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Related: About this forumSanders to Receive Endorsement of National People's Action in Boston Today.
Who They Are:
National People's Action (NPA) is a network of grassroots organizations with a fierce reputation for direct action from across the country that work to advance a national economic and racial justice agenda. NPA has over 200 organizers working to unite everyday people in cities, towns, and rural communities throughout the United States through direct-action, house meetings and community organizing.
NPA and its affiliates range from farmers in rural Iowa to youth in the South Bronx. We have affiliate organizations in 14 states with remote network offices in Washington D.C., California, New York and a central office in Chicago. Our target population is not limited to a geographical area or regional group but rather works with and on behalf of hard working Americans everywhere to ensure an equitable and just democracy. Our population includes people from all walks of life despite differences in age, race, sexual orientation, income and culture. We aim for an inclusive open population in which people feel welcome and a part of grassroots power organizing.
NPA staffs and supports three local, state and national campaigns in support of economic and racial justice: Bank Accountability, Housing Justice, and Immigrant and Workers Rights. These campaigns strive for wins meaning tangible concrete changes for our communities through policy and consciousness of social injustices and the empowerment to fight them.
OUR HISTORY
Neighborhood residents are experts on the needs of their own neighborhoods. Thirty-three years ago that radical idea lead to the founding of the National Training and Information Center (NTIC), which is now National Peoples Action (NPA). Everyday people working together to gain power and win change by organizing their community and their country. Since its founding in 1972 by Shel Trapp and Gale Cincotta, NPA has specialized building grassroots leadership and creating powerful community organizations through issue based community organizing. NPA has been a leader in the fight to hold banks and corporations accountable to the communities that they serve and profit.
Founded in 1972, National Peoples Actions (NPA) core purpose is to develop the ideas, talent, and organizations that will help reclaim our democracy and advance racial and economic justice. The grassroots organizations supported by NPA are affiliated into an organizing network, which includes more than 200 organizers and staff representing metropolitan, regional and statewide power structures across 14 states.
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Sanders to Receive Endorsement of National People's Action in Boston Today. (Original Post)
Nanjeanne
Feb 2016
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thereismore
(13,326 posts)1. I read on this site that he is in MA because he wrote SC off. I guess it must be true if they wish
for it so much!
Nanjeanne
(4,961 posts)2. From MASS PEACE ACTION . . .
Peace Action and Massachusetts Peace Action endorse Sen. Bernie Sanders for President of the United States and will work for his victory in the Massachusetts Primary, March 1, 2016.
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. -President Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953.
The above quote, which was used by Sen. Sanders on the floor of Congress arguing against a bloated military budget in 2013, is one he paraphrases on the campaign trail in a way that underscores the strongest aspect of Sen. Sanders pro-peace, anti-war record in public service. Sen. Sanders record on the military budget is unique for its consistency and courage over a decades long period.
He has opposed every annual defense authorization and appropriation bill submitted during his tenure.
He has been for subjecting the military budget to the same audits to which the rest of the federal budget is subjected and to drastically cutting it in order to fund programs needed to address social inequality.
Sanders has advocated for rebuilding the nations infrastructure, rapidly shifting to a non-carbon, highly efficient energy system based on renewable sources, and funding unmet human needs for education, health, and housing.
Alone among his fellow Democrats, Sen. Sanders has identified climate change as the greatest single threat to our country and has clearly spelled out a solution which includes the U.S. leading a new international collaboration necessitating a close, friendly joint effort between the U.S., Russia, China, and India among many other nations.
His platform concerning peace and war (see https://berniesanders.com/issues/war-and-peace/) acknowledges the need for a strong military, capable of meeting threats to the nation and its vital national interests, but rejects the role of world policeman. It recounts Sanders history of opposition to all of the wars we have engaged in since he began public life except for Serbia/Kosovo and Afghanistan. In a Democratic debate he strongly opposed the US policy of regime change, from Arbenz through Gadaffi to the current effort against Syrias Assad. Sanders is one of only three senators to cosponsor the SANE bill which would significantly cut spending on nuclear weapons modernization. He has consistently opposed the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) and he calls for developing a system of fair trade rather than free trade agreements. His theme, is always, in every crisis, to try the diplomacy and to exhaust it before taking up arms.
We understand that Bernie Sanders campaign against inequality is critical to building the peace movement. The group that benefits directly from our foreign policy is the economic elites, the billionaires, and they dictate the terms of our foreign policy in their interest. Today, 10% of Americans control 60% of national income. Bernie Sanders challenge to Wall Street, the billionaires, and government/corporate collusion is exactly what will empower the 99% and make possible a Foreign Policy for All.
Bernie Sanders is not a flawless peace candidate. He has not challenged the Administrations acquiescence to Israels settlements and violence or on the billions it gives annually to Israels military. His proposals on the Syria/Iraq war would allow US military support of a Saudi-led anti-ISIS coalition, if one were to emerge, he has not ruled out killings by drone.
But he comes closer than any candidate in decades who has had a serious chance to win the presidency, embodying the values of peace and justice. In challenging the elites (or establishment), and in seeking to restore a democracy to the people by constructing a peoples campaign capable of mounting a political revolution, the Sanders campaign stands out as a unique force. It comes at a time when it just might have a shot at winning. Massachusetts Peace Action should be part of that effort.
The decision to endorse was made by both our national board and our Massachusetts state board. National and state members each supported the endorsement by more than a 3 to 1 margin in an email poll.
nashville_brook
(20,958 posts)3. k and r
Jefferson23
(30,099 posts)4. Wonderful. n/t
kgnu_fan
(3,021 posts)5. good!
AzDar
(14,023 posts)6. K & R