School Policies

The military recruiters’ training manual says “school ownership is the goal.” Not if we can help it! Counter recruiters from Los Angeles to New York and Florida to Seattle have changed school board policies to protect students from military recruiters. Come hear how we did it. What worked and what didn’t. Learn what pitfalls to watch out for and share creative solutions to bureaucratic problems.

Presenters: Judy Alves, Nancy Howell, Amy Wagner

The Adopt a Schools Model of CAMS fosters the relationships, and grassroots empowerment that sustains counter recruitment and student activism in high schools. Learn from one of the most successful Adopt a Schools Project, the SOCIAL JUSTICE ACADEMY at Garfield HS, an inner city school in East Los Angeles. Find out how this academy was established and how counter recruitment is infused into the school program while holding LAUSD accountable to district policies.

Rick Jahnkow -

Teri Shofner - Communities for Alternatives to Starbase Education (CASE)

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ORGANIZING A STATEWIDE CAMPAIGN TO REQUIRE OPTION 8

A tutorial

This step-by-step guide is meant to aid activists in their legislative campaigns to prohibit the automatic release of test results to military recruiters gathered through the administration of the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB) in the public high schools.

A brief tutorial

Activists in Humboldt County, California, in 2007, had experimented with a different approach to regulating military recruitment: a city ordinance introduced via citizen initiative.