Counter-Recruitment_TPF Presentation UTulsa 2006_Public Interest Law Group

8/12/2019 Counter-Recruitment_TPF Presentation UTulsa 2006_Public Interest Law Group

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Death has a tendency to

encourage a depressing view ofwar.

--Donald Rumsfeld

No great dependence is to be placed on theeagerness of young soldiers for

action...Fighting is agreeable to those who arestrangers to it.--Vegetius


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Military advertisingmakes you think

that if you enlist,$70,000 you will get

for your college

education.

In fact, 57% getnothing. The

average net payoutto veterans has

been $2151.


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Giving the

hard sell,on high

schoolgrounds


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Sec.9528 of No Child Left Behind

(a) Policy-

(2) CONSENTA secondary school student orthe parent of the student may request that

the students name, address, and telephonelisting not be released without prior

written consent, and the local educationalagency or private school shall notify

parents of the option to make a request andshall comply with any request.


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Overview- Opt Out & Opt In

OPT OUT procedure: School Districts presume thatstudent contact information will be given torecruiters unless parents take the initiative to optout. Notification to parents about their consent

option ranges from total neglect to a form letterburied in student information packets

OPT IN: Releases information ONLY when parentsgive written permission for recruiter contact, inconformity with customary school practice ofrequiring written consent from parents.


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A newly enlisted soldier must agree tohave $1,200 withheld from their pay for

their first year of service, in order to beeligible for college funds.

To receive anymoney, you must:

contribute $100 of your own money eachmonth,

accept a hard-to-fill military job category, complete your term of enlistment, and receive an honorable discharge.


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The Recruiter's Mission

Each of the Army's recruiters faces a quotaof two new recruits a month. They spendseveral hours per day cold-calling high

school students, whose phone numbers areprovided under the No Child Left Behindlaw. They go to malls, high schools,colleges and wherever young peoplegather. For the first time since 1998, the

Army has lowered its standards, acceptingmore recruits without high school diplomas.NY Times, 3/27/2005.


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The Recruiter's Mission

One of the most common promisesrecruiters use is money for college, butonly 16% of enlisted personnel whocompleted four years of military duty ever

received money for schooling. Andrecruiters don't tell you that a militaryperson has to make a $1,200nonrefundable deposit within the first yearof his/her service to be eligible foreducation money.

Rand Corp. 2000 Study, SF Bay Guardian,4/10/2005, pg. 13.


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The Armed Forces as job training

Only 12% of male veterans and 6% offemale veterans said they were using

skills learned in the military in theircivilian jobs.

Ohio State University Study, SF BayGuardian, 4/10/2005, pg. 13.


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Place of minorities in the Armed

Forces, eg. the Army

The Population Reference Bureau and theNew York Timesreport :African-Americans comprise about 22 percentof enlisted personnel

(including half of all women in the Army),but only make up 12.7 percent of the USpopulation.

As of June 30, 2005, the Department ofDefense states the total Army force iscomposed of 489,971 people(of the combined militarys 1.4 million totalpersonnel)


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The targeting of minorities for

military recruitmentThe life of the nation is secure only while the

nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.Frederick Douglass (1818-1895), Escapedslave, abolitionist, author, editor of the North Star

and later the New National Era. Speech,Washington, D.C., 1885

Where is the black mans government? Where is

the black mans army & navy?Marcus Garvey, in 1912-1914, in England,inspired by Booker T. Washingtons Up FromSlavery(1901)


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military recruitment

Currently, there are 96,793 Blacks servingin the U.S. Army (by extrapolation, figures

quoted above; no figures for Navy, Air

Force, Marines, or National Guard)

Currently, while there are 603,000 Blacksenrolled in institutions of higher education,

there are 757,000 who are locked up infederal and state prisons.http://www.isreview.org/issues/32/racism.shtml

Intern ational Soc ial ist ReviewIssue 32, NovemberDecember 2003


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Defense Department statistics show thatthe number of black active-duty enlistedpersonnel has declined 14 % since 2000.

--CBS News3/6/06 Enlistment of African-Americans, a group

particularly disillusioned with the war in

Iraq, has dropped off sharply, to 14.5percent from 22.3 percent over the pastfour years.

--New York Times- 2/8/06


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Despite the declines, the percentage ofblacks in the military continues toexceed the percentage in the U.S.

population.19% the military's active-duty enlisted forceis black, compared to 13 % of the country's

population.(source: CBS News)


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Recruitment without

Representation for minorities

"Among African Americans, according to

an October Wall Street Journal/NBC News

poll President Bushs job approval rating is

down to 2 percenta figure below themargin of error of the poll."http://www.isreview.org/issues/45/bushdown.shtml

Jan-Feb 2006


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Recruitment without


"Among African Americans, according to

an October Wall Street Journal/NBC News

poll President Bushs job approval rating is

down to 2 percenta figure below themargin of error of the poll."http://www.isreview.org/issues/45/bushdown.shtml

Jan-Feb 2006


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Recruitment without


In a CBS Newspoll, 89 % of Black Americans

disapproved of the way President Bush is

handling the war. That figure falls to 65 % of

Americans in general, and 61 % among whitevoters.

--CBS News3/6/06


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military recruitment While Latinos make up 10.8 percent of the

Army's active-duty force, a better rate thanthe Air Force or Navy, they account for 14percent of the population as a whole.

--New York Times- 2/8/06 A vast Army marketing campaign includes

Spanish-language advertisements onUnivision and Telemundo, the country's twolargest Spanish-language networks, and onthe radio and in Hispanic publications. Thebudget for this campaign has increased by atleast $55 million in four years.--New York Times- 2/8/06


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military recruitment Hispanics make up only 4.7 percent of the military's

officer corps.--New York Times- 2/8/06

In the past year, a Latino counter-recruitmentmovement has arisen in several major cities with thegoal of blunting what organizers call overlyaggressive and suggestive recruitment in Latinoneighborhoods. Latino parents, especially those whospeak little English and know little about the military,

are especially susceptible to a recruiter's persistenceand charm, critics say. Fernando Suarez del Solar,whose son was a marine and died in Iraq in 2003,founded Aztec Warrior Project for Peace to helpcounsel Latinos on the military.

--New York Times- 2/8/06


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8,000 desert during Iraq war

WASHINGTON

At least 8,000 members of the all-volunteer U.S. military have deserted since the Iraqwar began, Pentagon records show.Since fall 2003, 4,387 Army soldiers, 3,454 Navy

sailors and 82 Air Force personnel have deserted. TheMarine Corps listed 1,455 Marines in desertion statuslast September, the end of fiscal 2005.Desertions in 2005 represent 0.24% of the 1.4 million

U.S. forces.Opposition to the war prompts a small fraction ofdesertions.source: Bill Nichols, USA TODAY 3/7/2006


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Attempt to ban recruiters from T.U.

campus, Spring 2005SP05-R14, March 8, 2005

Author: Jonathan Kody Looper

Title: Fighting Federal Discrimination at TheUniversity of Tulsa

Be it enacted by the honorable Student Senate ofthe Student Association of The University of Tulsathat no military recruiters be allowed to recruit on TheUniversity of Tulsa campus with the exception of theLaw School until the United States governments

policy of Dont Ask, Dont Tell is revoked and gayand lesbian citizens of the United States arepermitted to serve openly in the United Statesmilitary.(Spring Resolution #14, passed by a vote of 13-9-2;

subsequently vetoed by Student President)


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In a decaying social order, mans inhumanity to man includes mansinhumanity to children. And the children, even in their years of hope and

light-heartedness, are forced to taste the bitter fruits of knowledge.

--editorial, from a small-circulation journal, theAmerican Socialist, Civilrights after the Till murder, American Socialist 2, no. 11 (November 1955): 3.

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