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NNOMYnews Third Quarter 2025

What DEI Bans in the Military Mean for Our Communities

July-September 2025 / Oren Robinson / Draft NOtices - In line with Trump administration policies, the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) has taken steps to remove all programs that emphasize diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) in military recruitment. DEI bans have also affected the choices of names assigned to military bases and ships and led to books being banned from military academy libraries. When these policies enter the discussion in U.S. corporate news media, they are often framed as “trans bans” or “attacks on DEI,” which may prompt a knee-jerk response among progressive groups and individuals to oppose these measures. But as communities resisting militarism, how should we think about Trump's restrictions on enlistment and the military's wholesale abandonment of DEI programs?

 

High School Students Shouldn’t Be Wearing Military Uniforms

March 08, 2023 / William Astore / LA Progressive - I entered the Air Force through ROTC and served for 20 years, retiring as a lieutenant colonel. I also taught for 15 years at both military and civilian colleges. As a retired military officer and as an educator, perhaps I have some standing on the issue of Junior ROTC in our nation’s high schools. So, to put it bluntly:
High school students, in my opinion, are too young to decide to wear a military uniform. In short, I believe JROTC is inappropriate.Many veterans involved in JROTC in our nation’s schools lack experience and qualifications in education.The U.S. military is already glorified in our culture and society. Its dominance of American institutions is undeniable. That dominance should not extend into America’s high schools.

 

Public Education Under Threat: 4 Trump Administration Actions To Watch in the 2025-26 School Year

Aug 27, 2025 / Center for American Progress - As students, families, and educators prepare for the new school year, they face a great deal of uncertainty about the role the federal government will play in public education. Since assuming office in January 2025, the second Trump administration has taken steps to diminish the federal government’s role in public education while illegally withholding funds, allowing ICE raids in K-12 public schools, and threatening districts in an attempt to control local instruction. These actions have created chaos and confusion, harming the quality of education that students across the United States receive.

 

This Program Rescued Army Recruiting

The National Network Opposing the Militarization of Youth (NNOMY) views the expansion of the U.S. Army’s Future Soldier Preparatory Course—highlighted in The New York Times’ October 4 article —as a troubling escalation in the federal government’s efforts to normalize military enlistment as a default pathway for economically marginalized youth. While the article centers on personal stories of hardship and resilience, it also reveals a systemic pattern: young people are being funneled into military service not through informed choice, but through desperation. The program’s success—credited to a “Trump bump” and framed as patriotic resurgence—masks the deeper reality of structural inequities, predatory recruitment, and the erosion of civilian alternatives.

 

House Rules Committee blocks vote on ending Selective Service

September 9, 2025 / Edward Hasbrouck / Edward Hasbrouck's blog - Early this morning, after overnight behind-the-scenes discussions, the Rules Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives voted to propose a rule for House floor consideration of this year’s National Defense [sic] Authorization Act (NDAA) that leaves the proposal for attempted automatic registration of young men for a possible military draft in the version of the NDAA to be debated and voted on by the full House, and prevents any debate or vote on the “automatic” registration proposal or the alternate proposal to end draft registration.

 

For the UN International Day of Peace 2025: NNOMY Contributes Resources to Demilitarize Our Schools

The  U.S. funding of Israel’s war in Gaza and last year's sending of 100 U.S. troops to Israel to staff anti-missile sites has given students across the country a reason to question the presence of military programs in their high schools. Many do not want to participate in a service that they believe is tied to a government complicit in “ethnic cleansing” and that has caused the deaths of many innocents, including non-combative women and children. The National Network Opposing the Militarization of Youth (NNOMY) is providing a packet of resources to inform those who wish to act against military programs that serve the purpose of military recruitment in schools.The packet includes forms to protect your privacy by requesting to withhold your personal information from the US government and forms to require your consent to participate in militarized programs inside public schools.
The packet includes information on strategies to push-back against the following:

 

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