4.04.01 calls for resistance
Students Can Opt Themselves Out So That Schools Don't Hand Their Info to Military Recruiters
Posted September 30th, 2009 by sdiener in
- 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).
Bhutto's Assassination: Despite Her Own Crimes, Can Outrage at Her Killing Make Nonviolent Revolution in Pakistan Possible?
Posted December 28th, 2007 by sdiener in
- 1.11 covert operations & low intensity conflict
- 1.12 military rebel movements
- 1.15 targeting civilians
- 1.18 militarism
- 1.19 cycles of violence
- 2.06.01 nuclear disarmament
- 2.07 legislative efforts against militarism
- 2.08 electoral efforts against militarism
- 3.01 peace protests (see also 4. Nonviolent Action)
- 3.02.02 Peace movement organizations and coalitions
- 3.04.01 international diplomacy
- 4.01.05 pickets, marches, and rallies
- 4.01.07 political funerals and obituaries
- 4.04.01 calls for resistance
- 4.04.08 nonviolent insurrection
- 5.02.01 countering dictatorship
- 5.02.10 democratization
- 5.03.08 globalizing liberation, solidarity, protest
- 5.04.01 political parties and campaigns
- 5.05 countering economic exploitation
- 5.07.04 ending men's violence
- 5.07.06 countering militarist masculinity
- 5.11.02 countering religious violence
- Abira Ashfaq
- assassination
- Benazir Bhutto
- Benazir Bhutto assassination
- CODEPINK
- nonviolent revolution
- nuclear weapons command and control
- Pakistan
- United States
- Zia Mian
The assassination of Benazir Bhutto and the murder of tens of her supporters yesterday is another devastating blow against the struggle to democratize and promote human rights in Pakistan.
