Counterrecruiter.net / Austin, Texas
Chronicling the Movement Against Military Recruitment
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Quick Hiatus
Counterrecruiter.net has been, and will continue to be, on a quick hiatus (not more than a month) until I complete some other projects here in Austin. When it returns, Counterrecruiter.net will be a community-oriented site with more user-generated and original content from counter-recruiters nationwide. If you want to keep up with counter-recruitment news while we’re … … Continue reading -
Video: Army recruiters’ effective new tactic
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Army of None: Top Ten Military Recruiter Lies
From Alternet.org: Editor’s Note: The following is excerpted from Army of None: Strategies to Counter Military Recruitment, End War and Build a Better World published by Seven Stories Press, August 2007. Reprinted here by permission of publisher. Copyright © 2007 Aimee Allison and David Solnit Top military recruitment facts 1. Recruiters lie. According the New … … Continue reading -
Veterans for Peace releases pamphlet on military recruitment
From the Eureaka Observer: Veterans For Peace Humboldt Bay Chapter 56 recently announced the publication of Advice from Veterans on Military Service and Recruiting Practices: A Resource Guide for Young People Considering Enlistment. After more than a year of development, the chapter’s Veterans Educational Outreach Program Committee published the first edition of the 32-page tabloid, … … Continue reading -
Yale Law School forced to accept military recruiters
From the Daily Texan: NEW HAVEN, Conn. – Yale Law School will end its policy of not working with military recruiters after a court ruling this week jeopardized about $300 million in federal funding, officials said Wednesday. Yale and other universities have objected to the Pentagon’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy, which allows gay men … … Continue reading -
Manatee, FL: School Board refuses to distribute NCLB opt-out forms
A letter in the Herald Tribune: Most Manatee County School Board members, under the advocacy of Superintendent Roger Dearing, are unwilling to distribute “Opt Out From the Military Recruiters” forms to students when high schools open on Monday. Coalition of Concerned Patriots members have appeared monthly for three years at meetings, pointing out the need … … Continue reading -
With recruitment down, Army fast-tracks robot development
From TIME Magazine: With military recruitment a constant struggle, the U.S. Army is coming up with a new way to come up with bodies: it is going to build them. This week, the Army begins a “drive-off” to see what contractor is going to provide up to 1,000 bomb-clearing robots by year’s end, with a … … Continue reading -
Misled by recruiter, tour extended: Juan Alcántara’s death
From the Indypendent: Emotions ran high Aug. 17 at Cpl. Juan Alcántara’s military funeral. The circumstances of his death were hard to accept. Alcántara’s deployment in Iraq was due to end June 28, the day before his daughter Jaylani was born. But after President Bush announced the “surge” in January, his unit’s term in Iraq … … Continue reading -
Nonprofit shouldn’t send kids to work at military recruiting station
An editorial rom El Diario: The city should channel teenagers into jobs but not at U.S. Army recruiting stations. Yet that’s what happened this summer. Fourteen youths were assigned to work at an Army recruiting station through a Queens nonprofit organization participating in the Summer Youth Employment Program (SYEP). The city’s Department of Youth and … … Continue reading -
Student with POG responds to attack on counter-recruiting fast
Past coverage of the POG anti-war fast. From the Pitt News, a student paper: Since around 4 p.m. on Sept. 4, I haven’t eaten anything in protest of the occupation of Iraq and military recruitment in Pittsburgh. Here on day nine, I’m not feeling super up to writing anything. But Richard Brown’s column “Forbes Ave. … … Continue reading
