Pat Elder
Pat Elder was a co-founder of the DC Antiwar Network (DAWN) and a member of the Steering Committee of the National Network Opposing the Militarization of Youth, (NNOMY). Pat is currently involved in a national campaign with the Women's International League for Peace & Freedom project, Military Poisons, investigating on U.S. military base contamination domestically and internationally. Pat’s work has prominently appeared in NSA documents tracking domestic peace groups.
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Pat Elder - National Network Opposing the Militarization of Youth
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Tough Times for Military Recruiting
How COVID-19 is impacting the Delayed Entry Program and threatening the health of recruits. By Pat Elder / National Network Opposing the Militarization of Youth, NNOMY - June 8, 2020 - Leer la versión en español COVID-19 has profoundly impacted the way the military finds new soldiers. The recruiting command was caught unprepared to face the pandemic and is facing a challenging new reality. ...
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First-person Shooter Games, the US Military, and Serial Killers
Pat Elder - May 23, 2018 - Both Nik Cruz, the Parkland shooter, and Dimitri Dimitrios Pagourtzis, the Santa Fe shooter, were emotionally distraught because of girls who rejected their advances. They ...
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Military Recruiting And How To Confront It
Pat Elder | Originally published in Popular Resistance - June 29, 2017 Wars start in our high schools and this is where we can end them. This year the Army’s goal is to recruit 80,000 active duty ...
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Military Enlistment Ruins Lives
Pat Elder | Counter-Recruit Press | November 2016 The military is the scourge of the American experience. Our military is a scourge on the American experience. Forty percent of those recruited every ...
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The US Military, Like Ancient Rome's, Is Trying to Secure a Dying Empire
Mark Karlin | Originally published in Truthout - February 19, 2017 Delving into the underbelly of the US military, longtime antiwar activist Pat Elder reveals how military recruiters are assisted by ...
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SkoolLive - School Jive - A new, interactive digital invasion of our high schools by corporations and the military
Pat Elder - For years DOD recruiting commanders have attempted to circumvent student privacy protections that are designed to shield minors from the wholesale transfer of student information from ...
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Halt the military invasion of Catholic schools
By Pat Elder - During the Second Battle of Fallujah in November 2004, 1st Lt. Jesse A. Grapes saved the lives of three wounded marines in his platoon by entering a burning house, where he ...
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Military testing in the nation's high schools is a violation of student privacy
Pat Elder - During the last year or so about half of the states have enacted legislation aimed at protecting student privacy. Meanwhile, President Obama has called for a Student Data Privacy Act, ...
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A Military Whitewash Campaign
Pat Elder - The National Coalition to Protect Student Privacy - A bill that would have protected the privacy of Connecticut's school children was recently defeated by the Democratically-controlled ...
TagsState Representative Jack Hennessy | SB 423 Bill | National Coalition to Protect Student Privacy | Lt. Colonel Michael D. Coleman | Connecticut | Career Exploration Program | ASVAB-CEP | Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery | FERPA | Connecticut Coalition to Protect Students Privacy | asvab test | Pat Elder -
Statewide ASVAB Option 8 Bill SB 423, Advances in Connecticut
Pat Elder - We’re working with the ACLU of Connecticut to pass SB 423, a bill that would protect the privacy of high school students who take the ASVAB. On March 19, 2014, SB 423 passed the ...