RHODE ISLAND'S CONGRESSIONAL DELEGATION, REDUCE MILITARY SPENDING AND PRIORITIZE CLIMATE ACTION

[Peter Nightingale]

1. House Resolution No. 5755 by Potter, Morales, and Henries: Urging Rhode Island congressional delegation to reduce military spending and prioritize climate action;
   
2.  03/19/2021 scheduled for hearing and/or consideration;
3. Deadlines for testimony are here: http://status.rilegislature.gov/documents/agenda-17231.pdf — see page 6 (page 5 is mostly empty)
   
4. Resolution talking points - detailed version — https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vSdt9H57x6dQWH4WACwedkwMLsG497u4_VN6SJx_htwHxcMDmTdpyROI8w0b9PMfrLgp0pNJCMjdLNY/pub
5. Resolution: Talking Points & Facts — https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vQKyo2WbpGWW3EWZrOCgwglO2bW46InAt9Fm0fLlwzPsDzp4CRR8QRnLZwr5DaXWBsSi7wdnswnKZXY/pub.
   
6. Resolution: Graphics and Facts — https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vRSU5zjeJLWbQVtHN2nih2WqsS8F4a8bkmxyKtTzeSCHEkHflUxCY3sx0vwrBmx3-wVZKXe4wgzGxRy/pub
   

—Peter

PS RI Senate hearings about divestment and this resolution have not been scheduled yet.

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The next auto-quote (sent by free-ware from my commercial-free computer) is:

If real political leaders understood from one end of the Cold War to the other that even one hydrogen bomb was sufficient deterrence, why did they allow the arms race to devour the wealth of the nation while it increased the risk of an accidental Armageddon? In 1982, political scientist Miroslav Nincic examined the economics of the arms race and discovered that it was hardly a race at all; US and Soviet levels of defense spending were only weakly coupled at best. Far more influential on the US side were such domestic political phenomena as competition among the military services, coalitions of scientific and industrial organizations promoting new technologies, the pressure of ``defense'' as a political issue and defense spending to prime the economic pump, particularly in election years.
(Richard Rhodes in Dark Sun—The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb)

Furthermore, it is my opinion that social media are de facto public utilities; they should have public governance.

Peter Nightingale
Department of Physics, East Hall
University of Rhode Island
Kingston, RI 02881, USA