Tag: ACLU
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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 ...
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How the Military Collects Data on Millions of High School Students
Charles Davis/ Vice - The calls started when I was a junior in high school—always in the evening, always after The Simpsons and always with an older gentleman on the other end of the line. “Charles, ...
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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 ...
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Military Recruitment in Our Schools- Students’ Rights and an NYCLU Guide
November 27, 2011 Peace and Justice Online - 11:12:05 The New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU) reports, “The US Military is aggressively recruiting young people for military service.” ...
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Secretive Pentagon Spy Unit: Closed or Outsourced?
April 4, 2008 / Tom Burghardt / Antifascist Calling - The New York Times reported Wednesday that the Pentagon is “expected to shut a controversial intelligence office that has drawn fire from ...