Peace Economy Project is Looking for a new director

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The Peace Economy Project, founded in 1977, researches military spending, educates about the hazards of an unchecked military-industrial-congressional complex, and advocates for conversion from a military to a more stable peace-based economy. Qualified individuals are encouarged to apply to be the next Director of this unique non-profit organization.

The Director manages all day-to-day operations of the Peace Economy Project. This includes writing op-eds to be published in local newspapers, speaking at rallies and events, and coordinating regular fundraising campaigns. The director is also responsible for maintaining relationships with the board of the organization, with fellow leaders in the peace and social justice community, and with members of the organization. More...

Special Internship Opportunity

The St. Louis Peace Economy Project is looking for a college student to serve as the coordinator of an initiative aimed at connecting activists and advocates on college campuses across the region with one another as well as with activists and advocates from the St Louis community.

The Peace Economy Project seeks to reduce military spending in order to fund social, infrastructure, and environmental needs.

While Students for Human Needs and Rights (SHNAR) is a project within The Peace Economy Project, we intend this program to be student run and organized with moderate financial and logistical support coming from PEP.

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Volunteer/Internship Opportunities

PEP has a variety of regular Volunteer and/or Internship opportunities available for the fall!

Commitments range from 10-30hrs/week and we will work with colleges and universities to get academic credit for work performed!

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Strategic Public Opinion Campaign

Help the Peace Economy Project get our message out into the public by joining our Strategic Public Opinion Campaign (SPOC)!

This campaign seeks to get PEP members and advocates active in participatory elements of local and regional media sources. This program is still evolving, but it currently includes and will grow to into:

--Letter to the Editor coaching/assistance
--Blog commenting
--Radio Show Call-in suggestions
--Op-Ed coaching and collaboration

This is a simple way to project PEP’s messages – if you’re interested in getting involved, please email peace(at)PeaceEconomyProject.org with SPOC as the subject and we’ll get back to you about how to get more involved!

We're seeing this campaign work! Almost all of our submitted letters so far have been accepted and published and Boeing and our congresspersons are feeling the heat! We need to sustain this effort to get our message out in order to keep billions of our tax dollars from being squandered!

Past Action
Congressional Appeal to:
Fund Our Communities -- Reduce Military Spending

It's too late to sign-on, but in July 2010, the following statement was hand delivered with supporting materials to the two Senators and one member of the House of Representative of every person who signed-on! More than 400 people signed-on this year, meaning visits to nearly 200 Senate and House offices! Thanks to all who participated!
The Peace Economy Project

Dear (Congresspersons’ names here),

As you examine our federal budget and look for ways to fund vital programs that support social, infrastructure and environmental needs as well as address our growing debt, I urge you to look first, not last, at superfluous military spending as a place to make cuts in our federal spending.

We, the undersigned, ask you to stand up against the continued growth of military spending and call for a 25% reduction in military spending.

We can achieve this savings by defunding plans for new nuclear weapons components and unproved fighter planes, while eliminating some of the hundreds of military facilities in Japan, Germany, and South Korea. This goal could also by approached by withdrawing occupying forces from Iraq and Afghanistan, and also by reducing waste in weapons procurement and operations.

All the above would free up approximately $175 billion in one year alone--a significant sum of money for ensuring that our communities have the funds we need to thrive today and tomorrow.

Signed,

More than 400 of PEP's friends!

It's not too late to make a donation to help with the costs of sending the PEP Director and intern to our nation's capitol where they are personally presenting the names of those who signed-on, this statement, and supplemental information to the office of each congressional representatives of every person who signed on!.