Articles
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Play virtual war as much as you like, but don’t shoot at the Red Cross!
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Permanent Observatory on Small Arms, Security and Defence Policies (OPAL) - (See article of origin from International Red Cross below Notes on this Press Release by OPAL) The Permanent Observatory ...
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In Chicago schools' Junior ROTC programs, some see a troubling trend
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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 ...
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The Military’s View of Counter-recruitment
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Seth Kershner - Over the past few years, my colleague Scott Harding and I have been chronicling the counter-recruitment movement from the perspective of activists. In this article, I’ll take a ...
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The Securitized Student
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Kenneth J. Saltman - Recently, critics of school commercialism such as Alex Molnar and the Commercialism in Education Research Unit that he directs as well as the U.S. Surgeon General have taken ...
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Henry Giroux on the Militarization of Public Pedagogy
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by Seth Kershner - Critique is Not Enough As a counterpoint to the current hand-wringing over public education in the U.S., it may be helpful to remember that we will spend a comparatively small ...
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Sustainable Options for Youth: First Fall Visit to Austin High School
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Jeff Webster and Susan Van Haitsma - Last week, we made our first SOY visit of the new school year to Austin High School. Tami and I were pleased to be joined by Ben, a Marine Corps veteran and ...
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Questioning the Ethics of Military Recruitment at Fordham
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Nick Haggerty - Uncle Sam may or may not be watching you while you sleep I started receiving recruitment emails from a Marine captain with the clockwork regularity characteristic of the military in ...
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2013 Back-to-school Kit for Counter-recruiting and School De-militarization Organizing
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August 31, 2013--The National Network Opposing the Militarization of Youth announces today the public release of the 2013 Back-to-school Kit for Counter-recruitment and School Demilitarization ...
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Marquette and ROTC: an unholy alliance
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Daniel C. Maguire - At Marquette University, there are two contradictory schools of thought on war and both are — confusingly — taught to our students. One is based on the Judeo-Christian, Catholic, ...
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Direct Action against Militarism
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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 ...
