Tag: Truth in Recruiting

  • Counter-Recruitment Season

    Counter-Recruitment Season

    Kevin Young - “Counter-recruitment,” alternatively known as “truth-in-recruiting” or CR for brevity’s sake, involves providing young people and their parents with information about alternatives to military enlistment (college, vocational training, job opportunities, scholarships, etc.). At the same time, CR campaigns can provide a sense of the terrible realities of war by exposing students and pa ...

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    United For Peace and Justice | truth-in-recruiting | Project on Youth and Non-Military Opportunities | Project Great Futures | National Lawyers Guild | Kevin Young | counter-recruitment work | counter-recruiting movement | Brooklyn For Peace | ACLU | War Resisters League | Truth in Recruiting | No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 | Counter-recruitment activists | Counter-recruitment | Counter Recruitment in High Schools
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  • Military Targets Corvallis High Schools: Too Young to Drink, Old Enough to Serve

    Military Targets Corvallis High Schools: Too Young to Drink, Old Enough to Serve

    Genevieve Weber/Corvallis Advocate - War is a touchy subject, especially given the near-palpable tension of the upcoming presidential election. If you’re against war, you’re a hippy at best, anti-mil ...

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    Veterans for Truth in Military Recruiting | Truth in Recruiting | recruiter access | No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 | militarism in K-12 schools | Genevieve Weber | Corvallis Advocate | militarization of youth | militarization of schools
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  • Introduction to Counter Recruitment Work

    Introduction to Counter Recruitment Work

    Counter-recruitment essentials Counter recruitment (CR) takes many different forms. At its core the goal is to present alternative views to young people in order to "balance" the narrative of militar ...

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    Truth in Recruiting | Counter-recruitment
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