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Truth in Recruitment

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Counter-Recruitment Packets Now Available for Students, Parents and Teachers.

Peace Action now has available counter-recruitment packets for students, teachers and parents.  These feature things like information on limiting recruiter access to your school, information on misinformation given by recruiters, information on combating ASVAB testing in your school, examples of careers in peacemaking, informational cartoons, how to get out of the delayed entry program, questions to ask recruiters and more.  We also have 2 sets of curriculum teachers can use.  In addition, we have 4 counter-recruitment DVDs in varying lengths that can be borrowed.  All of these items are available free of charge at the Peace Action Center, 1001 E Keefe Ave.  For more information e-mail Liz at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or call 414-964-5158.  We also have a Truth In Recruitment Committee that all are welcome to join.Worried about Military Recruitment in High Schools?

Are you worried about:

  • Military recruiters not being honest with students?
  • Schools being required to hand over student contact information to military recruiters?
  • JROTC programs replacing physical education classes?
  • "Career Tests" where students' results are used as a recruitment tool?
  • Limited opportunities to "opt-out" of being targeted by recruiters?

The goals of this committee will be to work with local high schools, the school board and the city council to prevent military recruiters from having easy access to high school students in Milwaukee, make sure recruiters are honest with students, and to educate students about some of the negative consequences of joining the army and present them with different options.

 

 

Bring The Guard Home

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Tell Your Wisconsin Legislators: Bring the Guard Home!

Tell your state legislators to support Assembly Bill 203. This is a bill that would require the Governor to review any Federal order for the deployment of our National Guard overseas to ensure that the order was lawful - and to take action to resist any Federal order that is deemed unlawful. Nearly eight years ago, Congress passed an Authorization for Use of Military Force in Iraq (AUMF) based on a limited, two-part mission for our military in Iraq: 1) to eliminate the alleged threat posed by Iraqi WMDs; and 2) to remove Saddam Hussein from power. However, the WMD's did not exist and Saddam Hussein is no longer in power. The mission authorized by Congress is over, and Congress has never voted to reauthorize the mission to Iraq on any other basis. Therefore, the 2002 AUMF -- which is the only legal basis by which the President can demand National Guard troops for Iraq -- has expired. Any continued deployment of Guard units to Iraq is now unlawful.  We can fight this at the state level if this is passed. 

To get this bill passed, the legislators need to hear from their constituents.  Please take some time to call or write your legislator and ask them to support Assembly Bill 203.  You can make a difference!

 

Peace for Afghanistan House Parties

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Rethink Afghanistan DVD Now Available, Sign Up To Host a House Party Today!

There are now two copies of the film Rethink Afghanistan available at Peace Action.  This great DVD is 75 minutes long and separated into 7 segments.  This film is a great way to get a conversation started on Afghanistan.  Please consider hosting an Afghanistan house party in which you invite friends, family and/or neighbors, provide snacks and refreshments, and watch the film together.  We have packets with discussion questions and other helpful materials to assist you in putting on a house party.  Please e-mail Liz at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it for more information, or call 414-964-5158.

This October 7th marked the eighth year of the NATO and US-led war and occupation in Afghanistan. Military operations, carried out in the name of the United States, continue to bombard the Afghan people with daily attacks that kill innocent civilians and establish another generation of Afghans who know only war and occupation.

Earlier this year, President Obama announced his 10 year plan for Afghanistan. It includes an additional 21,000 U.S. military forces deployed in Iraq and diplomatic engagement of Pakistan. He is still trying to force political and social change through the Pentagon, insisting that this is a "war of necessity."

We have a better plan: focus on diplomatic cooperation and humanitarian aid, emphasize job creation, and mitigate civilian casualities by scaling back military force.As we go to press Afghanistan is holding elections. It has been clear throughout the campaign that the majority of Afghans are sick and tired of war. "There is broad agreement the war must end," writes Carlotta Gall in the New York Times, 8/18/09. And Americans, too, are getting tired of this war. A recent CNN poll showed that 54% of the people in the U.S. now oppose the war in Afghanistan. A Washington Post-ABC News poll in August showed 51% of the people thought the Afghan war is not worth fighting. However, Congress and the new administration will only end the war in Afghanistan when the public demands it.

The peace movement is challenged to organize this public sentiment into an effective movement. Now is the time to tap into the political momentum for peace and to educate the American public about the need to remove foreign forces from Afghanistan and increase international support of Afghan-led aid and development.

Now is the time for grassroots action

Hosting an Out-of-Afghanistan House Party is an excellent way to answer questions and educate our friends, family and community about

  • The military, political, economic, cultural, and humanitarian realities of war in Afghanistan
  • Better solutions to secure Afghanistan and consequently the United States and our allies
  • Specific actions we can take to motivate the American public and move our government to support peaceful solutions for Afghanistan
 



News From Everywhere

Exit Strategies for Afghanistan and Iraq By Tom Hayden - ... Representative Dennis Kucinich will step into the crosswinds this week and force the House of Representatives to wake up, pay attention, and vote up or down on the Afghanistan war. The Kucinich initiative at least will reveal where Congress stands. Whether it will energize the peace movement for upcoming March protests or beyond is unpredictable.

Local Nuclear War, Global Suffering by Alan Robock and Owen Brian Toon - Scientific American January 2010: climate.envsci.rutgers.edu [to view sidebars and other supplementary material please use this link] - Worry has focused on the U.S. versus Russia, but a regional nuclear war between India and Pakistan could blot out the sun, starving much of the human race.

Fiction of Marja as City Was US Information War - For weeks, the U.S. public followed the biggest offensive of the Afghanistan War against what it was told was a "city of 80,000 people" as well as the logistical hub of the Taliban in that part of Helmand. ... It turns out, however, that the picture of Marja presented by military officials and obediently reported by major news media is one of the clearest and most dramatic pieces of misinformation of the entire war, apparently aimed at hyping the offensive as a historic turning point in the conflict.