments

September 26, 2021 Cole Harrison

by Cole Harrison Militarism tightened its icy, bipartisan grip on Washington, as the House of Representatives Sept. 23 voted for a $778 billion Pentagon budget — $38 billion higher than Trump’s final budget, and $24 billion higher than the amount requested by President Biden. The […]

Forum Brings Frontline Healthcare Providers Together in the Call to Fund Healthcare Not Warfare

June 15, 2021 Jonathan King

by Jonathan King Massachusetts is a national center of medicine, medical research and health care. It is also the birthplace of Physicians for Social Responsibility, the Nuclear Weapons Freeze Campaign, and other nuclear disarmament advocacy groups. Mass Peace Action is one of the largest such […]

A crowd gathers outside Rep. Stephen's Lynch's office in the Boston Seaport in support of a Third Reconstruction.

Poor People’s Campaign Builds Support for a “Third Reconstruction”

June 14, 2021 Jackie Dee King

by Jackie King The Massachusetts Poor People’s Campaign and their allies converged on the offices of US Rep. Stephen Lynch in Boston and Richard Neal in Springfield June 7 for a press conference to demand that they – and all the state’s representatives – co-sponsor […]

What does my generation have to look forward to?

May 21, 2021 Steve Downey

by Steve Downey Remarks delivered at the People & Planet, not Profits Tax Day rally in Boston, MA on May 17th 2021. What does my generation have to look forward to in the future? A future of rationed health care where we and our loved […]

Erik Edstrom speaks about cutting the military budget at a Tax Day event on May 17th in Boston.

The Patriotic Case for Cutting Our Bloated Military Budget

May 21, 2021 Erik Edstrom

by Erik Edstrom Remarks delivered at the People & Planet, not Profits Tax Day in Boston, MA on May 17th 2021. My name is Erik Edstrom. I am 35 years old. I am a veteran of the Afghan War. And like the rest of my […]

Protesters gather at the Tip O'Neil Federal Building on Tax Day 2021 to demand that their tax dollars go towards the people and the planet and not the profits of the wealthy and corporations. (Photo by Minetaka Shimada/ Akahata)

Tax Day Standout: People and Planet, not Profits

May 20, 2021 Alec Neilly

On May 17th, activists took to the streets to demand that our tax dollars go towards the people and the planet, and not towards the profits of the wealthy and corporations. 17 speakers spoke at the event; you can watch the video here. Some of […]

Mother’s Day Proclamation

May 9, 2021 Merri Ansara

The “Appeal to womanhood throughout the world” (later known as “Mother’s Day Proclamation”) by Julia Ward Howe was an appeal for women to unite for peace in the world. by Julia Ward Howe, 1870 Arise, all women who have hearts, whether your baptism be that […]