Brittany Ramos DeBarros on STOPPING the War Machine

Brittany Ramos DeBarros speaking as part of the webinar "Stopping Trump's War Machine: Boosting Movement Strategies," hosted by the Network to Dismantle the Military Industrial Complex (https://www.DismantleTheMIC.org).

Brittany Ramos DeBarros is Organizing Director of the path breaking veterans organization About Face Veterans against the War. DeBarros is a former Army captain, combat veteran, activist, and previously ran for Congress in New York's 11th District.

The webinar gathered movement leaders to discuss how to better organize broad coalitions to stop the war machine and resist the global rise of right-wing authoritarianism and the Trump/MAGA agenda.

Speakers shared strategies to stop the war machine and organize broad coalitions to resist the Trump/MAGA agenda, connecting ICE, troops on US streets, Venezuela, Gaza, the Pentagon budget, and more. Speakers discussed how to increase our impact in this dangerous moment and questions including: How must our current strategies change? What are we missing? Where should we focus our energies?

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Other Speaker Bios

Julian Aguon is an Indigenous human rights lawyer and acclaimed writer from Guam who won the 2025 Right Livelihood Award for securing a 2025 International Court of Justice advisory opinion declaring states have binding obligations to address climate change. Aguon is founder of Blue Ocean Law and is on the Global Advisory Council of Progressive International.

William D. Hartung is a Senior Research Fellow at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft and co-author of the new book The Trillion Dollar War Machine: How Runaway Military Spending Drives America into Foreign Wars and Bankrupts Us at Home. Hartung is also author of Prophets of War: Lockheed Martin and the Making of the Military-Industrial Complex.


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Special thanks to our great interpreters, Megan and Maria Sigourney from Morrissey Language Services, https://www.morrisseylanguageservices...