Community Action
Counter recruitment work involves many segments of the community, representing activists from religious groups, ethically motivated veterans whom have seen the dangers and contradictions of illegal wars, parents who are seeking a better future for their children and students working to de-militarize their schools. NNOMY has established the COMMUNITY ACTION PAGE as a starting point for helping potential activists decide which category best describes themselves and assembling the appropriate resources to get started planning how to organize your work as a group or individual.
Here are some recommended links available to better inform you as a community activist. This is a work in progress and NNOMY will be adding new documents as they are prepared and as policies change that effect enlistment. Check back periodically.
Resource Pages:
Principle Issues and materials to inform you as an activist:
Articles:
- Counter-Recruiting the "Hispanic Market
- Five Years of Counter Recruitment in Chicago
- How Peace Activists Can Win Access to Schools Equal to
that of Military Recruiters - Just say No: Organizing Against Militarism in Public Schools
- Military Enlistment: or When a Contract Isn't Contract
- The Poverty Draft
- Still Waiting, Still DREAMing
Documents:
Adopt A School Kit- Using Equal Access to Counter Militarism in High Schools
- Guynn Notes Toward More Powerful Organizing: Pitfalls and Potential in Counter-recruitment
- TARGETING YOUTH: WHAT EVERYONE SHOULD KNOW ABOUT MILITARY RECRUITING IN PUBLIC HIGH SCHOOLS
The New Yorkers' Guide to Military Recruitment in the 5 Boroughs (an extensive anti-recruitment fact source)- WAR FREE SCHOOLS: A Handbook for Counter Recruitment in Canada. (Useful Information for USA)
- Materials/Training (Check this Section for many more selections.)
Organizations you should know:
- American Friends Service Committee Peacebuilding and Conflict Prevention
- GI Rights Hotline
- Not Your Soldier
- Penn Army of None
- Project on Youth and Non-Military Opportunities (Project YANO)
- War Resisters League- Youth and Counter-recruitment Program
- Ya-Ya Network
Articles on the web:
- Activists rally before board meeting to protest military recruiters in CPS
- Military Recruiters Target Campus Activists
- Activists Protest Army Video Game Recruitment Center
- Anti-war Activists Challenge NAACP to Disinvite Military Recruiters at National Convention
- Beyond Opt Out , Counter Punch Magazine, Rick Jahnkow
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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.