Hi John, I’m Ben, the ice cream guy. But I’m not here to talk about ice cream.

Actually, I wish I was talking about something as fun as ice cream, but I’m here to talk about the insane military-industrial complex that is fueling endless wars across the globe and preventing us from addressing real challenges at home like student debt, the climate crisis, and health care.

But the good news is that this email is about doing something about it.

We need to build Our Revolution groups across the nation that can help hold members of Congress accountable to us and not to the military industrial complex that demands military budget increases year after year with agreement from both Republicans and most Democrats.

Donate now to help us hire more field organizers, including campus organizers, and to build Our Revolution!

Congress just approved a $738 billion military spending bill that provides a $22 billion increase over last year, and brings the total increases in the 3 Trump years to $130 billion.

Sadly, this year is the first budget passed by a House Democratic majority, which dropped defunding of the Saudi-led Yemen attacks and restored funding for a new round of nuclear weapons after a conference committee with the Senate included all of that and more.

Fortunately, our champion Ro Khanna and 40 other House Democrats voted “No”, providing us with a starting point for a national campaign to stop these increases next year, as well as the endless wars. Watch Ro Khanna on the House floor eloquently present the case against adoption:

Watch Here

Click here to see how your representative voted and contact them to either appreciate their vote or let them know you will be demanding change next year.

Our Revolution and our allies will launch a major campaign in 2020 to demand an end to endless wars, the new round of nuclear weapons, funding the war against Yemen, and more. I look forward to joining that campaign and hope that you will join me and your local group as we organize next year.

It’s great that Bernie Sanders will vote no in the Senate, and when he is president he will lead the efforts to reverse endless wars and endless military spending increases. But we need to build a majority in the Congress that will demand new priorities like a Green New Deal, Medicare For All and free public college. One of the ways we can pay for that is less wasteful military spending.

Donate below to help us hire more field organizers, including campus organizers, to staff this campaign and to build Our Revolution!

Thank you,

Ben Cohen