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Youth-Organize Counter-Recruitment Actions at your School!
Get a copy of the youth organizers guide from the Not Your Soldier Campaign and use an IMAP screening to mobilize your friends to take back your school and make it a demilitarized zone! Click here to find out how to access the guide and get started!
Help Students Opt Out
In the No Child Left Behind Act there is a clause that requires public high schools to give private student information to military recruiters.
The purpose of this requirement is to allow minor students to be recruited at home by telephone calls, mail and personal visits. If a school does not comply, it risks losing vital federal education funds.
The only way to keep a child’s contact information from military recruiters is to submit an "opt-out" letter in writing to his/her school district’s superintendent.
Invite students and their parents to a screening of an IMAP film and encourage them to sign
"opt-out" forms.
Take It One Step Further….Adopt a School Board
Use a screening of an IMAP films as a springboard for an Adopt-A-School-Board action in your community. This action is for anyone who wants to take the next step in getting your local school board to support "Optimum Opt Out" policies and implementation. Gather family, friends, neighbors, and students together for a School Board outing:
Download the Adopt a School Board Organizing Kit from Leave My Child Alone and find out how to make sure that your local school board is protecting the right to privacy of each and every student. Even if your school board has instituted an opt-out policy you can check Leave My Child Alone's list of Good Policies to insure that this policy is being implemented effectively.
SIGN ON as a Citizen Co-Sponsor of the Student Privacy Protection Act (H.R. 551)
After a screening of an IMAP film collect signatures from the audience in support of the Student Privacy Protection Act. Use the easy online form or print and mail the form to US Representative Mike Honda.
Where children are concerned, it's time to make it a family decision (not a federal mandate) to release our home phone numbers and home addresses to military recruiters.
US Representative Mike Honda's Student Privacy Protection Act does just that. It makes a simple change to No Child Left Behind ensuring schools release private information to military recruiters only if families request it, rather than the other way around.
Please help show Congress that there's broad-based support for family privacy by signing on as a Citizen Co-Sponsor below. U.S. Rep. Mike Honda will use this petition to urge fellow members of Congress to co-sponsor this important legislation.
RESOURCES
Sgt. Abe the Honest Recruiter
http://www.thehonestrecruiter.org
- 1. Find others who are doing counter-recruitment organizing in your state
Visits the AFSC’s state-by-state list of counter recruitment organizers
- 2. Print materials to use in counter-recruitment efforts. The AFSC has an extensive list of PDF files ready for download. Be sure to have some of these tools available at your screening!
- 3. Download this info sheet on “Options for Controlling Military Recruiter Access to Secondary Schools and Students.”
OUR PARTNERS
War Resisters League Youth and Militarism Project
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. Our 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, we produce materials, conduct trainings, and work in a number of national coalitions.
Leave My Child Alone!
A Family Privacy Project to Protect Students from Unwanted Military Recruiting
http://www.themmob.org/lmca/
Buried deep within the No Child Left Behind Act is a provision that requires public high schools to hand over private student information to military recruiters.
The campaign, comprised of ongoing online and offline actions, is focused on the following goals:
- Educate parents about the military recruiting provision of No Child Left Behind and the Pentagan database, and make it easy for parents who want to protect their childrenâ??s privacy to opt-out from these lists.
- Provide tools to parent organizations to demand that their school administrators and school boards fully reveal their privacy policy and adopt methods which make it much easier for parents to protect their children.
- Provide support for the Student Privacy Protection Act of 2005 (H.R. 551), a bill introduced in the House of Representatives which reverses section 9528 (opt-out) and requires schools to first obtain parental permission before releasing private student information to military recruiters (opt-in).
- Facilitate community events to encourage local organizing around schools.
Mainstreet Moms (The MMOB)
http://www.themmob.org/
Mainstreet Moms (The MMOB) is an education-in-action project committed to big change through the accelerated engagement of women, particularly as they identify and self-organize as mothers. MMOB is strictly guilt-free.
American Friends Service Committee
http://www.afsc.org/
The American Friends Service Committee 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.