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.