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Dear John,
At this time next week, we will know something about the election results - whether it’s a new Trump administration, a Harris administration, or still too close to call. Maybe you’re wishing we were there already.
But here’s a reminder that after the election, no matter the results, we’ll continue fighting for the same priorities - our own “Project 2025,” if you will.
We’ll keep striving to demilitarize our federal budget and make our world a safer, saner place for everyone. That means we’ll keep fighting for:
*
People
over
Pentagon:
Our
federal
budget
should
address
the
real
needs
of
our
people
and
communities
over
endless
wars
and
the
greed
of
Pentagon
contractors.
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A
fair,
humane
immigration
system:
Real
security
will
come
from
seeing
each
others’
humanity
and
addressing
the
root
causes
of
migration,
not
border
militarization
or
mass
deportation.
*
Nonviolence
over
violent
engagement:
From
diplomacy
to
investing
in
our
communities,
nonviolent
solutions
make
our
world
safer,
while
violent
interventions
from
war
to
mass
incarceration
only
perpetuate
cycles
of
violence.
We aren’t alone in this. We’re joined by powerful movements working for an end to wars and genocide, humane immigration systems, solutions to climate change and a just global economic order.
This week, many of those movements are working to get out the vote. Next week, the work begins again.
In solidarity,
Lindsay, Aspen, Hanna and Alliyah
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TRADEOFF: MASS FAMILY SEPARATION VS. NO MORE MEDICAL DEBT
Mass deportation made headlines this year under the conservative policy playbook of Project 2025 [[link removed]] . But we know that it would be a nightmare for American communities [[link removed]] , separating families and destroying the strong diverse identity of our nation. Also, our economy would greatly suffer without immigrants [[link removed]] .
A recent report from the American Immigration Council estimates the cost of mass deportation at $88 billion each year over the course of a decade [[link removed]] . For the same price, the U.S. government could erase medical debt for more than 40 million Americans nationwide [[link removed].] .
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HURRICANE HELENE AT THE NEXUS OF CLIMATE CRISIS AND U.S. MILITARISM
This September, Hurricane Helene caused over 600 miles [[link removed]] of destruction and left communities across the southeast U.S. reeling. Scientists quickly connected the storm's rapid progression and impacts [[link removed]] to climate change and record-high [[link removed]] ocean temperatures. The human and financial costs of disasters keep rising [[link removed]] , but the government’s response remains inadequate [[link removed]] .
Instead, Pentagon spending continues to grow [[link removed]] despite the U.S. military being a significant driver [[link removed]] of the climate crisis. Over-investments in militarism have come at the price [[link removed]] of investing in essential resiliency efforts. From October 2023 to September 2024, the U.S. provided at least $22.76 billion [[link removed]] to aid Israeli military operations. Only $5.97 billion [[link removed]] of that could have rehabilitated all 3,459 dams across the state of North Carolina which experienced catastrophic flooding [[link removed]] during the storm.
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A WIN AGAINST NUCLEAR NEGLIGENCE
Advocacy organizations and the Gullah/Geechee Nation [[link removed]] this month won a victory in protecting public transparency and safety.
As part of a larger nuclear weapons reinvestment operation [[link removed]] spearheaded by the Obama and Trump administrations, the government has been preparing to restart the manufacturing of plutonium pits [[link removed]] - a component central to all nuclear weaponry.
The coalition filed legal action [[link removed]] against a ‘half-baked’ pit production plan, set to take place at two separate facilities in New Mexico and South Carolina. Production is not only dangerous - the Department of Energy could not provide an accurate timeline or cost estimate for the complete project.
In a victory for nuclear weapons opponents, a court ruled [[link removed]] that the plan was found in violation of the National Environmental Policy Act. The Department of Energy is now required to reevaluate alternative proposals and provide a comprehensive statement on the impacts of production and related radioactive waste disposal, complete with public hearings. The fight against plutonium pits will continue.
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“There’s this sense of: ‘How do we make this okay?’ There’s not, ‘How do we get to the real truth of what’s going on here?’”
- Mike Casey, who resigned from working on Gaza issues at the State Department’s Office of Palestinian Affairs in Jerusalem [[link removed]] ,
speaking about reports that U.S. weapons have been used in likely war crimes in Gaza
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2024 Climate Week Webinars: Divest from Militarism & Invest in Climate Justice [[link removed]]
Aspen Coriz-Romero, Hanna Homestead, and Alliyah Lusuegro, National Priorities Project Blog
Americans left vulnerable while tax money funds military aid abroad [[link removed]] featuring NPP’s Lindsay Koshgarian for Al Jazeera
The True Costs of War [[link removed]] featuring NPP’s Lindsay Koshgarian for It’s Kairos Time! Podcast
There is no climate justice without resisting militarism [[link removed]]
Slow Factory, Instagram
Move The Money [[link removed]]
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Some 80% of Hill ‘experts’ take $$ from arms makers, foreign interests [[link removed]]
Nick Cleveland-Stout, Responsible Statecraft
Warped Government Priorities Make Climate Disasters Worse [[link removed]]
Basav Sen, OtherWords
6 Things to Know as Israel Invades Lebanon [[link removed]]
Khury Petersen-Smith, Common Dreams
The Biden administration should own up to the costs of arming Israel in Gaza [[link removed]]
William D. Hartung and Stephanie Savell, The Hill
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