Articles
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The History of War Resisters League (USA)
The War Resisters League (WRL) was formed in 1923 by Jessie Wallace Hughan, a leading suffragist, socialist, and pacifist. It is a section of the London-based War Resisters' International. In the ...
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Boots On The Ground
Patrick Elder and Seth Kershner - As military recruiters gain a foothold in Christian schools, grassroots activists across the nation are sounding the alarm. SUMMER IS THE season for high school ...
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The Military Invasion of My High School: The role of JROTC
Sylvia McGauley - “Will you please write me a letter of recommendation for the Navy, Ms. McGauley? You’re my best class.” Thanh was enrolled in the recently established Junior Reserve Officers’ ...
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DeKalb Schools Military Catch Basin
Michael Burke - At least one DeKalb County high school that we know of is totally ignoring the 1987 and 1988 ruling of the Searcy v. Crim case decided by the Eleventh U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. ...
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On My Son’s First Day of Kindergarten: OurSchoolsAreNotFailing.org organizes communities to defend their schools from NCLB
Jesse Hagopian - Today is the first day of school in Seattle. I have never been more excited and nervous for the first day because, not only do I start teaching, but my 5-year-old starts ...
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JROTC as a substitute for PE: really?
Monica A. F. Lounsbery, Kathryn A. Holt, Shannon A. Monnat, Thomas L. McKenzie, and Brian Funk - Physical inactivity is receiving growing attention given its documented relationship to a variety of ...
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The militarization of American public schools
Steve Filips and Don Barrett - Syracuse, New York’s Fowler High School to be “reformed” This fall, Syracuse, New York will join the still small but growing list of public schools dedicated to the ...
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Drones Are a Military Recruiting Issue
Seth Kershner - Over the past several years, activists have fought against the use of unmanned aircraft (commonly called “drones”) to carry out targeted killings in the war on terror. Anti-drone ...
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America's Third World War
John Stockwell - PART I This series of interviews was presented in October 1987 and represents an important revelation of covert aperations that resulted in millions of innocents killed by draconian ...
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How the Military Collects Data on Millions of High School Students
Charles Davis/ Vice - The calls started when I was a junior in high school—always in the evening, always after The Simpsons and always with an older gentleman on the other end of the line. “Charles, ...