Before You Enlist Video - http://beforeyouenlist.org
Researching Pop Culture and Militarism - https://nnomy.org/popcultureandmilitarism/
If you have been Harassed by a Military Recruiter - https://www.afsc.org/resource/military-recruiter-abuse-hotline
War: Turning now to Mr. Ralph Waldo Emerson - Christian Science Monitor
WHAT IS IN THIS KIT? - https://nnomy.org/backtoschoolkit/
Click through to find out
Religion and militarism - https://nnomy.org/religionandmilitarism/
‘A Poison in the System’: Military Sexual Assault - New York Times
Change your Mind?
Talk to a Counselor at the GI Rights Hotline
Ask that your child's information is denied to Military Recruiters
And monitor that this request is honored.
Military Recruiters and Programs Target marginalized communities for recruits...
..and the high schools in those same communities

 Militarization of our Schools

The Pentagon is taking over our poorer public schools. This is the reality for disadvantaged youth.

 

What we can do

Corporate/conservative alliances threaten Democracy . Progressives have an important role to play.

 Why does NNOMY matter?

Most are blind or indifferent to the problem.
A few strive to protect our democracy.

Regional Organizations

Regional Organizations engaged in youth demilitarization activism | Directory Home

Teen Peace Project

City: Port Townsend
State: Washington
Zipcode: 98368
Phone: 360-379-9094
Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Organizational Website: www.teenpeace.org
Organizational Blog: teenpeace.blogspot.com/
 
Scope of organization:
  • National
  • Regional
  • Local
This organization is a:
  • Counter-recruitment Organization
Organization base:
  • Student and nonstudent community based
Outreach to specific communities:
  • African American
  • Asian
  • Latino/a
  • LGBTQ
  • Native American
Issues you are working on:
  • Alternatives to the military
  • College ROTC
  • Conscientious objection
  • Equal school access for counter-recruitment
  • General counter-recruitment/Truth in Recruitment youth education
  • NCLB recruiting list opt-out
  • Pentagon Database (JAMRS)
  • Research
Years in Operation: 11-20 years
 
Summary describing your organization: With support from the American Friends Service Committee (Quakers),the Central Committee of Conscientious Objectors, and NNOMY (National Network Opposed to Militarism of Youth), I continue to learn the legalities and find materials and support for this project. I began one session with 7 home schooled kids, reached out to invite teens in local church youth programs, and local high school students. I have some young people work with me for over a year. College students tend to meet once or twice with me and then study on their own. The military recruiters have been at the Port Townsend High School as many as three times a week during the school year. Recruiters from all branches of the military were hanging out at lunch time to talk to kids in the cafeteria, but the school moved them to another room, thanks to the efforts of students at the school. I travel across the state, making presentations to local peace groups, high schools and colleges, and church groups. The Teen Peace kids have kept awareness of the No Child Left Behind Act and student's right to "opt out" on the minds of students, their parents, and school administrators. Teen Peace participants help to facilitate sessions for other teens and younger kids. The also accompany me on some of the community presentations I am invited to. They are actively working for peace and non-violence. Art exhibits, letters and articles in local papers, and making videos to express your beliefs, are all ways that you can document you are a conscientious objector.
 
Contact Person: Liz Rivera Goldstein
 
Located in: west-region
 
 
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The World Can't Wait

Address: 305 West Broadway #185
City: New York City
State: New York
Zipcode: 10013
Phone: (646) 807-3259
Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Organizational Website: worldcantwait.net
Facebook: @worldcantwait
 
Scope of organization:
  • National
This organization is a:
  • Counter-recruitment project of a larger, multi-issue organization
Organization base:
  • Student and nonstudent community based
Issues you are working on:
  • College ROTC
  • General counter-recruitment/Truth in Recruitment youth education
  • High school JROTC
  • Limiting recruiter access to schools
Years in Operation: 11-20 years
 
Summary describing your organization: The World Can’t Wait organizes people living in the United States to repudiate and stop the fascist direction initiated by the Bush Regime, including: the murderous, unjust and illegitimate occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan; the global “war of terror” of torture, rendition and spying; and the culture of bigotry, intolerance and greed. This direction cannot and will not be reversed by leaders who tell us to seek common ground with fascists, religious fanatics, and empire. It can only be possible by the people building a community of resistance - an independent mass movement of people - acting in the interests of humanity to stop, and demand prosecution, of these crimes.
 
Contact Person: Debra Sweet
 
Located in: northeast-region

Veterans for Peace Traverse City - Chapter 50

City: Traverse City
State: Michigan
Zipcode: 49684
Phone: 231-357-4776
Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Organizational Website: Veterans for Peace - Chapter 50
 
Scope of organization:
  • International
  • National
  • Regional
  • Local
This organization is a:
  • Organization with Counter-recruitment as a major component
Organization base:
  • Veteran or military family based
Issues you are working on:
  • General counter-recruitment/Truth in Recruitment youth education
Summary describing your organization: Would like information on how to get into the schools. Focus right now (August 2016) is on ridding the community of the Blue Angels and Thunderbirds.
 
Contact Person: Tim Keenan
 
Located in: midwest-region

We Are Not Your Soldiers

Address: 305 West Broadway #185
City: New York City
State: New York
Zipcode: 10013
Phone: (646) 807-3259
Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Organizational Website : wearenotyoursoldiers.org
 
Scope of organization:
  • National
This organization is a:
  • Counter-recruitment Organization
Organization base:
  • Student and non-student community based
  • Virtual online community based
Outreach to specific communities:
  • LatinX
Issues you are working on:
  • College ROTC
  • Conscientious objection
  • Developing Curricula/Educational Materials
  • Equal school access for counter-recruitment
  • General counter-recruitment/Truth in Recruitment youth education
  • High school JROTC
  • Limiting recruiter access to schools
  • NCLB recruiting list opt-out
  • Providing counter-recruitment organizer training
Years in Operation: 11-20 years
 
Summary describing your organization: Most schools around the country are struggling with fewer teachers and reduced resources to try to meet the critical needs of their students. But one thing is not in short supply. That's the military recruiters who stalk the hallways of far too many urban and rural public high schools and community colleges. We Are Not Your Soldiers is an initiative of World Can't Wait that brings anti-war veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars together with activists to talk about the reality of these wars in classrooms and to counter the dangerous deceptions served up by recruiters. This is truly a life-changing experience for many young people who are encouraged to ask their most difficult questions of young women and men who just a few years ago were students like them, considering what to do with their lives and are now committed to ending the wars they saw first hand. We have visited schools in New York City, Connecticut, rural Maine, Chicago, the Bay area and Washington state. We want to expand the We Are Not Your Soldiers project and reach out to more schools and more students and young people. The need is just as great as ever; the wars have not ended. We work with teachers and youth leaders to tailor the presentation to your needs. Please contact us and we'll put your school on the calendar.
 
Contact Person: National Office Staff
 
Located in: northeast-region

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