Articles & Books

News Reports

• • 15 Organizations Supporting Conscientious Objectors - Everyday Peace Building- 2024

  • Our Children Are Experiencing Militarization of the US Up Close and Personally - Truthout - 2023

  • How Counter-Recruiters Take on the U.S. Military - Yes! Solutions Journalism - 2022

  • Military Recruiters Have No Place in Our Schools - Current Affairs - 2022

  • Marginalized students pay the price of military recruitment efforts - Prism - 2022

  • The US Military Is Using Online Gaming to Recruit Teens - The Nation - 2020

  • Military recruiters go back to school - Express-News Columns - 2017

  • Bringing Truth to the Youth: The Counter-Recruitment Movement, Then and Now - Truthout - 2016

  • A National Call: Save Civilian Public Education - ZNetwork- 2014

  • Army Recruiter Suspended for Threatening High School Student with Jail Time, Sparks Bipartisan Call for Investigation - Democracy Now - 2008

  • Peace activists charged with trespassing at high school for leafleting - Homer News, Alaska - 2006

  • Campus Resistance: Students Stage Counter-Recruitment Protests Across the Country -  Democracy Now- 2005

  • Students rebuffing military recruiters: More high schoolers in state opt out of lists - Boston Globe - 2005

  • Army Recruiters Step Up Tactics to Meet Quotas - PBS - 2005

  • Organizing to Demilitarize Schools in the Greater Los Angeles Area - Draft NOtices - 2004

  • National Actions Against War with Iraq - Grassroots Peace - 2002

  • Kansas Students Say NO to Forced Military Testing - Y&M Magazine, AFSC - 2001

Academic Articles

• Preparing for War:  Cultural and Educational Foundations of US Militarism, Scott Harding & Seth Kershner, Journal of Human Rights and Social Work, Volume 9, pages 397–409 (2024) 

• The militarization and the privatization of public schools, T Quinn, B Galaviz, J Palafox, E Meiners, 2020 PDF UIC.EDU

• Countering Military Recruitment in High Schools, Amy Hagopian & Kathy Barker, Cambridge University Press:  from Part III - Preventing War and Promoting Peace, Pages 230 - 244, 28 , December 2017  

• Challenging the Characterizations of Military Service: A Critical Comparison of British and American Counter-Recruitment Efforts, Cami Rowe, Performance in a Militarized Culture, Routledge, Chapter 14, Pages 18, 2017

• Counter-recruitment and anti-military organizing: lessons from the field, Rhys Crilley, Critical Media Studies, Routledge, Pages 267-270, Published online: 20 Jun 2016

• Using Legislation to Confront School Militarism, Scott Harding & Seth Kershner,Counter-Recruitment and the Campaign to Demilitarize Public Schools, Chapter 3, pp 61–80, Palgrave Macmillan, 2015

• Framing Symbols and Space: Counterrecruitment and Resistance to the U.S. Military in Public Education, Matthew C. Friesen, Sociological Forum, 05 March 2014 

• Moving Beyond Slogans: Possibilities for a More Connected and Humanizing “Counter-recruitment” Pedagogy in Highly Militarized Urban Schools, Suzie M. Abajian, UCLA, Maricela Guzman, California State University-Los Angeles, 2013-12-06

• Just Say No: Organizing against Militarism in Public Schools, Heinonline,  38 J. Soc. & Soc. Welfare 79, 2011

• Militarism and Education Normal, Meiners, Erica R; Quinn, Therese, Monthly Review; New York Vol. 63, Iss. 3, pp 77-86, Jul/Aug 2011 

• War on terror, The Militarising of Public Space and Culture in the United States, Henry A Giroux,  pages 211-221, published online: 24 May 2006

• Education as Enforcement: Militarization and Corporatization of Schools, Kenneth J. Saltman, Race, Poverty & the Environment, Vol. 14, No. 2, Educating for Equity (Fall 2007), pp. 28-30 (3 pages), Published By: Reimagine! 

• Militarizing Youth in Public Education: Observations from A Military-Style Charter School, Adalberto Aguirre Jr. and Brooke Johnson, Social Justice, Vol. 32, No. 3 (101), Waging War over Public Education and Youth Services (2005),  pp. 148-162 (15 pages), Published By: Social Justice/Global Options 

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