Tag: Project YANO
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What I Discovered in the JROTC Curriculum
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July-September 2022 / Lauren Reyna Morales / Draft NOtices - In the summer of 2020, I was recruited by the non-profit Project on Youth and Non-Military Opportunities (Project YANO) to review core textbooks used by the U.S. military in the high school Junior Reserve Officers Training Corps (JROTC) program. Project YANO organized a team of 15 reviewers that consisted of individuals with ...
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Recruitment, counter-recruitment and critical military studies
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Introduction December 2016 / Matthew F. Rech / School of Geography, Politics and Sociology, Newcastle University - On 8 January 2002 in the US, George Bush Jr. signed into law an educational federal ...
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Know about Groups doing Youth Demilitarization Nationally - Project YANO
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(COPY The Text Below:) The military’s values are being taught in schools across the country. That should scare anybody in this country who is dedicated to working for progressive social change. ...
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National Leafleting Inaugurates for International Week of Action Against the Militarisation of Youth
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Winning the Peace is a national leafleting campaign. In cooperation with War Resisters' League and the Project on Youth and Non-military Opportunities, The National Network Opposing the ...
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Bringing Truth to the Youth: The Counter-Recruitment Movement, Then and Now
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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 ...
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These Grannies Are Helping to Plug the School-to-Military Pipeline at Its Source
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Joyce Chu - When teachers are underpaid and schools are underserved, why do we pay veterans to encourage young students to join the military? On a Wednesday afternoon last month, a group of ...
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Changing Recruitment Policies in Schools: One Phone Call and Email at a Time
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Kate Connell - In the spring of 2014, I went to observe a career day at Santa Barbara High School, where my son is enrolled. There were a variety of organizations with representatives and literature ...
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Reflection on My Time as Project YANO’s Student Intern
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Jesus Mendez-Carbajal - In the past nine months as Project YANO’s 2013-2014 student intern, I have learned an immense amount of information about U.S. militarism, its far reach, and ...
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The Military’s View of Counter-recruitment
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Seth Kershner - Over the past few years, my colleague Scott Harding and I have been chronicling the counter-recruitment movement from the perspective of activists. In this article, I’ll take a ...
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Army Report Analyzes Decreasing Popularity of High School Military Testing
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Paula Hoffman-Villanueva - We hear a great deal about the over-use of tests in schools, but one test that we all need to pay more attention to is the ASVAB (Armed Services Vocational Aptitude ...
