Tired of endless wars abroad and endless cuts to services? Bring Our War $$ Home is a national campaign to engage our communities and elected officials through resolutions, creative actions, and smart messaging on the cost of war and militarism and the need to redirect funding to public education, job creation, and other life-affirming programs being desperately hurt by the economic recession..

Contact your mayor today to co-sponsor the War Dollars Home Resolution.

LA Mayor Villaraigosa will bring a resolution to the annual Mayors'

Council if 10 other mayors can join him to endorse the resolution!

RESOLUTIONS TRIED:

City of Portland

Deer Isle

Ogunquit

Solon

Madison

Brunswicketc.

Maine School Administrative District #74

Letter from Maine's legislators to our representatives in the House

More campaign tools:

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RESOLUTIONS passed:

City of Portland (passed 7-1)

Deer Isle

School District #74

Northampton, MA

Amherst, MA

Hartford, CT

MAYORS endorsingAntonio Villaraigosa,

Los Angeles, CA

Joanne Twomey,Biddeford, ME

May 17 deadline for resolution to Mayor's conference,

Baltimore, June

Testimony at news conference on

effects of budget cuts:

Mayors or past mayors

Legislators or past legislators

Health caregivers

Immigrants

Social workers

Teachers

Clergy etc.Mary Beth Sullivan, social workerphoto: Roger Leisner

PUBLIC HEARINGS

Convened by towns.

Convened by state legislators.

Convened by newspaper

editors.

Convened by citizens.

Review of Campaign Tactics – What was most effective?GOAL: Generate discussion around war $$ & broaden our constituencies

* Resolutions (whether they passed or not they educated and created local debate)

* Dropping door hangers in 19 Maine communities on the week leading up to April 15 (tax day)

* Draw-a-thons!

* Letters to editor, op-eds & online comments

* Vigil at Rep. Chellie Pingree campaign fundraiser just prior to vote on war supplemental

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Help NPP bring the federal budget home to millions of your neighbors.