No federal funds for Medicare, Medicaid, child care and \u201call these individual things\u201d, but instead<\/p>\n
\u201dwe have to take care of one thing: military protection\u201d: that is what Trump actually asserted at a<\/p>\n
private Easter luncheon. Then, on Good Friday, the White House proposed a budget demanding<\/p>\n
$1.5 trillion in military spending along with extensive privatization and draconian cuts of tens of<\/p>\n
billions of dollars to federal programs impacting education, health care, climate control and<\/p>\n
housing.<\/p>\n
This is more than a moral obscenity. It is a national emergency. It is an escalation of the<\/p>\n
imperialist war abroad and the class war at home.<\/p>\n
Although the racist austerity and imperialist wars have long been strategies of ruling class wealth<\/p>\n
accumulation in the belly of the beast, no President has ever stated these interests so openly.<\/p>\n
Trump\u2019s proposed restriction of federal funds for crucial life-affirming social programs while<\/p>\n
increasing spending on the death producing war machine, explicitly threatening to bomb Iran<\/p>\n
into the Stone Age, \u201cblowing up everything over there\u201d, is a reflection of the brute gangsterism<\/p>\n
associated with a dying US empire.<\/p>\n
If there ever was a time for massive public outrage against grossly misplaced priorities in<\/p>\n
spending our federal tax dollars and ongoing war crimes, death and destruction, that time is now.<\/p>\n
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The bloated military budget, now $1 trillion with a giant 50% increase for 2027 must be<\/p>\n
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cut, significantly.<\/p>\n
Investments in underfunded human needs must be increased, drastically.<\/p>\n
The supplemental $200 billion for the war on Iran, which is already draining the public<\/p>\n
treasury of some $1.5 billion daily, must be blocked, completely<\/p>\n
The genocide against the Palestinian people and the war on Iran and West Asia must end,<\/p>\n
immediately.<\/p>\n
The genocidal blockade that seeks to sabotage the Cuban revolution must be lifted,<\/p>\n
immediately.<\/p>\n
The imperialist interventions across the Caribbean and the extra\u2011<\/span>judicial killings of<\/p>\n people in boats under the pretext of a war on drugs must cease, immediately.<\/p>\n President Nicol\u00e1s Maduro and First Combatant Cilia Flores must be released,<\/p>\n immediately.<\/p>\n US military bases across the globe must be closed.<\/p>\n ICE must be abolished completely and the fascist, police and carceral attacks on our<\/p>\n immigrant, Black and Brown and Immigrant communities must end, immediately.<\/p>\n This militaristic madness, which is severely endangering the very social fabric of our<\/p>\n communities, and the planet,must end and be reversed.Join the growing movement to fight back against the misappropriation of our taxpayer dollars to<\/p>\n fuel wars and ruling-class wealth accumulation. From the pledge to withhold tax dollars for<\/p>\n genocide and empire and the National Day of Action \u2013 Money for Human Needs, NOT for War!<\/span><\/p>\n \u2013 to the Move The Money to Human Needs Campaign: we urgently need a federal budget and<\/p>\n federal policy that centers life over profit \u2013 policies that shift <\/b>federal funds from the imperialist<\/p>\n war machine to peaceful purposes and unmet human needs. Instead of war, let there be a<\/p>\n campaign against on poverty, a campaign against inequality, a campaign against global injustice<\/p>\n and a campaign against manufacturing weapons and militarization.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" No federal funds for Medicare, Medicaid, child care and \u201call these individual things\u201d, but instead \u201dwe have to take care of one thing: military protection\u201d: that is what Trump actually asserted at a private Easter luncheon. Then, on Good Friday, the White House proposed a budget demanding $1.5 trillion in military spending along with extensive […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":17049,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[49,36,37,38,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-imperialism-and-war","category-militarized-foreign-policy","category-military-budget","category-national","category-news"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ohiopeacecouncil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ohiopeacecouncil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ohiopeacecouncil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ohiopeacecouncil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ohiopeacecouncil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17046"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ohiopeacecouncil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17050,"href":"https:\/\/ohiopeacecouncil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17046\/revisions\/17050"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ohiopeacecouncil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ohiopeacecouncil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ohiopeacecouncil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ohiopeacecouncil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}