{news} [Fwd: Conference on Draft Resistance and Counter-Recruiting]

[Elizabeth M. Brancato]

Conference on Draft Resistance and Counter-Recruiting


Saturday, April 16
11am-5pm
at PS 41, 116 West 11th St. (at 6th Ave)
in Manhattan

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As the war against the people of Iraq continues and the 
Bush Administration contemplates new wars against Iran, 
Venezuela, Syria, North Korea, and elsewhere, the Pentagon 
is finding that it does not have enough troops. 
Enlistments are down and soldiers are begining to refuse 
to deploy. Some have sued the military over its "stop 
loss" policy.

The military is becoming desparate for new soldiers. 
Recruiters are becoming more aggressive, targeting poor 
and working class youth with their slick sales campaigns. 
They are using a little-known provision of the No Child 
Left Behind Act to obtain access to students' personal 
information.

Meanwhile, the Selective Service System is gearing up for 
a draft, staffing local draft boards, streamlining the 
induction process, and training volunteer registrars to 
work in high scholls to ensure maximum compliance with 
registration. Their goal is to "Ensure a mobilization 
infrastructure of 56 State Headquarters, 442 Area Offices 
and 1,980 Local Boards are operational within 75 days of 
an authorized return to conscription." (Strategic 
Objective 1.2 of the FY 2004 Selective Service Performance 
Plan)

Youth have a right to defend themselves against recruiters 
who are preying upon them, trying to drag them away from 
school to kill or be killed in an illegal war. They also 
have the right to refuse to be inducted into an Army in 
order to wage war for empire.

This conference will feature veterans, draft counselors, 
counter-recruiting organizers, and youth activists. 
Workshops will be focused on developin concrete strategies 
and tactics to stop the draft before it starts and shut 
down military recruiting.

Workshops and presentations will include:
1) Counter-recruiting strategies
2) The economic draft
3) Organizing now to stop the draft
4) Draft resistance
5) Shutting down ROTC
6) Your rights on campus


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1) Register for the conference online: 
http://www.NoDraftNoWay.org
2) Donate online: 
http://www.nodraftnoway.org/donate-new.shtml
3) Download literature and help get the word out: 
http://www.nodraftnoway.org/resources.shtml
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