Did You Know?

(January 2013) For the cost of a single Global Hawk Drone ($75 million), 20,000 schools in the Third World could be built, complete with desks, chairs, tables and blackboards. The website http://www.stwr.org has a calculator that gives a list 23 socially productive ways of repurposing the cost of dozens of weapon systems. Celebrate the New Year by joining with your neighbors to help find a peaceful way forward for society!