http://www.peaceeconomyproject.org/site/weblog.php en-us http://www.peaceeconomyproject.org/site/weblog.php http://www.peaceeconomyproject.org/site/events.php?id=P711 Come join the Peace Economy Project at The Wine Press, 4436 Olive on Friday February 3 for Wine not War, owner, Greg Stevens, will be donating 25% of proceeds to the PEP! See you there! http://www.peaceeconomyproject.org/site/newsletters.php?id=P708 http://www.peaceeconomyproject.org/site/newsletters.php?id=P707 Media pundits have criticized the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement for its disharmonious demands that range from taxing the ultra rich to addressing social and economic injustice. Long-time activist and labor organizer, Michael Prokosch, dismisses these critiques with a different perspective: "The Occupy movement, with its 1 percent vs. 99 percent thing, is brilliant. Let's face it, the Right Wing's strategies have been brilliant, too, their slogans are just vague enough for people... http://www.peaceeconomyproject.org/site/board.php?id=P706 I feel like for the first time in years, people are talking about lowering defense spending in this country and this is big! Conservatives and progressives, democrats and republicans alike are realizing that this issue is intrinsic in the progression of us as a human race. When I interviewed for the position of Director of the Peace Economy Project, one of the first questions I was asked is what made me want to work with PEP; what made me want to work on the issue of defense and... http://www.peaceeconomyproject.org/site/board.php?id=P705 Charlie Edelen was born and raised in South St. Louis City and South County. Upon completion of his bachelor’s degree in Sociology from the University of Missouri – Columbia, Charlie interned in Detroit, MI at the pro-labor, pro-union democracy monthly newspaper Labor Notes. After his internship he traveled to Burlington, VT to work with the Vermont Workers’ Center/Jobs With Justice, where they were laying the groundwork of their “Health Care is a Human Right” Campaign. He returned to... http://www.peaceeconomyproject.org/site/board.php?id=P704 My vision of a peace economy is reliant on a country with re-shaped and realigned priorities. After ten years of war and vengeance I seek a new path with at least 10 years of recovery and investment into priorities that bring meaning and purpose to the world. I imagine a world where America is truly great because it leads in eradicating poverty, eliminating diseases, uplifting the disenfranchised and making our planet environmentally safe and in harmony with nature. I dream of an... http://www.peaceeconomyproject.org/site/weblog.php?id=P314 The Peace Economy Project is a 501(c)3 non profit organization that researches military spending, educates about the hazards of an unchecked military-industrial complex and advocates for conversion from a military to a more stable peace-based economy. We focus our attention on local weapons manufacturing and its connection to global militarization. We collaborate with other organizations to raise consciousness of where our tax dollars are invested and to encourage others... http://www.peaceeconomyproject.org/site/weblog.php?id=P703 Mike Prokosch pictured here with Miriam Miranda at UMSL as apart of the PEP Fall Program A giant experiment is about to begin in St. Louis. Over the next decade, the federal government will repeatedly cut Head Start, education, environmental programs, Community Development Block Grants, fuel assistance, and much more. Working class families and communities of color will take the biggest hits, but everyone will hurt. How will the experimental subjects react? Will St.... http://www.peaceeconomyproject.org/site/events.php?id=P702 Dinner and Discussion with Mike Prokosch The Peace Economy Project is happy to be bringing Mike Prokosch of the New Priorities Network to St. Louis Thursday November 10 New Priorities is a national network of groups that seek to fund urgently needed jobs and restore vital public services by ending the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and substantially cutting the core Pentagon budget. Mike Prokosch will be speaking about how military spending is a big part of the reason why our city,... http://www.peaceeconomyproject.org/site/weblog.php?id=P701 Clearly, the war economy is not working--- for tax-paying citizens, school children, or people abroad. However, it is working for local industries like Sabriner Corporation, Boeing, Belleville Shoe, Korte Compnay, and LMI Aerospace Inc. Boeing, in particular, runs a very profitable business—even with military cuts and 9,300 layoffs last year, the company's midyear portfolio for 2011 weighs in heftily at 4.5 billion dollars. Impeccable in its public relations, Boeing is a top corporate giver...