"The workshop was just great, exactly right for our students and I think highly motivating! We will probably want to bring them back in the spring."
-Pat, coordinator from Swarthmore College (Swarthmore, PA)
"Thank you for coming through La Crosse, Wisconsin to talk about your book and counter-recruiting... I just wanted to let you know that some of the seeds you sowed during
your book tour have started sprouting.
- Cathy in La Crosse, WI
"Everyone loved [Aimee]. I am so very thankful for the work she is doing."
-Sandra, event organizer from El Cerrito, CA
"The excellent effect of the tour here is that there are dates and times being set up to do events at High Schools by the main group that David and Aimee talked with."
-Sue, activist from Milwaukee, WI
"If someone is considering hosting your event, they should really do it. It was one of the best things I've dedicated my time to in my life!"
- Yvette, organizer from Kent, Ohio
"The event was fantastic - it was represented by five high schools who were absolutely thrilled by Aimee and David... the ability of David and Aimee to engage the crowd is something that I haven't seen in any speaker as yet!" -- Aamir, organizer for South Bay Mobilization in San Jose
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Selected Articles by Aimee Allison and David Solnit:
Uniformed U.S. Army Officers lunch with students in elementary school cafeterias. Army training programs including rifle and pistol instruction replace physical education in middle schools. Like never before, military recruiters are entering the halls of U.S. schools with unchecked access in an attempt to bolster a military in crisis.
Even as these destructive efforts to militarize youth accelerate, so do the creative and powerful efforts of students, community members, and veterans to challenge them. Today, the counter recruitment movement—from counseling to poetry slams to citywide lobbying efforts—has become one of the most practical ways to tangibly resist U.S. policy that cuts funding for education and social programs while promoting war and occupation. Without enough soldiers, the U.S. cannot sustain its empire.
Army of None: Strategies to Counter Military Recruitment, End War, and Build a Better World exposes the real story behind the military-recruitment complex, and offers guides, tools, and resources for education and action, and people power strategies to win.
Anti-war, global justice and arts organizer DAVID SOLNIT was a main organizer in the WTO protests in Seattle in 1999 and in San Francisco the day after Iraq was invaded in 2003. He is the editor of Globalize Liberation: How to Uproot the System and Build a Better World. Army veteran Aimee Allison has led school and community counter-recruitment activities over the last decade. She is a contributor to 10 Excellent Reasons Not to Join the Military. She was recruited out of high school and became a Conscientious Objector to the Gulf War. She actively supports veterans that are healing from their war experiences.
Army of None: Strategies to Counter Military Recruitment, End War, and Build a Better World is now available from Seven Stories Press. Individual books are available for a $20 donation to Courage to Resist—that's $5 more than the cover price, but that includes all shipping, handling, and tax.
Authors Aimee Allison and David Solnit will be touring extensively this fall and winter to support counter-recruitment organizing efforts around the United States, and educating students, parents, and young people about the truth behind military recruitment. Please email if you would like them to come to your community. Contact Aimee and David by emailing armynone (at) gmail.com.
Photos by Jeff Paterson
Who I'd like to meet: The Army of None Project is reaching out to young people and community activists around the country, exposing the truth of the military recruitment complex and supporting counter-recruitment efforts far and wide.
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Washington Transcripts (What is really being said in DC)
President Bush wants us to explain why this idiot Charlie Black, even though he works for John McCain, how he doesn’t speak for McCain or this Administration. He wants us to beat the drum extolling McCain’s patriotism in every press briefing. He wants messages that stress how old John can’t stand thinking about doing dirty tricks with terrorism just to get himself elected. It is time to spin up our propaganda propellers, make so much noise that all facts get lost in our prop wash. May the god of spin be with us and may the President convince McCain to fire this moron Black like yesterday!
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Washington Transcripts (What is really being said in DC)
John McCain supports my Iraq War all the way. He is even planning to restore the Draft as soon as we get him elected. That way he will have the troops needed to salvage my accomplished mission. John plans to build in a lot of deferments so the right kind don’t get sucked in, better than those that kept me and the Vice President out of Vietnam.
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Washington Transcripts (What is really being said in DC)
I and John McCain adamantly oppose this new GI bill floating around Congress, the one that gives people who have served only three years in the military full educational benefits. John and I believe it is too costly and will only encourage troops to get out of the service after only one or two combat tours. Get out after being trained to be the world’s best warriors. This country can’t wage my war on terrorism and can’t preserve my Presidential legacy with incentives to back slide like this bill allows.
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This is an excellent initiative! Keep up the good work. It's no coincidence that hardly any policy makers (read war-mongers) in Washington have actually managed to convince their own kids to go fight on the front lines in Iraq.
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In the last decade the Blue Dog Caucus has systematically voted along Neo-Con ideology; bankrupting our economy through deregulation and outsourcing, bringing us into an occupation that has cost over a million innocent lives, and now is making sure that our VETS don't get the proper increases in benefits through the new GI bill !!!
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