Articles
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What I Discovered in the JROTC Curriculum
July-September 2022 / Lauren Reyna Morales / Draft NOtices - In the summer of 2020, I was recruited by the non-profit Project on Youth and Non-Military Opportunities (Project YANO) to review core ...
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GOP congressman says student loan forgiveness will hurt military recruitment
August 25, 2022 / Christopher Wilson / Yahoo News - Rep. Jim Banks, R-Ind., said Thursday that President Biden's student loan forgiveness plan will hurt the U.S. military's ability to recruit. ...
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The US Military’s JROTC Program Is Even Worse Than You Thought
August 23 2022 / Steve Early / Suzanne Gordon / Jacobin - We’ve long known that the US armed forces target poor and working-class students to meet their enlistment goals. But according to a recent ...
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Sexual Abuse of Teens in the Military’s J.R.O.T.C. Program
July 9, 2022 / Mike Baker, Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs, Ilana Marcus, Mary F. Calvert / nytimes.com - PICAYUNE, Miss. — With the rifle skills she honed in the Mississippi backwoods, Victoria Bauer had ...
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Congress is again considering proposals to end, or to expand, Selective Service
Sunday, 10 July 2022 / Edward Hasbrouck / Edward Hasbrouck's blog - Once again in 2022, sooner than we expected, Congress is considering proposals either to finally end the widely disregarded, ...
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How to start a Peace Club in your local Schools
https://nnomy.org/peaceclubs/ Pat Alviso / Military Families Speak Out - This information is written for peace activists who want to facilitate a peace club in their local high school. The ...
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Military Recruiters Should Have No Place in Our Schools
Federal legislation enforces the militarization of schools, giving recruiters easy access to teenagers vulnerable to persuasion. An outlier among other nations for this method of recruitment, the ...
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Peace Week for Fleet Week Los Angeles 2022
March 31 2022 / Gary Ghirardi / NNOMY - I received an invitation from Rachel Brunke, a newly joined steering committee member of NNOMY and an organizer for Codepink San Pedro, to come up from our ...
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Teaching Against Cultural Militarization
https://nnomy.org/teachpeace Introduction In the United States of America, we are a people at war with the world and ourselves June 2022 / Gary David Ghirardi & Various Sources / NNOMY - It is the ...
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America’s Child Soldiers JROTC and the Militarizing of America
08/09/2021 / Ann Jones / Tom Dispatch - 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 ...