Building a National Student Counter-Recruitment Movement

Campus Antiwar Network

Counter Recruitment Curriculum for the High School Classroom

June Brumer, Ruby Butler and Zamill Bonner, Alternatives to War through Education/CCCO,
Adrienne Sciutto, Recruitment Education,
Elisa Ghang, Women of Color Resource Center

An overview of some of the resources to help you make successful counter recruitment presentations to high school classrooms and youth groups. Includes examples of interactive games, "CR Jeopardy," downloadable photos and text for a lesson plan on "What Recruiters Don't Tell You," and a "Fashion & Militarism" slide show.

Creating a Student Newspaper

Campus Antiwar Network

Demilitarizing Schools and Presenting Alternatives- CAMS Adopt A School Project

Arlene Inyoue and Gregory Sotir, Coalition Against the Militarization of our Schools, Los Angeles, CAMS

This workshop will share about the experience and strategies of CAMS, a grassroots coalition with a multi pronged approach to addressing militarism in L.A. schools. With a base from the teachers union (Human Rights Committee, UTLA) we have expanded our vision to a focused goal on supporting students in their empowerment and dismantling the militarism embedded in the school system. We will present our new Adopt A School Guidebook and Tool Kit available on the web, which gives a step by step process to addressing the militarism in the school and providing alternatives.

Guiding Principles for Direct Action

Campus Antiwar Network

How to Start a CAN Chapter at Your School

Campus Antiwar Network

Kicking Recruiters Out of Our Schools

Campus Antiwar Network

Lobbying 101 for Counter Recruitment

David Mezzera, School of the Americas Watch

Using HR 551 as a sample piece of legislation, help participants in the workshop understand their role and potential power in moving a bill or resolution through Congress. Conversely, taking a piece of legislation such as the resumption of the draft and helping participants understand methods of trying to block such legislation from moving through the committee process. Such a workshop would hopefully answer the who, what, why and how questions of private, individual lobbying.

Make Art, Take Action

Celana Ahtye, Art in Action,
Alli Chagi-Star, Art in Action

We will create theater that matters through a collaborative process called "Democracy Dances," and other creative group games. The workshops goals are to cultivate an awareness of the causualties of war through experience and expression in dance, theater, song, and to create art that can be used in future actions against recruitment and militarization.

Military Families & Resisters Panel Discussion

Fernando Suarez del Solar, founder of Proyecto Guerrero Azteca and member of Gold Star Families for Peace and Military Families Speak Out (MFSO);
Judith Ross, MFSO member recently arrested in civil disobedience at the White House;
Marylin Saner, MFSO member with one son in Iraq,
Laurie and Russell Loving, their son in Iraq, started the Sacramento region MFSO.

A panel of parents who are members of Gold Star Families for Peace and Military Families Speak Out lead a discussion, sharing their own experiences, answering questions and providing support and essential information for families with loved ones in the war, returning from the war, or about to be deployed. The workshop will include information on many ways to get involved, including counter-recruitment in high schools.

Organizing Against Repression in Our Schools

Campus Antiwar Network

People Power Strategy

Levana Saxon, David Solnit, Aryeh Shell, Courage to Resist

The workshop will include ideas, skills and hands-on role-plays and exercises to help us be more strategic in our counter-recruitment efforts. We will cover people power and how it works, how to plan a campaign and how to frame our story.

Slideshow: A Conscientious Objector's View of Iraq from within the US Army

Aidan Delgado, Iraq war veteran, conscientious objector

Aidan Delgado served in Iraq from April 2003 to April 2004 where he was deployed as an Army Reserve Specialist in Nasiriyah and Abu Ghraib. Soon after his arrival in Iraq, he sought conscientious objector status and turned in his weapon. At Abu Ghraib, he witnessed U.S. soldiers abuse and kill Iraqi detainees. After serving his full tour of duty, Aidan Delgado was finally granted conscientious objector status and was honorably discharged. He offers a first person account of the horrors of war, illustrated with photos he took while serving in Iraq.

Who's the Target: Media Literacy in Times of War

Isabel G., Just Think

Participants will be introduced to the key concepts of media literacy and take part in a group activity to analyze military recruitment and partiotic acvertising (commecials, Magazines, posters, brochures, etc.) for hidden messages that we do not realize we are receiving.