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Action is our middle name!
Ben Cohen's Oreo Cookie Budget Demonstration
We find many ways to comprehend the huge imbalance of our
federal discretionary budget.
This one involves Oreos, each cookie representing $10 billion. 
By moving parts of cookies, or even whole cookies 
from the Pentagon budget, we can show better ways to redistribute our
nation's wealth.
Plotting the graph at LCC




Students walk that long Pentagon bar on the graph of discretionary spending
when we put murals on the campus at University of Oregon and Lane Community College. 


Showing our budet priorities at UO
Oregon WAND has given Circle of Scribes (writing for peace) workshops
throughout Oregon.  We summarize the work of George Lakoff to learn
techniques for reaching the persuadable middle.  A generous grant from
McKenzie River Gathering allows us to offer the workshops for free.  We have
traveled from Lakeview to Forest Grove, from Coos Bay to Bend and have given
the workshop locally several times.  Contact us for details.

Million Mom March, 2008
WAND displayed the relative budgets for
health care, veterans' care, education,
foreign aid and other federal expenditures,
as well as that of the Pentagon.

Not much money left for vets!
Hiroshima-Nagasaki Commemoration

Action is WAND's middle name.  We often offer action postcards at community
gatherings.  On the 63rd anniversary of the bombings, we called on both
presidential candidates to play a leadership role in making the world safer
by eliminating the threat of nuclear weapons.

In September, Eugene holds its annual Eugene Celebration and Parade.  WAND members have proudly dressed as animals and clowns to take part by building and occupying a circus car in the Peace Train.

We solicit ideas from people about their budget priorities.  There are many, many things people would rather fund than war, as demonstrated by our signs, that were then placed in yards around the state of Oregon. 
Oregon WAND:  Women Power Peace