Stop Lavishly Funding the Pentagon to fund the #GreenNewDeal …climate change related heat-strokes and cases of heat exhaustion suffered by active-duty service members rose by 60 percent between 2008 and 2018. https://t.co/jzmKjjFJ1A
Why we the public spend billions on bad technology and what happens to service people who speak up; The Laura Flanders Show: The Mad Military Money Machine https://t.co/Yz5rEzdT78
Zac Bears in @BostonGlobe: "Students at UMass, state universities, and community colleges who have suffered through the massive tuition and fee hikes caused by state disinvestment can’t take it anymore." #FundOurFuture#DebtFreeFuture https://t.co/7HyO1chkA6
Lawmakers Pitch Northern Rail Route to Western MA
Today's @MetroBOS featuring testimony by @Jo_Comerford and @MindyForMA.
We'd add that @NikaElugardo's "Bridges Not Bombs" bill offers a path to secure federal funds to pay for MA transportation projects https://t.co/AwqgE7SyVo
Make Overspending on the Pentagon an Issue in the 2020 campaign https://t.co/NYHUNqSIpr @WilliamHartung
Hear Hartung's talk at the "Social & Economic Costs of Endless War" conference, Friday #MIT 2pm. Register & Info: https://t.co/TfTLUS0uuW
Truth & Poverty "Spill the Tea" Bus Tour: MA PPC
Sun 10am, Roxbury Crossing T.
Mobile “teach-in” will break through the narrative about who is hurt by systemic racism by sharing stories by diverse impacted people, faith community and supporters
Sign Up: https://t.co/d0DUertOAc
Tulsi Gabbard @ Watson Institute Build Don’t Bomb, she exhorts us to Redirect the trillion$$ from war to meet the needs of our people and communities. We can’t do both.
The Trump FY20 budget requests $7.87 billion for "nuclear modernization," to make planes and ships more effective delivery systems for WMD. That amount would fund 888,211 Head Starts slots for low-income children, almost doubling the current number. -@natpriorities
@RepPressley called for cutting the #military budget 25%, Vignesh Ramachandran of @350Mass pointed out the connections between war, empire, and climate disaster, and Jeff Klein of Dorchester People for Peace reminded of MLK's triple evils, war, racism, economic inequality 2/3
#TaxDay2019: Our Taxes, Our Choices.
Cut military spending, fund the people, tax the rich, pass #GreenNewDeal and MedicareForAll, was the cry at our rally yesterday, initiated by Dorchester People for Peace and headlined by @RepPressley and @JamieEldridgeMA 1/3