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WAND at ANA DC Days: Taking on the Hill!

April 25, 2013 • Category: WAND Blog Posts, WAND News

WAND is proudly part of the Alliance for Nuclear Accountability (ANA) network of 34 organizations representing the concerns of communities living downwind and downstream of nuclear weapons and radioactive facilities. ANA just held its 25th annual DC Days from April 14th-17th bringing activists from all over the country to Washington to speak to Members of [...]

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Bring troops home from Afghanistan by December 31, 2013

In the State of the Union speech, we were glad to hear the President’s intent to remove 34,000 troops from Afghanistan during this year. That still leaves too many U.S. troops though (more than 30,000).  There needs to be a strong commitment to further accelerate the process to bring all combat troops home by the [...]

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WAND at ANA DC Days: Taking on the Hill!

WAND is proudly part of the Alliance for Nuclear Accountability (ANA) network of 34 organizations representing the concerns of communities living downwind and downstream of nuclear weapons and radioactive facilities. ANA just held its 25th annual DC Days from April 14th-17th bringing activists from all over the country to Washington to speak to Members of [...]

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Georgia WAND meets with Congressman Hank Johnson

Thank you to Georgia WAND for providing this great report on their recent trip to see Congressman Hank Johnson! Read more about all of their work at www.gawand.org. On Thursday, April 4, Georgia WAND and constituents from Georgia’s fourth Congressional District met with Congressman Hank Johnson. In attendance were Georgia WAND member and former DeKalb [...]

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WiLL and WAND members speak!

Here at WAND/WiLL, we want our members to express their opinions and make their voices heard!  We are thrilled to share articles written by several of our members, which have appeared in news outlets across the country. In Milwaukee’s Journal Sentinel, State Senator Lena Taylor discusses the meat-cleaver effects sequestration will have on programs across [...]

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International Women’s Day: Keep Progress Alive

This past year we’ve seen a lot of progress for the rights of women. We should take today, March 8th, International Women’s Day, as a time to make sure that we don’t lose our stride. While International Women’s Day has been informally celebrated since the early 1900s, the United Nations officially recognized it in 1975, [...]

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Sayre Speaks: The Cuts Are Coming!—What Do They Mean for WAND?

Described as “a change of doctrine,” military cuts have been outlined, first by Defense Secretary Panetta, then in a speech by Obama.  $450 billion over the next ten years amounts to significant cuts. WAND members might have been surprised by Obama saying “We will still be bigger than the next 12 countries combined.” Here he [...]

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Congratulations: Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur

This week, WAND/WiLL congratulates Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur on her appointment as ranking Democrat on the Energy and Water Subcommittee of Appropriations, which controls the purse strings for the nuclear weapons budget. Kaptur has recently demonstrated her opposition to excessive spending on nuclear weapons by co-sponsoring last year’s Smarter Approach to Nuclear Expenditures (SANE) Act, which [...]

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