Resources for 2013 Budget Fight
Resources for Tax Day and the Global Day of Action on Military Spending.
Sample outreach emails
1. Generic sample email (word document)
2. F35 Aircraft focused sample email (word document)
Flyers
1. Our Tax Day, Not Theirs (word document), (PDF)
2. No Taxes for the F35 (word document), (PDF)
Fact Sheets
1. Sequestration State Fact Sheets 2013 - Coalition on Human Needs. Fact sheets and on the impact of sequestration cuts across all 50 states.
2. Sequestration, the Pentagon and the States – NPP fact sheets for 22 states.
Training Curriculum
Peace Action and the National Priorities Project (NPP) Move the Money curriculum 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
Toolkit
American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) Invest in People, Not the Pentagon Action Toolkit includes ideas/resources to take action and fact sheets.
Banner
20 foot US Federal Budget banner – AFSCShows 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.
News Articles
1. When Money is No Object: the Strange Saga of the F-35
3. Is The F-35 Really ‘The Only Plane’ After All?
AFSC’s excellent toolkit
includes a strategy, core message, action timeline, creative actions, tips for talking with Congress and the media, fact sheets, and a link for ordering AFSC’s new 20-foot vinyl banner of military vs domestic spending.
New Priorities Network’s toolkit contains:
- Message and talking points
- Domestic programs that have already been cut and what’s happened to Pentagon spending in the same period
- Pentagon items we can cut
- To come: Domestic programs we can fund by cutting un-needed Pentagon items
- Military profiteers that want to cut social programs
- Sample sign-on letter for local elected officials
- Sample letters to the editor
The National Priorities Project has two-page fact sheets on:
- Jobs, the Economy, and Military Spending
- Veterans Funding – Cutting Military Spending Won’t Hurt American Vets
- Homeland Security – It’s Not Just About the Military
- What is “Smart Security?” The Unified Security Budget
- Less Spending, More Security – SDTF Report
- Myth – Military Spending is Going Down
- The Discretionary Budget – Military vs. Non-Military
- Sequestration – What is it? Why do I Care?
- U.S. Military Spending vs. the World
Friends Committee on National Legislation has a three-page “Practical Options to Save Billions in the Military Budget.”
You can also find a description of the overall campaign on the Take Action / Main Campaigns page and media resources on the Resources for Media Work page.
The Move the Money Curriculum from National Priorities Project and Peace Action uses engaging modules like “Budget Jeopardy” and mock debates to convey in-depth federal budget information focused on Pentagon spending.
Resolution Campaign Resources
List of Resolutions and Cities that Passed Them
Why Resolutions Are Important. Use this if local or state officials tell you “we don’t take positions on national policies, that’s outside our jurisdiction.”
Coalitions behind the resolutions. Get ideas and inspiration for your resolution campaign. See the range of organizations that have joined together to pass city council resolutions and keep their campaigns going afterward.