Articles
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Peaceful Vocations Demands Option 8 Privacy Protections for Texan High School Youth
Peaceful Vocations - On April 19, 2013, Diane Wood, Peaceful Vocations member and representative of the Texas Coalition to Protect Student Privacy member, presented to the Texas State Board in ...
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Counter-recruitment revisited: Students against the Draft and War challenges the school administration at Foss high school in Tacoma Washington
Today, 5 May, we ae planning to hold a teach-in against military recruitment in schools. However, under pressure from the JROTC at my school, my principal, Sharon Schauss, informed me yesterday that ...
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Cessation of Military Recruiting in Public Elementary and Secondary Schools
Amy Hagopian & Kathy Barker - Abstract Recruiters for the various US armed forces have free access to our nation’s public high schools, as mandated by the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB). Military ...
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Teachers of Garfield High School in Seattle Say No!
By unanimous vote, the entire faculty at Garfield High School in Seattle voted not to administer the MAP test of reading and mathematics. This is the first time, to my knowledge, that the faculty of ...
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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 ...
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Navy Steals: The military's new interest in STEM education
Seth Kershner - Although women make up about half of the United States workforce, they represent just 24 percent of careers in STEM fields (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics). In ...
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Are American Evangelicals Seduced by Militarism?
November 9, 2012 / Preston Sprinkle / Jesus Creed - Are American Evangelicals Seduced by Militarism? Is militarism consistent with Christian faith? American militarism. The very phrase evokes a ...
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The Permanent Militarization of America
Aaron B. O’Connell - NOTE: NNOMY does not endorse the assumptions about the impact of militarization on the U.S. economy outlined in this article but chooses to repost it to highlight concerns for ...
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Military Targets Corvallis High Schools: Too Young to Drink, Old Enough to Serve
Genevieve Weber/Corvallis Advocate - War is a touchy subject, especially given the near-palpable tension of the upcoming presidential election. If you’re against war, you’re a hippy at best, ...
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War Making and State Making as Organized Crime
Charles Tilly - If protection rackets represent organised crime at its smoothest, then war risking and state making – quintessential protection rackets with the advantage of legitimacy – qualify as ...