Before You Enlist Video - http://beforeyouenlist.org
Researching Pop Culture and Militarism - https://nnomy.org/popcultureandmilitarism/
If you have been Harassed by a Military Recruiter -https://centeronconscience.org/abused-by-recruiters/
Back-to-School Kit for Counter-recruitment and School Demilitarization Organizing is focused on student privacy
WHAT IS IN THIS KIT? - https://nnomy.org/backtoschoolkit/
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Religion and militarism - https://nnomy.org/religionandmilitarism/
‘A Poison in the System’: Military Sexual Assault - New York Times
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Military Recruiters and Programs Target marginalized communities for recruits...
..and the high schools in those same communities

 Militarization of our Schools

The Pentagon is taking over our poorer public schools. This is the reality for disadvantaged youth.

 

What we can do

Corporate/conservative alliances threaten Democracy . Progressives have an important role to play.

 Why does NNOMY matter?

Most are blind or indifferent to the problem.
A few strive to protect our democracy.

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Christian Activists and Veterans Start 40-Day Fast for Gaza

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Anti-war activists demonstrate outside the United Nations headquarters on Thursday, May 22, 2025, in Manhattan, New York. (RNS photo/Fiona André)May 23, 2025 / Fiona André  / Word&Way - NEW YORK (RNS) — On Thursday (May 22), dozens of religious activists and war veterans gathered outside the United Nations headquarters in Manhattan to launch a 40-day fast protesting the humanitarian aid blockade in Gaza.

The fast, initiated by Veterans for Peace, an anti-war organization, and a dozen Christian organizations, intends to raise awareness of the famine looming over Gaza. Participants plan to consume less than 250 calories a day, mirroring the average daily nutrient intake of residents in Gaza.

Members of Christian organizations like Pax Christi, Friends of Sabeel North America (FOSNA), the Mennonite Palestine Israel network, and the Palestine Justice Network of the Presbyterian Church joined Veterans for Peace in the fast.

In total, 249 people across the country plan to fast and demand the UN enable humanitarian aid to enter the Gaza Strip and that the U.S. stop sending weapons to Israel, according to a Christians for Ceasefire press release.

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Saving Paradise: The Fight to End Militarization in Hawai‘i

With 6 percent of its land occupied by military bases, Hawai‘i is our most densely militarized state. But young activists are rejecting recruiting efforts and military influence.

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April 17, 2024 / Saliha Bayrak / The Nation - Pete Doktor was lost. Living in Southern California, with the end of high school approaching, he wanted to be a musician, but had no idea how he would pay for music school. His father, a World War II veteran with a wealth of stories on fighting fascism, told him the military was offering money for college.

Doktor had no intention of joining right away, but decided to take a qualification exam. The recruiters started pressuring him, asking if he was too “scared” to enlist and telling him that experience as an army medic would help him later find work. The idea of being able to find such stability and fulfill his “kūleana”—the Hawaiian word for responsibility—was eventually enough to persuade him.

But when Doktor left three years later and started searching for jobs, employers told him the basic first aid training he received was not nearly enough to find work in medicine. He felt misled. “[The military] has an arsenal of things to use to trap people wherever they’re most vulnerable or desperate,” he said.

Motivated by this dissolution, he instead sought to reconnect with his mother’s side and teach English in Okinawa, once a sovereign kingdom in the Pacific that became a military colony of Japan. His next move was to Hawai‘i, where he would learn demilitarization from the Kānaka Maoli, or Native Hawaiians, and “fight the global military empire.” For over 10 years, he worked to ensure that the most vulnerable of his students did not become prey to military recruiters as he once was.

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DOGE gets access to Selective Service registration database

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April 23, 2025 / Edward Hasbrouck / Edward Hasbrouck's Blog - The Selective Service System has confirmed that, as of this week, personnel from the so-called Department Of Government Efficiency (DOGE) have arrived at the SSS and have been given access to the SSS database of men registered for a possible military draft.

Today an SSS spokesperson provided me with this official response to my questions about DOGE and SSS records:


A DOGE representative visited our Agency this week. We’ve established a great working relationship. They asked us about our data and requested access, which we gave in compliance with the President’s Executive Order on Establishing and Implementing the Department of Government Efficiency.


The SSS spokesperson also told me that no new computer matching programs involving SSS registration records have been carried out (yet) by DOGE. But it’s not clear whether the SSS would even know what DOGE has done with SSS data, once DOGE has gotten access to it and possibly exfiltrated it. DOGE and the SSS have operated computer matching programs that appear to violate the Computer Matching Act, so there’s little reason to expect that either would provide the required advance notice of new uses of SSS data.

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Mi rechazo a la guerra y la violencia…

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Este fue mi segundo tatuaje a los 18 añosComenzó desde muy pequeña, al nacer y crecer en un entorno de precariedad y dificultades económicas sentí la hostilidad del mundo. La violencia estructural reduce tus oportunidades de superación y hace de tu vida un sinfín de retos cotidianos. Vivir en un hogar pobre donde la violencia y sus distintas manifestaciones estaban presentes, me hizo entender que no era adecuado, ni justo para mí o cualquier otro ser humano. Con el tiempo crecí rechazando toda expresión de violencia, pero al mismo tiempo fortaleciendo mi rebelde, mi pensamiento crítico y mi insaciable necesidad de investigar otras formas de relacionarnos. Desde pequeña tuve la certeza de que la educación era mi única alternativa para superar mi situación de pobreza extrema y me refugié en libros. Tenía una sensibilidad especial ante las injusticias, los desaires y la marginalización de la era víctima, y aunque mi destino parecía ya estar determinado por mi clase social y mi género, seguí como buena rebelde empeñada en lo que tanto anhelaba… A mis 16 años tenía una clara percepción de los postulados de Gandhi, de su resistencia pacífica, de su Satyagraha y de rechazar cualquier imposición social injusta. Las dificultades económicas continuaron y aunque pase por distintas universidades publicas fue en 2018 cuando finalmente alcance graduarme de la Universidad Central de Venezuela como Socióloga, y en 2021 de la Universidad Latinoamericana y del Caribe como Especialista en Derecho Internacional Humanitario.

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The Pentagon Wants Your High Schoolers

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JROTC cadets compete in All-Service National Air Rifle competition | Article | The United States Army4/04/2025 / Scott Harding & Seth Kershner / Jacobin
- For the past three years, the US military has suffered through its worst recruiting crisis since the end of the draft in 1973. The Army Reserve has not met its annual quota of new recruits for nearly ten years. In fiscal year 2023, the Navy and Air Force failed to meet their recruiting goals — the first time this happened in twenty-four years for the Air Force, despite being traditionally viewed as the most desirable branch of service. And since 2013, male enlistments in the Navy have dropped more than one-third. With a shared sense of alarm, current and former military officials, members of Congress, think tanks, and others warn that these personnel shortages undermine US military readiness and its ability to fight future wars across the globe.

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Know Your Draft Board

 


2024 Update from Resistance News #20, 1 March 1986 / Edward Hasbrouck /  Resisters Info - With almost 2,000 local draft boards with almost 6,000 members now set up across the country, there’s a good chance that one is near you.


List of All Draft Board Members in the U.S.

In the event of a draft, members of draft boards would function as, in effect, administrative law judges, making both factual and legal determinations with potentially life-or-death consequences in response to draftees’ claims for classification (including classification as conscientious objectors), exemption (including on medical and other grounds), or deferment.

The application form (SSS Form 404) gives some clues as to who is recruited or volunteers for these positions.

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