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Arizona Institute for
Peace Education and Research

Our mission: To empower ourselves and other community members-through education, research, and advocacy-to take effective action on behalf of peace, social justice, and a sustainable environment.

Did you know as many as 20,000 of our returning veterans have brain injuries and the suicide rate of veterans is more than double that of others of the same age? We may oppose war, but we need to support Veterans. See our veterans information page and contact us about our 1 hour presentation.

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Announcements

Winter Soldier: March 13-16. For details go to http://ivaw.org/wintersoldier

Winter Soldier: Iraq and Afghanistan will feature testimony from U.S. veterans who served in those occupations, giving an accurate account of what is really happening day in and day out, on the ground.

The four-day event will bring together veterans from across the country to testify about their experiences in Iraq and Afghanistan - and present video and photographic evidence. In addition, there will be panels of scholars, veterans, journalists, and other specialists to give context to the testimony. These panels will cover everything from the history of the GI resistance movement to the fight for veterans' health benefits and support.

View AIPER President Dave Wells' Opinion Piece from the April 9, 2008 East Valley Tribune: "Iraq five years later: Finding a path out."

AIPER participated in Progressive Lobby Day on February 12th. Below is a list of bills we're following:

Immigration
HB2624 OPPOSE	Illegal immigrants would have to reimburse the state for any expenditures related to them from court costs for arrests to education for kids-BILL IS DEAD!
HB2625 OPPOSE	Property forfeiture and possible fines on landlords related to allowing those not here legally be in vehicle or apartment.-BILL IS DEAD!
HCR2039 OPPOSE	Mandates law enforcement to verify citizenship status of anyone arrested—and details trespassing violations—Should remain an issue for local law enforcement to decide how and what grounds they wish to enforce immigration laws to best ensure public safety.
Tax Policy
HB2220 OPPOSE	Repeals permanently a property tax that helps fund education (temporary repeal expires in 2009) –estimated richest 1% of families receive 12% of benefit, while lower 60% receive 20% of savings. -CONTACT GOVERNOR TO VETO!
HB2360 SUPPORT	Rolls back the income tax reductions of the last two years (estimated richest 1% of families received 25% of the benefits, while the lower 60% receive less than 20% of the savings)
HB2550 SUPPORT	Creates Earned Income Tax Credit for State at 20% of National level)-helps low-income families.
HCR2038 OPPOSE	Reduces state legislature's expenditure ceiling from 7to 6.4 percent of State Personal Income—Nicknamed Son of TABOR could hamstring ability of state to meet human needs.
HCR2003 OPPOSE	Limits assessed values from increasing more than 3 percent.-we already have sufficient limits, recent increases were purely from a now collapsed housing bubble and were primarily voter approved secondary rates.
SCR1003 OPPOSE	Dramatic decrease in property taxes. Limits primary property taxes to 0.5 percent of assessed value-1 percent for commercial-—about 3/5 of property taxes fund K-12 education

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