The Back Alliance for Peace Campaign Pledge

We the undersigned call on every new candidate as well as incumbents running for elected office        at every level of government to support the policies and principles reflected in the following list of demands:
#Support efforts to cut the military budget by 50% as a first step in reducing military spending, and reallocate government expenditures to fully fund social programs to realize individual and collective human rights in the areas of housing, education, health care, green jobs and public transportation;

#Oppose the militarization of the police and specifically the Department of Defense 1033 program that transfers millions of dollars' worth of military equipment to local police forces;

#Promote the closure of the more than 800 foreign military bases and the ending of U.S. participation in the white supremacist NATO military structure;

#Call for and work to close the U.S. African Command (AFRICOM) and the withdrawal of all U.S. military personnel from Africa;

#Demand that the Department of Justice document all instances of the use of lethal force by domestic police officers and agencies against non-white populations as demanded by various United Nations human rights  treaty monitoring bodies;

#Commit to passing resolutions at every level of government that commit the U.S. to upholding international law and  the United Nations Charter, and to opposing all military, economic (including sanctions and blockades that are acts of war) and political interventions in the internal affairs of sovereign nations regardless of the political party controlling the office of the presidency; and

#Sponsor legislation and/or resolutions at every level of government calling on the U.S. to support the United Nations resolutions on the complete global abolishment of nuclear weapons passed by 122 nations in July 2017.

I could largely agree with this list of demands, except that I wouldn't call NATO a "white supremacist" organization; however, I do believe that NATO should have gone out of existence after the Soviet Union, the nation-state that NATO was created to oppose, collapsed.

In regard to reducing the Pentagon budget, I refer the approach of Randall Forsberg, who created two closely-related models of military force structures to meet the security needs of a world without a peer military threat to the U.S., and then get down to that structure over a ten-year time period.

I could also quibble with the capability of the Justice Department to investigate "all" instances of use of  lethal force, and whether we should close all of the more than 800 foreign military bases, as a few might survive a priority-based listing system.

Yet, overall, I believe this list of demands put into effect, would create a safer, better world.

ADDENDUMS:
*The Washington Post reported last month that a confidential review of Trump's decision to withhold military aid to Ukraine turned up hundreds of documents that reveal extensive efforts to generate an after-the-fact justification whether the delay was legal.
*The Post-ABC News poll released on December 16th, showed 71% want White House aides to testify in the Senate impeachment trial, and almost two-thirds of Republicans agree. 55% said the House proceedings were fair, versus 38% who said they were  unfair.
*Vice President Mike Pence has classified his September 1st call to Ukraine President Zelensky. He has said he might lift the classification. Gordon Sondland has testified that Pence was aware of the withholding of military aid before the call to Zelensky.