Tomorrow, the House of Representatives will vote on\u00a0the National Defense Authorization Act of 2014 (NDAA). This proposed NDAA would spend $640 billion more than permitted by law, $billions more than the Pentagon has asked for. This is unconscionable!<\/p>\n
Please call your Representative at\u00a0202-224-3121<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0and tell him or her to support amendments to\u00a0audit and tighten the Pentagon budget\u00a0<\/strong>(while protecting healthcare and other programs for troops and veterans), rein in the\u00a0lethal drones<\/strong>program, and\u00a0end the Authorization for Use of Military Force<\/strong>\u00a0(AUMF) that gave a green light to the past decade of endless warfare.<\/p>\n Use your own words<\/strong>, but please emphasize that in this era of austerity–with sequester-driven cuts to Food Stamps, education, healthcare–many in Congress want to throw money at the Pentagon.\u00a0Please ask your Representative to support pending amendments which would: * Cut Pork–unnecessary boondoggle weapons systems including the F-35 fighter plane, the V-22 Osprey device and the Abrams tank.<\/p>\n * Eliminate nuclear weapons and provocative foreign military bases<\/p>\n * Rein in the lethal drones program<\/p>\n * End the Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF)<\/p>\n Call your Representative’s DC office at\u00a0202-224-3121<\/a><\/strong>, starting\u00a0Monday\u00a0between\u00a09 AM and 6 PM ET\u00a0(6 AM and 3 PM PT).\u00a0Find their district office number<\/strong><\/a>.<\/strong>\u00a0You can also use PDA\u2019s\u00a0action alert to support H.R. 198 to\u00a0Repeal the AUMF<\/strong><\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Tomorrow, the House of Representatives will vote on\u00a0the National Defense Authorization Act of 2014 (NDAA). This proposed NDAA would spend $640 billion more than permitted by law, $billions more than the Pentagon has asked for. This is unconscionable! Please call your Representative at\u00a0202-224-3121\u00a0and tell him or her to support amendments to\u00a0audit and tighten the Pentagon […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1690,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pep"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/peaceeconomyproject.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/images2.jpeg?fit=139%2C168&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peaceeconomyproject.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peaceeconomyproject.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peaceeconomyproject.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peaceeconomyproject.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peaceeconomyproject.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1687"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/peaceeconomyproject.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1691,"href":"https:\/\/peaceeconomyproject.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1687\/revisions\/1691"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peaceeconomyproject.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peaceeconomyproject.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peaceeconomyproject.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peaceeconomyproject.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\n* Audit the Pentagon<\/strong><\/p>\n