Tag: Counter-recruitment
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Marginalized students pay the price of military recruitment efforts
With pandemic restrictions easing, military recruiters are returning to high school campuses while anti-recruitment efforts struggle April 18th, 2022 / Roberto Camacho / Prism - The U.S. military utilizes a number of different recruitment methods to garner new enlistments, but their target audience has consistently remained the same: high schoolers, particularly young men from low-income and ...
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Recruitment, counter-recruitment and critical military studies
Introduction December 2016 / Matthew F. Rech / School of Geography, Politics and Sociology, Newcastle University - On 8 January 2002 in the US, George Bush Jr. signed into law an educational federal ...
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Peace Churches in the Orbit of Youth Demilitarization Activism
Gary Ghirardi / NNOMY – In my years working as a communications consultant to counter-recruitment organizations, now approaching twenty years for the summer of 2021, I have experienced personally ...
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ANTIWAR.COM - Counter-Recruitment in the Time of Covid
Kate Connell / Fred Nadis / Antiwar.com / español - In 2016-17, the U.S. Army visited Santa Maria High School and nearby Pioneer Valley High School in California over 80 times. The Marines visited ...
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Why We Still Need a Movement to Keep Youth From Joining the Military
Elizabeth King, In These Times - Eighteen is the youngest age at which someone can join the U.S. military without their parents’ permission, yet the military markets itself to—which is to say ...
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Why We Still Need a Movement to Keep Youth From Joining the Military
Elizabeth King, In These Times - Eighteen is the youngest age at which someone can join the U.S. military without their parents’ permission, yet the military markets itself to—which is to say ...
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Connecticut Peace Group Engages Students with a Peace Wheel
Peter G. Anderheggen | Originally published in Draft NOtices - August/September, 2017 Winsted Area Peace Action has been visiting high schools in northwestern Connecticut for at least ten years. The ...
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Uncle Scram
Brian Montopoli | Washington City Paper, January 31, 2003 Career Day, Cardozo High School. First session. Marine recruiter Sgt. Derrick Sanders is making his pitch. "Good morning, class," he says. ...
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Thanks for Your Service, but Don't Tell the Kids About It (We Need Them to Enlist)
Emily Yates | Originally published in Truthout - "Excuse me, are you saying negative things about the military?" The question came over my right shoulder, from a well-dressed woman whose nametag ...
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These Grannies Are Helping to Plug the School-to-Military Pipeline at Its Source
Joyce Chu - When teachers are underpaid and schools are underserved, why do we pay veterans to encourage young students to join the military? On a Wednesday afternoon last month, a group of ...
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