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FEBRUAP.Y 17 - 23, 1986 THE CI,'IZEN.
ajor campaign to reverse
prio
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Contlnu d from p ge 1
p end all this money on the Pen­
tagon -- a trillion dollar increas
over five years, bile pending
on ocial programs was cut $66
billion." ott noted that an
earlier Republican pre ident,
Dwight Eisenhower, under­
stood what i 10 t. In a 1953
peech, Ei enhower aid that,
"Every gun that i made, every
war hip launched, every roc et
fired ignifies, in th final ens ,
a theft from tho e who hunger
and are not fed, those who are
cold and are not clothed."
Other principal spe er at
the pre conference were: Dr.
Arthur Flemming, who erved
as Secretary of Health, Educ -
tion, and Welfare and Director
of Defen obilization under
President Eisenhower, and who
no i Co-Chair of S ve Our
Security; and, as a resource per­
son, Robert Greenstein, Direc­
tor of the Center on Budget and
Policy Prioritiesm which h
just released a study of the Pre-
ide nt' budget.
inve ted their live in farm they
are losin .... "
The letter add that on
re on Americ n ociety has
been 0 table de pite it deli­
very is because "we have worked
to give people a stake in our
ociety .. and a hop for their
future.
Mott idthattheCoalition's
campaign to change budget
prioritie aims to change the
debate about government
spending, to "inject much more
reality about tbe trade-off"
into that debate.
"In movin to balance the
budget, e must balance our
priori tie . To red uce the defici t,
we must go to it basic ource --
the massive military build-up
and tax cuts ince 1981. Th
Congre mu t realloc te
money from the military budg t
and create an adequate financial
b for our overnment. Only
th n will e b able to reduc
th deficit hile rneetin our
n d a nation."
"We have to keep in mind
wh t e're 10 ing hen e
The Coalition on Human
eds (formerly the Coalition
n Block Gr nts nd Human
e ds) has more than 100 mern­
b r r nging from national
churches to civil right group
to tate coalition of poor and
workin people. It formed
in 19 1.
1986 OUR E
9Qes International
it should be - and she decided
to do something about it.
This year's calendar are
again available by mail order.
They are 7.95 nd can be
ordered from Suite 174, 495
laGuardia PI ce,
10012.
Are Black men om ethin g
special?
Unfortun tely, we don't
often get to our men por­
trayed in the most po itive
light.
When they are in the public
eye for the rno p t it i the
actor nd not really many of
them , or the thlete that is
projected as the po itive Black
male.
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