Ethan McCord speaks about Collateral Murder in Iraq. Former Army Specialist and hero of Wikileaks video "Colateral Murder" speaks in Los Angeles @ Revolution Books on June 9, 2011. This is the initial talk with projections.

Ten members of the Dutchess Peace Coalition decided to act locally to expose the lies students are told at recruiting centers.

Seriously, don't join the military. There are so many better options, and you aren't fighting for the reasons you think that you are.
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BIBLIOGRAPHY AND FURTHER READING

Articles:

• Center on Conscience & War: Alternatives to Military Enlistment
• Peaceful Career Alternatives
• The National Network Opposing the Militarization of Youth (NNOMY): Alternatives to the Military
• The Soldiers Project: Why Do Military Recruiters Lie? – 8 Shocking Truths
• The Soldiers Project: How Much Do Military Recruiters Make? (A Complete Guide)
• Operation Military Kids: 12 Military Recruiter Lies
• The Minnesota Daily: Army recruiters tell deadly lies
• U.S. Army: Benefits While You Serve.
• Bloomberg Government: US Military Faces Biggest Recruiting Hurdles in 50 Years
• Defense Center for Public Health: Army Injuries Causes Risk-Factors and Prevention Overview
• New York Times Magazine: ‘A Poison in the System’: The Epidemic of Military Sexual Assault

Books:

• Military Recruiting in High Schools
• Military Recruiting in the United States
• 10 Excellent Reasons Not to Join the Military

Youth from Summer of Resistance hold funeral at the downtown Army Recruiting Station in Washingon, DC, complete with coffins and trumpet, for the 2,500+ U.S. soldiers who have died in Iraq.

Leaders from the Project on Youth and Non-Military Opportunities present career choices in peacemaking and social change to high school and college students gathered at UC San Diego. (#14214)

Interview with John Judge of the Committee on High School Options & Information on Careers, Education and Self-Improvement (C.H.O.I.C.E.S.) recorded January 22, 2000 in Seattle.

bit.ly/KtNJROTCinschools

The following videos challenge the justifications for the Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps (JROTC) programs to be located in US and US territory high schools. These programs number more than 4000 in high schools nationally representing Army, Navy, and Air Force, (Now Space Force). The U.S. Army's JROTC program currently operates in more than 1,700 public and private high schools, military institutions, and correctional centers throughout the United States and overseas.

The Knitting the Network: JROTC in Schools Palm Card document is to be used for counter-recruitment in high and middle schools and its QR codes and links direct students, teachers, and parents to the following Youtube videos:

1. Should JROTC be in schools?

2. Is JROTC a Character Education program?

3. Teaching Marksmanship in Schools?

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The videos utilize the imagery and practice of knitting as a non-invasive theme to discuss a controversial subject of military indoctrination programs in our schools that have the ultimate goal of generating military recruits once these cadets finish high school. The rate of those who complete four years of JROTC entering into the armed forces is about 40%.

These videos were produced in the NNOMY southern office in 2018.

The QR Code takes the viewer to the Youtube Channel Knitting the Network

The US military says it has met its recruitment goals for 2007. However, signing new soldiers is getting more difficult, with an unpopular war in Iraq and open-ended commitments both there and in Afghanistan.

New figures reveal there has been a 40 per cent drop in African-Americans signing up for the army. The Pentagon wants to expand the size of the army to 547,000 soldiers by the year 2010, and are counting on Hispanics to fill the gap. To do so, recruiters are turning to incentives to bolster their numbers. Mike Kirsch explores the sometimes questionable tactics being used to entice Latino recruits into the US army.

Cindy Sheehan (mother of a soldier slain in Iraq), Jim Massey (ex-Marine recruiter) and others reveal the true impact of No Child Left Behind's military recruitment in our high schools. With no end in sight to the increasingly lethal American occupation in Iraq, this is the single-most important film for concerned parents and citizens to see. Watch the 11-minute film and then take action to "opt our kids out" at LeaveMyChildAlone.org. Created by Mainstreet Moms and Working Assets. Producer: Mainstreet Moms and Working. Assets; Public Domain Film.