The branches of the U.S. military have long seen high schools as optimal recruiting grounds. Some veterans are beginning to fight the propaganda and tell students the truth about military service. April 3, 2023 / Ruben Abrahams Brosbe / Yes! Magazine - March 20 marked the 20th anniversary of the United States’ invasion of Iraq. The war took hundreds of thousands of Iraqi lives, with some ...
A recent string of revelations about abuses by the Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps presents an opportunity to rein in the military’s presence and power in public schools. 01.08.2023 / Seth ...
August 23 2022 / Steve Early / Suzanne Gordon / Jacobin - We’ve long known that the US armed forces target poor and working-class students to meet their enlistment goals. But according to a recent ...
Peter G. Anderheggen | Originally published in Draft NOtices - August/September, 2017 Winsted Area Peace Action has been visiting high schools in northwestern Connecticut for at least ten years. The ...
Emily Yates | Originally published in Truthout - July 16, 2016 "Back when we started, recruiters were just blatantly lying to the kids," said Susan Quinlan, the co-founder and volunteer coordinator ...
Seth Kershner - In 2012, Kate Connell—a photographer with two children in the Santa Barbara public schools—learned that her son’s freshman seminar had a Marine recruiter as a guest speaker. Her son ...
Scott Harding, Seth Kershner - ISBN 9781137515254 Publication Date September 2015 Formats Hardcover Ebook (EPUB) Ebook (PDF) Publisher Palgrave Macmillan "This book brilliantly dissects not only the ...
Patrick Elder and Seth Kershner - As military recruiters gain a foothold in Christian schools, grassroots activists across the nation are sounding the alarm. SUMMER IS THE season for high school ...
Seth Kershner - Over the past several years, activists have fought against the use of unmanned aircraft (commonly called “drones”) to carry out targeted killings in the war on terror. Anti-drone ...
Henry Giroux - This article draws from a number of ideas in Henry A. Giroux's newest book, Neoliberalism's War on Higher Education. As universities turn toward corporate management models, they ...