Encourage community development efforts as an alternative to bank profiteering and disinterest. Convert public housing to a democratic system of resident management. Politicians have raised taxes, borrowed money and gutted social programs to pay for it. The net result has been less money available locally, a virtually permanent public debt, and reduced social spending. Military research is the job of more than half of America's scientists, including many at the University of Michigan.
Violence is now a fact of everyday life in America.
We don't seek to solve conflicts peacefully, but fall back on the old ways of anger and violence. It is not. Creating non-violent civilian based defense militia. Making Ann Arbor a nuclear-free zone. Ending tax abatements or subsidies to organizations accepting military contracts, including the University of Michigan.