Dear John,
I wanted to make sure you saw our
invitation to join this Tuesday's CODEPINK Congress Calling Party for a
conversation on the massive 2023 military budget, which includes
plenty of give-aways to military contractors and weapons
manufacturers. Join us as we mobilize for peace!
Chat with peacemakers and experts
this Tuesday, August 16th at 5 pm PT/8 pm
ET:
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.
After you RSVP, take action
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!
Google Group & Local
Leaders
Join our CODEPINK Congress Google Group, a space for sharing events
and actions. Request to be added here!
Become a CODEPINK Congress liaison in your district to mobilize
support for demilitarization and progressive foreign policy! Sign up
here as a volunteer organizer.
Finally, if you missed our last meeting, you can view it here on YouTube. View the entire CODEPINK
Congress archives here.
Onward toward peace and
justice,
Medea, Marcy, Hanieh, Maha, and the
entire CODEPINK team
