Counter‑Recruitment in a Post–Project 2025 School Environment:
Counter‑recruitment has always been a practice rooted in community care: volunteers tabling in high schools, veterans speaking honestly about the realities of military life, organizers challenging ASVAB testing, and advocates offering young people meaningful alternatives to enlistment. The NNOMY network’s long‑standing work reflects this tradition. In Bellingham, for example, the Whatcom Peace & Justice Center has spent decades providing students with non‑military options through equal‑access tabling agreements that allow volunteers to meet youth face‑to‑face in their schools .
