The "People's Vote" Campaign from NPN

NEW: “People’s Vote” Campaign On June 1 the New Priorities Network will launch a “People’s Vote” Campaign to shift our nation’s priorities from war to jobs and human needs. The Campaign has two legs:
a. An online “vote” between three visions for America: the GOP’s 2012 budget, President Obama’s budget, and the Progressive Caucus’s “People’s Budget.” Poll results by state and congressional district will go to Congresspeople, Senators, and the media. 
b. Town Hall Meetings on the People’s Budget in our congressional districts over the summer.
The “People’s Budget” created by the Congressional Progressive Caucus would:

• End the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq,
• Cut the base Pentagon budget and the Pentagon’s ability to wage wars overseas,
• Create good-paying jobs,
• Fully maintain our social safety net,
• Invest in education,
• Close the tax loopholes that help corporations offshore jobs,
• End oil and gas subsidies that pollute our country at taxpayer expense, and
• Create a national infrastructure investment bank.

The Campaign will:

• Show mass support for progressive budget priorities.
• Influence the Senate debate on next year’s budget and make sure “cut military spending” is part of any viable budget solution.
• Strengthen our grassroots organizing, help us organize city council resolution campaigns, and help us form alliances with economic, racial and social justice organizations that seek to change the nation’s priorities.

Check the Resources page for more info and tools. You can see the April 15 roll call vote in the House here.

Tell Congress: Here’s How to Solve the Budget Crisis As the budget crisis deepens in Washington, our solution is rising. More and more voices are calling for substantial cuts in Pentagon spending, starting by ending the Afghanistan war.
Now is the moment to raise your voice in local media and build public pressure for cutting the Pentagon budget! You can use this action calendar from Friends Committee on National Legislation.
FCNL’s spring newsletter will help you talk and educate on the debt and deficit spending. It ties together two key demands: cutting military spending and restoring taxes on high incomes, and it includes:

• “Decoding the Budget Debate”
• A framing article
• Other budget-related articles

If you use any of them as a whole document, please credit Friends Committee on National Legislation