Guides, kits and other how-to resources tailored for counter-recruitment organizers.
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Operation Student Privacy• To inform students and parents regarding their privacy rights in relation to military
recruiters
• To provide information and education about the military, equal access, alternatives to the
military resources and programming.
DMZ is a comprehensive counter military recruitment organizing manual for youth activists and their allies. This 48 page magazine-style handbook includes everything you need to know about organizing to keep military recruiters out of your school, including detailed legal information, concrete campaign suggestions, and up-to-date statistics.
Information specifically about leafleting and petitioning inside and outside schools, by students and nonstudents.
A brochure that briefly summarizes some of the First Amendment and other important rights of high school students.
Know Before You Go, 'Cause There's No Reset Button is a collaboration with the Ya-Ya Network (Youth Activists-Youth Allies), a youth of color-led antimilitarist organization based in NYC.
(updated version: 12/13/2011 Folks should discard any other recent versions you are distributing)
Our leaflet breaks down the enlistment contract and life in the military and provides new stats about sexual assault in the military, racial disparities in becoming an officer, and stop-loss.
Written to be accessible to everyone while providing the most important info for making a fully informed choice about joining the military, this leaflet will be a staple for counter-recruiters.
Available on our online store for $0.15/copy plus 20% shipping.
From 2003-2006, the FCYO implemented and coordinated the Roots Initiative, a grantmaking and capacity-building project involving ten dynamic Youth Organizing groups from around the country. This Toolkit provides, additionally, various suites of tools (in the form of templates, worksheets and exercises) that we hope are useful to organizations undertaking a broad range of organizational development efforts.
Leave My Child Alone - Adopt-A-School Board KitContact your District Superintendent’s office (searchable at www.leavemychildalone.org/supes) to nd out when and where your next School Board meeting will be held. Ask your District Superintendent’s ofce how and when community members may submit requests to get a Resolution on the Board’s agenda for discussion and vote.
Research your District’s current policy, and more importantly, nd out about your District’s current implementation of the Opt Out requirements . Submit your request in advance with an Opt Out Resolution attached
The Student PIRGs' Activist Toolkit: A Crash Course in Effective Citizenship hot!
09/26/2011 Hits: 3795 
This Activist Toolkit provides any intern or volunteer with the basic tools necessary to run strong campaigns and service projects and win reforms both on and off campus for students and the public interest.
“Establishing Trust and Accountability: An Integrated Approach to Research on Militarism,” Fellowship Magazine, Spring 2011
Handbooks and Guides
Participatory Research Toolkit - The Data Center
Freedom of Information Act Guide - National Security Archives
The Pentagon Labyrinth: Ten Short Essays to Get You Through It - Center for Defense Information (2011)
The Arms Trade Revealed - Federation of American Scientists (1998 but still relevant)
Military Spending: Researching Impacts on Your Campus or Community - guide compiled by Western States Legal Foundation (2003, but most links still active)
Evaluating Web Pages: Techniques to Apply & Questions to Ask - University of California
Conducting Interviews - The Data Center
Sources of Information
A source list for researching militarism - Zoltan Grossman and John Lindsay-Poland (2011)
Internet Public Library - ask a librarian a reference question
Information assembled by Fellowship of Reconciliation: http://forusa.org
Report on Project YANO’s efforts to gain access to schools in San Diego County from 1984 to 1995 (updated 7/06). Discusses outreach strategies, legal basis for equal access, lessons learned by activists. Key correspondence with school districts is included in appendix. Very useful for getting a school outreach program started.Print Size: 8½ x 11 (48 pages, offset for hole punch)
The WAR FREE SCHOOLS organizing kit includes two volumes. WAR FREE SCHOOLS: The Rise of the Counter-Recruitment Movement debunks the myths about the military actions Canada is engaged in and places them in the context of rising tuition fees and military recruitment. It also proposes a clear response to these trends. When governments push for war, the people have to push back. This resistance to war and militarism takes the many forms, including soldiers refusing illegal orders or deployments, conscientious objection, desertion, and counter-recruitment. The second volume, WAR FREE SCHOOLS: A Handbook for Counter- Recruitment in Canada, is a how-to guide for students in high schools, colleges, and universities, as well as others who are interested in organizing against military recruiters.
The WAR FREE SCHOOLS organizing kit includes two volumes. WAR FREE SCHOOLS: The Rise of the Counter-Recruitment Movement debunks the myths about the military actions Canada is engaged in and places them in the context of rising tuition fees and military recruitment. It also proposes a clear response to these trends. When governments push for war, the people have to push back. This resistance to war and militarism takes the many forms, including soldiers refusing illegal orders or deployments, conscientious objection, desertion, and counter-recruitment. The second volume, WAR FREE SCHOOLS: A Handbook for Counter- Recruitment in Canada, is a how-to guide for students in high schools, colleges, and universities, as well as others who are interested in organizing against military recruiters.
Why We Still Fight: Adolescents, America’s Army, and the Government-Gaming Nexus
US pressed on military exam for high school students
