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350 Santa Fe February Monthly Public Meeting
February 12, 2022 @ 10:00 am - 11:45 am MST
Our Progress and Plans
Join us at 10:00 am February 12 to learn more about our teams’ progress and plans.
Invited Talk: The Role of the U.S. Military in the Climate Crisis – Jim Janko
The Climate Crisis and Militarism Project (CCMP) of Veterans for Peace strives to inform the public about the U.S. military’s contribution to the climate crisis. By highlighting the emissions of the single largest institutional source of greenhouse gas emissions on the planet, CCMP is building support to cut the Pentagon’s budget and redirect resources to address the most certain and immediate threat to our security––climate change.
Our slideshow presentation focuses on four areas:
––Reporting and reducing U.S. military emissions
––Opposing U.S. militarism and supporting peace
––Standing for climate justice
––Reducing and redirecting the U.S. military budget
At Veterans for Peace, we aim to be part of a movement to transform the organizing principle of our society from dominance to sustainability, equity, community, and regeneration. This will require the collaboration of many groups: frontline communities, racial and climate justice advocates, youth, labor, and environmentalists. It is past time for climate and other progressive groups to challenge the Pentagon’s operations, military expenditures, wars, and ongoing preparations for war. Let us work together for peace, climate justice, and a sustainable future.
Bio
Jim is a member of the Climate Crisis & Militarism Project of Veterans for Peace
James Janko was a medic in the Viet Nam War in 1970. He studied ecology at UC Berkeley and received a B.S. in Conservation of Natural Resources in 1979.
Janko is the author of two award-winning novels, The Clubhouse Thief and Buffalo Boy and Geronimo. A new novel, Dusk, is forthcoming from the University of Wisconsin Press in the fall of 2022. Janko’s short fiction has appeared in The Massachusetts Review, The Sun, The Iowa Review, and many others.