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Articles written from activists in the Peace and Counter-recruitment movement relating to the militarization of youth.
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 attack at Sandy Hook Elementary — we have learned to expect the NRA to uncompromisingly oppose any government response that would limit the rights of gun owners.Schools, on the o...
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Education as Enforcement:Militarization and Corporatization of Schools
Kenneth J. Saltman - Public schools in the United States have increasingly come to resemble the military and prison systems with their hiring of military generals as school administrators and heavy...
Categories Articles | Corporate Influence | Military Presence in Our SchoolsPeaceful Vocations Demands Option 8 Privacy Protections for Texan High School Youth
Peaceful Vocations - On April 19, 2013, Diane Wood, Peaceful Vocations member and representative of the Texas Coalition to Protect Student Privacy member, presented to the Texas State Board in Aus...
Read more...Categories ASVAB | School Policies | Providing Guidance | ArticlesCounter-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 o...
Read more...Categories Articles | CR ReportsThe Consensus Behind Militarism
Jeff Cohen - While the U.S. media has some spirited debate over politics and social issues – i.e. Fox News vs. MSNBC – there remains a broad consensus about foreign adversaries whose behavior is al...
Read more...Categories Articles | The Militarization of U.S. CultureTags Bush administration | Censorship | CNN | Dahr Jamail | Fox News | George W. Bush | Glenn Greenwald | Jeff Cohen | Jeremy Scahill | Martin Luther King Jr | Militarism | Militarism & War | MSNBC | PBS | Phil Donahue | U.S. mediaTheological Reflection on Counter-Recruitment
Matt Guynn - These reflections were created and shared in the context of counter-recruitment networking calls organized by On Earth Peace, 2003-2007. On Earth Peace is an agency rooted in the Churc...
Read more...Categories Articles | Matt GuynnTags Counter-recruitment | Matt Guynn | On Earth Peace | peacebuildingNinth CIRCUIT COURT RULING: CONFRONTING MILITARISM BY USING EQUAL ACCESS TO HIGH SCHOOLS
Rick Jahnkow - When the military comes to your local high school, you have a legal right to give students an opposing view.This has been the position taken by federal district courts in Florida, Pen...
Read more...Categories For Counter Recruiters | MILITARY RECRUITING TOOLS & METHODS | Articles | Rick JahnkowLatinos and the Military in 2013
Jorge Mariscal - With the beginning of a new year and a second Obama term, it is time once again to take stock of the relationship between the Latino community and the U.S. military. As we outlin...
Read more...Categories RECRUITING IN SPECIFIC COMMUNITIES | Articles | Jorge MariscalCessation of Military Recruiting in Public Elementary and Secondary Schools
Amy Hagopian Kathy Barker - AbstractRecruiters for the various US armed forces have free access to our nation’s public high schools, as mandated by the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB). Military recr...
Read more...Categories Articles | The Militarization of U.S. CultureTeachers of Garfield High School in Seattle Say No!
By unanimous vote, the entire faculty at Garfield High School in Seattle voted not to administer the MAP test of reading and mathematics. This is the first time, to my knowledge, that the faculty of...
Read more...Categories ASVAB | Articles | ASVAB Testing Data 2008-09 | CR in the News | CR ReportsMilitarism 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...
Read more...Categories Articles | Military Presence in Our SchoolsNavy Steals: The military's new interest in STEM education
Seth Kershner - Although women make up about half of the United States workforce, they represent just 24 percent of careers in STEM fields (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics). In or...
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