Before You Enlist Video - http://beforeyouenlist.org
Researching Pop Culture and Militarism - https://nnomy.org/popcultureandmilitarism/
If you have been Harassed by a Military Recruiter - https://www.afsc.org/resource/military-recruiter-abuse-hotline
War: Turning now to Mr. Ralph Waldo Emerson - Christian Science Monitor
WHAT IS IN THIS KIT? - https://nnomy.org/backtoschoolkit/
Click through to find out
Religion and militarism - https://nnomy.org/religionandmilitarism/
‘A Poison in the System’: Military Sexual Assault - New York Times
Change your Mind?
Talk to a Counselor at the GI Rights Hotline
Ask that your child's information is denied to Military Recruiters
And monitor that this request is honored.
Military Recruiters and Programs Target marginalized communities for recruits...
..and the high schools in those same communities

 Militarization of our Schools

The Pentagon is taking over our poorer public schools. This is the reality for disadvantaged youth.

 

What we can do

Corporate/conservative alliances threaten Democracy . Progressives have an important role to play.

 Why does NNOMY matter?

Most are blind or indifferent to the problem.
A few strive to protect our democracy.

NNOMY Steering Committee

https://nnomy.org/committee/

(As of November 12, 2023)  The NNOMY Steering Committee can be contacted in group at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

 

Staff | Office Email | Speakers Bureau


Pat AlvisoMilitary Families Speak Out (MFSO) - National Coordinator, Long Beach, California

Rachel Bruhnke - Codepink - San Pedro, California

Kate ConnellTruth in Recruitment - Santa Barbara, California - (On Hiatus)

Sonia Santiago HernándezMadres Contra La Guerra - Canóvanas, Puerto Rico

Rick Jahnkow - Project on Youth and Non-Military Opportunities (Project YANO) - San Diego, California

Siri MargerinBefore Enlisting - San Francisco, California

Michael Merryman-Lotze - American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) Office of Public Policy and Advocacy, Washington D.C.

Joanne Sheehan - War Resisters League/New England Regional Office - Norwich, Connecticut - (On Hiatus)

 

Emeritus Steering Committee Members
(The organizations attributed to these individuals refer to their associations during their time serving on the NNOMY steering committee.)

Stephanie  Atkinson - Courage to Resist - Seattle, Washington

Tori Bateman- American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) Office of Public Policy and Advocacy, Washington D.C.

Oskar Castro - AFSC/Quaker Volunteer Service - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Pat Elder - Student Privacy Org - Montgomery County, Maryland

Libby FrankNorthwest Suburban Peace & Education Project - Arlington Heights, Illinois

Darlene GramignaAmerican Friends Service Committee - Chicago, Illinois

Miranda GrouxThe Resistance Center - Northampton, Massachusetts

Barbara HarrisGranny Peace Brigade - New York City, New York

Arlene Inouye - Coalition Against Militarism in Our Schools (CAMS) - Los Angeles, California

Seth KershnerHistory Department / University of Massachusetts Amherst - Amherst , Connecticut

John Lindsay-Poland - American Friends Service Committee San Francisco Wage Peace Program , U.S. West Region - San Francisco, California

Sebastian Munoz-McDonald - Feminists Against the Draft - Dartmouth College - New Hampshire

Stephen McNeil - American Friends Service Committee Bay Area Peacebuilding Program, U.S. West Region - San Francisco, California

Jesus PalafoxAmerican Friends Service Committee (AFSC) Midwest Region - Chicago, Illinois

Bill ScheurerOn Earth Peace - New Windsor, Maryland

Louis Raprager - Veterans for Peace - Digital Counter-recruiter - National

Maria SantelliCenter on Conscience and War - Washington DC

Sam Smith - I Will Not Kill - Fellowship of Reconciliation - Chicago, Illinois

Chris Venn - San Pedro Neighbors for Peace and Justice - Los Angeles, California

Amy Wagner - Youth Activists - Youth Allies Network - New York City, New York

 

Staffing | menu

Rick Jahnkow - NNOMY Administrative staff volunteer - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Gary Ghirardi - NNOMY Communications staff volunteer - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Fabiola Cardozo - Peaceful Career Alternatives communications staff person - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Libby FrankTECMITS project coordinator -  This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

 

Emeritus Staff

Selene Rivas  - NNOMY Communications staff person

Diana Tagliafico - NNOMY research Intern

Tuktuki Bhattacharya - Peaceful Careers Intern

Anita Carraher - Winning the Peace intern

 

Office | menu

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Speakers Bureau | menu

 

Rick Jahnkow -
Past Program Coordinator for the
Project on Youth & Non-military Opportunities,
contributor to Draft NOtices, a publication of the Committee Opposed to Militarism & the Draft,
Currently a NNOMY steering committee member and an administrative staff volunteer & organizer. 
This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. +1.760.753.7518

Libby Frank -
Was a co-founder of Northwest Suburban Peace & Education Project; a counter recruitment
organization based in the northwest suburbs of Chicago. Since 2004 NWSUBPEP has been
tabling at all six high schools in District 214. She also was a volunteer for many years with the
Truth in Recruitment project of the Chicago chapter of the American Friends Service Committee. She is also volunteer staff of the National Network Opposing Militarization of Youth (NNOMY). 
This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. - +1.773.206.4945

Gary Ghirardi -
Has co-developed an international website called antimili-youth.net with the War Resisters' International in London in support of the Youth International Study Conference, in Darmstadt, Germany called Countering the Militarisation of Youth in 2014. He has supported online advocacy for the Project on Youth & Non-military Opportunities (Project YANO), and the Committee Opposed to Militarism & the Draft (COMD). He is a volunteer communications staff person for the National Network Opposing the Militarization of Youth (NNOMY), and a board member of the Peace Resource Center of San Diego at the Peace Campus where he maintains an office for NNOMY. This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. - +1.619.356.1424

David Morales -
Helped form the Education Not Arms Coalition as a high school junior.
As a graduate student he attended the Stanford University Teacher Education Program,
taught high school Spanish, now in a doctoral program in education at Stanford University.

This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
- +1.
619.453.6663

Jesus Palafox -
Social Change Advocate, Social Worker, past steering committee member of NNOMY and past
operations manager of the Midwest office of the American Friends Service Committee, ChicagoThis email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. - +1.773.962.1807

 


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