Jorge Mariscal
Jorge Mariscal is the grandson of Mexican immigrants and the son of a U.S. Marine who fought in World War II. He served in the U.S. Army in Vietnam and currently teaches at the University of California, San Diego.
Counter-Recruiting the "Hispanic Market"
Jorge Mariscal - The 2000 census teaches us two interesting facts about the way in which Latinos are contributing to the changing face of the United States. First, more legal immigrants arrived in the decade of the 1990s than in any previous decade in our history. The economic boom (or bubble) of the Clinton years attracted larg...
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Fighting the Poverty Draft
Jorge Mariscal - When Boston College student Joe Previtera decided to protest the war in Iraq, he headed to the one place that keeps the war machine well stocked with fuel-his local recruiting off...
Categories Jorge Mariscal | ArticlesGrowing the Military
Jorge Mariscal - In late December 2006, the Bush administration reversed its previous position and agreed to a permanent expansion of the Army and Marine Corps. In reality, the size of the two &quo...
Categories Articles | Jorge MariscalHow Military Recruiters Pitch to Latinos
Jorge Mariscal - PowerPoint Racism In a 1958 CIA information report on revolutionary activities in Cuba, the agent in charge wrote "Che is fairly intellectual for a Latin." A racist ass...
Categories Articles | Jorge MariscalTags Hispanics | Jorge Mariscal | Latinos | Military recruitersJorge Mariscal habla sobre el reclutamiento de latinoamericanos en el ejército de Estados Unidos
Erasmo Magoulas/Rebelión - Entrevista a Jorge Mariscal, activista anti-reclutamiento de la organización YANO (Oportunidades No-militares para los Jóvenes) Los hispanos que optan por alistarse en el e...
Categories Articles | Jorge MariscalTags Erasmo Magoulas | Jorge Mariscal | Project YANOLatinos 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 MariscalMilitary Enlistment: or When a Contract Isn't Contract
Jorge Mariscal - Santiago v. Rumsfeld It is an axiom among activists working in the area of counter-recruitment that the enlistment contract isn’t worth the paper it’s printed on. What this means...
Categories Articles | Jorge MariscalMilitary Recruitment and the Immigration Debate
Jorge Mariscal - In an obscure memoir of the U.S. war in Southeast Asia, an undocumented Mexican who had enlisted in the U.S. Army with the aid of an unscrupulous recruiter, writes: “I realized t...
Categories Articles | Jorge MariscalTags Immigration | Jorge Mariscal | Military recruitersStill Waiting, Still DREAMing
Jorge Mariscal with Mónica Jaúregui - For the thousands of young people brought to the United States as children of undocumented immigrant families, a pathway to legalization deferred one more da...
Categories Articles | Jorge MariscalThe Militarization of U.S. Culture
2003-05-03 Jorge Mariscal - "Lethal and Compassionate" The Militarization of US Culture The story of Jesus Gonzalez is a cautionary tale for the future. A young Chicano born in Mexico and...
Categories MILITARISM & WAR | The Militarization of U.S. Culture | Articles | Jorge MariscalTags Jesus Gonzalez | Jorge Mariscal | Militarism | Proposition 187The Poverty Draft
Jorge Mariscal - Do military recruiters disproportionately target communities of color and the poor? Recently I stumbled upon an online exchange about why young people join the military. One partic...
Categories Articles | Jorge MariscalWhat Veterans See
Jorge Mariscal - A Country in a Bubble In August of 1945, Ralph Mariscal, Jr., a 23 year-old son of Mexican immigrants and a U.S. Marine, sat waiting off the coast of Japan with thousands of other...
Categories Articles | Jorge MariscalYouth Activists Demand Military-Free Schools
Jorge Mariscal - On the weekend of July 17, over 250 activists from across the country converged on Roosevelt University in Chicago for the largest meeting ever of counter-recruitment and anti-mili...
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