Tag: counter-recruiting movement
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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 recruits—children at much younger ages. This is in part accomplished by military recruiters who visit high schools around the country, recruiting children during career fairs and often setting up ...
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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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Counter-Recruitment Season
Kevin Young - “Counter-recruitment,” alternatively known as “truth-in-recruiting” or CR for brevity’s sake, involves providing young people and their parents with information about alternatives to ...
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Youths Defy Attacks, Protest at Recruiting Station
14/07/2007 / Bryan G. Pfeifer / Workers World - Dozens of anti-war protesters returned to an Army Recruiting Station two blocks from the University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee April 4 to deliver this ...