Tag: Counter Recruitment in High Schools
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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 had challenged the recruiter, saying he didn’t like the way the U.S. military was always bombing other countries. At first, Connell thought, “Oh, it’s great you spoke up for yourself and spoke up for p ...
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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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