Tag: militarization of youth
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Do Military Recruiters Belong in Schools?
By Seth Kershner & Scott Harding - The United States stands alone among Western nations in allowing military recruiters to work inside its educational system. Section 9528 of the 2001 No Child Left Behind Act requires that public high schools give the military as much access to campuses and student contact information as is given to any other recruiter. However, University of Kansas anthropologis ...
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Public Health Experts Identify Militarism As Threat
David Swanson - A remarkable article appears in the June 2014 issue of the American Journal of Public Health. The authors, experts in public health, are listed with all their academic credentials: Wi ...
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Changing Recruitment Policies in Schools: One Phone Call and Email at a Time
Kate Connell - In the spring of 2014, I went to observe a career day at Santa Barbara High School, where my son is enrolled. There were a variety of organizations with representatives and literature ...
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Drones Are a Military Recruiting Issue
Seth Kershner - Over the past several years, activists have fought against the use of unmanned aircraft (commonly called “drones”) to carry out targeted killings in the war on terror. Anti-drone acti ...
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School violence: a result of bad parenting or militarism?
High profile school shootings in the US have been the inspiration for much popular discussion about the causes of youth violence in recent years, with everyone—from bad parents and corrupt teachers, ...
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In Chicago schools' Junior ROTC programs, some see a troubling trend
Matthew Kovac - Beate Medina was returning home from walking her dogs one evening in May 2004 when she saw two Army officers standing at her door. The sight did not immediately register. Uniformed of ...
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Direct Action against Militarism
Owen Everett - Based on a piece by Cecil Arndt In different countries, war and militarisation take on very different meanings and have different effects, depending not only on the presence or absence ...
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The Militarization of Catholic Jesuit University Education
Robert Graf - Not Your (Grand) Father’s Military St. Ignatius surrenders his weapons St. Ignatius of Loyola, founder of the Society of Jesus, became a “soldier of Christ,” laying down his worldly wea ...
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The Impact of Media Violence on Children and Adolescents: Opportunities for Clinical Interventions
Eugene V Beresin, M.D. - While violence is not new to the human race, it is an increasing problem in modern society. With greater access to firearms and explosives, the scope and efficiency of violen ...
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Militarism in Education
Andreas Speck - “On 1 August 1914, it was too late for pacifist propaganda, it was too late for militarist propaganda – in fact the militarists then only harvested what they have sown 200 years befor ...
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