Articles
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The militarization of American public schools
Steve Filips and Don Barrett - Syracuse, New York’s Fowler High School to be “reformed” This fall, Syracuse, New York will join the still small but growing list of public schools dedicated to the ...
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Drones Are a Military Recruiting Issue
Seth Kershner - Over the past several years, activists have fought against the use of unmanned aircraft (commonly called “drones”) to carry out targeted killings in the war on terror. Anti-drone ...
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America's Third World War
John Stockwell - PART I This series of interviews was presented in October 1987 and represents an important revelation of covert aperations that resulted in millions of innocents killed by draconian ...
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How the Military Collects Data on Millions of High School Students
Charles Davis/ Vice - The calls started when I was a junior in high school—always in the evening, always after The Simpsons and always with an older gentleman on the other end of the line. “Charles, ...
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Student Privacy and the Military in Connecticut: Don't Let SB 423 Die!
The National Coalition to Protect Student Privacy - The military in Connecticut's General Assembly influence runs counter to the sensibilities and civil liberties of the citizens of the Constitution ...
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Education Alert: Military Teaches Our Kids
There’s a saying in the Army recruiting community: “First to contact, first to contract.” In the United States, you have to be at least 17 years old to enlist in the armed forces. But, according to ...
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Passing the Torch, at Last: Finding a New Generation of Anti-War Activists
William T. Hathaway - The following is an excerpt from the book, Radical Peace: People Refusing War, by William Hathaway. It is a collection of reports from antiwar activists who share true stories ...
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Play virtual war as much as you like, but don’t shoot at the Red Cross!
Permanent Observatory on Small Arms, Security and Defence Policies (OPAL) - (See article of origin from International Red Cross below Notes on this Press Release by OPAL) The Permanent Observatory ...
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In Chicago schools' Junior ROTC programs, some see a troubling trend
Matthew Kovac - Beate Medina was returning home from walking her dogs one evening in May 2004 when she saw two Army officers standing at her door. The sight did not immediately register. Uniformed ...
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The Military’s View of Counter-recruitment
Seth Kershner - Over the past few years, my colleague Scott Harding and I have been chronicling the counter-recruitment movement from the perspective of activists. In this article, I’ll take a ...