Education Not Militarization

Submitted by Gary on Sat, 27/08/2016 - 23:13

Project YANO's video of students sharing their personal goals and talking about the pressure they feel from military recruiters.

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alternatives to militarism

counter-recruitment

immigration

Junior Reserve Officer Training Corp

military recruitment

poverty draft

school demilitarization

School Military Corps

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North America

United States of America

Congress is again considering proposals to end, or to expand, Selective Service

Once again in 2022, sooner than we expected, Congress is considering proposals either to finally end the widely disregarded, unenforced, and unenforceable requirement for men ages 18-26 to register and report changes of address to the Selective Service System for use in a future military draft — or to try to expand draft registration to young women as well as young men

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A uniform hat at a Naval Academy graduation in Annapolis, Md., in 2008

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Countering Military Recruitment

WRI's new booklet, Countering Military Recruitment: Learning the lessons of counter-recruitment campaigns internationally, is out now. The booklet includes examples of campaigning against youth militarisation across different countries with the contribution of grassroot activists.

You can order a paperback version here.