{"id":1698,"date":"2013-06-20T19:00:53","date_gmt":"2013-06-21T01:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peaceeconomyproject.org\/wordpress\/?p=1698"},"modified":"2013-06-11T11:52:12","modified_gmt":"2013-06-11T17:52:12","slug":"taking-our-communities-from-pentagon-cuts-to-a-new-economy-webinar-with-miriam-pemberton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peaceeconomyproject.org\/wordpress\/taking-our-communities-from-pentagon-cuts-to-a-new-economy-webinar-with-miriam-pemberton\/","title":{"rendered":"Taking our Communities from Pentagon Cuts to a New Economy: Webinar with Miriam Pemberton"},"content":{"rendered":"

Taking our Communities from Pentagon Cuts to a New Economy:\u00a0<\/strong>Webinar with Miriam Pemberton<\/strong><\/p>\n

Co-sponsored by Peace Action & US Labor Against the War
\nThursday, June 20<\/strong>
\n7pm\u00a0Central<\/strong>
\nRSVP<\/strong>\u00a0<movingtoneweconomy@gmail.com<\/a>><\/p>\n

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>,” a follow-up to her other publication, “The Budgets Compared: Military vs. Climate Security.”<\/p>\n

This webinar is for labor, peace and community organizers and activists<\/strong>\u00a0who 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.<\/p>\n

Why?<\/strong>\u00a0To move to a \u201cnew economy\u201d 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.<\/p>\n

Webinar RSVP<\/strong>\u00a0movingtoneweconomy@gmail.com<\/a>\u00a0for Thursday, June 20 8pm EST,\u00a07pm\u00a0Central,\u00a06pm PST<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

This webinar<\/strong>\u00a0will drill down on proposals for Congressional action and state legislation<\/strong>\u00a0to transition from a war economy to a sustainable peace economy.<\/p>\n

Military sector workers and their families should not bear the social cost of making the transition to a sustainable peace economy.\u00a0\u00a0In 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.<\/p>\n

Read an article Miriam wrote in 2010:\u00a0Swords into Solar Panels\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Taking our Communities from Pentagon Cuts to a New Economy:\u00a0Webinar with Miriam Pemberton Co-sponsored by Peace Action & US Labor Against the War Thursday, June 20 7pm\u00a0Central RSVP\u00a0<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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peaceeconomyproject.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1698","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=1698"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/peaceeconomyproject.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1699,"href":"https:\/\/peaceeconomyproject.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1698\/revisions\/1699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peaceeconomyproject.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peaceeconomyproject.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peaceeconomyproject.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}