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Weapons or Windmills?
Coming Together to Convert the Permanent Military Economy
US based anti-nuclear activists of Global Network Against
Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space, Mary Beth Sullivan (L) gestures as
she addresses a press conference as fellow activist Bruce Gagnon looks
on, in New Delhi, 12 October 2006.
Speaker: Mary Beth Sullivan, Outreach
Coordinator, Global Network against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space
Friday, August 8th at 7:00 p.m.
40 Green Place, New Rochelle
According to the late economist and engineer Seymour
Melman, from the end of
World War II to 2003, the U.S. government had spent more
than half its tax dollars on past, current and future military operations. Ms. Sullivan will talk about the new movement
connecting peace, environmental and faith communities with the union and
labor movement, that demands on a local level, to convert that
military spending to a sustainable, peaceful economy. She thinks
Americans care that 42.2 percent of their 2007 income tax dollars went
to military spending, while just over 4 percent and 3 percent went to
education and to the environment respectively.
A trained social worker and community organizer from Maine, Ms. Sullivan worked with homeless people, women on welfare and
disabled children. In 1995 she began volunteer work with Global
Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space. Recently, she has
been fasting in solidarity with the "No Bases Initiative," opponents
of the proposed U.S. military base planned for the Czech Republic, as
part of the American "Star Wars" missile defense system, and will update
us on that effort, as well. To sign the "No Bases Initiative" petition,
go to
www.nonviolence.cz. To learn more about the
Global Network, go to
www.space4peace.org.
Contact: Dennis Hanratty,
(914) 699-1114
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