Every US military recruit is trained to fight and to kill and obligated to eight years of enlistment.
Ongoing conflicts today prove that deployment can happen at any time. You owe it to yourself to consider the many alternatives that do not restrict your life options. - Learn more
Enlisting in the military has been sold for generations as a way to grow up, get a start in life, maybe learn a skill and be part of a noble cause.
If you have kids today, recruiters will tell that familiar story. But today, less and less of it is true. - Learn more
Based on years of experience in public schools, facilitating student organizations dealing with peace (i.e. peace clubs) in your area can have a transformative impact on student autonomy and school culture around pervasive militarism. Learn more
The National Network Opposing the Militarization of Youth (NNOMY) is a network of organizations that organizes against the militarization of schools and young people in the United States.
NNOMY brings local, regional, and national peace and human rights groups together to connect youth to pathways towards meaningful lives, as alternatives to military enlistment.
"The U.S. military is deeply embedded in public schools, shaping children’s futures long before they’re old enough to understand the consequences — and parents were never meaningfully asked."
NNOMY was founded in the aftermath of the 2004 national counter-recruitment conference "Stopping War Where it Begins" in Philadelphia.[1] It is intended to be a decentralized and flexible structure that helps national, regional and local activists and organizations by promoting communication efforts and by stimulating collaboration between network members. NNOMY organizes actions and campaigns against militarism in order to raise awareness and to increase education on the topic.
Men raised in poverty had greater odds of draft and all-volunteer military service. Early-life experiences, independent of military service, appear associated with greater odds of Major Depression. Assessing childhood poverty in service members may identify risk for depression in later life.
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All we want to do is make students aware that there are other ways to find college money and serve your country without joining the military. But they're not getting the other side. 1
Sally Ferrell, a counter military recruiter from Wilkes County, North Carolina.
(The following article is a reposting from eleven years ago from the office of the War Resisters' International at the Peace Pentagon in London - Seems appropriate to raise the bar for counter-recruitment in the time of Trump.)
(El siguiente artículo es una republicación de hace once años de la oficina de la Internacional de Resistentes a la Guerra en el Pentágono de la Paz en Londres. Parece apropiado elevar el nivel del contrarreclutamiento en la era de Trump.)
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Por Seth Kershner, Scott Harding y Charles Howlett
(University of Georgia Press, 2022)
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