Bring Our War $$ Home - Wisconsin

Wisconsin Network for Peace and Justice is proud to join the national Bring Our War $ Home campaign, and will be working to make the connection between lavish war spending overseas and austerity budgets at home. Key goals and strategies for the Wisconsin campaign are outlined here.

The centerpiece of the campaign will be to encourage local "Bring Our War $ Home" resolutions like this one, recently passed by the Charlottesville, Virginia City Council.

 

Other "Bring Our War $ Home" resolutions recently passed by local governments:

Date City
 State Resolution  Reports Vote
 Jan. 16, 2012 Portland  OR Text News  3-0
 Dec. 14, 2011  San Francisco  CA Text    8-3
 July 11, 2011  Seattle  WA Text  News  Commentary  9-0
 July 5, 2011  Los Angeles  CA Text  News 12-1
 April 5, 2011  Portland  ME Text    7-1
 March 28, 2011 Hartford  CT Text    

 

Resources:

Working with WNPJ member group Weekly Vigil for Peace, we've developed a new half-sheet flyer with key facts about military spending.  Click here to download a .pdf copy, click here to download an MS Word copy.


Total Cost of Wars in Iraq & Afghanistan to Wisconsin taxpayers as of December 2011:
$20,930,000,000

  • Cost to send one soldier to Afghanistan for one year: $1,000,000            
  • Cost to send one student to the University of Wisconsin for one year:  $24,000
  • Cost to educate one student in a Wisconsin public school for one year:  $12,624
  • Cost of one B-2 Bomber: $2,200,000,000
  • Annual budget of the Milwaukee Public School system: $1,170,500,000

Total Cost of War for the United States as of December 2011: $1,268,522,321,931