In 2021, the United States will spend $740 billion on the Pentagon budget which is equal to $1.4 million a MINUTE. With just 10% of the Pentagon budget, we could END homelessness in the United States, yet we’re told time and time again that we just “can’t afford” things like healthcare, education, and green jobs.
War profiteers and corporate Democrats want us to feel like increasing the Pentagon budget year after year while they nickel and dime programs for human needs is inevitable. It’s NOT and the tide is changing!
That’s why we need a movement to #CutThePentagon for People, Planet, Peace, and a Future!
Cut The Pentagon is a coalition of groups pulled together by CODEPINK, the Institute for Policy Studies, The People’s Forum and World Beyond War, with a commitment to be in the streets with peaceful direct actions, theater, disruptions, and teach-ins. Whether in Washington DC or around the country, we will be organizing actions every day—exposing individuals and companies that profit from war, pressuring Congress and the administration to join us, making common cause with the positive causes that deserve more tax dollars, lifting up the stories of those most affected by militarism, and the lack of funds it steals from their needs.
You can join the coalition as an organization here
You can join the coalition as an individual here
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