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We, the undersigned, support the Broome County Cost of War Awareness Project, which aims to encourage a respectful, honest and much needed debate about the many tragic costs of war: human, moral and financial.
We also support Binghamton Mayor Matt Ryan’s decision to amend the City’s longstanding art exhibition policy to accommodate the temporary installation of the Cost of War Sign.
We support the new policy, which ensures other organizations and individuals have equal and fair access to these same public spaces in order to use art as a medium to contribute to a healthy, democratic exchange of ideas. We strongly support our U.S. Service members and deeply appreciate their sworn oath to protect and defend the U.S. Constitution, yet we also recognize that the annual diversion of hundreds of billions of our tax dollars from health care, education, job creation, transportation, housing, energy research, and our environment to endless warmaking and an oversized Pentagon is seriously undermining the well-being and security of all Americans, and we support all awareness efforts and actions to reverse this troubling trend.
this is the most useful piece of art I have ever seen! It takes to all of us and our pocketbooks!
Keep up the struggle!
It’s important to be honest about the tragic costs of war. I support the Broome County Cost of War Awareness Project!
This is so important. Our two wars of invasion and occupation come at a staggering cost that it is all to easy to ignore. Meanwhile we are experience a complete domestic economic meltdown and few people seem to be connecting the dots and condemning the wars. P
Every U.S. city needs such a sign.
Such an electronic sign should be posted across from Congress and the White House, and updated every day.
“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone, it is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children…This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.”
- The Honorable Dwight D. Eisenhower
1890-1969
34th President of the United States
Supreme Commander, Integrated European Defense Forces
“We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex.”
“It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificually induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear.” —General Douglas MacArthur, Speech, May 15, 1951
“Naturally the common people don’t want war. The people can always be brought to do the bidding of their leaders. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism.” Herman Goering
- Herman Goering