A Counter-Recruitment community group, the Military Recruitment Education Network, meets the first Tuesday of the month at North Star, 104 Russell Road, Hadley beginning at 6:30pm. Call AFSC for more information: 584-8975.
- Agendas for CR101 and CR102 workshops
- News: students can opt-out of recruiters (from ACLU)
- Getting Out - a Guide to Military Discharges
- The Options Booklet - Local Resources for Teens: Emergency Contacts, Abuse/Assault Services and Shelters, Community Based Support and Advocacy (Sexuality Specific Organizations). Food, Shelter and Clothing, Health Care (HIV/AIDS Specific Services), Pregnancy And Parenting Services, Youth Centers and Programs, Education and Employment Training (Labor Sponsored Apprenticeships, Colleges and Universities, Funding Formal Education), Transportation
- Call to Action - national Opt-Out Week, Sept 20-24, 2005
- Counter-Recuitment Opt-Out Toolkit
- Leave No Recruit Behind (article about recruiting, opting out, etc)
- Task list for those contacting schools
- Letter to Principal or Superintendent
- Opting out of military recruiting for your children
- Counter-recruitment flyer (.pdf file)
- Counter Recruitment Talking Points
- Before You Enlist - Check Out the Reality! (double flyer)
- Counter Recuitment Comic Book: MS Publisher file, 1.8MB or Adobe .pdf file, 3.4MB
- The Army s Handbook on Counter-Recruitment (e.g. how to get high school staff to cooperate - a very interesting resource. Thanks to Bonnie Weinstein of the Bay Area United Against War for these: as an Adobe .pdf file or as a Word .doc fi
- Interviews and talks:
- Frances Crowe's talk at the CO session in Amherst, December 2004
- High school recruiting: a report on military recruiting in high schools (transcript, streaming video, audio)
- Exerpts of talks by Jimmy Massey, Former USMC Recruiter & veteran against Iraq war who spoke here recently, are on the Active Ingredients website in the Archives section.
- "You have a Legal Right to be a Conscientious Objector" - Traprock interview with Frances Crowe, longtime peace activist and draft counselor. In addition to the September 2004 interview (audio, and text summary), the webpage contains links to related sources of information.
- Ben Sherman on Conscientious Objection - Traprock interview of a Conscientious Objector
- Fact Sheet: Why do we think the draft is an election issue? (10/27)
- Compulsory Draft Bills Pending in Congress (9/23) but defeated Oct 6th
- However for a skeptical view, go here (9/29) to the Urban Legends site
- And another from Project YANO
- And the bulletin from FCNL on the issue (Friends Committee on National Legislation)
- And from the Center on Conscience and War
- Websites and listservs of interest (most recently added, on top):
- The youth I Will Not Kill pledge (8/31)
- Sgt. Abe the Honest Recruiter Speaks to Parents (suitable for a 1-page handout)
- United for Peace and Justice's page on counter recruitment
- Leave My Child Alone - to help students opt out of local and national recruiters' database
- Advice for Conscientious Objectors in the Armed Forces (84 page book, online)
- A collection of website resources on race/class issues and militarization
- From Quaker House in Fayetteville NC:
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- Coping with the Personal and Family Costs of War
- A Self-Study Course for Counter-Recruiting Activists
- Military Recruiting FAQ - A Consumer's Guide
- National Network Opposing the Militarization of Youth (NNOMY)
- subscribe to the National counter-recruitment listserv
- Listen to or download a song on Baba's website, called "recruit," about the military's use of hip hop to recruit
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- Counter Recruitment section of Voices in the Wilderness website
- AFSC National Youth and Militarism Program: works to reduce the impacts of war and military institutions on young people's lives, halt the growing influence of the military in US schools and help students and educators work for peace and better education in their communities...
- CCCO: Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors supports and promotes individual and collective resistance to war and preparations for war.
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- CCCO's Military Out of Our Schools Program
- CCCO's Before You Enlist brochure/webpage
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- Center on Conscience and War
- Project YANO: The Project on Youth and Non-Military Opportunities; provides young people with an alternative point of view about military enlistment.
- COMD: Committee Opposed to Militarism and the Draft: anti-militarism organization that also challenges the institution of the military, its effect on society, its budget, its role abroad and at home, and the racism, sexism and homophobia that are inherent in the armed forces and Selective Service System.
- Selective Service Draft Registration Freeze Initiative Resolution Committee
specifically encouraging resistance to the registration laws of the United States, seeing registration as the necessary step toward conscription (the draft). - Operation Truth: seeks to educate the American public about the truth of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan from the perspective of the troops who have experienced them first-hand.
- GI Rights Hotline
- War Resisters League
- Articles
- Schools let teens block recruiters (8/31)
- Big article from the Nation about recruiting (8/31)
- 10 Ways to Protect Your Child From the ASVAB
- Un-Volunteering: Troops Improvise to Find Way Out - NYTimes 3/18 (if link does not work, the text is here)
- The Suicide of an Iraq War Veteran from Holyoke Community College
- Military recruiters target schools strategically (Boston Globe, Nov 29)
