<div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:Georgia,Century,Times,serif;font-size:13.194443702697754px;line-height:19.99782943725586px">For decades, it's been a Holy Grail of progressive activists in the United States: cut the bloated Pentagon budget and use the money for human needs instead.</span><br>
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<p style="line-height:19.99782943725586px;font-size:13.194443702697754px;font-family:Georgia,Century,Times,serif;margin:0px 0px 14px;list-style:none;border:none;padding:0px"><br>But on Thursday of next week -- rescheduled from this Friday due to the tragedy in Boston -- the Holy Grail will be within reach. All we have to do to cut the bloated Pentagon budget and use the money for human needs instead is kill the "chained CPI" -- the president's proposal to cut Social Security and veterans' benefits by lowering the cost-of-living adjustment.</p>

<p style="line-height:19.99782943725586px;font-size:13.194443702697754px;font-family:Georgia,Century,Times,serif;margin:0px 0px 14px;list-style:none;border:none;padding:0px"><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-naiman/april-25-a-historic-day-t_b_3111557.html" target="_blank">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-naiman/april-25-a-historic-day-t_b_3111557.html</a><br>

</p><p style="line-height:19.99782943725586px;font-size:13.194443702697754px;font-family:Georgia,Century,Times,serif;margin:0px 0px 14px;list-style:none;border:none;padding:0px">[So far, there are 24 events, of which at least eight are explicitly "cut the bloated Pentagon budget instead" events: <span style="font-size:13.194443702697754px;line-height:19.99782943725586px"> </span><a href="https://civic.moveon.org/event/events/event.html?event_id=138100&id=" style="font-size:13.194443702697754px;list-style:none;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:none;color:rgb(0,136,195);outline:none;text-decoration:none;line-height:19.99782943725586px" target="_blank">Erie, PA</a><span style="font-size:13.194443702697754px;line-height:19.99782943725586px">; </span><a href="http://www.wispolitics.com/index.iml?Article=294805" style="font-size:13.194443702697754px;list-style:none;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:none;color:rgb(0,136,195);outline:none;text-decoration:none;line-height:19.99782943725586px" target="_blank">Madison, WI</a><span style="font-size:13.194443702697754px;line-height:19.99782943725586px">; </span><a href="https://civic.moveon.org/event/events/event.html?event_id=138123&id=" style="font-size:13.194443702697754px;list-style:none;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:none;color:rgb(0,136,195);outline:none;text-decoration:none;line-height:19.99782943725586px" target="_blank">Columbus, OH</a><span style="font-size:13.194443702697754px;line-height:19.99782943725586px">; </span><a href="https://civic.moveon.org/event/events/event.html?event_id=138075&id=" style="font-size:13.194443702697754px;list-style:none;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:none;color:rgb(0,136,195);outline:none;text-decoration:none;line-height:19.99782943725586px" target="_blank">Champaign, IL</a><span style="font-size:13.194443702697754px;line-height:19.99782943725586px">; </span><a href="https://civic.moveon.org/event/events/event.html?event_id=138124&id=" style="font-size:13.194443702697754px;list-style:none;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:none;color:rgb(0,136,195);outline:none;text-decoration:none;line-height:19.99782943725586px" target="_blank">Chicago, IL</a><span style="font-size:13.194443702697754px;line-height:19.99782943725586px">; </span><a href="https://civic.moveon.org/event/events/event.html?event_id=138141&id=" style="font-size:13.194443702697754px;list-style:none;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:none;color:rgb(0,136,195);outline:none;text-decoration:none;line-height:19.99782943725586px" target="_blank">New Haven, CT</a><span style="font-size:13.194443702697754px;line-height:19.99782943725586px">; </span><a href="https://civic.moveon.org/event/events/event.html?event_id=138132&id=" style="font-size:13.194443702697754px;list-style:none;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:none;color:rgb(0,136,195);outline:none;text-decoration:none;line-height:19.99782943725586px" target="_blank">Newburgh, NY</a><span style="font-size:13.194443702697754px;line-height:19.99782943725586px">; </span><a href="https://civic.moveon.org/event/events/event.html?event_id=138133&id=" style="font-size:13.194443702697754px;list-style:none;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:none;color:rgb(0,136,195);outline:none;text-decoration:none;line-height:19.99782943725586px" target="_blank">Arleta, CA</a><span style="font-size:13.194443702697754px;line-height:19.99782943725586px">. The Madison event is tomorrow as originally scheduled.]</span></p>
</div></div>-- <br>Robert Naiman<br>Policy Director<br>Just Foreign Policy<br><a href="http://www.justforeignpolicy.org" target="_blank">www.justforeignpolicy.org</a><br><a href="mailto:naiman@justforeignpolicy.org" target="_blank">naiman@justforeignpolicy.org</a><br>

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