Back to School -- Military Recruitment
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Monday, August 29, 2005
Back to School -- Military Recruitment
RICK JAHNKOW, RJah...@aol.com, http://www.projectyano.org,
http://www.comdsd.org
Jahnkow works with two San Diego-based organizations: the Project on
Youth and Non-Military Opportunities as well as the Committee Opposed to
Militarism and the Draft. He said today: "The Pentagon is having major
shortfalls recruiting people. ... High school students are getting a
distorted picture of the military and war from recruiting ads and marketing."
LIZ RIVERA GOLDSTEIN, l...@teenpeace.org,
http://www.unitedforpeace.org/article.php?list=type&type=76,
http://youthandthemilitary.org
Liz Rivera Goldstein is the chairperson of the National Network
Opposing Militarization of Youth. She said today: "The 'No Child Left
Behind Act' says that military recruiters can go into a school and get
information on students, but parents should be informed and allowed to
'opt-out' of that. Unfortunately, not enough parents -- or educators --
know about the right to 'opt-out.' This situation is in contrast to say a
sex-ed class when there's typically an 'opt-in' -- that is, a permission
slip is required from the parent to participate."
JORGE MARISCAL, gmar...@ucsd.edu, http://jorgemariscal.blogspot.com
Mariscal is a member of the Project on Youth and Non-Military
Opportunities, a professor of Chicano Studies at the University of
California at San Diego and a Vietnam veteran. He said today: "Parents and
students need to know that it's their right to withhold information from
military recruiters. If you don't want to be harassed by the type of
recruiter who does harass people, then file the opt-out form. Unfortunately
this is not always enough. The Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery
(ASVAB) is an exam developed by the Pentagon and currently used in 14,000
schools. Although schools are not required to give the ASVAB, students are
often compelled to take it without knowing that their exam results may be
passed directly to military recruiters."
Mariscal is a participant in today's news conference in San Diego
focusing on military recruitment of Latinos. There are also similar news
conferences or other events in Los Angeles, San Francisco, El Paso, Chicago
and San Juan, Puerto Rico. Contact Mariscal for more details. For more
background on increased recruitment of Latinos, see: "Uncle Sam Really
Wants Usted" by Linda Bilmes at:
<http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-bilmes21aug21,0,5792828.story?coll=la-news-comment-opinions>.
FERNANDO SUAREZ DEL SOLAR, fvsuar...@yahoo.com.mx,
http://news.baou.com/main.php?action=recent&rid=20457
His son, Jesus, was killed in Iraq. He has spent the last several weeks
in Crawford, Texas, and just wrote "An Open Letter to Mr. Bush"; he will be
at the military recruitment event focusing on Latinos on Monday in San Diego.
PAT ELDER, agentfo...@comcast.net, http://www.dawndc.net
Elder is a father of four children, one of them in middle school and
another in high school. He has been involved in counter-recruitment efforts
in the D.C. area for the past year. He said today: "The situation with
recruiters varies a great deal at the local level. Some local school
policies even allow for the release of private psychological and criminal
records from confidential student files to the military. There is also wide
variation in what schools recruiters target -- avoiding upscale ones and
targeting ones that are either poorer or largely African American or Latino."
For more information, contact at the Institute for Public Accuracy:
Sam Husseini, (202) 347-0020; or David Zupan, (541) 484-9167
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