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/
Click through to find out
Religion and militarism - https://nnomy.org/religionandmilitarism/
‘A Poison in the System’: Military Sexual Assault - New York Times
Change your Mind?
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And monitor that this request is honored.
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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Veterans For Peace Ventura County - Chapter 112

Gary Ghirardi
 
Organization: Veterans For Peace Ventura County - Chapter 112 |
Address: P.O. Box 13
City: Oxnard
State: California
Zipcode: 93032
Phone: 
Email: mikecervantes@roadrunner.com
Organizational Website: https://vfpvc.org/vfps-michael-cervantes/
Facebook: @vfpvc
Instagram: #veteransforpeaceventura
Democracy Now: No Child Left Unrecruited: Army Recruiters Target High Schools
Vimeo: VFP’s Michael Cervantes on Arlington West, Counter-Recruitment, and His Work for Peace
 
Scope of organization:
  • Regional
This organization is a:
  • Organization with Counter-recruitment as a major component
Organization base:
  • Nonstudent community based
Outreach to specific communities:
  • LatinX
Issues you are working on:
  • Alternatives to the military
  • Developing Curricula/Educational Materials
  • General counter-recruitment/Truth in Recruitment youth education
  • Arlington West
Years in Operation: 11-20 years
 
Summary describing your organization: The Ventura County Chapter 112 (VCVFP, chapter 112) was founded in August, 2004, as a result of the Iraq War begun in 2003. Once founded, Chapter 112 simultaneously began a focused program of disclosing military alternative careers to local area high school students. Known as counter recruiting we courteously invoke the designation, “informed enlistment”. VFP alternative to the military brochures can be found in local area high school career centers.

The local chapter continues to conduct educational forums and tabling informationals within the various County communities. Such informationals include tabling at events like the MLK, Jr. annual program, Earth Day, Multicultural Festival, Ojai Peace Day, Juneteenth Festival, Ventura College invitations, Native American Pow Wows, and more. When you join VFP, you join at the national office, subsequently, your membership is then routed to the roster of Chapter 112. Please visit the chapter 112 website at vfpvc.org. Click on Join to become a member. If you prefer to join by check, send check to: Veterans for Peace, 3407 S. Jefferson Ave., #219, St. Louis, MO 63118 website: www.veteransforpeace.org.  
 
Contact Person: Michael Cervantes
 
Located in: west-region
 
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National Directory of Youth Demilitarization Groups & Information

NNOMY Steering Committee

 

 

National Directory of Youth Demilitarization Groups & Information (NNOMY G&I)
Region | National | NE | SE | MW | NW | SW | W | T | Inter | Add. Resources

https://nnomy.org/organizations

The NNOMY G&I Directory provides access to peace and counter-recruitment groups nationally that reflect a concern for the militarization of our youth in their public activism.

Listings in the National Directory of Youth Demilitarization Groups & Information provide essential information about national, and regional organizations that have youth demilitarization activism as a focus area of their activity. The peace organizations listed on this page have truth-in-recruitment or counter military recruitment activism as a primary activity within their organizations or resources represented to support youth demilitarization as an additional concern for action. Some international groups are listed that have had collaboration or contact with NNOMY.

To list your organization in the National Directory of Youth Demilitarization Groups, email your group information to admin(at)nnomy.org.  NNOMY ONLY LISTS Peace Groups that do youth demilitarization activism or host related materials on their online platforms. Put the name of your organization in the subject of the email and your contact information in the message and notify NNOMY that you want your organization listed! You can reference the type of activism we list by reviewing the groups below.

NOTE TO PUBLIC: If a group listed is not currently maintaining an active counter-recruitment project, you can still contact them for a referral to another group active in your region or to a national group that can address your inquiry. You can also contact NNOMY at admin(at)nnomy.org and make your inquiry with the NNOMY steering committee.

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 About Face: Veterans Against the War (AFVAW) / National / Contact                      

Information included:

 American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) / National / Contact /                                 

 

Information included:

American Friends Service Committee / National / Contact /                           

Information included: Five ways to counter military recruitment in your school district / counter-recruitment resource / January 14, 2020

Antiwar.com / National / Contact /                      

Information included:

Asktherecruiterthis.com / National / Contact /                            

Information included:

Before You Enlist! Video: Telequest Inc. / National / Contact /            

 

Information included:

Black Alliance for Peace (BAP) / National / Contact /                

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Catholic Peace Fellowship / National/ This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.                 

 

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 Center on Conscience & War / National / Contact /                    

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Church of the Brethren / National / This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. /     

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Codepink / National / Contact /                

 

Information included: 

 Committee Opposed to Militarism and the Draft  / National / Contact /          

Information included:

Common Dreams / National / Contact /                

 

Information included:

 Courage to Resist / National / Contact /          

Information included: 

 Democracy Now / National / Contact /  

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Everyday Peacebuilding / National / Contact /            

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 GI Rights Hotline / National / Contact /            

 

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  Global Campaign for Peace Education / National-International / Contact /              

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Mennonite Church: Central District Conf. / National / Contact /                      

 

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Military Families Speak Out (MFSO) / National / Contact /                   

Information included:

  • MFSO links to: List of antiwar and counter-recruitment organizations / 2025
    • Veterans For Peace
    • About Face Veterans Against The War
    • Vietnam Veterans Against the War
    • G.I. Rights Hotline
    • Courage to Resist
    • War Resisters League

Military Law Task Force / National / Contact /                    

Information included:

 Military Truth / National / Contact /                         

Information included:

National Network Opposing the Militarization of Youth / National / Contact /  

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Nuclear Age Peace Foundation / National / Contact /             

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 On Earth Peace / National / Contact /          

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PBS Digital Studios / Public Broadcast System (PBS) / National / Contact /           

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Peaceful Options for Training and Careers (POTC) / National / Contact /          

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Popular Resistance / National / Contact / 

 

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Project Censored / National / Contact / 

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Quaker House/ National / This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it./             

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Resisters.info / National / Contact /                

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Seven Stories Press / National / This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. /               

 

Information included:

Taskforce to End Compulsory Military Training in Schools / National / Contact /             

Information included:

 U.S. NIH's National Library of Medicine (NIH/NLM) / National / Contact /              

Information provided:

Vietnam Veterans Against the War / National / Contact /         

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 Veterans For Peace / National / Contact /               

 

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 War Resisters League / National / Contact /              

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We Are Dissenters / National / This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. 

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 We Are Not Your Soldiers / National / Contact /               

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Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPFUS)  / National-International / Contact /  

Information provided:

Winning the Peace / National-International / This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. / Website formatted for Smartphones             

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World Beyond War / National-International / Contact /               

 

Information provided:
 
Starting up a Project to Counter Military Recruiting
 
 
 

Groups Listed by State or Territory
 

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 Berkshire Citizens for Peace and Justice / Massachusetts / This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. /             

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Bronx Anti-War Coalition / New York / This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. /              

Information provided:

Chelsea Uniting Against the War / Massachusetts / Contact /              

Information provided: Counter-recruitment Group in Chelsea, Massachusetts / Close to Boston / 2025

 Feminists Against the Draft / New Hampshire / No Contact Info /              

Information provided:

 Granny Peace Brigade  / New York City / New York / Contact /              

Information provided:

 Lepoco / Pennsylvania / Contact /              

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Massachusetts Peace Action / Massachusetts / This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. /              

Information provided: MAPA, Veterans for Peace, and the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom

NYCLU / ACLU of New York / Contact /                

Information provided:

Veterans For Peace Maine / Maine / Contact /              

Information provided:

 War Resisters' League - New England Office / Connecticut / Contact /               

Information provided:

Will Miller Green Mountain Veterans For Peace - Green Mountains / Vermont / Contact /              

Information provided:
 
 
 

Southeast-region | HOME

Alternatives to Military Service / VFP Chapter 14 / Florida / Contact /              

Information provided:

Charlottesville Center for Peace and Justice  / Virginia / Contact /              

Information provided:

Peace & Justice Coalition - Prince George County / Maryland / Contact /              

Information provided:

 The Truth Project / Florida / Contact /              

Information provided:

Educates students about their choices regarding military enlistment / July 2025
 
 
 

Midwest-region | HOME

Chicago Veterans for Peace / Illinois / This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. /              

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 Fox Valley Citizens for Peace and Justice / Illinois / Contact /             

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 Veterans For Peace | Chapter 93 / Missouri / Contact /             

Information provided: (Contact for corrected sources)

Peace Education Center / Michigan / Contact /              

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Veterans for Peace - Chapter 50 / Michigan / Contact /              

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 Veterans for Peace Detroit Metro - Chapter 74 / Michigan / This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. /              

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 Veterans for Peace Madison - Chapter 25 / Wisconsin / Contact /              

Information provided:
 
 
 

Northwest-region | HOME

Veterans For Peace - Chapter 92 -   Washington / Contact /             

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Peace & Justice Action League of Spokane - (PJALS) -   Washington / Contact /               

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Veterans For Peace Spokane Washington - Chapter 035 / Washington / Contact /             

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Whatcom Peace & Justice Center / Washington / Contact /          

 

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War Resisters League--Portland Chapter / Oregon / Contact /              

Information provided:
 
 
 

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Bay-Peace / California / This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. /              

 

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 Before Enlisting / California / This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. /              

Information provided: Counter-recruitment Group in San Francisco, California / 2025

Chico Peace Alliance / California / This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. /              

Information provided: (Maintained by NNOMY)

Long Beach Area Peace Network / California / Contact /             

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Monterey Peace and Justice Center - Seaside / California / Contact /               

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 Peace and Justice Center of Nevada County / California / Contact /              

 

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 Peace Club Alliance - ABC Unified School District / California / This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. /              

 

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 Project Great Futures / California / This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. /             

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 Project on Youth and Non-Military Opportunities / California / Contact /         

Information provided: Counter-recruitment Group in San Diego, California / 2025

 Summer Peace Camp - San Pedro Neighbors for Peace and Justice / California / Contact /        

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Topanga Peace Alliance / California / This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. /          

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Truth in Recruitment / California / Contact /               

Information provided:

  • Selective Service / April 2019 (PDF's on Page from defunct NCPSP are Broken)
  • Resources and Forms / Undated
    • Opt-Out of the Release of Your Student Directory Information
    • Getting Out of Delayed Entry Program
    • U.S. Citizenship and Military Enlistment
    • English y espanol

Veterans For Peace Ventura County - Chapter 112 / California / Contact /              

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Visalia Friends Meeting / California / Contact /              

Information provided:
 
 
 

Territories | HOME

Hawaiʻi Peace & Justice / Pacific / Contact /                      

 

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 Madres Contra La Guerra / Puerto Rico / This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. /            

 

Información proporcionada:
 
 
 
International | HOME

Countering the Militarisation of Youth / Great Britain / Contact /              

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ForcesWatch / Great Britain / Contact /            

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Guardian / Great Britain / Contact /            

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Peace Movement Aotearoa / New Zealand / This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. /            

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Peace Pledge Union / Great Britain / Contact 

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Quakers in Britain / Great Britain / Contact /

Since the 17th century, Quakers have held a central belief in peace, actively opposing all forms of war and violence.

 

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Quaker United Nations Office (QUNO) / New York / Geneva / Contact                

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War Resisters' International / Great Britain / Contact /              

 

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Wikipedia/ International / Contact /  

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  • Counter-recruitment / Wikipedia page on counter-recruitment in first world countries without conscription / 2008 -2017
 
 
 
 

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Peace and Justice Center of Nevada County

Gary Ghirardi
 
Organization: Peace and Justice Center of Nevada County |
Address: 2036 Nevada City Hwy.   #605
City: Grass Valley
State: California
Zipcode: 95945
Phone: (530) 615-7859 9
Emails: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Organizational Website: https://www.ncpeace.org/peace-recruitment/
Facebook: @PeaceandJusticeNevadaCounty
 
Scope of organization:
  • Regional
  • Local
This organization is a:
  • Counter-recruitment project of a larger, multi-issue organization
Organization base:
  • Nonstudent community based
Outreach to specific communities:
  • Immigrant
  • Latinx
Issues you are working on:
  • Alternatives to the military
  • ASVAB testing in schools
  • Delayed Entry Program information
  • Providing counter-recruitment organizer training
  • Recruiter Abuse
Years in Operation: More than 20 years
 
Summary describing your organization: The Peace Recruiting Mission is to promote a culture of peace in the Nevada Joint Union High School District community and to provide information and resources about careers, further education and the risks and realities of military enlistment so that every student has complete information to choose their future.
 
Contact Person: David Wallace

 

 

 
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We Are Not Your Soldiers (WANYS)

Stephanie Rugoff
 
Organization: We Are Not Your Soldiers (WANYS) |
Address: 305 West Broadway #185
City: New York City
State: New York
Zipcode: 10013
Phone: 646-807-3259
Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Organizational Website: https://www.wearenotyoursoldiers.org
Facebook: @wearenotyoursoldiers 
 
A Project of: The World Can't Wait
 
Scope of organization:
  • Regional / National
This organization is a:
  • Counter-recruitment organization
Organization base:
  • Non-student community based
Outreach to specific communities:
  • Educators
Issues you are working on:
  • Conscientious objection
  • General counter-recruitment/Truth in Recruitment youth education
Years in Operation: 11-20 years
 
Summary describing your organization: World Can’t Wait’s We Are Not Your Soldiers project brings Iraq and Afghanistan-era veterans to classes to tell about the wars and what the military is recruiting for – information most have never been exposed to before. Often, we begin the presentation by showing a short video. Sometimes we use a version of “Collateral Murder” narrated by veteran Ethan McCord which contains footage, released by Chelsea Manning, of the Baghdad killing of Reuters journalists and others. Or we may show a clip from a feature film on a drone pilot stationed at a base here in the United States or another video. The veterans talk about their on-the-ground experiences in occupying countries, where civilians pay the price.  In-service and post-service issues such PTSD, medical/psychological care or lack thereof and homelessness are also addressed as well as the realities of advertised benefits, such as college tuition. Students are provided with information and a perspective to which they may not otherwise be exposed. There is an additional possibility to do a historical presentation with a Vietnam military resister and/or veteran. This can be done in conjunction with the recent veteran’s class visit or separately.
 
Contact Person: Stephanie Rugoff
 
Located in: northeast-region
 
http://www.wearenotyoursoldiers.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/We-Are-Not-Your-Soldiers.jpg
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Feminists Against the Draft

Gary Ghirardi
 
Organization: Feminists Against the Draft |
Address: 2 N Main Steet
City: Hanover
State: New Hampshire
Zipcode: 03755
Email: fThis email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Organizational Website: https://linktr.ee/FeministsAgainstTheDraft
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/feministsagainstthedraft/
TikTok: @feministsagainstthedraft
 
Scope of organization:
  • National

This organization is a:
  • Organization with Counter-recruitment as a major component

Organization base:
  • 4-year college student based
Outreach to specific communities:
  • LGBTQ+
  • Women
  • Youth outreach. TikTok 
Issues you are working on:
  • Conscientious Objection 
  • Limiting military recruiter access to schools
Years in Operation: Less than 2 years
 
 
Summary Describing Your Organization:
 
Feminists Against the Draft is a coalition of intersectional feminists and feminist allies who raise awareness about the military draft and oppose any attempts to expand Selective Service registration, with the ultimate goal of abolition of the draft. We believe a person’s desire to enter or oppose the U.S. military is hugely personal, we advocate for the rights of women and children domestically and abroad, and we emphasize the need for progress rather than “inclusion” for marginalized groups in unjust systems. As an organization started by and made up primarily of young people, we are importantly committed to lifting up the voices of young women and girls, queer people and BIPOC, and working class people. We particularly emphasize the importance of students and young people in building an inter-generational movement to end the draft that targets them. We also consider the over-recruitment of low-income Americans a disturbing iteration of the draft—the poverty draft—targeting marginalized and vulnerable people, and we push against military recruitment in our schools and communities. This group began at Dartmouth College in 2021, on the cusp of U.S. Supreme Court’s consideration of the case National Coalition for Men v. Selective Service System, a significant case regarding women and U.S. draft registration. Membership is open to anyone committed to pushing for the abolition of the Selective Service System or opposing draft expansion from a feminist perspective.
 
 
Contact Person: Sebastian Munoz-McDonald (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)
 
Located in: northeast-region
 
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Madres Contra La Guerra

Gary Ghirardi
 
Organization: Madres Contra La Guerra |
Address: River Plantation 45 Calle Tallaboa
City: Canóvanas
State: Puerto Rico
Zipcode: 00729
Phone: (787) 619-5175
Email: madrescontralaguerra@gmail.com
Organizational Website: https://madrescontralaguerra.blogspot.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/madrescontralaguerra
Instagram: madrescontralaguerra
Twitter: @mclgpr
YouTube: madrescontralaguerra
 
Scope of organization:
  • Regional

This organization is a:
  • Counter-recruitment Organization
  • Organization with Counter-recruitment as a major component
  • Counter-recruitment project of a larger, multi-issue organization
  • Offers Truth in Recruitment Information
  • Does School Demilitarization ActivismOffers Military Counseling
Organization base:
  • Nonstudent community based
  • Veteran or military family based
  • Virtual online community based
Outreach to specific communities:
  • Veteran and Active Military
  • Women
  • Puertorriqueños
  • Boricua
Issues you are working on:
  • Alternatives to the military
  • ASVAB testing in schools
  • College ROTC
  • Conscientious objection
  • Equal school access for counter-recruitment
  • General counter-recruitment/Truth in Recruitment youth education
  • High school JROTC
  • College school JROTC
  • Limiting recruiter access to schools
  • NCLB recruiting list opt-out
  • Recruiting vans/mobile exhibits

Years in Operation: More than 20 years
 
Summary describing your organization: Madres en contra de la Guerra es una organización de base comunitaria a favor de la paz para las madres, familias y amigos que se oponen a las guerras como modo de lidiar con disputas nacionales o internacionales y al uso de la tortura para extraer información de los prisioneros.  Luchamos porque la juventud boricua no firme un contrato militar y por la salud de nuestros familiares militares.

Mothers Against the War is a community-based organization for peace for mothers, families and friends who oppose the war as a way of dealing with national or international disputes and the use of torture to extract information from the prisoners. We fight for Puerto Rican youth not to sign a military contract and the health of our military families.

 
Contact Person: Sonia Santiago Hernández
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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