Congress is now deliberating on a $778 billion Pentagon budget for 2022, which will cost over $8 trillion over the next decade.
This is happening while members of the Senate claim that spending $3.5 trillion over the next decade on healthcare, education, and green jobs is "too expensive"
While war profiteers have the money and lobbyists, we have the people power. Volunteer groups are meeting in-person or on zoom around the country to call and write to their Congressional delegation to vote NO on the $778 Pentagon budget and instead invest in our communities!
Below, you'll find a sample agenda and all of the resources you need to host your own #CutThePentagon Congressional Call-In Party and educational event! Do you have questions? You can contact [email protected] for tips, resources, or to send your group photo!
Sample Agenda:
Educational Resources:
- Reasons why we need to #CutThePentagon
- Militarism Fact Sheet from the Poor People's Campaign
- "Ten Better Uses for Ten Percent of the Pentagon Budget", Lindsay Koshgarian & Ashik Siddique, Institute for Policy Studies
- Militarization and police violence: The case of the 1033 program, Sage Journals
- No Warming, No War: How Militarism Fuels the Climate Crisis — and Vice Versa
- The Human Costs of War- Costs of War Project at Brown University
