[Peace-discuss] Fwd: [SRRTAC-L:16781] Re: Handout for prospective enlistees??

[Alfred Kagan]

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Dale Wertz <dwertz at mc.net>
> Date: May 29, 2005 3:09:09 AM CDT
> To: SRRT Action Council <srrtac-l at ala.org>
> Cc: "zzvaw at vvaw.org" <vvaw at vvaw.org>, zzvfp-all 
> <vfp-all at yahoogroups.com>, "bashia_b at hotmail.com" 
> <bashia_b at hotmail.com>, SRRT Action Council <srrtac-l at ala.org>
> Subject: [SRRTAC-L:16781] Re: Handout for prospective enlistees??
> Reply-To: srrtac-l at ala.org
>
> A good handout for prospective enlistees can be downloaded at the 
> Citizen
> Soldier Website: http://www.citizen-soldier.org/.  The leaflet is at 
> the
> bottom of the homepage and is called "Recruiting, The Enlistment 
> Contract
> and You: The Facts, Your Rights."  The website also makes available a 
> book
> about military life and a short video about a Military Entrance 
> Processing
> Station (MEPS).
>
> Two leaflets are available from United for Peace and Justice's
> Counter Military Recruitment Campaign website.  "Demanding Truth in
> Military Recruiting" and "10 Points to Consider Before Signing a 
> Military
> Enlistment Agreement" are available in Spanish and English.  Access 
> them
> at: http://www.unitedforpeace.org/article.php?id=2332.  There is an
> extensive list of resources at this website.
>
> This article from Rethinking Schools, The Recruitment Minefield, can be
> found here: 
> http://www.rethinkingschools.org/archive/19_03/recr193.shtml.
> It is geared more to people reaching out to prospective enlistees in 
> the
> spirit of fostering self-defensive critical thinking skills.
>
> Dale Wertz
> ----------
>
> On Sat, 28 May 2005, tombaxter wrote:
>
>> try
>> http://www.teensforpeace.org/index.html
>> and
>> http://www.comdsd.org/youth.htm
>>
>> Anybody out there have links to any great alternative career handouts.
>>
>> -------- Original Message --------
>> Subject: Handout for prospective enlistees??
>> Date: Sat, 28 May 2005 14:28:45 -0500
>> From: Barbara B <bashia_b at hotmail.com>
>> To: vvaw at vvaw.org
>>
>>
>>
>> Do You have any handouts to give to young men considering enlisting?  
>> I
>> sat opposite a young man who was studying an army manual.  He was 
>> black
>> and looked poor and I wanted to warn him but I didn’t know how to 
>> start
>> and was afraid.  I thought if I had some handouts it would help break
>> the ice in that situation.
>>
>>
>>
>> Barb B.
>>
>> Tom Baxter
>> USAV 1967-69
>> tombaxter.livejournal.com
>> Tallahassee, Florida
>> Write on my gravestone: "Infidel, Traitor." --infidel to every church 
>> that
>> compromises with
>> wrong; traitor to every government that oppresses the people.: Wendell
>> Phillips
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>


Al Kagan
African Studies Bibliographer and Professor of Library Administration
University of Illinois Library
1408 W. Gregory Drive
Urbana, IL 61801

tel. 217-333-6519
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