IRAQ: IN FOCUS
Iraq: In Focus
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Local & Regional Actions
Hands Off Our Kids: Stopping
Recruiters in Our School Systems
STEP 1: Educate
Yourself and Your Family
The ASVAB is
given to more than a half million public high school students
every year under the guise of “career testing”. Unfortunately
ASVAB only tests for military careers and all of the results from
the four-hour test, along with sensitive personal information,
are released to military recruiters - unless schools take steps
to protect student privacy.
STEP 2: Educate
Your School About Option 8
Most schools don't know the ASVAB is primarily a military recruiting
tool. After all, the military markets it as a public service,
a free "Career Exploration Program" to assist kids in
finding appropriate career paths. More importantly, most schools
aren't aware of "ASVAB Release
Option 8," which allows schools to have the
military proctor the test while keeping scores and personal information
private.
STEP 3: Take
Action in Your School District.
Four of the nation’s largest school systems have already
been persuaded to protect student privacy by selecting Option
8. Privacy advocates in Maryland recently passed
legislation requiring public high schools to notify each student
and their guardian of their right to prevent students’ names
and contact information from being released to military recruiters
(Senate
Bill 428).
Peace Action has already supported successful
campaigns to protect students from predatory military recruiting
across the country, contact
us for help doing this work in your community.
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Background
Sample Letter
Link
to Superintendent Contact Information
MARCH 19th: We Made War Bad
for Business
On March 19th
2008, the 5th Anniversary of the Iraq occupation, we did just
that. SPAN and Peace Action activists – along with
hundreds of others – blocked traffic in the busy K-street
corridor during rush hour. Over 300 students from all
over the country took ground at the corner of K, Vermont, and
17th streets for 3 hours in DC; we sang, danced, and educated
the public on war profiteers. It’s was AMAZING.
Watch our video
and check out pictures
from the day before you check out all the press for the event.
If you’d like to join us next time please contact Katherine
Fuchs or Jonathan
Williams.
Online Actions
Open
letter to Congress
We think that five years is five years too many and that the projected
three TRILLION dollar price tag for the war in Iraq is three trillion
dollars too much! If you agree, we need you to join Peace
Action and the forty member organizations of the Win Without War
coalition and call on Congress to stop giving President Bush the
money that he needs to continue the military occupation of Iraq.
Resources
Iraq
Fact Sheet
Iraq Talking
Points: Address the Surge, Democracy Building, and the Quagmire
the Bush Administration has created.
War
Profiteers
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