1.18.02 militarization of youth
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).
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
Military Recruiting Abuses: On Tape (with Embedded Video)
Posted July 9th, 2009 by sdienerThis post repeats the content of the list at http://www.peaceworkmagazine.org/blog/military-recruiting-abuses-... but with the youtube videos embedded in this page.
Military Recruiting Abuses: On Tape
Posted June 15th, 2009 by sdiener- 1.18.02 militarization of youth
- 1.18.03 military recruiting and conscription
- 2.04 countering military recruitment
- 2.04.06 exposing realities of life in the military
- 5.02.04 countering violations of civil liberties
- 5.05 countering economic exploitation
- 5.06.03 job rights, minimum wages, right to a constructive job
- 5.07.03 countering male domination and patriarchy
- 5.07.04 ending men's violence
- 5.07.06 countering militarist masculinity
- 5.14.06 abolishing war
- 8.06 film, video, television
- Army recruiting abuses
- Delayed Entry Program
- Marines recruiting abuses
- military recruiting abuses
- rape
- United States
- videos
Military recruiters have a quota, or what they call a "mission," specifying how many people they're expected to enlist each month. When they don't reach their quotas, they're often pressured intensely, ordered to work overtime, and threatened with career-ending consequences. Not all recruiters lie, but lies by military recruiters aren't the exception, they're common. ABC in New York, for example, sent hidden cameras into recruiting stations in 2006 and found 5 of 10 recruiters they taped lied on camera (see item 11).
