Tag: Pentagon

  • Researching Pop Culture and Militarism: What exactly is an 'anti-war' film?

    Researching Pop Culture and Militarism: What exactly is an 'anti-war' film?

    Selene Rivas - November 24, 2017 (CW: suicide) “A true war story is never moral. It does not instruct, nor encourage virtue, nor suggest models of proper human behavior, nor restrain men from doing the things men have always done. If a story seems moral, do not believe it. If at the end of a war story you feel uplifted, or if you feel that some small bit of rectitude has been salvaged from the la ...

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    9/11 | Ronald Reagan | anti-war | films | Selene Rivas | Pentagon
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  • Poverty, Militarism and the Public Schools

    Poverty, Militarism and the Public Schools

    Robert C. Koehler | Originally published in CommonDreams - What’s the difference between education and obedience? If you see very little, you probably have no problem with the militarization of the A ...

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    Kevin Merwin | Robert C. Koehler | Paralyzed Veterans of America | Gold Star Families of the Fallen |  Veterans for Peace | America's Army 3 | Chicago | Militarism | Pentagon | Veterans For Peace | JROTC | militarization of schools | Ann Jones
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  • Hansel and Gretel at the Military Recruiter

    Hansel and Gretel at the Military Recruiter

    John LaForge - Military recruiters must feel like Hansel and Gretel’s “wicked witch,” fattening up the children to eat them. With sexual violence, endless wars of occupation, fatalities, brain trauma ...

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    sexual assault | Pentagon | US Military Suicide Rate | Military recruiters
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  • Linchpin of Pentagon’s School-based Recruitment: Student Testing Program (ASVAB) Rife with Errors and Contradictions

    Linchpin of Pentagon’s School-based Recruitment: Student Testing Program (ASVAB) Rife with Errors and Contradictions

    Pat Elder - Student Privacy Compromised by Massive Program In late December, 2013 the Department of Defense released a database on the military’s controversial Student Testing Program in 11,700 high ...

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    Will Hopkins | Texas Coalition to Protect Student Privacy | Oregon Coalition to Protect Student Privacy | opt-out | Opt Out | New York Coalition to Protect Student Privacy | New Hampshire Coalition to Protect Student Privacy | Nebraska Coalition to Protect Student Privacy | Military Entrance Processing Command | Kevin Haake | Don Chapin | Diane Wood | National Coalition to Protect Student Privacy | ASVAB-CEP | Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery | Pentagon | FERPA | Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act | Connecticut Coalition to Protect Students Privacy | ASVAB Database | USMEPCOM | ASVAB | Seth Kershner | Barbara Harris | asvab test | Pat Elder
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  • The Gun Problem No One Talks About: Shooting Ranges in Schools

    The Gun Problem No One Talks About: Shooting Ranges in Schools

    Rick Jahnkow - Just about everyone views the National Rifle Association as the leading champion of gun culture in the United States. When there is a mass shooting — even one as outrageous as the atta ...

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    San Diego Unified School District | NRA | Rick Jahnkow | JROTC Shooting Ranges | Pentagon | JROTC | Education Not Militarization
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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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  • Navy Steals: The military's new interest in STEM education

    Navy Steals: The military's new interest in STEM education

    Seth Kershner - Although women make up about half of the United States workforce, they represent just 24 percent of careers in STEM fields (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics). In orde ...

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    Pacific Aviation Museum's Flight School for Girls | Expanding Your Horizons (EYH) | STEM | Pentagon | Kathy Barker | Seth Kershner
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  • The Pentagon is Like the Vatican

    The Pentagon is Like the Vatican

    John Stanton - Why the Civilian Leadership Fears the Military “Only 17 percent of the all-volunteer force serves for more than 20 years, and they are endowed with a lifetime benefit. The current US m ...

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    privatization | Occupy Wall Street | John Stanton | George C. Marshall | Militarism & War | Homeland Security | Militarism | Pentagon
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