Americas
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).
Peacework Transition to Online Blogging & Nonviolent Dialogue Platform - Print Publication to Cease After 37 years
Posted September 10th, 2009 by sdiener- 2.01.01 draft resistance and conscientious objection
- 2.01.05 war tax resistance
- 3.02 peace movements
- 3.05 peacebuilding - creating systems and cultures of peace
- 3.05.06 social transformation
- 5.02.08 countering media bias
- 5.11.08 Quaker thought and action
- 5.14 pacifism and pacifist organizing
- 5.14.07 creating a culture of nonviolence
- 5.14.08 pacifist movements
- 8.01 nonfiction writing
- alternative media
- blogging
- dialogue
- history
- James Carroll
- Pat Farren Lecture
- social movement magazines
- United States
September 2009
Dear Peacework Readers,
With sadness, we write to inform you that Peacework Magazine will end publication with its September 2009 issue. As you know, we have tried various measures to keep the magazine going, but in today’s economy our beloved print publication is simply not sustainable.
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.
Tell New Yorker: Exploiting Prostituted Haitian Women Dying of HIV: Not Funny
Posted August 3rd, 2009 by sdiener- 5.02.09 countering xenophobia, racism, anti-immigrant bias
- 5.07.03 countering male domination and patriarchy
- 5.07.04 ending men's violence
- 5.07.05 women's health (see also 6.04)
- 5.09.01 countering dehumanizing propaganda
- 5.10.02 countering human trafficking
- 5.14.03 feminist pacifism
- 8.03 fiction
- Haiti
- HIV
- humor
- prostitution
- satire
Zev Borow wrote in a humor column about sunblock in the New Yorker:
"SPF 175—Ever wanted to have unprotected sex with a prostitute in Haiti? Don’t answer. Doesn’t matter. The point is with SPF 175 that’s now an option." Whoa. I think it's the pseudo-cool casualness of the misogyny and racism displayed here that outrages me most.
