
The following 64 labor organizations representing more than 550,000 workers, and 21 Veterans For Peace chapters, have endorsed the People Over the Pentagon Campaign. This campaign is to cut excessive Pentagon spending by $100 billion and make the money available to address pressing human needs such as health care, housing, education and veterans’ benefits. The pay and benefits of military employees and veterans would not be cut. Our nation would be safer because the biggest threats to our security are economic inequality, racism, and climate change. The Pentagon has failed seven consecutive audits and in unable to account for 61% of its $3.1 trillion in assets, so we know that our tax dollars can be put to better use! Endorsed by Veterans for Peace. Ask your labor organization or veterans’ group to endorse it!
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Learn more: https://tinyurl.com/about-VL4SP
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For more background, here are details.
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A $100 billion reduction? https://bit.ly/100billion-tradeoff-flyer
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Please sign-on if you haven’t yet and share our sign-on statement: bit.ly/VL4SP-signon.
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Model POP labor resolution: model resolution
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A union president’s statement on bringing the war dollars home: union newspaper
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For recent labor news relating to war and militarism, and recent labor actions endorsing and promoting peace, go to https://www.veteransforpeace.org/our-work/working-groups/labor
We welcome your questions, comments, participation, notification of labor and veteran endorsements, and requests for speakers. Email: labor@veteransforpeace.org
LABOR ENDORSERS SUPPORTING PEOPLE OVER PENTAGON:
National Unions:
- American Postal Workers Union (APWU)
- Union of Electrical, Radio, and Machine Workers of America (UE)
National Labor Constituency Groups:
- National Coalition of Labor Union Women (CLUW)
State-wide Union Organizations:
Regional Labor Organizations:
Local Unions:
Labor Retiree Organizations:
Regional and Local Labor Constituency Groups:
To learn how to sign up your labor organization, or for more information contact John Braxton (jwbraxton@gmail.com; (215/796-4933) or use this link: https://bit.ly/VL4SP-covermsg |
VETERAN ORGANIZATIONS SUPPORTING PEOPLE OVER PENTAGON
National Organizations:
- Veterans For Peace
Veterans for Peace Chapters:
- Chapter 1 – Maine
- Chapter 7 – Los Angeles, CA
- Chapter 14 – Gainesville, FL
- Chapter 27 – Twin Cities, MN
- Chapter 31 – Philadelphia, PA
- Chapter 34 - New York, NY
- Chapter 55 – Santa Fe, NM
- Chapter 63 – Albuquerque, NM
- Chapter 69 – San Francisco, CA
- Chapter 74 – Detroit, MI
- Chapter 80 – Duluth, MN
- Chapter 91 – San Diego, CA
- Chapter 101 – South Bay/Peninsula, CA
- Chapter 102 – Milwaukee, WI
- Chapter 106 – Dallas/North TX
- Chapter 109 - Olympia, WA
- Chapter 112 – Ventura, CA
- Chapter 132 – Corvallis-Albany, OR
- Chapter 157 – North Carolina Triangle
- Chapter 178 – No. Colorado
- Chapter 180 – Fresno, CA
Check out the 4” x 6” card https://tinyurl.com/VL4SP-palmcard that VL4SP has passed out by the hundreds at labor gatherings.

Photo Credit: David Bacon
Armistice Day, 2024 – Anti-War march joins Workers’ Strike: 400-500 people in an interfaith, immigrant rights, labor and veterans’ coalition marched to the San Francisco offices of our two Senators, to pressure them to vote to block the $20 billion in weapons the US is sending Israel. The march swung by the Palace Hotel to support the strikers of UNITE-HERE Local 2. Local 2 has endorsed a Ceasefire in Gaza Resolution.
The Palace Hotel, formerly the Sheraton Palace, is the site of the largest civil rights campaign in San Francisco history. In March 1964, 1,500 people sat in the lobby, leading to 167 arrests. The next day, the 35 major hotels agreed to end discrimination in hiring.