1. Wars and Militarism
Invasion of the Body Snatchers Workshop: Maps, Links, and Videos
Posted June 23rd, 2010 by sdiener- 1.18.02 militarization of youth
- 1.18.03 military recruiting and conscription
- 2.01.02 resistance within the military
- 2.04 countering military recruitment
- 2.04.01 equal access to schools for peace advocates
- 2.04.02 opting out of military databases
- 2.04.03 countering mobile military recruiting
- 2.04.04 countering JROTC
- 2.04.05 countering ASVAB and military testing
- 2.04.06 exposing realities of life in the military
- 2.04.07 alternatives to military jobs
- GIS
- maps
- United States
- USSF2010
- videos
- workshops
Despite being in a distant building at Wayne State University, and being in a room that took me half an hour to find once I arrived at the building, a team of us from the National Network Opposed to the Militarization of Youth (including primarily the American Friends Service Committee's Youth and Militarism Program, the War Resisters League, and Peace Action Wisconsin) facilitated an
Sam Diener's Workshops at US Social Forum 2010 in Detroit
Posted June 21st, 2010 by sdiener- 1.03 resource war
- 1.18.03 military recruiting and conscription
- 2.04 countering military recruitment
- 5. Countering Oppression, Organizing, Building Alternatives
- 5.01.08 countering internalized oppression - how to
- 5.03 alternative political systems and movements
- 5.03.04 liberation movements
- 5.03.05 social movement organizations and coalitions
- 5.16 intersections of mulitple forms of anti-oppression work
- 8.01 nonfiction writing
- Detroit
- United States
- USSF2010
- workshops
At USSF 2010, on Wednesday the 23rd, I'm one of a team of co-facilitators presenting Stopping the Invasion of the Body Snatchers: an Introduction to Countering Military Recruitment. The workshop is at WSU Old Main: O174.
Students Can Opt Themselves Out So That Schools Don't Hand Their Info to Military Recruiters
Posted September 30th, 2009 by sdiener- 1.18.02 militarization of youth
- 1.18.03 military recruiting and conscription
- 2.04.02 opting out of military databases
- 3.02.02 Peace movement organizations and coalitions
- 3.05.05 social empowerment
- 3.06.04 nonviolent secondary school education
- 3.06.08 education policies and systems
- 4.01.02 petitions
- 4.04.01 calls for resistance
- 5.01.01 strategies for nonviolent social change - how to
- 5.03.03 community building
- 5.13.01 countering discrimination against younger people
- 5.13.03 organizing across generational lines
- counter-recruitment
- how to mobilize
- NCLB
- No Child Left Behind
- opt-out
- student organizing
- student rights
- United States
The No Child Left Behind Act of 2002 (NCLB) required schools to hand over identifying student information to military recruiters. Military recruiters routinely use these lists to try to meet their quota, known as their "mission," by making repeated and persistent phone calls to students and family members. And in order to meet these quotas, too many military recruiters lie to students (see a compilation of military recruiters caught lying on tape).
Dallas Morning News AP Story Lies About US Inflicted Deaths in Afghanistan
Posted August 12th, 2009 by sdiener- 1.01 wars between states
- 1.02 civil wars
- 1.12 military rebel movements
- 1.14 laws of war, war crimes, crimes against humanity
- 1.15 targeting civilians
- 5.02.08 countering media bias
- 8.01 nonfiction writing
- Afghanistan
- airstrikes
- Associated Press
- civilian casualties
- Europe
- media criticism
- NATO
- propaganda
- United Nations
- United States
In an AP story posted on the Dallas Morning News Site, "Soldier, civilian deaths from bombs soar in Afghanistan" posted on 12:00 am CDT on Wednesday, August 12, 2009, the paper (or the news-service) claimed that, "A recent U.N. report said at least 1,013 civilians were killed in the first six months of this year by insurgents bombs, compared with 818 for the same period in 2008 – a 24 percent increase."
On Femicide in Pittsburgh: End Men's Violence
Posted August 5th, 2009 by sdiener- 1.15 targeting civilians
- 5.02.09 countering xenophobia, racism, anti-immigrant bias
- 5.07.01 women's organizing
- 5.07.03 countering male domination and patriarchy
- 5.07.04 ending men's violence
- 5.07.10 pro-feminism
- 5.08.01 countering homophobia and heterosexism
- 5.08.06 homophobia as a root of violence and militarism
- Andrea Dworkin
- Brazil
- Canada
- femicide
- Jonesboro massacre
- Pittsburgh massacre
- United States
How many massacres perpetrated by men against women will it take before we as a society, especially those of us who are men, work seriously to end men's violence?
Last night, news reports indicate that George Sodini murdered at least three women (Elizabeth Gannon, Heidi Overmier and Jody Billingsley) and injured nine other women at a fitness club near Pittsburgh, PA before shooting himself.
Alert: List of Schools on JROTC Target Lists: JROTC is Costly, Discriminatory, Biased, & Deadly
Posted July 17th, 2009 by sdienerSam Diener is the Co-Editor of Peacework Magazine, www.peaceworkmagazine.org and was the coordinator of the campaign against JROTC expansion when on staff of the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors in the 1990s.
JROTC Wants to Invade Hundreds More Schools
