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 New Rochelle, NY - Mary Beth Sullivan, Outreach Coordinator, Global Network against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space will speak Friday, August 8th at 7:00 p.m. on Weapons or Windmills? Coming together to convert the permanent military economy.
According to the late economist and engineer Seymour Melman, from the end of World War II to 2003, the U.S. government had spent more than half its tax dollars on past, current and future military operations. Ms. Sullivan will talk about the new movement connecting peace, environmental and faith communities with the union and labor movement, that demands on a local level, to convert that military spending to a sustainable, peaceful economy. She thinks Americans care that 42.2 percent of their 2007 income tax dollars went to military spending, while just over 4 percent and 3 percent went to education and to the environment respectively.
A trained social worker and community organizer from Maine, Ms. Sullivan worked with homeless people, women on welfare and disabled children. In 1995 she began volunteer work with Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space. Recently, she has been fasting in solidarity with the "No Bases Initiative," opponents of the proposed U.S. military base planned for the Czech Republic, as part of the American "Star Wars" missile defense system, and will update us on that effort, as well. To sign the "No Bases Initiative" petition, go to www.nonviolence.cz. To learn more about the Global Network, go to www.space4peace.org.
Friday, August 8th at 7:00 p.m.
40 Green Place, New Rochelle
Contact: Dennis Hanratty
(914) 699-1114
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