February Newsletter Here!

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Check out our new February Newsletter entitled “Military Spending: Anti-Development.” In it, we talk about the global development agenda, the Rio+20 Earth Summit, and how Military Spending factors into the equation. It’s clear that with over $1.6 trillion of global resources being wasted in the military industries, the resources that need to be devoted to [...]

Despite Crisis, European Arms Market Thrives

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EUObserver.com covers the recently-released Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) data on the European weapons market. Despite the economic crisis that has unemployment rates well over 20% in several EU countries, and austerity that threatens to destroy the European social safety net, over 75 billion Euro were made on arms sales in Eurozone countries. Check [...]

Great Graphics on Global Military Spending From New Internationalist

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Looking for some great visuals for your GDAMS action? Check out these graphics from New Internationalist Magazine for some inspiration. Transform them into signs and visual displays to show everyone just how much money is spent and wasted on war industries (and who spends the most)!

The Elephant in the Room: Military Spending and Development

Check out this exhaustive document released by our partner Org. Pax Christi. It’s a great resource on development, including on the estimated costs of the Millennium Development Goals, and on why development only seems so out of reach because of the elephant in the room: Military Spending.

January Newsletter

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Our first Newsletter of 2012 is finally here! In it we will sum up global and regional trends in military spending, touch on a few of the development needs the world faces and cover a few steps you can start to take towards planning your action! There’s also a sneak peek of what we’ve got planned in Washington DC for April 17th!

How Would NY Times Readers Cut Military Spending?

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This graphic, released in the wake of announced budget-increase slowdowns from the Pentagon, shows the areas of the U.S. Military that readers of the Times would cut. Have a look, and play imperialist and design your own military budget here!

Does the Public Favor Defense Budget Cuts?

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This analysis from Steven Kull at World Public Opinion shows how ready Americans are to cut military spending. Polling on the subject reveals that less informed respondents are less likely to favor cuts. GDAMS participants should focus on raising peoples’ awareness of just how wasteful and excessive military spending is, and what human cost that carries.

Kull writes:

“As respondents are given more information, support for reductions rises. When Quinnipiac University in March simply told respondents that defense, Social Security and Medicare together constitute more than half of the federal budget, 54% favored cutting defense spending.