Recruiters OUT of our schools! Across the country, parents, teachers, and activists are taking action to protect students from the lies, manipulation, and abusive tactics of military recruiters. If you are interested in organizing to pass a resolution in your City Council, student government, PTA, union, or school board, or in campaigning for a Ballot Initiative to keep military recruiters out of our schools, contact us for help and information.

In School Board meetings, Parent Teacher Associations, Student Governments, and other meetings across the U.S., parents and students are taking action to defend students against military recruiters.

Concerned parenst have become such an obstacle that recruiters have identified them as the biggest obstacle. We need to continue to build on that and drive military recruiters out of our schools.

Recruiters have no place in public schools--they are predators, who lie to young people and manipulate their economic situation in order to drag them away to fight wars of occupation. We have a right and an obligation to demand that they not be allowed to use schools to recruit cannon fodder for their illegal wars.

Amy Hagopian, co-chair of the Garfield High PTSA, challenges Marine Sgt. Christopher Matthews in the school lunchroom. Hagopian is part of a campaign to get military recruiters barred from the school.

San Francisco

In San Franciso, parents and antiwar activists submitted a local ballot measure on Monday, July 11, that will, if passed, put the city on record opposing the presence of military recruiters in public high schools and colleges.

Organizers are working to gather enough signatures to place the initiative, called "College Not Combat," on the November ballot. It would encourage school officials to deny access to recruiters, even if that means the loss of Federal money. The initiative also encourages the creation of scholarships and training programs to challenge the military's appeal to disadvantaged youth.

One of the organizers, Ragina Johnson said, "We do not see George Bush's daughters signing up. It is poor and working-class people who need a job and education at the same time billions are being spent on this war."

News Coverage:

Initiative Opposes Military Recruiting on Campus

Activists Push for 'College Not Combat'

Activists Want To Stop Military Recruitment In SF Schools

Seattle

The Parent Teacher Student Association of Garfield High School took a decisive step in May, voting 25 to 5 to adopt a resolution that says "public schools are not a place for military recruiters."

"The mission of the PTA is to protect and defend kids," said Amy Hagopian, a mother of three whose son is a Garfield senior. "It's not just limited to education issues - which explains why the PTA takes positions on kids' health, violence, and other serious issues."

She added, ""They're spending $4 billion a month in Iraq, but we have to cut our race relations class, which costs $12,500. That's an important class for our kids."

Steve Ludwig, whose son is a senior at Garfield, made a point shared by many in the PTSA: Garfield does not allow organizations that promote illegal activities to recruit students to perform those activities, nor does it allow organizations that discriminate on the basis of race, gender, national origin, or sexual orientation to recruit on campus.

Ludwig told the Christian Science Monitor, ""Planned Parenthood, as far as I know, does not advocate or perform illegal acts. The US military does. He said he would not object if Army representatives came to Garfield to debate their ideas on torture or aggressive war. "What I object to is their coming here to recruit students to perform those acts," he said. "It's not about free speech."

News Coverage:

Military recruiters under fire at Garfield

Rift Over Recruiting at Public High Schools

Growing Problem for Military Recruiters: Parents

Help Remove Military Recruiters from your schools!

The Army Recruiting Handbook for High Schools says that their goal is "school ownership." Our goal is to deny them that ownership. The schools belong to the people, not to the Pentagon.

Join the national movement against military recruiting. Ask your PTA, union, school board, city council, or student government to pass a resolution barring recruiters from your local schools.

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People who oppose the implementation of the draft need to act now to stop it. We cannot rely on politicians; we must be a massive grass-roots movement to say "No Draft! No Way!"

We need to begin now to build this movement. Here are some ways to begin:

• Become a NoDraftNoWay.org organizer in your area.
• Organize a local anti-draft group in your community.
• Download the NoDraftNoWay literature and begin to get the word out in your school, union, place of worship, and workplace.
• Expose the "Economic Draft" already in place by providing counter-recruiting information to young people and organizing demonstrations outside recruiting centers.
• Organize local demonstrations at the site of your local Selective Service office.
• Write letters to members of Congress and the local media expressing opposition to the draft.
• Donate to help us get the word out.