This April, Climate and War Are Linked More Than Ever
This Earth Day, we need bold new solutions for the climate crisis and peace. This is a vision for our Earth worth celebrating.
This Earth Day, we need bold new solutions for the climate crisis and peace. This is a vision for our Earth worth celebrating.
Unless the administration changes its approach, these wars will continue to deprive us of the security we actually need.
We need to invest in the agency that can prevent and reverse ecological disasters.
Our communities make the U.S. economy stronger and diversify the social and cultural fabric of our nation.
Security for all means honoring legal immigration, creating paths to citizenship, and it means ending and preventing wars.
Every year that members of Congress vote for budget boosts to this agency with no strings attached, they choose to spend untold billions on war with no accountability.
Can we envision more dignified programs for veterans, and use this model to treat other communities with the same ideal of care?
Here’s how legislators have splurged on militarism, and what could happen if those funds instead benefited people and communities.
The package includes $7.2 billion for direct military financing to Ukraine ($1.7 billion), Israel ($3.5 billion), and the Indo-Pacific ($2 billion).
We must shift the scale away from subsidized violence and towards sustaining the protection and enrichment of immigrant communities.