Each year, about two-thirds of the United States’ budget is spent on militarized responses to problems—including the Pentagon, abusive immigration enforcement, and policing. This money could have had a transformative impact on things that would actually make our communities healthy, safe, and strong—like education, universal health care, or peacebuilding.In this webinar, you’ll learn why the United States’ militarized budget is such a problem, how the budget and appropriations process works, and how you can get involved in the call to move money out of militarism and into our communities!Speakers Include:<ul><li>Ashik Siddique, National Priorities Project</li><li>Savannah Wooten, Public Citizen</li><li>AFSC Program Staff Member</li></ul>Moderator: Tori Bateman, AFSC

Demilitarize the Budget! Budget Advocacy Training

IPS is a community of public scholars and organizers linking peace, justice, and the environment in the U.S. and globally. We work with social movements to promote true democracy and challenge concentrated wealth, corporate influence, and military power. As Washington&rsquo;s first progressive multi-issue think tank, the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) has served as a policy and research resource for visionary social justice movements for over four decades &mdash; from the anti-war and civil rights movements in the 1960s to the peace and global justice movements of the last decade. Today the Institute&rsquo;s work is organized into more than a dozen projects, reflecting our public scholars&rsquo; diverse areas of expertise.

Demilitarize the Budget! Budget Advocacy Training

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