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by builder123
Monday, Feb. 16, 2004 at 12:59 PM
Manual Arts High February 7th 2004
United Teacher Los Angeles Human Rights Committee presented its inaugural forum on militarism in our schools. Student organizers, activists and long time counter militarism groups took part in a panel discussion and workshops.
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above Rick Jahnkow Co-founder of the Committee Opposed to Militarism and the Draft (COMD, Youth and Non-Military Opportunities (YANO), San Diego stream R. Jahnkow – Audio stream Enlistment Advertising
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by builder123
Monday, Feb. 16, 2004 at 12:59 PM
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Manual Arts High February 7th 2004 Duration 0:12:39
“…One of the key problems in the United States is Militarism. It’s a word that we often don’t want to even use it seems in this country, Umm at least the general population. They don’t like to think of this country as one that is militaristic, but it is. And so we see it, as one of our roles is to use that word, the “M” word… It needs to be used much more often, because until we recognize that that characterizes where we live it’s going to be very hard to dig deeper and recognize why…”
“…What has been most effective in the country in getting existing JROTC units out has been when students themselves do the organizing. Because when they educate their peers and the peers stop joining JROTC it drops below a hundred and after two years of that, by contract the unit has to disbanded…”
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by builder123
Monday, Feb. 16, 2004 at 12:59 PM
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Retired military personnel are given a special JROTC teaching credential that doesn’t require a college degree. Meanwhile L A’s under funded schools pick up a big part of the tab (over two million $$$).
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by builder123
Monday, Feb. 16, 2004 at 12:59 PM
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Uncle Sam hires Madison Avenue in ad campaign directed at youth.
Duration 28 seconds
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