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  • Veterans for Peace releases pamphlet on military recruitment

    September 20, 2007 / VFP Chapter 56 / Counterrecruitment.net - Veterans For Peace Humboldt Bay Chapter 56 recently announced the publication of Advice from Veterans on Military Service and Recruiting Practices: A Resource Guide for Young People...

  • Veterans for Peace Call for an End to NATO

    Veterans for Peace works for the abolition of war, and while that process will take many steps, one that should be taken immediately is the dissolution of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. NATO has always been a war-making institution lacking in...

  • Los Angeles High School Peace Clubs Gather for Armistice Day Commemoration

    What is Armistice Day? After World War I ended, nations mourned their dead and called for an end to all wars. Armistice, (a peace treaty), was signed, and bells tolled to celebrate the end of war. Thus, Nov. 11 th became Armistice Day, “a day to be...

  • An Interview with Clint Coppernoll - Counter-Recruitement: Preventing the Military from Getting More Youth for Their Wars

    espanol - June 25-27, 2005 / Keven Zeese / Free Press - The Army and National Guard have been failing to meet their recruiting goals for the last four months. Summer is typically the time they have their greatest success in recruiting and they are...

  • Christian Activists and Veterans Start 40-Day Fast for Gaza

    español - May 23, 2025 / Fiona André / Word&Way - NEW YORK (RNS) — On Thursday (May 22), dozens of religious activists and war veterans gathered outside the United Nations headquarters in Manhattan to launch a 40-day fast protesting the humanitarian...

  • Groups Associated to NNOMY Issue Calls for a Ceasefire in Gaza

    Though the National Network Opposing the Militarization of Youth cannot speak for the network in its entirety, some of the organizations that are listed in our National Directory of Youth Demilitarization Groups have called for a ceasefire in the...

  • Education Action: Reining in Military Recruiting

    Seth Kershner - In 2012, Kate Connell—a photographer with two children in the Santa Barbara public schools—learned that her son’s freshman seminar had a Marine recruiter as a guest speaker. Her son had challenged the recruiter, saying he didn’t like...

  • Teaching Against Cultural Militarization

    https://nnomy.org/teachpeace Introduction In the United States of America, we are a people at war with the world and ourselves June 2022 / Gary David Ghirardi & Various Sources / NNOMY - It is the summer of 2022 and the country is reeling with the...

  • Pacifist Organizations that Promoted Counter-recruitment

    10/08/2024 / NNOMY.ORG - Internationally, pacifist groups have fostered activism through education or direct action against war and advocated for peace. Some of these groups have participated actively or tangentially in counter-recruitment activism...

  • NNOMY at the 2017 VFP Education Not Militarization Convention in Chicago

    The National Network Opposing the Militarization of Youth will be participating in the 2017 Veterans For Peace National Convention in Chicago August 11th, 2017. Located at the beautiful and historic Palmer House Hotel, veterans and allies will gather...

  • NNOMY Conducts National Steering Committtee retreat online to explore strategies for network's future

    12/28/2021 / NNOMY Steering Committee - On December 11th 2021 The Steering Committee of the National Network Opposing the Militarization conducted an online national retreat on Zoom to discuss the existential challenges that the network is encountering...

  • JROTC Wants to Invade Hundreds More Schools

    Sam Diener - JROTC, a high school program to militarize youth in high schools, has already invaded almost 3400 schools. Peacework has learned that Congress passed a little-noticed measure in the 2009 National Defense Authorization bill to expand the...

  • The Military Views Poor Kids as Fodder for Its Forever Wars

    As the United States staggers toward war, it will try to draw troops from the same poor, rural neighborhoods it always has. español - January 7, 2020 / Nick Martin / The New Republic - In my high school in rural North Carolina, a plastic table was set...

  • Military Money for College: A Reality Check

    57% of Military Personnel Who Signed Up Have Received Nothing - Average Net Payout to Veterans: Less than $2200 español - June-July 2005 / Sam Diener and intern Jamie Munro / Peacework / AFSC - The advertisements blare: Join the military and receive...

  • A Call To All Activists to Shut Down the "Army Experience Center"

    Pat Elder - The children of Sparta were drilled in battle using knives and swords. At the Army Experience Center in Philadelphia the same kind of training for warfare is taking place, except children use simulated M-16 automatic rifles and M-240B light...

  • A Disturbing Meeting at the Gym

    January 10, 2011 / Dave Lindorff / This Can't Be Happening - At the local YMCA today, I ran into a boy who was a childhood friend of my son’s. As my kid goes to a public arts high school in Philadelphia outside of our local school district, I don’t see...

  • Poverty, Militarism and the Public Schools

    español - 06/23/2016 / Robert C. Koehler / CommonDreams - What’s the difference between education and obedience? If you see very little, you probably have no problem with the militarization of the American school system — or rather, the militarization...

  • 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 lawmakers and civil liberties groups who charge that it was...

  • This Ex–Army Ranger Goes on Missions to High Schools—but Not to Recruit

    Rory Fanning - For a decade, Afghanistan vet Rory Fanning has been battling the desire to inflict pain on himself. Instead, he visits schools. Early each New Year’s Day I head for Lake Michigan with a handful of friends. We look for a quiet stretch of...

  • 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 already underserved and underemployed communities, the...

  • The Defector

    How Rory Fanning went from Army Ranger to war resister (and counter-recruiter). August 19, 2019 / Alex N. Press / Jacobin - In a high school classroom on the South Side of Chicago, Rory Fanning is telling students about the time he and his fellow Army...

  • Peace Week for Fleet Week Los Angeles 2022

    March 31 2022 / Gary Ghirardi / NNOMY - I received an invitation from Rachel Brunke, a newly joined steering committee member of NNOMY and an organizer for Codepink San Pedro, to come up from our office in San Diego and participate in their Peace Week...

  • America’s Child Soldiers JROTC and the Militarizing of America

    08/09/2021 / Ann Jones / Tom Dispatch - Congress surely meant to do the right thing when, in the fall of 2008, it passed the Child Soldiers Prevention Act (CSPA). The law was designed to protect kids worldwide from being forced to fight the wars of Big...

  • 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 proclaimed her to be a member of the Chamber of Commerce...

  • Dismantling the School-to-Soldier Pipeline

    AN INTERVIEW WITH Nancy Cruz, Barbara Harris, Rick Jahnkow, and Seth Kershner | Originally Published in Jacobin Magazine on October 18, 2019 SK The National Defense Act of 1916 created the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (rotc), which operates at the...

  • The Military’s View of Counter-recruitment

    Seth Kershner - Over the past few years, my colleague Scott Harding and I have been chronicling the counter-recruitment movement from the perspective of activists. In this article, I’ll take a different approach and focus on counter-recruitment as...

  •  These Grannies Are Helping to Plug the School-to-Military Pipeline at Its Source

    Joyce Chu - When teachers are underpaid and schools are underserved, why do we pay veterans to encourage young students to join the military? On a Wednesday afternoon last month, a group of gray-haired women with canes and Styrofoam guns lined the...

  • Bringing Truth to the Youth: The Counter-Recruitment Movement, Then and Now

    Emily Yates | Originally published in Truthout - July 16, 2016 "Back when we started, recruiters were just blatantly lying to the kids," said Susan Quinlan, the co-founder and volunteer coordinator of the peace and justice group, Better Alternatives...

  • Why Is My Kindergartner Being Groomed for the Military at School?

    Sarah Grey, Truthout | Report When he got home from Iraq, Hart Viges began sorting through his boyhood toys, looking for some he could pass on to his new baby nephew. He found a stash of G.I. Joes - his old favorites - and the memories came flooding...


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