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Background

In March of 2020, Massachusetts Peace Action initiated a Fund Healthcare Not Warfare campaign in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The campaign has brought together advocates from impacted constituencies including, but not limited to: nurses, physicians, home care attendants, biomedical researchers, public health experts, state legislators, single-payer activists, and educators. Advocates from these diverse, impacted communities educated MAPA’s membership in a series of programs.

All parties in our coalition agree that the bloated Pentagon budget is harming the wellbeing of our communities and families by diverting precious resources away from healthcare, public health, research, and pandemic response towards war, militarism, and corporatism.

We are also a member of the Mass-Care coalition, to campaign for single-payer healthcare. Along with a coalition of organizations, we’ve written a statement, to call for cutting the Pentagon budget and reinvesting the funds in healthcare, public health, a robust covid response, a Green New Deal, and more.

We work to refocus “national security” away from war, militarism, nuclear weapons buildup, and regime changes, to focusing on more immediate, pressing threats such as pandemic disease. We draw attention to the growing military budget (currently above $740,000,000,000.00/year), and highlight how this obscene Pentagon budget harms our healthcare and public health needs. For example, roughly 30% of the Massachusetts state budget comes from the federal government, and with the federal government so invested in the war economy, that leaves little funding left over for healthcare and public health.

2023 Work Plan

Get involved

The FHCNW working group meets on the second Tuesday at 11am.  If you’d like to participate please email Jonathan King at fhcnw@masspeaceaction.org

Please consider signing our Fund Healthcare Not Warfare open sign-on letter and asking your organization to sign on as well.

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Publications

Federal Investment for Public Health—or for Endless Wars? Read Article

Fund Public Health, not Foreign Wars Read Article

“Fund Healthcare Not Warfare” Campaign Moves from Education to Action Read Article

Coronavirus and Other US Health Threats? Fund Public Health Not Foreign Wars Read Article

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