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Military disarmament is the act of reducing military forces, military equipment, weapons supplies, nuclear weapons capability, or the complete abandonment and abolition of the armed forces and use of weapons by states and by other military groups. Disarming states and other groups is a prerequisite for building a just, equitable, peaceful, secure, and sustainable world. |
Featured Resources Winter Soldier will feature testimony from
U.S. veterans who served in those occupations, giving an accurate
account of what is really happening day in and day out, on the ground.
 Soldiers Speak Out is
a powerful documentary on the reality of the military experience told
entirely in the words of American veterans who are now opposing war. It
also sheds light on the growing and courageous anti-war and
anti-occupation movement within the military and their families, and
serves as a counter-recruitment tool for activists, schools and
organizations.
 Before You Enlist and After You Say No: AFSC's Counter-Recruitment Training Manual A training manual to assist the growing counter-recruitment movement. All tools designed with the direct education approach, which uses group exercises that emphasize participants' empowerment and taps their wisdom as much as possible.
Peace Economy Project researches military spending, educates about the hazards of an unchecked military-industrial complex and advocates for conversion from a military to a more stable peace-based economy. Featured OrganizationsIraq Veterans Against the War is a group of veterans who have served since September 11th, 2001 including Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom. We are committed to saving lives and ending the violence in Iraq by an immediate withdrawal of all occupying forces. We also believe that the governments that sponsored these wars are indebted to the men and women who were forced to fight them and must give their Soldiers, Marines, Sailors, and Airmen the benefits that are owed to them upon their return home. We welcome all active duty, national guard, reservists, and recent veterans into our ranks Courage to Resist is a group of concerned community members, veterans and military families that supports military objectors to illegal war and occupation and the policies of empire. Our People Power strategy weakens the pillars that maintain war and occupation in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere by supporting GI resistance, counter-recruitment and draft resistance, which cuts off the supply of troops. We are autonomous from and independent of any political organization, party or group.
 Military Families Speak Out is an organization of people who are opposed to war in Iraq and who have relatives or loved ones in the military. We were formed in November of 2002 and have contacts with military families throughout the United States, and in other countries around the world. Our membership currently includes over 2,400 military families, with new families joining daily.
 The National Campaign for a Peace Tax Fund advocates for US federal legislation enabling conscientious objectors to war to have their federal income taxes directed to a special fund which could be used for non-military purposes only.
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Quote"We as a nation must undergo a radical revolution of values...A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death." —Martin Luther King, Jr.
Did You Know? March 19, 2008 - At the outset of the Iraq war, the Bush administration predicted that it would cost $50 billion to $60 billion to oust Saddam Hussein, restore order and install a new government. Five years in, the Pentagon tags the cost of the Iraq war at roughly $600 billion and counting. Joseph E. Stiglitz, a Nobel Prize-winning economist and critic of the war, pegs the long-term cost at more than $4 trillion. The Congressional Budget Office and other analysts say that $1 trillion to $2 trillion is more realistic, depending on troop levels and on how long the American occupation continues. (NY TIMES) Related WiserEarth Portals |
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military disarmament, peace, demilitarization, security, militarism, nonviolence, limitation, military equipment, arms control, mutual disarmament, biological weapons, chemical weapons, nuclear weapons, international law
