Articles
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Counter-Recruitment Deserves Higher Priority on the Peace Agenda
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Pat Elder - The mainstream peace and justice movement is beginning to see that countering military recruitment deserves a higher priority and should be viewed in strategic, rather than tactical ...
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How Peace Activists Can Win Access to Schools Equal to that of Military Recruiters
Read more...Rick Jahnkow - Since the end of the Vietnam War, the US military has been steadily expanding its presence and influence in schools. In light of this, our expectations need to be realistic: reversing ...
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Teaching Peace
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Colman McCarthy - Having begun my thirtieth year of teaching high school, college and law school courses on the philosophy of pacifism and the methods of nonviolent conflict resolution, I was ...
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War Inc. – Pentagon sucks in American youth
Read more...AFP Photo / Str © AFP 11 Aug, 2011 / RT USA News / Author Not Disclosed - As the US economy remains on a consistent downward spiral, one thing the government is never shy to invest endless cash in ...
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Notes Toward More Powerful Organizing: Pitfalls and Potential in Counter-recruitment Organizing
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Matt Guynn - It’s not necessary to go to Washington for a protest to significantly engage key issues related to the War on Terrorism. Try going to a local coffee shop or any other public place where ...
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JROTC Wants to Invade Hundreds More Schools
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Sam Diener - JROTC, a high school program to militarize youth in high schools, has already invaded almost 3400 schools. Peacework has learned that Congress passed a little-noticed measure in the ...
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The Chicago Model of Militarizing Schools
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J June 30 2009 / BBVM / Truthout - For the past four years, I have observed the military occupation of the high school where I teach science. Currently, Chicago’s Nicholas Senn High School houses ...
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JROTC: The Untold Story
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October 28, 2008 / Marc Norton / BeyondChron - “Without JROTC, I would not be where I am today: a Staff Sergeant in the United States Army.” So writes Jason, a former JROTC cadet, in a recent ...
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3 decline to take military test
Read more...Cedar Ridge High's principal says they weren't being disciplined in being sent to a suspension classroom HILLSBOROUGH - Three high school students were sent to an in-school suspension classroom ...
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Militarism in the Land, the Water and the Schools
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Michael Lujan Bevacqua - I am constantly surprised at the ways in which people are surprised at things. I suppose that anywhere, you go, you can find things which are normal there and abnormal or ...
