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Global Campaign on Military Spending

Demilitarize! Invest in People's Needs

Resources

  1. Reports & Working Papers
    2015
    2014
    2013
    2012
  2. Books
  3. Explanations of the Campaign: FAQs
  4. Events Planning Tools: Media tips & Tools
  5. Flashmobs
  6. Selfie Campaigns
  7. Webinars
  8. Videos
  9. Info Graphics – Samples
  10. GDAMS U.S / Tax Day 2015 Resources
      10.1 Thunderclap
      10.2 Local Press Release Template
      10.3 Flyer Templates
      10.4 Webinars Series
      10.5 Resources & Tools
  11. General
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    1. REPORTS & WORKING PAPERS

    2015

    2014

    2013

    2012

    2. BOOKS

    3. EXPLANATIONS OF THE CAMPAIGN: FAQs

    4. EVENTS PLANNING TOOLS: Media Tips & Tools

    5. FLASHMOBS

    6. THUNDERCLAPS & SELFIE CAMPAIGNS

    7. WEBINARS – you may organize and invite people to join  or you may join other people’s webinars. Read more about the GDAMS/U.S. Tax Day webinar series.

    8. VIDEOS & BANNER

    9. INFO GRAPHICS – SAMPLES

    10. GDAMS U.S. /Tax Day 2015 Resources

    10.1 Thunderclap

    10.2 Local Press Release Template

    LocalPressRelease Draft GDAMS 15

    10.3 Flyer Templates

    – Slogan: The Biggest Pentagon Budget Ever. Do You Feel More Secure?
    GDAMS15 Biggest Budget with call
    GDAMS15 Biggest Budget no call

    – Slogan: Secure the Future of Our Children. Not Pentagon Contractors.
    GDAMS15 Children with call
    GDAMS15 Children no call

    – Slogan: Invest in People. Not the Pentagon.
    GDAMS15 People with call
    GDAMS15 People no call

    10.4 Webinars

    – National Priorities Project Webinar: Competing Visions, Tuesday, March 31 @ 2 pm ET

    The four budget proposals presented by members of Congress represent starkly different approaches to the issues Americans consistently identify as top priorities: education, Social Security, health care, food assistance, and other domestic investments, as well as reforming the tax code. In this webinar, National Priorities Project Research Analyst Jasmine Tucker will explain the differences between the budgets originally proposed by the House, Senate, President Obama, and Congressional Progressive Caucus, and review the outcome of the budget votes held the week of March 23rd. You’ll learn what the budget proposals mean for policy priorities in Congress — and how they stack up against what Americans say they want.

    – National Priorities Project Tax Day webinar, 4/14 @ 2 pm ET.

    – ReThink Media webinar, date and time TBA Media tips for organizers.

    – Recent webinars that have been recorded:

    You Get What You Pay For: Security and Our Investments for the Future
    AFSC’s Director of the Office of Public Policy and Advocacy and USAction’s Campaign Coordinator Cynthia Ward Wikstrom explore different ways of approaching security in our interconnected world, concrete examples of what works and what doesn’t in the face of violent extremism, and new narratives we can all use in our work to help shift the current debate and lopsided priorities in our federal budget.

    Link to WAND webinar with Center for Arms Control and Nonproliferation,
    which reviewed the federal budget process and the details of the Pentagon budget in the FY2016 Budget Request

    Religious Action Group, Interreligious Working Group on Domestic Human Needs webinar
    Decoding the Federal Budget featuring Amelia Kegan from Bread for the World, Raed Jaraar from AFSC, Kathy Saile from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Tila Neguse from FCNL, and Melanie Fineman from Religious Action Center on Reform Judaism.

    Link to WAND Webinar: Get Ready to Lobby!
    WAND’s Senior Policy Director Kathy Robinson and Nuclear Weapons Policy Officer Erica Fein will help you prepare for communicating with federal policymakers about these important issues and review best practices for meetings during the upcoming congressional recess March 30-April 10.

    10.5 Resources & Tools

    – Resources: Below are materials for local organizers, for public education and social media activity leading up to and for use on April 13 and 15.

      • Competing Visions: how do new budget proposals stack up against Americans’ priorities — National Priorities Project
      • The Plane that Ate the Budget – AFSC
      • A tax receipt for individuals to see how each personally contributed to programs ranging from WIC to nuclear weapons – National Priorities Project
      • An all-new versionof Trade-Offs tool to see how much taxpayers in each city or town paid in 2012 toward a variety of federal programs – and what else that money could buy – National Priorities Project
      • Seven Things You Should Know About Taxes — National Priorities Project
      • Want to issue an “Onion” style parody or “Mockery Newspaper” for your event? Download a 4 page newspaper (pages 1-2 & 3-4), add your organization and local info to bring a smile or a howl. The “Mockery Newspaper” was created by Montgomery County, MD Peace Action which has been locked in battle with the greedy Lockheed Martin defense contractor. Enjoy!
      • Alternatives to War postcards postcards from WAND

    – Fact Sheets

    – Media

    – Letters

    10.6 Event Planning Tools

    – Media Tips & Tools

    – Training Materials
    Peace Action and the National Priorities Project (NPP) Move the Money curriculum resources include: Training Curriculum: provides a detailed blueprint for conducting the training; Fact sheets and backgrounders on broad range of topics.

    WRL Pie Chart Curriculum for Educators and Activists

    – Toolkit

    The President’s Budget Toolkit: Get the facts about how the president proposes to spend your tax dollars in 2016 —National Priorities Project: Top 5 Things to Know About the President’s Budget Proposal, including the highest Pentagon base budget ever and Recorded Webinar: Understanding President Obama’s Budget Proposal and President’s Budget 2016 in Pictures

    – Banner

    20 foot US Federal Budget banner – AFSC: Shows the US discretionary federal budget and the more than 50% that goes to the military. Order one for your public events or display on your building.

    – Videos

      • Rolling Out the Budget(AFSC) Where are your tax dollars going?
      • F35: The Jet that Ate the Pentagon
      • If I Had a Trillion Dollars (IHTD) Youth Film Festival – AFSC and NPP. The IHTD festival includes short films made by youth speaking out about where their communities would rather spend the $1 trillion spent on war or the Pentagon budget.
      • If Paychecks Could Talk because if they could, they’d explain that the taxes we pay fund programs like clean water, health care, and roads and bridges

    US endorsing organizations, list in formation:
    Alliance for Global Justice, American Friends Service Committee, CODEPINK, Foreign Policy in Focus, Friends Committee on National Legislation, National Priorities Project, National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee, Peace Action, USAction, USLAW, War Resisters League, Win Without War, Women’s Action for New Directions & Women’s Legislators’ Lobby.

  12. General

Key US Budget Documents

IPB Delas