Counter Recruiting
The military sells itself as a ticket to college, targeting working class young people of color. Help get the truth out about what military life is really like. Students and parents learn your rights about saying no to the military in your schools.
The Counter-Recruiting Effort
The reason to have a military is to be prepared to fight and win wars... it's not a jobs program.
–Dick Cheney
Here’s what military families said they would tell young people thinking of joining the military: What would you tell a person thinking of joining the military?
Think the military will help you get an education? Check out that and other lies recruiters will tell you at The Myths of Military Opportunity: Read Before You Enlist
Do You Know Enough to Enlist? Enlistment Choices
The Military is Hazardous to Your Education... Your Future... People of Color [link to]
Have you signed up with the Delayed Enlistment Program but are having second thoughts? Call the GI Rights Hotline at (800)394-9544.
Parents and Students learn your rights to say no to military recruiters in your schools: High School Students’ Rights: No Child Left Unrecruited
Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors: Read Before You Enlist