Who
are we?
October
2006
We are a coalition of several organizations
working together to change our federal spending
priorities.
Women's
Action for New Directions (WAND) empowers
women to act politically to reduce violence and
militarism, and redirect excessive military resources
toward unmet human and environmental needs.
WAND
was founded in 1982 as Women's Action for Nuclear
Disarmament. With the end of the Cold War, it
became Women's Action for New Directions, and
has been dedicated to redirecting federal budget
priorities away from the military and toward human
needs.
The
organization aims to:
• Challenge and promote alternatives to
militarism and violence as the solution to conflict.
• Shift from a military to a civilian-based
economy to address the threats to our real security,
ensuring that human, economic and environmental
needs are met.
• Clean up environmental effects of nuclear
weapons production as well as toxic waste at all
military facilities, and prevent further contamination.
• Eliminate the testing, production, sale
and use of weapons of mass destruction.
• Prevent violence against women.
• Increase women's political leadership
and participation.
Business
Leaders for Sensible Priorities was formed
in 1996 by top American businesspeople who believe
that the federal government’s spending priorities
are undermining our national security. Business
Leaders for Sensible Priorities’ 650 members
include the present or former CEOs of Bell Industries,
Ben and Jerry’s, Black Entertainment Television,
Hasbro, Visa Card, Men’s Warehouse, and
Phillips Van Heusen—as well as Ted Turner
and Paul Newman. TrueMajority is the 550,000-
member grassroots component founded by Ben and
Jerry’s co-founder, Ben Cohen.
Business Leaders’ Military
Advisory Board members include: Dr. Lawrence Korb,
Assistant Secretary for Defense during the Reagan
administration; Vice Admiral Jack Shanahan (U.S.N.,
ret) former commander of the US Second Fleet;
Admiral Stansfield Turner (U.S.N., ret) former
President of the Naval War College and CIA Director;
Ambassador Ralph Earle II, former Director of
the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency and
Chief Negotiator of the SALT II Treaty; Franklin
C. Spinney, former senior analyst, Office of the
Secretary of Defense; General Dallas C. Brown
(U.S. Army, ret); Captain James T. Bush (U.S.N.,
ret); and Colonel Everest E. Riccioni (U.S. Air
Force, ret).
www.SensiblePriorities.org
TrueMajority
was founded by Ben Cohen, Co-founder, Ben and Jerry's.
It is a grassroots education and advocacy project
of Priorities, Inc., a non-profit, non-partisan,
tax-deductible, 501(c)(3) corporation.
On
the True Majority site, you can go to the "Take
Action" section and send messages on the
issues we all care about to members of Congress
and national leaders.
