Peace Coalition Vigil: REJECT MISPLACED PRIORITIES-PASS A MORAL BUDGET
Date/Time
Date(s) - 05/03/2025
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Location
Carbondale Town Square
Categories
Peace Coalition Vigil: REJECT MISPLACED PRIORITIES-PASS A MORAL BUDGET
SATURDAY, MAY 3, 2025 NOON TO 1:00 PM
The Peace Coalition of Southern Illinois will hold the Monthly Peace and Justice Vigil on Saturday, May 3, Noon to 1 P.M. at the corner of Main and Illinois Ave., Carbondale. On Sunday, May 4, 2:00 -3:00 P.M. join the weekly Rally for Peace in Gaza, to call for resumption of the ceasefire and an end of the cruel, complete blockade of supplies by Israel, corner of Main and Illinois Ave in Carbondale.
Under the banner of Moral Mondays, The Poor People’s Campaign has called together faith leaders and those “who will be directly impacted by the disastrous budget that Congress has just come back into session to work on. Every illegal attempt to slash federal programs that Elon Musk tried to force through DOGE over the past 100 days is now being proposed as law by the leadership of this Congress…You cannot cut $1.5 trillion from the federal budget without slashing Medicaid, Medicare, SNAP, Head Start, Section 8, and other life-saving and life-sustaining programs that millions of Americans rely on and the vast majority of people support.”
Sadly, this administration has called for a $1 trillion budget for the Pentagon, “the part of the budget that’s sole focus is death, destruction and extraction.” The Pentagon accounts for around 70% of the U.S. government’s energy expenditure. It is the largest institutional polluter in the world. Budgets are moral documents. This should be the principal we use for allocating our tax dollars.
Appropriate signs will be provided at the vigil, but all are invited to bring their own. The next monthly meeting of the Peace Coalition will be held on ZOOM, Wednesday, May 21, 2025, 6pm. For information about joining, contact georgeannhartzog@gmail.com.