View YouTube August 30 "Connect the Dots" Video
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We are the wealthiest nation on Earth . . . why are we broke?
SOME FACTS TO CONSIDER
- 44% of every tax dollar goes to the Pentagon
- Another 14% goes to the Dept. of Energy Weapons Program
- Adjusting for inflation, the 2008 budget deficit is equal to the largest debt owed in US history post World War II in 1948
- Between 2004 and 2008 the Federal Gov't shifted financial responsibility for $125 billion to the States.
- Since 2001 $896 billion has been spent on the Global War on Terror (GWOT). This is separate from the Pentagon budget.
- California's portion of the GWOT is $115 billion
- California's 2009 budget had a $42 billion shortfall.
- $8.8 billion was cut from California education in July 2009.
DOWNLOAD A BROCHURE WITH MORE FACTS ABOUT OUR BUDGET
SLO CODEPINK's Connect the Dots campaign focuses on the disproportionate amount of money allocated to defense and how the resulting lack of funding for other services is affecting our local community.
On August 8 at the Creative Day for Women, we set up a carnival booth and raised over $300 for the Food Bank, which has been reduced to providing one bag of groceries to each recipient family.
On August 30 after the Cayucos Budget Event, we presented a $150 check at the Vets Hall fundraiser to Larry Brebes, a local musician without health insurance, who will be on dialysis for the rest of his life because of a cancerous kidney.
Anyone who wants to make a contribution to Larry can do so by mailing a check in his name to CODEPINK, P.O. Box 72, Arroyo Grande, Ca. 93421.
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Thanks to all who participated in the anti Karl Rove demonstration on March 27 at the Madonna Inn.
and the Peace Gathering on March 20 commemorating the seventh anniversary of the invasion of Iraq.
SLO CODEPINK Calendar
April 28, 6:30 pm
Monthly Meeting
GALA Center
1060 Palm St.
Enter through side door. Parking in back and on street.
May 26, 6:30 pm
Monthly Meeting
GALA Center
1060 Palm St.
Enter through side door. Parking in back and on street.
If you are interested in receiving CODEPINK Updates, please send an email to dian@codepinkslo.org with the subject "Email List" and we will add you to our database for notice of our monthly meeting, events and legislative actions.
Thanks to Barry Hermanson of Not My Priorities for providing postcards with this compelling information. For more detail, visit http://www.notmypriorities.org/sources/
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WAR SUCKSEvery gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final
sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not
clothed. Dwight D. Eisenhower
ESTIMATED IRAQ & AFGHANISTAN WARS TOTAL: $1.6 trillion
IRAQ WAR US TROOP CASUALTIES & WOUNDED
4,385 casualties
31,716 wounded
Source AntiWar.com
REPORTED IRAQI CASUALTIES & WOUNDED TOLL
815,411 civilian casualties and 30,000 Iraqi troops killed
1,467,740 civilians seriously wounded, 90,000 Iraqi troops seriously injured
Source: Unknown News
If you would like to financially support CODEPINK's peace efforts, please send checks made out to CODEPINK to: CODEPINK, P.O. Box 72, Arroyo Grande, Ca. 93421. Your contributions help fund our "Buy Back the Media" and "Alternatives to Military Futures" campaigns. We thank everyone for their donations of money, time and peace loving thoughts. |
ARMCHAIR ACTIONS
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CALL CONGRESS ONCE A WEEK. CODEPINK HAS AN ONGOING NATIONAL CAMPAIGN TO DOG CONGRESS UNTIL THEY SUPPORT LEGISLATION TO END THIS ILLEGAL OCCUPATION NOW AND BRING OUR TROOPS HOME.
PLEASE CALL:
Barbara Boxer
(202) 224-3553
Dianne Feinstein
202-224-3841
Nancy Pelosi
202-225-0100
Lois Capps
202-225-3601 Kevin McCarthy
202-225-2915
REMIND THEM THAT THE GOVERNMENT IS THE PEOPLE AND THE PEOPLE CRAVE JUSTICE.
Send mail to a soldier who doesn't receive mail. Visit http://www.anysoldier.com/ for more information.
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MOTHERS FOR PEACE
is raising funds for ongoing legal interventions. A recent example of their litigation efforts is a ruling from the 9th Circuit of Appeals that mandated a terrorist-impact analysis be included in an environmental review of Pacific Gas & Electric Co.'s proposed nuclear waste storage facility. On January 19, 2007 the U.S. Supreme Court let this appellate ruling stand.
Please designate Mothers for Peace as the organization you want to receive a percentage of every dollar you spend at the grocery store. All you have to do is sign up at Scolaris, Ralphs or Albertsons.
If you have questions, please contact Nancy Norwood at norwood@kcbx.net or call Nancy at 544-0558.
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WOMEN IN BLACK Meets at the Following Locations:
Atascadero: 3rd. Saturday noon to 1 PM at El Camino & Route 41.
Cambria: 1st. Saturday each month, noon to 1 PM on corner of Burton and
Lompoc: Every Wednesday, 5:30 to 6:30 PM at corner of Ocean Ave. and H
St.
San Luis Obispo: 2nd. Tuesday each month, noon to 1 PM at the Mission
(Chorro at Monterey).
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Last updated April 22, 2010
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