Tag: JROTC
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Lead contamination in the high schools from military marksmanship programs
Pat Elder - The Guide to Lead Management for Air Gun Shooting produced by the Civilian Marksmanship Program (CMP), 2013, is a misleading publication that may seriously jeopardize the health of ...
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The Militarization of Catholic Jesuit University Education
Robert Graf - Not Your (Grand) Father’s Military St. Ignatius surrenders his weapons St. Ignatius of Loyola, founder of the Society of Jesus, became a “soldier of Christ,” laying down his worldly ...
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The Gun Problem No One Talks About: Shooting Ranges in Schools
Rick Jahnkow - Just about everyone views the National Rifle Association as the leading champion of gun culture in the United States. When there is a mass shooting — even one as outrageous as the ...
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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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San Diego Students Give Pink Slip to High School Military Program
Rick Jahnkow - Students at Mission Bay High School in San Diego are now celebrating what amounts to a very rare organizing victory: the expulsion of a Junior Reserve Officers Training Corps unit ...
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Counter-recruitment and School Demilitarization Activism: From Past Victories to the Challenges Ahead
Rick Jahnkow - Counter-recruitment and school demilitarization work in the U.S. has gone through several cycles of expansion and contraction during the last few decades. The first expansion was ...
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NNOMY In Solidarity with Occupy Movement
December 18, 2011 NNOMY is a national network that serves to unite national, regional and local organizations that oppose the growing intrusion of the military in young people's lives. We seek to ...
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The Chicago Model of Militarizing Schools
J June 30 2009 / BBVM / Truthout - For the past four years, I have observed the military occupation of the high school where I teach science. Currently, Chicago’s Nicholas Senn High School houses ...
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JROTC: The Untold Story
October 28, 2008 / Marc Norton / BeyondChron - “Without JROTC, I would not be where I am today: a Staff Sergeant in the United States Army.” So writes Jason, a former JROTC cadet, in a recent ...
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Counter-recruitment is crucial to anti-war movement
Pat Elder - The mainstream peace and justice movement is beginning to see that countering military recruitment deserves a higher priority and should be viewed in strategic, rather than tactical ...