| 10 Excellent Reasons Not to Join the Military  |
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| Nonviolent Youth Collective |
Website for the short, snappy handbook detailing why the military may need you, but you really don't need it. Written by Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg (Editor), Cindy Sheehan (Introduction) |
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NYC prepares young adults to be leaders in the struggle for nonviolent change. |
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| American Friends Service Committee |
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| Not Your Soldier |
| The AFSC carries out service, development, social justice, and peace programs throughout the world. Founded by Quakers in 1917 to provide conscientious objectors with an opportunity to aid civilian war victims, AFSC's work attracts the support and partnership of people of many races, religions, and cultures. Their work is based on the belief in the worth of every person and faith in the power of love to overcome violence and injustice. |
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NYS is a group of organizers, students, youth and allies who have come together to support and help build the national youth anti-war movement. They conduct activist training camps that give youth the tools they need to stop the military invasion of our schools and our communities. |
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| Campus Antiwar Network |
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| Project YANO (Youth and Non-military Opportunities) |
| CAN is an independent, democratic, grassroots network of students opposing the occupation of Iraq and military recruiters in our schools, at campuses all over the country. |
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Project YANO is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit community organization that provides young people with an alternative point of view about military enlistment. Many of their members are armed forces veterans who believe that high school students are getting a distorted picture of the military and war from recruiting ads and marketing. In particular, they are concerned that many low-income students and students of color are being diverted away from higher education and into the military, where they are found in disproportionate numbers. |
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| Center on Conscience & War |
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| Resource Center for Nonviolence |
| CCW, formerly the National Interreligious Service Board for Conscientious Objectors (NISBCO), was formed in 1940 by an association of religious bodies. CCW works to defend and extend the rights of conscientious objectors, and is committed to supporting all those who question participation in war, whether they are U.S. citizens, permanent residents, documented or undocumented immigrants--or citizens in other countries. |
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RCNV is a peace and social justice organization dedicated to promoting the principles of nonviolent social change and enhancing the quality of life and human dignity. Their work takes place in California, throughout the United States, and around the world. RCNV offers a wide-range of educational programs in the history, theory, methodology, and current practice of nonviolence as a force for personal and social change. |
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| Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors |
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| Student Peace Action |
CCCO supports and promotes individual and collective resistance to war and preparations for war. |
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SPAN is a grassroots peace and justice organization working from campuses and communities across the United States. They organize for and end to the physical, social and economic violence caused by U.S. militarism at home and abroad, and campaign for nuclear abolition, disarmament and an end to weapons trafficking. They oppose the complex webs of corporate and military power that perpetuate racism, damage the environment, deprive people of basic needs, and violate human rights.They believe that war is not inevitable and push for practical alternatives. |
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| Coalition Against Militarism in Our Schools |
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| Students and War |
CAMOS's mission is to inform and educate the public, especially students, parents and school personnel about the growing militarization of our schools, and to create and present positive nonviolent alternatives which promote the value of human life, justice and equity for all persons. |
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NWTRCC is a coalition of groups from across the U.S. formed in 1982 to provide information and support to people involved in or considering some form of war tax resistance (WTR). Affiliate organizations and individual supporters are joined together in a common struggle for a more just and peaceful society. |
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| Committee Opposed to Militarism and the Draft (COMD) |
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| Teen Peace |
COMD believes we must resist the spread of militaristic values and the power of the military in our society. |
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Teen Peace provides a teen blog and information on peace-action events. It is directed towards educating teens and young adults about non-violence, peace, war, being drafted, and conscientious objection. |
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| Courage to Resist |
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| The G.I. Rights Hotline |
COURAGE TO RESIST is a group of concerned community members, veterans and military families that support military personnel who object to illegal war and occupation and the policies of empire. Their people-power strategy weakens the pillars that maintain war and occupation in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere by supporting GI resistance, counter-recruitment and draft resistance, which cuts off the supply of troops. |
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GIRH is a network of nonprofit, nongovernmental organizations who provide information to servicemembers about military discharges, grievance and complaint procedures, and other civil rights. |
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| National Network Opposing Militarization of Youth |
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| The Objector |
NNOMY works to stop the militarization of schools and young people! They are proactive in opposing war, and work toward shaping the tone of anti-war and peace conversations to be more inclusive of the counter-recruitment analysis. |
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Home of the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors who support and promot individual and collective resistance to war and preparations for war.
The Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors has been there continuously since 1948, helping people who get caught in the military’s web. They still help them get out, just like they helped people get out of the tragedy of Vietnam. |
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| NonViolence.org |
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| The Ya-Ya Network (Youth Activists-Youth Allies) |
| The WRL’s Youth and Counter Militarism Project, based in New York City, provides youth with the resources and training necessary to agitate against military recruitment in their schools and communities. Their long term goal is to bring youth organizers and young veterans together to help build a unified, national anti-war movement. To help accomplish this, they produce materials, conduct trainings, and work in a number of national coalitions. |
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The Ya-Ya Network is a youth led organization focusing primarily on Counter-Military Recruitment. They work with other groups who’s missions they think are important and who’s issues connect with theirs. They participate in various campaigns, mobilizations, coalitions, education, outreach and resource sharing efforts, and are committed to young people, especially from marginalized communities as leaders in the movements for social, economic and racial justice. |
