Tag: Counter Recruitment in High Schools
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Local Efforts Towards Military Counter-recruitment in Boston
Bonnie J. Caracciolo, Chelsea Uniting Against the War (CUAW) - On September 9, 2019 members and supporters of Chelsea Uniting Against the War (CUAW) greeted students on their way to school. CUAW was there to inform students about their right to opt out from having their personal information given to military recruiters. Since 2001 and the No Child Left Behind Act along with the 2002 National Defe ...
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The Defector
How Rory Fanning went from Army Ranger to war resister (and counter-recruiter). Alex N. Press / Jacobin - In a high school classroom on the South Side of Chicago, Rory Fanning is telling students abo ...
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Education Action: Reining in Military Recruiting
Seth Kershner - In 2012, Kate Connell—a photographer with two children in the Santa Barbara public schools—learned that her son’s freshman seminar had a Marine recruiter as a guest speaker. Her son h ...
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Debate: Military recruiting in public schools
Should the military be allowed to recruit in public schools? With the USA and its allies involved in 2 major conflicts in recent years, military recruitment has become an important issue. But some pa ...
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Counter-Recruitment Season
Kevin Young - “Counter-recruitment,” alternatively known as “truth-in-recruiting” or CR for brevity’s sake, involves providing young people and their parents with information about alternatives to mi ...
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Passing the Torch, at Last: Finding a New Generation of Anti-War Activists
William T. Hathaway - The following is an excerpt from the book, Radical Peace: People Refusing War, by William Hathaway. It is a collection of reports from antiwar activists who share true stories o ...
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Counter-recruitment revisited: Students against the Draft and War challenges the school administration at Foss high school in Tacoma Washington
Today, 5 May, we ae planning to hold a teach-in against military recruitment in schools. However, under pressure from the JROTC at my school, my principal, Sharon Schauss, informed me yesterday that ...
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Militarism in Education
Andreas Speck - “On 1 August 1914, it was too late for pacifist propaganda, it was too late for militarist propaganda – in fact the militarists then only harvested what they have sown 200 years befor ...
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Chico Peace & Justice Center’s Counter Recruitment 2012
Charles Withuhn - Thursday, February 02, 2012 - Counter-recruiters at Fair View High School, Chico, California Under the banner “Chico Youth Action”, Chico Peace & Justice Center’s counter recruitmen ...
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Portland high schools set to permit anti-war protesters to recruit students alongside the military
23 October 2011- Oregonian Betsy Hammond - The Portland school board is set to adopt a rule Monday to give "counter-recruiters" skeptical about the value of joining the military the same access to hi ...
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