Congress has the resources to invest in our community.

For just a fraction of what we’ve spent on militarization these last 20 years, we could start to make life much better.

Plans for a Just Transition away from defense industries do not need to be pulled out of thin air. The ongoing efforts to transition economies, workers, and communities out of the harmful fossil fuel economy provides insights into what works and what doesn’t. 

In 2020, the Pentagon budgeted $18.6 billion for its Afghanistan operations. That level of investment could pay up-front refugee relocation costs of $15,148 for 1.2 million people.

Rural prison towns need jobs. There are better ones than guarding people in cages.

Even with climate disasters all around us, nonviolent environmental demonstrations face fierce police repression. Why?

For the past 40 years, the U.S. military has turned retired and decommissioned military equipment-- such as ships and tanks-- into artificial reefs.

America is back—to the same old, same old.

Pouring more money into endless wars, nuclear weapons, overseas bases, and boondoggle weapons programs won't protect anyone.

For me, the military wasn’t a way out of poverty. Instead, militarism is why so many of us are poor in the first place.