Philadelphia City Council Resolution

This resolution will be voted on by the Philadelphia City Council Thursday, June 14, at 10:30am.

Philadelphia is on the verge of catastrophe in education, food, housing, public service jobs, health care….

support resolution # 120284 to

REDIRECT MILITARY SPENDING TO FUND OUR COMMUNITIES

Calling on the U.S. Congress and President Barack Obama to redirect military spending to fund education, public and private sector family-sustaining job creation, special protections for military sector workers, environmental and infrastructure restoration, care for veterans and their families, and the human services that our cities and states so desperately need.

introduced April 12, 2012, by City Councilmember Maria D. Quiñones-Sanchez

co-sponsors:  Councilmembers Greenlee, Reynolds Brown, Squilla, Jones, Goode, and Tasco

supported by: Delaware Valley New Priorities Network

Including:  American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees (District Council 47), and retirees of same; Brandywine Peace Community, Center for the Celebration of Creation (Chestnut Hill United Church), Catholic Peace Fellowship, Faculty and Staff Federation of Community College of Philadelphia, Coalition of Labor Union Women, East Mt. Airy Neighbors, Fight for Philly, Living Waters United Church of Christ, Main Line Peace Action, Mt. Airy Presbyterian Church, Neighborhood Networks,  Pennsylvania Progressive Democrats of America, Philadelphia Granny Peace Brigade, Philadelphia National Writers Union, Philadelphia United for Peace and Justice Delaware Valley Network Education Committee, Philadelphia Area Black Radical Congress,  Physicians for Social Responsibility, Temple University Graduate Students Association, US Labor Against the War, Vets for Peace, Womens’ International League for Peace and Freedom