Federal Budget Priorities

Our Tax$ for Human Need - Not Wars and Greed

Tuesday, April 12, 2011 - 4:30pm - 6:00pm

Demonstration & Street Theater will call for a reduction in the excessive military budget and the reprioritizing of our tax dollars toward human needs and job creation.

Activities will include:

  •   20’ to 30’ Banner of FY 2012 U.S. discretionary budget

Street Theater at Four Street Corners

Contact Information: 

Ira Harritt, American Friends Service Committee, 816 931-5256, afsckc@afsc.org

Documents: 
Flyer-Tax$ for Human Need

Flyer-Tax$ for Human Need

Flyer - Our Tax$ for Human Need-Not War and Greed

April 12, Tuesday, 4:30-6:00pm

1200 Main, KCMO

application/pdf iconFlyer KC Tax Action 2011 4-12-11.pdf

Write a letter to the editor about budget priorities and military spending

“Not what we say about our blessings,

but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving.”

-- W. T. Purkiser

Dear Peacemakers,

We wish you a very happy healthy Thanksgiving.

I found the words of Rev. W.T. Purkiser printed above recently and felt that they eloquently spoke to me this Thanksgiving. I feel very blessed in many ways and giving back, working for peace and justice is one way I try and express my thanks.

Tucson AZ Citizen.com: 130 Crowd Tucson Public Hearing on Prison Privatization

More than 130 people packed the Public Hearing at Pima Community College’s Downtown Campus last night for the first ever hearings on prison privatization in Arizona.

Exceeding all expectations for this event, the crowd listened intently throughout the two hour hearing.

 

Funding Schools, Not War

Ira Harritt

Ira Harritt

Ira Harritt is AFSC's Program Coordinator in Kansas City.

By Ira Harritt, AFSC Kansas City Program Coordinator

Guns and Mortarboards

David Burress of the Ad Astra Institute of Kansas presented this information at a panel organized by AFSC and the Institute of Labor Studies, UMKC on May 22, 2010. For more info, visit www.adastrainstitute.org.

application/pdf iconGuns and Mortarboards - Presentation by David Burress.pdf

Tax Day Protesters Defy Wind, Rain in Des Moines

Des Moines tax day protest 2010

Sherry Hutchison, Eloise Cranke, Jane Magers, and Kathleen McQuillen protested war funding in front of the main Post Office in Des Moines on April 15, 2010.

This article and photo appear on pages 59 and 60 of the July 2010 issue of the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs. Reprinted with permission of the author.

by Michael Gillespie

     Four long-time Iowa activists defied the elements on April 15 to protest their government’s use of their tax dollars to fund wars.

Des Moines tax day protest 2010

Sherry Hutchison, Eloise Cranke, Jane Magers, and Kathleen McQuillen protested war funding in front of the main Post Office in Des Moines on April 15, 2010.

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