https://nnomy.org/2025ABTSKit/
The U.S. funding of Israel’s war in Gaza and last year's sending of 100 U.S. troops to Israel to staff anti-missile sites has given students across the country a reason to question the presence of military programs in their high schools.
Many do not want to participate in a service that they believe is tied to a government complicit in “ethnic cleansing” and that has caused the deaths of many innocents, including non-combative women and children.
The National Network Opposing the Militarization of Youth (NNOMY) is providing a packet of resources to inform those who wish to act against military programs that serve the purpose of military recruitment in schools.
The packet includes forms to protect your privacy by requesting to withhold your personal information from the US government and forms to require your consent to participate in militarized programs inside public schools.
The packet includes information on strategies to push-back against the following:
- School use of the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB) testing, a military entrance exam used for student data mining by the military for recruitment purposes.
- JAMRS is the Pentagon's secret super database that contains personal information on approximately 30 million young people between the ages of 16– 25. The database seeks to include names, birth dates, ASVAB test data, email addresses, grade-point averages, ethnicity, and the subjects that students are studying.
- The automatic placement of high school students in Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (JROTC) military classes without parental or student consent.
- Opting Out of school release of student contact information to military recruiters.
- Edward Hasbrouck on Selective Service registration (i.e. the Draft) which happens automatically in most states when applying for a drivers license or ID card.
Peace groups are encouraged to establish pushback against the presence of military recruiting events and war contractor employment fairs at their schools.
Your group can participate with NNOMY by adding a Link back to NNOMY resources on your websites or share the graphics and related messages below on your social media channels to raise awareness about the practices of Pentagon programs in our public schools that indoctrinate youth for military recruitment.
2025 Activist Back-to-school Kit Download Page:
Visit https://nnomy.org/2025ABTSKit/ to download the PDF
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A National High School Intervention
If we stay on message and return to our adopted schools every school year, we will have an impact by engaging our schools, families and youth in a deeper discussion about what it means to be in the military during this time of unending conflicts.
This moment has never been more important, with increasing Pentagon programs in primary, middle and secondary schools, to ask young people to question the normalization of our wars and the risks and impacts that military enlistment can have on their lives and those around them.
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Peaceful Career Alternatives is an informational resource for youth with limited life options. PCA is a necessary community project, where information is shared and networked as an intervention against an economic military draft. We encourage all potential contributors, both individual and foundation, to share our concern for the militarizing of our most vulnerable youth, and the need to participate in promoting positive outcomes for their lives. This is a step in working toward our own collective viability as a peaceful and citizen-based democracy.
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Updated on 9/21/2025 - GDG