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GENEVA– Nine states spend over US$100 billion per year on their nuclear weapons, while projections indicate that by 2015 about one billion people will be living on an income of less than US$1.25 per day, the World Bank’s measure of extreme poverty. The use of those weapons would wreak havoc to the global economy, undermine [...]
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One hundred billion dollars for nuclear weapons; one billion people in extreme poverty
Posted by editor on April 14th, 2013
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International Press Communiqué: Burning a hole in our budget!
Posted by editor on April 12th, 2013
Geneva, 11 April 2013. On 15 April, over 100 organisations all over the world will (for the third time) come together for the Global Day of Action on Military Spending. This coordinated global effort constitutes a civil society movement for change. The current economic crisis has put pressure on governments to reduce spending on essential [...]
SIPRI Releases 2011 Numbers on Military Spending
Posted by editor on April 27th, 2012
The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, SIPRI, has published its annual calculations of global military spending. This year there is some reason for hope, as the slight increase in military spending around the world marks a major slowdown compared to global trends since September 11, 2001. Nevertheless, spending did go up from 2010, and modest cuts will not be enough to free up the resources necessary to reach the millennium development goals, nor to mark a true reversal of priorities from militarism and corporate greed to human needs and environmental sustainability.
U.S. McClatchy Press Service Spreads Word on GDAMS
Posted by editor on April 18th, 2012
John Feffer’s recent article entitled “Death and Taxes” was distributed to the dozens of newspapers throughout the country that make up the McClatchy network of media outlets. After more than 50 actions took place across the US yesterday, this coverage is a great boost to the impact of the GDAMS message in the largest military [...]
Pax Christi: Averting a War with Iran
Posted by editor on March 13th, 2012
Our International partner Pax Christi just released this timely document on the pressing issue of averting war with Iran. Surely such a war would spell worldwide disaster, and it’s up to movements like us to send a strong message against military aggression. Check it out! Averting a War With Iran
GDAMS in Swedish Article
Posted by editor on April 12th, 2011
Featuring a member of GDAMS partner WILPF. Have a look if you read Swedish!
