Tag: Project YANO
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Recruitment, counter-recruitment and critical military studies
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 grant Act entitled ‘ No Child Left Behind ’ Though seemingly commendable at first glance, it being designed to improve academic attainment in disadvantaged state- funded schools (Zgonjanin 2006 ), a c ...
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Know about Groups doing Youth Demilitarization Nationally - Project YANO
(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. https ...
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National Leafleting Inaugurates for International Week of Action Against the Militarisation of Youth
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 Militarizatio ...
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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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These Grannies Are Helping to Plug the School-to-Military Pipeline at Its Source
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 gray-hair ...
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Changing Recruitment Policies in Schools: One Phone Call and Email at a Time
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
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 counter-recruitme ...
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The Military’s View of Counter-recruitment
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 differ ...
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Army Report Analyzes Decreasing Popularity of High School Military Testing
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 Battery ...
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Ninth CIRCUIT COURT RULING: CONFRONTING MILITARISM BY USING EQUAL ACCESS TO HIGH SCHOOLS
Rick Jahnkow - When the military comes to your local high school, you have a legal right to give students an opposing view. This has been the position taken by federal district courts in Florida, Pen ...
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