IOT: End the Occupation Decmeber Call
December’s End War and Occupations, Redirect Funding conference call had guests Gael Murphy and Rusti Eisenberg of United for Peace and Justice updating the group on the legislation to require President Obama to set an exit strategy for Afghanistan and to prohibit the increase in the number of armed forces serving in Afghanistan. Jo Comerford, from the National Priorities Project (NPP), walked the group through the resources at NPP for anti-escalation actions, such as the Tradeoffs tool to generate data for cities, counties, and states demonstrating what the money spent on the wars since 2001 could have paid for in social programs. This is vital preparation for PDA’s Brown Bag Lunch Vigils, which kick off in January 2010. Mike Fox asked the group to participate in the phone outreach to voters in Massachusetts to elect Mike Capuano to the US Senate.






