....is organizing against Permanent War

The first steering committee included these organizations:

• Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors;

• Committee for High School Options and Information on Careers, Education and Self-Improvement (CHOICES);

• Committee Opposed to Militarism and the Draft;

• Human Rights Committee, UTLA;

• Madison Area Peace Coalition;

• American Friends Service Committee

• Not in Our Name;

• Project YANO;

• Resource Center for Non Violence;

• Teen Peace.[2]

Other participating groups and organizations were Veterans for Peace, Fellowship of Reconciliation, Youth Activists/Youth Allies (NY City) and Coalition Against Military in Our Schools.[1] Alliance for Global Justice and War Resisters League sponsor actions of the network.

Campaigns

 A National Call: Save Our Civilian Public Education

This campaign was a national call endorsed by 50 national leaders, activists, and educators in the peace community to peace and justice organizations alerting them to conservative forces in the Pentagon and their extending corporate influence on the learning environments of the K-12 and public universities.

 Divest “Your Body” from the War Machine

This project, organized in collaboration with CODEPINK, had the goal to remove invested assets from companies, which supplied and profited from militarization. The campaign wanted to provide broader opportunities to young people who look for community service alternatives to the military.[6]

 School Marksmanship Training

In collaboration Project YANO and NNOMY created a Guide to Removing Marksmanship Training from High Schools. That guide pointed to accomplishments of national and regional groups to:

• end the placement of students in JROTC involuntarily;

• facilitating a significant reduction of Marine Corps JROTC enrollment;

• and the removal of shooting ranges from 11 schools in the San Diego City School District.[7]

 Winning The Peace

This was a national leafletting campaign, directed to acquaint youth with the reality of military enlistment and alternative opportunities to the military service.[8]

 Veterans For Peace and Counter-recruiting

This project is for raising public concern about Pentagon's militarization efforts on youth by providing personal experience of veterans and other activists.[9]