This website and video are made for high school students to discourage them from enlisting in the military. All of the production staff who created the 10-minute video are students, ranging from middle school to college. The Charlottesville Center for Peace and Justice and Veterans for Peace co-created the video with professional photographer and CCPJ Board member Richard Lord. Please feel free to share this with young people and their families.  It is hard to know what the coming years will hold in terms of war and peace; if we can save even one young person from being traumatized emotionally, physically, sexually or socially, then we are doing our job correctly.

http://www.asoldierslife.org/

A short trailer that chronicles the history of the book 'Addicted to War: Why the U.S. Can't Kick Militarism. Introduces the author, publisher and other key persons who've brought Addicted to War back from obscurity.

Visit Arlington West Santa Monica for more information. Addicted to War: Why the U.S. Can't kick Militarism. An illustrated expose by Joel Andreas. Also of interest Arlington West

Antes de Alistarte! es un conoce el contrapunto racional a las practicas de reclutamiento atractivas y enganosas que a menudo son usadas por reclutadores militares de EEUU. - 2016 revision

ARLINGTON WEST is a 74-minute Art Film presenting "temporary cemeteries"in the sand, erected every Sunday by the Veterans For Peace in Santa Barbara, Santa Monica, Oceanside, and Huntington Beach.  Flag draped coffins and over 5,500 wooden crosses, affectionately placed, invites the public to honor the unacknowledged fallen U.S. soldiers from Iraq & Afghanistan, for us to lament the cost of the war.

Watch the ARLINGTON WEST Trailer 3:16 minutes

Straight talk from soldiers, veterans and their family members tells what is missing from the sales pitches presented by recruiters and the military's marketing efforts. - 2016 revision

This is a promotional video for CAMS,the Coalition Against Militarism In Our School. It is an introduction to who we are and what we do.
Of course anyone can be a part of the Coalition. Just go to the www.militaryfreeschools.org to find out what you can do.

Ethan McCord speaks about Collateral Murder in Iraq. Former Army Specialist and hero of Wikileaks video "Colateral Murder" speaks in Los Angeles @ Revolution Books on June 9, 2011. This is the initial talk with projections.

Ten members of the Dutchess Peace Coalition decided to act locally to expose the lies students are told at recruiting centers.

Youth from Summer of Resistance hold funeral at the downtown Army Recruiting Station in Washingon, DC, complete with coffins and trumpet, for the 2,500+ U.S. soldiers who have died in Iraq.

Leaders from the Project on Youth and Non-Military Opportunities present career choices in peacemaking and social change to high school and college students gathered at UC San Diego. (#14214)

Interview with John Judge of the Committee on High School Options & Information on Careers, Education and Self-Improvement (C.H.O.I.C.E.S.) recorded January 22, 2000 in Seattle.

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The following videos challenge the justifications for the Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps (JROTC) programs to be located in US and US territory high schools. These programs number more than 4000 in high schools nationally representing Army, Navy, and Air Force, (Now Space Force). The U.S. Army's JROTC program currently operates in more than 1,700 public and private high schools, military institutions, and correctional centers throughout the United States and overseas.

The Knitting the Network: JROTC in Schools Palm Card document is to be used for counter-recruitment in high and middle schools and its QR codes and links direct students, teachers, and parents to the following Youtube videos:

1. Should JROTC be in schools?

2. Is JROTC a Character Education program?

3. Teaching Marksmanship in Schools?

This document offers four palm cards in black and white version in PDF format for printing and cutting into four sized palm cards | Cheap Printing

The videos utilize the imagery and practice of knitting as a non-invasive theme to discuss a controversial subject of military indoctrination programs in our schools that have the ultimate goal of generating military recruits once these cadets finish high school. The rate of those who complete four years of JROTC entering into the armed forces is about 40%.

These videos were produced in the NNOMY southern office in 2018.

The QR Code takes the viewer to the Youtube Channel Knitting the Network

The US military says it has met its recruitment goals for 2007. However, signing new soldiers is getting more difficult, with an unpopular war in Iraq and open-ended commitments both there and in Afghanistan.

New figures reveal there has been a 40 per cent drop in African-Americans signing up for the army. The Pentagon wants to expand the size of the army to 547,000 soldiers by the year 2010, and are counting on Hispanics to fill the gap. To do so, recruiters are turning to incentives to bolster their numbers. Mike Kirsch explores the sometimes questionable tactics being used to entice Latino recruits into the US army.

Cindy Sheehan (mother of a soldier slain in Iraq), Jim Massey (ex-Marine recruiter) and others reveal the true impact of No Child Left Behind's military recruitment in our high schools. With no end in sight to the increasingly lethal American occupation in Iraq, this is the single-most important film for concerned parents and citizens to see. Watch the 11-minute film and then take action to "opt our kids out" at LeaveMyChildAlone.org. Created by Mainstreet Moms and Working Assets. Producer: Mainstreet Moms and Working. Assets; Public Domain Film.

Martin Luther King, Jr. - What he would say today about bailing out Wall Street or attacking Iran is clear when you hear what he said before he was assassinated. - (22 minutes)

Militainment, Inc. offers a fascinating, disturbing, and timely glimpse into the militarization of American popular culture, examining how U.S. news coverage has come to resemble Hollywood film, video games, and “reality television” in its glamorization of war. Mobilizing an astonishing range of media examples – from news anchors’ idolatry of military machinery to the impact of government propaganda on war reporting – the film asks: How has war taken its place in the culture as an entertainment spectacle?And how does presenting war as entertainment affect the ability of citizens to evaluate the necessity and real human costs of military action? The film is broken down into nine sections, each between 10 and 20 minutes in length, allo wing for in-depth classroom analysis of individual elements of this wide-ranging phenomenon.

Watch the entire Militainment documentary on Youtube Here

Path to Reality: THE IOWA PEACE TASK FORCE teams up with American Friends Service Committee to protect students from strong arm recruitment tactics.

Peace & Militarism in Our High Schools.
Two Iowa parents tell there story.

A focus on military recruitment efforts in the local high school. The conversation builds to a broad discussion about the necessity of war. Filmed in Juneau, Alaska and created for the 2007 International Documentary Challenge.

In the Past few years, the U.S. military has mounted a virtual invasion into the lifes of young Americans.

By using data mining, stealth websites, the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB) as a career test and sophisticated marketing software, the Pentagon is harvesting and analysing information on everything from high school students's GPA's and SAT scores to which video games they play.

Photographs by Mathieu Grandjean

O'Reilly & Military Recruiters in Schools... Spokesperson from Iraqi Veterans Against the War explains counter-recruitment position over action in Seattle?

Recruiters chased out of Seattle Central Community College.

"You're a salesman, you have a quota," explains former Marine recruiter, Chris Dugan.

Recruiting for peace at http://www.michaelmoore.com/

“Sir! No Sir!” “A 'must-see' documentary which seeks to return to the historical record the pivotal story of the GI anti-war movement during the Vietnam War." Les Wright, http://www.sirnosir.com/

Revised 10/13/2017

USMC Staff Sgt. Franky Rodriguez, of Perth Amboy, is in charge of the Marine recruiting office in East Brunswick. In 2008 he was named the Marine's top recruiter in the nation. We caught up with him recently too see what his day was like. (Video by John Munson, Story by Matt Mabe)

Yo Soy El Army: U.S. Military Targets Latinos With Extensive Recruitment Campaign

In addition to the racial profiling encouraged by Arizonas controversial anti-immigrant law, the Hispanic community in this country is the target of a different kind of profiling as well: the militarys targeting of Latino recruits. We get a report from independent media activist and community organizer Marco Amador of Producciones Cimarron and the Center for Community Communications and the Big Noise media collective.

Yo Soy El Army: U.S. Military Targets Latinos With Extensive Recruitment Campaign

In addition to the racial profiling encouraged by Arizonas controversial anti-immigrant law, the Hispanic community in this country is the target of a different kind of profiling as well: the militarys targeting of Latino recruits. We get a report from independent media activist and community organizer Marco Amador of Producciones Cimarron and the Center for Community Communications and the Big Noise media collective.