These programs are the main ways in which MTP provides assistance to grassroots organization. For more information, visit our Community Empowerment page.

The skills and knowledge we need to protect our communities from military toxics already exist in our movement. MTP helps community leaders share their knowledge with others through our Community Exchange Program. We send experienced organizers and grassroots technical experts to other communities to teach their peers.

To win change in our communities, we must make sure our voices and struggles are heard by decision makers on the national level. MTP provides scholarships for community leaders to attend important national events and meetings about military toxics.

Our power as local organizations and as a movement comes from our ability to organize our communities and fund our work. MTP helps community leaders learn how to organize and raise money. MTP provides organizing and fundraising assistance in several ways.

Communities struggle to gain information about contaminated military sites, laws and regulations governing the military, and military actions in other places. MTP provides resources and training for local groups in how to access information.

MTP helps local groups connect with and learn from each other. We have the knowledge and skills we need within our own movement – we just need to share them.

We are stronger when we all stand together. MTP helps local groups act together to change national policy and support each other’s local struggles.

MTP also organizes national campaigns and coordinates work in specific issue areas to help grassroots organizations work together to fight military toxics.

* Visit our Issues page

* Visit our Healthy Communities Campaign page

The U.S. military operates largely above the law. Environmental, worker, and public safety laws that cover private companies and private citizens often exempt the military. In other cases, U.S. EPA fails to enforce laws that do cover the military. It all adds up to injustice and contamination in our communities caused by the agency that should be defending them.

MTP’s Healthy Communities Campaign seeks to make our military subject to the same laws and standards as the rest of us. Campaign objectives include opposing military exemptions from environmental and public health laws, community access to all information about military toxics, full enforcement by U.S. EPA and other agencies against the military, and action to stop health effects caused by military toxics.

For more information, check out our Healthy Communities Campaign page or call the national office at 207-783-5091 for a campaign packet.

Many MTP members confront environmental and human health dangers caused by military munitions and firing ranges, including Unexploded Ordnance (UXO), Open Burning and Open Detonation of munitions (OB/OD) , and other conventional munitions issues. To learn more about these issues, visit our Munitions and Ranges page.

A large and diverse group of MTP members and allies works together to ban the use of Depleted Uranium ammunition, which is both radioactive and toxic. Visit MTP's Depleted Uranium issue page to learn more.