The Complete Counter-Recruitment Guide

This is a comprehensive toolkit of Counter-Recruitment pamphlets, handouts, posters, and articles on counter-recruitment and how to set up a counter-recruitment table in your community or at your school.

The first part of this guide consists of pamphlets that I would suggest you put out on your table, the rest is divided into 9 different sections and is compiled of informational articles, and other counter-recruitment materials. I would suggest printing at least one copy of each of these documents and keeping them in a binder that you can take with you to your counter-recruitment table for reference. Also, these first pamphlets are just my suggestion, please put out on your table whatever pamphlets you think would be best geared toward your audience.

THESE ARE PAMPHLETS I SUGGEST
YOU PUT OUT ON YOUR TABLE

Note: If you are printing pamphlets please print doublesided in order to conserve.

Counter-Recruitment Pamphlets

• What You Should Know Before Joining The Military
  The Military's Not Just a Job, It's Eight Years of Your Life!
  
• Choosing a Career That Pays in Many Ways
  Careers In Peacemaking and Social Change
  
• Questions/Answers For Military Recruiters
  
• Make Our Schools Military Free Zones
  
• Do You Know Enough To Enlist?
  
• Are You Considering Enlistment?
  
• No Student Left Unrecruited?
  
• OPT OUT FORM

Alternatives to Joining the Military Pamphlets

• Financing College Without Joining The Military
  
• Job Alternatives in New Hampshire
  
• Ameri Corps Fact Sheet
  
• City Year-Pamphlet
  
• Finding Alternatives

Posters - Put These Up On Your Table Or Anywhere You See Fit!

• 10 Points To Consider Before You Sign a Military Enlistment Agreement
  
• The Truth About What Military Recruiters Promise

THESE ARE REFERENCE ARTICLES AND EXTRA
PAMPHLETS I SUGGEST YOU CHECK OUT
AND KEEP WITH YOU FOR REFERENCE
IN A BINDER AT YOUR TABLE

Counter-Recruitment

• Recruiters Lie - HANDOUT
  
• Conscientious Objection and Guidance Responsibilities - HANDOUT
  
• Actions Students Can Take To Counter Military Recruiting In The Schools and In The Community - HANDOUT
  
• Delayed Entry Program - The Real Story - PAMPHLET
  
• Thinking About Enlisiting In The Military? - PAMPHLET
  
• The Hidden Wounds of War - PAMPHLET NEED TO BUY 100 Brochures for $12
  
• Thinking of Joining the US Military to Gain Citizenship? - HANDOUT
  
• The Recruitment Minefield - ARTICLE
  
• IVAW - Truth In Recruiting - HANDOUT

Alternatives to Joining the Military

• AmeriCorps. NCCC Team Leader - PAMPHLET
  
• IT's My Life! - A Great Alternatives to The Military Book You Can Order from the American Friends Service Committee Website for Need To Buy $10.
  
• College Scholarships - HANDOUT
  
• You Can Stay Free of The Military -HANDOUT
  
• After High School - PAMPHLET

Militarism

• So You Want To Be A Man? - HANDOUT
  
• Campaign to Challenge Militarism in Schools - PACKET
  
• Does the Military Protect Our Freedom? - ARTICLE
  
• 5 Deadly Myths About The Military - HANDOUT
  
• Militarism: The Harshest Despotism -ARTICLE
  
• Militarism - ARTICLE
  
• America Continues March to Militarism - HANDOUT

Iraq War

• Law Groups Say U.S. Invasion Illegal - ARTICLE
  
• The Case Against War On Iraq - ARTICLE
  
• Was The Iraq War Legal, Or Illegal, Under International Law? - ARTICLE
  
  

GI Bill - Money for College Myth

• GI Bill: A Reality Check - HANDOUT
  
• The Poverty Draft - 8 Things You Need To Know - HANDOUT
  
• Military Money For College: A Reality Check - ARTICLE
  
• Montgomery GI Bill - FACT SHEET

Understanding A Recruiter's Job/ Documented Recruiter Misconduct

• Army Recruiters Accused of Misleading Students - ARTICLE
  
• A Recruiter's Perspective - HANDOUT
  
• Recruiter Reality - HANDOUT

Women/LGBT Issues and Abuse In the Military

• What Every Girl Should Know About The U.S. Military - NEED TO BUY $0.15
  
• Battered By The Pentagon - Facts About The Military And Women - NEED TO BUY $0.08
  
• Is Opposing the War an LGBT Issue? - PACKET
  
• Joining the Military is Hazardous to Women - HANDOUT

ASVAB/OPT-OUT/JROTC - Military In Schools

• What Student and Educators Should Know About Military Testing In Our High Schools - PAMPHLET
  
• Options for Controlling Military Recruiter Access to Secondary Schools and Students - HANDOUT
  
• Some Objections To JROTC - HANDOUT
  
• Is JROTC An Extra Expense for Local Schools? - HANDOUT
  
• US Army Recruiting Command Initiatives - JROTC - INFO SHEET
  
• Researching the ASVAB Test In Your School - HANDOUT
  
• High School Students Rights! - PACKET
  
• Military Recruitment in the High Schools - HANDOUT
  
• ASVAB A Wolf In Sheep's Clothing - HANDOUT
  
• JROTC INFO   - HANDOUT

Official U.S. Military Documents

• Official Enlistment Document for the Armed Forces of the United States
  
• USAREC School Recruiting Program Handbook

GREAT WEBSITES

American Friends Service Committee

Iraq Veterans Against the War

Veterans For Peace

The National Network Opposing the Militarization of Youth

Project on Youth and Non-Military Opportunities - YANO

War Resisters League

This information was compiled by Alex Freid. Alex is a Senior at Oyster River High School and did this project for Seacoast Peace Response as part of his internship in the 2008-2009 school year. Alex began setting up counter-recruitment tables at his high school his Junior year with an organization he started called the Durham Students for a Democratic Society.

If you have any questions please feel free to contact Alex Freid at:

afreid09@yahoo.com
or cell phone number (603)-608-9859

He made this page for you and he would be glad to hear from you.

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