Tag: Project YANO

  • National Leafleting Inaugurates for International Week of Action Against the Militarisation of Youth

    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 Militarization of Youth inaugurates the first national youth intervention against school militarization and military recruitment in U.S. National public schools to be offered for smartphones and mobile devices. Wi ...

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    Winning the Peace | War Resisters' League | War Resisters' International (WRI) | Project YANO | NNOMY
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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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  •  These Grannies Are Helping to Plug the School-to-Military Pipeline at Its Source

     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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     Granny Peace Brigade |  No Child Left Behind |  Sabrina Waller |  Veterans for Peace | Rick Jahnkow | Counter-recruitment activists | JROTC | Project YANO | Counter-recruitment
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  • Changing Recruitment Policies in Schools: One Phone Call and Email at a Time

    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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    Veterans For Peace | The War Resisters League | Sustainable Options for Youth | Santa Barbara Unified School District | Santa Barbara High School | Religious Society of Friends | Kate Connell | Military recruiters | Project YANO | militarization of youth | militarization of schools
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  • Reflection on My Time as Project YANO’s Student Intern

    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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    Chicana/o Studies | Jesus Mendez-Carbajal | interns | COMD | Project YANO
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  • The Military’s View of Counter-recruitment

    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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    Paula Hoffman-Villanueva | counter-recruitment work | ASVAB | Counter-recruitment activists | Seth Kershner | Scott Harding | Military recruiters | JROTC | asvab test | Project YANO | Counter-recruitment
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  • Army Report Analyzes Decreasing Popularity of High School Military Testing

    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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    Option 8 | NAACP | Major Gregory V. Humble | Education Not Arms Coalition | Paula Hoffman-Villanueva | American Friends Service Committee | National Lawyers Guild | ACLU | ASVAB | asvab test | Project YANO
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  • Ninth CIRCUIT COURT RULING: CONFRONTING MILITARISM BY USING EQUAL ACCESS TO HIGH SCHOOLS

    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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    Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals | Equal Access | Rick Jahnkow | Project on Youth and Non-Military Opportunities | COMD | Pentagon | Project YANO
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  • Latinos and the Military in 2013

    Latinos and the Military in 2013

    Jorge Mariscal - With the beginning of a new year and a second Obama term, it is time once again to take stock of the relationship between the Latino community and the U.S. military. As we outlined i ...

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    United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child | RAND Corporation | Latinos | Jorge Mariscal | Hispanics | Dream Act | Project YANO
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  • Counter-recruitment and School Demilitarization Activism: From Past Victories to the Challenges Ahead

    Counter-recruitment and School Demilitarization Activism: From Past Victories to the Challenges Ahead

    Rick Jahnkow - Counter-recruitment and school demilitarization work in the U.S. has gone through several cycles of expansion and contraction during the last few decades. The first expansion was durin ...

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    Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors | Rick Jahnkow | National Lawyers Guild | JROTC Shooting Ranges | COMD | demilitarization | ASVAB | JROTC | Project YANO | NNOMY
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