Every US military recruit is trained to fight and to kill and obligated to eight years of enlistment.
Ongoing conflicts today prove that deployment can happen at any time. You owe it to yourself to consider the many alternatives that do not restrict your life options. - Learn more
Enlisting in the military has been sold for generations as a way to grow up, get a start in life, maybe learn a skill and be part of a noble cause.
If you have kids today, recruiters will tell that familiar story. But today, less and less of it is true. - Learn more
Based on years of experience in public schools, facilitating student organizations dealing with peace (i.e. peace clubs) in your area can have a transformative impact on student autonomy and school culture around pervasive militarism. Learn more
The National Network Opposing the Militarization of Youth (NNOMY) is a network of organizations that organizes against the militarization of schools and young people in the United States.
NNOMY brings local, regional, and national peace and human rights groups together to connect youth to pathways towards meaningful lives, as alternatives to military enlistment.
"The U.S. military is deeply embedded in public schools, shaping children’s futures long before they’re old enough to understand the consequences — and parents were never meaningfully asked."
NNOMY was founded in the aftermath of the 2004 national counter-recruitment conference "Stopping War Where it Begins" in Philadelphia.[1] It is intended to be a decentralized and flexible structure that helps national, regional and local activists and organizations by promoting communication efforts and by stimulating collaboration between network members. NNOMY organizes actions and campaigns against militarism in order to raise awareness and to increase education on the topic.
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January 2026 / Lauren Morales / Committee Opposed to Militarism & the Draft (COMD) - For decades the United States has been a hypermilitarized country. The public is force fed the notion that we must respect the armed forces who are forever fighting to keep U.S. Americans safe at home and abroad.
A strategy document shared among immigration officials details plans to use influencers and geo-targeted ads to supercharge their push to hire thousands of deportation officers nationwide.
Books about counter military recruitment activism are a
rich landscape to draw from. Based on a search about counter military recruitment and the broader field of anti-militarist organizing, here’s a curated, well-organized list of books directly about counter-recruitment activism, plus a few adjacent works that have become staples in the movement.
Sin embargo, también entendemos que NO hay prohibiciones por parte de la escuela y su junta directiva para implementar medidas contra el reclutamiento militar.
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However, we also understand that there are NO prohibitions of the school and its board from implementing counter measures to military recruitment.
A medida que Estados Unidos se convierte en una amenaza cada vez más militarizada para el orden internacional, los grupos por la paz están recurriendo a los estudiantes para contra-reclutamiento y resistir la guerra como forma de avanzar.
As the US becomes more a militarized threat to international order, peace groups are reaching out to students with counter-recruitment to resist war as their way forward.
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