Tag: Military recruiters
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Why We Still Need a Movement to Keep Youth From Joining the Military
Elizabeth King /Article Originally appeared in In These Times web edition in June 2019 - A scrappy counter-recruitment movement is trying to starve the military of labor. Out of the spotlight, dedicated counter-recruiters around the country are steadfast in their organizing to cut off the human supply chain to the U.S. military. Eighteen is the youngest age at which someone can join the U.S. mil ...
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Facing falling enlistment numbers, the U.S. Army takes a new approach to recruitment: Mom and Dad
Nicole Goodkind / Fortune - Gone are the days when the United States Army plastered airwaves with recruitment advertisements that includes photographs of younger males parachuting out of Apaches, for ...
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U.S. Army Tries New Recruiting Tactics After Missing Targets
Largest branch of military struggles in a strong economy; a pilot program in Chicago Ben Kesling, Wall Street Journal - CHICAGO —The U.S. Army is experimenting with new recruiting tactics as it strug ...
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The Civilian Marksmanship Program Introduces American School Children To The Intoxicating Use Of Firearms
Pat Elder | Counter-Recruit Press | January 2019 While Endangering the Health of the American Public Through Lead Exposure When I hold you in my arms And I feel my finger on your trigger I know nobod ...
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Hollywood Pledges Allegiance to the Dollar
Pat Elder | Counter-Recruit Press | November 2018 In July, 2015 the U.S. Army Chief of Public Affairs responded to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request by releasing a massive 1,400-page list o ...
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Should Recruiters Own Our Schools?
Pat Elder | Counter-Recruit Press | December 2017 Military’s goal is school ownership; communities push back Throughout the country military recruiters are increasingly allowed to casually share lunc ...
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Kids and Military Recruiters: A Compendium of Horror Stories
Pat Elder | Truthout | November 1 2017 More than a hundred mothers have contacted me over the years, alarmed at the relationships their teenaged children were developing with military recruiters at s ...
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Recruiting Is PSY OPS at Home
Pat Elder | Counter-Recruit Press | July 2017 Leading health organization calls for ending school recruiting In 2012 the American Public Health Association, (APHA), one of the country’s foremost heal ...
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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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Thanks for Your Service, but Don't Tell the Kids About It (We Need Them to Enlist)
Emily Yates | Originally published in Truthout - "Excuse me, are you saying negative things about the military?" The question came over my right shoulder, from a well-dressed woman whose nametag proc ...
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