COUNTER RECRUITMENT
American Friends Service Committee Youth and Militarism Program includes many downloadable pamphlets and leaflets alerting students to their rights, choices, realities and alternatives when considering the military. http://www.afsc.org/youthmil/
Coalition Against Militarism in Our Schools (CAMS) is a southern California-based organization with lots of resources, links and lesson plans on its website. http://www.militaryfreeschools.org/
Committee Opposed to Militarism and the Draft (COMD) "challenges the institution of the military, its effect on society, its budget, its role abroad and at home, and the racism, sexism and homophobia that are inherent in the armed forces and Selective Service System." http://www.comdsd.org/CounterRecruiter "aims to chronicle the growing counter military recruiting movement across the country. It is a project of The Indypendent, the newspaper of the New York City Independent Media Center." http://rncwatch.typepad.com/counterrecruiter/
Leave My Child Alone! “is a family privacy campaign to protect…high school students from unwanted military recruiting.” It enables parents to go online to opt-out their children. http://www.leavemychildalone.org/
Mainstream Moms Operation Blue currently is sponsoring a project focusing “on family privacy, and helping parents and students opt out of the No Child Left Behind requirement that high schools turn over family information to military recruiters.” http://www.themmob.org/
Solomon Amendment Response and Protest is a web page located on the Georgetown Law School site that deals with the Solomon Amendment. The page explains that to "comply with the Solomon Amendment, law schools must affirmatively assist military recruiters in the same manner they assist other recruiters, which means they must propagate, accommodate, and subsidize the military’s message. In so doing, the Solomon Amendment conditions funding on a basis that violates the law schools’ First Amendment rights." http://www.law.georgetown.edu/solomon/Index.htmlStopping the War Where It Begins is the web site for The National Network Opposing Militarization of Youth (NNOMY), "a growing national network of groups working to stop the militarization of schools and young people." http://www.youthandthemilitary.org/
The Project on Youth and Non-Military Opportunities (Project YANO) describes itself as a "nonprofit community organization that provides young people with an alternative point of view about military enlistment." http://www.projectyano.org/
RecruitmentEducation.org has developed a rich lesson plan on the topic "What Recruiters Don't Tell You." http://www.recruitmenteducation.org/
Above: Pickets in front of Chambers Street recruiting station in NYC chanting "recruiters out of the schools" after mass leafleting on Monday, August 8th. Check this page for future events.
