Guns or Bread: The War Economy Comes Home

Guns or Bread: The War Economy Comes Home
Bill Hartung and Jo Comerford AFSC/file
Guns or Bread: The War Economy Comes Home
Bill Hartung and Jo Comerford AFSC/file

Guns or Bread: The War Economy Comes Home

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The American Friends Service Committee and the North Shore Peace Initiative present “Guns or Bread: The War Economy Comes Home.” The event features two nationally recognized speakers: Jo Comerford, Executive Director of The National Priorities Project, and William Hartung, Senior Research Fellow in the New America Foundation’s America Strategy Program. listen in as Comerford and Hartung demonstrate how the Illinois state budget is impacted negatively by the federal priority of war and military spending.

Recorded Sunday, May 1, 2011 at Garrett Theological Seminary Chapel.