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 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.

The National Network Opposing the Militarization of Youth (NNOMY)

Social media Campaign Resources

 

NNOMYpeace has organized the following resources for our own staff of activists to promote our campaigns on different social media platforms. Many are formatted for Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter feeds. 

We also welcome those activists inside our network of groups doing Truth in Recruitment and Counter-recruiting activism to utilize there resources for their own social media channels.

If you are not a group associated to NNOMYpeace, and would like to utilize these resources on your own channels, we encourage your groups to integrate to NNOMY on our National Directory of Youth Demilitarization Groups to help support the national community of youth demilitarization groups to know you and the scope of your activism. You can share your information to list your group by submitting an organizational form at the following LINK.

We have distributed the following graphics by campaign. Click on the categories below to see those that support different campaign themes by NNOMY

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Eliminate Selective Service for Everyone 007

Gary Ghirardi

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Congress is getting ready to sneak an expansion of the military draft registration into the next NDAA. If they succeed, young women will be forced to register for the military draft along with young men. This isn't a step forward for gender equality - it's a step backward for all genders! There is no "feminist" reason to choose the coerced militarism of a draft over ending draft registration. 

Tell your officials: The only feminist answer to the question of draft registration is to abolish it for all genders!

 

Tell Them:

https://www.codepink.org/nodraft2021


#SelectiveService #NoDraftWomen #EliminateTheDraft #WomenForPeace

 

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Eliminate Selective Service for Everyone 006

Gary Ghirardi

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A Feminist Perspective on Broadening the Anti-draft Movement -- Ann Wrixon, former staff member of the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors

The following is a slightly abridged version of an article that appeared in a special “Women and Militarism” issue of Draft NOtices, published in April 1986. It originally appeared in The Objector, a journal produced by the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors (disbanded in 2009). We are reprinting it now because of its relevance to Women’s History Month in March, and it raises points that are still important to consider as we face a real possibility that women will soon be required to register for any future draft.

Read more:

https://www.comdsd.org/index.php/articles-archive/244-a-feminist-perspective-on-broadening-the-anti-draft-movement


#SelectiveService #NoDraftWomen #EliminateTheDraft #WomenForPeace

 

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Eliminate Selective Service for Everyone 005

Gary Ghirardi

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Congress is getting ready to sneak an expansion of the military draft registration into the next NDAA. If they succeed, young women will be forced to register for the military draft along with young men. This isn't a step forward for gender equality - it's a step backward for all genders! There is no "feminist" reason to choose the coerced militarism of a draft over ending draft registration. 

Tell your officials: The only feminist answer to the question of draft registration is to abolish it for all genders!

 

Tell Them:

https://www.codepink.org/nodraft2021


#SelectiveService #NoDraftWomen #EliminateTheDraft #WomenForPeace

 

(Then Click on the image Below to Share on your Facebook Page and paste what you copied above into where it says “Say Something About This”. Then click the blue bar below that says “Post to Facebook”. You're done and thank you for sharing!)

Eliminate Selective Service for Everyone 004

Gary Ghirardi

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Activists fought the US military draft for decades — they may soon have to again

You may not have heard about this development because of the avalanche of COVID-19 news. In late March, a national commission urged Congress to mandate that all women between 18 and 25 enroll with the Selective Service System, the agency that oversees the military draft.

Read more:

https://wagingnonviolence.org/2020/05/activists-fought-military-draft-conscription-congress-women-register/


#SelectiveService #NoDraftWomen #EliminateTheDraft #WomenForPeace

 

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Eliminate Selective Service for Everyone 003esp

Gary Ghirardi

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El registro de servicio selectivo merece una audiencia completa en el Congreso

La elección no es entre continuar con el registro de reclutas solo para hombres (que probablemente resulte inconstitucional) y expandir el registro a mujeres. La verdadera elección es si ampliar el registro a las mujeres o ponerle fin por completo. Los proyectos de ley para cada una de esas opciones se presentaron en la última sesión del Congreso y es probable que se vuelvan a presentar en los próximos meses como parte de la Ley de Autorización de Defensa Nacional anual.

Esta es una elección sobre el militarismo, no una elección sobre la igualdad de género. Ampliar el registro de reclutamiento a las mujeres generaría una apariencia de igualdad en la guerra (aunque es probable que las mujeres en el ejército aún estén sujetas a acoso y abuso sexual desproporcionado). Poner fin al registro de proyectos traería consigo una verdadera igualdad en la paz y la libertad.

 

Leer mas:

https://nnomy.org/en/resources/blog/article-archive2/item/930-el-registro-de-servicio-selectivo-merece-una-audiencia-completa-en-el-congreso.html

 


#SelectiveService #NoDraftWomen #EliminateTheDraft #WomenForPeace

 

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Eliminate Selective Service for Everyone 003

Gary Ghirardi

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Selective Service Registration Deserves a Full Hearing in Congress

The choice is not between continuing male-only draft registration (which is likely to be found unconstitutional) and expanding registration to women. The real choice is whether to expand registration to women or to end it entirely. Bills for each of those options were introduced in the last session of Congress, and are likely to be reintroduced within the next few months as part of the annual National Defense Authorization Act.

This is a choice about militarism, not a choice about gender equality. Expanding draft registration to women would bring about a semblance of equality in war (although women in the military would likely still be subject to disproportionate sexual harassment and abuse). Ending draft registration would bring about real equality in peace and freedom.

Read more:

https://nnomy.org/en/resources/blog/edward-hasbrouck/item/929-selective-service-registration-deserves-a-full-hearing-in-congress.html


#SelectiveService #NoDraftWomen #EliminateTheDraft #WomenForPeace

 

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Subcategories

Divest “Your Body” from the War Machine Article Count:  1

The Divest “Your Body” from the War Machine graphics are campaigning resources for social media for the Divest campaign that NNOMY is collaborating with CodePink. NNOMY focuses on asking youth to "Divest of their Bodies" from military service with the war machine. These are strictly to be utilized with counter-recruitment only and not with TIR.

Winning The Peace: A National High School Intervention Article Count:  2

These social media resources are to be utilized with the "Winning the Peace" campaign in cooperation with the palm cards developed by War Resisters League and the support website created for smart phones, "What Everyone Should Know Before Joining the Military / Lo que deberías saber entres de enrolarte en las Fuerzas Armadas (FF.AA.) ,"  to answer questions for youth about what military service really involves for them.

Know about Groups doing Youth Demilitarization Nationally Article Count:  1

These social media resources focus on groups nationally and regionally that take part in some form of youth demilitarization activism. That can include themes such as Truth in Recruitment or Counter-recruitment activism or participate in outreach to schools as veteral or antiwar speakers. Those using them should be cognizant of the limits that your location and context present before you decide to select the appropriate images and appeals for your use.

Misc. Social Media images Article Count:  1

The Misc. social media image resources category are designed around various appeals encompassing general counter-recruitment messages and antiwar themes. They should be utilized judiciously with attention paid to the moment and situation of which they are applied. Some of these may be themed along specific important dates in the peace calendar of on specific subject relating to militarization especially those themes that effect youth. Those found in this category are not specific to a campaign.

Social media Campaign Resources Article Count:  1

Back to School Against War & Militarism! Get the 2018-19 Back-to-school Kit for Counter-recruiting and School De-militarization Organizing from The National Network Opposing the Militarization of Youth and find out how you can help keep our youth safer and send a message to school officials and your government... military recruiters should be monitored in local high school and minor-aged youth deserve a balanced narrative on military service! Act Now to activate in your child's public school against Pentagon intrusions into our community youth.

Eliminate Selective Service for Everyone Article Count:  14

The "Eliminate Selective Service for Everyone" campaign category addresses the antiquated Selective Service system and the demand for its elimination. With the issue of women now being qualified for combat duties including fighting, the issue has been brought before the congress and senate of the United States to require women to register, like men, in the years when young adults are typically drafted into the services to fight wars if the draft needs to be re-initiated in the event of a national crisis where there are not sufficient troops to meet the troop requirement.

This campaign, "Eliminate Selective Service for Everyone," asks for the elimination of this demand based on it being a violation of basic and internationally recognized human rights protocols including the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

https://nnomy.org/selectiveservice

Costs of War Article Count:  2

The "Costs of War" campaign category came from the Watson Institute for International Affairs website of Brown University in Providence, RI. This institute has made their research into the economic, social, political, and human costs of U.S. wars their research focus. Their mission statement explains the following:

The Costs of War Project is a team of 50 scholars, legal experts, human rights practitioners, and physicians, which began its work in 2010. We use research and a public website to facilitate debate about the costs of the post-9/11 wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the related violence in Pakistan and Syria. There are many hidden or unacknowledged costs of the United States’ decision to respond to the 9/11 attacks with military force. We aim to foster democratic discussion of these wars by providing the fullest possible account of their human, economic, and political costs, and to foster better informed public policies.

This campaign, "Costs of War," asks for the public to be aware that our post 9/11 foreign policy has an effect on the U.S.'s international relations that are increasingly coming under question domestically and internationally and how those policies align with the stated goals of the U.S. State Department and its allied governments..

https://nnomy.org/costsofwar

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