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American Friends Service Committee (AFSC): Founded in 1917, the AFSC provided alternatives to military service for conscientious objectors during wartime and later developed extensive educational materials and programs to challenge the "poverty draft," focusing on non-military career options for low-income and minority youth. The American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) has a long history of active counter-recruitment and anti-militarization work, providing resources, training, and advocacy to challenge military recruitment, especially targeting youth, by highlighting non-military alternatives and exposing deceptive practices, and co-founding groups like the National Network of Opposing the Militarization of Youth (NNOMY) to support these efforts.
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Rick Jahnkow’s column on the critical importance of counter-recruitment campaigns to the long-term success of the anti-war movement is a worthy New Year’s resolution and mission statement for peace activists in 2006. As he states, “…counter-recruitment organizing is the most practical way to tangibly affect current U.S. foreign policy.” Hindering the government’s ability to wage war, inciting a cultural shift away from militarism, and providing alternatives to military service to the community are a triangle of potential prizes that counter-recruitment campaigns offer.
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The Campus Antiwar Network (CAN) was a significant organizer and central force for the counter-recruitment movement on U.S. campuses, especially in the mid-2000s, actively organizing students to protest military recruiters, host anti-war speakers (like veterans), distribute alternative information, and create "College Not Combat" contingents at national protests against the Iraq War, aiming to balance the military's narrative with realities of service. Founded in 2003, CAN grew rapidly, becoming a major student-led network opposing the Iraq War and military presence in schools. They organized speaking events featuring anti-war veterans, distributed literature, protested recruiter presence (even when legally difficult due to the Solomon Amendment), and advocated for equal access to present alternative views.
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CCW is a non-profit organization that advocates for the rights of conscience, opposes military conscription, and serves all conscientious objectors to war. Center on Conscience & War (CCW) engages in activities that support the goals of counter-recruitment by defending conscientious objectors, educating youth about military service realities, and opposing conscription , often working with groups like the National Network Opposing the Militarization of Youth (NNOMY) to provide resources and challenge militarization in schools and communities. They offer counseling and resources for youth facing draft registration and military enlistment, highlighting alternatives to service and the rights of conscientious objectors, which directly counters military recruitment narratives.
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The Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors supports and promotes individual and collective resistance to war and preparations for war. We are updating and augmenting our Military Out of Our Schools (MOOS) Organizers Kit to assist communities combat military recruitment. We are training and assisting folks in communities across the US to confront the military recruitment efforts at school, at recruiting offices and elsewhere.
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CAMS has been a key organization in the development of the national counter-recruitment movement. In 2009 we planned and participated in the National Network Opposing the Militarization of Youth (NNOMY) national conference held in Chicago. We held fundraising events to send 9 youth and 3 adults to lead workshops and participate in this growing movement. We also led workshops at many conferences throughout the year including the UTLA leadership conference, Calif. Teachers Association conference, Association Raza Educators, Human Rights Conference/UTLA, and more .
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The Committee Opposed to Militarism and the Draft (COMD) is an anti-militarism group, rooted in San Diego, that actively works against military recruitment (counter-recruitment) by educating youth, lobbying, challenging military presence in schools, and opposing draft registration, focusing on issues like racism, sexism, budget excess, and the militarization of youth, often through its newsletter DraftNOtices.
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Mainstreet Moms (The MMOB) is coordinating the Leave My Child Alone! campaign in partnership with Working Assets and ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now) (2005)
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"Ending militarism around the world starts with ending militarism at home. We encourage students in this country one by one to OPT OUT of the recruitment process and to speak out against the misleading recruitment tactics of the US military." – Justin Sane, singer of the band Anti-Flag. A project of Underground Action Alliance (2005)
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This network is an outgrowth of the national counter-recruitment organizing conference held June 25-27, 2004 named Stopping War Where It Begins: Strengthening the Movement Opposing the Militarization of Youth in Philadelphia. Below is a description of the proposed network; proposal details can also be viewed or downloaded at: http://www.youthandthemilitary.org.
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Since 2001, NYSPC has been providing resources and helping young people organize against war in their schools, campuses, and communities. Article in Village Voice. - Resources Page has other groups from 2006.
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"On the Frontlines: Options for Youth in Times of War," a counter recruiting conference, will take place beginning at 9:00am on Saturday, October 22nd and Sunday, October 23rd in the Valley Life Sciences Building at UC Berkeley. There will be 45 workshops on every aspect of Counter Recruitment. The conference will be co-sponsored by the Campus Antiwar Network and Military Out of Our Schools-Bay Area. Aidan Delgado, an Iraq War veteran and conscientious objector; Pablo Paredes, a Navy resister who was just discharged after refusing deployment; parents who lost their children in the war on Iraq; and students, parents, educators, and community activists will join veterans and military families. The conference aims to expose the lies that military recruiters tell young people, and to examine ways to get recruiters out of schools and alternatives to military service.
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Project YANO is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit community organization that provides young people with an alternative point of view about military enlistment. Many of our members are armed forces veterans who believe that high school students are getting a distorted picture of the military and war from recruiting ads and marketing. In particular, we are concerned that many low-income students and students of color are being diverted away from higher education and into the military, where they are found in disproportionate numbers.
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A very successful counter-recruitment table was set up at George Washington High School Tuesday, April 5. People from Campus Antiwar Network, American Friends Service Committee and Bay Area United Against War helped get counter-recruitment literature and information out to students at the high school's Career Day Fair. We had enough people to have two at the table to talk to people and get contact information, etc., and have two or three people handing out flyers to people approaching the military recruiting tables.
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On November 8th the citizens of San Francisco joined the growing counter recruitment movement. 59% of voters expressed the opinion that military recruiters should not be allowed in public schools.
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School Students Against War (SSAW) is an active school students' anti-war group based in the UK. It was established in 2003 as a youth offshoot of Stop the War Coalition, and is completely organised and maintained by School and FE College students.] Archives website at http://www.ssaw.co.uk
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The SPAN counter-recruitment project refers to efforts by the Student Peace Action Network (SPAN), a national organization, to counter military recruitment in schools. The project aims to inform young people about the realities and potential risks of military enlistment, presenting non-military alternatives and emphasizing that war and military involvement can have serious negative consequences, including mental health problems and exposure to violence. In the fall of 1995, a national Student Peace Action Network (SPAN) was initiated to bring the voices of young activists into the forefront of the peace movement. The organizers of the student network recognized that many young activists across the country were making connections between unchecked militarism and the diminishing social services.
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Guerrero Azteca Project (AKA: Proyecto Guerrero Azteca) was created after the death of my son, Jesus Alberto Suarez del Solar the "Aztec Warrior" as we call him, as a voice against wars, specifically the war in Iraq initiated in 2003 and based on the lies from the Bush administration. The activities offered by our organization are to give talks and presentations to students by speaking on the topic of my son's military service history where he endured discrimination, physical abuse and lies from his officers. We also participate in public forums, focusing on underrepresented communities such as Latino communities to offer support and resources for those who may not always hear the truth about the situation in Iraq.
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- Talk Nation Radio: Seth Kershner on the Campaign to Demilitarize U.S. Schools - March 8, 2016
- This Is An Uprising: How Nonviolent Revolt Is Shaping the Twenty-First Century - February 12, 2016
- How to Counter Recruitment and De-Militarize Schools - 02/10/2016
- Army Struggling to Recruit More Cannon Fodder; Keep Up the Counter-Recruitment! - October 17, 2010
- Counter-Recruitment Is Not Counter-Military: A Letter From a Colonel - March 14, 2008
- Counter-Recruitment Training Session - March 13, 2007
- Iraq Veterans Against the War Join Uprise Counter-Recruitment Tour - October 3, 2006
- National Day of Counter-Recruitment - December 6, 2005
- Counter-Recruitment Day Sweeps U.S. Colleges - December 5, 2005
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