Tag: Military recruitment as public health issue

  • Tough Times for Military Recruiting

    Tough Times for Military Recruiting

    How COVID-19 is impacting the Delayed Entry Program and threatening the health of recruits. By Pat Elder / National Network Opposing the Militarization of Youth, NNOMY - June 8, 2020 - Read the Spanish Version COVID-19 has profoundly impacted the way the military finds new soldiers. The recruiting command was caught unprepared to face the pandemic and is facing a challenging new reality. Military ...

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    U.S. Army | America's Army 3 | Military recruitment as public health issue | Delayed Entry Program/DEP | Future Soldier Program
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  • Toxic Problems for Military Recruiters

    Toxic Problems for Military Recruiters

    Gary Ghirardi, OpEd - A campaign by the Earth Democracy Project of the U.S. Section of the Women's International League for Peace & Freedom, has given an additional argument to Truth in Recruitment a ...

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    military base contamination | Military recruitment as public health issue
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  • Public Health Experts Identify Militarism As Threat

    Public Health Experts Identify Militarism As Threat

    David Swanson - A remarkable article appears in the June 2014 issue of the American Journal of Public Health. The authors, experts in public health, are listed with all their academic credentials: Wi ...

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    The World Health Organization | Military recruitment as public health issue | Kathy Barker | David Swanson | APHA | American Public Health Association | militarization of youth | militarization of schools
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  • Cessation of Military Recruiting in Public Elementary and Secondary Schools

    Cessation of Military Recruiting in Public Elementary and Secondary Schools

    Amy Hagopian & Kathy Barker - Abstract Recruiters for the various US armed forces have free access to our nation’s public high schools, as mandated by the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB). Military re ...

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    Amy Hagopian | militarism in K-12 schools | Military recruitment as public health issue | Kathy Barker | APHA | American Public Health Association | Military recruiters
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  • Should We End Military Recruiting in High Schools as a Matter of Child Protection and Public Health?

    Should We End Military Recruiting in High Schools as a Matter of Child Protection and Public Health?

    Amy Hagopian, PhD, Kathy Barker, PhD - SINCE ITS ADOPTION IN 1989, the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child has been ratified more quickly and by more governments than any other human ...

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    Kathy Barker, PhD | Amy Hagopian, PhD | United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child | National PTA | Military Recruitment at Public Events | No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 | Military recruitment as public health issue
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