"Fund our Communities: Bring the War Dollars Home" campaign

 

The Progressive Working Group (PWG) met Sunday, December 12 at the Wheaton Regional Library. At that meeting the PWG members voted to focus on 6 issues during the 2011 General Assembly session including the "Fund our Communities: Bring the War Dollars Home" campaign. For more information on PWG, please see: http://progressiveworkinggroup.blogspot.com/

Here's how you can help, from Peace Action Montgomery (PAM):

Our new campaign, Fund Our Communities, Bring the War Dollars Home, is aimed at generating a tidal wave of support for cutting military spending to fund domestic needs. We want to make Washington understand that the people of this country have had enough.

 

One strategy is for local and state political leaders to tell our Federal representatives that their constituents demand a change in national priorities. Local and state elected leaders have clout--Congress and the political establishment listen to them.

 

We have worked with members of the Maryland General Assembly and the Montgomery County Council to develop two letters, one from each of these bodies, that will go to Maryland's two senators and eight representatives.  

 

State Senator Jamie Raskin and Delegate Sheila Hixson sent a memo on January 20 to their colleagues in the Maryland General Assembly, asking them to sign a joint letter to our Congressional delegation. The letter requests Congress to cut the Pentagon budget by at least 25% over the next five years and reallocate that money to domestic priorities, where it is needed. 
 

County Council member George Leventhal sent a memo to his colleagues on the Montgomery County Council on January 18, asking them to sign a similar joint letter from Council members.

 

Now it is up to us convince our state and county representatives to sign these letters.

 

Please click here to sign an advocacy e-appeal to your state senator and delegates and click here to send a similar advocacy e-appeal to your Montgomery County Council representatives.

 

As you know, we are faced with huge and growing domestic needs and inadequate money to address them.  Meanwhile, the Pentagon budget increases, year after year after year. It is past time to redress that imbalance. 
 

Contact your state and county representatives right now using our easy e-mail forms! It will only take a couple of minutes.
 

In solidarity,
 

Peace Action Montgomery  
 

P.S. Please forward this e-mail to Maryland friends--the more people who ask local legislators to sign the letters, the stronger our message to Washington will be. And phone calls to your legislators would be a great follow-up to your e-mail or, if your prefer calling, a great alternative.

 

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Links: 
Raskin/Hixson e-appeal letter and to get text of the letter: http://www.ourfunds.org/raskin-hixson-letter

County Council letter: http://peaceactionmc.peacepress.info/files/2011/01/MoCo-Council-ltr-11.pdf

County Council e-appeal: http://ourfunds.org/2011/01/22/moco-foc-letter-2011a/

 

Donations can be sent to the Baltimore Nonviolence Center, 325 E. 25th St., Baltimore, MD 21218.  Ph: 410-366-1637; Email: mobuszewski [at] verizon.net

 

"The master class has always declared the wars; the subject class has always fought the battles. The master class has had all to gain and nothing to lose, while the subject class has had nothing to gain and everything to lose--especially their lives." Eugene Victor Debs