Every US military recruit is trained to fight and to kill and obligated to eight years of enlistment.
Ongoing conflicts today prove that deployment can happen at any time. You owe it to yourself to consider the many alternatives that do not restrict your life options. - Learn more
Enlisting in the military has been sold for generations as a way to grow up, get a start in life, maybe learn a skill and be part of a noble cause.
If you have kids today, recruiters will tell that familiar story. But today, less and less of it is true. - Learn more
Based on years of experience in public schools, facilitating student organizations dealing with peace (i.e. peace clubs) in your area can have a transformative impact on student autonomy and school culture around pervasive militarism. Learn more
The National Network Opposing the Militarization of Youth (NNOMY) is a network of organizations that organizes against the militarization of schools and young people in the United States.
NNOMY brings local, regional, and national peace and human rights groups together to connect youth to pathways towards meaningful lives, as alternatives to military enlistment.
"The U.S. military is deeply embedded in public schools, shaping children’s futures long before they’re old enough to understand the consequences — and parents were never meaningfully asked."
NNOMY was founded in the aftermath of the 2004 national counter-recruitment conference "Stopping War Where it Begins" in Philadelphia.[1] It is intended to be a decentralized and flexible structure that helps national, regional and local activists and organizations by promoting communication efforts and by stimulating collaboration between network members. NNOMY organizes actions and campaigns against militarism in order to raise awareness and to increase education on the topic.
This discussion will focus on the impact of US militarism around the globe, including the 700 and more military bases around the world, and its affect on communities. We will discuss the international resistance movement, including movements of student, teachers, conscientious objectors, and grassroots communities who struggle against military expansion and a new?liberal agenda. Participants will also explore what is needed to build an international peace and justice movement that includes counter recruitment.
Are you working all by yourself or with just a few others in a school district that is pro?military?
Are you having trouble gaining access to the schools? Is regional/political insensitivity a problem within our movement? Don’t trust the school board route? Feel like giving up? Spark your creative juices! Discuss grassroots organizing to develop the power of your counter recruitment efforts and impact your community. Take depth of your effectiveness and successes. Share your stories and materials.
The workshop will examine a variety of issues, including the Urban war on poor and Black, from SWAT response to MOVE, training with “incendiary device” to "Battle of Seattle" Violence from wars brought back into the community, prisons and profit targeting immigrants. Torture taught in military returns when veterans become police and prison guards, police training/ tactics for controlling protest.
The Adopt a Schools Model of CAMS fosters the relationships, and grassroots empowerment that sustains counter recruitment and student activism in high schools. Learn from one of the most successful Adopt a Schools Project, the SOCIAL JUSTICE ACADEMY at Garfield HS, an inner city school in East Los Angeles. Find out how this academy was established and how counter recruitment is infused into the school program while holding LAUSD accountable to district policies.
Workshop: ASVAB Documents
Workshop Documents Include:
