Dear John,



You are invited to join our Tuesday CODEPINK CONGRESS Calling Party for a conversation on the massive Pentagon budget, now in the Senate, which includes plenty of give-aways to military contractors and weapons manufacturers.



Chat with peacemakers and experts Tuesday,August 16th at 5 pm PT/8 pm ET:



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Let's mobilize opposition before the Senate votes this fall on an $858 billion military budget! That’s $45 billion more than President Biden requested & $100 billion more than Trump’s military budget. What’s in this behemoth? Plenty of give-aways to military contractors –$$$ for new nuclear warheads, new plutonium pits – $$$ for more F-35’s, $$$ for more weapons to Ukraine and $$$ for Israel’s Iron Dome. Also tucked into the NDAA is expansion of the use of foreign proxies and mercenaries against Iran, North Korea, Russia and China.



Join us as we dive into the nitty gritty to analyze the 2023 military budget - the top line, the line-items, the amendments - with CODEPINK special guests.



Featuring



Lindsay Koshgarian is the Program Director of the National Priorities Project, where she focuses on military spending. Prior to joining NPP in 2014, Lindsay was a researcher at the University of Massachusetts Donahue Institute, where she conducted state and regional economic development studies. She holds a Master of Public Policy from UCLA and a BA in Physics from the University of Pennsylvania.



Ashik Siddique is a research analyst for the National Priorities Project. Prior to joining NPP, Ashik was the research and digital communications lead of The Climate Mobilization, and worked for several years as a research coordinator of a study on PTSD in combat veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan at the Bronx VA Medical Center.















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U.S. Air Force veteran Daniel Hale has recently completed his first year of a 45-month prison sentence for exposing the truth about the deadly U.S. drone program. Daniel Hale is not a spy, a threat to society, or a bad faith actor - he is a whistleblower who took a significant risk to tell people in the U.S. what was being done in our name. Write to your member of Congress and call on them to pressure President Biden to grant Daniel's commutation!



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Google Group & Local Leaders



Join our CODEPINK Congress Google Group, a space for sharing events and actions. Request to be added here <[link removed]>!



Become a CODEPINK Congress liaison in your district to mobilize support for demilitarization and progressive foreign policy! Sign up here <[link removed]> as a volunteer organizer.



Finally, if you missed our last meeting, you can view it here <[link removed]> on YouTube. View the entire CODEPINK Congress archives here <[link removed]>.



Onward toward peace and justice,

Medea, Marcy, Hanieh, Maha, and the entire CODEPINK team















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