Tag: JROTC
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Dismantling the School-to-Soldier Pipeline
AN INTERVIEW WITH Nancy Cruz, Barbara Harris, Rick Jahnkow, and Seth Kershner | Originally Published in Jacobin Magazine on October 18, 2019 SK The National Defense Act of 1916 created the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (rotc), which operates at the university level, along with Junior rotc, which operates at the high school level. At first, JROTC was kind of like rotc’s unwanted stepchild. Ther ...
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ALERT: POTENTIAL EXPANSION OF HIGH SCHOOL MILITARISM
Rick Jahnkow / Demilitarize Our Schools - Legislation has recently been suggested that, among other things, would greatly expand the number of JROTC units and make military recruiting a more explicit ...
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U.S. Army Tries New Recruiting Tactics After Missing Targets
Largest branch of military struggles in a strong economy; a pilot program in Chicago Ben Kesling, Wall Street Journal - CHICAGO —The U.S. Army is experimenting with new recruiting tactics as it strug ...
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The Defector
How Rory Fanning went from Army Ranger to war resister (and counter-recruiter). Alex N. Press / Jacobin - In a high school classroom on the South Side of Chicago, Rory Fanning is telling students abo ...
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We Need to Get the US Army Out of High Schools
Jonah Walters, Jacobin - A smattering of information has been revealed about Connor Betts, the misogynist twenty-four-year-old who killed nine people and injured twenty-seven in Dayton earlier this m ...
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Video: Should JROTC be in schools?
The hat's a bit wonky-looking, but I hope you enjoy the video Time Codes: + Introduction - 0:21 + What is JROTC and why should you care? - 1:22 + What are some underlying sociocultural forces that pu ...
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School Marksmanship Training
One way that concerned citizens can successfully address the issue of gun violence is to work locally for the removal of marksmanship programs and shooting ranges from high schools. Such programs int ...
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The Missing Link in the Gun Debate
Greta Zarro - America is up in arms about guns. If last month’s “March for Our Lives,” which attracted over one million marchers nationwide, is any indication, we’ve got a serious problem with gun vi ...
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Military Recruiting And How To Confront It
Pat Elder | Originally published in Popular Resistance - June 29, 2017 Wars start in our high schools and this is where we can end them. This year the Army’s goal is to recruit 80,000 active duty and ...
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Countering the Military Invasion of DC High Schools
John Judge | Originally published in Washington Peace Letter, Volume 38, No. 5 - June 2001 In the early 1980's a citywide movement attempted to rid local high schools of JROTC (Junior Reserve Officer ...
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