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NNOMYnews is the newsletter of the National Network Opposing the Militarization of Youth. NNOMYnews reports on the growing intrusions by the Department of Defense into our public schools in a campaign to normalize perpetual wars with our youth and to promote the recruitment efforts of the Pentagon.

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2022

NNOMY News 1064: Third Quarter 2022 - Student Loan Forgiveness Threatens Pentagon's Recruitment Efforts | Back to Top

President Biden’s ridiculously small concession to student loan forgiveness has kicked off another tempest in a teapot as the Pentagon stresses that the, already lagging, military recruitment quotas will suffer more because of it, discouraging young people to find educational financial support inside the military. Could anything be more revealing about the level of hubris within the Military Regimes of the United States than to suffer a paltry support to our nation”s youth’s education against the Trillions of dollars blindsided American Citizens allow to be coerced by this endless system of wasteful overreach and political corruption? The upside to this latest development is that it has shone a light on the Pentagon’s Junior Reserve Officers Training Corps program operating in thousands of American public schools revealing the antiquated , racist, misogynistic, and militaristic intent it serves to implant on our most vulnerable youth and in a place where it should not even be tolerated in a civilian society. This quarter’s NNOMY news focused on the latest articles that have come out of this debacle reaching as high in the media food chain as to initiate a congressional investigation. Plus more….

Military recruiters are increasingly targeting Latinx students for enlistment
How Counter-Recruiters Take on the U.S. Military
US Military: Bad Publicity Is Hurting Recruiting. Lawmakers: Fix Your Problems
‘I Felt Trapped’: Sexual Abuse of Teens in the Military’s J.R.O.T.C. Program
How Peace Activists Are Beating the U.S. Military at its Own (Video) Game
The Military to American Youth: You Belong to Me
Senate Democrats demand answers over abuse allegations in JROTC program
What I Discovered in the JROTC Curriculum
GOP congressman says student loan forgiveness will hurt military recruitment
Removing JROTC Marksmanship Training from High Schools

NNOMYnews 1063: Apr - June 2022 - Teaching "Cultural Militarization | Back to Top

Besides the investments that are not made in productive or cultural sectors therefore reinforcing what Susan Sontag calls the “brutality of America”, militarism is an ideology and a set of practices which has invaded America in every sector of its economic, political and cultural life. The military-industrial complex has reinforced a culture of war. Nick Turse analyses this phenomenon in his book entitled The Complex; How The Military Invades Our Everyday Lives. From universities where up to 70% of research is funded by the Pentagon to Hollywood where many movies are co-produced or funded by military experts to the links between Big Oil and the military, Turse tracks down all the ramifications of the militarization of America. He gives long lists of companies working for the Defense Department which depend on military funding, and examples of military waste of resources. In a militarized society even useless weapons that are not needed or at times not even requested by the armed forces are produced while millions of children live in starvation or below the poverty line. - Pierre Guerlain

Teaching Cultural Militarization
How Militarism Teaches Our Children That Violence Is Normal
Op-Ed: Schools Aren’t Safe Now and They Weren’t Safe Before
Unconventional Combat: Intersectional Action in the Veterans’ Peace Movement
Afghanistan and the U.S. Learning Resource
Understanding the Russia and Ukraine War Learning Resource
Mission Creep: The Militarizing of America
Peace Week for Fleet Week Los Angeles 2022
Teaching Chris Hedges: America’s Gun Fetish
In view of multiple school shootings in the United States:
Removing JROTC Marksmanship Training from High Schools

NNOMYnews 1062: Feb - Mar 2022 - Public School Release of Student Information to Military at 20 | Back to Top

Concurrently, in the last 20 years, we have seen a national military counter-recruitment movement diminish in its scope and urgency as groups have “aged out”, not feeling a connection with the succeeding generations of youth and a normalization of militarism in our culture that has made previous concerns for Defense Department over-reach into the civilian society much less urgent and visible. This issue of the NNOMY news, Public School Release of Student Information at 20, explores the challenges and opportunities for change for the next generations to develop an awareness of the implications of expanding militarism for their futures and their world." Concurrently, in the last 20 years, we have seen a national military counter-recruitment movement diminish in its scope and urgency as groups have “aged out”, not feeling a connection with the succeeding generations of youth and a normalization of militarism in our culture that has made previous concerns for Defense Department over-reach into the civilian society much less urgent and visible. This issue of the NNOMY news, Public School Release of Student Information at 20, explores the challenges and opportunities for change for the next generations to develop an awareness of the implications of expanding militarism for their futures and their world."

The house that war built
The Militarization of the US Education System: Supporting war with recruiting and research
Ethnic Studies Take 2: The Liberated Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum
Youth Are Challenging the US War Machine as Tensions Escalate With Russia
STEM strike for peace
Venezuelan journalist reflects on pivotal life moments deciding whether to join U.S. military
Drop in Public Trust in Military Officers Portends Danger
Can we demilitarize our minds? And our Country? Before it is too late?
Recruitment, counter-recruitment and critical military studies

NNOMYnews 1061: Dec 2021 - Jan 2022 - Youth Demilitarization Looking Forward | Back to Top

As we begin a new year, still in Pandemic Mode, we add another year to the pandemic of continous militarism in our schools, schools at every level of education, with Pentagon programs like expanding Department of Defense STEM/STEAM, JROTC, and military recruiters playing video games online with minors to sell them on endless war. All this supports aggressive military recruiting. We are also seeing the beginnings of another round of youth activists connecting the dots and pushing back and saying enough to militarized policing, environmental destruction, and an expanding presence of Department of Defense investments and research funding in their schools. As we enter 2022, it has never been as important as now to activate to expose the scope of militarism in our society; in entertainment offerings, corporate news propaganda, in sports representations, and in our schools. Let's get back into our high schools with concerned teachers, parents, and students, with counter-recruitment strategies to promote alternatives to militarism for building our futures. It will be more difficult during and after the pandemic to get our messages out but it must be done to promote a sustainable world for our futures. It is yes or yes. And help the National Network Opposing the Militarization of Youth this year with a donation to support our national organizing effort to demilitarize our schools. Make a tax deductable donation at The Alliance For Global Justice.

Dissenters Principles: These are the values and practices that guide all our work.
Military Recruiters Don’t Belong in High Schools: Schools have become contested territory.
Commentary: Abolish draft registration – don’t expand it to include women
Students Are Pushing US Colleges to Sever Ties With Military-Industrial Complex
Divest Your School / Codepink
Georgia: Peace Action Team, new faith-based counter-recruitment group
NNOMY Conducts National Steering Committtee retreat online to explore strategies for network's future

2021

NNOMYnews 1060: Oct - Nov 2021 - Witnessing for Peace | Back to Top

In this moment of our continuous war economy, groups that push back against the cultural militarism that permeates our society are facing difficult decisions. Peace activists and their organizations are experiencing existential challenges that threaten their continuation while trying to relate to a rapidly changing landscape consumed by digital media distractions and a flailing political structure that more resembles a reality television show every successive season. In the last two decades for activism against war and militarism, whether from mass demonstrations from millions of people globally in 2003 or a handful of people protesting in front of a military recruitment center, those who profit from war, respective of the prosperity for the few or the declining standard of living for the many, are not open to negotiation. Militarization and the justifications for our wars and their enormous expenditures and personal sacrifices are interchangeable and largely meaningless to those who profit. Constant and protracted witnessing to the moral and ethical contradictions of our war economy are our historical response to war makers and still an important role we perform reminding those who can be awakened enough to understand our addiction to war and become influencers themselves for peace. Equally important, activist efforts are there to remind the vast majority who have become normalized to our system of violence for profit, that there is a discontent within the system and powerful arguments against it, whether they are willing to listen or not. Our children and youth are being indoctrinated into a permanent war culture more clearly than ever before and the resources allocated to this banal evil is increasing as our groups pushing back against the militarizing of young minds are diminishing. In the NDAA budget for 2022 military programs like JROTC seek to double the amount of corps programs in our public high schools from 3500 to over 6000. Counter-recruitment activists provide an alternative narrative to challenge military recruiters in public schools because speaking out against our captive war economy and its human costs to our future generations must be done; bottom line. It is time to inspire another generation to take up counter-recruitment activism in schools and online and to innovate ways to keep it relevant and accessable to the same youth that the military has access to. Below are examples of those who have struggled and provided witness against the abuses of our cultural militarism in the last year of 2021.

Expanding the Military Draft Is Not Feminism. Abolishing Draft Registration Is
How to Disappear: What happens when pacifist soldiers search for peace in a war video game
War making as spectacle, entertainment and education
Time to Question the Militarization of Our Children
Breaking Cadence: One Woman's War Against the War
Anti-war veterans explain how US lost Afghanistan while leaders lied, profited
Northwest Suburban Peace & Education Project

NNOMYnews 1059: Aug - Sept 2021 - Militarizing Our Children | Back to Top

Congress surely meant to do the right thing when, in the fall of 2008, it passed the Child Soldiers Prevention Act (CSPA). The law was designed to protect kids worldwide from being forced to fight the wars of Big Men. From then on, any country that coerced children into becoming soldiers was supposed to lose all U.S. military aid. It turned out, however, that Congress — in its rare moment of concern for the next generation — had it all wrong. In its greater wisdom, the White House found countries like Chad and Yemen so vital to the national interest of the United States that it preferred to overlook what happened to the children in their midst..

America’s Child Soldiers: JROTC and the Militarizing of America
Project YANO, JROTC, and Textbook Project
Law - The Push To Include Women In The Draft Draws Polarizing Opinions
Debate Over Women and the Draft Will Turn Politics on Head
Chicago automatically funnels some Black and Latino students into military-run courses
JROTC as a substitute for PE: really?
Gamers For Peace
Upcoming webinars against the draft‍

NNOMYnews 1058: June - July 2021 - A Look Back at Council for a Strong America's Mission: Readiness | Back to Top

In 2009 a group of retired military generals formed a "non-governmental" project called "Mission: Readiness" to invoke national alarm that our children were growing up physically unfit to meet the requirements to qualify for military enlistment. Their group, "Council for a Strong America," maintained that this was a "national security issue" and then embarked on organizing interventions into our public pre-school classrooms to promote remedies to the nation. Those children from 2009 in preschools are now of recruitment age and to what result the efforts of these retired generals has been successful is unclear, but what is clearer is that what should have been under the purvue of the National Institute of Health to the exclusion of the Pentagon has gained little community redress and pushback. In this issue of NNOMYnews we re-publish a chapter from the book. War and the Body: militarization, practice and experience by the authors Joseph Burridge and Kevin McSorley that remains the single most extensive analysis of this program and the "banal militarism" that they conclude this program represents.

Too Fat To Fight? Obesity, Bio-Politics and the Militarization of Children’s Bodies
Food Allergy Research & Education
‘Fighting Weight: How Military Recruiters Take On Obesity, Case By Case
Supreme Court won't review Constitutionality of current male-only draft registration requirement
House Hearing on Selective Service
Will the #US expand draft registration to #women?
Connecting White Extremism in the Armed Forces to the Military's Culture

NNOMYnews 1057: April - May 2021 - National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021 | Back to Top

"The FY21 NDAA comes at a pivotal time in our nation’s history. For the sixtieth consecutive year, Congress will enact timely, important, and essential legislation to fulfill its critical constitutional obligation to “provide for the common defense”and allow on our nation’s military to continue to represent the best that America has to offer: Our leadership and values.
"Our Values? Got that right!

The NDAA for 2021 expands the programs of the pentagon in our public schools
‘Selective Service Repeal Act’ Introduced in Congress
NDAA’s JROTC STEM Grant Program Must Now be Fully Funded
The Nuts and Bolts of Pursuing Policy Changes to Counter Recruitment and Demilitarize Schools
FeministsAgainstTheDraft
Sole & DJ Pain 1 "National Bird"
COSTS OF WAR PROJECT

NNOMYnews 1056: March 2021 - Resisting Women's Draft Registration | Back to Top

The United States Government is on the verge of requiring women from 18 to 26 years of age to register, like men, for the selective service. The Military Draft. This will be mandatory with the threat of penalties for non-adherence to this demand. The threat of penalties can potentially include huge monetary fines and even imprisonment. In some states of the country, in order to be issued a drivers license, you must register.

The American public is largely ignorant of this legislation and will likely react after the fact of its implementation. The government held public hearings around the country allowing for input by citizens, but largely as a formality, with no intent to consider any reasonable objections to this proposal. The media, as usual, when confronted with any issue relating to the security state or military affairs, went silent or promoted stories in favor of this amendment, supporting it on the basis of gender equality. Below are the groups and activists who have spoken out against extending selective service registration to women, and are promoting that voices of opposition speak out in resistance in-person by video testimony. The basic call is for the abolition of selective service registration, for both women and men, on the basis that it represents a violation of recognized international human rights standards. Let us hope that more voices will rise in opposition to this coersive registration for more soldiers for more wars before and after this flawed policy is enacted.

The Time for Opposition and Resistance is Now: Likelihood of Legislation to Expand Draft Registration to Women
Activists fought the US military draft for decades — they may soon have to again
How Men's Rights Groups Use the Rhetoric of 'Equality' to Punish Women
Opponents of Military Conscription Call for ‘Full and Fair’ Hearing Before Congress Decides Whether To Expand Selective Service to Women – or To End It
Watch the ‘Draft Women? Hell No!’ presentation
Rebuttal to Groups Supporting Female Draft Registration

NNOMYnews 1055: February 26 2021 - Historic Peace Church Peace Activism | Back to Top

Historic Peace Churches have played a consistent and continuing multi-generational role in those movements and within their own organizations that have confronted war and the conscription of youth into those wars. The National Network Opposing the Militarization of Youth was born, beginning in 2003, when the American Friends Service Committee, a secularized social justice organization of the Religious Society of Friends hosted a gathering in Philadelphia.

In this month’s NNOMYnews for February 2021, we recognize some of those efforts of Peace Churches and the activism and sacrifice that came out of their pacifist principles.

From the website of the Peace Church Alliance: “ “Quakers, Brethren, and Mennonites have been called "Peace Churches" for our shared commitment to non-violence. We don't own these conversations—but we fearlessly hold them—and actively seek to bend the arc of the dialogue toward equity and peace.
Yesterday, we fought for abolition and propelled the Underground Railroad. Today, we invite other individuals and communities to join as Peace Alliance Partners as we work together for "Positive Peace." - https://www.peacechurches.org

Peace Churches in the Orbit of Youth Demilitarization Activism
Religion After 9-11: Pacifism on the Record
Nonresistance under Test
History of War Tax Resistance
What Does the Supreme Court’s Hobby Lobby Decision Mean for War Tax Resisters?
Behind the Camouflage: A Primer on Military Enlistment for Youth Pastors, Mentors and Counselors
‘I Ain’t Marching Anymore’ chronicles 260 years of war resistance and conscientious objection

NNOMYnews 1054: January 18 2021 - The Culture of JROTC | Back to Top

The Junior Reserves Training Corps (JROTC) program is slated to nearly double in the amount of units spread out among our national public high schools. With ample direct and anecdotal evidence of multiple types of abusive behavior located in the culture of JROTC, it is a stretch for the Pentagon to uphold their claim that the program promotes any reasonable definition of building good character and citizenship .

Military conceptualizations of honor and duty and the citizenry's compliance to all things military combined with a country addicted to violence in work and leisure are too often blinded to the dangers that young people face in programs that promote military values as the defining measures of good citizenship. At a minimum it is time for activist organizations, concerned citizens, and legislators to withdraw their support of allowing the JROTC expansion in our schools in the next years that are in the planning stages and organize to limit these programs at current levels or even call for a reduction.

The MAGA Face of JROTC
Queens Junior ROTC cadets get two years for disturbing hazing
Today’s Education Battles: Lessons From A Campaign That Saved JROTC In The Public Schools
Huntsville gay rights group accuses Grissom High JROTC instructor of bullying 15-year-old
The Military Invasion of My High School - The role of JROTC
A society that teaches violence is a violent society. We need to get the JROTC out of our schools.

NNOMY Feature: January 10 2021 - Revisiting Our Outrage | Back to Top

"Revisiting Our Outrage," is a look back to activist reports and news stories in reaction to the Bush era Iraq war mobilizations, and the resultant school demilitarization activism and resistance that took place before we descended into the fog of protracted cultural militarization in the following years. The reports listed below also measure the distance that we have traveled that transformed a counter-recruitment movement into a ongoing proactive peace practice.

"The United States of America Has Gone Mad": John le Carré on Iraq War, Israel & U.S. Militarism
Counter-Recruiting Cuts Military Down to Size
‘Counter-Recruiter’ Seeks to Block Students’ Data From the Military
Coalition of the Unwilling
Not Your Soldier Day of Action
Georgia: Peace Action Team, new faith-based counter-recruitment group
Group protests Marine recruiters in Berkeley
Counter Military Recruiting During a Pandemic - Webinar

2020

NNOMYnews 1053: December 15 2020: Military influencers in our public education | Back to Top

Young people who lacked the resources and scholarship to pursue a college or university education were increasingly predated by military recruitment as the Department of Defense recruitment budgets increased and their "supply" of willing and qualified recruits diminished in preceding years. As we head into 2021 following a year of pandemic, with likely an additional year of returning to normal in our country, many will face terrible job shortages and the offers of a military enlistment could reverse the recent past unwillingness to consider a military career. Influencers and militarized influences permeate our culture. Military recruitment advertising is inserted into sports, movies, and video games. From school teachers and counselors, to parents desperate themselves under financial hardships brought about by the pandemic will motivate enlistments as well. Our militarized culture is about to go into overdrive

Influencers in the Military Recruitment of Young People
Educators, teachers from Midwest gear up for Marine Corps Recruit Depot
My Son Wants to Join the Army
Who Joins the Military and Why: An Initial Reconnaissance
"Rape Culture is Military Culture" Pam Campos-palma
Sec. 516 expands the categories of student contact information that schools are required to release
Troops to teachers brings service from the battlefield to the classroom
The Danger of Asking Hard Questions

1052: November 17 2020: Recruiting Soldiers and Society for Permanent Wars | Back to Top

By both design and circumstances, the United States of America is captive to its assigned role as world enforcer of free market capitalism. With military commands now assigned to each sub-continent of the planet, our military industrial intelligence complex has monetized its permanent war economy with arms sales coerced upon its client states under the false rubric of keeping the world free for unrestricted commerce.

How that all will work out for the people and the planet is never clear in the endless rhetorical back and forth of its collapsing democracy and corporate controlled political culture. It is immersed in a morass of militarism normalized since its enculturated victory in WWII and has allowed its own self inflicted fable to permeate every aspect of its commercialized commons.

From a consolidated and complicit media to sports events and every expression of entertainment celebrating our military, the U.S. citizenry is bombarded with this spectacle of uniformed violence now consuming 7 1/2 hours weekly of over 40% of its male youth in ritualized virtual killing understood as harmless play in first-person shooter video games.

We have now made virtual killing a legitimized sport and have employed "experts" to convince any concerned sectors of our society that it is actually a healthy retreat from the pressures of our lives.

As the U.S. population reels under a poorly managed pandemic and businesses and jobs are lost and eliminated in a faltering main street economy, the military see's their recruitment opportunities increase as more young lives get directed into a bloated military serving as an international occupation force ensuring resource access to our industries.

All what is said here is unrecognizable to nearly all of the U.S. citizenry.

The Permanent Discourse for Endless Wars
The United States of Militarism
The Soldiers Using Mindfulness to Manage Stress and Become Better Killers
Secret tactics of successful Army recruiters
Antiwar - Counter-Recruitment in the Time of Covid
The Army on its slight increase in recruiting women and minorities: Please clap
Murder in virtual reality should be illegal
Podcast: Chris Lombardi’s new book “I Ain’t Marching Anymore…”

1051: October 17 2020: 2020 Elections + Antiwar Politics | Back to Top

As the U.S. Presidential Elections consume all the media and cultural oxygen in the last days of October 2020, the theme has emerged among the two viable party candidates of who is more anti-war. Likely this theme is a cover for the military keynesianism that constructs our economy for both mainstream parties to not explain why we prioritize the majority of discretionary tax funds for military appropriations and not more important civilian needs.

Additionally, this reality show election season distracts us from the hard economic conditions of declining opportunities that many youth are facing.

In this pandemic moment, the opportunities emerging for military recruitment efforts by the United States Department of Defense should not be ignored. The recruitment appeals to youth in the newly minted virtual recruitment outreach strategies being deployed by the Pentagon have a cost to the national psychological health of our youth. Eighty percent of young men in the United States are involved in militarized gaming, online and off, where recruitment appeals are now present on social media platforms like Facebook and Twitch. One important opportunity available to us as counter-recruitment groups is to increase the breadth and consistency of our social media presentations and outreach on accurate Delayed Entry/ Future Soldier information as potential recruits change their minds and need reassurances and counseling on how to get out. It is an opportunity to save lives and an effective counter-recruitment practice in COVID-19 times when our entry to schools is limited or non-existent..

Trump and Biden want you to believe they’re more anti-war than they are
Covid and Militarism: Challenges and Controversies
Call for Submissions: 2020 Elections + Antiwar Politics
Zara Bamford: What the Military Doesn’t Want You to Know About Video Games
41 Questions To Ask A Military Recruiter
Low lying virtual fruit for Covid Era Counter-recruiting
Army Recruitment 2.0: Just Like War Except for the Killing and Dying is now 4.0
The Navy Paid a Marketing Firm $2 Million for Its Esports PR Disaster

1050: September 14 2020: Training Kids to Kill | Back to Top

The United States is immersed in war logic and the imagery of violence and this is purposeful to drive our militarized culture. Like a decades long slow boil, our citizenry is largely normalized to it and either ignores this catastrophe or embraces it in thoughtless and repetitive jingoism. All of this effects our youth negatively and as their video game culture consumes multiple days of their lives in an orgy of violent and contextually militarized "play" they become desensitized to real violence and positioned to accept permanent war as a justifiable reality of life.

Training Kids To Kill (Army & War Video Games)
Mike Stern Concert - Dunker Punks Podcast
The truth about war with Danny Sjursen, combat veteran and West Point graduate.
Lights! Camera! Kill! Hollywood, the Pentagon and Imperial Ambitions.
We Live in a Culture of Violence
Reflections from the Monster Factory
"Welcome to the War Machine" - CodePink Divest Campaign

1049: August 19 2020: Combat soldiers, PTSD, and Moral Injury | Back to Top

With the United States involved in permanent wars in the post 9/11 era fighting supposed continuous terrorism around the world and with the US now seemingly entering a new cold war with russia and china, veterans are increasingly experiencing higher rates of PTSD, toxic exposure injuries, and claims of the effects related to moral injury.

Poster Girl Movie
Veterans of Domestic Wars
A soldier is drawn into a war-game with the neighborhood kids. Then he loses control.
Moral Injury And The US Veteran | Almost Sunrise
A Most Unusual 2019-20 School Year!
No Child Left Behind (NCLB) and Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA)

1048: July 13 2020: Militarized eSports and Military Recruitment | Back to Top

In this moment of the Coronavirus, the Pentagon's recruiting efforts at national public high schools have stopped as schools are closed in the traditional peak time for recruiters as school ends for the summer. Looking to expand the military recruitment efforts online, the military has turned to engaging in online gaming, much of it military themed, and increasing their outreach on other platforms where youth are to be found like social media.

Army recruiters pushing more into digital world
As Military Recruiters Embrace Esports, Marine Corps Says it Won't Turn War into a Game
Opt Out and Student lists
New Publication: Counter-Recruitment Campaigns Internationally
Once Again, the US Military Wants Your Kids
NNOMY Provides on our website a meme resource page for sharing on your social media.

1047: June 15 2020: Delayed Entry Program in the Age of Covid-19 | Back to Top

Changes in the Delayed Entry Program / Future Soldier Program during the Covid-19 pandemic accommodate strategies for distance military recruitment and enlistment. These changes further position those enrolled in DEP to feel further obligated and trapped against changing their minds to enlist due to expanded advance payments and training before boot camp in a moment when there is mass unemployment and economic distress.

How COVID-19 is impacting the Delayed Entry Program and threatening the health of recruits.
America's Heroes are always those who are expendable
Militarism in Gaming: Virtual Future Soldier
Podcast: Congress leaning towards drafting women for next war
Why We Still Need a Movement to Keep Youth From Joining the Military
Delayed Entry Program (DEP/Future Solder Program)
NNOMY Provides on our website a meme resource page for sharing on your social media.

1046: May 11 2020 - Learning Peace in Times of a Pandemic | Back to Top

This pandemic month we visit different voices around our network talking peacemaking with social distancing. We are featuring the voices of students in peace clubs writing to us, activists from peace groups talking together in webinars, and on Zoom, and others concerned about how should be our society post Covid-19 and post militarism as well.Tracy High School Peace Club

Tracy High School Peace Club
Peace Club Report Millikan High School
The Manenberg Artesia AIDS and Peace Project
Meet the new generation of tax resisters refusing to pay for war
Who Follows the NNOMY Network on Twitter?
Video: Divestment 101
About the Housmans Peace Resource Project

1045: April 13 2020 - Military Recruitment in Post Covid-19 America | Back to Top

As the Planet Earth confronts a global pandemic, the United States' Military Recruiting Commands adjust to the challenge of isolating their recruitment efforts to virtual military recruitment, now encouraged by the massive national unemployment reality in the country. While most of the citizenry hang on to an uncertain reality for their lives going forward in the remaining 2020 year, and maybe extending into 2021 as well, the Department of Defense takes advantage of the vulnerability of our youth as they try to find a place where they can havea place to provide an income, health benefits, and even food. This is a perfect storm for the Military Industrial Complex that see's its fortunes expand while the civilian sectors retract into recession.Army moves to 100% virtual recruiting as COVID-19 continues to spread

Army moves to 100% virtual recruiting as COVID-19 continues to spread
Army Reserve recruiters told to utilize 'this terrible event in our favor' to recruit more soldiers amid COVID-19 spread
National Commission on Military, National, and Public Service Releases Final Report to Congress and the President
Statement from Rep. DeFazio on the National Commission on Military, National and Public Service’s Recommendation for Women to Register for the Draft
De-Militarize CPS: Education Not Militarization!: Poverty Is the New Draft
Veterans For Peace #035: Please don't equate our struggle with Covid-19 with war
Looking Back at the Bush Era NNOMY

1044: March 17 2020 - Toxic reasons to not enlist | Back to Top

A campaign by the Earth Democracy Project of the U.S. Section of the Women's International League for
Peace & Freedom, has given an additional argument to Truth in Recruitment activists which is the fact of
military contamination health risks on U.S. military bases nationally and globally.

Toxic Problems for Military Recruiters
NNOMY 2020 National Survey
Groups join forces to fight military toxic exposure
As burn pit problems linger, advocates worry VA and DoD are moving too slow
As burn pit problems linger, advocates worry VA and DoD are moving too slow
Why women were told ‘Don’t get pregnant at George Air Force Base’
WILPF asks – What’s in Our Drinking Water? Why this public health crisis?
Letter: Parents should know of program's Navy link
Bob Dylan: With God On Our Side (lyrics video)

1043: February 29, 2020: NNOMY Essentials | Back to Top

This issue of NNOMY News we re-introduce essential issues around counter military recruitment activism in updated versions.
One of the primary functions of the NNOMY network is to provide reliable information and we are in the process of updating
many of our core content issues. Check them out below:

No Child Left Behind (NCLB) and Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA)
Joint Advertising Market Research Studies (JAMRS)
Opt Out and Student lists
America's Forever Wars and the Secrecy that Sustains Them: A Citizen's Guide
Before You Enlist: Military Base Contamination Can Be Dangerous to Your Health
Highlights: Spatial Imaginaries and Social Justice
Facing falling enlistment numbers, the U.S. Army takes a new approach to recruitment: Mom and Dad

1042: February 15, 2020: Countering Military Recruitment in California | Back to Top

California has the gratest amount of youth demilitarization groups in the United States. California also is the state with the most
defense spending. This issue of NNOMY News, we feature some of those groups that contribute to informing our youth with a fuller
narrative of what it means to serve in the military and directing young people to alternative careers that are not in the armed forces.

Understanding the South's unequal contribution of military recruits
San Pedro Neighbors for Peace and Justice / Los Angeles
Resource Center for Nonviolence / Santa Cruz
Project on Youth & Non-Military Opportunities / San Diego
Truth in Recruitment / Santa Barbara
Courage to Resist / Oakland
Long Beach Recruitment Awareness Project - LB RAP / Long Beach

1041: February 1, 2020: Visiting Counter-recruitment Groups around the Internet | Back to Top

This issue of NNOMYnews, we visit Counter-recruitment groups from the NNOMY community of activists and check-in to see
what they are sharing on their social media.

Is High School Too Soon for Military Recruitment?
Visit Winsted Area Peace Action
Visit Long Beach Area Peace Network
Airman Challenge
Visit Project on Youth and Non-Military Opportunities
Visit Maine Youth and Militarism Project
Visit Pat Alviso
Helping Students Keep Their Humanity by Not Signing Up for War
Parent Teacher Conference Night – March 7, 2019
Visit What Everyone Should Know Before Joining the Military
Visit On Earth Peace

1040: January 18 2020: The New Face of Military Recruiting | Back to Top

The new face of military recruiting looks a lot like the old face issue, wise, only it is gauging what gains the attention
of Generation Z which means the virtual world of computer gaming. The new esports approach of the Department of
Defense is turning better leads and generating greater interest than the traditional high school recruitment strategies of
years prior without the problems of community regulation and counter military recruiting interference. The U.S. Army's
"What's Your Warrior'" campaign is right out of the video game playbook. The question is what does this mean for
Counter-Recruitment activists going forward into the new decade.

What’s Your Warrior?The Corps is offering big bonus bucks for ground combat Marines in 2020
The Military Views Poor Kids as Fodder for Its Forever Wars
Army preys on vulnerable teenagers with misleading new adverts
The U.S. Navy Will Spend its Advertising Dollars in Esports and YouTube, Dumps Super Bowl
Elite gaming: Army engages youth in esports
Army simulator stops at Sapulpa High School

1039: January 3, 2020 Looking Back at Counter-recruitment and NNOMY | Back to Top

In advance of the next NNOMY newsletter themed, January 18 2020: The New Face of Military Recruiting, NNOMY takes a
look back at counter military recruitment practice and issues in the past decade to review where we have been as we
anticipate a new decade ahead for counter recruitment activism. A revealed cyber strategy of the Pentagon recruiting
command's plans to generate military recruits from Generation Z and those youth that have grown up in a world of virtual
realities will confront our struggle forward.

Making Contact – The New Face of Military Recruiting (2010)
US pressed on military exam for high school students (2012)
LAUSD Moves to Protect Student Information (2010)
Should We End Military Recruiting in High Schools as a Matter of Child Protection and Public Health? (2011)
O'Reilly & Military Recruiters in Schools (2010)
Counter-recruitment from Wikipedia
A 2020 Reminder from NNOMYpeace

2019

1038: December 20, 2019: Militarism and Migration | Back to Top

Border Militarization Policy
Debunking Recruitment Myths: Project YANO
Explosive Report Details Corporate Profiteering and Militarization of US Borders
10 Ways that the Climate Crisis and Militarism are Intertwined
On Human Rights Day, Quaker Organization Releases New Report Highlighting Detrimental Enforcement on Children
Immigrant recruit stuck in MAVNI limbo
NNOMY wishes a happy holidays to all our followers

1037: December 7, 2019 Human Rights and Militarism | Back to Top

Peace Mom: Cindy Sheehan
Army recruitment today is less "Be all you can be" and more "Call of Duty"
West Point Professor Builds a Case Against the U.S. Army
War Abolition 101: How We Create a Peaceful World
(online course registration
War is NOT like a Video Game!
Podcast: “Very jarring and brutal and dehumanizing” – Gerry Condon
Watching My Students Turn Into Soldiers of Empire
Know Your Rights!

1036: November 25, 2019 Mission: Readiness - Citizens or Soldiers | Back to Top

Mission: Readiness at Year Ten
New Publication: Counter-Recruitment Campaigns Internationally
Meet the Retired Generals Working to End Childhood Obesity for a Fitter Force
TV Fallout / A Commitment to Peace - Out of the Furnace
Project YANO counter-recruitment workshops
The Pentagon: Exposing the Hidden Polluter of Water” Receives Substantial Grant
Mission: Readiness is preparing Pre-Kinders for War
Too Fat to Fight? Obesity, Biopolitics and the Militarisation of Children's Bodies
Action is starting here : 6th International Week of Action Against the Militarisation of Youth, 23-29 November

1035: November 8, 2019 ASVAB Data Mining in America | Back to Top

Opt out of war!: Granny Peace Brigade
The Secretary of the Navy Lied to Congress
The antiwar movement no one can see
NNOMY Communications Staff Person talks about NNOMY on KZFR
SURVIVING HOME | Official HD Trailer (2018) | DOCUMENTARY
The Great Con of American Patriotism
Social media Memes from NNOMYpeace

1034: October 25, 2019 Teaching invasion: The Army JROTC "Raider Nationals" | Back to Top

Teaching Invasion: U.S. Army National Raider ChampionshipsTruth in Recruitment's (TIR) Summit on Youth and the Military: Thank you Summit attendees!
New NNOMY Series: TV FALLOUT
Podcast: Mike Wong, “All of a sudden, this all became very real”
Waging Peace in Vietnam
High school with highest death rate in Vietnam embraces its legacy
We Are Not Your Soldiers tour to high schools and colleges for the Fall 2019 semester: Seeking invitations…

1033: October 11, 2019 Confronting militarism at your High School | Back to Top

Local Efforts Towards Military Counter-recruitment in Boston
Truth in Recruitment‎ Summit on Youth and the Military
Pat Elder at #NoWar2019 World Beyond War Conference in Limerick 10-5-19
Excerpts from Student Papers
Moral and Safe?: War, Peace, Drone Warfare & the Religious Community
New Graphic Novels Honor Hero Medal of Honor Recipients
Inner and Outer Peace - Thich Nhat Hanh

1032: September 28, 2019: Theme: Climate Justice and Militarism | Back to Top

Teach Climate Justice Campaign
Indoctrination & Education:Who's Really Brainwashing Our Children?
10 Ways that the Climate Crisis and Militarism are Intertwined
California Takes on PFAS Contamination While the Military is a Primary Source of the Pollution
Profit, Power, and Poison

1031: September 14, 2019: Theme: Intersectionality and Cultural Militarism | Back to Top

We Need to Get the US Army Out of High Schools
The Role of Militarism in BSA Rhetoric
Deconstructing the Military’s Hegemonic Masculinity: An Intersectional Observation of the Combat Soldier
The Militarization of the American Youth (March 1930)
Transform US from a culture of violence to a culture of peace
Refusing militarism is not possible without refusing hegemonic masculinity

1030: August 30, 2019: Theme: Military CO's and Resisters | Back to Top

International objectors: Spotlight on the Dundee men who refused to fight in the First World War
Interview - Dahr Jamail - Soldiers Who Refuse to Fight in Iraq and Afghanistan
When refusing to kill has a higher sentence than murder
US army deserters flee Iraq
"I refuse to fight for Queen & Country!", Ben Griffin, former SAS-trooper (Special-forces)
IAM a conscientious objector
S Korea wants to know if conscientious objectors play violent video games
International Youth Day - Betty Reardon

1029: August 16, 2019 Climate Justice and Militarism | Back to Top

Talk Nation Radio: Pat Elder on Military Bases Poisoning Ground Water
Groups join forces to fight military toxic exposure
Pentagon’s endless war brings endless pollution
Navy Contaminates Local Groundwater and Sewer System in Maryland
Charlottesville Center for Peace and Justice
This chemical is in our water. Here are 15 things you should know if you drink Dayton water.
Help NNOMY fund an intern for our San Diego Office

1028: August 2, 2019 How Militarism controls Our National Sports in America| Back to Top

Dave Zirin: Debunking the Myth that Sports and Politics Don't Overlap
The Militarization Of Sports And The Redefinition Of Patriotism
MLB Gets in Bed With the Pentagon
The Movement Against War
Op-Ed: Football is America’s war game
Athletes and activism: The long, defiant history of sports protests
Americans Who Tell The Truth

1027: July 22 2019 Religious Militarism in America | Back to Top

Peace Pill: White Supremacy and Apartheid
Militarism in American Churches
War and Christian Militarism
The Cross and American Militarism
Birth of the Christian Soldier: How Evangelicals Infiltrated the American Military
How to be a Christian in Military, Law Enforcement, or EMS

1026: July 5 2019 How Militarism controls Our Political Culture in America | Back to Top

NNOMY Video: The Sanctification of John McCain
Doubling Down: The Military, Big Bankers and Big Oil Are Not In Climate Denial, They Are in Control and Plan to Keep It That Way.
Eisenhower called it the ‘military-industrial complex.’ It’s vastly bigger now
Introducing VFP's new Executive Director!
How U.S. Presidential Candidates Answer 20 Basic Questions
Your Say: Is the U.S. too quick to threaten military action?
Military contractors unfazed by Democratic gains as GOP deficit hawks lose influence
Department of Defense and Its Effect on the Economy
Don't Go: The Ballad of Ho Chang

1025: June 23 2019 Peace Veterans talk to our Youth | Back to Top

Podcast: “It was a bit crazy.” Andy Berman on enlisting to stop the war
“ALMOST SUNRISE” is Resonating with High School Students too what Teachers are Saying
War Photography: A Tool for Peace
U.S. Army: 0 — Internet: 1
Vietnam veteran speaks to Binghamton high school students about war experience
Truth in Recruitment in Spokane Washington

1024: June 8 2019 Guns in Our Schools | Back to Top

‘Rational Fears’: Dozens speak on Nashua North JROTC air rifle course
JROTC Shooting Ranges Removed from Two Schools
No, Teachers Should Not Carry Guns
High School Shooting Teams Are Getting Wildly Popular — And the NRA Is Helping
Selective Service Registration Comes Under Fire Again
“It Is the Young People Who Will Free Us”: Resisting Militarized Violence, from Honduras to Chicago
The 2019 Peace Prize nominees
Demilitarist School: Report Back from Chicago

1023: May 24, 2019 Student Activism in High Schools | Back to Top

What do Game of Thrones and boxing have in common?
Why do the media ignore high school activism?
High School Student Activism
High School Students March For Peace From Northwest Pasadena to City Hall
Military and Public Service Testimony in Washington DC
#DropTheMIC campaign momentum is building!

1022: May 10 2019 The militarization of STEM | Back to Top

4 Steps to Liberation: Paulo Freire and Pedagogy of the Oppressed
“Toward What Ends? A Critical Analysis of Militarism, Equity, and STEM Education”
Why Is U.S. Military Pushing K-12 Students to Build Drones In Dayton?
Navy Steals: The military's new interest in STEM education
Drones Are a Military Recruiting Issue
Our Commitment to STEM Education...and Permanent War
Our Commitment to STEM Education...and Permanent War
Resistance: STEM Strikes the War Machine

1021: April 26 2019 Domestic Violence in the Military | Back to Top

Homefront 911: How Families of Veterans are Wounded by Our Wars
NNOMY's The Domino Effect
The Facts About Abuse in Military Families
A Message From the Future with the Green New Deal
Domestic Violence in the Military
For the first time, domestic violence will be a crime under military law
Edward Hasbrouck, anti-draft testimony at National Commission on Military, National, and Public Service (NCMNPS)
The women killed on one day around the world
Megaciph

1020: April 12 2019 Divest from the War Machine | Back to Top

Divestment from Weapons and Fossil Fuels at Charlottesville City Council
Sarojini Naidu: Colonialism and Militarization
Is High School Too Soon for Military Recruitment?
The Army Is Fielding Hundreds Of More Recruiters After Failing To Bring In New Soldiers
Divesting Our Youth from the War Machine: A Guide to Countering and Resisting the Militarization of Youth 2017-2018
om Hayden: The Winter Soldier
Report: War Profiteers, US Arming Of Repressive Regimes

1019: March 29 2019 | Back to Top

Video: A Soldier's Life
Counter Recruiter Access to High Schools
High School Students and Peace Making
Can Pop Culture Normalize Militarism/Militarization?
Your Military: 16 cancer cases in one family: Base water contamination fight moves to Congress
ALERT: Your chance to be heard on the future of the military draft
Counter Recruiting at Boscobel, Wisconsin High School

1018: March 15 2019 | Back to Top

The Military Targets Youth for Recruitment, Especially at Poor Schools
VENEZUELA UNDER ATTACK: 7 NOTES ON ELECTRIC SHOCK (SPECIAL REPORT)
Global Commodity Chains and the New Imperialism
When Military Recruiting Goes Bad
"A modern-day draft, if marketed carefully and cleverly, could foster patriotism via the investment of every family in the nation."
Federal court declares current military draft registration requirement unconstitutional

1017: March 1, 2019 | Back to Top

NNOMY Video: What Were the Student Sit-ins?
The parking lot suicides
Tell the U.S. Congress and President to Finally Allow Ending the Korean War
Draft Registration Will Be Either Ended or Imposed on Women
We’re Asking Charlottesville to Divest from Weapons and Fossil Fuels
Targeted Messaging: Military Recruiters Getting Creative to Reach Gen Z

1016: February 15 2019 | Back to Top

The History of the Peace Symbol
The Resistance Center steps into national counter recruitment conversation with NNOMY
United States Foreign Policy History & Resource Guide
The Objector Church
Activist or protester Surveillance Self-Defense
The Long Road Home
Maryland Bill Would Ban Lead Ammo in the Schools

1015: February 1 2019 | Back to Top

Martin Luther King's Legacy - Peace Pill
SOY tabling on MLK's 90th Birthday
Militarism in the Media
Killology 101: How Media Violence is Consuming Our Children
Longtime Reporter Leaves NBC Saying Media Is “Trump Circus” That Encourages Perpetual War
Join Matt Guynn from On Earth Peace and Kezia Curtis from Black Lives Matter Detroit for a six-week webinar series:
U.S. Army associates a peace leader in support of an institution of U.S. militarism
From Arizona to Yemen: The Journey of an American Bomb
It's an exciting time
Should women be required to register for the draft? Commission likely to recommend big changes

1014: January 18 2019 | Back to Top

What is the Cost of Speaking Truth to Power? Peace Pill Presents the First in a Series of Short Videos
A Call for National Mobilization to Oppose NATO, War, and Racism
The Army, in Need of Recruits, Turns Focus to Liberal-Leaning Cities
Killed the Messenger: The Killing Game
Youth camps shape new generations with patriotism, pushups and prayer
NewsGuard Launches War on Alternative Media

1013: January 4 2019 | Back to Top

Military Recruiting in the United States | Chapter 9
The Civilian Marksmanship Program Introduces American School Children To The Intoxicating Use Of Firearms
Education Not Militarization
El ejército no es solo un trabajo. . . ¡Son ocho años de tu vida!
Webinar: Militarism in the Media
Repression of Student Free Speech at Cal Poly
How to Get Involved in Activism for the First Time

2018

1012: December 21 2018 | Back to Top

Military Recruiting in the United States | Chapter 8
Video Games Recruit & Train Killers
Why women were told ‘Don’t get pregnant at George Air Force Base’
Fake military recruiting websites duped millions of students, potential recruits
Controlling Military Recruiter Access on High School Campuses
Billboards to End War Going Up and Not Going Up
“Alexa, Drop a Bomb”: Amazon Wants in on US Warfare
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - Teach Your Children (Official Music Video)
Military Recruiters, Get the Hell Away
Back to Top

1011: December 17, 2018 | Back to Top

Madison Avenue Joins the Army
How the Pentagon Censors Military Mental Illness in Hollywood
The Security Archipelago: Human-Security States, Sexuality Politics, and the End of Neoliberalism
Another Reason Young Americans Don’t Revolt Against Being Screwed
I never expected to become a conscientious objector
The University's Complicity in the War in Yemen
Divest from War Coalition Digest

1010: November 23 2018 | Back to Top

The Stories War Tells Me
New Section: Edward Hasbrouck
Resistance to Mandatory Registration for Military Service
Military Recruiting in the United States | Chapter 6
Love Our Enemies? Or Kill Them?
Military Recruiting in the United States | Chapter 5
Hollywood Pledges Allegiance to the Dollar
Does "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" have a hidden message?
How Military Recruiters Prey on At-Risk Students
Understanding Mass Killings

1009: November 9, 2018 | Back to Top

Military recruiting in public schools can be disruptive
A military expert explains why social media is the new battlefield
Divest “Your Body” from the War Machine
Guns Out of Our Schools, Propaganda Out of Our Classrooms
Update on military conscription & compulsory "service"
Another Amazing Coincidence: Man Trained to Mass Murder Commits Mass Murder
War School (A Film by Mic Dixon)
Veterans For Peace and other anti-war groups want Americans to remember that the holiday was originally meant to celebrate peace, not militarism.

1008: October 26 2018 | Back to Top

Trailer Women's March on Pentagon
Here’s What We Could Have If We Slashed the Military Budget
The Plumed Horn: poetry, life and resistance
Here's What Happened When the Supreme Court Ruled on Whether Students Can Protest During School
Whither the San Diego Peace Movement?
Just-War or Pacifism? Where should a Christian stand?
We Need to Stop War Where it Begins

1007: October 12 2018 | Back to Top

2018/9 Back‐to‐school Kit for Counter‐recruitment and School Demilitarization Organizing
It’s Time to Transform the War Economy
Invest your values
Truth in Recruiting
Rethinking School Safety in the Age of Empire: Militarization, Mental Health, and State Violence
10 steps to world peace
The Poor People’s Campaign
The Militarization of Prayer in Americ
Evidence of religious objections to U.S. militarism.
Stand up to Endless U.S. Militarism

1006: September 25 2018 | Back to Top

Military Recruiting in Public Schools
The Military is Not Just a Job, It's 8 Years of Your Life
Women’s March on the Pentagon to Confront the Bipartisan War Machine? An Interview with Cindy Sheehan
Merchants of Death: How the Military-Industrial Complex Profits from Endless War
Must Read: Corporate Power and Expansive U.S. Military Policy
When Homeland Security Goes To School
Meet the peacemakers
Captain Marvel is an Air Force recruiter's dream come true
Demilitarize Our Community

1005: September 14 2018 | Back to Top

Should Marksmanship Training be taught in schools?
Military Recruitment Report: Third Edition: The Resistance Center for Peace and Justice
We Are Not Your Soldiers School Visits for the 2018 - 19 School Year
National Commission on Military, National, and Public Service (NCMNPS)
World Beyond War Webinar September 27 & October 24 2018
On the Right to Peace and the Environment

1004: August 31 2018 | Back to Top

Recent Trends in Military Recruitment
The rise of militainment
3 rd Annual L.A. Harbor Peace Week 2018
Dr. Seuss’ forgotten anti-war book made him an enemy of the right
German military turns to under 18s to boost recruitment
Military should take its tweeting a little more seriously
Praying for peace at the Pentagon

1003: August 10 2018 | Back to Top

Militarism Mapped/ World Beyond War
First National Military Alternatives Website Peaceful Career Alternatives
Congressional amendment moves to Senate to add coursework to prepare JROTC youth to fight Cyber-terrorism.
#NoWar 2018
Podcast Knitting the Network, Episode 3
Interview with Center for Food Safety Digital Manager, Joey Lee
NNOMY Office Photo Album

1002: July 27 2018 | Back to Top