Before You Enlist Video - http://beforeyouenlist.org
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Berkshire Citizens for Peace and Justice

Donald Lathrop
 
Organization: Berkshire Citizens for Peace and Justice |
City: Pittsfield
State: Massachusetts
Zipcode: 01201
Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Facebook: Berkshire Citizens for Peace and Justice Facebook Group
 
Scope of organization:
  • Regional
  • Local
This organization is a:
  • Offers Truth in Recruitment Information
Organization base:
  • Nonstudent community based
Issues you are working on:
  • Alternatives to the military
  • Conscientious objection
  • General counter-recruitment/Truth in Recruitment youth education
  • NCLB recruiting list opt-out
Years in Operation: 2 to 5 years
 
Summary describing your organization:  A group of individuals located in the Berkshires of Massachusetts that operates according to the principles of nonviolence and right relationships that have been articulated by different road maps for peace-building, including the Kingian Philosophy, the five spheres of peace, and the Earth Charter. We believe in applying methods of nonviolent action as we strive to help build a more just, peaceful and sustainable world. Regarding counter recruitment, they have done the following: arranging and hosting workshops on the Selective Service System and conscientious objection; working [successfully] to have the Pittsfield Public School System change its way of handling the No Child Left Behind Act’s opt-out provision; visiting local high schools in order to provide interested students with important career information, including information about military service that the recruiters don’t mention. Although not actively involved in counter recruitment at this minute, have accumulated a lot of materials and knowledge.
 
Contact Person: Donald Lathrop
 
Located in: northeast-region
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Fort Collins Community Action Network

Shirley Coenen
 
Organization: Fort Collins Community Action Network |
Address: P.O. Box 400
City: Fort Collins
State: Colorado
Zipcode: 80521
Phone: 9704198944
Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Organizational Website: FCCAN website
Organizational Blog: FCCAN Blog
Facebook: FCCAN on Facebook
Instagram: FCCAN on Instagram
Twitter: FCCAN on Twitter
YouTube: FCCAN on YouTube
 
Scope of organization:
  • Local
This organization is a:
  • Counter-recruitment project of a larger, multi-issue organization
Organization base:
  • Nonstudent community based
Outreach to specific communities:
  • LatinX
Other Outreach: Homeless and disabled
 
Issues you are working on:
  • Cultural & art activism
Years in Operation: 6-10 years
 
Summary describing your organization: FCCAN's mission is to create a community based on furthering economic, social, and environmental justice, sustainability, human rights, and peace for all.
 
Contact Person: Shirley Coenen
 
 
Located in: west-region
 
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Veterans For Peace Spokane Washington - Chapter 035

Lewis (Rusty) Nelson
 
Organization: Veterans For Peace Spokane Washington - Chapter 035 |
Address: C/O NICHE #310 25 W. MAIN AVE
City: Spokane
State: Washington
Zipcode: 99201
Phone: 509-209-2385
Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Organizational Website: www.spokaneveteransforpeace.org/truth-in-recruitment/
Community Discussion List: SpokaneVeteransforPeace
Facebook: @veteransforpeace35
 
Scope of organization:
  • Regional
This organization is a:
  • Offers Truth in Recruitment Information
  • Does School Demilitarization Activism
  • Offers Military Counseling
Organization base:
  • Veteran or military family based
Outreach to specific communities:
  • Veteran and Active Military
Issues you are working on:
  • General counter-recruitment/Truth in Recruitment youth education
Years in Operation: More than 20 years
 
Summary describing your organization: Veterans for Peace is the only veterans organization devoted to promoting peace. Our chapter 35, based in Spokane, WA includes vets from WWII, Korea, Vietnam, etc., including our senior veteran from the first wave of Marines on Iwo Jima. We work toward the following objectives: Truth in Recruitment: Explaining the real nature of military service to high school students considering enlistment. -Exposing the true cost of war and militarism. -Exposing the toxic polluting generated by the military in general and Fairchild AFB in particular. -Addressing PTSD and veteran suicide. -Aiding veterans to navigate the bureaucracy required to collect benefits due. -Addressing the cost of military aid to foreign, generally repressive governments. -Co-sponsoring speakers and events that contribute to peace and justice.
 
Contact Person: Lewis (Rusty) Nelson
 
Located in: west-region
 

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Veterans For Peace Central Michigan - Chapter 93

Bob Krzewinski
 
Organization: Veterans For Peace Central Michigan - Chapter 93 |
Address: South Central Michigan
City: Ypsilanti
State: Michigan
Zipcode: 48198
Phone: 734-487-9058
Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Organizational Website: www.VFP93.org
Facebook: @VFP93
 
Scope of organization:
  • Regional
This organization is a:
  • Offers Truth in Recruitment Information
Organization base:
  • Veteran or military family based
Outreach to specific communities:
  • African American
  • Latino/a
  • Veteran and Active Military
Issues you are working on:
  • General counter-recruitment/Truth in Recruitment youth education
Years in Operation: More than 20 years
 
Summary describing your organization: Veterans For Peace Chapter 93, located in south central Michigan, is named in honor of two legendary peace activists, Utah Phillips and J. David Singer. Utah Phillips was not only a veteran, but a longtime peace activist, labor supporter and musical troubadour who appeared numerous times at The Ark in Ann Arbor. Veterans For Peace Chapter 93 is also named in honor of J. David Singer, a legendary local scholar who dedicated a large part of his life in confronting the "why" behind war.
 
Contact Person: Bob Krzewinski
 
Located in: midwest-region
 
 
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Tulsa Peace Fellowship

Joni LeViness
 
Organization: Tulsa Peace Fellowship |
City: Tulsa
State: Oklahoma
Zipcode: 74106
Phone: 918-906-0828
Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Organizational Website: Tulsa Peace Fellowship
Facebook: Tulsa Peace Fellowship
 
Scope of organization:
  • Regional
  • Local
This organization is a:
  • Organization with Counter-recruitment as a major component
Organization base:
  • Student and nonstudent community based
Outreach to specific communities:
  • LatinX
Issues you are working on:
  • Alternatives to the military
  • ASVAB testing in schools
  • Conscientious objection
  • Equal school access for counter-recruitment
  • General counter-recruitment/Truth in Recruitment youth education
  • High school JROTC
  • Limiting recruiter access to schools
  • NCLB recruiting list opt-out
  • Pentagon Database (JAMRS)
  • Providing counter-recruitment organizer training
  • School board policies and accountability monitoring
Summary describing your organization:  Are currently promoting counter recruitment via our fan page and discussion group on Facebook, and to some extent on our webpage on Ning. But counter recruitment is no longer a major focus for the current membership of the steering committee and we haven't found anyone fired up about it like the members were back in the Bush years. However, we are likely still the best organization in Eastern Oklahoma for the purpose, to try and coordinate another counter recruitment campaign in the future.
 
 
Contact Person: Joni LeViness
 
Located in: midwest-region
 
 
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Ya Ya Network (Youth Activists - Youth Allies)

Amy Wagner
 
Organozation: Address: Ya Ya Network (Youth Activists - Youth Allies) |
135 West 36th Street, PH, New York
City: New York City
State: New York
Zipcode: 10018
Phone: (212) 239-0022
Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Organizational Website: Ya Ya Network
Facebook: Ya Ya Network
Instagram: #studentsrightsnyc
TikTok: #studentsrightsnyc
Twitter: #studentsrightsnyc
 
Scope of organization:
  • Local
This organization is a:
  • Organization with Counter-recruitment as a component
Organization base:
  • Student and non-student community based
Outreach to specific communities:
  • African American
  • Asian
  • BIPOC
  • Immigrant
  • Latinx
  • LGBTQ+
Issues you are working on:
  • Alternatives to the military
  • Equal school access for counter-recruitment
  • General counter-recruitment/Truth in Recruitment youth education
  • Limiting recruiter access to schools
  • NCLB recruiting list opt-out
Years in Operation: More than 20 years
 
Summary describing your organization: The mission of the YA-YA Network (Youth Activists-Youth Allies) is to provide training and leadership experience to prepare young people to become the next generation of activists in the movement for social and economic justice. YA-YA is a youth-driven, citywide, anti-racist, anti-sexist organization and allies with the BIPOC/LGBTQ+ community. We are staffed by young activists ages 15-25. We provide core trainings in anti-oppression, organizing skills and political education then engage as leaders and active members in campaigns that directly impact youth, their families and the communities they live in. The YA-YA Network is a youth-led organization that trains young leaders who are passionate about making change in community organizing around social justice through peer anti-oppression political education such as workshops about the school-to-prison-pipeline. Through an impactful balance of political education and campaign work, young people foster organizing skills.
 
Contact Person: Amy Wagner
 
Located in: northeast-region

 

 

 

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