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Latest News from the Peace Recruitment Group

Lorraine is to research the current enlistment contracts and determine (1) what is the minimum age one must be to be bound to the contract; can a youth get out once he has signed? (2) basic pay scales for recruits; and more information about truth and lies of military recruiting.
Lorraine will also see if we can purchase up to date materials.

Nory will also look into the AFSC for updated information or flyers for handouts.

We decided we would update our materials and collect amounts to be passed out.

We discussed the idea of a "Peace Mascot" or large puppet (maybe animal head, or human head) wtih cloth arms and then paper machaed "hands" that could entice youth to come over to the table and speak with us. We are looking for artists who would be willing to take on this project of making the huge puppet for the Peace Center, and for Peace Recruiting purposes.

Lily Marie will be contact the Woolman school to see if she can find youth artists interested in creating our Peace Mascot. She will also be contacting youth at Woolman who may be willing to join us in peace recruiting at the main stream schools. She will also look for "sympathetic teachers at the high shcools so we may plan to develope a "program" to take into the classrooms.

Nory, Lorraine, Lily Marie and David all signed up to go up to Nevada Union on certain dates in the near future to do our peace recruiting work.

If you or anyone you know wishes to be put on the calendar to do this, please email Lorraine at lawyerforpeace at yahoo dot com; or contact Nory4u at sbcglobal dot net

Counter Recruitment

Members of the Peace Center, Grandmothers for Peace, and Veterans for Peace formed a team this year to counter military recruitment efforts on local high school campuses. The team tables at Nevada Union and Bear River High Schools during lunch hours., handing out opt-out forms and various informational materials to students. Veterans for Peace also make classroom presentations when and where they are permitted to do so.

For more information call 478.0699 and leave a message for Lorraine.

Special Links

Counter Recruitment 101 Unitedforpeace.org
No Child Left Behind, ASVAB, Conscientious Objector and the Draft, Enlistment Agreement, Delayed Enlistment Program, Educational Benefits debunked.

Counter-Recruitment www.counter-recruitment.org
This web site offers tools for students, parents, teachers, veterans and other activists who want to speak out against the continued deceptive recruiting techniques the U.S. Military uses in order to continually fill their quotas. Don't Go the Movie: Wulf Zendik's 1969 animated classic anti-war story. A must see.

Veterans Against the Iraq War www.vaiw.org
Veterans Against Iraq War is a coalition of American veterans who support our troops but oppose war with Iraq or any other nation that does not pose a clear and present danger to our people and nation.

Gold Star Families for Peace www.gsfp.org
We as families of soldiers who have died as a result of war are organizing to be a positive force in our world to bring our country's sons and daughters home from Iraq, to minimize the "human cost" of this war, and to prevent other families from the pain we are feeling as the result of our losses.

Veterans For Peace www.vfp.org
VFP includes men and women veterans from World War II, Korea, Vietnam, the Gulf War, other conflicts and peacetime veterans. Our collective experience tells us wars are easy to start and hard to stop and that those hurt are often the innocent. Thus, other means of problem solving are necessary.

Iraq Veterans Against the War www.ivaw.org
Why they are against the war Iraq Veterans Against the War went public on July 28th, 2004, during the Veterans for Peace annual convention in Boston, MA.
The main objectives of IVAW are threefold. They are:
1. Bring the troops home now.
2. Support Iraqi reconstruction in whatever way possible.
3. Support our veterans and our troops now and upon their return home.

Education and Action for Peace and Social Justice

The Peace Center of Nevada County honors the essential power of people in community.

Through open inquiry, education, and nonviolent direct action, we nurture peace, equality, justice and dignity in ourselves, our community and our Earth.

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Email:
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Peace Center of Nevada County
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Nevada City, CA 95959

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Anti-Recruitment

High School and College organizers can contact the Peace Center regarding Counter-Recruitment efforts or coordination of peace activities between campuses. Email Peace Center with "Add me to the Student Activists email list" in the subject line.

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