Taking our Communities from Pentagon Cuts to a New Economy: Webinar with Miriam Pemberton
Taking our Communities from Pentagon Cuts to a New Economy: Webinar with Miriam Pemberton
Co-sponsored by Peace Action & US Labor Against the War
Thursday, June 20
7pm Central
RSVP <movingtoneweconomy@gmail.com>
Miriam Pemberton is a Research Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies, writing and speaking on demilitarization issues for its Foreign Policy In Focus project. She has recently published a report, “Military vs. Climate Security: Mapping the Shift from the Bush Years to the Obama Era,” a follow-up to her other publication, “The Budgets Compared: Military vs. Climate Security.”
This webinar is for labor, peace and community organizers and activists who want an in depth review of what we need to do prepare our communities, workers and workplaces for the cuts which have begun in the Pentagon budget.
Why? To move to a “new economy” which creates good paying, union jobs means organizing to cut the Pentagon budget and move that money to achieve economic conversion. Economic conversion is moving to design peacetime manufacturing and retooling military facilities to produce what our communities need.
Webinar RSVP movingtoneweconomy@gmail.com for Thursday, June 20 8pm EST, 7pm Central, 6pm PST
As cuts are made to the Pentagon budget, money should be moved to fund state and city/town commissions, job development, retraining and other support for workers and their communities to make the transition from military production to green, sustainable industries.
This webinar will drill down on proposals for Congressional action and state legislation to transition from a war economy to a sustainable peace economy.
Military sector workers and their families should not bear the social cost of making the transition to a sustainable peace economy. In May, the Connecticut state legislature passed a bill to establish a commission to propose how to convert industry to civilian use. The first bill passed in the country. The Pentagon budget will be cut, the question is by how much and what will the effects be on the economy and our communities.
Read an article Miriam wrote in 2010: Swords into Solar Panels
