As Congress works to give presidents the power to arbitrarily shut down nonprofits (so that we may soon be unable to make this request), and as the incoming president sets up an agency designed to eliminate major types of non-military spending (so that much more than the current 60% of your taxes may soon go into the war machine), here's an idea to advance positive change while giving the Pentagon a bit less of your money:

Make a donation to RootsAction Education Fund.

A few of the things we are currently doing:

• Building a Teach-In Network for peace and justice,
• Pressuring media outlets for better coverage of activism,
• Supporting workers' strikes,
• Supporting workers' right to speak out against war,
• Aiding and promoting the work of whistleblowers,
• Educating elected officials on humane foreign policy,
• Producing progressive media through "The Zero Hour with RJ Eskow" podcast,
• Publishing progressive news and connecting news to activism through ProgressiveHub.net,
• Building opposition to weapons shipments to war in Sudan and elsewhere,
• Correcting corporate media lies.

You can make a one-time contribution to the RootsAction Education Fund with a tax-deductible donation by clicking here. Donations to the RootsAction Education Fund are primarily used for educational, non-partisan, and non-electoral activities.

You can also become a sustaining donor with automatic monthly tax-deductible donations that are key to our ability to operate by clicking here.

You can support our work in your will here.

December 3rd is Giving Tuesday, a day for mass grassroots support of just the sort of organizations that Congress is targeting for elimination. Will you please make RAEF a focus of your participation?

Thank you!

-- The RootsAction Education Fund team

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