On July 21, 2020, the U.S. House of Representatives voted 324 to 93 (with 13 not voting) to DEFEAT a proposal to move a mere 10% of military spending to human, environmental, and health needs. Here are the lists of 93 YEA and 324 NAY votes: http://clerk.house.gov/cgi-bin/vote.asp?year=2020&rollnumber=148 It’s rare for our local Representative Denny Heck (WA 10th Cong.Dist.) to vote correctly on such an issue, but in this case he was one of the 93 who voted to cut the Pentagon’s budget.
MOST Democrats joined ALL Republicans (except for 13 Republicans who did not vote) in defeating this sensible proposal.
NEITHER of the big parties is on our side!
Public opinion polling DOES want to CUT Pentagon funding and fund sensible, decent things instead.
Congress is on the WRONG side!
We must ORGANIZE VIGOROUSLY at the grassroots to MOBILIZE PUBLIC OPINION to change federal budget priorities! If you’d like to help, please contact me at (360) 491-9093 or glenanderson@integra.net
Since the late 1960s Glen Anderson has devoted his life to working as a volunteer for peace, nonviolence, social justice, and progressive political issues. He has worked through many existing organizations and started several. Over the years he has worked especially for such wide-ranging goals as making peace with Vietnam, eliminating nuclear weapons, converting from a military economy to a peacetime economy, abolishing the death penalty, promoting nonviolence at all levels throughout society, and helping people organize and strategize for grassroots movements to solve many kinds of problems. He writes, speaks, and conducts training workshops on a wide variety of topics. Since 1987 he has produced and hosted a one-hour cable TV interview program on many kinds of issues. Since 2017 he has blogged at https://parallaxperspectives.org He lives in Lacey near Olympia WA. You can reach him at (360) 491-9093 glen@parallaxperspectives.org
