Events

Bath, Maine

Smilin' Trees Disarmament Farm
Time: 11:30am -12:30pm
The Lenten Vigil for Disarmament begins on Ash Wednesday, March 2, when we gather across from the Administration building at Bath Iron Works on Washington Street from 11:30 to 12:30. We witness against the continued production of the nuclear capable Aegis guided missile destroyers here at BIW by General Dynamics. The Vigil continues every Saturday in Lent: March 5, 12, 19, 26 and April 2 and 9. Then on Good Friday, April 15 (note change from last year), we hold the final Lenten Vigil at the same time and place. We gather in solidarity with tax resisters all over the US protesting at manufacturing sites for the military industrial complex saying No! to the use of our tax dollars to support endless war. Lent signals a turning point from winter to spring, from despair to hope, from choosing death to enhancing life, from building "destroyers" to creating a world without war. Each warship built keeps us from the Love needed to heal our Mother Earth. Disarmament (Resurrection!) means turning away from warships and instead healing the many crises that surround us. Please bring signs and wear a mask.

Palo Alto, California

Corvallis, OR

Washington, D.C.

Fund Communities Not War!
Time: 12pm
Organized by CodePink - We will take to the streets in Washington DC for disruption, political education, and community building through art. Final details to come!

Chandler, AZ

Event at Northrop Grumman
Time: 10am
Organized by Phoenix Anti-War Coalition - Attendees at the event will be holding signs and tax info flyers

New York, NY

No Wars, No Warming: Fund Our Future
Time: 12pm
Organized by Extinction Rebellion NYC - The climate and peace movements come together for a rally and short march in front of the IRS this tax day, April 18th, to demand that our tax money stop being used to fund endless war and environmental destruction. The Pentagon is the number one institutional consumer of oil on the planet. In order to maintain it's 800+ military bases around the world, the Pentagon alone produces more fossil fuel emissions than 140 other countries, COMBINED. We recognize that the people who are most often placed in harm’s way from armed conflict are also the people who have and will continue to face the brunt of the climate crisis. In this moment, after two years of Covid19, our tax money should be funding social services that benefit the communities most impacted by the climate crisis and most affected by decades of systemic underfunding. The US has no problem dumping over half of its federal budget into policing the rest of the world through the Pentagon but refuses to cover the things people actually need. Join us to demand that our tax money stop fossil-fueling endless war, and start funding healthcare, green jobs and infrastructure, other climate adaptation measures, and housing. We demand a livable future.

Get more details on the Facebook Event Page!

Flower Mound/Dallas, TX

DFW Tax Day Action: Cut the Pentagon Budget; Take our Country (& Planet!) Back from War Profiteers!
Time: 11:30am - 1:30pm (Okay to come & go)
Organized by Veterans For Peace Chapter 106, North Texas, CODEPINK Greater Dallas, Dallas Peace & Justice Center, Dallas Anti-War Committee - This Tax Day we are calling on you to join an action in our community that targets the war machine and promotes investment in a peace economy! We are demanding a cut in the ridiculously bloated Pentagon budget and redirection of those resources to human needs, as well as the conversion of war companies to useful production... for the sake of people, planet, peace and a future.

WHAT: Informing the public about the costs of war, where their tax $$ are going, and the trade-offs that would surely improve their lives. We'll have signs, flyers, pie charts, the number to call Congress, other visuals and our voices for clarification as we interact with post-office patrons mailing their tax forms at the last minute to make sure they're postmarked by the due-date -- April 18, 2022.
WHEN: Monday, April 18, 2022; 11:30AM - 1:30PM (Okay to come & go)
WHERE: U.S. Post Office, I-30 and Sylvan Ave, Dallas.

*Let us know if your organization would like to endorse/cosponsor/promote/attend.

**See Facebook event page to RSVP & get info & updates, including any last-minute changes.
 

Washington, DC

Tax Day: Give Peace a Budget! A night of poetry, comedy, art & political education
Time: 6:30pm
Join CODEPINK, American Friends Service Committee, War Industries Resistance Network, Poor People's Campaign, poets, comedians, and other artists on Tax Day and Global Day Against Military Spending for a night of political education about the bloated Pentagon budget, and our work to re-invest war spending in people, the planet, and peace, instead.

Boston, MA (Date Moved Due to Storm!)

Invest in Life not Death: A march against financial institutions supporting both Raytheon and Fossil Fuels
Time: 12pm
The Raytheon campaign and climate justice activists will march to various financial institutions in Boston that provide investment and lending support to both Raytheon and to fossil fuel companies.

Gather at noon, April 20, in downtown Boston at the Sam Adams statue at Fanueil Hall

View the Save the Date announcement on their website.

Minneapolis, MN

WAR IS NOT GREEN The U.S. Military: Planet Earth’s Greatest Enemy*
Time: 5:00pm - 6:00pm
Location: Peace Bridge (Lake Street and Marshall Ave Saint Paul, MN). View the Event Page!
Featured speaker: Sue Ann Martinson, Rise Up Times, EMMAE

The U.S. Military is poisoning our planet! The Air we breathe, the Water we drink, our Soil for food. Money for Human Needs, Not War! No Tax $$$ for War.

The Department of Defense (DOD) has over 800 bases and over 4,775 defenses total WORLDWIDE, with 8.8 million acres in the United States.

No Reporting ► No Accountability - For decades the U.S. military has contaminated the air, soil, and water worldwide, including in the states, by burning contaminants or dumping them in the ocean and then hiding or simply not reporting major pollution. Besides fossil fuels some of the contaminants are: bacteria, pathogens, metals such as lead and mercury, and PFAS flamethrower.

Sponsored by WAMM’s End Military Madness Against the Earth action group and cosponsored by Veterans for Peace Chapter 27 and the End War Committee of WAMM

*Title of forthcoming movie from Abby Martin. 

Ongoing Event - Wednesday Weekly End War Vigil: Every Wednesday at the the Lake Street/Marshall Avenue Bridge 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm between April 1st and October 31st Signs provided or bring your own. Check the calendar for special themes!

Virtual Event / Milwaukee, WI

The Climate Crisis and Militarism: an Earth Day Presentation
Time: 7pm Central Time

View the Facebook Event Page for More information

Zoom Link Here

Portland, OR

Teach-in at Portland State University
Time: 12:00pm 

Virtual Event

Averting Climate Catastrophe: No New Arms Race!
Time: 7 pm EDT/4 pm PDT

An online webinar with discussion. Presented to Veterans For Peace and open to the public. Moderated by Marcy Winograd of CODEPINK

Panelists:

• Ann Wright, author, activist, retired U.S. Army Colonel and U.S. State Department official
• Dr. David Vine, Professor, Department of Anthropology, American University and author of The United States of War
• Erik Edstrom, Afghanistan war veteran and author of UN-AMERICAN: A soldier’s Reckoning of Our Longest War

Register Here!

Asheville, NC

Convert the War Economy: Windmills Not War Machines
Time: 10am local time
Organized by Reject Raytheon AVL - The Pratt & Whitney plant now being built in Asheville is a danger to people and planet. It will manufacture airfoil turbines, integral components of jet engines to be used in both military and commercial aircraft. What is needed is to convert our economy from one centered on the war industry to one that addresses the climate emergency. The Pratt & Whitney plant can and should be producing components for wind turbines, rapid rail systems, and solar collectors. Not for jet engines.

We will hold a rally on Earth Day, Friday, April 22, at 10 am. at the Bent Creek River Park to raise awareness about the Pratt & Whitney plant and to call for Windmills Not War Machines. Please join us to stand for people and planet over profits.

View the Facebook Event Page for more details!

Ithaca and Syracuse, NY Earth Day

Tucson, Arizona

Demonstration at Raytheon Missiles & Defense HQ
Time: 7:00 – 8:00 a.m
Join the Raytheon Peacemakers as we demonstrate against war and those who profit from it. Survival demands better ideas, not better weapons. The peace vigils are a regular, nonviolent presence in our community:

• to call for an end to wars and occupations waged by our government in our name and with our tax dollars
• to take a stand against war profiteering
• to remember the victims of war (including those killed by drones)
• to join others around the world in working for peace

Please note: Signs and banners will be provided, or you can bring your own. Find additional details here!

Linthicum, Maryland

Demonstration at Northrop Grumman
Time: 3pm
As part of the call by the War Industries Resistance Network, Prevent Nuclear War/Maryland is organizing a demonstration at Northrop Grumman, a letter to its CEO and a leaflet to be handed out to the workers at 793 Elkridge Landing Road, Linthicum, Maryland on Earth Day, April 22, at 3 PM. Northrop Grumman is a notorious weapons contractor, which has received the largest amount of tax dollars to work on nuclear weapons.

April 21st-28th

Global Mobilization to #StopLockheedMartin

A number of groups around the world, from Canada to South Korea, Colombia to Australia (and more!) are coming together to organize a Global Mobilization to #StopLockheedMartin.

Lockheed Martin is by far the largest weapons producer in the world. From Ukraine to Yemen, from Palestine to Colombia, from Somalia to Syria, from Afghanistan and West Papua to Ethiopia, no one profits more from war and bloodshed than Lockheed Martin.
Learn more here!