{"id":97773,"date":"2013-12-10T02:54:43","date_gmt":"2013-12-10T02:54:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?guid=946001718447c4797b264624f05918d0"},"modified":"2013-12-10T02:54:43","modified_gmt":"2013-12-10T02:54:43","slug":"the-peoples-budget-goes-to-washington-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/editorials\/the-peoples-budget-goes-to-washington-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The People&#8217;s Budget Goes to Washington"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday, December 10, 2013, 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m.<\/p>\n<p><strong>New<\/strong><strong>Location:<\/strong> Cannon House Office Building 402<br \/>Washington, DC 20002<\/p>\n<p>Also, join a group photo op at 9:20-9:30 a.m., at Capitol&#8217;s East Front, House Triangle, near Independence Ave. SE and New Jersey Ave.<\/p>\n<p>Social and economic justice, peace, environmental and community groups are heading to Washington DC to tell Congress: We the People demand a budget that meets our critical needs &#8211; by cutting out-of-control, dangerous military spending.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Over one hundred organizations<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scribd.com\/doc\/185304323\/Budget-for-People-Peace-Planet\" >have signed onto a letter<\/a> outlining a plan to meet dire human and environmental needs by cutting the dangerous, runaway military budget by 25-50%.<\/p>\n<p>Thousands of individuals have signed on to <a href=\"http:\/\/greenshadowcabinet.us\/civicrm\/petition\/sign?sid=1&amp;reset=1\" >a petition<\/a> calling for the same thing.<\/p>\n<p>On December 10 we&#8217;re delivering it to Congress! Join us and tell Congress this is the only way to end the ongoing financial and humanitarian crisis caused by this reckless and obsolete wartime budget.<\/p>\n<p>Will they listen? We&#8217;re not holding our breath. But we are going to tell them anyway! And we&#8217;ll start building our power to compel a People&#8217;s Budget in the future.<\/p>\n<p>So if you can, come along to Congress on Tuesday. Bring a picture or drawing of something you personally are sacrificing in order to pay for the policy endless war.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Whether you can come or not, please ask your Congress members to attend!<br \/><a href=\"tel:202-225-3121\"  value=\"+12022253121\">202-225-3121<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usa.gov\/Contact\/US-Congress.shtml\" >http:\/\/www.usa.gov\/Contact\/US-<wbr>Congress.shtml<\/wbr><\/a><\/strong><br \/>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><wbr><\/wbr><\/p>\n<p>RSVP to <a href=\"mailto:info@greenshadowcabinet.us\" >info@greenshadowcabinet.us<\/a> for updates.<\/p>\n<p>See you there!<\/p>\n<p>Jill Stein, Cheri Honkala, Mark Dunlea, David Swanson<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidswanson.org\/node\/4262\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday, December 10, 2013, 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m.<br \/>\nNewLocation: Cannon House Office Building 402Washington, DC 20002<br \/>\nAlso, join a group photo op at 9:20-9:30 a.m., at Capitol&#8217;s East Front, House Triangle, near Independence Ave. SE and New Jersey Ave&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1218,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[461],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-97773","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-editorials"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1218"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97773\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}