Women’s Action for New Directions
Legislative Agenda - 2005

NB: The 2006 legislative agenda will be discussed and adopted at the meeting of the WAND, Inc. board of directors in February 2006. It is likely to be similar to this document.

Category A

Most active. WAND takes a lead, lending resources, actively lobbying, leading coalitions, assembling, preparing, and editing materials for distribution.

• Support alternatives to war as a means of resolving differences
• Reduce excessive military spending in order to achieve more balanced federal budget priorities
• Prevent new nuclear weapons and nuclear weapons testing, including the proposed new plutonium pit production facility
• Prevent deadly nuclear materials from falling into the wrong hands

Category B

Active involvement. WAND assumes an "instrumental" rather than a "leadership" role.

• Advance proposals to prevent the weaponization of space
• Prevent deployment of national missile defense
• Support defense-related environmental cleanup
• Support efforts to dispose, store, and transport nuclear waste in the least dangerous manner

Category C

Supportive to marginal involvement. WAND would be available to sign on to letters, lend our support occasionally, and/or join with organizational partners.

• Support funding for the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Organization and the International Atomic Energy Agency (UN agencies that assure compliance with CTBT and nuclear weapons inspections, respectively)
• Support efforts to reduce violence against women