Recruitment Resources

by | Oct 23, 2009 | GI Rights & Counseling

RECRUITMENT / ENLISTMENT / REGISTRATION / DRAFT / YOUTH AND MILITARISM
* Articles

* Guides

* Documents

* Organizations

* Community Involvement

* Additonal Resources

Formerly in javascript scroller:
line[1]=”==> HERE’S WHAT YOU DON’T HEAR FROM THE RECRUITERS! <==”
line[2]=”UNDER STOP LOSS MILITARY ENLISTMENTS ARE POTENTIALLY UNLIMITED IN LENGTH. ”
line[3]=”RECRUITERS’ PROMISES ARE OFTEN FALSE, OR NOT KEPT.”
line[4]=”MILITARY SERVICE DOES NOT PAY OFF IN FUTURE JOB EARNINGS.”
line[5]=”THE HAZARDS OF MILITARY SERVICE INCLUDE MORE THAN JUST GETTING KILLED OR WOUNDED.”
line[6]=”WOMEN IN THE MILITARY FACE A VERY HIGH INCIDENCE OF HARASSMENT AND RAPE.”
line[7]=”MILITARY LIFE IS VERY HARD ON FAMILIES.”
line[8]=”PERSONS WHO SIGN UP FOR DELAYED ENLISTMENT CAN GET OUT OF THE PROGRAM, RELATIVELY EASILY.”
line[9]=”BENEFITS PROMISED TO VETERANS HAVE BEEN CUT.”

FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE READ: Military Recruiting FAQ

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* Articles

DRAFT SELECTIVE SERVICE SYSTEM (SSS)

COUNTER RECRUITMENT

RECRUITMENT / ENLISTMENT

The Recruitment Minefield (Spring 2005)

Registration:

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* Guides & Memos

GUIDES

MEMOS – Counter Recruitment

  • RIGHTS OF COUNTER-RECRUITERS TO ACCESS SCHOOLS
    By Paula Aiello and Jeff Lake (word doc download)
  • Counter-Recruitment: Legality of Statutes Proscribing Counter-Recruitment Efforts
    By Kat Rakowsky     (pdf download)
  • Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery Test (ASVAB) (pdf download)

MEMOS – Recruitment / Enlistment

  • What are the Limits on One’s First Amendment Rights to Counsel Desertion or Engage in Counter-Recruitment?
    By Ben Rosenfeld (Word doc download)
  • Military Recruiting FAQ–A Consumer’s – Please Print, Post & Share (pdf download )

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* Documents

* Organizations

Informational Websites from MLTF member Edward Hasbrouck

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* Community Involvement

RESOLUTIONS OF BOARDS OF SUPERVISORS FOR TROOP WITHDRAWALS FROM IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN

Image url: nlgmltf.org/images/anti-recruitment_event_2_4_07-059.jpg
(San Francisco Bay Area Independent Media Center)
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/02/09/18478091.php
caption: On Feb 9, a forum on why and how people should stop recruiters took place at Laney college. The event, Stop Recruitment! Stop the war! was organized by a wide range of groups ( Code Pink, World Cant Wait, Women for Peace, United for Peace and Justice, Peace and Freedom Party, and students groups at Laney). A main topic that came up again and again was the latest resolution of the Berkeley City Council that called the recruiters “unwelcome intruders” and gave Code Pink free permit to have a weekly demonstration and a sound permit. Since than, the City Council came under enormous attacks; ranging from senators who are trying to pass a bill to deny federal money from Berkeley, to extreme right wing groups such as Move America Forward and Gathering of Eagles, who are planning to have a demonstration this Tuesday in front of the City Council. (San Francisco Bay Area Independent Media Center)

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* Additonal Resources

Including Youth/Peer Organizing, Opposing JROTC Expansion, Military Access to Student Lists, The Poverty Draft, Alternatives to Joining the Military, Counter-recruitment Strategies/Legal Issues, College Recruitment, Military Recruiting & Race, Gender, and Ethnicity, Draft Registration/Conscientious Objection

No Child Left Unrecruited
Military recruiters have unprecedented access to our nation’s students By Harold Jordan, Spring 2003 www.rethinkingschools.org/war/readings/unre173.shtml (Link will open a new window)
www.rethinkingschools.org/war/pdfs/unre173.pdf (pdf)

American Friends Service Committee
www.afsc.org/youthmil/default.htm (Link will open a new window)
youthmil@afsc.org

American Friends Service Committee · National Youth & Militarism Program
www.afsc.org/youthmil/news/nochild.htm (Link will open a new window)

Youth and The Military
www.youthandthemilitary.org/ (Link will open a new window)

“Who Will Fight This War”
Authors: Edward Hasbrouck was convicted in Boston in 1982 for organizing resistance to draft registration.
Marguerite Helen, his mother, is a military counselor for the GI Rights Hotline (617) 661-6130 ext. 3000 www.afsc.org/pwork/0303/030312.htm (Link will open a new window)

New England Yearly Meeting
Peace and Social Concerns Committee
Military Service, Recruitment, and Enlistment
www.neym.org/pandsc/military.html (Link will open a new window)

Mennonite Resistance to Draft Registration 1980 – 1985
www.yachana.org/research/writings/draft/ (Link will open a new window)

Selective Service System
www.sss.gov/reg5.htm (Link will open a new window)
www.sss.gov/FSstateleg.htm (Link will open a new window)

FAQ’s About the Military Draft, Draft Registration, and Draft Resistance
www.resisters.info (Link will open a new window)

FAQ about Health Care Workers and the Draft:
www.MedicalDraft.info (Link will open a new window)

Edward Hasbrouck
edward@hasbrouck.org
hasbrouck.org (Link will open a new window)
tel. 415-824-0214