Tag: Chicago

  • The Defector

    The Defector

    How Rory Fanning went from Army Ranger to war resister (and counter-recruiter). Alex N. Press / Jacobin - In a high school classroom on the South Side of Chicago, Rory Fanning is telling students about the time he and his fellow Army Rangers occupied a school in Afghanistan. “We walked in and said, ‘School’s canceled, we’re going to use this as a military base for the next six weeks.’ There was n ...

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    Pat Tillman | Colin Kaepernick | Rory Fanning | Chicago | JROTC | Counter Recruitment in High Schools
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  • NNOMY at the 2017 VFP Education Not Militarization Convention in Chicago

    NNOMY at the 2017 VFP Education Not Militarization Convention in Chicago

    The National Network Opposing the Militarization of Youth will be participating in the 2017 Veterans For Peace National Convention in Chicago August 11th, 2017. Located at the beautiful and historic ...

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    Veterans For Peace | Chicago | Veterans For Peace | Education Not Militarization
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  • Trump's Austerity Budget Increases Military Recruiters' Power to Prey on Youth

    Trump's Austerity Budget Increases Military Recruiters' Power to Prey on Youth

    Sarah Jaffe | Originally published in Truthout - March 24, 2017 Donald Trump's budget slashes social programs while inflating an already massive military budget, meaning that for many people in alrea ...

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    Colin Kaepernick | Sarah Jaffe | Rory Fanning | Dream Act | Chicago | Veterans For Peace | Military recruiters | militarization of schools
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  • Bringing Truth to the Youth: The Counter-Recruitment Movement, Then and Now

    Bringing Truth to the Youth: The Counter-Recruitment Movement, Then and Now

    Emily Yates | Originally published in Truthout - July 16, 2016 "Back when we started, recruiters were just blatantly lying to the kids," said Susan Quinlan, the co-founder and volunteer coordinator o ...

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    June Brumer | The National Network Opposing the Militarization of Youth | Every Child Succeeds Act | Oakland Unified School District | BAY-Peace | Better Alternatives for Youth–Peace (BAY-Peace) | Susan Quinlan | Emily Yates | Chicago | Rick Jahnkow | Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery | STEM | No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 | #ASVAB | Seth Kershner | JROTC | Project YANO | Hart Viges
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  • Poverty, Militarism and the Public Schools

    Poverty, Militarism and the Public Schools

    Robert C. Koehler | Originally published in CommonDreams - What’s the difference between education and obedience? If you see very little, you probably have no problem with the militarization of the A ...

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    Kevin Merwin | Robert C. Koehler | Paralyzed Veterans of America | Gold Star Families of the Fallen | Veterans For Peace | America's Army 3 | Chicago | Militarism | Pentagon | Veterans For Peace | JROTC | militarization of schools | Ann Jones
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  • In Chicago schools' Junior ROTC programs, some see a troubling trend

    In Chicago schools' Junior ROTC programs, some see a troubling trend

    Matthew Kovac - Beate Medina was returning home from walking her dogs one evening in May 2004 when she saw two Army officers standing at her door. The sight did not immediately register. Uniformed of ...

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    Beate Medina | Chicago | Colombia | Jesus Palafox | Matthew Kovac | Public Military Acadamies | JROTC | militarization of youth | NNOMY
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  • Conversation with Rickover Cadets on Facebook

    Conversation with Rickover Cadets on Facebook

    Gary Ghirardi - Rarely do conditions line up like this for NNOMY but a recent article that appeared in Yahoo News about Rickover public military academy, in Chicago, that included an interview with J ...

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    Gary Ghirardi | Rickover Naval Academy | Chicago | Jesus Palafox | JROTC
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  • Veterans for Peace Call for an End to NATO

    Veterans for Peace Call for an End to NATO

    Veterans for Peace works for the abolition of war, and while that process will take many steps, one that should be taken immediately is the dissolution of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. NATO ...

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    NATO | Chicago | Militarism & War | Veterans For Peace
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