Check this out:

On April 15, a NYC Counselor introduces City Council Resolution to cut the military budget!

And if that's not enough, try the slide show at the end of this message forwarded by Judith Leblanc of Peace Action, formerly UfPJ:

- Mike Prokosch

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Brooklyn residents filled the library at Brooklyn Tech High School last night to hear Jo Comerford, Executive Director of the National Priorities Project speak on budget cuts, the federal budget and war spending. Comerford, a nationally-known expert on budget matters and our country's tragically mis-directed national priorities, helped clarify the complicated subject of federal spending so that people could see where and how their tax dollars are being used (or mis-used). People were able to see clearly that the oversized Pentagon budget $737 billion next year!) and the two wars in Iraq and Afghanistan ($1 trillion since 2001!) were draining resources so that solutions to urgent domestic problems are becoming difficult, if not impossible, to solve.

Comerford also visited high school students at two schools in the hours before the evening event. At Carroll Gardens' Brooklyn School for Collaborative Studies and later, at Brooklyn Tech High School, she addressed students who were asking why free transit Metro Cards are being threatened by the MTA and the city - both who are pleading poverty. She pointed out that just in Brooklyn alone, taxpayers have doled out $9 billion on the two wars - money which could solve the mass transit shortfall many times over.

The events were sponsored by Brooklyn For Peace. The Brooklyn Tech events were also sponsored by Progressive Student Awareness , a student club at that school

Here are photos from the day's activities. Please leave a comment if you'd like.

Matt

GALLERY or SLIDE SHOW (tip - hit your F11 key when the slide show begins - that will maximize your view).
 
 
Apr 16, 2010 - Budget Transfer Amendment - 1979, a post on United for Justice with Peace (UJP)
         The 1979 transfer amendment campaign, organized in Massachusetts by Mel King, Saundra Graham and Bill King, was a forerunner of today's 25% Solution campaign.