April 15, 2013 – No Taxes for the F35 Day
Main Line Peace Action and Brandywine
Peace will leaflet and show off our big banners at SEPTA’s 69th
Street Terminal (Market & 69th Streets) to help our commuting
brothers and sisters mark Tax Day – April 15 – from 7:30 to 9am. Come join us!
On Tax Day April 15, will you join us to
protest the F35?
F35 military aircraft is the most expensive
failure in US history. It’s broken and no amount of our tax dollars will repair
it. It has been in production for so long, national security experts say we
don’t even need it now.
We need jobs and community services, not
failed weapons systems. And the workers who produce the F35, deserve a better
deal. Instead of being dependant on ever newer weapons for good paying jobs, they
deserve an economy that creates jobs for our future, for the good of our
country and the planet.
A federal budget funded by our taxes
which priorities wars, weapons, tax write offs for the rich and corporate tax
loopholes over jobs and human services is intolerable.
April
15 No Taxes for F35 Day! Will you join us on April 15?
On April 15, around the world, communities will be speaking out on the toll that global
military spending takes on solving our planets most pressing problems.
The
Stockholm International Research Institute (SIPRI) releases its annual report on global military spending on
April 15. Of course, the US will be the big spender, in fact, the biggest
spender.
The
Congress is a big spender of our tax dollars on contracts with military
corporations who are making mega profits as human services are being gutted.
The
F35 is the most dramatic example of a Pentagon budget bloated by over a decade
of free for all spending without audits.
On No Taxes for F35 Day, will you join
us as we bring together community groups who are hit the hardest by the federal
budget cuts to press our Congressional representatives, to stop wasting our tax
dollars on the wasteful Pentagon budget and invest in our communities.
1.
Join or organize a delegation of community groups to press your Congressional
delegation to put our tax dollars towards programs that will secure our future,
not military contracts building useless weapons.
2.
Help organize or participate in a banner drop, do a die-in at a federal plaza
or a main post office to send the message that we need jobs, community
services, not mega profits for military corporations for a secure future.
3.
Write letters to the editor and demand that we stop the madness and end the
Lockheed Martin’s F35 feeding frenzy. Prioritize jobs creation that builds up
our communities, not drains the tax dollars for military corporations mega
profits!
Resources for letters to the editor, background information on
the federal budget, downloadable fact sheets, leaflets and posters are all
available at http://demilitarize.org/tax-day-materials/
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